Christian fundamentalists feeding Into the Toxic Partisanship and driving countries into the Dark Ages… #1

Posted on 2018/02/08 by Guestspeaker

At The Mendocino Humanist – Cheerfully Contrary there is an article which required our attention but can not reblogged, like the original article at Church and State from 2013 by Dakota O’Leary , which on its turn a review of the article by Katherine Stewart in the Guardian entitled “How Christian Fundamentalism Feeds Into the Toxic Partisanship of US Politics,”

Dakota O’Leary agrees that America has an infection. We would even say a serious problem, which did not become a lesser problem with the new president. Though that 45th president of the U.S.A. may have Jewish family, he has a racist tendency on some strange and dangerous facets, which seemed to be very much liked by neo-Nazis and extreme right Christian fundamentalists.

From certain reactions on our writings and on what we came to see in certain articles talking about Christian faith and Muslim faith we only can come to the conclusion that there are many extreme conservative and right-wing Christians blogging. A big problem with them is that they do not seem to want to listen or to accept certain things, like matters of language. For example not willing to come to understand that “Allah” is a word which is used in many languages to denote “God“. As such there are many Catholic and protestant Bibles with that word in their printed editions, but those Americans refusing to see that and to see that “Allah” is not a false god but the God of Abraham and the God of many Christians, Jews and Muslims.

That refusal to understand or to know that the English word “God” means “Allah” in many other languages gets such articles as “Muslims bow and worship allah / satan Everyday!!” or often repeated and reblogged (a.o.) Muslims bow and worship allah / satan Everyday!!, , Blasphemy!! Florida City Council Meeting Opens with a satanic prayer to satan and allah!!, Ungodly!! House of Representatives allows the sworn enemy of America to pray to allah-satan Baal on the House floor!!, with people not listening to others who dare to react to such stupid indications. They forget that such articles not only set bad blood by Muslims but also by devout Christians and by Jews who dare to speak out a tittle, because “God” or “Allah” is a title and not a name. But many American writings in the ‘Bloggosphere’ have authors who even do not seem to know the difference between a name and a tittle.

Some American writers see in that attitude of their compatriots the lack of their education and give the impression we should feel sorry for them. But than you could wonder why they not adjust their thinking when others do not mind to spend time to react to their wrong ideas and want to give them more correct information. Dakota O’Leary thinks such conservative Christians are infected with the consequence of anti-intellectualism, a steadfast refusal to acknowledge that one’s worldview is mutable, a worldview in which facts are only facts if they fit that worldview, and that anyone who disagrees with a Christian fundamentalist worldview is an “enemy” of God.

The infection has taken hold in conservative politics, where it has spread to a significant portion of the American population, and even into a significant amount of the Canadian population. Though the Religious Right lost some ground in 2000 and in 2008 the Time Magazine dared to declare “The Religious Right’s Era Is Over,” having the Republican party platform containing only two references to God and reaffirming its past positions on issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage and gays in the military but not expanding on them. Four years later the party’s platform contained again more references to God (10) and 19 references to faith, but also the first reference to a “war on religion.”Because at that time it really seemed that certain American citizens had declared a war on religion. The first and worst victim of that war were the Muslims and the second victim the true followers of Jesus, who do not worship their Trinity. Clearly we in Europe saw their battle against president Obama, some even claiming he would be a Muslim, and their battle against anything which had a social flavour, loathing it as ‘communist’. Normally one would expect from a good Christian that he is willing to share with others and to help those in need, but the American Christians with a big mouth are not at all prepared to share anything from their wealth with the needy or to contribute to a healthcare system when they are in good health.

Citing what it calls the Obama administration’s

“attempt to compel faith-related institutions, as well as believing individuals, to contravene their deeply held religious, moral, or ethical beliefs regarding health services, traditional marriage, or abortion,”

the platform accused “liberal elites” of trying to

“drive religious beliefs — and religious believers — out of the public square.”

From many writings on several blogs we in Europe could only conclude that several Tea-party members and extreme conservative Christians, mostly Creationists, wanted to gag the more liberal or freethinking Christian authors.

In Katherine Stewart’s article in the Guardian entitled “How Christian Fundamentalism Feeds Into the Toxic Partisanship of US Politics,” Stewart notes:

I don’t believe for a moment that this hysterical voice [Christian fundamentalism] that screeches in America’s political sphere is the authentic voice of religion in America. Most religious Americans want to mix it up at lunch! They want to make friends across party lines, and they want to help people who are less fortunate. A survey by the Public Religious Research Institute, released on 24 October, reveals that 60% of Catholics believe the Church should place a greater emphasis on social justice issues and their obligation to the poor, even if that means focusing less on culture war issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. Earlier this year, in response to the Ryan budget, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops joined other Christian leaders in insisting that a “circle of protection” be drawn around “essential programs that serve poor and vulnerable people”.

So why is it that the so-called “values voters” are urged to vote against the politician who supports choice, not the politician who wants to shred that “circle of protection” for the poor and vulnerable? Why is it that when politicians want to demonstrate just how religiously righteous they are, they talk about banning same-sex marriage and making contraceptives hard to get, instead of showing what they have done to protect the weak?

There is an obvious answer, and it is, in a sense, staring you in the face every time you watch a political debate or read about the latest antics of Focus on the Family and the AFA. The kind of religion that succeeds in politics tends to focus on the divisive element of religion. If you want to use religion to advance a partisan political agenda, the main objective you use it for is to divide people between us and them, between the in-group and the out-group, the believers and the infidels.

The result is a reduction of religion to a small handful of wedge issues. According to the religious leaders and policy organizations urging Americans to vote with their “Biblical values”, to be Christian now means to support one or, at most, a small handful of policy positions. And it means voting for the Republican party.

Dakota O’Leary says

Christian fundamentalists are not to be confused with mainstream evangelical Christians.

and he might be right because it seems to apply mainly on principally North American evangelicals. But we must be aware their language or their voice is spreading as a virus, and could come to infect several European, African and Asiatic evangelical and Pentecostal churches, coming to brew mischief between all the denominations who have people who in their language have “Allah” for the English word “God”. They also stir up trouble in regions where there are many Muslims who than find a stick to throw at the Christians. It gives than reason for Muslims to get on the wrong side because it makes it clear that Christians would prefer to worship an other God than the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Jesus and his disciples. In Christendom and in Christianity there is already the problem that those words gets mixed up and that the majority of people who call themselves Christian worship three gods instead of the One God, like real Christians worship the God of Abraham, the Elohim Hashem Jehovah Who is Only One. But those real Christians also come into problems by those extremist Christians who claim they are worshipping Satan or Baal, and as such give every Muslim reason to believe so.

One good thing about is is that several trinitarian Christians are noticing to Whom Jesus prayed (“Allah” Jehovah God) and that they are seeing that the doctrine of the Trinity is a false human doctrine. Bad thing or a regrettable matter caused by those North American writers is that they are pushing away many Christians in the hands of Muslims teachers so that they become Islamic converts, instead of coming to non-trinitarian Christian groups which there is choice enough here in our regions. We encountered already many previous Catholics who now became Muslim and to whom we try to show that Jesus is the way to God and that real Christianity is the following of Jesus as the son of God and not as a god son.

Not only on the level of loosing Catholic and protestant believers to the Muslim Faith because of those Christian fundamentalists we also see that the position of our teachers and preachers gets undermined. The symptoms of the infection of anti-intellectualism brings an erosion on education, not only in the States but also in the Old World. Escalating attacks on teachers as bad citizens, teachers’ unions as greedy “takers”, the evolution vs. creationism debate, resistance to stem cell research (or any kind of scientific research that conflicts with their Biblical worldview), fundamentalist emphasis on voucher system to create taxpayer funded fundamentalist schools, fear of a changing, increasingly pluralistic society (the current face of which is the extraordinary power fundamentalists give to the LGBT community as the force eroding American morality and bringing down the entire nation), and a negative economy which is generating public support by those who consider themselves members of the Religious Right by demonizing public education as a “liberal conspiracy” to take their children away from God. Many who see how those extremist want to have their will also on educational matters, prohibiting children to learn about the normal evolution in this world and coming to accept that dinosaurs really existed and that our world still evolves, makes many now wanting to be part of a religion that prohibits to see the reality of our world.

Calling anything that disagrees with a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible a product of Satanic manipulation makes many religious people to doubt their faith and to abandon it.

Today we also might find an oversimplification by the idea that there is a clear right and wrong (based on Biblical laws, or cherry-picked verses), the universe is either moral or immoral, and that so-called “assaults” on religious “freedom” of fundamentalists signify an invisible war between the forces of God (or “good”) and the forces of Satan (or “evil”).

American essayist and Federalist politician of the 1790s who was an archopponent of Jeffersonian democracy Fisher Ames.

According to the North American extremists there may not be such thing as Religious Freedom or Freedom of belief, because every one all over the world has to come to speak English and using their words and terms on all levels and should come to believe that what they believe. Lots of Americans do forget many of their ancestors just left the Old Word to get more freedom. They also seem to have forgotten that the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom was signed January 16, 1786, and is commemorated each year on National Religious Freedom Day. Thomas Jefferson’s landmark statute became the basis for Congressman Fisher Ames’ establishment clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Consitution.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”

Today the majority of North Americans seem to want against that idea and do not want to leave other people enter their nation and want to make sure no person shall have an other faith than they.

Those who want prayers being said in class should remember that all religious people should be respected and in such instance should have prayers according to their faith too. If they want certain specific prayers being said they should do that in their own private schools, like Catholic Schools, Anglican Schools, Presbyterian, Evangelical etc religious schools, like there should also to be the freedom to have a Muslim or a Hindu school. But the State School should be open to everybody, allowing people to wear their own religious symbols, be it a little cross, a fish, a Davidstar, a yarmulka or other head covering. Each government all over the world should take care that every person can feel himself or herself happy in an environment where there is no discrimination for skin-colour or religious affection.

Some Americans do forget that they want to limit freedom of speech and freedom of religion by demanding to have only their religion presented in public schools.

Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour goes so far to say taht

“The symbols and celebration of Christmas have shaped our history [and] Western Civilization,

having so called christians to think that she noted Christianity’s “transformative” impact on the old pagan world and the culture of Germanic barbarian warrior tribes, forgetting Christmas is totally a presentation of all the pagan elements, and is even an abomination in the eyes of God.

Christianity and broader Judeo-Christian values, suggested both Bannon and Mansour, reinforce Western Civilization’s sense of purpose in the face of internal and external threats.

The migration of tens of millions of Muslims to Europe in recent decades, said Bannon, is an existential threat to Europe and modern iteration of aforementioned civilization conflict between Western and Islamic societies: “The entire situation with this mass migration and refugee situation, which is really, there is no doubt, is starting to destroy Europe.” {Judeo-Christian Values essential to Victory of Western Civilization vs. Islamic Invasion of Europe}

Preceding

American Christianity no longer resembles its Founder

Governments need to be more proactive to ensure racism is kept in check

Added commentary to the posting A Progressive Call to Arms

You are what you wear

Allowing dress code according liberty of religion

Meditating Muslimah on “hijab to be a religious obligation”

A British judge rules that mother can’t indoctrinate son with religion

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A world with or without religion

Posted on 2015/01/16 by Marcus Ampe

Last week Europe was shaken like the world got a shock in 2001.

European newspapers could fill their pages with the recent and potential terrorist attacks in France. Analysts, experts, and commentators take time and space to discuss and debate the facts, often with skewed and confused perspectives on Islam, and offer a variety of political and emotional responses.

Since the Wednesday January 7 terrorist attacks on the satirical magazine, there has been not only a sharp increase in anti-Muslim attacks in France, but in many countries, again lots of people are saying that it would be better not having any religion and than we would have more peace. Those claiming it would be better without religions do seem to forget it is not the religions which brings the fighting under people. In case there was no religion and in case people had no faith in certain higher values than life provides at the moment, it even could be that there would be more fighting going on in the world.

Would people seriously think that there would not have any terrorist attacks against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo or against the Jewish supermarket in Paris, when it would not have been Jewish but would have been part of a certain political group or certain chain?

Eurobarometer Poll 2005 Percentage of those who agreed to the statement that “there isn’t any sort of God, spirit, or life force”. Colour enhanced from the original: contrast -0.5; gamma 0.7. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When you take away religion you still have people who can think differently over certain matters. Atheism would not guarantee that they all would agree with each other. Having no religion shall not take away the differences in political thinking and shall still give, and perhaps even more, reason to disagree and react heavenly to other political parties. Have a look at how many different political opinions and how many different political parties there are in the world.

Interior Ministries would have much more work with different opposing groups, who would not mind to try to get rid of the others, no matter at what cost, because they would know a human life having no value when it is done with.So, by taking care of other opinions they shall be happy to be the only ruler and would not fear anything but the strongest human being, and therefore shall try to do everything to become the strongest themselves.

Now with ethics still playing a role and with people led by their faith to organise their life, people shall feel restricted in what they are allowed to do or in what can be done. With not ethics their shall be no boundaries. For those who think when people do not belief in The God or any gods, the world would be safe of fightings, I would like to tell them that atheism in a certain way is also a religion and when it can not be considered like that it is at least also a faith.

In atheism there are also many thoughts, like there are many denominations in Christendom or in any other religion.

When there would not exist religion people would, as they did, find it out. It is true there would not be Islamophobia or Judaism fear, but still homophobia, racism would still exist. Even having no gods around people would create themselves high persons and idols, like they still do today. Even people who do not believe in God or gods call their idol ‘god’. Just look at the titles they give in the world of sport and how many gods can not be found under the footballers, tennis players and boxers.

Please also do not forget that ‘god’ is a tittle, meaning a higher person or being an important person. In the Bible we do find several called god. Angels are called god in the Holy Scriptures, but also Pharaoh, Moses, Apollo, Zeus and others. Some even think because Thomas at one point says “my god” think he is taking Jesus as his god and as God. Those readers do not see or hear the “and” before “my god” and do not understand Thomas is speaking to one person about that one person and about an other person, the God of Jesus, the God of Abraham, Who is the God of gods.

In this world when there would be no religion we also would see various god-men around the world, with whatever title the people then would give them or whatever word may be used in their language to denote such a figure. Everywhere in the world of religious and non-religious people we can find human beings who seem to be having this delusion that they have special powers or abilities that promote them to a pedestal that is higher than that of us mere mortals.

Shutupshakalya thinks that’s what makes them excel in their line of business. He also thinks it is good to have faith in a guide/teacher/guru and have a direction in life. I also believe it is very important that children have a good example they can look up at and follow. Teachers or educators or leaders in a youth or adult movement have helped many a men realize their potential (in movies, mythology, and real life).

