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| What Every Christian Needs To Understand About The Qur'an by Abdulgaffar22(op): 3:09am On Jul 16, 2017*. Modified: 6:41pm On Jul 17, 2017 |
As the Jews must have no option other than to become the followers of the Gospel after the departure of Moses (peace be upon him) and arrival of Jesus (pbuh). Similarly, the Christians must have no option other to become the followers of Qur’an after the departure of Jesus (pbuh) and arrival of Muhammad (pbuh). But if the Christians insist that the original author of Qur’an is not God, then they must compulsorily believe its author to be a great liar and impersonator who spoke in the name and personality of God. The reason is that Qur’an contains many verses which appear to be coming directly from God’s mouth. Ordinarily, without any prejudice or preconceived notion, you will think that God was speaking directly to His creatures. Examples of such verses are as follows; Have they not looked at the heaven above them, how We have made it and adorned it, and there are no flaws in it. And the earth- We have spread it out, and We set there on mountains standing firm, and We caused to grow therein every kind of beautiful growth (Qur’an 50:6-7) O My servants who believe! Certainly, My earth is spacious. Therefore worship Me and Me alone. Every soul shall have a taste of death. Then to Us you shall be brought back (Qur’an 29:56-57). And indeed We have created man, and We know what his own mind whispers to him. And We are nearer to him than his jugular vein (Qur’an 50:16) When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed close to them. I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he called on Me. Therefore, let them also listen My call and believe in Me; That they may be walked in the right way (Qur’an 2:186) And indeed We created the heavens and the earth and all between them in six days and nothing of fatigue touched Us (Qur’an 50:38) Surely to Us is their turning back. Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account (Qur’an 89:25-26) And she(i:e Mary) who guarded her chastity; We breathed Our spirit into her and We made her and her son(i:e Jesus-pbuh) a sign for all the nations( Qur’an 21:91). And man says; “when I am dead, shall I then be raised up alive?” Does not man remember that We created him before, while he was nothing?( Qur’an 19:66-67). We have enjoined on man goodness to his parents, and if they contend with you that you should associate with Me (in worship) anything of which you have no knowledge, do not obey them. Unto Me is your return, and I shall tell you what you used to do (Qur’an 29:7- .I am indeed forgiving to those who repent, believe and do righteous good deeds and then remain constant in following the right path( Qur'an 20:82). Declare unto My servants, that truly, I am the oft-forgiving, the most merciful. And that My torment is indeed the most painful torment (Qur'an 15:49-50). “O children of Israel! Remember My special favor which I bestowed upon you, and fulfill your covenant with Me as I fulfill My covenant with you, and fear none but Me. And believe in what I have sent down ( i:e this Qur’an) confirming that which is with you, and be not the first to reject it, nor sell My verses for a small price; and fear Me, and Me alone (Qur’an 2:40-41)”. And that was Our proof which We gave to Abraham against his people. We raise whom We will in degrees. Certainly your Lord is All-Wise, All-Knowing. And We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob, each of them We guided. And before him We guided Noah, and among his progeny David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses and Aaron. Thus do We reward the good doers. And Zachariah, and John and Jesus and Elias, all in the ranks of the righteous. And Ishmael and Elisha, and Jonah and Lot; each one of them We preferred above the nations. And also some of their fathers, and their progeny and their brethren, We chose them, and We guided them to a straight path. This is the guidance of God with which He guides whomsoever He wills of His servants. But if they had joined in worship others with God, all their deeds would have been of no benefit to them. They are whom We gave the book, and authority and prophet hood…They are those whom God had guided. So follow their guidance (Qur’an 6:84-90). These are just few verses excerpted randomly from the pages of the Holy Qur’an. You can see that almost all of the first person pronouns like “I”, “My”, “Me”, “Our”, “Us” and “We” in all the verses of Qur’an quoted above can never be referred contextually to any other person except God. Therefore, anybody who denies the Qur’an as the word of God must compulsorily believe its author to be a liar and a great impersonator of God. Yet anybody that makes up his mind to impersonate God and deliberately lie against Him for any worldly benefit must have been enticed and seriously misled by Satan. But how could Satan have enticed and seriously misled a person to guide the idol-worshippers in the ancient Mecca to the idea of believing in one God and all biblical prophets including Moses and Jesus Christ (peace be upon them)? It is a well known fact that before the advent of Islam, people of Mecca used to worship up to three hundred and sixty idols. Therefore, if the ultimate aim of Satan is to deceive the people until they die in a bad spiritual state, then Satan should prefer leaving the people of Mecca in their former state to exposing them to the idea of believing in one God and all biblical prophets of God. What benefit would Satan acquire from guiding the idol worshippers to the idea of believing in Jesus’ miraculous birth (Qur’an 21:91)? Again, what gain would Satan realize from exposing the idol