And Allah will deliver those who are the Muttaqun (pious - see V.2:2) to their places of success (Paradise). Evil shall touch them not, nor shall they grieve. Allah is the Creator of all things, and He is the Wakil (Trustee, Disposer of affairs, Guardian, etc.) over all things. To Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth. And those who disbelieve in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allah, such are they who will be the losers. Az-Zumar 61 - 63
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What is Islam? What Do Muslims Believe? An
overview of the Islamic religion Strange, strange tenets Muhammad
versus Jesus Black Muslim Movement The Quran vs. the Bible Marriage
and Women Allah vs. God Militant and murderous aspects The Genies In
creating this badly needed page on Islam, I drew very heavily from
Robert Morey's excellent book on this subject, "The Islamic
Invasion: Confronting the World's Fastest Growing Religion"
published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR, 1992). I gleaned
other information from my dealings with Muslims. Muslims strongly
critize Christians and say that Jesus is not the Son of God, YET they
take personal offense at any criticism of Islam. They have tracts and
apologetics against Christianity, but they don't want nobody exposing
their silliness and wickedness. Why? Because in Arab countries any
criticism of Muhammad or the Quran is viewed as a criminal offense
punishable by death. There was jihad called for by Khadafy and Saddam
Hussein during the Gulf War simply because the soldiers were
perceived as Christians--oh, you didn't know that Christians are
considered infidels according to the Islamic religion? Read the
section on this page entitled, "Why Muslims are so violent"
for more information. Mosques are popping up all over this country
and people are flocking to Islam. We Americans can be so stupid--we
will forsake Jesus and go halfway around the world just to try to
find another way we can get to heaven--it will only assure us of
hell. Just like other false religions, Islam has many faces. Islam in
America is much
different from Islam in the Middle East. You hear, "they are
hard working people" I do not doubt this--in America. But their
holy book says something different--either you convert to Islam or
die! Their native lands say something different. No Islamic country
is a democracy...I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm going to let the
Quran (Yusef Ali's translation [1]) and its prophet, Muhammad, speak
for themselves. You can read this straight through or go to specific
weirdness. I highly suggest however that you first read "Muslims
worship a culture..." which is the first item because it gives
foundational information. Grab a softdrink and read on. Strange,
strange tenets Muslims worship a man and his culture... Must adopt
Muhammad's political views. Throwing stones at the devil. You go to
hell for peeing on yourself and other silly things. Muhammad Muhammad
wasn't sure if he was going to heaven. Muslim view of Jesus
Comparison between Muhammad and Jesus Muhammad stole his son's wife
and married her. Muhammad was a thug who led other killing and
plundering thugs. Muhammad gets the Bible wrong. Muhamad admits he is
a sinner. Marriage and women Islam and Women Muhammad takes his 9
year old wife to bed Quran says women to be beaten Quran says four
wives are allowed but Muhammad had almost 20 In paradise, women are
chained in different areas for men's pleasure Quran says it's okay
for a dad to take his son's wife and marry her. Allah vs. God "Allah"
does not mean "God" in Arabic. It is actually a moon god.
Comparison between God of the Bible and Allah of the Quran The Quran
and the Hadith The Quran is a bunch of jibber-jabber. Muhammad did
not write the Quran. The Quran came directly from heaven and has NO
earthly sources. (Is that so?) The Hadith: Satan stays in the upper
part of your nose all night and you can't defecate towards Mecca.
Militant and murderous aspects Why Muslims are so violent Muhammad
was a thug that killed, plundered and stole from others even during
peace. Muslims leaders make Black Slaves in the Sudan (this will take
you to another website) Black Muslim movement The Black Muslim
movement (Nation of Islam) founded by a man with at least one white
parent! (but they call white people devils.) Orthodox Islam rejects
the Black Muslim movement (Nation of Islam) . . . . . . . . . . .
Muslims worship a culture and a man named Muhammad. Islam, in all
actuality, is the deification of Muhammad's seventh century Arabian
culture. They must dress the way Muhammad and his women did, eat what
they ate, speak like he did, make his political views their own, and
pray the way he did. They must accept that everything that Muhammad
did, taught, and believed is the word of Allah (who is NOT the God of
the Bible). The whole religion is based on the lifestyle and fables
of one man. This is important to remember--Islam is 7th century
Arabia imposed on
people living in the 20th century. This will become increasingly
evident as we continue. Muslim scholar Dr. Ali Dashti, a former
Foreign Minister of Iran, explains in his book 23 Years: A Study of
the Prophetic Career of Mohammad that Islam must be understood in
terms of its essential identification with seventh-century Arab
culture (Morely, p. 21). This idea of a culture being "divine"
might be a bit difficult for us Westerners to understand but it is
foundational to Islam. "Christianity" is "supracultural"
in that it allows people to live, dress, and eat in accordance with
the culture in which they are living (Morely, 21). If Islam did that,
there would be no Islam, it is ALL about culture. Eat this 'cause
Muhammad did, don't eat that 'cause Muhammad didn't, pray toward
Mecca which is the culture you worship, don't pray with your back to
your back to Mecca 'cause you disrespect your god, your culture. All
of this insignificant, temporal stuff done by a heathen named
Muhammad has been elevated to divine law. A Muslim must pray 5 times
a day towards Mecca which is in Arabia thus he is reminded that he
must be obedient to Arabia, a country, a culture. Back to index
Throwing stones at the Devil. A Muslim is required, despite cost or
hardship, to go on a pilgrimage to the Kabah (an edifice which at one
time held over 350 idols one of whom was Allah) in Mecca
at least once in his lifetime.
Poor third-world Muslims skimp and save for their ENTIRE lifetime in
order to fulfill this "pillar" of Islam so that they will
be eligible for paradise. What do they do when they get to Mecca? Run
around throwing stones at the devil, of course! Back to index Must
adopt Muhammad's political views. There was no concept of personal
freedom in Muhammad's seventh century Arabia, so no Islamic country
today is a democracy. They are all run by dictators as in the days of
Muhammad. Back to index Why Muslims are so violent. Sure, here in the
west, they've tried to "Christianize" their beliefs and
many of us gullibly believe that Muslims are a peace-loving
people--but history, Muhammad, terrorism, and Jihad tell a different
story, my friend. It is written in their law that Muslims must kill
those that don't convert. Their leader, Muhammad made his fortune
plundering and killing. Don't think it happens today? Looking at
Algeria. Look at worldwide terrorism. Look at Khadafy, the Shaw of
Iran, Sadaam Hussein, Arafat's Palestine, etc. The word "assassin"
came from a secret sect of Moslems who killed folks while supposedly
high on hashish. Violence and Islam are good friends. Why does it
seem like they are always fighting and terrorizing people? Why is
Islam so militant and overbearing? If we make a simple analysis of
the foundation of this religion, the answers will become very
apparent. It all begins and ends with a man named Mohammad. The
Hadith (another "holy" book of Islam) says that Jihad, or
holy war, is the second best thing to believing in Allah and his
apostle (Muhammad). Allah's apostle was asked, "What is the best
deed?" He replied, "To believe in Allah and his Apostle."
The questioner then asked, "What is the next?" He replied,
"To participate in Jihad in Allah's cause." (Hadith vol. 1,
no. 25). The Hadith also says that Murderous Muslims could take the
property of people they killed during a Jihad (there are different
types of Jihad). In addition to killing infidels like Christians and
Jews, Muslims are also commanded to kill anyone who leaves Islam
(Hadith vol. 4, no. 260). The Quran requires violence. Sura 9:5 says,
Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them,
beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every strategem of war.
Sura 5:33 records
what is done to infidels who resist Islam: Their punishment
is...execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet
from the opposite sides, or exile from the land. Muhammad also burned
out eyes with hot irons (Hadith vol. 1, no. 234) and deprived people
of water until they died (vol. 8, no. 796). In Islamic countries you
can be incarcerated and tortured without due process--this was all
part of 7th century Arabia. The dictator could do whatever he wanted
to. I read an article in the Washington Post about Sadaam Hussein's
son. They said that he was a terror. One night he raped a woman and
when she complained, he killed her. He did stuff like that all the
time and one night he got shot up getting out of his car and was
paralyzed. See the article, Muslim's rape children while crying
"Allahu Akbar!" (god is great) The following is an article
from The Frontline Fellowship that does extensive missionary work in
the Sudan, a country where crazy Muslims are killing, plundering, and
destroying in the name of jihad. You can order their video "Sudan:
The Hidden Holocaust" from their website or Jeremiah Films...
