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- In the Name of God,
- the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
- Peace be upon those who follow righteous guidance.
- I thank God for you.
- I bear witness to God, who there is no God but He, the Eternal,
- the Holy Peace ensured Dominant,
- and I bear witness that Jesus is His Prophet
- —a Word sent of His Speech, a Spirit from God;
- created by Him in similar likeness to that of Adam—
- delivered to the Virgin Mary, the pure refuge and maidservant,
- whom came to bear the Messiah Jesus.
- Next, I summon you with the appeal of establishing peace through submission
- to the One God in Islam;
- do this and you shall have peace.
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 3 verse 64]
- “Come unto an equal arrangement between us and you,
- that we should serve none save God,
- associating nothing with Him,
- and not taking one another for Lords besides God.
- And if ye decline,
- then bear witness that we have submitted our will to God.”
- All thanks and praise is due to God.
- We seek His help and forgiveness,
- and we seek refuge in God from the evil within ourselves
- and the consequences of our evil deeds.
- Whoever God guides will never be led astray,
- and whoever God leads astray will never find guidance.
- I bear witness there is no deity but God,
- who is One, alone without any partners,
- and I bear witness that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)
- is His Servant and His Messenger.
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 3 verse 102]
- “O you who have faith,
- fear God as it is His right to be feared
- and do not die except in ˹a state of full˺ submission ˹to Him˺.”
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 4 verse 1]
- “O humanity, fear your Lord,
- who created you from one soul
- and created from it its mate
- and dispersed from both of them many men and women.
- Fear God, through whom you ask one another
- and maintain family ties.
- Verily, God is ever watching over you.”
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 33 verse 70-71]
- “O you who have faith,
- fear God and speak upright words.
- He will correct your deeds and forgive your sins.
- Whoever obeys God and His Messenger has won
- a tremendous victory.”
- Verily, the most truthful speech is the Book of God,
- the best guidance is the guidance of Muhammad ﷺ ,
- and the worst of affairs are newly invented matters.
- I remind you of God, and to be mindful of Him.
- I invite you with the invitation of truth and peace,
- the appeal of Islam;
- submit to God alone as a Muslim.
- Indeed, to God we belong and to Him is our return.
- To proceed, the major reason I'm Muslim
- is because I don't accept atheism anymore, and of all theistic philosophies,
- Islam has the most rigorous and reliable historical sources
- that prove its claims out of all the other religions.
- Islam does not fall prey to philosophical contradictions
- like how polytheism or Triune monotheism (the Trinity) do,
- and it is universal unlike Judaism, which is ethno-nationalistic.
- Christianity turned me into an atheist, like many others I knew growing up.
- Islam made the most sense out of the religions I studied.
- I studied and contemplated on Salvation, Trinity, Qur'an,
- and came to the conclusion that Islam is the truth.
- Islam appealed to my natural instincts and rational mind.
- The Qur'an and its truth were too heavy to deny,
- and ultimately Islam compelled me to the choice
- of either denying what I knew was the truth,
- or submitting to and living upon the truth.
- Accepting Islam been the best decision I've made,
- giving me clarity I've longed for and suffered without
- in my prior life of ignorance,
- and so I eventually realised I was always a Muslim and testified to Islam.
- No other religion really provided what Islam does,
- or was sufficient in addressing the contentions
- other religions would present for me.
- When I read the Qur'an, I found it reading me, and found a familiar Author.
- Christianity offered me blood sacrifices,
- confusion, uncertainty, idolatry and humiliation.
- Islam offered me peace, truth,
- security, certainty, proof & evidences,
- and invited me to the religion of the Mighty Forgiver
- that I knew & knew me, before I ever was.
- Inevitably, the more I learned of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ ,
- the more I grew enamored with the undeniable.
- Even in Islam, I found the highest justification for belief in Jesus
- and purest clarity of his preaching.
- Indeed, even to honor my parents and the values
- they raised me on as a Christian— to be honest to that,
- I could only submit to Islam and be a Muslim.
- Islam is the religion of Abraham, who was not a polytheist,
- was not a Christian, and was not a Jew.
- Abraham, like Noah, Moses, & Jesus, shunned idolatry;
- the Prophets of God worship God alone and submit voluntarily to Him.
