Friday, December 24, 2010
Essential Lessons For Every Muslim
In the name of All, The Most Gracious, The most Merciful and may Allah's peace and blessings be upon the final Prophet Muhammad, his family, his companions and upon whomsoever follows their way.
Lesson: Four
The Categories of Tawhid
Tawhid has three categories:
1. Tawhid Ar-Rububiyyah, or Oneness of the Lordship of Allah. This means that Allah is the only Lord of all the worlds. He is the Creator, the Sustainer, the Planner, the Organizer, the One Who gives life and causes death, etc.
2. Tawhid Al-Uluhiyyah, or the Oneness of the worship of Allah. This means that no one has the right to be worshipped but Allah.
3. Tawhid Al-Asma’i Was-Sifat, or the Uniqueness of the Names and Attributes of Allah. We must believe in all of Allah’s Beautiful Names and Lofty Attributes; none can be named or given Allah’s Attributes which He has stated in the Qur’an or mentioned through His Messenger Muhammad, without changing them, ignoring them completely, twisting their meanings, or likening them to any of those of His creatures.
Shirk also has three categories. They are:
1. Shirk Akbar, or major Shirk
2. Shirk Asghar, or minor Shirk
3. Shirk Khafiyy, or hidden Shirk
The major Shirk is bound to cause the good works of those who commit it to be vain and fruitless. It is also bound to cause those who commit it to remain in Hell-fire for all eternity, as the Qur’an says:
(ولو أشركوا لحبط عنهم ما كانوا يعملون) (الأنعام:88)
“But if they were to join others with Allah in worship, all that they used to do would be of no benefit to them.” (6:88)
(ما كان للمشركين أن يعمروا مساجد الله شاهدين على أنفسهم بالكفر أولئك حبطت أعمالهم وفي النار هم خالدون) (التوبة:17)
“It is not for those who join others with Allah in worship to maintain the mosques of Allah while they witness against their own souls to disbelief. The works of such are in vain, and in Fire shall they dwell.” (9:17)
(إن الله لا يغفر أن يشرك به ويغفر ما دون ذلك لمن يشاء)
“Verily, Allah forgives not that partners should be set up with Him in worship, but He forgives anything else, to whom He pleases.” (4:48)
(إنه من يشرك بالله فقد حرم الله عليه الجنة ومأواه النار وما للظالمين من أنصار) (المائدة:72)
“Verily, whoever sets up partners with Allah in worship, Allah will forbid him Paradise, and the Fire will be his abode. The polytheists and wrongdoers will have no helpers.” (5:72)
This type of Shirk is an unpardonable sin and includes, among other things, such acts as seeking assistance from the dead and the idols, supplicating them, making vows in their names and offering sacrifices to them.
The minor Shirk includes such things as showing off certain religious acts of worship, swearing by other than Allah, and one’s saying “If Allah and so-and-so wills.”
At-Tabarani and Al-Baihaqi reported on the authority of Mahmud bin Labid Al-Ansari, with a good chain of narrators, that the Prophet said:
(أخوف ما أخاف عليكم الشرك الأصغر)
“What I fear for you most is the minor Shirk.”
When he was asked about what he meant by the minor Shirk, he replied, “Showing off.”
The Prophet, peace be upon him, said:
(من حلف بشيء دون الله فقد أشرك)
“Whoever swears by other than Allah has indeed committed Shirk.”
Imam Ahmad authentically narrated this tradition on the authority of ‘Umar, radiyallaho ‘anhu’ Abu Dawud and At-Tirmidhi also authentically reported on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar radiyallahu ‘anhu, that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said:
(من حلف بغير الله فقد كفر أو أشرك)
“Whoever swears by other than Allah has indeed disbelieved or committed Shirk.”
Abu Dawud also authentically reported on the authority of Hudhaifah bin Al-Yaman, radiyallahu ‘anhu, that the Prophet, peace be upon him, said:
(لا تقولوا: ما شاء الله وشاء فلان، ولكن قولوا: ما شاء الله ثم شاء فلان)
(Do not say, ‘What Allah wills and so-and-so wills’; you should rather say, ‘What Allah wills, then what so-and-so wills.”
To commit this type of Shirk does not take one out of the fold of Islam, nor does it cause those who commit it to abide in the Fire forever. It rather goes against the ideal principles of Tawhid.
The evidence for the third category of Shirk, namely Shirk Al-Khafiyy, or the Hidden Shirk, comes from the prophetic tradition in which the Prophet, peace be upon him, said:
(ألا أخبركم بما هو أخوف عليكم عندي من المسيح الدحال؟) (الشرك الخفي: يقوم الرجل فيصلي، فيزين صلاته، لما يرى من نظر الرجل إليه)
“Shall I not inform you about what I fear more for you than Antichrist?” The Companions replied, “Yes, O Allah’s Messenger.” Then he said, “It is the hidden Shirk. A person stands up in prayer and tries to make it perfect when he realizes that others are looking at him.” (Imam Ahmad reported this Hadith on the authority of Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri, radiyallahu ‘anhu)
Shirk can also be divided into two categories only, namely, the major Shirk and the minor Shirk. The hidden Shirk can occur in them both. It can be found in the major Shirk, like the type of Shirk committed by the hypocrites, who reveal belief while concealing their false beliefs for fear of being killed. It can also occur in the case of minor Shirk in the form of showing off, as evidenced by the above mentioned Hadith reported on the authority of Mahmud bin Labid.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Essential Lessons for every Muslim
Lesson One:
Memorization of Suwar
To memorize Surat Al-Fatihah, and from Surat Az-Zalzalah to Surat An-Nas. Memorization of these Suwar should be accompanied with a good recitation as well as a deep understanding of their meanings.
*****
Lesson Two:
The Declaration of Faith
To know the meaning of the Declaration of Faith: ‘Ash-hadu an la ilaha illallahhu, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah’ and to know the conditions of the statement: ‘la ilaha illallahh.’ The meaning of the Declaration of Faith is: I bear witness that there is no god worthy of worship except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger. The phrase ‘La ilaha’ negates the existence of all deities, while the phrase ‘ilallah’ confirms the right of Lordship and Godship to Allah Who Alone deserves to be worshipped.
The conditions of this declaration are as follows:
1. Knowledge which negates ignorance.
2. Certainty which negates doubt.
3. Sincerity of worship which negates Shirk.
4. Truthfulness which negates lying.
5. Love, which negates hate.
6. Complete submission, which negates rebellion.
7. Acceptance which negates rejection.
8. Rejection of all those that are unjustly worshiped besides Allah the All Mighty.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Imam and the Athiest
IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, MAY PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE UPON THE FINAL PROPHET MUHAMMAD AND WHOEVER FOLLOWS HIS WAY.
In the era of the great Imam, Abi Hanifa Al- Nu’man, a man (atheist) was famous for heresy, denying the existence of Allah. He agreed to meet the Imam Abi Hanifa at Jum’a prayer (Friday sermon) and this dialogue started between them:
THE MAN: Who was before Allah?
THE IMAM: What comes before three…?
THE MAN: Two.
THE IMAM: What comes before two?
THE MAN: One.
THE IMAM: What comes before one then?
THE MAN: Nothing (zero).
THE IMAM: So, nothing comes before The One, The Originator of the heavens and the earth…….. Allah is The First…. And there is no one before Him.