JIHAD – ISLAMIC HOLY WAR The relentless and often vicious
persecution by Muslims against Christians is seldom recognised or
understood. Many assume that the concept of Jihad, or holy war,
espoused by Muslim leaders like the Aytollah Khomeini and
demonstrated in terror bombings are aberrations not truly
representative of Islam: "We shall export our revolution, to the
whole world. Until the cry 'Allah Akbar' resounds over the whole
world. There will be struggle. There will be Jihad . . . Islam is the
religion of militant individuals . . . Islam will be victorious in
all the countries of the world, and Islam and the teachings of the
Quran will prevail all over the world . . . This is the duty that all
Muslims must fulfil . . ." These were the often repeated public
pronouncements of the Ayatollah Khomeini after the revolution in Iran
in 1979 ("The Blood of the Moon", by George Grant). Nor was
the Ayatollah alone in such militant threats. Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud
declared: "We shall never call for or accept a negotiated peace.
We shall only accept war - Jihad - the holy war. We resolve to drench
the lands of Palestine and
Arabia with the
blood of the infidels or to accept martyrdom for the glory of Allah".
The President of Sudan, Lt. Gen. Al Bashir, has often spoken of
Jihad. At the 40th anniversary of Sudan's independence, Al Bashir
celebrated the spirit of Jihad which was engulfing the people of
Sudan. The head of Sudan's ruling party, the National Islamic Front
(NIF), Dr. Al Turabi, has often declared his goal of an Islamic
empire controlling (initially) the horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Somalia, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan). This he calls the Grand Islamic
Project. At a two week conference of Muslim leaders from 80
countries, hosted by Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli, Libya
(October 1995), strategies to
transform Africa into
an Islamic continent were discussed. Participants openly admitted
that their goals were to make Arabic the primary language of the
continent and Islam the official religion. One SA member of
parliament, Farouk Cassim declared: "It will probably be the
biggest revolution to sweep Africa." Head of the Islamic
Propagation Centre International (IPCI), Yousuf Deedat, announced
afterwards that South Africa was
high on the agenda of the Islamic offensive: "We are going to
turn South Africa into
a Muslim state. We have the money to do it," (Sunday Times
22/10/95). At present less than 2 percent of South Africans are
Muslims. What few Westerners understand, however, is that those
Muslim leaders who call for the overthrow of all governments and the
establishment of an Islamic superstate controlling all aspects of
life for every person on earth are not extremists on the fringe of
Islam. Actually, Jihad, the subjugation and forcible conversion of
all people to Islam and world domination are central tenants of
Islam. Jihad is ranked by many Muslims as the sixth pillar of Islam.
Jihad was so important to the founder of Islam, Muhammad, that he
declared it to be the second most important deed in Islam. "Allah's
apostle was asked, 'What is the best deed?' He replied, 'To believe
in Allah and his Apostle.' The questioner then asked, 'What is the
next (in goodness)?' He replied, 'To participate in Jihad (religious
fighting) in Allah's cause.'" – The Hadith, Al Bukhari,
Vol. 1 no 25. Muslims, in fact, divide the world into two sectors:
Dar-al-Islam (the House of Islam) and Dar-al-Harb (The House of War).
The only countries considered to be at peace are those where Islamic
law (the Sharia) is enforced. Islam in Arabic means submission,
surrender or subjugation. A Muslim is one who submits. The Arabic
word for peace is Salam. Islam is the active form of Salam. Muslims
see themselves as a "peace making force" using argument,
intrigue, commerce, threats, terrorism, warfare and every other means
possible to secure Islam as the only religion worldwide. Muslims are
not permitted to make peace with a non-Muslim country until its
inhabitants surrender to Islam. They can agree to a cease fire for a
period of time – but never to peace with non Muslims. The Quran
teaches that Muslims are superior to others: "Ye (Muslims) are
the best of peoples evolved for mankind . . ." Surah 3:110.
Muslims are forbidden to befriend Jews or Christians: "O ye who
believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and
protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he
amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is one of them . . ."
Surah 5:54. Islam instructs its adherents
to fight until their opponents submit. Christians and Jews may be
spared if they pay "Jizya" – a penalty tax –
with willing submission: "Fight those who believe not in God nor
the last day . . . Nor acknowledge the religion of truth, (even if
they are) of the people of the Book, until they pay Jizya (tribute
taxes) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued"
Surah 9:29. "Fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them and
seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait (ambush) for them in
every strategem (of war) . . ." Surah 9:5 (also 2:193).
For those who resist Islam – execution or
mutilation is decreed: "The punishment of those who wage war
against Allah and His apostle, and strive with might and main for
mischief through the land is: execution or crucifixion, or the
cutting off of the hands and feet from opposite sides or exile from
the land . . ." Surah 5:36. The
Hadith, which is a record of the words and deeds of Muhammad, is also
viewed by Muslims as inspired. Next to the Quran, it is the most
important source of Islamic Law. It's teachings are regarded as
binding on all Muslims. The Hadith teaches that apostasy is
punishable by death: "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill
him." Vol. 9:57. A Muslim may not be punished for killing a
non-Muslim: "No Muslim should be killed for killing a kafir
(infidel)." Vol 9:50 Those
who die in holy war are guaranteed to go to Heaven. "The person
who participates in Jihad (Holy battles) in Allah's cause and nothing
compels him to do so except belief in Allah and His apostle, will be
recompensed by Allah either with a reward or booty (if he survives)
or will be admitted to paradise (if he is killed)." Vol 1:35
It may be hard for Christians
to understand the concept of such a militant religion, but the
primary aim of Islam is not spiritual but political. The ultimate
purpose of Islam is the establishment by force of a worldwide Islamic
state where Sharia law is enforced on all. To achieve this is the
goal of Jihad. Islamic scholars identify a multitude of forms that
Jihad can take: 1. There is the Jihad of Words. Muhammad was a
brilliant and gifted orator silencing his enemies in a war of words.
In Arab culture it was customary for feuding tribes to select a poet
to mock and provoke the opposing forces with spontaneous verses of
cursing. These linguistic warriors engaged in verbal combat seeking
to inspire their own side with a sense of superiority and strength
whilst undermining the morale of the enemy. This war of words, which
Muslim leaders today such as Gaddaffi, Saddam Hussein and Yassar
Arafat still engage in, is actually a war of nerves. 2. There is the
Jihad of Deception. When Muslims are small in number they can follow
the example of Muhammad's 83 followers who fled from persecution in
Mecca to
Abyssinia (present
day Ethiopia). There the Christian Negus (king) offered them refuge.
When the Meccans demanded their return as slaves, the Muslim exiles
declared that Islam was merely a variation of Christianity. The
Muslims selectively recited those passages of the Quran that agree
with the Bible such as the virgin birth and miracles of Jesus and His
ascension to Heaven and ultimate return. They remained silent on the
unbridgeable differences (such as the denial of the Trinity and the
atonement) between the Quran and the Bible. As a result the Christian
Abyssinians protected the Muslims from the Meccans. In this way, when
it was most vulnerable, Islam grew and developed in a Christian
environment. (If we only demonstrate our Christian love without
proclaiming the truth of the Gospel we could strengthen
anti-Christian forces). Muhammad compromised with the Meccan
merchants during a particularly intense time of persecution. Formerly
he had fearlessly condemned polytheism. Then, under pressure, he
accepted the Meccan belief that Allah had a wife, Al-lat, and two
daughters, Al Uzzo and Manat (Surah 53:20-23). Later Muhammad
repudiated these so called Satanic Verses and claimed that all
previous prophets had been tempted by demonic influence. 3. There is
the Jihad of the Sword. After fleeing to Medina (the
Hijra) in AD622, Muhammad started to summon his followers to attack
and plunder the caravans of Mecca. His followers initially resisted
these calls until Muhammad presented a series of "revelations"
commanding Jihad (holy war) and permitting looting ("Whoever has
killed an enemy and has proof of that, will possess his spoils"
– The Hadith, Vol. 4 no. 370). Where the booty was not large
enough, Muhammad held captives as hostages until their families paid
a high ransom for their release. Hostage taking has continued to be a
common practise in Islam to this day. Those who participate in Jihad
are granted a blanket absolution (Surah 8:17) and guaranteed to go
straight to Paradise (Heaven)
if killed. 4. There is the Jihad of Taxation and Financial Reward.