worshippers to the idea of believing in Jesus’ ascension to heaven (Qur’an 4:158)? What satisfaction would Satan derive from revealing to the idol worshippers the idea of believing in all the miracles performed by Jesus during his earthly ministry (Qur’an 5:110)? If it is generally agreed that Satan is evil and promote disobedience to God’s commandment, whereas Qur’an is full of warning against idolatry and all other evil practices, then how can the two be reconciled? To hold such a view is repugnant to reason, as Satan would only have undermined himself and his objectives by enticing and misleading a person to call those who were in error to the right path . Even the Bible attests to this fact: And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end (Mark 3:26). If you check through the Bible, you will discover that a confirmed false prophet is always preceded by a true prophet. A false prophet is always inspired and motivated by the glory and honor received by the true prophet. But this was not the case with Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as no prophet was ever raised among the Arabs before he made his claim as being the prophet of God. Therefore, it is very unlikely for Muhammad (pbuh) to be a false prophet. In fact, there is no need for Satan to instigate such a false prophet among the Arab pagans since they were still in error and yet to be guided by any true prophet. Consequently, the author of Qur’an can never be an impersonator who would lied deliberately against God because there is no any agent that can instigate and influence such a great liar other than Satan, and yet Satan would never guide and expose the idol-worshippers to the idea of believing in one God and all the Biblical prophets including Moses and Jesus Christ (peace be upon them). How could God have left such a great liar and impersonator to survive for good twenty-three years and also allow his book to be protected from destruction since one thousand four hundred and thirty years ago till today? The reason why God permit the other religions like Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Sikhism (etc) and their scriptures to exist is because their founders only stood out as spiritual teachers. They never claim that their scriptures came from God of Israel. Their scriptures do not contain words which appear to be COMING DIRECTLY FROM GOD’S MOUTH OF ISRAEL. But Qur’an is totally different. Qur’an contains many verses which appear to be coming directly from God’s mouth of Israel. Examples are quoted above. So Qur’an is unique in its claim as being the word of God. Therefore, to believe that Qur’an is not authored by God create more problems for the Jews and the Christians than it really solves! They have to explain why God would allow a liar to impersonate him for good 23 years and also allow his book to be protected from destruction since 1,430 years ago till today; yet God did not even allow Hananiah , who deliberately lied against Him, to live for just a year(Jeremiah 28:1-17).. God may allow anybody to write or speak about Him as you may also allow your friend to write or speak about you. But if you as a truthful person would never allow your friend- talk less of your enemy- to impersonate you in order to deceive some innocent people, then why do you think the God Almighty, who is more truthful than you, would allow such a thing to happen to Him especially when God declare as follows; how can I let myself be defamed? I will not yield My glory to another (Isaiah 48:11). Please read those verses of Qur'an cited above again and again. Has God not let Himself to be defamed if He allowed a deliberate liar to impersonate Him in such a reasonable and perfect manner? Has God not yielded His glory to another if He allowed a deliberate liar to impersonate Him and also allow such impersonator to praise all the Biblical prophets in the way the author of Qur'an has done and then still allow the word of such impersonator to be safe-guarded from destruction since 1,430 years ago till today as exactly prophesied in Qur’an 15:9 as follows: “Surely, We have revealed the reminder ( i:e the Qur’an) and We will most surely be its guardian”. In fact, God deliberately spare the life of His prophet till concluding verse of his mission was revealed to him where God Almighty declare as follows: This day, I have perfected your religion for you, and I have completed My favor upon you, and I have chosen for you Islam as your religion(Qur’an 5:3). If the prophet was a great impersonator and a great liar against God as Jews and Christians believe, then why would God have to wait for 23 years till this concluding verse of his mission was fabricated in His name especially when there were many great opportunities for God to terminate his life in one of the battles he fought with his enemies? If God would allow a liar to impersonate Him reasonably and perfectly, then He should have clearly informed us in the Bible just like Jesus informed us about his own impersonation: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, saying ‘I am the Christ’, and will deceive many (Matthew 24:4-5)”.See how Jesus declared in an unambiguous terms that many liars would impersonate him. This simply shows that we cannot be completely sure that all the words attributed to Jesus in all the books of the New Testament actually comes from the mouth of the true Jesus Christ. However, you can never find a single biblical verse where God categorically inform us and foretell that a great liar is going to impersonate Him. If God of truth and wisdom would also allow a liar to impersonate Him, He should also have informed us in a very precise term just like Jesus did. In the verses of the book of Deuteronomy, the only acid test