** ** ** **
THE MAN: Where does the face of Allah turn? If it turned to the east, for instance, and if people in the west disobeyed Him, He does not see them.
The Imam then got up and lit a “lamp” and asked the man:
Where does the light of the lamp turn?
THE MAN: The light of the lamp has enlightened everywhere.
THE IMAM: And the light of the face of Allah has enlightened the entire universe.
“Whichever way you turn, there is the face of Allah” (The Quran, 2: 115)
** ** ** **
The universe belongs to Allah, Exaltation to Him…….No place surrounds Him because He has created “place’’…… and no time affects Him because He is The Creator of time.
At this point, the atheist man gets up (hugging or kissing) the great Imam and declares his submission to the truth and his conviction of Islam.
Translated from “This is Your Aqeedah (conviction), my Son” (63-65) by Mahmud Muhammad Gharib that is written in Arabic.
In the era of the great Imam, Abi Hanifa Al- Nu’man, a man (atheist) was famous for heresy, denying the existence of Allah. He agreed to meet the Imam Abi Hanifa at Jum’a prayer (Friday sermon) and this dialogue started between them:
THE MAN: Who was before Allah?
THE IMAM: What comes before three…?
THE MAN: Two.
THE IMAM: What comes before two?
THE MAN: One.
THE IMAM: What comes before one then?
THE MAN: Nothing (zero).
THE IMAM: So, nothing comes before The One, The Originator of the heavens and the earth…….. Allah is The First…. And there is no one before Him.
** ** ** **
THE MAN: Where does the face of Allah turn? If it turned to the east, for instance, and if people in the west disobeyed Him, He does not see them.
The Imam then got up and lit a “lamp” and asked the man:
Where does the light of the lamp turn?
THE MAN: The light of the lamp has enlightened everywhere.
THE IMAM: And the light of the face of Allah has enlightened the entire universe.
“Whichever way you turn, there is the face of Allah” (The Quran, 2: 115)
** ** ** **
The universe belongs to Allah, Exaltation to Him…….No place surrounds Him because He has created “place’’…… and no time affects Him because He is The Creator of time.
At this point, the atheist man gets up (hugging or kissing) the great Imam and declares his submission to the truth and his conviction of Islam.
Translated from “This is Your Aqeedah (conviction), my Son” (63-65) by Mahmud Muhammad Gharib that is written in Arabic.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
WHY DID THESE PEOPLE EMBRACE ISLAM?
(66)
THE CARPENTER GOD!
I am T. A. Gardener, 25 years. Jesus was a carpenter when he was twelve years of age and remained so until he was thirty, as The New Testament tells. He was earning his bread through carpentry, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.
However, I could not swallow the idea that God was a carpenter for eighteen years. I could not either swallow the idea that God was not only a carpenter, but just an apprentice in the early years of his career learning carpentry. I could not swallow the idea that Jesus until the age of thirty was behaving like a normal human being and waited until the age of thirty when he began to play the so-called role of God. The Christian God is the only god that was a carpenter! Jesus was a carpenter like thousands of human carpenters, and suddenly he became not a god, but God, God the carpenter or the carpenter God!
My modest explanation is this. Jesus is a human being, and when he was thirty, God sent to him His revelation and ordered him to convey the message to the people of Israel only. Jesus is God's messenger. That is all. God gave him miracles as he gave to all messengers before and after him.
This was my personal solution to the Christian dilemma. Later, I discovered that my understanding completely agrees with the Islamic understanding. This has convinced me to embrace Islam, which explains all my questions in a very convincing manner.
(67)
AMERICANISM
I am J. B. Miller, 36 years. I was a teacher. Because I was a devoted Catholic Christian, it happened once that I criticized Darwin's evolution theory and stated to my students in class that Darwinism is merely a theory, not a law; he could be wrong. I told my class that there must be the Creator, Who created all beings and all animals in their different forms.
Two days later, I was called by the school principal. To my surprise, he gave me a written final warning for my anti-secular tendencies and my pro-religion attitude. I told him that the US constitution guarantees both the freedom of belief and the freedom of expression and that he has no right to deny me my constitutional rights. He replied that I am free to say anything except preaching God in class and he said, "No God in class." I could not believe what I heard; I was utterly shocked that secularism has become America's new religion.
I have come to the conclusion that freedom in the USA is a big lie. I have realized that there is no difference between Americanism and communism: both are godless and atheistic.
In contrast, I like the spirituality of the Islamic countries, where God is reminded of everywhere: at school, at home, at mosque, in media, and on all occasions. The Islamic life is more natural, more spiritual, and more balanced than our Western life, where God is imprisoned at church and is never allowed out!
The Western life is a schizophrenic life. You have to be two persons in one: one on Sunday and one on other days; one at; church and one outside it. You have to be with a double personality: two minds, two souls, two tongues, two sets of standards, and two faces. It is a life of utterly unbearable hypocrisy.
In Islam, you believe in God and Islam, and you carry your belief wherever you go. You have one mind, the mind of the believer. You have one soul, the soul of a surrenderer to God. You have one tongue, a tongue of a worshipper. You have one set of ethics, the ethical set of Islamic values. You have one face, the face of a pacified Muslim.
(68)
THE TRIO
I am V. P. Hansen, 27 years. I spent years and years trying to understand how God can be three in one, and I simply couldn't. My brain can understand that God could be one, two, or three, but no human brain can possibly understand how God can be three gods in one God. It is too mysterious to be true.
Why does God need to be three in one when He can be one and function as one? Multiplicity implies incapability. If He needs other partners, assistants, or godly copies, this means that he is not perfect and, hence, he is no more God. He would be a god, not God. I have come to the belief that the Trinity is one form of polytheism, that the Trinity contradicts God's Oneness, preached in The Old Testament and all prophets.
I felt that the whole Christianity is collapsing before my eyes because its basis, i.e., the Trinity, is simply wrong, unreasonable, and groundless.
I could not understand the chaos caused by the Trinity. Sometimes the church says that Jesus is God and sometimes it says that Jesus is the son of God. There is no possible confusion beyond such confusion. I didn't know who my God is: Is he Jesus or God? I did not know who God is and who Jesus is.
I began to wander if there is a more convincing religion with a reasonable concept of God. I found the answer in Islam: God is one; God is eternal; God has no equals and no partners; God did not beget; nor was He begotten. This is the God I was looking for: one, not three; eternal, not dead on the cross; unique, not with three copies; able, not with two assistants. In Islam, I find everything logical, simple, and reasonable. Thanks to God that I am on the right path, the straight way of Islam.
(69)
WHAT SAVES?
I am G. A. Mackin, 34 years. The church has never made what saves man clear to me or to any Christian. Sometimes, we are told that the crucifixion of Jesus saves humans. Sometimes, the church says that if you believe, you are saved. Sometimes, it says that belief alone is not enough; you have to do good deeds. The whole church story has never been, nor will it ever be, clear in my mind.
The New Testament says, "The tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be at the end to this world."(Matthew 13:40). If sinners will be punished, why was Jesus' crucifixion then? What for?
Islam is crystal clear on this: you save yourself through your faith and good deeds. That is Islam: logical, consistent, and clear. I like the logic and consistency of Islam.
(70)
NO INTERCESSORS
I am C. M. Hill, 23 years. Christianity tells me that if you want to ask God, you cannot ask Him directly. You have to go through a process. First, ask the Holy Spirit. Next, if the Holy Spirit approves, he will pass your request to Jesus. Then, if Jesus approves, he will pass it to God. You have to reach God through secretaries or intercessors.