Those who refuse to submit to Islam are forced to pay a special tax
for non- Muslims (Jizya). Those who convert to Islam are often
offered financial rewards or scholarships. 5. There is the Jihad of
Slavery. Those Muslims who engage in Jihad not only can seize
property, extort ransoms and demand taxes, but also capture slaves.
The only places in the world today where slavery is still practised
are in some Muslim countries. In Sudan, the Islamic government uses
slavery as an incentive to encourage Arab Northerners to attack the
Christian Blacks in the South, and as a weapon of terror to
destabilize non-Muslims. According to the Sharia Law, Muslims are
allowed to enslave, own and sell human beings. 6. There is the Jihad
of the Sharia Law. Non-Muslims are degraded to a lower class status
and are denied equal access to the law because their testimony is not
valid against a Muslim. This even applies to murder ("No Muslim
should be killed for killing an infidel"). The death penalty is
applied to anyone who renounces Islam and converts to another
religion. When the wealthy Bedouins of Arabia professed faith in
Allah to escape attack, Muhammad did not accept their confession.
("The desert Arabs say 'We believe'. Say, 'Ye have no faith; but
ye (only) say 'We have submitted.'" Surah 49:14) Islam does not
place much value on personal faith, but demands surrender to the
political rule of the Sharia. It is significant that the calendar of
Islam does not begin with the birth of Muhammad, nor the onset of his
supposed "revelation", nor the assembling of the first
Muslim community, nor the flight of Muslim refugees to Abyssinia. The
12 years of persecution in Mecca were
not considered the start of their new religion. The Muslim calendar
only begins when Islam became a political state in Medina. 7. There
is the Jihad of Polygamy. The devastating defeat of the Muslim forces
by the Meccans in the battle of Uhud (AD625) led to what could be
considered one of Islam's greatest victories. So many of his men were
killed that Muhammad permitted his men to take up to 4 wives (Surah
4:3, 4). With the advent of Western medicine, infant mortality has
plummeted. And the Muslim birthrate has skyrocketed. Muslims are
increasing in number twice as fast as other religions. This is due to
birth control and abortion in Western lands and polygamy in Muslim
lands. Muslims are not increasing much by missionary outreaches, but
by having many children. Polygamy (rather than persuasion) has become
one of Islam's most effective weapons for Holy War, providing Islam
with a disproportionate numerical advantage. 8. There is the Jihad of
the Spirits. According to the Quran, Muslims are not only men and
women but also spirits who fight for the spread of Islam (Surah
46:29-33 and 72:1-15). Also a Muslim is to fight on Muhammad's behalf
both in his life and after his death (Hadith Vol. 1 chapter 43).
Clearly Islam is a religion of force which denies basic freedom. No
Muslim even has the freedom to change or leave his religion. The huge
block of over 1 billion Muslims presents the greatest political and
military threat to the Western world and the greatest missionary
challenge [editor's note: I do not agree with this, the Great Whore
is the greatest enemy of the gospel of Christ] to the Christian
Church. Muslim states are the most severe persecutors of Christians,
and Muslim terrorist groups are the most vicious hijackers,
kidnappers, bombers and assassins. As the recent East African
bombings remind us, Islam is a challenge that we cannot ignore. How
we chose to respond, in prayer, publications, proclamation, projects
and persistent vigilance will determine much of the course of history
in the coming 21st century. Peter Hammond This is an excerpt from an
email I received-- As more details emerge surrounding the murder of
Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl, it seems increasingly
likely that the object of the kidnapping wasn't demands or ransom but
the murder of Danny Pearl himself. Pearl was
ordered to tell the camera he was "a Jew. My mother was a Jew,"
he reportedly said just before his murder. Pearl's kidnapping-murder
involved at least 15 conspirators, according to Pakistani police
investigators. Danny Pearl was chosen to be slaughtered because he
was a Jew. The demands made at the time of his kidnapping were, by
design, impossible - they gave a 24-hour deadline with no negotiation
and it is believed that Pearl was
murdered on schedule. The gory details of Pearl's videotaped murder
are evidence of the maniacal hatred of his murderers. According to
reports in the major media, Pearl is shown mumbling some obvious
propaganda statement about Americans being unable to "walk
around free" as long as our government's policies of
"unconditional support of Israel" continue. After admitting
his crime: "I am a Jew. My mother was a Jew," a hand
appears and cuts his throat. The rest of the description is not for
the squeamish. You may want to skip over the next paragraph. After
Pearl's throat is cut, his head is severed and held aloft by a hand
in front of the camera. The tape cuts to his murderers repeatedly
stabbing his lifeless corpse. The scene cuts to Pearl's head lying on
a pile of newspapers as a message scrolls across the screen: "If
our demands aren't met, there will be more like this." Those
"demands" included releasing the al-Qaida prisoners from
Cuba and
delivering fighter jets to Pakistan. The only thing they left out was
a demand we publicly execute President Bush in the Rose Garden. They
had no intention of ever releasing Danny Pearl. Ever. Danny Pearl was
a Jew. Israel is
hated with a visceral, bone-deep hatred impossible for most modern
Christians to comprehend. This week, a 15-year-old Palestinian girl
charged a group of Israeli soldiers with a knife. The soldiers shot
her dead. At her home was a suicide note, proclaiming her intention
to become a martyr. Her unknowing father said when he found out what
she had done that he was "proud" of her. How can anyone
comprehend hatred that deep? Back to index Islam and women. Muhammad
wrote in the Sura 4:3 that it is unlawful to have more than four
wives, but he had more than four. Muslim scholar Ali Dashti lists 22
women in Muhammad's life, including 16 wives. He also stole his
adopted son's wife Zaynab and made her his own. One wife, Aesha, was
only eight or nine years old when he took her to bed. Female Muslims
must be covered head to foot like Muhammad's women who needed it in
the desert sun and sand. Women are treated bad in Islam. Let's look
at the Quran, Sura 4:34: Men are the managers of the affairs of
women...Those you fear may be rebellious--admonish; banish them to
their couches and beat them. Muslim women can be kept prisioners in
their own homes and denied the right to go outside the house if the
husband orders. They can't even vote in some countries. In Iran
they must carry written
permission from their husbands to go outside the house. In Saudi
Arabia, they are prohibited from driving a car. When some women in
Saudia Arabia drove cars in the fall of 1990, they were castigated
from every direction and admonished not to talk to Western reporters.
One woman said, "The issue is not driving. It is that here in
Saudi Arabia, I exist as a person from the bellybutton to the knees."
I've heard some foolish people say that the Bible degrades women.
What a lie that is! God made us male and female with distinct
responsibilities. I perceive that the lawless and rebellious are the
ones who think that having children and rearing them is demeaning. I
perceive that the prideful and arrogant are the ones that think they
have something to prove to men and the world at large. What a pitiful
existence trying to be just the opposite of what God says. That is
all it is. What freedom we women have in Christ. I used to think
being a Christian was about bondage, but that was a lie from the
devil. It is ultimate freedom (and I'm a woman too)! Back to index
The Quran has NO earthly sources. According to the Islam religion,
the teachings of Muhammad and the Quran came STRAIGHT FROM HEAVEN and
cannot have any earthly source. Yet Western scholarship easily shows
that ALL of Islam is based on the customs and fables of pre-Islamic
Arabia and
misinterpretation of the Bible by Muhammad. Even the word, "Islam"
wasn't new with Muhammad. It originally meant, defiance of death,
heroism, to die in battle Today, it is supposed to mean submission
Now given all the terrorism from the Middle East and fighting between
the Shiite and Sunnis which definition better fits Islam? "to
die in battle" or "submission"? The Quran commands
Muslims to convert everyone to Islam or else kill them. "Islam"
existed before Muhammad came on the scene so there is an earthly
source. Also, the Quran is not written in a heavenly language, it is
written the Quraish dialect (Hadith vol. 6, no. 507) which was
Muhammad's tribe. On top of that it is easily translated. It didn't
fall out of heaven as they claim. Neither is it non-translatable as
Muslims are taught that it is. Let's move on. Even the word "Allah"
was not invented by Muhammad. It was already well known. Allah is a
purely Arabic word al = the and ilah = god. It is not taken from the
Hebrew or Greek word for God. It is not even the Arabic word for God.