- I can not deny my Lord, our God, and the truth of Islam.
- I love Him, and I love His Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and all of the Prophets,
- and I love His religion.
- I say this saying of mine,
- and I seek forgiveness from God for me and for you,
- and for the rest of the Muslims.
- So ask Him for forgiveness,
- He is the the Mighty Forgiver, the Most Merciful.
- To proceed, if the question is asked:
- "why do you reject the statement 'God becomes man'?"
- The mind has room for believing it has conceived an idea
- which is and can be real, when that idea can not ever be real.
- Semantic consequences and implications
- do not conclude something's existence.
- Logic predicates for rational impossibilities
- (that which the mind has room for,
- but has no room for existing as real;
- something that exists without a coherent essence or identity);
- one such predication would be the law of noncontradiction
- (ex. a given proposition can not be both "false" and "not false";
- there is no coherent identity to such propositions)
- Thus, such a 'difficult to grasp', 'complex' concept
- like a 'many-vertices-circle' is not something that can be
- actualised into existence, as, while having semantic implications,
- still lacks coherent essence or identity.
- Certainly, there can be no mechanism for accepting this concept
- over the validity of a basic, euclidean circle (which is without vertices).
- Like there are no grounds for rejecting a rationally coherent description
- of a circle, there also stands no grounds
- for rejecting the credibility of a coherent and rational
- description of God's attributes that He reveals from Himself.
- These attributes are prevalent in the Qur'an, but also in the Tanakh,
- in unequivocal statements that have a long tradition of
- being comprehended by the Prophets and
- those people that they introduced these teachings & prophetic traditions to.
- These statements can not be rejected for
- statements that are contrary to what is established
- (otherwise they are contradictory and logically inconsistent & incoherent,
- and lose their form of identity)
- or rejected for statements that are not given authority from God,
- or rejected for equivocal and implicit statements
- with interpretation of the vague
- (that can easily be interpreted consistent with prior
- unequivocal statements—and indeed, have a long history of
- being interpreted in a unitarian sense).
- That is, you should not be able to reject the clear
- and unequivocal statements such as those in the Tanakh, that are consistent
- and have a long tradition of rational mechanisms for their validation,
- for equivocal statements
- that contradict the established unequivocal statements
- & that can only arrive contrary to the unequivocal statements
- after centuries of men developing trinitarian traditions.
- To proceed upon the subject and with this invitation;
- an immediate disqualifier for other religions like Judaism,
- is that they claim the answers and salvation, but don't invite others to it.
- That makes Christianity and Islam qualifiers;
- they not only claim to have the answers but also invite others to it.
- The way of the Prophets has always been to give evidence, reasons, and signs
- for us to know God;
- they are faultless examples of the highest character,
- who make a perfect case for God's existence and
- His religion, justice, and mercy. They are meant to be imitated.
- It is an integral part of our religion, Islam
- (which we Muslims know as the religion of the Prophets)
- to understand the arguments and evidences that God presents to the readers
- and audiences —a case for the believer—
- especially so that we may implement these lessons in our lives,
- and call others to the truth from Him.
- Blind belief simply is not rationally or spiritually agreeable,
- and we are not allowed any part of it.
- That is why, for example, God directly instructs the Believers
- on what to say to certain people,
- to have their hearts reflect upon the truth.
- God presents to us many arguments, examples, and parallels;
- a clear instruction.
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 10 verse 37]
- “And this Qur'an is such that
- it could not be composed by any
- unless it be revealed from Allah.
- It is a confirmation of the revelation made before it
- and a detailed exposition of the Book.
- Beyond doubt it is from the Lord of the universe.”
- Continually we are called to reflect on
- God's signs, God's mercy, God's love, and God's examples.
- "The Perfection and Giver of Peace"
- "The Most Loving"
- "The Most Kind"
- "The All-Forgiving"
- "The Patient"
- "The Ever-Pardoning"
- "The Most Appreciative"
- "The Most Generous"
- "The Entirely Merciful"
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 32 verse 4]
- “It is God who created the heavens and the earth
- and everything between them in six Days.
- Then He established Himself on the Throne.
- You [people] have no one but Him to protect you
- and no one to intercede for you,
- so why do you not take heed?”