I understand that Islam does not require such a process. There is none or nothing between you and God. Just address God directly with no mediators. I like this Islamic concept of God. That is why, among other reasons, I have chosen Islam.
(71)
USELESS CRUCIFIXION
I am R. D. Hockett, 43 years. The basic comer-stone of Christianity is Jesus' crucifixion since it is essential to salvation although such a concept has never convinced me.
To my surprise, The New Testament itself has evidence against the concept of salvation through crucifixion. Jesus says, "Not every one that hath saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven." (Matthew 7:21). Doing God's will means obeying God. This evidence proves beyond doubt that what saves you is faith and good deeds, not Jesus, crucifixion.
This text undermines the whole basis of Christianity. Islam has this view: believe in God, obey Him, and you are saved. The Islamic view I makes sense. Christianity, in fact, encourages people to sin because Jesus bore their sins! Islam makes everyone bear his own sin, which makes much more sense. That is why I have become a Muslim.
(72)
WHY ASK FOR
FORGIVENESS?
I am N. W. Jersild, 44 years. Whenever I attended prayer at the church, the pastor asked the audience to repeat after him asking God through Jesus, or Jesus through God, to forgive them. The church music added to the hypnotic effect of the situation. Everybody, except me, was pleased or seemed pleased.
I began to question the whole thing. Now we ask God to forgive our sins. All right! But didn't Jesus bear our sins? The church tells us this night and day: Jesus offered himself on the cross to bear our sins, and he did bear them. If Jesus bore our sins, why are we asking God to forgive our sins? I felt that Christianity is a loose inconsistent belief; it does not hold well together. I began to look for the truth and started to read more about religions in general.
My readings led me to the truth: Islam is the only true religion. It is the religion of all prophets including Moses and Jesus. Believe in all the messengers of God, not only one. Believe in all. God's Revealed Books, not only one. Love all humans and all races, not the white race only. Islam is the only right choice; I repeat that Islam is the only right choice. Indeed, it fully satisfies the mind, the heart, the body, and the soul of any objective unbiased person.
THE AUTHOR'S BOOKS
In English
Language Teaching
Programmed TEFL Methodology
A Workbook for English Teaching Practice
A Dictionary of Education: English-Arabic
A Dictionary of Theoretical Linguistics: English-Arabic
A Dictionary of Applies Linguistics: English-Arabic
Teaching English to Arab Students
The Teacher of English
A Contrastive Transformational Grammar: Arabic and English
Learn Arabic by Yourself (English and Arabic)
A Dictionary of Islamic Terms: English- Arabic
Simplified English Grammar
Improve Your English :. .
The Light of Islam 1'-'.
The NeedforIslam ft .
Traditions of Prophet Muhammad
Sayings of Prophet Muhammad
The Truth about Jesus Christ
Islam and Christianity
Questions and Answers about Islam
Introduction to Linguistics IN ARABIC
Dictionary of Phonetics
Study Skills
Linguistics Studies
The Student's Guidebook in Teaching Practice
Language Teaching
Living with Two Languages
Frequent Structures in Arabic
Learn Spelling in Arabic
Arabic Transformational Grammar
Language Phones
Introduction to Linguistics
How to write a Research Paper
The False Glimmer of the Western Civilization
The Truth about Jesus Christ
A Comparison between the Four Gospels
The Corruption of the Old Testament
THE CARPENTER GOD!
I am T. A. Gardener, 25 years. Jesus was a carpenter when he was twelve years of age and remained so until he was thirty, as The New Testament tells. He was earning his bread through carpentry, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.
However, I could not swallow the idea that God was a carpenter for eighteen years. I could not either swallow the idea that God was not only a carpenter, but just an apprentice in the early years of his career learning carpentry. I could not swallow the idea that Jesus until the age of thirty was behaving like a normal human being and waited until the age of thirty when he began to play the so-called role of God. The Christian God is the only god that was a carpenter! Jesus was a carpenter like thousands of human carpenters, and suddenly he became not a god, but God, God the carpenter or the carpenter God!
My modest explanation is this. Jesus is a human being, and when he was thirty, God sent to him His revelation and ordered him to convey the message to the people of Israel only. Jesus is God's messenger. That is all. God gave him miracles as he gave to all messengers before and after him.
This was my personal solution to the Christian dilemma. Later, I discovered that my understanding completely agrees with the Islamic understanding. This has convinced me to embrace Islam, which explains all my questions in a very convincing manner.
(67)
AMERICANISM
I am J. B. Miller, 36 years. I was a teacher. Because I was a devoted Catholic Christian, it happened once that I criticized Darwin's evolution theory and stated to my students in class that Darwinism is merely a theory, not a law; he could be wrong. I told my class that there must be the Creator, Who created all beings and all animals in their different forms.
Two days later, I was called by the school principal. To my surprise, he gave me a written final warning for my anti-secular tendencies and my pro-religion attitude. I told him that the US constitution guarantees both the freedom of belief and the freedom of expression and that he has no right to deny me my constitutional rights. He replied that I am free to say anything except preaching God in class and he said, "No God in class." I could not believe what I heard; I was utterly shocked that secularism has become America's new religion.
I have come to the conclusion that freedom in the USA is a big lie. I have realized that there is no difference between Americanism and communism: both are godless and atheistic.
In contrast, I like the spirituality of the Islamic countries, where God is reminded of everywhere: at school, at home, at mosque, in media, and on all occasions. The Islamic life is more natural, more spiritual, and more balanced than our Western life, where God is imprisoned at church and is never allowed out!
The Western life is a schizophrenic life. You have to be two persons in one: one on Sunday and one on other days; one at; church and one outside it. You have to be with a double personality: two minds, two souls, two tongues, two sets of standards, and two faces. It is a life of utterly unbearable hypocrisy.
In Islam, you believe in God and Islam, and you carry your belief wherever you go. You have one mind, the mind of the believer. You have one soul, the soul of a surrenderer to God. You have one tongue, a tongue of a worshipper. You have one set of ethics, the ethical set of Islamic values. You have one face, the face of a pacified Muslim.
(68)
THE TRIO
I am V. P. Hansen, 27 years. I spent years and years trying to understand how God can be three in one, and I simply couldn't. My brain can understand that God could be one, two, or three, but no human brain can possibly understand how God can be three gods in one God. It is too mysterious to be true.
Why does God need to be three in one when He can be one and function as one? Multiplicity implies incapability. If He needs other partners, assistants, or godly copies, this means that he is not perfect and, hence, he is no more God. He would be a god, not God. I have come to the belief that the Trinity is one form of polytheism, that the Trinity contradicts God's Oneness, preached in The Old Testament and all prophets.
I felt that the whole Christianity is collapsing before my eyes because its basis, i.e., the Trinity, is simply wrong, unreasonable, and groundless.
I could not understand the chaos caused by the Trinity. Sometimes the church says that Jesus is God and sometimes it says that Jesus is the son of God. There is no possible confusion beyond such confusion. I didn't know who my God is: Is he Jesus or God? I did not know who God is and who Jesus is.
I began to wander if there is a more convincing religion with a reasonable concept of God. I found the answer in Islam: God is one; God is eternal; God has no equals and no partners; God did not beget; nor was He begotten. This is the God I was looking for: one, not three; eternal, not dead on the cross; unique, not with three copies; able, not with two assistants. In Islam, I find everything logical, simple, and reasonable. Thanks to God that I am on the right path, the straight way of Islam.