Throughout the ages the world has seen many inspirational teachers, gurus, masters of with, inspirational thinkers, who stimulated others to think for themselves and to make a real quest in life.

Every age has got its master or people where others looked at or wanted to follow. Jeshua, the Nazarene (also called the Christ) was also such a man who got a lot of followers though others did not like that at all. Mahatma Gandhi and Luther King also were preachers of peace who did not want to create a new religion, like Jesus did not want to do that.

India has always been a very fruitful region for spiritual leaders. Also in this century a new special guru has found attention.

Gurmeet Ram Rahim Insan, as he calls himself (you can’t miss the mass appeal there) happens to be this socio-religious (and I think political as well) leader in India that has a huge following. His ‘fans’ claim that he is a do gooder who is trying to rid youth of the nation from the evil clutches of drugs. He carries out blood donation drives, and his many followers unquestioningly tread on the path illuminated by him. Why should anybody have a problem with such a man who is working for the society? {The God Complex & An Exercise in Absurdity}

This man who is born Gregory House frequently referred to overt acts of philanthropy and generosity as underlying symptoms of a disease.

In his vitriolic style, he mocked people for having the “God Complex”, while it can be debated that he had one too. {The God Complex & An Exercise in Absurdity}…

But then, he decides to make a movie and star in it as a (super)hero. The promotional trailers of MSG-Messenger of God are on the telly and some people like me who are on a highway to hell by India’s religious standards are having a good laugh. His fans have come out all guns blazing on various social media platforms, silencing the detractors and rooting for their babaji. They counter the arguments by asking questions that are only beaten in absurdity by the movie itself. {The God Complex & An Exercise in Absurdity}

We also love to live a moving picture show, loving to see a better world for us than we can find in this real world. Have a look at Facebook, and you will understand what I mean. There you can find a beautiful example how people present themselves differently than they really are. Also there they love to show others how they can interact and build themselves an empire of friends and activities wherewith they can show off.

Those supporting the movie (most of whom are followers of the baba) innocently question that when other movies can show miraculous escapes and stunt scenes, why can’t Gurmeet Ram Rahim’s movie show him performing miracles?

Second. more important question is that when other movies get away with questioning religion in the name of ‘freedom of expression’, shouldn’t the makers of MSG be allowed to have their freedom too?

The last few days it was all about that freedom in Europe. Having received a big slap in the face we had to cry out loud our anguish at our hurt community. In which way were we to be pushed or to be allowed to go? Where is it that we want to go with our society and ow do want propaganda, brainwashing, infiltration allow our lives to direct?

After the Great War, lots of people thought never such a cruelty would come over them again, but soon World War II was on their doorstep. After that calamity the West soon recovered and thought it was now safe. But on September 11, 2001 the dream of the Western World was demolished by the crash of three air-planes. The material world of successful accomplishments could experience the deadliest attack ever launched on American soil, leaving them asking again:

Why did God permit such a thing to happen?

and

How can human beings be capable of such diabolical savagery in the name of religion?

2015 January 11 in remembrance of 2001 September 11 again an Islamic terrorist act on symbols of the Western society and its freedom - Attack on Charlie Hebdo mazazine in Paris, France

2015 January 7 in remembrance of 2001 September 11 again an Islamic terrorist act on symbols of the Western society and its freedom – Attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, France

On Wednesday January 7, 2015 it was again of the same sort. Once more the West was attacked, fired in the middle of their weak heart. Again there were people who said it was done in the name of their god, though in the Abrahamic religions there is no such God who would agree with such violence. Others said it was the fault of the religions, but they seem to forget in case there were no religions there still would be other groups fighting each other.

Lots of people do accept opposition from one or the other side but not from certain other sides. But also to be questioned is how much and in which way do we want to accept opposition.

In case there where no religions and no people believing in The God, a god or gods, they would have favouritisms for certain civic believes or political ideas.

Already from the beginning of mankind people sought ways to live with others and to form communities. Therefore different systems where thought of. The different opinions how to make the best of life would also trigger differences to have people arguing and even coming to fight with each other. Economical and political factors would be there to have people coming against each other and even being prepared to kill others for it. History can proof that.

To say therefore that religions are the cause of such misery is doing injustice to those religious people. Most of them look for ways to come at peace with each other in respect of certain values which they consider very important for making a good working human society. They mostly have ethics which they want to give priority to material or personal gain.

What we see from those who claim to be fighting for Allah is that they mostly do not follow the Words of that Allah and even do not mind killing other followers of that God. Boko Haram and ISIS are very good examples of that letting the world see that they are not afraid to rape and kill children, women and men, who also believe in their God. those jihadists also have no scruples to bomb mosques, temples of worship for Allah, and to burn Holy Scriptures like the Quran.

Those people who terrorise others misuse religion to bring more reason to frighten others for what they are doing. The jihad-fighters want people to believe that the Quran justifies their actions. Others do want to believe them and do want to believe others

Islam’s “victorious-with-terror” prophet (Hadith, Bukhari 2977) commands Muslims to mimic his example (Qur’an Sura 33:21) by ruthlessly pursuing non-Muslims (Sura 4:104, 48:29) to “terrorize” them (Sura 3:151, 8:12, 8:57-60), to “siege and slay them” (Sura 4:89, 33:57-61), to “murder” and to maim (Sura 5:33; Hadith, Tabari 9:69) in order that they be “subdued” and “destroyed” by Allah at the hands of Muslims for the cause of Islam (Sura 2:244, 4:76, 8:39, 9:14, 29-30, 9:38-39, 9:111, 61:10-12). Yet when the light of truth is shone upon the horror that is Islam the willingly ignorant still choose to remain in the dark, for to expose pure evil is to expose a monster they’d rather not see … {The Ghost Of Charlie Hebdo And The Purple Beret}

Many do not want to show true respect for those who believe in certain values and in certain elements which are above our human intellect, like spiritual beings and The God of gods.

Pope Francis I, who has urged Muslim leaders in particular to speak out against Islamic extremism, went a step further when asked by a French journalist about whether there were limits when freedom of expression meets freedom of religion. The leader of the Roman Catholics insisted that it was an “aberration” to kill in the name of God and said religion can never be used to justify violence.
But he said there was a limit to free speech when it concerned offending someone’s religious beliefs.

“There are so many people who speak badly about religions or other religions, who make fun of them, who make a game out of the religions of others,”

he said.

Religious or not, we all should see what happens in the context, of how human beings act. We should see that even without religions we would have agitators and “provocateurs”. They often are not interested in ethics and what a majority wants. They want to push their believes and their wants on others. They just want to have power over the rest of the world.

In the wake of the Paris attacks, the Vatican has sought to downplay reports that it is a potential target for Islamic extremists, saying it is being vigilant but has received no specific threat. Francis I said he was concerned primarily for the faithful, and said he had spoken to Vatican security officials who are taking “prudent and secure measures.”

In many countries it is the unbalance of one group opposite the other that creates problems. In France for example we can see that 5 million Muslims account for 10 to 12 percent of the country’s total population (the largest Muslim population in Europe) and Jews (478,000) are outnumbered by its Muslims 10 to 1. The extreme right party National Front receiving 4,712,461 votes in the 2014 European Parliament election, finishing first with 24.86% of the vote and 24 of France’s 74 seats, should give a clear sign of the danger that could come up to France even when those Jews would not be religious Jews and the Muslims would not exist but still be from foreign origin. The Algerians, Moroccans a.o. North Africans and Turkish people would face the same danger as now with their own religions.

Reburied in Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem the Jewish cell phone salesman Ilan Halimi got a garden named after him in Paris where he was kidnapped on 21 January 2006 by a group called the Gang of Barbarians and subsequently tortured, over a period of three weeks, resulting in his death.

Without religions we also would have headlines about the hatred between people and could find articles about unspeakable murders like the one of the French Jewish man of Moroccan descent Ilan Halimi in 2006 which heralded a sharp turn back to Europe’s most notorious hatred, at the hands of its newest population. More than 1,000 people marched through the streets of Paris, demanding justice for Halimi, on Sunday February 26, 2006. Initially buried in the Cimetière parisien de Pantin near Paris his funeral in Paris drew a large Jewish crowd. It could not stop the violence against Judaic people. There have been thousands of attacks on French Jews and Jewish sites in the years since Halimi was killed.

We should know that not only

nationalism is a foundational aspect of French life. Old nationalist allegiances have made it hard for well-meaning Muslim immigrants to integrate into society, as they have no direct ties to Metropolitan France. They live largely among themselves in banlieues, whose customs and norms closely resemble those of the inhabitants’ countries of origin—not those of their new home. {The Existential Necessity of Zionism After Paris: a commentary Editorial}

America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life “Commentary” does see the problem of our European community. Also when there would be no religions we would have people from all sorts of places in the world gathered in our regions. After the second world war we had great dreams of a united world. In the postwar age we needed workforce to build up the country again and invited people from other continents to work for us. The doctrine of multiculturalism, the idée fixe of postwar Europe, has not only a strange relationship with French nationalism:

Though it would seem nationalism’s ideological opposite, multiculturalism offers rosy-cheeked cover to France’s deep unwillingness to allow anyone without centuries-old roots to become “French.” Nominally, according to the postmodern ideal of multiculturalism, no one culture is more virtuous than another.

And so the anti-Western, anti-Semitic Islamism practiced by France’s most dangerous citizens is not to be vilified, but rather understood and, ultimately, tolerated. As a matter of daily reality, however, multiculturalism allows the French to keep the Muslims separate—and unequal. And it allows some in France to entertain the belief that Jews, too, can never be French. {The Existential Necessity of Zionism After Paris: a commentary Editorial}

Several may wonder now what France and its neighbour countries are going to do now they seem to be caught between the deadly reality of radical Islam and the potential manifestation of a neo-fascist revival. In case there would have been no religion there was still the matter of all those ‘foreigners’ and all those ‘coloured’ living in Europe, the same as in America you could find immigrants and coloured people.

In Europe we notice that there has come a certain pressure on many, who have seen in the economical crisis and the political evolution a similar situation as in the 1930s. Therefore many religious as well as non-treligious Jews have chosen to go to their promised Holy Land. Last year, a record-high 7,000 French Jews immigrated to the Jewish state — more than double the year before. The Jewish Agency, which oversees immigration of Jews to Israel, now estimates that some 15,000 French Jews will make aliyah in 2015.

In case there would have been no thought or no idea of a god or gods and no religions, people would have invented something to classify the different groups and ideas between the many different folks. Those classification would be there like we already classify the continents with different names and can find in each of them a multitude of political parties, which have nothing to do with religion. We can see between those political parties there are also battles going on the same as their is competition between economical forces.

With or without God, people would find enough time, arguments, money and weaponry to make their differences hard.

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What the Charlie Hebdo terrorists have won so far (bangordailynews.com)
Although French police have hunted down and killed the suspects in Wednesday’s Charlie Hebdo attack, the terrorists have, on at least two levels, already won: They’ve scared a number of powerful news organizations into submission, and they’ve stoked European Islamophobia, whose rise will help militant Islamists recruit more supporters.
Anti-Islam Rallies Growing in Germany (guardianlv.com)
After the attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices in France last week, anti-Islam rallies in Germany are seen to be growing rapidly. The rallies are being held by a group known as Pegida, which means in English: Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident.Pegida is a right wing organization in Germany that is holding protests in various cities to fight against the growing influence of Islam in the everyday life of the country. The organization claims that the influence of Islam is slowly destroying the European culture. They also are against certain immigration practices, asylum seekers, and they want the “protection of Judeo-Christian culture” for the Western world.Although the protests in Germany have been taking place for some time, the number of attendees has been rather small in the past. On October 20 of last year, the first rally only had about 350 people present. At a meeting on January 5, there were 18,000 protestors there. Once the killings at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper offices had taken place, the number of participants has grown greatly.
Hypocrisy Abounds: Free Speech as Cover for Islamophobia (truthdig.com)
A magazine that most people outside France had never heard of before Jan. 7 now has legions of followers and fans around the world. The dominant narrative that has emerged from the horrific massacre of 10 staffers of Charlie Hebdo (plus police officers and hostages) is that the very foundation of freedom itself was attacked last week in Paris, and that the best way to fight Islamic fundamentalism is to uphold the ethos of Charlie Hebdo’s irreverence and satire. After all, in seeing their own values embodied in Charlie Hebdo, holders of “Je Suis Charlie” signsseem to be positioning themselves on the “right” side of freedom and democracy.
Anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rallies grow in Europe (thestar.com)

A grassroots anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant movement is continuing to move across Europe in wake of the terror attacks that hit Paris last week.

A crowd of nearly 25,000 attended an anti-Muslim rally in Dresden on Monday. For the last several months, the German group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, or PEGIDA, has been holding the demonstrations, calling for stricter controls on asylum rules and tighter immigration policies.

Germany, along with northern European countries, is experiencing massive influxes of migrants from conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa. Vast numbers of Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis and others caught up in war, persecution and poverty are all trying to settle in wealthier European countries to begin new lives.

But as some European countries struggle with youth unemployment and sluggish economies, tensions rise.
A dying Western culture is the problem (thecommentator.com)
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “We need to say that right-wing extremism and anti-Semitism should not be allowed any place in our society.” That was the German Chancellor’s response to Pegida, the burgeoning movement in Germany against what its supporters see as the relentless Islamisation of Europe.Ms Merkel’s comment was a politician’s slur. The problem for Angela Merkel is that it’s not Pegida that is anti-Semitic, but large numbers of Europe’s Muslims. This is a truth that the EU political establishment refuses to acknowledge, even when its own bureaucrats produce the hard evidence.For example, a 2003 European Union study on anti-Semitism found that Europe’s anti-Semites were not the usual stereotypical suspects (white, skin-headed Nazis), but Muslim gangs. The report was suppressed — Europe’s PC politicians did not like the findings — and only became public when details were leaked to the Jerusalem Post.But who needs a study to show who the anti-Semites are? You can hear it and see it on Europe’s streets.
‘Charlie Hebdo’: why jihad came to Paris (irishtimes.com)
Nearly 1,300 years have passed since Charles Martel turned back the Islamic invasion at Tours, and there was a historic resonance to the policeman’s words.
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Amid the blur of stained glass, incense and candles inside the cathedral, Fr Emmanuel Da alluded to the atrocity. “Whatever his religion, whatever his culture, a human being is your brother, and violence is a prison,” he preached. “Harming one brother with homicidal violence is harming God. There is no act more repugnant to God than homicide.”
Charlie Hebdo Attack Could Induce Spread Of Anti-Muslim Sentiments In Europe (eurasiareview.com)
Elmas stated that Turkey stands as one of the most exemplary countries in terms of showing that Islam can coexist with the values of democracy, rule of law, etc. Here, Elmas underlined that Turkey should continue to cooperate with the EU and that the two parties would greatly benefit from identifying and acting upon the lowest common denominator between them when it comes to the issue.
European Powers Implement Police State Measures in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack (gunnyg.wordpress.com)
Governments throughout Europe have responded to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in France by moving quickly to push through a raft of anti-democratic measures. They are exploiting the shock and confusion generated by the event in Paris to take actions… European Powers Implement Police State Measures in Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack
Timeline of European terror attacks (seattletimes.com)
A gun assault on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday was the deadliest terrorist attack in France’s recent history. Some other terror attacks in Western Europe:

Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1:1-7 Help from God our Maker

Posted on 2014/10/25 by Marcus Ampe

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.(1:1)

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

All praise unto Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.(1:2)

الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ

The Compassionate, the Merciful.(1:3)

مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ

Sovereign of the Day of Requital.(1:4)

Fatiha (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Surah al-Fatiha may be known under various names. According to the tradition the prophet Muhammad referred to this surah as ‘The Mother of the Book’ (Ummu’l-Kitab) because it is the essence of the Qur’an. In a certain way that what is said in this surah is also the essence of the Hebrew and Christian Bible. In those scriptures the Word of God requires to come to recognise the Only One God, to praise Him and to show gratitude for the Divine Creator of heaven and earth.