It is the name of a peculiar deity--Allah, the moon god. See the
section on Allah. The Encyclopedia of Islam says: The Arabs, BEFORE
the time of Mohammed, accepted and worshipped, after a fashion, a
supreme god called allah. (ed. Houtsma) Allah was known to the
PRE-Islamic Arabs; he was one of the Meccan deities. (ed. Gibb)
Ilah...appears in PRE-Islamic poetry...By frequency of usage, al-ilah
was contracted to allah, frequently attested to in pre-Islamic
poetry. (ed. Lewis) The following was sent to me via email: This
article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by ********** Radical
New Views of Islam and the Origins of the Koran March 2, 2002 By
ALEXANDER STILLE To Muslims the Koran is the very word of God, who
spoke through the Angel Gabriel to Muhammad: "This book is not
to be doubted," the Koran declares unequivocally at its
beginning. Scholars and writers in Islamic countries who have ignored
that warning have sometimes found themselves the target of death
threats and violence, sending a chill through universities around the
world. Yet despite the fear, a handful of experts have been quietly
investigating the origins of the Koran, offering radically new
theories about the text's meaning and the rise of Islam. Christoph
Luxenberg, a scholar of ancient Semitic languages in Germany, argues
that the Koran has been misread and mistranslated for centuries. His
work, based on the earliest copies of the Koran, maintains that parts
of Islam's holy book are derived from pre-existing Christian Aramaic
texts that were misinterpreted by later Islamic scholars who prepared
the editions of the Koran commonly read today. So, for example, the
virgins who are supposedly awaiting good Islamic martyrs as their
reward in paradise are in reality "white raisins" of
crystal clarity rather than fair maidens. Christoph Luxenberg,
however, is a pseudonym, and his scholarly tome ""The
Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran" had trouble finding a
publisher, although it is considered a major new work by several
leading scholars in the field. Verlag Das Arabische Buch in Berlin
ultimately published the book.
The caution is not surprising. Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses"
received a fatwa because it appeared to mock Muhammad. The Egyptian
novelist Naguib Mahfouz was stabbed because one of his books was
thought to be irreligious. And when the Arab scholar Suliman Bashear
argued that Islam developed as a religion gradually rather than
emerging fully formed from the mouth of the Prophet, he was injured
after being thrown from a second- story window by his students at the
University of
Nablus in the
West Bank. Even many broad-minded liberal Muslims become upset when
the historical veracity and authenticity of the Koran is questioned.
The reverberations have affected non-Muslim scholars in Western
countries. "Between fear and political correctness, it's not
possible to say anything other than sugary nonsense about Islam,"
said one scholar at an American university who asked not to be named,
referring to the threatened violence as well as the widespread
reluctance on United States college
campuses to criticize other cultures. While scriptural interpretation
may seem like a remote and innocuous activity, close textual study of
Jewish and Christian scripture played no small role in loosening the
Church's domination on the intellectual and cultural life of Europe,
and paving the way for unfettered secular thought. "The Muslims
have the benefit of hindsight of the European experience, and they
know very well that once you start questioning the holy scriptures,
you don't know where it will stop," the scholar explained. The
touchiness about questioning the Koran predates the latest rise of
Islamic militancy. As long ago as 1977, John Wansbrough of the School
of Oriental and
African Studies in London wrote
that subjecting the Koran to "analysis by the instruments and
techniques of biblical criticism is virtually unknown." Mr.
Wansbrough insisted that the text of the Koran appeared to be a
composite of different voices or texts compiled over dozens if not
hundreds of years. After all, scholars agree that there is no
evidence of the Koran until 691 - 59 years after Muhammad's death -
when the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem was
built, carrying several Koranic inscriptions. These inscriptions
differ to some degree from the version of the Koran that has been
handed down through the centuries, suggesting, scholars say, that the
Koran may have still been evolving in the last decade of the seventh
century. Moreover, much of what we know as Islam - the lives and
sayings of the Prophet - is based on texts from between 130 and 300
years after Muhammad's death. In 1977 two other scholars from the
School for Oriental and African Studies at London University -
Patricia Crone (a professor of history at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton) and Michael Cook (a professor of Near Eastern
history at Princeton University) - suggested a radically new approach
in their book "Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World."
Since there are no Arabic chronicles from the first century of Islam,
the two looked at several non-Muslim, seventh-century accounts that
suggested Muhammad was perceived not as the founder of a new religion
but as a preacher in the Old Testament tradition, hailing the coming
of a Messiah. Many of the early documents refer to the followers of
Muhammad as "hagarenes," and the "tribe of Ishmael,"
in other words as descendants of Hagar, the servant girl that the
Jewish patriarch Abraham used to father his son Ishmael. In its
earliest form, Ms. Crone and Mr. Cook argued, the followers of
Muhammad may have seen themselves as retaking their place in the Holy
Land alongside
their Jewish cousins. (And many Jews appear to have welcomed the
Arabs as liberators when they entered Jerusalem in
638.) The idea that Jewish messianism animated the early followers of
the Prophet is not widely accepted in the field, but "Hagarism"
is credited with opening up the field. "Crone and Cook came up
with some very interesting revisionist ideas," says Fred M.
Donner of the University of
Chicago and
author of the recent book "Narratives of Islamic Origins: The
Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing." "I think in
trying to reconstruct what happened, they went off the deep end, but
they were asking the right questions." The revisionist school of
early Islam has quietly picked up momentum in the last few years as
historians began to apply rational standards of proof to this
material. Mr. Cook and Ms. Crone have revised some of their early
hypotheses while sticking to others. "We were certainly wrong
about quite a lot of things," Ms. Crone said. "But I stick
to the basic point we made: that Islamic history did not arise as the
classic tradition says it does." Ms. Crone insists that the
Koran and the Islamic tradition present a fundamental paradox. The
Koran is a text soaked in monotheistic thinking, filled with stories
and references to Abraham, Isaac, Joseph and Jesus, and yet the
official history insists that Muhammad, an illiterate camel merchant,
received the revelation in Mecca, a remote, sparsely populated part
of Arabia, far from the centers of monotheistic thought, in an
environment of idol-worshiping Arab Bedouins. Unless one accepts the
idea of the angel Gabriel, Ms. Crone says, historians must somehow
explain how all these monotheistic stories and ideas found their way
into the Koran. "There are only two possibilities," Ms.
Crone said. "Either there had to be substantial numbers of Jews
and Christians in Mecca or
the Koran had to have been composed somewhere else." Indeed,
many scholars who are not revisionists agree that Islam must be
placed back into the wider historical context of the religions of the
Middle East rather
than seeing it as the spontaneous product of the pristine Arabian
desert. "I think there is increasing acceptance, even on the
part of many Muslims, that Islam emerged out of the wider
monotheistic soup of the Middle East," says Roy Mottahedeh, a
professor of Islamic history at Harvard University. Scholars like Mr.
Luxenberg and Gerd- R. Puin, who teaches at Saarland
University in
Germany, have returned to the earliest known copies of the Koran in
order to grasp what it says about the document's origins and
composition. Mr. Luxenberg explains these copies are written without
vowels and diacritical dots that modern Arabic uses to make it clear
what letter is intended. In the eighth and ninth centuries, more than
a century after the death of Muhammad, Islamic commentators added
diacritical marks to clear up the ambiguities of the text, giving
precise meanings to passages based on what they considered to be
their proper context. Mr. Luxenberg's radical theory is that many of
the text's difficulties can be clarified when it is seen as closely
related to Aramaic, the language group of most Middle Eastern Jews
and Christians at the time. For example, the famous passage about the
virgins is based on the word hur, which is an adjective in the
feminine plural meaning simply "white." Islamic tradition
insists the term hur stands for "houri," which means
virgin, but Mr. Luxenberg insists that this is a forced misreading of
the text. In both ancient Aramaic and in at least one respected
dictionary of early Arabic, hur means "white raisin." Mr.
Luxenberg has traced the passages dealing with paradise to a
Christian text called Hymns of Paradise by a fourth-century author.