put forward by God to distinguish His actual word from the word of His impersonator is that the word of such impersonator would not come to pass or come true; And if you say in your heart; How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken? When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is the word the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him (Deuteronomy 18:21-22). But Qur’an contains many words of prophecy which have come to pass and come true. For example, one of the great prophecies is that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) will be victorious over his enemies (Qur’an 58:20-21). Another prophecy is that Islam will be established and continue to spread, and the number of Muslims will continue to grow (Qur’an 24:55, 110:1-2, 48:28). Another prophecy is that Qur’an will be protected from destruction and corruption (Qur’an 15:9). Another prophecy is that Qur’an will be made easy for memorization (Qur’an 54:17, 22, 40). Another prophecy is that people will continue to pay visitation to the house of God in Mecca (Qur’an 22:26-28, 2:125, 14:37). Another prophecy is that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) would be highly famous and frequently mentioned throughout the world (Qur’an 94:4);In fact, the name of prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is usually mentioned five times in a day during the call to prayer in all the mosques found in the nooks and crannies of the earth. Therefore, according to the acid test in the verses of the book of Deuteronomy quoted above, Qur’an must be the last and final word of God because of; (1) its speaking in the name and personality of God of Israel (2) the fulfillment of its general and special miraculous prophecies. If it was according to the divine plan that the author of Qur’an would be a great impersonator of God, then Bible should be full of warning and information about this impersonator It is a well known fact that, at this present time, Bible and Qur’an are the most widely known religious books on the earth. Therefore, if Qur’an is really the word of a liar and impersonator of God as Christians must presume, and the Bible really prophesied about what is going to happen in the future, then Bible must definitely have something to say about the Qur’an and its author. But instead of warning us and pre-informing us about the so-called liar that is going to impersonate Him just like Jesus talked about his own impersonators in Matthew 24:4-5 (quoted above), God only demonstrated to us, through His dealing with Hananiah (the false prophet who spoke in the name of God in the Bible), that He would never allow such a thing to happen for a long time; Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, ‘Listen, Hananiah! The Lord has not sent you, yet you have persuaded this nation to trust in lies. Therefore this what the Lord says: I am about to remove you from the face of the earth. This very year you are going to die, because you have preached rebellion against the Lord. In the seventh month of that same year, Hananiah the prophet died (Jeremiah 28:15-17). You will notice that what happened to Hana niah is exactly what God has already foretold about “a false prophet who speaks in the name of God” as written in the verses of Deuteronomy; But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, THAT SAME PROPHET SHALL DIE(Deuteronomy 18:20). Therefore, if God did not even allow Hananiah to live for just a year, then how could He have allowed the supposed author of Qur’an to impersonate Him and deliberately lie against Him for good 23 years? This is indeed a food for thought for the sincere Jews and Christians who truly believe in the existence of God! Many of the Christians reject the Qur’an out rightly (even before having an opportunity to read what is written inside it) because they have been programmed right from childhood with the belief that Jesus (peace be upon him) was the last prophet of God sent to the entire world to die for the sins of all mankind. But how true is this claim? Have we not really been fooled with the assumption that religious faith of our parents is always right? Is it not high time for us to wake up from our slumber and then seek the truth with all diligence and open-mindedness? Was Jesus actually sent to the entire world? If Jesus ( pbuh) was actually the last prophet of God sent to the entire word, then why did he have to say: I WAS NOT SENT EXCEPT TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL (Matthew 15:24). Now compare this Biblical verse with this Qur’anic verse; And We have not sent you ( O Muhammad-pbuh) except as a giver of glad tidings and as a Warner to all mankind, but most men do not know(Qur’an 34:28). See how Bible categorically declared that Jesus (pbuh) was sent only to the Israelites and see how Qur’an declared that Muhammad (pbuh) was sent to all mankind! There is no any indication in that Biblical verse that Jesus (pbuh) would later have anything to do with the Non- Israelites. In fact, when Jesus (pbuh) was sending out his apostles for evangelical mission, he also warned them categorically to avoid preaching to the Gentiles i:e the Non-Israelites: THESE TWELVE JESUS SENT FORTH, AND COMMANDED THEM,SAYING, GO NOT INTO THE WAY OF THE GENTILES,AND INTO ANY CITY OF THE SAMARITANS ENTER YE NOT: BUT GO RATHER TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL (Matthew 10:5-6). This further corroborates the fact that Jesus was sent only to the Israelites. But many of the Christian scholars proclaimed that this command of not preaching to the Gentiles was later cancelled and replaced by new command of preaching to all the nations in Matthew 28:19, where Jesus was reported to have commanded the apostles to make