According to a report by Abu Hurayra, Allah the Almighty speaks with His servant in Surah al-Fatiha:

“Allah the Almighty has said: ‘I have divided Surah al-Fatiha between Myself and My servant into two halves, and My servant shall have what he has asked for. When the servant says,

“All praise and gratitude are for Allah, the Lord of the worlds”

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.(1:2)

All the praises and thanks be to Allāh, the Lord of the ‘Alamīn (mankind, jinns and all that exists). (Al-Fatihah 1:2)

إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ وَإِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ

Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help.(1:5)

You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help (for each and everything). (Al-Fatihah 1:5)

In the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible and the Quran the core is that we should only worship this Most High Creator and from Him alone should we seek help.

أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُمْ مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ ۖ مَسَّتْهُمُ الْبَأْسَاءُ وَالضَّرَّاءُ وَزُلْزِلُوا حَتَّىٰ يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ مَتَىٰ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ ۗ أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ

Or do you think that you would enter the garden while yet the state of those who have passed away before you has not come upon you; distress and affliction befell them and they were shaken violently, so that the Apostle and those who believed with him said: When will the help of Allah come? Now surely the help of Allah is nigh!(2:214)

بَلِ اللَّهُ مَوْلَاكُمْ ۖ وَهُوَ خَيْرُ النَّاصِرِينَ

Nay! Allah is your Patron and He is the best of the helpers.(3:150)

لَيْسَ بِأَمَانِيِّكُمْ وَلَا أَمَانِيِّ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ ۗ مَنْ يَعْمَلْ سُوءًا يُجْزَ بِهِ وَلَا يَجِدْ لَهُ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا

(This) shall not be in accordance with your vain desires nor in accordance with the vain desires of the followers of the Book; whoever does evil, he shall be requited with it, and besides Allah he will find for himself neither a guardian nor a helper.(4:123)

فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَيُوَفِّيهِمْ أُجُورَهُمْ وَيَزِيدُهُمْ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ ۖ وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ اسْتَنْكَفُوا وَاسْتَكْبَرُوا فَيُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا وَلَا يَجِدُونَ لَهُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ وَلِيًّا وَلَا نَصِيرًا

Then as for those who believe and do good, He will pay them fully their rewards and give them more out of His grace; and as for those who disdain and are proud, He will chastise them with a painful chastisement. And they shall not find for themselves besides Allah a guardian or a helper. (4:173)

قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوْمِهِ اسْتَعِينُوا بِاللَّهِ وَاصْبِرُوا ۖ إِنَّ الْأَرْضَ لِلَّهِ يُورِثُهَا مَنْ يَشَاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِهِ ۖ وَالْعَاقِبَةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ

Musa said to his people: Ask help from Allah and be patient; surely the land is Allah’s; He causes such of His servants to inherit it as He pleases, and the end is for those who guard (against evil).(7:128)

وَالَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِنْ دُونِهِ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَكُمْ وَلَا أَنْفُسَهُمْ يَنْصُرُونَ

And those whom you call upon besides Him are not able to help you, nor can they help themselves.(7:197)

وَإِنْ جَنَحُوا لِلسَّلْمِ فَاجْنَحْ لَهَا وَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ

And if they incline to peace, then incline to it and trust in Allah; surely He is the Hearing, the Knowing.(8:61)

وَإِنْ يُرِيدُوا أَنْ يَخْدَعُوكَ فَإِنَّ حَسْبَكَ اللَّهُ ۚ هُوَ الَّذِي أَيَّدَكَ بِنَصْرِهِ وَبِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ

And if they intend to deceive you– then surely Allah is sufficient for you; He it is Who strengthened you with His help and with the believers(8:62)

وَيَا قَوْمِ مَنْ يَنْصُرُنِي مِنَ اللَّهِ إِنْ طَرَدْتُهُمْ ۚ أَفَلَا تَذَكَّرُونَ

And, O my people! who will help me against Allah if I drive them away? Will you not then mind?(11:30)

وَلَا تَرْكَنُوا إِلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا فَتَمَسَّكُمُ النَّارُ وَمَا لَكُمْ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَوْلِيَاءَ ثُمَّ لَا تُنْصَرُونَ

And do not incline to those who are unjust, lest the fire touch you, and you have no guardians besides Allah, then you shall not be helped.(11:113)

وَجَاءُوا عَلَىٰ قَمِيصِهِ بِدَمٍ كَذِبٍ ۚ قَالَ بَلْ سَوَّلَتْ لَكُمْ أَنْفُسُكُمْ أَمْرًا ۖ فَصَبْرٌ جَمِيلٌ ۖ وَاللَّهُ الْمُسْتَعَانُ عَلَىٰ مَا تَصِفُونَ

And they brought his shirt with false blood upon it. He said: Nay, your souls have made the matter light for you, but patience is good and Allah is He Whose help is sought for against what you describe.(12:18)

“فالآن اذهب وانا اكون مع فمك وأعلمك ما تتكلم به.” (خروج 4:12 Arabic)

“فقال لا يخلصك الرب.من اين اخلّصك.أمن البيدر او من المعصرة.” (2 ملوك 6:27 Arabic)

“فحلّ الروح على عماساي راس الثوالث فقال لك نحن يا داود ومعك نحن يا ابن يسّى.سلام سلام لك وسلام لمساعديك.لان الهك معينك.فقبلهم داود وجعلهم رؤوس الجيوش.” (1 اخبار 12:18 Arabic)

“وان ذهبت انت فاعمل وتشدد للقتال لان الله يسقطك امام العدو لان عند الله قوة للمساعدة وللاسقاط.” (2 اخبار 25:8 Arabic)

“معه ذراع بشر ومعنا الرب الهنا ليساعدنا ويحارب حروبنا.فاستند الشعب على كلام حزقيا ملك يهوذا” (2 اخبار 32:8 Arabic)

“(33:21) ‎لانه به تفرح قلوبنا لاننا على اسمه القدوس اتكلنا‎ .” (مزامير 33:20 Arabic)

“(41:1) لامام المغنين.مزمور لداود‎ .‎طوبى للذي ينظر الى المسكين.في يوم الشر ينجيه الرب‎ .” (مزامير 40:17 Arabic)

“9 (115:10) ‎يا بيت هرون اتكلوا على الرب.هو معينهم ومجنهم‎ . 10 (115:11) ‎يا متقي الرب اتكلوا على الرب.هو معينهم ومجنهم‎ . 11 (115:12) ‎الرب قد ذكرنا فيبارك.يبارك بيت اسرائيل يبارك بيت هرون‎ .” (مزامير 115:9-11 Arabic)

“1 (121:2) ‎معونتي من عند الرب صانع السموات والارض‎ . 2 (121:3) ‎لا يدع رجلك تزل.لا ينعس حافظك‎ .” (مزامير 121:1-2 Arabic)

“ولكن التي هي بالحقيقة ارملة ووحيدة فقد ألقت رجاءها على الله وهي تواظب الطلبات والصلوات ليلا ونهارا.” (1 تيموثاوس 5:5 Arabic)

“Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.” (Exodus 4:12 ASV)

“And he said, {1} If Jehovah do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress? {1) Or [Nay, let Jehovah help thee!]}” (2 Kings 6:27 ASV)

“Then the Spirit {1} came upon Amasai, who was chief of the {2} thirty, [and he said], Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thy helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band. {1) Heb [clothed] 2) Another reading is [captains]}” (1 Chronicles 12:18 ASV)

“But {1} if thou wilt go, do [valiantly], be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down. {1) Or [go thou]}” (2 Chronicles 25:8 ASV)

“with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Jehovah our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.” (2 Chronicles 32:8 ASV)

“Our soul hath waited for Jehovah: He is our help and our shield.” (Psalms 33:20 ASV)

“But I am poor and needy; [Yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.” (Psalms 40:17 ASV)

“9 O Israel, trust thou in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust ye in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield. 11 Ye that fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah: He is their help and their shield.” (Psalms 115:9-11 ASV)

“1 «A Song of Ascents.» I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: From whence shall my help come? 2 My help [cometh] from Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.” (Psalms 121:1-2 ASV)

“Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.” (1 Timothy 5:5 ASV)

For most Muslims everything begins with Surah al-Fatiha which is considered a Divine treasure.

There is a close relationship between “Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim” and al-Fatiha. “Bismillah” is in a sense a verse from al-Fatiha. This is why many of the Islamic scholars classify “Bismillah” as one of the seven verses of Surah al-Fatiha.” There is a kind of poetical harmony between “Bismillah” and al-Fatiha. “Bismillah” begins in the Name of Allah. In the same way that we begin reciting of the Qur’an in the Name of Allah, we also begin the recitation of al-Fatiha proclaiming “Bismillah.” Indeed, any deeds or tasks that begin without reciting the Name of Allah are incomplete. {North East Islamic Community Center }

Bismillah in Persian calligraphy

Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim or Basmala also known by its opening utterance Bismillah (Arabic: بسم الله‎, “In the name of God”) is the Islamic opening phrase “b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi“, often translated as “In the name of God, the Most Gracious [Rahman (The Compassionate or The Beneficent)], the Most Merciful [Rahim]“. The Most-Powerful or the Almighty we should know as The Compassionate or The Beneficent Who is there for us to help us. Several Muslims may find difficulty by Arabic-speaking Trintiarian Christians who also use the name “Basmala” to refer to the Christian liturgical often trintiarian formula, (but which not always has to be taken under that dogmatic tradition) “In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” (باسم الآب والابن والروح القدس bismi-l-’ābi wa-l-ibni wa-r-rūḥi l-qudusi) from Matthew 28:19. In several Islamic countries the majority of Christians they encounter are Roman Catholics, which makes that those Muslims came to believe that all Christians do believe like those Catholics. We only can hope they (Muslims and trintiarian Christians) do come to see that there are lots of Christians who do not adhere trinitarian and other dogma‘s which are unscriptural.

As we noticed already in the previous writings, the Muslims think they use an actually an idiom, an expression that really doesn’t make much sense on a literal word-by-word basis, but the call to do something “In the name of Allah” is a very important call of the Most High Elohim. Saying ” In the name of” indicates that one is submitting to, honoring or glorifying that which is referred to, in remembrance of the Name of the most High.

What a lot of people seem to forget is that only by Allah, God of gods, is our salvation. As the Most High Maker of everything He is the One Who can give us the most precious hope and the best help we can get. No man can be more pure and helpful than this Divine Creator. He is the Only One Who can approach every soul (being) on this earth at any time, by His Voice, with His Word, but also with His Sword. This Maker of heaven and earth can make or brake us. Those who do not recognise the Maker of all things, should be considered the poor ones of this universe. We all should come to know the Maker and Master of all things.

“أالانسان ابرّ من الله ام الرجل اطهر من خالقه.” (ايوب 4:17 Arabic)

“أحمل معرفتي من بعيد وأنسب برا لصانعي.” (ايوب 36:3 Arabic)

“(95:7) ‎لانه هو الهنا ونحن شعب مرعاه وغنم يده.اليوم ان سمعتم صوته” (مزامير 95:6 Arabic)

“(115:16) ‎السموات سموات للرب.اما الارض فاعطاها لبني آدم‎ .” (مزامير 115:15 Arabic)

“(121:3) ‎لا يدع رجلك تزل.لا ينعس حافظك‎ .” (مزامير 121:2 Arabic)

“(125:1) ترنيمة المصاعد‎ .‎المتوكلون على الرب مثل جبل صهيون الذي لا يتزعزع بل يسكن الى الدهر.” (مزامير 124:8 Arabic)

“(135:1) هللويا.سبحوا اسم الرب.سبحوا يا عبيد الرب” (مزامير 134:3 Arabic)

“(146:7) ‎المجري حكما للمظلومين المعطي خبزا للجياع.الرب يطلق الاسرى.” (مزامير 146:6 Arabic)

“ظالم الفقير يعير خالقه ويمجده راحم المسكين.” (امثال 14:31 Arabic)

“المستهزئ بالفقير يعيّر خالقه.الفرحان ببلية لا يتبرأ.” (امثال 17:5 Arabic)

“الغني والفقير يتلاقيان.صانعهما كليهما الرب.” (امثال 22:2 Arabic)

“كما انك لست تعلم ما هي طريق الريح ولا كيف العظام في بطن الحبلى كذلك لا تعلم اعمال الله الذي يصنع الجميع.” (جامعة 11:5 Arabic)

“في ذلك اليوم يلتفت الانسان الى صانعه وتنظر عيناه الى قدوس اسرائيل.” (اشعياء 17:7 Arabic)

“ليس كهذه نصيب يعقوب.لانه مصور الجميع واسرائيل قضيب ميراثه.رب الجنود اسمه” (ارميا 10:16 Arabic)

“ليس كهذه نصيب يعقوب لانه مصوّر الجميع وقضيب ميراثه رب الجنود اسمه.” (ارميا 51:19 Arabic)

“Shall mortal man {1} be more just than God? Shall a man {2} be more pure than his Maker? {1) Or [be just before God] 2) Or [be pure before his Maker]}” (Job 4:17 ASV)

“I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.” (Job 36:3 ASV)

“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker:” (Psalms 95:6 ASV)

“Blessed are ye of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.” (Psalms 115:15 ASV)

“My help [cometh] from Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.” (Psalms 121:2 ASV)

“Our help is in the name of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.” (Psalms 124:8 ASV)

“Jehovah bless thee out of Zion; Even he that made heaven and earth.” (Psalms 134:3 ASV)

“Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever;” (Psalms 146:6 ASV)

“He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.” (Proverbs 14:31 ASV)

“Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker; [And] he that is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.” (Proverbs 17:5 ASV)

“The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.” (Proverbs 22:2 ASV)

“As thou knowest not what is the way of the {1} wind, [nor] how the bones [do grow] in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all. {1) Or [spirit]}” (Ecclesiastes 11:5 ASV)

“In that day shall men look unto their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.” (Isaiah 17:7 ASV)

“The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.” (Jeremiah 10:16 ASV)

“The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.” (Jeremiah 51:19 ASV)

Preceding articles:

Al-Fatiha [The Opening/De Opening] Süra 1:1-3 In the name of Allah the Merciful Lord Of The Creation

Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path

Find the introduction to this series:

Public not informed enough about Jihad terrorism in Belgium

Quran versus older Holy Writings of Divine Creator

Why is it that Christians don’t understand Muslims and Muslims do not understand Christians?