Mr. Luxenberg said the word paradise was derived from the Aramaic
word for garden and all the descriptions of paradise described it as
a garden of flowing waters, abundant fruits and white raisins, a
prized delicacy in the ancient Near East. In this context, white
raisins, mentioned often as hur, Mr. Luxenberg said, makes more sense
than a reward of sexual favors. In many cases, the differences can be
quite significant. Mr. Puin points out that in the early archaic
copies of the Koran, it is impossible to distinguish between the
words "to fight" and "to kill." In many cases, he
said, Islamic exegetes added diacritical marks that yielded the
harsher meaning, perhaps reflecting a period in which the Islamic
Empire was often at war. A return to the earliest Koran, Mr. Puin and
others suggest, might lead to a more tolerant brand of Islam, as well
as one that is more conscious of its close ties to both Judaism and
Christianity. "It is serious and exciting work," Ms. Crone
said of Mr. Luxenberg's work. Jane McAuliffe, a professor of Islamic
studies at Georgetown University,
has asked Mr. Luxenberg to contribute an essay to the Encyclopedia of
the Koran, which she is editing. Mr. Puin would love to see a
"critical edition" of the Koran produced, one based on
recent philological work, but, he says, "the word critical is
misunderstood in the Islamic world - it is seen as criticizing or
attacking the text." Some Muslim authors have begun to publish
skeptical, revisionist work on the Koran as well. Several new volumes
of revisionist scholarship, "The Origins of the Koran," and
"The Quest for the Historical Muhammad," have been edited
by a former Muslim who writes under the pen name Ibn Warraq. Mr.
Warraq, who heads a group called the Institute for the Secularization
of Islamic Society, makes no bones about having a political agenda.
"Biblical scholarship has made people less dogmatic, more open,"
he said, "and I hope that happens to Muslim society as well."
But many Muslims find the tone and claims of revisionism offensive.
"I think the broader implications of some of the revisionist
scholarship is to say that the Koran is not an authentic book, that
it was fabricated 150 years later," says Ebrahim Moosa, a
professor of religious studies at Duke University, as well as a
Muslim cleric whose liberal theological leanings earned him the
animosity of fundamentalists in South Africa, which he left after his
house was firebombed. Andrew Rippin, an Islamicist at the University
of Victoria in
British Columbia, Canada, says that freedom of speech in the Islamic
world is more likely to evolve from within the Islamic interpretative
tradition than from outside attacks on it. Approaches to the Koran
that are now branded as heretical - interpreting the text
metaphorically rather than literally - were widely practiced in
mainstream Islam a thousand years ago. "When I teach the history
of the interpretation it is eye-opening to students the amount of
independent thought and diversity of interpretation that existed in
the early centuries of Islam," Mr. Rippin says. "It was
only in more recent centuries that there was a need for limiting
interpretation."
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in Arabic. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics says this: The
origin of this (Allah) goes back to PRE-Muslim times. Allah is NOT a
common name meaning "God" (or a "god"), and the
Muslim must use another word or form if he wishes to indicate any
other than his own peculiar deity. Allah was a pre-existing god. He
was well known to Muhammad's Quraysh tribe. Scholars quickly point
out that Allah was one of the names used for the MOON god who was
married to the sun goddess. Together they produced three goddesses
who were called "the daughters of Allah. Their names were
Al-Lat, Al-Uzza and Manat. These were considered high gods--at the
top of the plethora of Arabian deities. Muhammad's father's literal
Arabic name was Abd-Allah. His uncle's name was Obied-Allah. His
family was devoted to the moon god for at least two generations
before Muhammad. The Arabian pagans prayed towards Mecca
because that is where their
idols/gods were sitting. Since Allah was one of the idols in the
Kabah it only made sense to turn toward their god and pray. Praying
toward Mecca continues
to this day. Allah is clearly not the God of the Bible. He is an
Arabian idol that sat in the Kabah with a bunch of other idols. The
pagans prayed in the direction of Mecca because
that is where their gods (including Allah) resided heaped on top of
each other in the Kabah. This is not news to educated Muslims, they
generally understand this point. Allah is the moon god, that's
probably why there is the crescent moon and star on the Muslim flag.
In conclusion, the Quran took Allah from the existing Arabic paganism
and superimposed it on top of the God of the Bible. A dumb idol that
can neither hear, nor speak, nor think. "Well," you might
say, "what about Arabic Bibles that say, 'Allah' for the word
God?" "Well," I would say, "the missionaries got
intimidated by Arabs to use Allah instead of the Arabic word of God."
I also might say, "Many missionaries are turning to dynamic
equivalency which means that they do not translate word for word but
rather look for similar ideas to convey meaning. The King James is
the only Bible that does word for word translation--that's fcalled
formal equivalency." Back to index Allah vs. God. Islam claims
that their god is the God of the Bible. Let's compare: The Quran The
Bible Allah is unknowable God is knowable Allah is nonpersonal God is
personal Allah is not a spirit God is a Spirit Allah is not a Father,
nor Jesus the Son of God God is one existing in three persons, not
three gods, but one God Allah can do anything with no limitations God
cannot go against His immutable nature e.g. God cannot lie. Allah is
capricious God is trustworthy Allah has no feelings towards man God
loves man Allah doesn't personally enter human history. God came
incarnate to bring about man's salvation. Allah provides no saviour
or intecessor. You're on your own. No concept of grace. God provided
a Saviour through His manifold grace. It is clear to see that the God
of the Bible is NOT the god of the Quran, Allah. Back to index About
Muhammad. Muhammad is the "prophet" of Islam. At age 40 he
claimed that he was a prophet and apostle (he took these terms from
the Bible. They had no history in Arabian religion). The Quran gives
four conflicting accounts of how he was called to be a prophet--(1)
In Suras 53:2-18 and 81:19-24, Allah personally appeared. (2) In
Suras 16:102 and 26:192-194 he was called by "the Holy Spirit".
(3) In Sura 15:8 the angels announced his prophetic ministry; and ,
(4) The angel Gabriel told him of his ministry and hands him the
Quran. Who were Muhammad's first supposed converts? Genies! Yes,
Muhammad supposedly preached to and converted genies in Suras
46:29-35; 72:1-28. How convenient that there was no one around to
confirm his prophethood. Back to index Muhammad was a thug. Muhammad
killed and plundered many people. During the Nakhla Raid, he sent
some of his thugs to loot a caravan killing one man and enslaving
others. This was his first battle. Do you wonder why so many
terrorists are Muslims? The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree. The
"prophet" Muhammad did not even foresee his own death in
632 A.D. As a result, he left no instructions for his successors.
Soon there were warring sects in Islam such as the Shiites and Sunnis
who fight to this day. So not only are Muslims fighting infidels like
Christians and Jews, they are fighting each other! Also see section
on violence. Back to index Muhammad stole his son's wife. Muhammad
wanted his son's wife and when his son didn't want to give her up,
Muhammad had a "convenient revelation" from heaven which
said a father can take his adopted son's wife. Read Sura 33:36-38:
...When Zaid had accomplished what he would of her, then we gave her
in marriage to you, so that there should not be any fault in the
believers, touching the wives of their adopted sons, when they have
accomplished what they would of them; and Allah's commandment must be
performed. There is no fault in the prophet, touch what Allah had
ordained for him. This passage has led many Muslims to renounce
Islam. Back to index Muslim view of Jesus. Islam claims that Muhammad
and Jesus were both Muslims and prophets of Allah. Whoa, nelly! They
say that Allah has no son and they are right. Allah is not the
omniscent, omnipresent, omnipotent God of the Bible--so they are
right, Jesus is not the son of Allah. He is the Son of God. Muslims
say that the Bible is corrupt, we can't trust it--yet the Quran
claims to based on the Bible. Islam says: Jesus is not the Son of
God. Jesus did not die for our sins. Jesus was not crucified. Jesus
was not divine as well as human. Jesus is not the Saviour. These are
not issues of the Bible being corrupt as the Muslims say it is. These
are issues of the Quran out-and-out contradicting the Bible. These
are issues of Muslims blasphemying. See Suras 4:157; 5:19, 75; 9:30.
Back to index Differences between Muhammad and Jesus. The coming of
Muhammad was not foretold. Muhammad came on the scene claiming that
he converted genies that ain't nobody seen. And now a whole host of
people worship this man and his fake god that is no god. Muhammad did
many treacherous things including robbing and plundering for his own
wealth. He also commanded his followers to kill all that would not
submit to Muhammad's made-up religion. Today in Africa
and around the world, Muslims
are killing anyone who will not submit to Islam. Of late, Muslims are
trying to say that Muhammad was sinless, but Muhammad admitted that
he is a sinner. "Muhammad replied..."O Allah, set me apart
from my sins..." Hadith vol. 1, no. 711 In Sura 18:10, Allah
tells Muhammad: Say, I am but a man like yourselves. Jesus on the
otherhand was CLEARLY prophesied about hundreds, THOUSANDS of years
before His coming. Jesus is the express image of God and His
sacrifice stands in demonstration of the love of God. Islam has
nothing to point to that reveals the love of God. In fact the Quran
says that there is no intercessor or saviour. You've got to save
yourself. See Sura 6:51, 70; 10:3. Jesus rose from the dead, Muhammad
did not. Jesus was the Son of God, Muhammad was not. Jesus did many
miracles, Muhammad did not. Jesus was seen by over 500 people when He
went up to heaven, Muhammad was put in a grave. Jesus quoted
scriptures written thousands of years before His coming while
Muhammad made up his own scriptures and claimed that he preached to
genies as his proof of being a prophet. Muhammad even contradicted
himself when he quoted his various fairy tales. Muhammad sinned
against many people. Jesus sinned against no one. Not ONE of Jesus'
enemies could ever truthfully say anything bad about Him. People that
Muhammad tortured could certainly talk bad about him. Muhammad is
obviously inferior to Jesus, and as a result, Muslim theologians have
borrowed events from the life of Jesus and attributed them to their
"prophet". Back to index Muhammad not assured of paradise.