- Indeed, we Muslims would agree that the purpose for every Prophet
- is to be sent to their peoples to guide them in their need for salvation;
- that God sends Prophets to peoples to warn them of their evil tendencies,
- to convey to them the criterion from God with which to discern
- between good and evil, and to remind of the guaranteed Day of Recompense
- where we will each be held accountable for our good and evil deeds.
- God's commandments are to the good, permissible, righteous—
- and evil is that which transgresses against those limits He set.
- In loving God, we obey Him and keep His commandments.
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 13 verse 7c]
- “Every people has its guide.”
- This Prophetic guidance and Revelation is God's grace,
- and His merciful means of leading us to Him & to His salvation,
- and to attain the most upright stature of our natural state
- which we were created upon:
- submission to Him and His guidance.
- The highest form of good conduct, then,
- would be to worship Him in full sincerity,
- and live & die in submission to God.
- He alone is sufficient for us & our salvation,
- He is our Lord and to Him is our final return.
- This is the purpose which I know God to have intended us in our creation,
- and which He has called to all peoples—to each having sent guides;
- the way, the truth, the life through which to come to Him,
- which He ordained and sustains.
- Muhammad ﷺ came with these evidences and rational proofs and arguments
- to people that didn't know about Abraham or Moses or Jesus
- in much detail at all—
- only having passing relations with Jews and Christians.
- Muhammad ﷺ was not educated, he could not read, or write.
- Before the first revelation of the Qur'an was given to him,
- he was known for his sincerity, honesty, and his character.
- Well known, in high esteem, and regarded in his hometown
- by his neighbors and relatives, for his entire life, in such a way.
- This character and truthfulness alone
- lead many to accept the claims Muhammad ﷺ made.
- The Arabs could not produce any explanation as for how
- Muhammad ﷺ ,far surpassing them in virtue and nobleness,
- was obtaining such truths and reasoning which he would convey
- in the mind-shattering, heart-piercing eloquence of Qur'an—
- teachings which were to the contrary to their pagan traditions
- they had firmly established in their economy and society.
- The Arabs were, however, familiar with some of these ideas of monotheism,
- and some of the names in Qur'an, due to their interactions with the Jews.
- Ultimately they could not argue against the Qur'an,
- and sought help to disprove him (and when they could not,
- deemed Qur'an as magic and sorcery,
- words which bewitched whomever listened).
- Those Jews, like the Arabs, could not explain how
- Muhammad ﷺ was obtaining such highly accurate information
- on their Prophets, when they had not relayed it to Muhammad ﷺ .
- The Arabs were, prior to this, convinced that some Jew must be
- secretly conspiring — but there was no such case to be found;
- Muhammad ﷺ would respond to the questioning of Jews, Christians, and Arabs
- with spontaneous revelation directly from God,
- never being caught 'consulting' anyone.
- These recitations would be memorised by him and recited by him,
- with no editorial process.
- Beyond the simple truths they could not deny,
- and which the Jews could only confirm but not explain
- (that is, except for those Jews that became Muslim),
- Muhammad ﷺ claimed another miracle to the Arabs
- (which they historically admitted to failing to meet):
- The Arabs were eloquent,
- and had a high esteem for eloquence and poetry.
- To be a poet was one of the biggest and celebrated professions.
- The miracle Muhammad ﷺ claimed for these Arabs,
- who were proud of their traditions and eloquence,
- and certain in their denial of the Qur'an—
- was the challenge of the inimitability of the Qur'an;
- that, even the smallest chapters of the Qur'an
- were groundbreaking to the Arab linguists,
- and to this day,
- the Qur'an is still the highest standard of grammar,
- being devoid of any syntactical or grammatical errors.
- Even the greatest and proudest of poets could only admit
- to being incapable of matching even one chapter of the Qur'an,
- as much as 3 verses, and most of these poets submitted to Islam.
- Thus, the pagan Arabs were unable to address the Qur'anic challenge,
- when it was nomically necessary for them to have been able to do so.
- Since Muhammad ﷺ was a claimant to prophethood
- who was aided with this negation of normalcy,
- then Muhammad ﷺ is a true prophet of God.
- To make the above clearer, a comparison:
- A prophet who challenges his opponents to move their hands,
- when God prevents them from this act
- for the timeframe of the prophet’s challenge.