(69)
WHAT SAVES?
I am G. A. Mackin, 34 years. The church has never made what saves man clear to me or to any Christian. Sometimes, we are told that the crucifixion of Jesus saves humans. Sometimes, the church says that if you believe, you are saved. Sometimes, it says that belief alone is not enough; you have to do good deeds. The whole church story has never been, nor will it ever be, clear in my mind.
The New Testament says, "The tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be at the end to this world."(Matthew 13:40). If sinners will be punished, why was Jesus' crucifixion then? What for?
Islam is crystal clear on this: you save yourself through your faith and good deeds. That is Islam: logical, consistent, and clear. I like the logic and consistency of Islam.
(70)
NO INTERCESSORS
I am C. M. Hill, 23 years. Christianity tells me that if you want to ask God, you cannot ask Him directly. You have to go through a process. First, ask the Holy Spirit. Next, if the Holy Spirit approves, he will pass your request to Jesus. Then, if Jesus approves, he will pass it to God. You have to reach God through secretaries or intercessors.
I understand that Islam does not require such a process. There is none or nothing between you and God. Just address God directly with no mediators. I like this Islamic concept of God. That is why, among other reasons, I have chosen Islam.
(71)
USELESS CRUCIFIXION
I am R. D. Hockett, 43 years. The basic comer-stone of Christianity is Jesus' crucifixion since it is essential to salvation although such a concept has never convinced me.
To my surprise, The New Testament itself has evidence against the concept of salvation through crucifixion. Jesus says, "Not every one that hath saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven." (Matthew 7:21). Doing God's will means obeying God. This evidence proves beyond doubt that what saves you is faith and good deeds, not Jesus, crucifixion.
This text undermines the whole basis of Christianity. Islam has this view: believe in God, obey Him, and you are saved. The Islamic view I makes sense. Christianity, in fact, encourages people to sin because Jesus bore their sins! Islam makes everyone bear his own sin, which makes much more sense. That is why I have become a Muslim.
(72)
WHY ASK FOR
FORGIVENESS?
I am N. W. Jersild, 44 years. Whenever I attended prayer at the church, the pastor asked the audience to repeat after him asking God through Jesus, or Jesus through God, to forgive them. The church music added to the hypnotic effect of the situation. Everybody, except me, was pleased or seemed pleased.
I began to question the whole thing. Now we ask God to forgive our sins. All right! But didn't Jesus bear our sins? The church tells us this night and day: Jesus offered himself on the cross to bear our sins, and he did bear them. If Jesus bore our sins, why are we asking God to forgive our sins? I felt that Christianity is a loose inconsistent belief; it does not hold well together. I began to look for the truth and started to read more about religions in general.
My readings led me to the truth: Islam is the only true religion. It is the religion of all prophets including Moses and Jesus. Believe in all the messengers of God, not only one. Believe in all. God's Revealed Books, not only one. Love all humans and all races, not the white race only. Islam is the only right choice; I repeat that Islam is the only right choice. Indeed, it fully satisfies the mind, the heart, the body, and the soul of any objective unbiased person.
THE AUTHOR'S BOOKS
In English
Language Teaching
Programmed TEFL Methodology
A Workbook for English Teaching Practice
A Dictionary of Education: English-Arabic
A Dictionary of Theoretical Linguistics: English-Arabic
A Dictionary of Applies Linguistics: English-Arabic
Teaching English to Arab Students
The Teacher of English
A Contrastive Transformational Grammar: Arabic and English
Learn Arabic by Yourself (English and Arabic)
A Dictionary of Islamic Terms: English- Arabic
Simplified English Grammar
Improve Your English :. .
The Light of Islam 1'-'.
The NeedforIslam ft .
Traditions of Prophet Muhammad
Sayings of Prophet Muhammad
The Truth about Jesus Christ
Islam and Christianity
Questions and Answers about Islam
Introduction to Linguistics IN ARABIC
Dictionary of Phonetics
Study Skills
Linguistics Studies
The Student's Guidebook in Teaching Practice
Language Teaching
Living with Two Languages
Frequent Structures in Arabic
Learn Spelling in Arabic
Arabic Transformational Grammar
Language Phones
Introduction to Linguistics
How to write a Research Paper
The False Glimmer of the Western Civilization
The Truth about Jesus Christ
A Comparison between the Four Gospels
The Corruption of the Old Testament
WHY DID THESE PEOPLE EMBRACE ISLAM?
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THE BOOK TITLE
I am J. A. Welty, 35 years. If God has a book, He will surely give it a name, i.e., a title. As for The Bible, God has not called it The Bible; nor has He called The New Testament as such, nor has He called The Old Testament as such.
Is God's book not worthy of a title? Surely, it is. However, those three titles were not given by God; they were given by the church. This proves the point that he who writes a book is the one who gives it a title. That is exactly what happened: the church and other human sources supervised writing different parts of The Bible, and hence they gave the titles. God did not give those three books the titles they have now, i.e., The Bible, The Old Testament, and The New Testament. Men wrote them, and men named them.
Look at The Holy Quran. Its name, i.e., The Holy Quran, is given to it by God in the very text of the Holy Quran. When God gives a book, He gives its name. This did happen to The Holy Quran, but not to The Bible.
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GOD'S RELIGION
I am G. C. Bailey, 35 years. God wants us to obey Him, surrender to Him, and follow His way. Every philosopher gives a name to his philosophy, which usually ends in -ism. Every way has a name such as naturalism, socialism, and existentialism. What is the name of God's way?
The church says that God's way is named Christianity. If so, why do we not find this name in The Bible? God, in The Bible, never gave the order to us to be Christians. Jesus never said that he was Christian. He never described his disciples as Christians. The word Christianity never appeared in The New Testament nor in The Old Testament.
As for Islam, God, in The Holy Quran, explicitly mentions Islam to be the only religion accepted by God. Literally, Islam means submission. Theologically, Islam means willing submission to God. That is why The Holy Quran refers to all prophets, even those before Muhammad including Abraham, Jesus, and Moses, as Muslims, i.e., true submitters to God.
God’s way is Islam, as The Holy Quran tells. The term “Christianity” is not mentioned, not once, in The Bible. It is a term invented by the church. Islam is a term given by God to God’s way. This gives the clue that Islam is what God wants us to follow. God wants all humans to be Muslims, not Christians, not Buddhists, not Hinduists, not anything else.
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THE BEGINNING
AND THE END
I am D. L. Clark, 39 years. I had a Muslim friend who used to keep talking to me about Islam. I repeatedly asked him to stop doing so, but he earnestly insisted on his attempts. He told me something interesting about the Book of Islam, i.e., The Holy Quran. He said that The Holy Quran has a beginning verse, which marks the beginning of God's revelation, and a closing verse, which marks the end of God's revelation, i.e., a verse whose text shows where and when the Quranic revelation began and a verse whose text shows where and when the Quranic revelation ended.
I thought that this is a really significant indicator. A revelation of God really deserves an opening marker and a closing marker, a matter which surely takes part in the text preservation.
In contrast, The Bible never gives you a clue where and when God's revelation began or ended. The Bible, in fact, is an open book: many people felt free to add to it, delete from it, and even change it. That is why there are different Bibles: the international one, the authorized one, that of king James, the simplified one, the shortened one, that of the Protestants, and that of the Catholics. Which Bible is The Bible?