Muhammad was not sure if he was going to heaven himself: The Prophet
said, "By Allah, though I am the Apostle of Allah, yet I do not
know what Allah will do to me." Hadith vol. 5, no. 266 Back to
index The Quran is a messed up fraud. While the Bible accurately
records actual people, places and events, the Quran is a jumbled up
mess. Some comments: "It is a toilsome reading as I ever
undertook, a wearisome, confused jumble, crude, incondite."
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Scholar [2] "From the literary point of
view, the Koran has little merit. Declamation, repetition, puerility,
a lack of logic and coherence strike the unprepared reader at every
turn. It is humiliating to the human intellect to think that this
mediocre literature has been the subject of innumerable commentaries,
and that millions of men are still wasting time absorbing it."
Salomon Reinach, German Scholar [3] "an incoherent rhapsody of
fable, and precept, and declamation, which sometimes crawls in the
dust, and sometimes is lost in the clouds." Edward Gibbon,
Historian [4] "The matter of the Koran is exceedingly incoherent
and sententious, the book evidently being without any logical order
of thought either as a whole or in its parts. This agrees with the
desultory and incidental manner in which it is said to have been
delivered." McClintock and Strong's Encyclopedia [5]
"Unfortunately the Qor'an was badly edited and its contents are
very obtusely arranged. All students of the Qor'an wonder why the
editors did not use the natural and logical method of ordering by
date of revelation..." Ali Dashti, Muslim Scholar [6]
"disjointed and irregular character" The Concise
Encyclopedia of Islam (a standard islamic work) [7] Back to index
Bones, palm leaves, rocks and the Quran. Though he was supposed to be
a prophet, Muhammad had no clue that he was going to die when he did.
He therefore died without compiling his revelations--don't be
mistaken, Muhammad didn't actually write them down himself. When
Muhammad would have his visions/seizures he would recite and others
would either try to remember what he said or they wrote his words on
rocks, palm leaves, animal bones, papyrus, wooden boards, etc. Some
of the words got eaten by animals who munched on the palm leaves that
they were written on. Some of the Suras were never written
down--people just tried to remember what Muhammad said while he was
in his trance. Oh, real realiable. Yet a Muslim will tell you that
the Bible is untrustworthy--yeah, right--no, wrong! Much confusion
reigned because the memory of one person would contradict the memory
of another--but the Bible is corrupt? No, the Quran and its writers
were corrupt. The "revelations" of the Koran are not even
laid out in chronological order. There no logical order of ideas. In
fact, there is no beginning, middle, and end. The Bible tells us
about the creation of the earth and mankind (Genesis) and goes all
the way through human history until the end of the world and the
final judgment (Revelation). The Bible had approximately 40 authors
and was written over a period of approximately 1600 years. It flows
seemlessly. The Quran, on the other hand, came through one man (who
didn't even write it), during his lifetime with nothing to support
it. It is obvious which is superior. The fact that the Quran claims
to be the second part of the Bible shows that it is not because it
directly contradicts the Bible while not fitting the literary style
or structure found in the Old and New Testaments. The Muslims claim
that the Quran is perfect in Arabic and that it can't be translated.
That's pretty dumb--anything can be translated. They also claim that
it came directly from heaven with no earthly sources, but in doing a
little research it is evident that the Quran did come from earth,
more specifically, from Muhammad's pre-Islamic Arabia. The customs
and culture found in the Quran fit pre-Islamic Arabia
to a "T". Muslims
claim that the Quran is perfect because God preserves His word--but
yet they say the Bible is corrupt. If the Quran is supposedly based
on the Bible and the Bible is corrupt, why would God preserve the
Quran? Back to index Muhammad gets the Bible all wrong. Mistakes in
the Quran. [it should be noted that many of the stories in the Quran
come from the Jewish Talmud, the Midrash, and many apocryphal
works--for instance Nimrod threw Abraham in the fire. You'll see this
in Jewish extrabiblical literature.] Christians worship three gods:
the Father, the Mother (Mary), and the Son (Jesus) (Sura 5:73-75,
116) Yusuf Ali's translation deliberately mistranslates Sura 5:73 by
saying "They do blaspheme who say: God is one of three in a
Trinity". The words "in a Trinity" are not in the
Arabic text. The Aramic says, "Allah is the third of three".
Christians bow in prayer towards Jeruselem (Sura 2:144, 145) Wine and
sex in heaven (Sura 2:25; 4:57; 11:23; 47:15). Was this not
Muhammad's desire? It took eight days to create the earth. (Sura
41:9, 10, 12 -- 4 4 2=8 days). The Bible says six days. Other Suras
say six days (7:51, 10:3) One of the sons of Noah refused to go into
the ark and was drowned in the flood (Sura 11:32-48). The Bible says
all three went in. The ark came to rest on Mount Judi
(Sura 11:44). The Bible says it
came to rest on Mount Ararat. Abraham father's name was Azar (Sura
6:74). The Bible says it was Terah. Abraham lived in the valley
of Mecca (Sura
14:37). The Bible says he lived in Hebron. Abraham went to sacrifice
Ishmael (Sura 37:100-112). The Bible says it was Issac. Abraham built
the Kabah (Sura 2:125-127). The Bible does not say this. Abraham was
thrown into a fire [by Nimrod]. The tale of Abraham being delivered
from Nimrod's fire came from the Jewish Midrash Rabbah and was
incorporated into the Quran (see Suras 21:51-71; 37:97,98). It must
be also pointed out that Nimrod and Abraham did not live at the same
time. Muhammad was always mixing people together in the Quran who did
not live at the same time. The Bible tells us Nimrod lived MANY
CENTURIES BEFORE ABRAHAM--HE COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS. Throughout the
Quran--Nimrod and Abraham, Haman and Moses, Mary and Aaron, etc. were
all pictured as living and working together. Moses and the flood are
found together, the tower of Babel and
Pharoh, etc. like they all happened at the same time. Man who bought
Joseph was named Aziz (Sura 12:21ff). The Bible says it was Potiphar.
Quran messes up numerous Bible people. Goliath becomes Jalut, Saul
becomes Talut, Enoch Idris, John the Baptist Yahya, Jonah Yunus, etc.
Because Muhammad had no Bible to read he frequently got the names and
events all wrong--but then again, he was supposed to be a prophet!
Pharoh's wife adopted Moses (Sura 28:8, 9). Bible says it was
Pharoh's daughter. Noah's flood took place in Moses day (Sura 7:136,
7:59). Crucifixion was used in Pharoah's time (Sura 7:124) Mary gave
birth to Jesus under a palm tree (Sura 19:22) Mary mother of Jesus is
Moses' sister Miriam (Sura19:28). Muhammad was clueless. Made up
miracles of Mary (Sura 19:23-26). Zacharias could not speak for only
three days (Sura 19:10) The test of how soldiers drank water came in
the days of David and Saul (Sura 2:249, 250--actually it was years
earlier with Gideon. Other Mistakes Abrah's army defeated by birds
dropping stones on them. History says Abrah's army withdrew after
smallpox broke out. The Kabah was build by Adam and rebuilt by
Abraham. It was built by pagans to worship a black rock that fell out
of the sky. Abraham never lived in Mecca. Sura 20:87, 95, the Jews
made the golden calf in the wilderness at the suggestion of
Samaritans--there were no Samaritans at that time. Alexander the
Great was a Muslim and worshipped Allah and lived to an old age (Sura
18:89-98). Yusuf Ali and the Concise Dictionary of Islam confirm that
Zul-qarinain in the Quran is Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great
followed the setting sun and found that it went down into the waters
of a muddy spring (Sura 18:85, 86). Does that sound like a fairy tail
or what? Contradictions are too numerous to name... Back to index
Black Muslim movement founded by a bi-racial man Elijah Poole, son of
a Baptist minister, hooked up in 1931 with Wallace D. Fard who was
apparently a bi-racial man and religious teacher. Black Muslims call
him "Master Fard Muhammad". Fard told his followers to
dress like Arab Muslims did in the Middle East (you see Wallace D.