- This is a negation of nomic necessity for those people,
- and proof for this prophet’s prophethood.
- Likewise, God preventing the pagans from being able to address
- the Qur'anic challenge, is a negation of nomic necessity for them,
- and proof for Muhammad’s ﷺ prophethood.
- There are many more examples of prophecies/predictions.
- To proceed and add to this, Muhammad ﷺ demonstrated
- several physical miracles which are extensively recorded
- in authentic narrations by several witnesses,
- and highly precise and fulfilled prophecies/predictions.
- His ﷺ life was the embodiment of grace
- and the pre-eminence of his virtues
- the supreme expression to which we aspire.
- These are the attributes that define prophethood.
- As the famous saying goes,
- “Sure, you can deny God / But how do you deny Muhammad ﷺ“?
- Again, I say this saying of mine,
- and I seek forgiveness from God for me and for you,
- and for the rest of the Muslims.
- So ask Him for forgiveness,
- He is the the Mighty Forgiver, the Most Merciful.
- It's similar to stuff atheists ask, when you ask
- “What about God appearing in forms [of a man]?”
- It isn't that God is not capable of something here, but a question of
- rational possibility, and a statement with coherent & consistent identity.
- Consider asking all of these bishops and theologians:
- “Can God create another god like Him?”
- If they say yes, we say to them—
- how can this created being be a god, if he is created?
- How can he be like God when he has a beginning,
- whereas God exists from eternity?
- The phrase "creating a god" is a sophism, or false argument,
- and is a contradiction in terms.
- The mere fact that something is created means that it cannot be a god.
- This question is like asking could God create "a god who is not a god"?
- The power of God has nothing to do with that,
- because the idea that something can be a god
- and not a god is illogical and is irrational,
- and the power of God has nothing to do with irrationalities.
- So for Him to become man,
- this is not a sentence that makes sense—
- it is a rational impossibility.
- To proceed, another example:
- "Can God really expel anyone from under His control?”
- If yes, this is imposed a limit on the control of God,
- and if no (which is correct)—
- they have agreed with us that the power of God is absolute
- and has nothing to do with irrationalities,
- because it is rationally impossible for any created being
- to be expelled from the control of its Creator.
- So for us, all men, all creation, is under God's control.
- What/Who, then could prevent God from destroying Jesus and his mother, Mary?
- His Majesty and Glory is far beyond all of creation,
- there is not anything like it or which could contain it.
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 59 verse 21]
- “Had We sent down this Qur’ān to a mountain,
- you would have seen it humbled,
- burst apart out of awe for God.
- We cite such examples for people,
- so that they may ponder.”
- How then could flesh or a house contain Him?
- This is the same, clear teaching of the Prophets of the Old Testament,
- a radical monotheism kept in the traditions
- inherited by the Children of Israel;
- the Jews themselves have confirmed this,
- and it is a historical fact that this One, Eternal God
- was the theology of the first century Christians.
- on such a foundation, then, there is no basis for contradicting
- these teachings coming with authority from God within the Tanakh
- that define God's eternal, transcendent, pure glory
- beyond that of ever being a man or a likeness among creation,
- by saying He became such a thing.
- There are far greater creations which He could create than man,
- and none would be befitting of His Transcendent Majesty
- of being taken as His son, or being a form He takes.
- We are commanded to know, worship, love, and submit to God—
- regardless of if we see Him.
- For Him to show Himself as a man would have no point.
- We believe such submission is the natural state of man,
- instilled in us by God.
- Children innately believe in a creator,
- and we all live and die in submission
- to His ordainment, predestination, and will.
- Islam is His call to submit voluntarily to Him for the good of ourselves,
- and we believe it has always been established as a means of salvation
- and a direct relationship with God, since the creation of Adam.
- God has always loved us,
- always offered this relationship and salvation and submission,
- always taught it, and we are born knowing it.
- There's no sense or need for Him to become man
- (and as discussed above, it is an irrationality).
- You can presuppose (and I think some Islamic scholars have written on this)
- that God possesses the capability of
- exceeding the limits of rationality/irrationality,
- and doing whatever He pleases anyways— there's not much issue with that.