Dutch version / Nederlandstalige versie:

Al-Fatiha [De Opening] Surah 1: 1-7 Hulp van God onze Schepper

Please do find also to read:

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Shariah and child abuse – Is there a connection?

Posted on 2014/10/08 by Guestspeaker

People may have something against a certain faith. That we can see in many countries today, like it was foretold in the Bible, what would happen at the end of times.

In the Middle East we have Muslims fighting Hindus or Hindus fighting against Christians, but also Christians having to defend themselves against severe attacks by other religious people, but also against denominations which belong to the same group, namely Christendom.

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Muslims know that when there comes to them some matter touching (public) safety or fear, they have to make it known (among the people), if only they had referred it to the Messenger or to those charged with authority among them, the proper investigators would have understood it from them (directly). In many countries where Christendom was the main religion lots of people have lost contact with their God, in case they had already contact with Him. In the West lots of people were by birth belonging to one or the other Christian denomination, but many did or do not believe really.

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To say, like the author of the reblogged article claims, that “It has been suggested that the pre-Islamic Allah was the Babylonian deity Ba’al, not the Hebrew Yahweh as suggested in the Quran. ” is probably distorting history, like it is depicting it not rightly to say there is one huge difference between the Yahweh of Jewish and Christian literature and the Allah of Islamic literature.

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Allah was already in the time of Muhammad the Arabic word for the title of God (not His Name) and was already used many years before Muhammad was born by the Christians, but also by others who used the title for their gods, like Pharaoh and Moses were also called allah or god. The Allah/God of the Islamic prophet came confronted with was the same Allah Abraham got to hear.
Allah or God, whose Name is Jehovah or called Yahweh can and does defend his own holiness, to say Allah’s holiness (and therefore that of Mohammed’s) has to be avidly and violently defended by his followers is doing disrespect to the real followers of Allah, who do not let themselves be mislead by human writings, like many Christians have in the past let themselves been mislead by many different people who called themselves ‘theologian‘ and by the different denominations which brought unto their people different dogma‘s.

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As in Christendom Muslims also took to human writings. Instead of just taking the words of the Quran they preferred to follow more the words of tradition, like the writings of the hadith, which may leave many Christians with the impression that when Mohammed/Muhammad wanted something, he would go into a trance and Allah would then respond to Mohammed’s request. That is why many Christians did come to see a Quran that seems to contradict itself, like others have come to see a Bible that seems to contradict itself,
For sure it is by the false teachers and false prophets we have come to see, by the years, an abrogation of the mainly ‘peaceful’ passages, to the much more violent passages as time passes, and several people, on the different sites (Islam and Christendom) misusing the title of God (or if you want: misusing the Name of God) to get their political desires in the forefront and to regain or to get more power.

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In the article is further questioned:

Do we really need a system of laws that sees nothing wrong with a man in his forties marrying a pre-pubescent child?

The place of women in society

It also says:

Shariah defines female unbelievers as the property (slaves) of believing males who have no rights at all; subject only to the whim of their owners.

To some Muslims, grooming underage non-Muslim girls is totally acceptable within Shariah,==> by doing nothing, and by failing to do their jobs – negligently and shamefully allowed to be implemented in Rotherham and other places; all part of the creep of Shariah into our society.

those who refused to investigate complaints => were thus accessories after the fact

those who further victimized the victims saying that the sex was ‘consensual’

==> very loud, clear message to every authority in the country, its ok to implement Shariah as an alternative to English law.

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Find also to read:

Titles of God beginning with the Aleph in Hebrew

Attributes to God, titles ascribed to Him or Names given to JHWH, the God of gods.

Patriarch Abraham, Muslims, Christians and the son of God

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Additional material of interest:

Shariah Law Dispute Goes to Court; Judge to Consider Arguments on Injunction of Ban in Okla

Shariah Is Incompatible with Liberty; Many Americans Still Don’t See the Threat of Islamic Law

Shariah’s Trojan Horse

Examining the Anti-Shariah Movement in America

Treasury Submits to Shariah

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Nearly six centuries before the advent of Muhammad, the aged prophet Simeon took the baby Jesus in his arms and said, “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed” (Luke 2:34-35). As it was then, so it is today. Each person’s eternal destiny is linked to his or her response, and relationship to, Jesus.
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The “Muhammad against Jesus” position seemed the most likely option for Muhammad, yet he did not choose it. Muhammad considered ridding the world of idol worship to be a major component of his message. He was pained by the idolatry of his kinsmen in Mecca, which he rightly rebuked. He ultimately made associating partners (Arabic, shirk) with the one true God, Allah, as the unpardonable sin in Islam (Sura 4:116).

The Islamic State claims to be regulated in strict accordance with Koranic instruction, and to follow the example given by Mohammed. This is not some Looney Tunes “misinterpretation” of Islamic scriptures – those who support Islamic State provide an abundance of Koranic quotations, and references to the Sunnah (the Islamic record of Mohammed’s life).

On the other hand, some who call themselves Muslims believe that participation in ethnic cleansing, slaughter of prisoners and mass rape is not the most appropriate way to emulate Mohammed’s example. This interpretation of Islamic scriptures is less literal, more contextualised and more nuanced.

In the absence of a religious authority – an Islamic Pope – to define a “correct” interpretation, I find it difficult to concede that one form of behaviour is any more – or less – Islamic than the other.

What part of “Islamic State” don’t they understand? (my.telegraph.co.uk)
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Those in the Middle East who wish to live under the Shariah (provided that this is the wish of the majority) are not the enemy. Those who wish to impose Islamic laws and customs upon non-Muslims are the enemy; and so are our elected leaders who pretend that this is somehow unconnected with Islamic belief.

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Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes, with reference to Obama’s similar comment made earlier in September, explained that, “In making this preposterous claim, Obama joins his two immediate predecessors in pronouncing on what is not Islamic. Bill Clinton called the Taliban treatment of women and children ‘a terrible perversion of Islam.’ George W. Bush deemed that 9/11 and other acts of violence against innocents ‘violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith.’”

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Scholars such as Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller and Daniel Pipes have warned for years of the Muslim Brotherhood’s doctrine of immigration, or “al-hijra,” as the long-term strategy to transform America into a different type of society – one that subjugates all other religions under Islam.Now, another man has stepped up to sound the alarm. And his credentials make him hard to ignore.Dr. Mark Christian, an obstetrician and former Egyptian Muslim with direct family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, is talking a lot these days about “stealth jihad.” He says it’s the Brotherhood’s way of exploiting liberal immigration policies while working relentlessly through various Islamic front groups to pressure government, education and religious institutions to make concessions to Islam.
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While America’s overall Muslim population is only 0.8 percent according to Pew, 0.6 percent according to the CIA World Factbook, and up to 2 percent according to other sources, the European experience shows that Islam does not need anywhere near a majority of the population to begin influencing a country’s laws and culture.

The largest Muslim population in Europe resides in France, where the CIA World Factbook estimates 5 to 10 percent of that country’s overall population claims faith in Allah. Pew Research puts the figure just under 6 percent and projects that it will continually balloon to 7 percent by 2020, to 8.5 percent by 2030, and that by 2050, nearly a third of the nation’s people will identify as Muslim.

And the picture is not much different in other European countries. Germany’s Muslim population, mostly from Turkey, is estimated at 5 percent, Belgium 6 percent, Austria 5.7 percent, the Netherlands 5.5 percent, Sweden 4.9 percent and the U.K. 4.6 percent. Almost all of these countries will have Muslim populations of 10 percent or more within 20 years, based on current birthrate

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The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight are called ‘hypocrites’ and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter.Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence, the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text. They are part of the eternal, unchanging word of Allah, and just as relevant or subjective as anything else in the Quran.The context of violent passages is more ambiguous than might be expected of a perfect book from a loving God, however this can work both ways. Most of today’s Muslims exercise a personal choice to interpret their holy book’s call to arms according to their own moral preconceptions about justifiable violence. Apologists cater to their preferences with tenuous arguments that gloss over historical fact and generally do not stand up to scrutiny. Still, it is important to note that the problem is not bad people, but bad ideology.

Unfortunately, there are very few verses of tolerance and peace to abrogate or even balance out the many that call for nonbelievers to be fought and subdued until they either accept humiliation, convert to Islam, or are killed. Muhammad’s own martial legacy – and that of his companions – along with the remarkable stress on violence found in the Quran have produced a trail of blood and tears across world history.

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Anti-Semitic feeling was “in the air” throughout the Western world. William Shakespeare wrote the prize example in popular culture: his comedy The Merchant of Venice. Martin Luther was more serious: he openly blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus Christ. (In so doing, he forgot that Jesus Himself said, “No one takes my life; I lay it down.”) Even James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, succumbed to an anti-Semitic mind-set. He ended his Annals of the World by describing the Jewish Wars of A.D. 70-73. “This was the end of Jewish affairs,” he wrote.But what put anti-Semitic feeling into the air? For that we must turn to the Bible.

Ariel speaks with the voice of a spirit medium (jwdoctrine.com)
Isaiah foretold a dramatic change in spiritual’s Jerusalem’s earthly counterparts for the times ahead : “From the ground you will speak”(Isaiah 29:4) Like Jerusalem of Isaiah’s days had been accustomed to pride itself on its strength and immunity of Godly judgment similarly the Watchtower has elevated itself to the sole channel of communication with God but future events are sure to overtake them .They will be greatly humbled and subdued. Its loud and lofty tone will change to mere whisper. It would use the suppressed language of fear and alarm as if it spoke from the dust, or in a shrill small voice, like a spirit medium or a necromancer of the dead communicated in ancient Israel with the spirits.

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theologians need to consider whether a “science of God” ultimately turns out to be anything other than science itself – or put more normatively, “science properly done.” In other words, as theologians try to fathom the mind of God, they are coming to terms with reality’s intelligibility, in the strict sense, which requires that we have minds that are designed not merely to make sense of our everyday environments (that is, the adaptive forms of intelligence that most “naturalistic” and “evolutionary” epistemologies try to explain) but more tellingly, the entire cosmos, the vast majority of which we have never empirically encountered, let alone inhabited. Of course, God would “always already” have access to the entirety of this extended realm. Theology’s task, then, put in today’s terms, is to “occupy God” – but that may mean abandoning conventional religion.

~~Defender of Faith~Guardian of Truth~~

by Sharia Watch

What is Shariah Law? To answer this question, one must understand that Shariah Law stems from the justification of the acts of physical and sexual violence of one man some 1400 years ago.

Mohammed proclaimed himself as the prophet of Allah, one of a pantheon of Gods worshipped in and around the Middle East at the time. It has been suggested that the pre-Islamic Allah was the Babylonian deity Ba’al, not the Hebrew Yahweh as suggested in the Quran. There is one huge difference between the Yahweh of Jewish and Christian literature and the Allah of Islamic literature; and that is that whilst Yahweh can and does defend his own holiness, Allah’s holiness (and therefore that of Mohammed’s) has to be avidly and violently defended by his followers.

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Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path

Posted on 2014/10/08 by Marcus Ampe

Saint Gabriel archangel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In our first article in the series on the Quran reading Muslims got to believe Allah revealed this prayer to Muhammad early in his career as a prophet (which began in the year 610 AD, when he received his first revelation from Allah through the angel Gabriel – a revelation that is now contained in the Qur’an’s 96th chapter) so that the Muslims would know how to pray.

In the 96 chapter verses 1-5 we are asked to “Proclaim!” or “read!” in the name of the Lord and Cherisher, Who created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood (hence the name Adam: the red blood), but also from the “black mud”, and Who is the is Most Bountiful, He Who taught (the use of) the pen (4), taught man that which he knew not.

In the Bible are the human beings created in God’s image. According to the Islam the Quran/Koran rejects such a similarity of the image between God and man explicitly.

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26 ASV)

“And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7 ASV)

“And also the {1} Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent. {1) Or [Victory]; Or [Glory]}” (1 Samuel 15:29 ASV)

“وقال الله نعمل الانسان على صورتنا كشبهنا.فيتسلطون على سمك البحر وعلى طير السماء وعلى البهائم وعلى كل الارض وعلى جميع الدبابات التي تدب على الارض.” (تكوين 1:26 Arabic)

“وجبل الرب الاله آدم ترابا من الارض.ونفخ في انفه نسمة حياة.فصار آدم نفسا حيّة.” (تكوين 2:7 Arabic)

“وايضا نصيح اسرائيل لا يكذب ولا يندم لانه ليس انسانا ليندم.” (1 صموئيل 15:29 Arabic)

Musa (Moses), the prophet who wrote down the Word of God over the beginning of time (Genesis) and proclaimed God’s Word – in a Persian miniature from the 15th century

Allah is presented as the Most Gracious, Most Merciful Who brought His Message to humankind. According to Muslim tradition it was revealed in a chain of messages starting to the Archangel Gabriel (Jibreel). Soon in the text we remarked that the Islamic community went into the same fault as many Christian denominations taking more attention to traditional human thoughts instead of keeping to the words of their Holy Scripture itself. As such we noticed that by “the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds” several Muslims created their worlds of demons and djinns or Gjinn-people, and like several Christians started to believe in a place of damnation being called “hell“. But from the Quran and the Bible we can only find two worlds: namely the world of the human beings (earth and waters) and the world of the celestial beings (heaven).