Fard sold African clothing so of course, he sold them the clothing).
Poole renounced
the Christian faith and his birth name. Fard gave him the name
Karriem. Going from house to house using Watchtower materials, Fard
tore down his black followers' faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ
and replaced it with his own form of Islam. The Hadith calls Muhammad
was a white man, so Black Muslims serve the one they speak against.
Meanwhile, the Hadith calls black people "raisin heads"
(vol. 1, no. 662 and vol. 9, no. 256) and refers to them as slaves.
If someone dreamed of a black woman, she was an evil omen of disease
(vol. 9, nos. 162, 163). Muhammad had black slaves (vol. 6, no. 435).
Yet and still Louis Farrakan and his followers will tell us
Christianity is the white man's religion. Jesus came for all
regardless of color but Black Islam is specially designed just to
lead Black folks to hell! The Nation of Islam (Black Muslim movement)
plays on the racism against black people by white people hence you
hear them use terms like "white devils", etc. When I was in
college, before I started walking with the Lord, Louis Farrakan came
to my 94% white campus. I really had had no interest in seeing him
until all the white students got up in arms. As a black student, the
whites treated me badly, so I went to see Farrakan just because they
didn't like the man. I am sorry to say that I agreed with a lot of
what he said and I perceive a lot of other black folks are agreeing
with this false prophet today and joining this blasphemy called
Islam. Now that I am walking with the Lord I know that the man, Louis
Farrakan, mixes truth and error. He hits the nail on the head in many
instances of how we black folks are treated and then mixes in a
healthy dose of lies like he is the messiah and has seen the "mother
ship". This is not to mention all the heresy of "the real"
Islam. Please see this site for additional information. Back to index
Black Muslim movement seen as spurious. Orthodox Islam does not want
to be identified with the Black Muslim movement in America. It is
seen as heretical and is not considered part of Islam. Elsewhere on
this page you will read that (1) Black people are called raisin heads
in the Hadith (2) Muhammad had black slaves and (3) he warned that
dreams of black women meant disease was forthcoming! Back to index
The Hadith. This is another sacred book of Islam which Muslims claim
is inspired. It's supposed to tell you what to do to get paradise and
sundry other stuff. You must EARN Allah's forgiveness by following a
bunch of rules and rituals. This stuff is indefensible: One of the
major sins is not to protect oneself from urine. If you pee on
yourself you go to hell, yet Muhammad ordered people to drink camel's
milk and urine! You must not face Mecca when
you are defecating. You must not use your right hand to hold or wipe
yourself. You must wash your private parts after going to the
bathroom. Satan stays in the upper part of the nose all night (vol.
4, no. 516) Muhammad would spit so followers could smear it on their
faces. Bad breath, having gas, and yawning are sins when done in
Muhammad's presence--I don't think Allah was offended, I think it was
Muhammad. Muhammad was superstitious and was afraid that evil spirits
might enter his body while urinating or defecating. He was also
afraid of a strong wind, and kissed and adored black stone in the
Kabah. Muhammad thought that placing a green palm leaf on grave of
the dead would lesson their pain as they died, and said clean your
private parts with an odd number of stones. Believed that Jews were
transformed into rats (vol. 4, nos. 524, 569 and chap. 32) and magic.
Muhammad supposedly had the sexual strength of 30 men. There are no
recorded miracles of Muhammad in the Quran but when followers saw
Muhammad's inferiority to Jesus they started making some up in the
Hadith: Muhammad cut the moon in half with a sword, a palm tree cried
like a baby because Muhammad wouldn't preach under it, Muhammad made
water flow out of his fingernails so that people could drink--the
Hadith contradicts itself on how many supposedly people drank it.
These "miracles" go on and on. Islam is to be primarily
spread through the sword (but then again, how else can you get people
to believe these fairy tales?). The best deed is to believe in Allah
and his Apostle. The next best thing is to participate in Jihad which
is religious FIGHTING (vol. 1, no. 25). Murderous Muslims could take
the property of people they killed during a Jihad. Anyone who leaves
Islam must be killed (vol. 4, no. 260). Christians and Jews that
don't embrace Islam go to hell. Women are deficient in intelligence
and religion. Majority of people in hell are women (vol. 1, nos. 28,
301; vol. 2, no. 161) Child looks like the parent that had "discharge
first" during intercourse. Stars created by Allah to throw at
devils as missles. Spirits eat dung and bones. Back to index Muhammad
was a sinner. The Hadith makes clear that Muhammad was a sinner--NOT
sinless as some Muslims now claim: "Muhammad replied..."O
Allah, set me apart from my sins..." vol. 1, no. 711 Back to
index
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JESUS vs Muhammed (is the god of the Quran the GOD of the bible)?
email forward from Bro. Mike Mohammed was the prophet of war; Christ
is the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6-7). Mohammed's disciples killed
for the faith; Christ's disciples were killed for their faith (Acts
12:2; 2 Timothy 4:7). Mohammed promoted persecution against the
"infidels"; Christ forgave delivered and converted the
chief persecutor (1 Timothy 1:13-15). Mohammed was the taker of life;
Christ was the giver of life (John 10:27-28). Mohammed and his fellow
warriors murdered thousands; Christ murdered none but saved many
(compare John 12:48). Mohammed's method was COMPULSION; Christ's aim
was voluntary CONVERSION (Acts 3:19). Mohammed practiced FORCE;
Christ preached FAITH (John 6:29, 35). Mohammed was a WARRIOR; Christ
is The DELIVERER (Rom 11:26, Col. 1:13; 1 Thessalonians 1:10).
Mohammed conquered his enemies with the sword; Christ conquered his
enemies with another kind of sword, the sword of the Spirit which is
the Word of God (Hebrews 4:12; Acts 2:37). Mohammed said to the
masses, "Convert or die!"; Christ said, "Believe and
live!" (John 6:47; 11:25-26). Mohammed was swift to shed blood
(Romans 3:15-17); Christ shed His own blood for the salvation of many
(Ephesians 1:7). Mohammed preached "Death to the infidels!";
Christ prayed "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they
do" (Luke 23:34). Mohammed declared a holy war (Jihad) against
infidels; Christ achieved a holy victory on Calvary's cross
(Colossians 2:14-15) and His followers share in that victory (John
16:33). Mohammed constrained people by conquest; Christ constrained
people by love (2 Corinthians 5:14). Modern terrorists derive their
inspiration from Mohammed and carry out their despicable atrocities
in the name of his god; Christians derive their inspiration from the
One who said, "Blessed are the peacemakers" (Matthew 5:9).
Modern day disciples of Mohammed respond to the terrorist attacks by
cheering in the streets; Modern day disciples of Christ are deeply
grieved at past atrocities carried out by those who were "Christians"
in name only (the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, etc.). Many
Muslims are peaceful and peace-loving because they do not strictly
follow the teachings of their founder; Many Christians are peaceful
and peace-loving because they do strictly follow the teachings of
their Founder (Romans 12:17-21). Mohammed said the Koran is
authoritative only in Arabic, and only in his dialect; The Bible is
authoritativ
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Number: 64
Name: Jennifer
Martino
Sent:
11-Feb-2005
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Number: 63
Name: agnes
Sent:
11-Feb-2005
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Number: 62
Name: Jamal
Sent:
7-Feb-2005
Also see this website: http://www.alislam.org
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Number: 60
Name: Mukhtar
Mahmood
Sent:
31-Jan-2005
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Number: 59
Name: NADEEM
AHMAD
Sent:
22-Dec-2004
salaam,a very good website, may 'ALLAH' BLESS YOU
AND GIVE YOU A GOOD HEALTH.i want to open a islamic school in delhi
india for
poor muslim students. i need help of chrity, plz.contact me for this
noble thought.
Message
Number: 58
Name: NADEEM
AHMAD
Sent:
22-Dec-2004
salaam,a very good website, may 'ALLAH' BLESS YOU
AND GIVE YOU A GOOD HEALTH.i want to open a islamic school in delhi
india for muslim i need help of chrity plz.contact me for this noble
thought.