There are many Bibles. There is one Quran. I felt more at rest with The Holy Quran. That is why I have become a Muslim.
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HOW MANY GODS?
I am M. D. Crow, 27 years. I used to attend Sunday church prayers, but the more I went there, the more confused I got. The pastor referred to Jesus as God's son; all right so far. Then, to my surprise, he began to refer to him as God. How can one be X and the son o/X at the same time? I could not grasp it.
The pastor played hide and seek with my mind. He addresses God through God's son, i.e., Jesus. Then he begins to address Jesus as if he were God Himself.
I felt there is something wrong with what I heard. The pastor was not clear whether Jesus is human, God, God's son, or what. He gave contradictory clues.
In Islam, I feel more at ease. Everything is clear and logical. Jesus is God's messenger. God is God. Man is man. I like the logic and simplicity of Islam. The more you know Islam, the more you accept it. Don't be afraid of knowing.
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YAHWEH
I am R. W. Ebel, 38 years. The Old Testament says that God's name is Yahweh, but strangely, this name never shows up in The New Testament. Why? Has God cancelled His old name? The only answer to this question is that either Yahweh is not God's name or The New Testament is not God's pure word. In both cases, the obvious conclusion is that The Bible is not God's pure word.
Is God's word so cheap and so insignificant to play with? If God's name is Yahweh as The Old Testament says, why don't we find this name in The New Testament? '
In the case of The Holy Quran, God's name in it is Allah. This name is referred to thousands: of times in The Holy Quran. It is the only name; given to God by all Muslims. Other words such as: the Merciful and the All-Knowing are merely Allah's attributes.
Looking into this matter, I felt that The Holy Quran is quite consistent with itself, and it leaves no doubt about the fact that it is God's true pure word.
THE BOOK TITLE
I am J. A. Welty, 35 years. If God has a book, He will surely give it a name, i.e., a title. As for The Bible, God has not called it The Bible; nor has He called The New Testament as such, nor has He called The Old Testament as such.
Is God's book not worthy of a title? Surely, it is. However, those three titles were not given by God; they were given by the church. This proves the point that he who writes a book is the one who gives it a title. That is exactly what happened: the church and other human sources supervised writing different parts of The Bible, and hence they gave the titles. God did not give those three books the titles they have now, i.e., The Bible, The Old Testament, and The New Testament. Men wrote them, and men named them.
Look at The Holy Quran. Its name, i.e., The Holy Quran, is given to it by God in the very text of the Holy Quran. When God gives a book, He gives its name. This did happen to The Holy Quran, but not to The Bible.
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GOD'S RELIGION
I am G. C. Bailey, 35 years. God wants us to obey Him, surrender to Him, and follow His way. Every philosopher gives a name to his philosophy, which usually ends in -ism. Every way has a name such as naturalism, socialism, and existentialism. What is the name of God's way?
The church says that God's way is named Christianity. If so, why do we not find this name in The Bible? God, in The Bible, never gave the order to us to be Christians. Jesus never said that he was Christian. He never described his disciples as Christians. The word Christianity never appeared in The New Testament nor in The Old Testament.
As for Islam, God, in The Holy Quran, explicitly mentions Islam to be the only religion accepted by God. Literally, Islam means submission. Theologically, Islam means willing submission to God. That is why The Holy Quran refers to all prophets, even those before Muhammad including Abraham, Jesus, and Moses, as Muslims, i.e., true submitters to God.
God’s way is Islam, as The Holy Quran tells. The term “Christianity” is not mentioned, not once, in The Bible. It is a term invented by the church. Islam is a term given by God to God’s way. This gives the clue that Islam is what God wants us to follow. God wants all humans to be Muslims, not Christians, not Buddhists, not Hinduists, not anything else.
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THE BEGINNING
AND THE END
I am D. L. Clark, 39 years. I had a Muslim friend who used to keep talking to me about Islam. I repeatedly asked him to stop doing so, but he earnestly insisted on his attempts. He told me something interesting about the Book of Islam, i.e., The Holy Quran. He said that The Holy Quran has a beginning verse, which marks the beginning of God's revelation, and a closing verse, which marks the end of God's revelation, i.e., a verse whose text shows where and when the Quranic revelation began and a verse whose text shows where and when the Quranic revelation ended.
I thought that this is a really significant indicator. A revelation of God really deserves an opening marker and a closing marker, a matter which surely takes part in the text preservation.
In contrast, The Bible never gives you a clue where and when God's revelation began or ended. The Bible, in fact, is an open book: many people felt free to add to it, delete from it, and even change it. That is why there are different Bibles: the international one, the authorized one, that of king James, the simplified one, the shortened one, that of the Protestants, and that of the Catholics. Which Bible is The Bible?
There are many Bibles. There is one Quran. I felt more at rest with The Holy Quran. That is why I have become a Muslim.
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HOW MANY GODS?
I am M. D. Crow, 27 years. I used to attend Sunday church prayers, but the more I went there, the more confused I got. The pastor referred to Jesus as God's son; all right so far. Then, to my surprise, he began to refer to him as God. How can one be X and the son o/X at the same time? I could not grasp it.
The pastor played hide and seek with my mind. He addresses God through God's son, i.e., Jesus. Then he begins to address Jesus as if he were God Himself.
I felt there is something wrong with what I heard. The pastor was not clear whether Jesus is human, God, God's son, or what. He gave contradictory clues.
In Islam, I feel more at ease. Everything is clear and logical. Jesus is God's messenger. God is God. Man is man. I like the logic and simplicity of Islam. The more you know Islam, the more you accept it. Don't be afraid of knowing.
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YAHWEH
I am R. W. Ebel, 38 years. The Old Testament says that God's name is Yahweh, but strangely, this name never shows up in The New Testament. Why? Has God cancelled His old name? The only answer to this question is that either Yahweh is not God's name or The New Testament is not God's pure word. In both cases, the obvious conclusion is that The Bible is not God's pure word.
Is God's word so cheap and so insignificant to play with? If God's name is Yahweh as The Old Testament says, why don't we find this name in The New Testament? '
In the case of The Holy Quran, God's name in it is Allah. This name is referred to thousands: of times in The Holy Quran. It is the only name; given to God by all Muslims. Other words such as: the Merciful and the All-Knowing are merely Allah's attributes.
Looking into this matter, I felt that The Holy Quran is quite consistent with itself, and it leaves no doubt about the fact that it is God's true pure word.
WHY DID THESE PEOPLE EMBRACE ISLAM?
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DIFFERENT FATHERS
I am M. E. Proust, 31 years. I was a regular reader of The New Testament, where I came across many contradictions which I could not reconcile, especially those related to Jesus.
I could not understand how Jesus can be the son of God and God at the same time, nor how he is the son of Joseph, the son of God, and the Son of David, all at the same time, as The New Testament tells.
The Holy Quran of Islam genealogically refers to Jesus in one single way only, i.e., the son of Mary. No one can deny that Jesus is the son of Mary. Islam always gives the indisputable truth, the clear truth, the unrefusable undeniable truth. You never find any false statements in The Holy Quran, God's pure true final word.
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THE LAMB
I am K. A. Randolph, 30 years. The church always repeats that Jesus is the Lamb of God slain to bear our sins. I thought if the Lamb is always there ready to bear our sins, then we should never worry about committing as many sins as we like as long as we have the Lamb, someone who is always ready to pay the bill.