- i.e., if it is so irrational of a question
- "can God create a boulder so heavy He can not lift it?",
- then the explanation above for such irrationalities is sufficient.
- however with such a presupposition that God is even beyond this,
- then one could say:
- "Yes, He could, and then He could lift it."
- As we have clear teachings against God being like His creation,
- in both the Tanakh and Qur'an, then there is no need for us
- to affirm any consequences of a presupposition
- like with the boulder above— what we affirm is from Him such as:
- God's Almightiness,
- God's Transcendence,
- God's Eternity,
- God's Omnipotence,
- God's Revelations.
- God will make clear to us these matters
- [the capability of exceeding the limits of rationality/irrationality],
- and reveal to us Himself in the Hereafter.
- For now, our purpose is to follow His guidance,
- worship and submit to Him alone — to establish and propagate His religion.
- We can't derive sense from irrationalities and apply them to God.
- Religion isn't about Jesus or golden calves.
- Religion is about GOD.
- The entire Christian faith relies on Jesus being virgin born,
- ministering to the Jews, being betrayed, crucified, and conquering death.
- Jesus is not required for Islam to exist.
- He is a great prophet and brought a beautiful message of
- love and hope and brotherhood,
- but Islam would still exist without Jesus.
- Islam requires no man to exist, but is GOD's perfect faith.
- Islam requires only GOD.
- The Prophets (upon all of them be peace) came
- to deliver messages to the people,
- but even the prophets mean nothing when compared to GOD.
- God guides whom He wills and leads astray whom He wills.
- We have the choice whether or not to listen to the prophets—
- and Jesus, upon him be peace, was no more than a prophet and,
- like all prophets, unworthy of worship.
- God does not need to display His power to us in order for us to believe;
- for God to display Himself as a man is pointless.
- We are commanded to believe and submit, whether or not He is in our sight.
- To proceed, I have inquiries for you.
- Let me ask— did you come up with the word idolatry? or were you taught it?
- Idolatry is a concept God teaches against.
- The terms are set by Him, not by you.
- Worshiping outside of what He teaches,
- and associating with Him, other than Him,
- is foreign to the religion of God.
- Jews know it as shituf and avoda zarah;
- i.e., association and foreign worship.
- The Jews, which Jesus was sent to, were taught monotheism,
- and had that established through a series of prophets.
- When they strayed from those teachings,
- and engaged in shituf and avoda zarah,
- God punished them severely until they returned to His teachings.
- When you own something, you have the authority to name it;
- this is how religious thought works for Jews—
- God created everything, and God taught the Jews what they know.
- If they don't have a word for it, they don't consider it correct or reality.
- Review:
- Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 43:10-11, Isaiah 44:6-8, Isaiah 46:9
- Nehemiah 9:6
- 1 Chronicles 17:20
- Deuteronomy 6:4, Numbers 23:19
- 1 Samuel 2:2, 1 Samuel 15:29
- 1 Kings 8:27
- Job 25:2-6, Job 26:6-14
- Yet, contrary to these teachings found in the Tanakh,
- you think God is like you, and disagree that "God is One.";
- you say God is a trinity, something God never taught—
- something irreconcilable with the teachings of God—
- especially according to the people that received those teachings
- and understood them by the confirmation of successive prophets.
- There were other ""Muslim"" prophets besides Abraham —
- that is, Adam, Noah, Lut, etc — and, as it was in the Tanakh,
- it was the case for them:
- that REPENTANCE ATONES FOR ALL SINS,
- and that there is NO TEACHING OF BLOOD SACRIFICE ALONE
- BEING NECESSARY FOR ATONEMENT.
- That sacrifice is the ONLY ROUTE
- is a later innovation, NOT taught by Jesus.
- YOU BELIEVE THINGS ABOUT ADAM AND ABRAHAM ...
- I BELIEVE THINGS ABOUT ADAM AND ABRAHAM ...
- The basis of your belief is the Bible, from what I understand —
- and there are many truths from God within it.
- DO NOT OPERATE UNDER THE MISUNDERSTANDING
- THAT OUR BELIEF IS CONTINGENT UPON THE BIBLE.
- Your belief in Jesus (may peace be upon him) contains,
- at least, the Bible as a pillar.