disciples of all nations. Therefore, according to these Christian scholars, Jesus (pbuh) who was originally sent only to the Israelites later became the last prophet sent to the entire world. But should we really accept Matthew 28:19 as the actual word of Jesus (pbuh)? If the apostles were later instructed by Jesus to preach the gospel to all the nations of the world as spuriously stated in Matthew 28:19, then why did Peter have to tell some of the Gentiles (Cornelius and his households) that sent for him as follows; YOU ARE WELL AWARE THAT IT IS AGAINST OUR LAW FOR A JEW TO ASSOCIATE WITH OR VISIT A GENTILE. BUT GOD HAS SHOWN ME THAT I SHOULD NOT CALL ANYONE IMPURE OR UNCLEAN (Acts 10:28 NIV)? This very incident occurred many years after Jesus’ departure from this world. Was Peter, who happened to be a Jewish man, not aware of the Jesus’ new command of preaching to all the nations stated in Matthew 28:19? Then why did peter have to say it is unlawful for him to associate with or visit a Gentile i:e the Non-Israelite? Has he forgotten such a very great and important command in Matthew 28:19? Very hard to believe! The fact that the other apostles also criticized peter and became astonished when they overheard that Peter later honored the invitation of those Gentiles ( Acts 11:1-18) prove that Peter and other apostles were completely unaware of the Jesus’ new command of preaching to all the nations in Matthew 28:19; Not that they had all forgotten. How could all apostles have forgotten such a very great and important command from their master? Even when Peter was justifying his visitation to those gentiles, he only defended himself and convinced the other apostles by making reference to the vision he had before he received the message from those Gentiles (Acts 10:1-28, 11:4-18) instead of simply reminding the other apostles about the so-called new command in Matthew 28:19. Moreover, if it was already in the divine plan ( i:e before Jesus came into the world) that the command of not preaching to the Gentiles in Matthew 10:5-6 would later be cancelled and replaced by the new command of preaching to all the nations in Matthew 28:19, then Jesus’ statement in Matthew 15:24 should have been; “IT IS NOT YET TIME FOR THE GENTILES” or something similar in meaning, rather than; “I WAS NOT SENT EXCEPT TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL”. All these facts are enough to prove that the new command of preaching to all the nations attributed to Jesus in Matthew 28:19 and other similar verses like it in other books of the New Testament are nothing but forgery. |
| Re: What Every Christian Needs To Understand About The Qur'an by moon01(m): 10:30am On Jul 16, 2017 |
Muhammad lives in constant fears and doubts There is further evidence that Allah hadn’t forgiven all of his prophet’s sins since the Quran is a witness that Muhammad remained uncertain of his destiny and that his god was constantly threatening him all throughout his career. For example, Allah made Muhammad repeat the point that, even though he is a messenger, he doesn’t know what will happen and that he doesn’t have any power to hurt or benefit anyone: Say (unto them, O Muhammad): I pray unto Allah only, and ascribe unto Him no partner. Say: Lo! I control not hurt nor benefit for you. Say: Lo! none can protect me from Allah, nor can I find any refuge beside Him (Mine is) but conveyance (of the Truth) from Allah, and His messages; and whoso disobeyeth Allah and His messenger, lo! his is fire of hell, wherein such dwell for ever. Till (the day) when they shall behold that which they are promised (they may doubt); but then they will know (for certain) who is weaker in allies and less in multitude. Say (O Muhammad, unto the disbelievers): I know not whether that which ye are promised is nigh, or if my Lord hath set a distant term for it. |
| Re: What Every Christian Needs To Understand About The Qur'an by Nobody: 12:45pm On Jul 16, 2017 |
Abdulgaffar22:with all due respect, I disagree with you. I didn't read all the story but the first line about jews having no option than to be followers of Jesus was enough to make me not to go further. Jesus didn't force anyone to be his follower. the modern day Jew today, 50% of them don't follow Jesus. they still believe in Moses law. and nobody is forcing them. why do the muslims now believe everyone must follow their believes. Must you use force and coercion? your statement that Christian have no choice than to follow Muhammad is really disturbing. Is religion no longer a personal thing? Honestly you sound like a fanatic. |
| Re: What Every Christian Needs To Understand About The Qur'an by jayaim: 3:00pm On Jul 16, 2017 |
My friend stop deceiving urself, idol worshipers and others will still make haven. Any religion that forces people is not a religion. Go & practice ur religion on ur own without rubbing it on others. |
| Re: What Every Christian Needs To Understand About The Qur'an by moon01(m): 4:25pm On Jul 16, 2017 |
Muslims have copied 90% of Christianity, even some verses of the so called Quran were copied from the old testament in Bible, and you are here telling people to follow Muhammed who said he him self do not know where he is going, |
| Re: What Every Christian Needs To Understand About The Qur'an by mmachi96(f): 5:14pm On Jul 16, 2017 |
jayaim:Did u say idol worshippers will still make heaven?.....my dear not even all that call themselves christians that will make it at the end. Haeven is for the genuie born again children of God who have consciously under God worked out their salvation with fear and trembling.....I pray that God will open ur eyes of understanding and shine His light on you more. Remain blessed. |
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