The church simply says to us, "Sin, and the Lamb will carry your sin." I figure out that this lamb theory is a very strange, illogical, and ethically destructive theory. As a matter of fact, it encourages people to sin and sin and sin worrying about nothing because God offered his beloved only son as a sacrifice on the cross in order to save them from the burden of sin. The church is implying this message to its followers: be as sinful as you wish to be because all your sins were, are, and will be paid for and borne by Jesus.
The church message is simply destructive to morality, ethics, good behavior, and community welfare. What people actually need, I believe, is not an encouragement to sinning, but rather a discouragement. People must be warned against sin, rather than be tempted to do it.
Islam, I have known, does the opposite of what Christianity does. Islam keeps on warning people against sin and its dangers. Islam teaches people that if you sin, it is you, and only you, who will pay for it, not Jesus or any other one. Islam teaches that all your good deeds and all your bad deeds will be written in your record, and on the Day of Judgment the balance will be worked out: which overweighs which? Do your good deeds overweigh or do your bad deeds overweigh? As a result, Islam builds up in the individual a sense of ethical responsibility, certainly not achieved by the Christian lamb theory.
I have chosen Islam because once you truly know it, you cannot but accept it. I am absolutely sure, beyond any doubt, that Islam is the only right choice.
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INCOMPLETE
I am J. A. Swift, 45 years. I was attending a Sunday prayer, which I used to observe regularly. The priest referred us to the ten commandments in The Old Testament. He also emphasized the fact that the ten commandments do not appear in The New Testament and that they only appear in The Old Testament.
I thought that the ten commandments are the only ethical code in the whole Bible and I wondered, if they are so important, why they appear only in The Old Testament and not in The New Testament as well. The reason, I thought, may be that a Christian should abide by both Testaments and that the two testaments are to be considered as one book. However, this explanation is opposed by the fact that the church has cancelled The Old Testament, which is referred to selectively only. Although Jesus said that he came to confirm Moses' law, the church cancelled this law. Then Paul came and cancelled most of what Jesus enjoined. Finally, we ended with a Christianity that has little to do with Jesus Christ.
It also occurred to me that most of the ten commandments are in the negative, i.e., don'ts. What if the verbal prohibition is not obeyed in practice? What if killing actually happens despite the don't? What if stealing happens? What if fornication or adultery happens? The New Testament gives no penalties if a transgression occurs, probably because our Jesus, the Lamb, will bear or has already borne all our past, present, and future sins, crimes, and what not.
In Islam, I know, there are so many detailed commandments about behavior, which makes human life so happy because there is little room for faults if God's word is listened to. A Muslim lives in light: everything is clear and well-defined. The Muslim knows what to do, what to say, and how to behave because all is made clear in the message of Islam, unlike Christianity, which leaves its followers in complete darkness and in puzzling skepticism most of the time.
Islam does not only give commandments but it also gives penalties if the commandments are violated. Islam gives advice and gives punishment too. Islam meets the psychology of humans better. Islam does not preach and teach only; it also punishes transgressors.
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ONE, NOT THREE
I am Y. J. Thomas, 40 years. The church says that The Bible is God's word, but I began doubting this claim when I started examining The Bible. For one thing, The Old Testament always talks about one God, whereas The New Testament sometimes refers to three gods. How can the book of God not be sure about God Himself? Does God not know whether He is one or three?!
Because of this, among other reasons, I seriously began to suspect the origin of The Bible and began to doubt its authenticity. I have come to the conclusion that The Bible cannot be God's pure word.
In contrast, The Holy Quran, the book of Islam, consistently refers to God as one. I take The Holy Quran to be God's pure word. That is why I have embraced Islam, the religion of pure monotheism.
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LOST ORIGINAL
I am P. D. Thoreau, 21 years. The original version of Jesus' Gospel in Hebrew is lost. Of course, God could have preserved it if He had wanted to. But He did not wish to do so. This is a proof that God does not want The Gospel to be His final word. Had God wanted The Gospel to be His final word, He would have preserved its original from loss.
Because the original of Jesus' gospel is lost, nobody knows for sure what God's word to Jesus really was. That is why we have now the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In fact, in the beginning, there were more than one hundred different gospels, which the church reduced repeatedly and gradually until the number finally reached four. The fact that the gospels are four proves the point, i.e., that God's pure word to Jesus or Jesus' gospel is lost. What The New Testament now has is merely stories about Jesus, some of which are true and some are not, some of which are complete and some are not.
Looking at The Holy Quran, the Holy Book revealed by God to Prophet Muhammad, I know that The Holy Quran is, was , and will be as it was revealed in its original form and original language, i.e. Arabic, with no letter more and no letter less, in one form and one version. God has preserved The Holy Quran because He wants it to be His only final Revealed Book. The only book that contains God's pure word is The Holy Quran, not The Bible. That is why I have embraced Islam. The fact that God has preserved The Holy Quran from corruption and has not preserved The Bible proves that The Holy Quran, not The Bible, is God's pure word.
DIFFERENT FATHERS
I am M. E. Proust, 31 years. I was a regular reader of The New Testament, where I came across many contradictions which I could not reconcile, especially those related to Jesus.
I could not understand how Jesus can be the son of God and God at the same time, nor how he is the son of Joseph, the son of God, and the Son of David, all at the same time, as The New Testament tells.
The Holy Quran of Islam genealogically refers to Jesus in one single way only, i.e., the son of Mary. No one can deny that Jesus is the son of Mary. Islam always gives the indisputable truth, the clear truth, the unrefusable undeniable truth. You never find any false statements in The Holy Quran, God's pure true final word.
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THE LAMB
I am K. A. Randolph, 30 years. The church always repeats that Jesus is the Lamb of God slain to bear our sins. I thought if the Lamb is always there ready to bear our sins, then we should never worry about committing as many sins as we like as long as we have the Lamb, someone who is always ready to pay the bill.
The church simply says to us, "Sin, and the Lamb will carry your sin." I figure out that this lamb theory is a very strange, illogical, and ethically destructive theory. As a matter of fact, it encourages people to sin and sin and sin worrying about nothing because God offered his beloved only son as a sacrifice on the cross in order to save them from the burden of sin. The church is implying this message to its followers: be as sinful as you wish to be because all your sins were, are, and will be paid for and borne by Jesus.
The church message is simply destructive to morality, ethics, good behavior, and community welfare. What people actually need, I believe, is not an encouragement to sinning, but rather a discouragement. People must be warned against sin, rather than be tempted to do it.
Islam, I have known, does the opposite of what Christianity does. Islam keeps on warning people against sin and its dangers. Islam teaches people that if you sin, it is you, and only you, who will pay for it, not Jesus or any other one. Islam teaches that all your good deeds and all your bad deeds will be written in your record, and on the Day of Judgment the balance will be worked out: which overweighs which? Do your good deeds overweigh or do your bad deeds overweigh? As a result, Islam builds up in the individual a sense of ethical responsibility, certainly not achieved by the Christian lamb theory.
I have chosen Islam because once you truly know it, you cannot but accept it. I am absolutely sure, beyond any doubt, that Islam is the only right choice.
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INCOMPLETE
I am J. A. Swift, 45 years. I was attending a Sunday prayer, which I used to observe regularly. The priest referred us to the ten commandments in The Old Testament. He also emphasized the fact that the ten commandments do not appear in The New Testament and that they only appear in The Old Testament.