- The foundation for our belief in God Almighty
- and Jesus the Messiah son of the virgin Mary (peace be upon them both)
- and our religion is /NOT THE BIBLE/.
- The foundation for our belief is that
- there is none worthy of worship except GOD,
- and that Muhammad ﷺ is God's servant and messenger.
- From both of our foundations,
- we arrive to the belief that
- Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, etc. existed,
- may God's peace and blessings be upon them and their families.
- When the Qur'an was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ,
- it was revealed while the Arabs
- (as Ishmaelites, the brethren of the Israelites) DID NOT HAVE THE BIBLE,
- and DID NOT POSSESS THE CAPABILITY OF READING THE BIBLE,
- and DID NOT BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE.
- The Arabs were instead worshiping various idols
- and of various different beliefs, denying the Bible that could not reach them.
- The pagan Arabs needed a Straight Way to God,
- and needed to know Jesus and all of the Prophets, peace be upon them.
- I hope that helps clarify a bit for you.
- Moving forward, you should further understand that a "Muslim"
- is one who submits to the will of God Almighty alone,
- and "Islam" is submission to the will of God Almighty alone.
- This is not any god/goddess/deity/idol (in Arabic, ilaha),
- but rather meant to GOD ALMIGHTY, the God of Abraham, the ONLY GOD,
- beside Him which there could be no other
- and He is the One and Alone (in Arabic, Allah).
- OUTSIDE OF THE PRESUPPOSITION that the Bible is the true word of God,
- then you understand that "Muslim", as a word,
- is capable of describing Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jesus, peace be upon them all.
- and you then understand that "Islam", as a word,
- is capable of describing the upright way of life of the Prophets of God,
- who submitted to God's will and worshiped Him alone.
- see:
- Mark 3:35, Matthew 7:21, John 6:38
- It is historical testimony and consensus
- that God revealed guidance to the nations through His Prophets,
- revealing the SAME ONE MESSAGE through those Prophets —
- that God alone is worthy of all worship,
- and not to ascribe partnership to God, or to worship idols.
- It is historical testimony and consensus
- that the messages revealed to those prophets
- has been corrupted and/or lost,
- and this also applies to the message delivered in the Tanakh (Old Testament, Torah, Psalms, etc.)
- and the revealed Gospel to Jesus, peace be upon him.
- This Guidance was given to the nations
- to lead them to the truth and to righteous conduct,
- and to test them, as God created life and death
- to test us as to which of us were the most virtuous
- — our purpose being to recognise Him and worship Him —
- and through time those messages faced distortion or vanished
- due to the evil actions of men,
- death/shortcomings of the righteous,
- invitations of Satan,
- and the decree of God.
- God, however, did not allow His Guidance to vanish,
- and allowed the truth to remain in some portion, and firmly established in the hearts of men
- who inclined to their natural state of submission to the Creator,
- while rejecting unnatural falsehoods and fabrications from men.
- God revealed Islam continually, through His Prophets,
- and revealed it, again, to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
- In answer to the Israelites' prayer of Deuteronomy 18:16,
- now Revelation has finished,
- and we hear the Voice of the Lord no more.
- In Islam we have 5 pillars:
- 1) Testimony/Shahadah
- 2) Prayer/Salah
- 3) Regular Charity / Zakat
- 4) Fasting/Sawm
- 5) Pilgrimage/Hajj
- and we have 6 pillars of faith:
- 1) Belief in the existence and unicity of God Almighty.
- 2) Belief in the existence of Angels.
- 3) Belief in all of the revealed books of God Almighty (ex. the Torah, Psalms, Gospel, Qur'an).
- 4) Belief in all of God Almighty's messengers.
- 5) Belief in the Day of Judgment.
- 6) Belief in the Qadha & Qadr (Divine Decree & Pre-Destination)
- The prior corruption stopped with the final revelation and testament of God, the Qur'an,
- which both confirms and guards the previous revelations,
- as the final testament necessarily remains uncorrupted and preserved
- to serve as a guide into all truth, to remain with us forever,
- and to give the test & relay the message to the nations.
- The previous revelations and their preservation (or lack thereof)
- was a test from Allah upon the nations,
- while the preservation of the Qur'an
- was not a duty give to us the Muslims,
- but rather taken upon by God Almighty.