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِ نَفْسُهُ ۖ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ
And certainly We created man, and We know what his mind suggests to him, and We are nearer to him than his life-vein.(50:16)

الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ فِرَاشًا وَالسَّمَاءَ بِنَاءً وَأَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ رِزْقًا لَكُمْ ۖ فَلَا تَجْعَلُوا لِلَّهِ أَنْدَادًا وَأَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Who made the earth a resting place for you and the heaven a canopy and (Who) sends down rain from the cloud, then brings forth with it subsistence for you of the fruits; therefore do not set up rivals to Allah while you know.(2:22)

هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ اسْتَوَىٰ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَسَوَّاهُنَّ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ ۚ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ

He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth, and He directed Himself to the heaven, so He made them complete seven heavens, and He knows all things.(2:29)

إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَالْفُلْكِ الَّتِي تَجْرِي فِي الْبَحْرِ بِمَا يَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ وَمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِنْ مَاءٍ فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِنْ كُلِّ دَابَّةٍ وَتَصْرِيفِ الرِّيَاحِ وَالسَّحَابِ الْمُسَخَّرِ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ

Most surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of the night and the day, and the ships that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that Allah sends down from the cloud, then gives life with it to the earth after its death and spreads in it all (kinds of) animals, and the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between the heaven and the earth, there are signs for a people who understand.(2:164)

وَعِنْدَهُ مَفَاتِحُ الْغَيْبِ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ ۚ وَمَا تَسْقُطُ مِنْ وَرَقَةٍ إِلَّا يَعْلَمُهَا وَلَا حَبَّةٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتِ الْأَرْضِ وَلَا رَطْبٍ وَلَا يَابِسٍ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مُبِينٍ

And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures– none knows them but He; and He knows what is in the land and the sea, and there falls not a leaf but He knows it, nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything green nor dry but (it is all) in a clear book.(6:59)

اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَأَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ رِزْقًا لَكُمْ ۖ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْفُلْكَ لِتَجْرِيَ فِي الْبَحْرِ بِأَمْرِهِ ۖ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْأَنْهَارَ

Allah is He Who created the heavens and the earth and sent down water from the clouds, then brought forth with it fruits as a sustenance for you, and He has made the ships subservient to you, that they might run their course in the sea by His command, and He has made the rivers subservient to you.(14:32)

وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنِّي خَالِقٌ بَشَرًا مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ

And when your Lord said to the angels: Surely I am going to create a mortal of the essence of black mud fashioned in shape.(15:28)

The opening of the Quran, starting with the prayer:

1 Fatiha, or the Opening Chapter. In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
2 Praise be to Allah, The Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds;
3 Most Gracious, Most Merciful;
4 Master of the Day of Judgment.
5 Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek.
6 Show us the straight way,
7 The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, Those whose portion is not wrath, and who go not astray.

In certain translations is indicated that it is only to Him (Thee alone) to give worship and (Thee alone) to ask for help.

Shakir translates:

5 Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help.
6 Keep us on the right path.
7 The path of those upon whom Thou hast bestowed favors. Not the path of those upon whom Thy wrath is brought down, nor of those who go astray.

Ysufufali and other translaters give:

5 Thee do we worship, and Thine aid we seek.
6 Show us the straight way,
7 The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, those whose portion is not wrath, and who go not astray.

It is clear that to the Most Gracious, Most Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgement the Muslims do want to give praise. It is Him Who they do worship and Whose aid they seek. Normally, like they pray, to worship Him alone, and no imams or khomeinis they also say in their prayer they only ask Allah for help (for each and everything) (5).

001.006 اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
001.006 Show us the straight way,/ Guide us to the Straight Way

001.007 صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلا الضَّالِّينَ
001.007 The way of those on whom Thou hast bestowed Thy Grace, those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray.

In verse 7 the Muslims often add themselves:

The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace , not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger (such as the Jews), nor of those who went astray (such as the Christians).

We also hear Muslims speaking about Ṣirāṭ, Siraat, Serat, As-Sirāt

اهدنا الصراط المستقيم

Guide us to the straight path: — Abdel Haleem

Guide us along the straight way— — Ahmad Zaki

Guide us on the straight path, — Ali Quli Qarai

In the previous article we saw the opening prayer, in which one wants to give his gratitude to the Supreme Creator of heaven and earth. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful they call onto Him and say that He (Allah), the Lord of the Worlds, belongs all praise (2), which means that world also does not belong to imams or Khomeinis, who one really should not support, too, because the Muslims pray and claim that they only beg for help unto the Beneficent, the Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgment. (4-5).
Judgement belongs to the fifth pillar of iman (Imaan) [of the six pillars of Iman (faith)] in addition to the belief in the existence of Angels. The Muslim believes that Judgement Day will come at the time provided for. On this day Allah will judge between people and reward everybody for what he has done.
The Five Pillars of Islam and six pillars of Iman are the foundation of Islam.

It is up to Allah/God that they ask to be lead to the straight path. The path which according to them, that way what God would have them presented by whom He has bestowed favours – not that of those who earn His anger nor went astray.

The Maker and Sustainer of the world, the Creator of and Provider for man, the Active Force and Effective Power in nature are all one and the same, and that is known to be Allah or God. This is the Secret of all secrets and the Most Supreme of all beings. The Holy Qur’an claims to be the True Book of God, in which He says:

It is God Who has made the night for you, that you may rest therein, and the day to see. Verily God is full of Grace and Bounty to men. Yet most men give no thanks. Such is God, your Lord, the Creator of all things. There is no god but He; why then do you turn away from Him. Thus are turned away those who deny the Signs of God. It is God Who has made for you the earth as a resting place and the sky as a shelter, and has given you shape and made your shapes beautiful, and has provided for you sustenance of things good and pure; such is God your Lord. So glory to God, the Lord of the worlds! He is the Living (One); There is no god but He: Call upon Him, giving Him sincere devotion. Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds. (Qur’an, 40:61-65).

In the Bible we are warned we do have to seek the Most High and be ready before His Day of Judgement will come.

“Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.” (Zephaniah 2:3 ASV)

“And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word; for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?” (Joel 2:11 ASV)

“The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, [even] the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly.” (Zephaniah 1:14 ASV)

“to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;” (2 Thessalonians 2:2 ASV)

“Ask of me, and I will give [thee] the nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” (Psalms 2:8 ASV)

“And as for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time appointed.” (Daniel 11:27 ASV)

“And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.” (Matthew 10:22 ASV)

“And {1} this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole {2} world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come. {1) Or [these good tidings] 2) Gr [inhabited earth]}” (Matthew 24:14 ASV)

“Now these things happened unto them {1} by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. {1) Gr [by way of figure]}” (1 Corinthians 10:11 ASV)

“but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been {1} stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. {1) Or [stored with fire]}” (2 Peter 3:7 ASV)

“But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.” (1 Corinthians 5:13 ASV)

“[Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” (Hebrews 13:4 ASV)

“And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and [the time] to give their reward to thy {1} servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth. {1) Gr [bondservants]}” (Revelation 11:18 ASV)

“But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.” (Mark 13:32 ASV)

“inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge {1} the world in righteousness {2} by {3} the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. {1) Gr [the inhabited earth] 2) Gr [in] 3) Or [a man]}” (Acts 17:31 ASV)

“اطلبوا الرب يا جميع بائسي الارض الذين فعلوا حكمه.اطلبوا البرّ .اطلبوا التواضع.لعلكم تسترون في يوم سخط الرب” (صفنيا 2:3 Arabic)

“والرب يعطي صوته امام جيشه.ان عسكره كثير جدا.فان صانع قوله قوي لان يوم الرب عظيم ومخوف جدا فمن يطيقه” (يوئيل 2:11 Arabic)

“قريب يوم الرب العظيم قريب وسريع جدا.صوت يوم الرب.يصرخ حينئذ الجبار مرّا.” (صفنيا 1:14 Arabic)

“ان لا تتزعزعوا سريعا عن ذهنكم ولا ترتاعوا لا بروح ولا بكلمة ولا برسالة كانها منا اي ان يوم المسيح قد حضر.” (2 تسالونيكي 2:2 Arabic)

“(2:9) ‎تحطمهم بقضيب من حديد.مثل اناء خزّاف تكسّرهم” (مزامير 2:8 Arabic)

“وهذان الملكان قلبهما لفعل الشر ويتكلمان بالكذب على مائدة واحدة ولا ينجح لان الانتهاء بعد الى ميعاد.” (دانيال 11:27 Arabic)

“وتكونون مبغضين من الجميع من اجل اسمي.ولكن الذي يصبر الى المنتهى فهذا يخلص.” (متى 10:22 Arabic)

“ويكرز ببشارة الملكوت هذه في كل المسكونة شهادة لجميع الامم.ثم يأتي المنتهى” (متى 24:14 Arabic)

“فهذه الامور جميعها اصابتهم مثالا وكتبت لإنذارنا نحن الذين انتهت الينا اواخر الدهور.” (1 كورنثوس 10:11 Arabic)

“واما السموات والارض الكائنة الآن فهي مخزونة بتلك الكلمة عينها محفوظة للنار الى يوم الدين وهلاك الناس الفجار” (2 بطرس 3:7 Arabic)

“اما الذين من خارج فالله يدينهم.فاعزلوا الخبيث من بينكم” (1 كورنثوس 5:13 Arabic)

“ليكن الزواج مكرما عند كل واحد والمضجع غير نجس.واما العاهرون والزناة فسيدينهم الله.” (عبرانيين 13:4 Arabic)

“وغضبت الامم فأتى غضبك وزمان الاموات ليدانوا ولتعطى الاجرة لعبيدك الانبياء والقديسين والخائفين اسمك الصغار والكبار وليهلك الذين كانوا يهلكون الارض.” (رؤيا 11:18 Arabic)

“واما ذلك اليوم وتلك الساعة فلا يعلم بهما احد ولا الملائكة الذين في السماء ولا الابن الا الآب.” (مرقس 13:32 Arabic)

“(17:32) ولما سمعوا بالقيامة من الاموات كان البعض يستهزئون والبعض يقولون سنسمع منك عن هذا ايضا‎ .” (اعمال 17:31 Arabic)

Preparing for the Day of Judgement can be managed by seeking Him and by making sure you can find Him and by keeping His commandments. God has given His word to man as a guidebook and help. In the Bible we can find the answers to our questions and we can find sufficient data to ensure that we will be ready when the day of Jehovah comes. For this we have to find the right direction where to go to and have to take the right path on the (high)way to God’s Kingdom.

وَآتَيْنَاهُمَا الْكِتَابَ الْمُسْتَبِينَ

And We gave them both the Book that made (things) clear.(37:117)

وَهَدَيْنَاهُمَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ

And We guided them both on the right way.(37:118)

وَإِذَا تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْهِمْ آيَاتُنَا بَيِّنَاتٍ قَالُوا مَا هَٰذَا إِلَّا رَجُلٌ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يَصُدَّكُمْ عَمَّا كَانَ يَعْبُدُ آبَاؤُكُمْ وَقَالُوا مَا هَٰذَا إِلَّا إِفْكٌ مُفْتَرًى ۚ وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لِلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُبِينٌ

And when Our clear communications are recited to them, they say: This is naught but a man who desires to turn you away from that which your fathers worshipped. And they say: This is naught but a lie that is forged. And those who disbelieve say of the truth when it comes to them: This is only clear enchantment.(34:43)

وَمَا آتَيْنَاهُمْ مِنْ كُتُبٍ يَدْرُسُونَهَا ۖ وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْهِمْ قَبْلَكَ مِنْ نَذِيرٍ

And We have not given them any books which they read, nor did We send to them before you a warner.(34:44)

“Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, For his wrath {1} will soon be kindled. {2} Blessed are all they that take refuge in him. {1) Or [may] 2) Or [Happy]}” (Psalms 2:12 ASV)

“Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Psalms 16:11 ASV)

“NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.” (Psalms 119:105 ASV)

“But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18 ASV)

“And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth {1} the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. {1) Or [instruction]}” (Isaiah 2:3 ASV)

“and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not {1} turned out of the way, but rather be healed. {1) Or [put out of joint]}” (Hebrews 12:13 ASV)

“The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4 ASV)

“Show me thy ways, O Jehovah; Teach me thy paths.” (Psalms 25:4 ASV)

“Good and upright is Jehovah: Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.” (Psalms 25:8 ASV)

“For {1} the commandment is a lamp; And {2} the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are the way of life: {1) Or, their [commandment] 2) Or, their [teaching]}” (Proverbs 6:23 ASV)

“There is a way which {1} seemeth right unto a man, But the end thereof are the ways of death. {1) Or [is straight before]}” (Proverbs 16:25 ASV)

“Train up a child {1} in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it. {1) Heb [according to his way]}” (Proverbs 22:6 ASV)

“And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth {1} the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. {1) Or [instruction]}” (Isaiah 2:3 ASV)

“and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it; when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.” (Isaiah 30:21 ASV)

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.” (Isaiah 55:8 ASV)

“{1} For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it. {1) Many ancient authorities read [How narrow is the gate, etc]}” (Matthew 7:14 ASV)

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but {1} by me. {1) Or [through]}” (John 14:6 ASV)

“And they sing the song of Moses the {1} servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the {2} ages. {1) Gr [bondservant] 2) Many ancient authorities read [nations]; Jer 10:7}” (Revelation 15:3 ASV)

“(3:1) مزمور لداود حينما هرب من وجه ابشالوم ابنه‎ .‎يا رب ما اكثر مضايقي.كثيرون قائمون عليّ‎ .” (مزامير 2:12 Arabic)

“(17:1) صلاة لداود‎ .‎اسمع يا رب للحق.انصت الى صراخي اصغ الى صلاتي من شفتين بلا غش‎ .” (مزامير 16:11 Arabic)

“(119:106) ‎حلفت فأبره ان احفظ احكام برك‎ .” (مزامير 119:105 Arabic)

“اما سبيل الصديقين فكنور مشرق يتزايد وينير الى النهار الكامل.” (امثال 4:18 Arabic)

“وتسير شعوب كثيرة ويقولون هلم نصعد الى جبل الرب الى بيت اله يعقوب فيعلّمنا من طرقه ونسلك في سبله لانه من صهيون تخرج الشريعة ومن اورشليم كلمة الرب.” (اشعياء 2:3 Arabic)

“واصنعوا لارجلكم مسالك مستقيمة لكي لا يعتسف الاعرج بل بالحري يشفى.” (عبرانيين 12:13 Arabic)

“هو الصخر الكامل صنيعه.ان جميع سبله عدل.اله امانة لا جور فيه صديق وعادل هو” (تثنية 32:4 Arabic)