I thought that the ten commandments are the only ethical code in the whole Bible and I wondered, if they are so important, why they appear only in The Old Testament and not in The New Testament as well. The reason, I thought, may be that a Christian should abide by both Testaments and that the two testaments are to be considered as one book. However, this explanation is opposed by the fact that the church has cancelled The Old Testament, which is referred to selectively only. Although Jesus said that he came to confirm Moses' law, the church cancelled this law. Then Paul came and cancelled most of what Jesus enjoined. Finally, we ended with a Christianity that has little to do with Jesus Christ.
It also occurred to me that most of the ten commandments are in the negative, i.e., don'ts. What if the verbal prohibition is not obeyed in practice? What if killing actually happens despite the don't? What if stealing happens? What if fornication or adultery happens? The New Testament gives no penalties if a transgression occurs, probably because our Jesus, the Lamb, will bear or has already borne all our past, present, and future sins, crimes, and what not.
In Islam, I know, there are so many detailed commandments about behavior, which makes human life so happy because there is little room for faults if God's word is listened to. A Muslim lives in light: everything is clear and well-defined. The Muslim knows what to do, what to say, and how to behave because all is made clear in the message of Islam, unlike Christianity, which leaves its followers in complete darkness and in puzzling skepticism most of the time.
Islam does not only give commandments but it also gives penalties if the commandments are violated. Islam gives advice and gives punishment too. Islam meets the psychology of humans better. Islam does not preach and teach only; it also punishes transgressors.
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ONE, NOT THREE
I am Y. J. Thomas, 40 years. The church says that The Bible is God's word, but I began doubting this claim when I started examining The Bible. For one thing, The Old Testament always talks about one God, whereas The New Testament sometimes refers to three gods. How can the book of God not be sure about God Himself? Does God not know whether He is one or three?!
Because of this, among other reasons, I seriously began to suspect the origin of The Bible and began to doubt its authenticity. I have come to the conclusion that The Bible cannot be God's pure word.
In contrast, The Holy Quran, the book of Islam, consistently refers to God as one. I take The Holy Quran to be God's pure word. That is why I have embraced Islam, the religion of pure monotheism.
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LOST ORIGINAL
I am P. D. Thoreau, 21 years. The original version of Jesus' Gospel in Hebrew is lost. Of course, God could have preserved it if He had wanted to. But He did not wish to do so. This is a proof that God does not want The Gospel to be His final word. Had God wanted The Gospel to be His final word, He would have preserved its original from loss.
Because the original of Jesus' gospel is lost, nobody knows for sure what God's word to Jesus really was. That is why we have now the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. In fact, in the beginning, there were more than one hundred different gospels, which the church reduced repeatedly and gradually until the number finally reached four. The fact that the gospels are four proves the point, i.e., that God's pure word to Jesus or Jesus' gospel is lost. What The New Testament now has is merely stories about Jesus, some of which are true and some are not, some of which are complete and some are not.
Looking at The Holy Quran, the Holy Book revealed by God to Prophet Muhammad, I know that The Holy Quran is, was , and will be as it was revealed in its original form and original language, i.e. Arabic, with no letter more and no letter less, in one form and one version. God has preserved The Holy Quran because He wants it to be His only final Revealed Book. The only book that contains God's pure word is The Holy Quran, not The Bible. That is why I have embraced Islam. The fact that God has preserved The Holy Quran from corruption and has not preserved The Bible proves that The Holy Quran, not The Bible, is God's pure word.
WHY DID THESE PEOPLE EMBRACE ISLAM?
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JESUS AND MUHAMMAD
I am B. O. Lyndon, 34 years. I was reading The New Testament and I came across Jesus' words saying that when Jesus goes, he will send us the comforter and when the comforter comes, he will tell us the whole truth. Jesus himself tells us that a prophet will come to tell us the whole truth (John 16:13). Jesus was absolutely right. The comforter, i.e., Prophet Muhammad, did come, conveyed Islam, told the whole truth, and spoke with God's word.
I have become a Muslim because Jesus orders me to be a Muslim. He told us in The New Testament to follow the coming prophet when he comes. I have become a Muslim in obedience to Jesus' teachings. Jesus said, "But the Comforter ...whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and brings all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ‘’ (John 14:26).
Some people, many people I know, believe in Islam at the bottom of their hearts, but they are afraid of relatives, neighbors, and friends; they are afraid of social pressure. To them I say that they should be afraid of God, not of humans. What will relatives do for them at the Day of Judgment? Certainly, nothing. My advice is this: go to Islam now, right now with no delay or hesitation. Get out of ignorance into knowledge and from darkness into light.
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EDITIONS
I am P. C. Marsh, 42 years. There are many different editions of The Bible. One of them is called The Revised Edition. If revised, it is modified. If modified, how can it possibly be God's true word? Another edition of The Bible is simplified; another is called international. I wonder how a book called holy and labeled as God's word can be revised, simplified, and can appear in versions so different, and even so contradictory, in content.
I began to doubt the holiness of The Bible simply because there are so many Bibles. Which Bible is The Bible?
In contrast, there is The Holy Quran: perfect in content, great in meanings, miraculous in its facts, complete in legislation, devoid of mistakes, and with one single version. This is the Book, the really Holy Book, The Holy Quran, God’s pure final word.
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A COMPLETE RELIGION
I am C. K. Morris, 38 years. I have to be guided by the divine message conveyed to me. The nature of Jesus, whether man, god, or man- god, does not help me at all in solving the problems which I face every day. What I need as a human being is a detailed heavenly message that instructs me on how to behave. I looked into the message conveyed in The New Testament, and I found it a very poor message. The New Testament does not help much; nor does it offer much guidance, in the first place.
My curiosity led me to read The Holy Quran of Islam. Upon comparing The Holy Quran to The New Testament, I have found out that The Holy Quran gives full guidance on matters of worship, faith, ethics, what is right, what is wrong, penalties, death, Hell, Paradise, the Day of Judgment, business, trade, peace, war, man and woman, marriage and divorce, life and death, inheritance, parents and children, and all the major concerns of man. It is a perfect book, indeed. In fact, the title of the book, i.e., The Holy Quran, means the book to be read.
I personally advise everyone to read The Holy Quran, the book revealed by God to Prophet Muhammad originally in Arabic, but now you can find translations in all the important languages of the world, especially in English and French. If you do not read The Holy Quran, you miss the truth, lose a lot, and alienate yourself from your Creator.
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LACK OF MEN
I am D. L. Mowat, 26 years. At the end of the church service, I asked the pastor," As you know, the number of women in the USA exceeds the number of men by about ten million. How can Christianity solve this problem? Will those ten million women remain unmarried?" The man thought for a while and gave a joke as an answer, "I guess the only solution is that they should convince ten million husbands to divorce their ten million wives." What a solution!
I had a Muslim friend, whom I asked the same question. He answered, "Islam solves this problem both fairly and easily. It allows polygamy: a man may marry up to four wives. Of course, not all men actually use this license; only very few do when they have to." Thus, polygamy solves the problems of some husbands who find themselves in need of another wife, and at the same time it solves the problems of millions of single women waiting for marriage. Obviously, the Christian formula of one-man-one-woman does not suit neither men nor women. On the surface, it may look as if it works, but in fact it does not. Everybody knows what is going on in the Western life: one man with one wife, but with several mistresses. The Islamic pattern is different: one man with one wife, basically, but with another wife if necessary. The only allowed relationship between men and women in Islam is marriage and nothing but marriage in order to protect the family, define responsibilities, and keep the community morally, hygienically, and socially clean.