- It is historical testimony and consensus that the Qur'an
- that we have today is the exact way that it was delivered by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.
- Due to this, the only way to truly follow Jesus,
- peace be upon him, is to follow the one that he promised would come after him,
- the Spirit of Truth, Muhammad ﷺ,
- who testified of Jesus and glorfied Jesus.
- The best way of confirming the message and existence
- of Jesus, Moses, Abraham, peace be upon them all,
- is in the clear testimony from God in the Qur'an.
- The Bible, however, is not necessary whatsoever for us,
- and it is not reliable,
- nor can we legitimately establish (except through the Qur'an)
- that it is transmitted from God or from His Prophets.
- The case for the Qur'an, however, is much different —
- we can establish that it did come from the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ,
- and that he ﷺ did indeed claim to be a prophet sent to you.
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 57 verse 28]
- “O you who believe
- [in Moses (i.e. Jews) and Jesus (i.e. Christians)]!
- Fear God, and believe too in His Messenger (Muhammad ﷺ ,)
- He will give you a double portion of His Mercy,
- and He will give you a light by which you shall walk (straight),
- and He will forgive you.
- And God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
- Lastly, to proceed to my final inquiries to you.
- Is there a Mighty Forgiver that you know?
- Is the grace of God not sufficient?
- Is God not ever-pardoning, the Mighty Forgiver?
- It is He that Islam invites you to.
- Was the knowledge of Him brought to you,
- or was it knowledge of Jesus which was brought to you?
- Did you already know Jesus as you certainly knew God in your birth,
- or is Jesus brought before you and God as any other man and idol?
- You can't claim you were born knowing about Jesus—
- but you certainly weren't born denying God.
- You learned to do this— to say that "God is One." is not enough.
- "Trinity" is something you learned from men, driven by agendas;
- it was innovated by councils & their imperfect human reasoning.
- Again, I ask you—
- Is there a Mighty Forgiver that you know?
- Is the grace of God not sufficient?
- Is God not ever-pardoning, the Mighty Forgiver?
- It is He, the Mighty Forgiver, that Islam invites you to.
- For God sent His Last Prophet as a Mercy for all worlds;
- that whosoever believe & follow him shall not perish, but have eternal life
- Thank you for reading,
- and may God guide you.
- O Servants of Allah!
- God Almighty wrote:
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 22 verses 77]
- “O you who believe!
- Kneel, and prostrate, and worship your Lord,
- and do good deeds, so that you may succeed.”
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 24 verse 56]
- “Pray regularly, and give regular charity,
- and obey the Messenger, so that you may receive mercy.”
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 24 verse 52]
- “Whoever obeys God and His Messenger,
- and fears God, and is conscious of Him —
- such people are the victorious.”
- [the Holy Qur'an chapter 16 verse 90]
- “Indeed, God commands (people) to maintain justice,
- kindness, and proper relations with their relatives.
- He forbids them to commit indecency, sin, and rebellion.
- God gives you advice so that perhaps you will take heed.”
- O God Almighty, the Most High,
- show us the truth as truth and guide us to follow it;
- show us the false as false and guide us to avoid it.
- Our Lord, give us good in this world and in the Hereafter,
- and protect us from the torment of the Fire.
- Lord, do not take us to task if we forget or make mistakes.
- Lord, do not burden us as You burdened those before us.
- Lord, do not burden us with more than we have strength to bear.
- Pardon us, forgive us, and have mercy on us.
- You are our Protector, so help us against the disbelievers.
- Our Lord, do not let our hearts deviate after You have guided us.
- Grant us Your Mercy; You are the Ever-Bestowing.
- O Turner of the Hearts (Allah, the Most High),
- turn our hearts to your obedience,
- and keep our hearts firm upon your religion.
- O Allah, send prayers upon Muhammad ﷺ and upon the family of Muhammad ﷺ ,
- as You sent prayers upon Ibrahim and upon the family of Ibrahim;
- You are indeed Worthy of Praise, Full of Glory.
- O Allah, send blessings upon Muhammad ﷺ and upon the family of Muhammad ﷺ ,
- as You sent blessings upon Ibrahim and upon the family of Ibrahim;
- You are indeed Worthy of Praise, Full of Glory.
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