“(25:5) ‎دربني في حقك وعلمني.لانك انت اله خلاصي.اياك انتظرت اليوم كله‎ .” (مزامير 25:4 Arabic)

“(25:9) ‎يدرب الودعاء في الحق ويعلم الودعاء طرقه‎ .” (مزامير 25:8 Arabic)

“لان الوصية مصباح والشريعة نور وتوبيخات الادب طريق الحياة.” (امثال 6:23 Arabic)

“توجد طريق تظهر للانسان مستقيمة وعاقبتها طرق الموت.” (امثال 16:25 Arabic)

“ربّ الولد في طريقه فمتى شاخ ايضا لا يحيد عنه.” (امثال 22:6 Arabic)

“وتسير شعوب كثيرة ويقولون هلم نصعد الى جبل الرب الى بيت اله يعقوب فيعلّمنا من طرقه ونسلك في سبله لانه من صهيون تخرج الشريعة ومن اورشليم كلمة الرب.” (اشعياء 2:3 Arabic)

“واذناك تسمعان كلمة خلفك قائلة هذه هي الطريق اسلكوا فيها حينما تميلون الى اليمين وحينما تميلون الى اليسار.” (اشعياء 30:21 Arabic)

“لان افكاري ليست افكاركم ولا طرقكم طرقي يقول الرب.” (اشعياء 55:8 Arabic)

“ما اضيق الباب وأكرب الطريق الذي يؤدي الى الحياة.وقليلون هم الذين يجدونه” (متى 7:14 Arabic)

“قال له يسوع انا هو الطريق والحق والحياة.ليس احد يأتي الى الآب الا بي.” (يوحنا 14:6 Arabic)

“وهم يرتلون ترنيمة موسى عبد الله وترنيمة الخروف قائلين عظيمة وعجيبة هي اعمالك ايها الرب الاله القادر على كل شيء عادلة وحق هي طرقك يا ملك القديسين.” (رؤيا 15:3 Arabic)

Free choice to follow the Holy Scriptures or not; from Smithsonian :Folio from a Koran :9th-10th century :Abbasid dynasty :Ink and color on parchment; Egypt :Purchase, F1929.71 The verses are from sura (chapter) 22, entitled al-Hadj (Pilgrimage) and include a discussion of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Hadj is one of the five principal duties of every Muslim. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Each of us has to make their own choice, and have to do everything to stay on the right track. As human beings we are weak and it can and probably shall happen that we sometimes go wrong. Each time we shall have to adjust and should take care to come back on the right way aiming for the best what is laid in front of us. All people should know they are able to get salvation, and we should look forward to that time that the Word of God is preached all over the world, because than we know that the time is ripe to find the Kingdom of God, close to us.

“and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up unto the heavens.” (Ezra 9:6 ASV)

“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.” (Psalms 51:5 ASV)

“If thou, {1} Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? {1) Heb [Jah]}” (Psalms 130:3 ASV)

“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5 ASV)

“And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.” (Jeremiah 33:8 ASV)

“{1} let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins. {1) Some ancient authorities read [know ye]}” (James 5:20 ASV)

“For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;” (2 Peter 2:18 ASV)

“This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.” (Job 13:16 ASV)

“Upright men shall be astonished at this, And the innocent shall stir up himself against the godless.” (Job 17:8 ASV)

“For what is the hope of the godless, {1} though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul? {1) Or [when God cutteth him off, When he taketh etc]}” (Job 27:8 ASV)

“{1} Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth. {1) Or [Among]}” (Psalms 35:16 ASV)

“With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.” (Proverbs 11:9 ASV)

“Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.” (Isaiah 9:17 ASV)

“The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling hath seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?” (Isaiah 33:14 ASV)

“For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him; I hid [my face] and was wroth; and he went on {1} backsliding in the way of his heart. {1) Heb [turning away]}” (Isaiah 57:17 ASV)

“وقلت.اللهم اني اخجل واخزى من ان ارفع يا الهي وجهي نحوك لان ذنوبنا قد كثرت فوق رؤوسنا وآثامنا تعاظمت الى السماء.” (عزرا 9:6 Arabic)

“(51:6) ها قد سررت بالحق في الباطن ففي السريرة تعرّفني حكمة‎ .” (مزامير 51:5 Arabic)

“(130:4) ‎لان عندك المغفرة لكي يخاف منك‎ .” (مزامير 130:3 Arabic)

“وهو مجروح لاجل معاصينا مسحوق لاجل آثامنا تاديب سلامنا عليه وبحبره شفينا.” (اشعياء 53:5 Arabic)

“واطهرهم من كل اثمهم الذي اخطأوا به اليّ واغفر كل ذنوبهم التي اخطأوا بها اليّ والتي عصوا بها عليّ .” (ارميا 33:8 Arabic)

“فليعلم ان من رد خاطئا عن ضلال طريقه يخلّص نفسا من الموت ويستر كثرة من الخطاياٍ” (يعقوب 5:20 Arabic)

“لانهم اذ ينطقون بعظائم البطل يخدعون بشهوات الجسد في الدعارة من هرب قليلا من الذين يسيرون في الضلال” (2 بطرس 2:18 Arabic)

“فهذا يعود الى خلاصي ان الفاجر لا يأتي قدامه.” (ايوب 13:16 Arabic)

“يتعجب المستقيمون من هذا والبريء ينتهض على الفاجر.” (ايوب 17:8 Arabic)

“لانه ما هو رجاء الفاجر عندما يقطعه عندما يسلب الله نفسه.” (ايوب 27:8 Arabic)

“(35:17) يا رب الى متى تنظر.استرد نفسي من تهلكاتهم وحيدتي من الاشبال‎ .” (مزامير 35:16 Arabic)

“بالفم يخرب المنافق صاحبه وبالمعرفة ينجو الصدّيقون.” (امثال 11:9 Arabic)

“لاجل ذلك لا يفرح السيد بفتيانه ولا يرحم يتاماه وارامله لان كل واحد منهم منافق وفاعل شر.وكل فم متكلم بالحماقة.مع كل هذا لم يرتد غضبه بل يده ممدودة بعد” (اشعياء 9:17 Arabic)

“ارتعب في صهيون الخطاة.اخذت الرعدة المنافقين.من منا يسكن في نار آكلة.من منا يسكن في وقائد ابدية.” (اشعياء 33:14 Arabic)

“من اجل اثم مكسبه غضبت وضربته.استترت وغضبت فذهب عاصيا في طريق قلبه.” (اشعياء 57:17 Arabic)

Those upon whom God’s wrath rests are those who do not want to know Him and do not want to keep His commandments, those who reject the Truth or want to hide it. The ‘erring’ are those who have been misled and who are inconsiderate or choosing human traditions above the Laws of God.

Let us all look for the Most High God and pray:

اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ
صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلا الضَّالِّينَ

Dear God,
Show us or Guide us to the straight way
The way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, those whose (portion) is not wrath, and who go not astray.

Preceding article: Al-Fatiha [The Opening/De Opening] Süra 1:1-3 In the name of Allah the Merciful Lord Of The Creation

Find the introduction to this series:

Public not informed enough about Jihad terrorism in Belgium

Quran versus older Holy Writings of Divine Creator

Notes:

* Five Pillars of Islam (arkān al-Islām أركان الإسلام; also arkān al-dīn أركان الدين “pillars of the religion“) are five basic acts in Islam, considered mandatory by believers and are the foundation of Muslim life:

Shahadah: declaring there is no god except God, and Muhammad is God’s Messenger
Salat: ritual prayer five times a day
Zakat: giving 2.5% of one’s savings to the poor and needy
Sawm: fasting and self-control during the holy month of Ramadan
Hajj: pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a lifetime^[5]^[6] if one is able

** Belief in the six articles of faith, known as arkān al-īmān: Iman (Arabic: الإيمان‎) in Islamic theology denotes a believer’s faith in the metaphysical aspects of Islam.

Additional reading:

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Benefits of Fasting in Ramadan (islambestreligion.wordpress.com)
Fasting has been made obligatory (Fardh) By Allah in Ramadan and every Muslim needs to observe entire month’s fasts. Allah, the All Powerful and Creator of Universe say in Holy Quran
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knowing the benefits of good deeds will increase our Imaan and actually it is part of the Imaan, as we will get to know what Allah is going give us on this particular deed in this world and hereafter. This helps us in performing the good deeds steadfastly and consistently.
Concept of Revivalist [Mujaddid] in Islam (madinasharif.wordpress.com)
Commenting on the authenticity of the above Hadith Shareef, Allama Imam Isma’eel Haqqee records in his marginal notes of Siraj al-Muneer Sharh Jame’h al-Sagheer:

“My Shaykh said that there is a consensus of the Hadith Masters that this Hadith is Sahih.”

Amongst the later Hadith Masters that verified this Hadith Shareef as Sahih are Imam Allama Abul-Fadl Iraqee and Imam Allama ibn Hajr and amongst the predecessor Masters, Imam Hakim author of Sahih al-Mustadrak and Imam Bayhaqee author of al-Mudkhal.
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when there comes a period in which there is a shortage of knowledge and a deterioration in following of the Sunnah; when there is an increase in false innovations and ignorance; then Almighty Allah will send a person at the beginning or end of every century who will show the difference between Sunnah and Bid’at. He will refute and destroy false innovations and will fear none but Almighty Allah. He will very bravely and sincerely hoist the flag of Deen-e-Muhammadi (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam). Such a person is known as a “Mujaddid” (Reviver) of Deen.

Allah loves (1) the kind good doers (safaafromcaeg.wordpress.com)
“That which is lawful is clear and
That which is unlawful is clear, and
Between the two of them are doubtful matters about which many people do not know.
Thus,
• He who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honor, but
• He who falls into doubtful matters [eventually] falls into that which is unlawful,
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The best Quotes (127) Niyyah = free will“Actions are (judged) by motives (Niyyah, which is the intended and predetermined free will),
Therefore, each man will have what he intended.
Hajj Round The Ka’bah Craft (greenbirdbooks.com)
Hajj is the great pilgrimage made by Muslims which includes walking around the special house named the Ka’bah. Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam and all Muslims if they are able to make this great journey once in a lifetime. This pillar is observed during the month of Thul-Hijjah
Lessons of festival of ram sacrifice (vanguardngr.com)
Yesterday specifically, pilgrims observing the core of the worship of Hajj gathered at the plains of Mount of ‘Arafah, outside Makkah where they spent their time totally in worship and proceeded from Arafah to Muzdalifah to offer prayers and cast seven stones at the symbols of Satan and other devotional course.
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it shows the spiritual committment to the covenant with Allah and absolute submission to His will at all times, in times of pain and joy. Although, the solemn pronouncement of Allah’s name over the sacrifice is an essential part of the rite, Allah does not take delight in flesh and blood, rather, it is a symbol of thanksgiving to Allah by sharing meat with fellow humans.

The Feast of Sacrifice: What is Eid Al-Adha? (tnnegypt.com)
‘Eid’ is an Arabic word referring to a celebration that is repeated annually.There are two great ‘Eid’ festivals in Islam, ‘Eid Al-Adha’ – Festival of Sacrifice, which occurs on the tenth day of the last month of the Muslim year ‘Thul Hijjah’ and coincides with the last day of the Hajj pilgrimage.‘Eid Al-Fitr’ – Festival of Breaking the Fast occurs on the first day of the month of ‘Shawwal’ following the month of ‘Ramadan’.

However, the Festival of Sacrifice is also regarded as the ‘Eid Al-Kabeer’ – the Great Festival, while the other is known as ‘Eid Al-Sagheer’ – the Small Festival.
Humbleness in Prayer (jamkarani.wordpress.com)
20ـ رسولُ اللهِ‏ِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ): لا صَلاةَ لِمَن لا يَتَخَشَّعُ في صلاتِهِ.

20- The Prophet (S) said; ‘The prayer of one who does not humble himself in his prayer does not count.’[al-Firdaws, v. 5, p. 195, no. 7935]

21ـ رسولُ اللهِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) ـ لَمّا سُئلَ عنِ الخُشوعِ ـ: التَّواضُعُ في الصَّلاةِ، وأن‏ يُقبِلَ العَبدُ بقَلبِهِ كُلِّهِ على رَبِّهِ.

21- The Prophet (S), when he was asked about humbleness in prayer, said; ‘It is to abase oneself in the prayer, and for the servant to come to his Lord wholeheartedly.’[Da`aim al-Islam, v. 1, p. 158]
The Excellence of Du’a [The Essence of Worship] (madinasharif.wordpress.com)
Du‘a is the most powerful weapon of a believer. It can change fate, while no action of ours ever do. It is the essence of ‘Ibadah or worship. With it we can never fail; without it we can never succeed. With all the suffering and disasters Muslims are facing in various parts of the world, the question of Du‘a can be directed to all of us today.
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Sayyiduna Rasoolullah SallAllaho Alaihi wa Sallam states that Almighty Allah says:

أنا عندَ ظنِّ عبدي بي

I am with the supposition of My servant. [Recorded in Bukhari (Hadith 7239), Muslim, Tirmidi, Nisa’i and Ibn Maja on the authority of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah]

This means that as a servant imagines or has an opinion concerning Allah, the Merciful Lord accordingly reacts with him. Knowledge and Qudrat is with everything but there is a special proximity of mercy with those who make Du’a to Him. What bigger mercy can a servant ask for than being blessed with the Divine Proximity of the Sublime Lord? Thousands of acceptances and millions of desires and intentions may be sacrificed on such Divine Proximity!
The Prayer (jamkarani.wordpress.com)
ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): الصَّلاةُ تَستَنزِلُ الرَّحمَةَ .

3- Imam Ali (A) said; ‘Prayer elicits the descent of divine mercy.’[Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2214]

4ـ الإمامُ عليٌّ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): كانَ رسولُ اللّه‏ِ (صَلَّيَ اللهُ عَلَيهِ وَ آلِهِ) لا يُؤثِرُ على الصَّلاةِ عَشاءً ولا غَيرَهُ، وكانَ إذا دَخَلَ وَقتُها كأنّهُ لا يَعرِفُ أهلاً ولا حَمِيماً.

4- Imam Ali (A) narrated; ‘The Prophet (S) never put anything before his prayer, neither his dinner nor anything else. When the time for prayer would set in, it was as if he knew neither family nor close friend.’[Tanbih al-Khawatir, v. 2, p. 87]
With what do you direct the student and the beginning seeker of knowledge with? – By: Shaykh Saalih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan (salaf-us-saalih.com)
I say, and with Allāh is the success, without doubt seeking knowledge is an important affair. Allāh جل وعلا says: “Know! That none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh, and ask for forgiveness of your sins and for the male and female believers” (47:19)Imām al-Bukhārī (May Allāh have mercy on him) said in his chapter “Knowledge proceeds speech and action” then he mentioned this verse.This is because if actions are not based upon knowledge, founded upon knowledge, then it is misguidance and tiring without benefit.Because the affair is like this it’s an obligation upon the Muslim to seek knowledge.