Another point is that Islam depends on the divine sources, i.e., The Holy Quran and Prophet Muhammad's traditions, which allow polygamy. In contrast, Christianity does not depend on its divine source. The Bible allows polygamy, but the church disallows it. Prophet David had many wives (II Samuel 5:13); other Jewish kings had 14-18 wives plus dozens of mistresses (II Chronicles 11:12 and 13:21); Prophet Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred mistresses (I Kings 11:3). There is no single evidence in The Bible that disallows polygamy. In fact, The Bible allows limitless polygamy: Solomon had seven hundred wives. Islam came and limited the number up to four only.
For this matter and many others, I have found out that Islam meets life requirements better than any other creed. Wherever you look, you find Islam perfect. The more you know Islam and the more you think about it, the clearer its greatness and perfection become.
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NO SON
I am C. M. Pierce, 29 years. Christianity depends on the creed that Jesus is God's son. But I always kept on asking myself, "How did the church come to this conclusion?" Jesus has no father; neither does Adam have. In fact, Adam has neither a father nor a mother, yet this did not make Adam God's son. In fact, Adam is parentless.
On the other hand, why does one need a son? We humans desire having sons to give us strength and support especially when we become old. We also desire having sons to give us a sense of continuity through extended living after we die. Does God need support or help? Certainly, not. Does He need continuity? No, He does not because He is the Ever-living.
Having a son is exactly the opposite of God's nature. God is one, with no daughter or son. I see that the Oneness of God as emphasized by Islam is the only true concept of God.
JESUS AND MUHAMMAD
I am B. O. Lyndon, 34 years. I was reading The New Testament and I came across Jesus' words saying that when Jesus goes, he will send us the comforter and when the comforter comes, he will tell us the whole truth. Jesus himself tells us that a prophet will come to tell us the whole truth (John 16:13). Jesus was absolutely right. The comforter, i.e., Prophet Muhammad, did come, conveyed Islam, told the whole truth, and spoke with God's word.
I have become a Muslim because Jesus orders me to be a Muslim. He told us in The New Testament to follow the coming prophet when he comes. I have become a Muslim in obedience to Jesus' teachings. Jesus said, "But the Comforter ...whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and brings all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. ‘’ (John 14:26).
Some people, many people I know, believe in Islam at the bottom of their hearts, but they are afraid of relatives, neighbors, and friends; they are afraid of social pressure. To them I say that they should be afraid of God, not of humans. What will relatives do for them at the Day of Judgment? Certainly, nothing. My advice is this: go to Islam now, right now with no delay or hesitation. Get out of ignorance into knowledge and from darkness into light.
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EDITIONS
I am P. C. Marsh, 42 years. There are many different editions of The Bible. One of them is called The Revised Edition. If revised, it is modified. If modified, how can it possibly be God's true word? Another edition of The Bible is simplified; another is called international. I wonder how a book called holy and labeled as God's word can be revised, simplified, and can appear in versions so different, and even so contradictory, in content.
I began to doubt the holiness of The Bible simply because there are so many Bibles. Which Bible is The Bible?
In contrast, there is The Holy Quran: perfect in content, great in meanings, miraculous in its facts, complete in legislation, devoid of mistakes, and with one single version. This is the Book, the really Holy Book, The Holy Quran, God’s pure final word.
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A COMPLETE RELIGION
I am C. K. Morris, 38 years. I have to be guided by the divine message conveyed to me. The nature of Jesus, whether man, god, or man- god, does not help me at all in solving the problems which I face every day. What I need as a human being is a detailed heavenly message that instructs me on how to behave. I looked into the message conveyed in The New Testament, and I found it a very poor message. The New Testament does not help much; nor does it offer much guidance, in the first place.
My curiosity led me to read The Holy Quran of Islam. Upon comparing The Holy Quran to The New Testament, I have found out that The Holy Quran gives full guidance on matters of worship, faith, ethics, what is right, what is wrong, penalties, death, Hell, Paradise, the Day of Judgment, business, trade, peace, war, man and woman, marriage and divorce, life and death, inheritance, parents and children, and all the major concerns of man. It is a perfect book, indeed. In fact, the title of the book, i.e., The Holy Quran, means the book to be read.
I personally advise everyone to read The Holy Quran, the book revealed by God to Prophet Muhammad originally in Arabic, but now you can find translations in all the important languages of the world, especially in English and French. If you do not read The Holy Quran, you miss the truth, lose a lot, and alienate yourself from your Creator.
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LACK OF MEN
I am D. L. Mowat, 26 years. At the end of the church service, I asked the pastor," As you know, the number of women in the USA exceeds the number of men by about ten million. How can Christianity solve this problem? Will those ten million women remain unmarried?" The man thought for a while and gave a joke as an answer, "I guess the only solution is that they should convince ten million husbands to divorce their ten million wives." What a solution!
I had a Muslim friend, whom I asked the same question. He answered, "Islam solves this problem both fairly and easily. It allows polygamy: a man may marry up to four wives. Of course, not all men actually use this license; only very few do when they have to." Thus, polygamy solves the problems of some husbands who find themselves in need of another wife, and at the same time it solves the problems of millions of single women waiting for marriage. Obviously, the Christian formula of one-man-one-woman does not suit neither men nor women. On the surface, it may look as if it works, but in fact it does not. Everybody knows what is going on in the Western life: one man with one wife, but with several mistresses. The Islamic pattern is different: one man with one wife, basically, but with another wife if necessary. The only allowed relationship between men and women in Islam is marriage and nothing but marriage in order to protect the family, define responsibilities, and keep the community morally, hygienically, and socially clean.
Another point is that Islam depends on the divine sources, i.e., The Holy Quran and Prophet Muhammad's traditions, which allow polygamy. In contrast, Christianity does not depend on its divine source. The Bible allows polygamy, but the church disallows it. Prophet David had many wives (II Samuel 5:13); other Jewish kings had 14-18 wives plus dozens of mistresses (II Chronicles 11:12 and 13:21); Prophet Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred mistresses (I Kings 11:3). There is no single evidence in The Bible that disallows polygamy. In fact, The Bible allows limitless polygamy: Solomon had seven hundred wives. Islam came and limited the number up to four only.
For this matter and many others, I have found out that Islam meets life requirements better than any other creed. Wherever you look, you find Islam perfect. The more you know Islam and the more you think about it, the clearer its greatness and perfection become.
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NO SON
I am C. M. Pierce, 29 years. Christianity depends on the creed that Jesus is God's son. But I always kept on asking myself, "How did the church come to this conclusion?" Jesus has no father; neither does Adam have. In fact, Adam has neither a father nor a mother, yet this did not make Adam God's son. In fact, Adam is parentless.
On the other hand, why does one need a son? We humans desire having sons to give us strength and support especially when we become old. We also desire having sons to give us a sense of continuity through extended living after we die. Does God need support or help? Certainly, not. Does He need continuity? No, He does not because He is the Ever-living.
Having a son is exactly the opposite of God's nature. God is one, with no daughter or son. I see that the Oneness of God as emphasized by Islam is the only true concept of God.
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