Message
Number: 57
Name: Muslim
sister
Sent:
7-Dec-2004
From the websites name I am presuming that a
sister's efforts were behind this website in some manner. If the
intention of this website is to promote Islam, the responsible
parties should take more care to screen the contents of the links
unless you want people to turn away from Islam based on incomplete
explanantions of hadiths. Incomplete explanations lead to people
interpreting hadiths in wrong ways and misusing Islam against women
and creating chaos in our ummah. It is indeed a huge undertaking to
maintaining a website on Islam. Whoever is willing to undertake a job
like this May Allah grant them Barkaat however do bear in mind that
it is your responsibility to put material out there that does not
create chaos and promote misuse of womens rights. I have gone thru
some of the links from your website and I find them to be quite
disturbing(Links particularily related to womens issues). It is quite
unfair to post hadiths wihtout explaining the circumstances
surrounding them. Hadiths have deep explanations behind them.
Message
Number: 56
Name: UZOAGBA
Sent:
20-Nov-2004
I LOVE THIS VERY PAGE.
Message
Number: 55
Name: martha
Sent:
16-Nov-2004
Gosh, you muslim are so stupid and bygott. Your
countries are so backwards as your brains. I read most of the
articles... so idiot. Try to have a life instead of writing these
stupid things.You dont you understand you are following a man who was
not a prophet. As long as i'm concerned he was a murderer and
something else. Who would marry a little girl? Just Muhammad. Who
would murder, rape, enslave people? Just Muhammad. "salaam"
Message
Number: 54
Name: Ismet
Sent:
14-Nov-2004
Selam Aminah I really love your website may Allah
help you with all your efforts.
Message Number:
53
Name: zingla
mohammed
Sent: 11-Nov-2004
ich suche eine
palistinensische frau zum heiraten
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Number: 52
Name: kelvin
osborne
Sent:
4-Nov-2004
As-salaam-u-alaykum, Ramadhan Mubarrak
Message
Number: 51
Name: Nazly
Sent:
4-Nov-2004
Very informative
Message
Number: 50
Name: zubair
ahmed a. rahim
Sent:
17-Oct-2004
dear sis aminah, u have done great job preaching
islam. keep up the good work!!!
Message
Number: 49
Name: Munir
Abduselam
Sent:
29-Sep-2004
May Allah Be with All Of Us
Message
Number: 48
Name: Atif
Sent:
25-Sep-2004
pretty good site,,,worth lookin at
Message
Number: 47
Name: Omer
Sent:
4-Sep-2004
Great Website...I might add a good few things from
your website when i design my own website...Keep up the good work
sister. Regards. Omer
Message
Number: 46
Name: imtiaz
ali
Sent:
27-Aug-2004
salamunalaikum sister Amina.from bible/torah god
bless you with all good things in this life and hereafer.i was doing
research in halal/haram foods based only on quran/hadith.your site
opened my eyes and added references from bible/torah to come to
conclusions you have mentioned.you are right we have mixed up things
later which are not cprrect.may allah reward you.mt besy wishes and
dua for your family. allah hafiz.
Message
Number: 45
Name: mohammed
Sent:
4-Jul-2004
Assalamualaikum, Women like you serve as precedent
to others who are born muslims. I pray to Allah subhanawutala that he
give you success in this world and in the hereafter. Yours
brother in Islam from India.
Message
Number: 44
Name: mohammed
Sent:
4-Jul-2004
Assalamualaikum, Women like you serve as precedent
to others who are born muslims. I pray to Allah subhanawutala that he
give you success in this world and in the hereafter. yours brother in
Islam.
Message
Number: 43
Name: Ebony
Daise
Sent:
24-Jun-2004
Would like to first thank you for your website and
to ask a few questions.Regarding Legal marriage in the states.
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Number: 42
Name: Prattboy
Sent:
15-Jun-2004
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Number: 41
Name: Mohamed
Abdi
Sent:
14-Jun-2004
Maashaa'Allah, this is a great site Aminah, may
Allah reward you the best of your deeds on the day that nothing will
help except good deeds. it is a great effort and work for the sake of
Allah the almighty. nothing is better than to line your self with
messengers of Allah by being daaciyah. Jazaka Allahu kheyran.
Message
Number: 40
Name: mgbada
joe
Sent:
2-Jun-2004
very interesting site and all mugus should keep off
because the eagle has landed
Message
Number: 39
Name: muslimgirl
Sent:
25-May-2004
Salaam--great site! Keep up the good work!
http://www.cafeshops.com/muslimgirl
Message
Number: 38
Name: Patrick
Walters
Sent:
9-May-2004
Hi! what a fantastic web site; I really love it! xx
Patrick
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Number: 37
Name: Ms
Loki Schadenfreude
Sent:
7-May-2004
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Number: 36
Name: lampdeen
Sent:
1-May-2004
I really it is an appreciateable job & I pray
to ALLAH(Swt) that forgive you & have Mercy on you. And
increase your knowledge.
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Number: 35
Name: transglobal_lawfirm@mail.com
n/a:
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Number: 14
Name: mugu
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Number: 13
Name: ipci
Sent:
17-Apr-2004
Please visit our site as well for more info
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Number: 12
Name: Mohammed
Ali Rizvi
Sent:
25-Mar-2004
May God Almighty Bless You !
Message
Number: 11
Name: Saad
Sent:
23-Mar-2004
ASSALAM O ALAKUM Sister, Mubarak on entering the
religion of Allah and finding ur Creator.
As per the upbringing of children is concerned, be steadfast, as
ALlah helps those who are steadfast. Difficulties are always there,
as this worldly life is the name of facing them. But this is a short
life. ONE DAY, U WoULD MEET UR LORD. INSHALLAH. So, live in this
world like a guest and prepare for that day when none would help
anyone except his own deeds. Allah Hafiz
Message
Number: 10
Name: Munim
miah
Sent:
18-Mar-2004
Good Site check my site out.
wwww.islamicbooks.uni.cc
Message
Number: 9
Name: Rami
Sent:
13-Mar-2004
Assalamo Alaikom Warahmato Allah Wabarakato, Iam a
muslim brother from the Holy Land of Palestine (Land of Al-Aqsa,I
have really been impressed by your journey to Islam. Iam proud to be
a brother of you. May Allah be with you and strengthen your beliefe
my sister Amina. Try to make Daua for all the people you know, its
the best thing to do as Prohet Mohammad Peace be upon him once said
to Ali Bin Abi Taleb :(to bring a person to Islam is much better than
enjoying all life) Waiting for your reply Your Brother, Rami
Message
Number: 8
Name: fatimah
Sent:
1-Mar-2004
Assalamo alaikum This is a great website congrats
on doing such a good job Fatimah
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Number: 7
Name: aysha
Sent:
23-Jan-2004
i got a mail inviting me ta vizit ur
website..(group mail). the site
is very useful and beneficial
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Number: 6
Name: Habibah
Sent:
14-Jan-2004
Dear sister, it's a great pleasure to visit your
site. I thought I'd share with you another link for the petition of
the france ban on
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Number: 5
Name: WAFA
AZIA
Sent:
7-Jan-2004
SALAMU ALAIKUM , I REALLY JUST WANTED TO COMMENT ON
WHAT A GREAT WEB SITE. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Message
Number: 4
Name: Saad
Sent:
25-Dec-2003
AoA Got to know of this through calltoislam by ur
mail Good effort But i didnt
see any introduction of urz on this? Anyway, jazakallah
Message
Number: 3
Name: mohdnoh
majid
Sent:
18-Dec-2003
Wonderful! May Allah Bless you for your good
deeds. "Invite to the Way of your Lord (Islam) with wisdom
(Quran & Hadis)and fair preaching,and argue with them in a way
that is better. Truely,your Lord knows best who has gone astray from
His Path,and He is the Best Aware of those who're guided"
[S16:125] Can you show me how to create this site?
Message
Number: 2
Name: Abdul
Rahman Majeed Jundullah Balla
Sent:
17-Dec-2003
Assalamu aleijkum; Dear sister in Islam. I love
this site and I know Allah shall reward you in each and every way. O
Allah Bless Aminah For this wonderful site here and in the hereafter
with all those that are on the same path as she. AMIN.....
Abdul
Message
Number: 1
Name: M
S WALID
Sent:
11-Dec-2003
Good website! congratulations! clinic.jeeran.com
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