Al-Fatiha [De Opening] Surah 1: 4-7 Barmhartige Heer van de Schepping om ons de juiste weg te tonen

Posted on 2014/10/08 by Marcus Ampe

Icoon van de aartsengel Gabriël met scepter.

In ons eerste artikel in de reeks over de Koran lezing hebben wij gezien hoe moslims moeten geloven dat Allah dit gebed openbaarde aan Mohammed of Muhammad, in het begin van zijn carrière als een profeet (die in het jaar 610 begon, toen hij zijn eerste openbaring van Allah via de engel Gabriël ontving – een openbaring die nu is opgenomen in hoofdstuk 96 van de Koran), zodat de moslims zouden weten hoe te bidden.

Miniatuur van Mohammed die de Zwarte Steen in de Kaaba opnieuw wFPhoto credit: Wikipedia)

Maar wij hebben ook aangegeven in een inleidend artikel dat de moslim gelooft in de Profeten die vanaf de schepping van de aarde naar de mensheid gezonden zijn, of hun namen bekend zijn of niet. Naast de profeet Mohammed nemen zij ook o.a. Adam, Noeh (Noah/Noë), Ibrahim (Abraham), Moesa/Musa (Mozes), Iesa (Jeshua/Jezus/Jesus) en velen anderen als profeten. Allah heeft enkele Profeten Boeken gegeven met daarin het woord van Allah. De moslim dient ook in deze Boeken te geloven, zoals ze in beginsel neergezonden zijn door Allah, volgens de Moslims. Enkele Boeken zijn bekend bij ons, zoals de Qoran/Quran of Koran, Indjiel/Indjil (Evangeliën), Taurat (Torah/Thora), maar de moslim gelooft ook dat er Boeken zijn neergezonden door Allah die niet (meer) bekend zijn bij de mensen.

Musa (Mozes), de profeet die het Woord van God over het Begin der tijden (Genesis) optekende en Gods Woord verkondigde – op een Perzisch miniatuur uit de 15e eeuw

In het 96ste hoofdstuk van de Koran, verzen 1-5 worden we gevraagd om te “Verkondigen!” of om te “lezen!” in de naam van de Heer en Steller of Maker, de Volbrenger, Die de mens heeft geschapen uit (louter) een “klonter bloed” (vandaar de naam Adam: het rode bloed), maar ook van de klei of “zwarte aarde (modder)” (15:28), en Wie de Meest Eerbiedwaardige is Die (het gebruik van) de pen leerde (4), en de mens datgene leerde wat hij niet wist.

In de Bijbel wordt de mens geschapen naar Gods evenbeeld. Volgens de islamieten wijst de Koran deze gelijkenis tussen God en mens uitdrukkelijk van de hand.

“God sprak: ‘Nu gaan Wij de mens maken, als beeld van Ons, op Ons gelijkend; hij zal heersen over de vissen van de zee, over de vogels van de lucht, over de tamme dieren, over alle wilde beesten en over al het gedierte dat over de grond kruipt.’” (Genesis 1:26 WV78)

“Toen boetseerde Jahwe God de mens uit stof, van de aarde genomen, en Hij blies hem de levensadem in de neus: zo werd de mens een levend wezen.” (Genesis 2:7 WV78)

“En bedenk wel: de Heerlijkheid van Israel liegt niet en kent geen berouw; Hij is immers geen mens dat hij terug zou komen op een besluit!’” (1 Samuël 15:29 WV78)

“وقال الله نعمل الانسان على صورتنا كشبهنا.فيتسلطون على سمك البحر وعلى طير السماء وعلى البهائم وعلى كل الارض وعلى جميع الدبابات التي تدب على الارض.” (تكوين 1:26 Arabic)

“وجبل الرب الاله آدم ترابا من الارض.ونفخ في انفه نسمة حياة.فصار آدم نفسا حيّة.” (تكوين 2:7 Arabic)

“وايضا نصيح اسرائيل لا يكذب ولا يندم لانه ليس انسانا ليندم.” (1 صموئيل 15:29 Arabic)

Allah wordt gepresenteerd als de Barmhartige, de Genadevolle Die Zijn boodschap aan de mensheid bracht. Volgens de islamitische overlevering werd Zijn Boodschap geopenbaard in een “keten van boodschappen”, te beginnen met de aartsengel Gabriël (Djibriel). In de voorgaande bespreking merkten wij al op dat de islamitische gemeenschap in dezelfde fout ging als veel christelijke denominaties, die meer aandacht aan de traditionele menselijke gedachten schonken, in plaats van zich te houden aan de woorden van de Heilige Schrift zelf zoals zij er in voorkwamen. Als zodanig hebben we gemerkt dat door “de Liefhebbende God en Onderhouder van de wereld” een aantal moslims hun wereld van demonen en djinns of Gjinn-mensen creëerden, en net als een aantal christenen begonnen te geloven in een plaats van verdoemenis die “hel” wordt genoemd. Maar in de koran en de bijbel kunnen we alleen twee werelden vinden : namelijk de wereld van de mens (de aarde en waters) en de wereld van de hemelse wezens (de hemel).

وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا الْإِنْسَانَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِ نَفْسُهُ ۖ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ

Wij schiepen den mensch en weten wat zijne ziel hem influistert, en wij zijn hem nader dan zijne strotader.(50:16)

الَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْأَرْضَ فِرَاشًا وَالسَّمَاءَ بِنَاءً وَأَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ رِزْقًا لَكُمْ ۖ فَلَا تَجْعَلُوا لِلَّهِ أَنْدَادًا وَأَنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Hij heeft u de aarde tot een tapijt en den hemel tot een overwelfsel gegeven. Hij laat het water van den hemel stroomen, om vruchten tot uw onderhoud voort te brengen. Stel dus geen gelijke naast God, tegen beter weten aan.(2:22)

هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ لَكُمْ مَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ اسْتَوَىٰ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ فَسَوَّاهُنَّ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ ۚ وَهُوَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ

Hij is het, die alles op de aarde voor u geschapen heeft, daarna den hemel uitbreidde en dien tot zeven hemelen maakte; Hij, de alwetende.”(2:29)

إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَالْفُلْكِ الَّتِي تَجْرِي فِي الْبَحْرِ بِمَا يَنْفَعُ النَّاسَ وَمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِنْ مَاءٍ فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِنْ كُلِّ دَابَّةٍ وَتَصْرِيفِ الرِّيَاحِ وَالسَّحَابِ الْمُسَخَّرِ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَآيَاتٍ لِقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ

In de schepping van hemel en aarde, en de wisseling van nacht en dag; in het schip dat op de zee zeilt, met hetgeen nuttig voor de menschen is, en in het water dat God van den hemel doet stroomen, om de in den nood verkeerende aarde te doen herleven, waarop hij de verschillende diersoorten verspreidt; in de verandering der winden, en de beweging der wolken, tot het verrichten van den dienst tusschen hemel en aarde bestemd, zijn wonderen voor nadenkende menschen gelegen.(2:164)

وَعِنْدَهُ مَفَاتِحُ الْغَيْبِ لَا يَعْلَمُهَا إِلَّا هُوَ ۚ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ ۚ وَمَا تَسْقُطُ مِنْ وَرَقَةٍ إِلَّا يَعْلَمُهَا وَلَا حَبَّةٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتِ الْأَرْضِ وَلَا رَطْبٍ وَلَا يَابِسٍ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مُبِينٍ

Hij bezit de sleutels der geheimen; niemand kent die buiten hem; hij weet wat op het droge land en in de zee is; er valt geen blad af, of hij weet het; nergens is een eenvoudige zaadkorrel in de duistere gedeelten der aarde, nergens een groen of verdord spruitje, dat niet in het duidelijke boek is opgeschreven.(6:59)

اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَأَنْزَلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً فَأَخْرَجَ بِهِ مِنَ الثَّمَرَاتِ رِزْقًا لَكُمْ ۖ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْفُلْكَ لِتَجْرِيَ فِي الْبَحْرِ بِأَمْرِهِ ۖ وَسَخَّرَ لَكُمُ الْأَنْهَارَ

God is het die de hemelen en de aarde heeft geschapen en het water van den hemel doet nederdalen, door middel van hetwelk hij vruchten voor uw onderhoud voortbrengt; en door zijn bevel noodzaakt hij de schepen voor uwen dienst op zee te zeilen; ook dwingt hij de rivieren u cijnsbaar te zijn:(14:32)

وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنِّي خَالِقٌ بَشَرًا مِنْ صَلْصَالٍ مِنْ حَمَإٍ مَسْنُونٍ

En gedenk, toen de Heer tot de engelen zeide: Waarlijk, ik heb den mensch geschapen van gedroogde klei, van zwart slijk, in een vorm gebracht.(15:28)

In het vorige artikel zagen wij de opening van het gebed, waarin men erkenning wil geven van zijn erkentelijkheid aan de Allerhoogste Schepper van hemel en aarde. In naam van Allah, de Barmhartige, de Genadevolle roept men Hem aan en zegt men dat Hij (Allah), de Heer der Werelden, alle lof toebehoort (2) zij Allah, wat inhoudt dat die wereld dan ook niet toebehoort aan imams/imaans of khomeinis, op wie men ook eigenlijk niet moet steunen, want de Moslims bidden en beweren dat zij alleen tot de Barmhartige, de Genadevolle, Meester van de Dag des Oordeels (vandaar ook Dag van Jehovah) smeken om hulp. (4-5).

De Dag des Oordeels of laatste oordeel behoort tot de vijfde zuil van imaan [van de zes zuilen van imaan (geloof) ] naast het geloof in het bestaan van de Engelen. De moslim gelooft dat de Dag des Oordeels zal aanbreken op het daarvoor vastgestelde tijdstip. Op deze dag zal Allah oordelen tussen de mensen en iedereen belonen voor wat hij gedaan heeft. De vijf zuilen van islam* en zes zuilen van imaan** (al iman) vormen het fundament van de Islam.

Iedereen in de wereld wordt gewaarschuwd om God te zoeken en zich klaar te maken voor de dag van het oordeel, voor het te laat is.

“Zoekt Jahwe, gij allen, ootmoedigen van het land, die zijn geboden naleeft; zoekt de gerechtigheid, zoekt de ootmoed! Dan vindt gij misschien een schuilplaats op de dag van de toorn van Jahwe. de vijand in het westen” (Sefanja 2:3 WV78)“Jahwe, aan de spits van zijn leger, verheft zijn stem; ja, zeer talrijk is zijn leger, ja, machtig is hij die zijn bevel ten uitvoer brengt. Ja, groot is de dag van Jahwe en zeer te duchten: wie zal hem doorstaan?” (Joël 2:11 WV78)“Nabij is de grote dag van Jahwe, hij is nabij en nadert snel. Hoor, hoe bitter hij is, de dag van Jahwe: dan heft de held zijn strijdkreet aan.” (Sefanja 1:14 WV78)

“niet zo gauw uw bezinning te verliezen en u niet te laten opschrikken door profetieen, uitspraken of brieven die van ons afkomstig zouden zijn, en die beweren dat de dag van de Heer is aangebroken.” (2 Thessalonicen 2:2 WV78)

“Vraag het Mij slechts en Ik geef volkeren u tot een erfdeel, u tot een eigen bezit de aarde tot aan haar randen.” (Psalmen 2:8 WV78)

“Hoewel beide koningen aan dezelfde tafel plaats nemen, voeren ze jegens elkaar kwaad in het schild en trachten ze elkaar te misleiden, maar zonder resultaat, want het einde komt pas op de vastgestelde tijd.” (Daniël 11:27 WV78)

“Ge zult een voorwerp van haat zijn voor allen omwille van mijn Naam. Wie echter ten einde toe volhardt, hij zal gered worden.” (Mattheüs 10:22 WV78)

“De Blijde Boodschap van het Koninkrijk zal over heel de wereld verkondigd worden tot getuigenis voor alle volkeren en dan zal het einde komen.” (Mattheüs 24:14 WV78)

“Wat hun overkwam had een diepe zin en het werd te boek gesteld als een waarschuwing voor ons, tot wie het einde der tijden gekomen is.” (1 Corinthiërs 10:11 WV78)

“Maar de hemel en de aarde van nu zijn door hetzelfde woord opgespaard voor het vuur en bewaard voor de dag van het oordeel en de ondergang der goddelozen.” (2 Petrus 3:7 WV78)

“Over de anderen zal God wel oordelen. Verwijdert de boosdoener uit uw midden.” (1 Corinthiërs 5:13 WV78)

“Het huwelijk is iets kostbaars; laten we het allen in ere houden en de trouw respecteren. Gods oordeel zal komen over ontuchtigen en echtbrekers.” (Hebreeën 13:4 WV78)

“De volkeren waren in toorn ontstoken, maar uw toorn is gekomen en de tijd om de doden te oordelen en om het loon te geven aan uw dienstknechten, de profeten, en de heiligen en hun die uw naam vrezen, kleinen en groten, en om te verderven die de aarde verderven.’” (Openbaring 11:18 WV78)

“Van die dag of dat uur weet niemand af, zelfs niet de engelen in de hemel, zelfs niet de Zoon, maar de Vader alleen.” (Markus 13:32 WV78)

“Hij heeft immers een dag vastgesteld, waarop Hij de wereld naar rechtvaardigheid gaat oordelen door een man die Hij daartoe heeft bestemd. Aan allen gaf Hij het bewijs daarvan door Hem uit de doden te doen opstaan.’” (Handelingen 17:31 WV78)

“اطلبوا الرب يا جميع بائسي الارض الذين فعلوا حكمه.اطلبوا البرّ .اطلبوا التواضع.لعلكم تسترون في يوم سخط الرب” (صفنيا 2:3 Arabic)“والرب يعطي صوته امام جيشه.ان عسكره كثير جدا.فان صانع قوله قوي لان يوم الرب عظيم ومخوف جدا فمن يطيقه” (يوئيل 2:11 Arabic)“قريب يوم الرب العظيم قريب وسريع جدا.صوت يوم الرب.يصرخ حينئذ الجبار مرّا.” (صفنيا 1:14 Arabic)

“ان لا تتزعزعوا سريعا عن ذهنكم ولا ترتاعوا لا بروح ولا بكلمة ولا برسالة كانها منا اي ان يوم المسيح قد حضر.” (2 تسالونيكي 2:2 Arabic)

“(2:9) ‎تحطمهم بقضيب من حديد.مثل اناء خزّاف تكسّرهم” (مزامير 2:8 Arabic)

“وهذان الملكان قلبهما لفعل الشر ويتكلمان بالكذب على مائدة واحدة ولا ينجح لان الانتهاء بعد الى ميعاد.” (دانيال 11:27 Arabic)

“وتكونون مبغضين من الجميع من اجل اسمي.ولكن الذي يصبر الى المنتهى فهذا يخلص.” (متى 10:22 Arabic)

“ويكرز ببشارة الملكوت هذه في كل المسكونة شهادة لجميع الامم.ثم يأتي المنتهى” (متى 24:14 Arabic)

“فهذه الامور جميعها اصابتهم مثالا وكتبت لإنذارنا نحن الذين انتهت الينا اواخر الدهور.” (1 كورنثوس 10:11 Arabic)

“واما السموات والارض الكائنة الآن فهي مخزونة بتلك الكلمة عينها محفوظة للنار الى يوم الدين وهلاك الناس الفجار” (2 بطرس 3:7 Arabic)

“اما الذين من خارج فالله يدينهم.فاعزلوا الخبيث من بينكم” (1 كورنثوس 5:13 Arabic)

“ليكن الزواج مكرما عند كل واحد والمضجع غير نجس.واما العاهرون والزناة فسيدينهم الله.” (عبرانيين 13:4 Arabic)

“وغضبت الامم فأتى غضبك وزمان الاموات ليدانوا ولتعطى الاجرة لعبيدك الانبياء والقديسين والخائفين اسمك الصغار والكبار وليهلك الذين كانوا يهلكون الارض.” (رؤيا 11:18 Arabic)

“واما ذلك اليوم وتلك الساعة فلا يعلم بهما احد ولا الملائكة الذين في السماء ولا الابن الا الآب.” (مرقس 13:32 Arabic)

“(17:32) ولما سمعوا بالقيامة من الاموات كان البعض يستهزئون والبعض يقولون سنسمع منك عن هذا ايضا‎ .” (اعمال 17:31 Arabic)

Het voorbereiden op de Dag des Oordeels kan gescheiden door God te zoeken, Hem te vinden en Zijn geboden te onderhouden. God heeft Zijn Woord aan de mensen gegeven als een Leidraad en Gids. In de Bijbel kunnen wij de antwoorden op onze vragen vinden en kunnen wij voldoende gegevens vinden om er voor te zorgen dat wij klaar zullen zijn als de Dag van Jehovah aanbreekt.

Het is aan Allah/God dat de Islamieten vragen om hen te leiden op het rechte pad. Het pad of juiste weg, wat volgens hen ook die weg is welke God voorgelegd zou hebben aan hen wie Gij gunsten heeft geschonken – niet dat van hen, op wie toorn is nedergedaald, noch dat der dwalenden.

‘Īyāka Na`budu Wa ‘Īyāka Nasta`īnu	[1.5] U alleen aanbidden wij en U alleen smeken wij om hulp.	إِيّ‍‍َ‍اكَ نَعْبُدُ‌ ‌وَ‌إِيّ‍‍َ‍اكَ نَسْتَع‍‍ِ‍ي‍‍نُ
Ahdinā Aş–Şirāţa Al-Mustaqīma	[1.6] Leid ons op het rechte pad,	اهْدِنَا‌ ‌ال‍‍‍صِّ‍‍رَ‍‌اطَ ‌الْمُسْتَ‍‍قِ‍‍‍ي‍‍مَ
Şirāţa Al-Ladhīna ‘An`amta `Alayhim Ghayri Al-Maghđūbi `Alayhim Wa Lā Ađ-Đāllīna	[1.7] Het pad dergenen, aan wie Gij gunsten hebt geschonken – niet dat van hen, op wie toorn is nedergedaald, noch dat der dwalenden.	صِ‍‍رَ‍‌اطَ ‌الَّذ‍ِ‍ي‍‍نَ ‌أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَ‍‍يْ‍‍ر‍ِ‍‌ ‌الْمَ‍‍غْ‍‍‍ضُ‍‍‍وبِ عَلَيْهِمْ ‌وَلاَ‌ ‌ال‍‍‍ضَّ‍‍‍الّ‍‍ِ‍ي‍‍نَ

Folio van een Koran: 9de-10de eeuw: Abbasiden dynastie: Inkt en kleur op perkament. De verzen uit soera (hoofdstuk) 22, getiteld al-Hadj (bedevaart) en omvatten een bespreking van de bedevaart naar Mekka. De Hadj is een van de vijf belangrijkste plichten van elke moslim. – Uit het Smithsonian (Foto credit: Wikipedia)

1 In de naam van Allah, de Erbarmer, de Meest Barmhartige. (1) Alle lof zij Allah, de Heer der Werelden. (2) De Erbarmer, de Meest Barmhartige. (3) De Heerser op de Dag des Oordeels. (4) U alleen aanbidden wij en U alleen vragen wij om hulp. (5) Leid ons op het rechte Pad. (6) Het Pad van degenen aan wie U gunsten hebt geschonken, niet van degenen op wie de toorn rust en niet dat van de dwalenden. (7)

Moslims hoor je ook wel spreken over Ṣirāṭ, Siraat, Serat

Guide us to the straight path: — Abdel Haleem

Guide us along the straight way— — Ahmad Zaki

Guide us on the straight path, — Ali Quli Qarai

God heeft Zijn Woord aan de wereld gegeven, dat als Leidraad en Gids tot Hulp kan zijn om dichter bij God te komen en toegang te verkrijgen tot het Koninkrijk van God. Het komt er op aan om dat pad, of weg te kunnen vinden. Elkeen is persoonlijk verantwoordelijk voor de richting die zij willen inslaan. Hiertoe moeten wij de juiste keuze maken en de juiste weg inslaan maar ook kunnen volharden in het volgen van dat juiste pad.

Wa ‘Ātaynāhumā Al-Kitāba Al-Mustabīna	[37.117] En Wij gaven hun het duidelijke boek.	وَ‌آتَيْنَاهُمَا‌ ‌الْكِت‍‍َ‍ابَ ‌الْمُسْتَب‍‍ِ‍ي‍‍نَ
Wa Hadaynāhumā Aş–Şirāţa Al-Mustaqīma	[37.118] En leidden hen op het rechte pad.	وَهَدَيْنَاهُمَا‌ ‌ال‍‍‍صِّ‍‍رَ‍‌اطَ ‌الْمُسْتَ‍‍قِ‍‍‍ي‍‍مَ

وَآتَيْنَاهُمَا الْكِتَابَ الْمُسْتَبِينَ

Wij gaven hun het duidelijke boek der wet.(37:117)

وَهَدَيْنَاهُمَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ

Wij leidden hen op den rechten weg.(37:118)

وَقَالَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَا تَأْتِينَا السَّاعَةُ ۖ قُلْ بَلَىٰ وَرَبِّي لَتَأْتِيَنَّكُمْ عَالِمِ الْغَيْبِ ۖ لَا يَعْزُبُ عَنْهُ مِثْقَالُ ذَرَّةٍ فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَلَا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا أَصْغَرُ مِنْ ذَٰلِكَ وَلَا أَكْبَرُ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مُبِينٍ

De ongeloovigen zeggen: Het uur des oordeels zal tot ons niet komen. Antwoord: Ja! bij mijn Heer, het zal zekerlijk tot u komen: hij is het die de verborgen geheimen kent, zelfs tot het gewicht van een atoom, hetzij zich dit in den hemel of op aarde bevindt; ieder ding hetzij het kleiner of grooter dan dit mocht zijn, is hem bekend, en het is opgeschreven in het duidelijke boek zijner besluiten.(34:3)

لِيَجْزِيَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ لَهُمْ مَغْفِرَةٌ وَرِزْقٌ كَرِيمٌ

Opdat hij hen moge beloonen, die geloofd en rechtvaardigheid uitgeoefend hebben; zij zullen vergiffenis en eene eervolle belooning ontvangen.(34:4)

“en weest de zoon onderdanig, opdat hij niet zich vertoornt en gij omkomen zoudt op uw weg. Want licht kan ontbranden zijn gramschap! Gelukkig te prijzen dan allen die toevlucht vinden bij Hem!” (Psalmen 2:12 WV78)

“Gij leert mij wat de weg is ten leven, de volheid der vreugde waar Gij zijt: heerlijkheid, in uw schutse, voor immer.” (Psalmen 16:11 WV78)

“Een lamp voor mijn voet is uw woord, een schijnend licht op mijn pad.” (Psalmen 119:105 WV78)

“Maar de weg van de rechtschapenen is als het klare licht, dat steeds helderder straalt tot het volop dag is.” (Spreuken 4:18 WV78)

“naties gaan op weg en zeggen: ‘Komt, laat ons gaan naar de berg van Jahwe, naar het huis van Jakobs God: dan zal Hij ons zijn wegen wijzen, en wij zullen zijn paden bewandelen. Ja, uit Sion komt Gods onderricht, uit Jeruzalem het woord van Jahwe.’” (Jesaja 2:3 WV78)

“laat uw voeten rechte wegen gaan; het kreupele lid mag niet ontwricht worden, maar moet genezen.” (Hebreeën 12:13 WV78)

“Hij is de rots, wat Hij doet is volmaakt, al zijn wegen zijn recht; een God van trouw, zonder onrecht, rechtvaardig is Hij en waarachtig.” (Deuteronomium 32:4 WV78)

“Leer mij, Heer, te onderscheiden uw wegen, de paden te zien die Gij wijst;” (Psalmen 25:4 WV78)

“De Heer is mild en waarachtig: Hij toch wijst wie dwalen de weg,” (Psalmen 25:8 WV78)

“Want de voorschriften zijn een lamp, de lering is een licht en opwekkingen tot tucht zijn een weg naar het leven,” (Spreuken 6:23 WV78)

“Soms denkt een mens, dat zijn weg recht is, maar tenslotte leidt die toch naar de dood.” (Spreuken 16:25 WV78)

“Onderricht de knaap, hoe zijn weg dient te zijn en zelfs in zijn ouderdom wijkt hij er niet van af.” (Spreuken 22:6 WV78)

“naties gaan op weg en zeggen: ‘Komt, laat ons gaan naar de berg van Jahwe, naar het huis van Jakobs God: dan zal Hij ons zijn wegen wijzen, en wij zullen zijn paden bewandelen. Ja, uit Sion komt Gods onderricht, uit Jeruzalem het woord van Jahwe.’” (Jesaja 2:3 WV78)

“Met eigen oren zult gij achter u een stem horen zeggen: ‘Dit is de weg, volgt die, of hij nu naar rechts gaat of naar links.’” (Jesaja 30:21 WV78)

“Want mijn gedachten zijn niet uw gedachten, en uw wegen niet mijn wegen, zo luidt de godsspraak van Jahwe,” (Jesaja 55:8 WV78)

“Hoe nauw toch is de poort en hoe smal de weg die voert naar het leven, en weinigen zijn er die hem vinden.” (Mattheüs 7:14 WV78)

“Jezus antwoordde hem: ‘Ik ben de weg, de waarheid en het leven. Niemand komt tot de Vader tenzij door Mij.” (Johannes 14:6 WV78)

“en zij zongen het lied van Mozes, de dienstknecht van God, en het lied van het Lam: ‘Groot en wonderbaar zijn uw daden, Heer, God Albeheerser. Rechtvaardig en waarachtig zijn uw wegen, o Koning der eeuwen.” (Openbaring 15:3 WV78)

“(3:1) مزمور لداود حينما هرب من وجه ابشالوم ابنه‎ .‎يا رب ما اكثر مضايقي.كثيرون قائمون عليّ‎ .” (مزامير 2:12 Arabic)

“(17:1) صلاة لداود‎ .‎اسمع يا رب للحق.انصت الى صراخي اصغ الى صلاتي من شفتين بلا غش‎ .” (مزامير 16:11 Arabic)

“(119:106) ‎حلفت فأبره ان احفظ احكام برك‎ .” (مزامير 119:105 Arabic)

“اما سبيل الصديقين فكنور مشرق يتزايد وينير الى النهار الكامل.” (امثال 4:18 Arabic)

“وتسير شعوب كثيرة ويقولون هلم نصعد الى جبل الرب الى بيت اله يعقوب فيعلّمنا من طرقه ونسلك في سبله لانه من صهيون تخرج الشريعة ومن اورشليم كلمة الرب.” (اشعياء 2:3 Arabic)

“واصنعوا لارجلكم مسالك مستقيمة لكي لا يعتسف الاعرج بل بالحري يشفى.” (عبرانيين 12:13 Arabic)

“هو الصخر الكامل صنيعه.ان جميع سبله عدل.اله امانة لا جور فيه صديق وعادل هو” (تثنية 32:4 Arabic)

“(25:5) ‎دربني في حقك وعلمني.لانك انت اله خلاصي.اياك انتظرت اليوم كله‎ .” (مزامير 25:4 Arabic)

“(25:9) ‎يدرب الودعاء في الحق ويعلم الودعاء طرقه‎ .” (مزامير 25:8 Arabic)

“لان الوصية مصباح والشريعة نور وتوبيخات الادب طريق الحياة.” (امثال 6:23 Arabic)

“توجد طريق تظهر للانسان مستقيمة وعاقبتها طرق الموت.” (امثال 16:25 Arabic)

“ربّ الولد في طريقه فمتى شاخ ايضا لا يحيد عنه.” (امثال 22:6 Arabic)

“وتسير شعوب كثيرة ويقولون هلم نصعد الى جبل الرب الى بيت اله يعقوب فيعلّمنا من طرقه ونسلك في سبله لانه من صهيون تخرج الشريعة ومن اورشليم كلمة الرب.” (اشعياء 2:3 Arabic)

“واذناك تسمعان كلمة خلفك قائلة هذه هي الطريق اسلكوا فيها حينما تميلون الى اليمين وحينما تميلون الى اليسار.” (اشعياء 30:21 Arabic)

“لان افكاري ليست افكاركم ولا طرقكم طرقي يقول الرب.” (اشعياء 55:8 Arabic)

“ما اضيق الباب وأكرب الطريق الذي يؤدي الى الحياة.وقليلون هم الذين يجدونه” (متى 7:14 Arabic)

“قال له يسوع انا هو الطريق والحق والحياة.ليس احد يأتي الى الآب الا بي.” (يوحنا 14:6 Arabic)

“وهم يرتلون ترنيمة موسى عبد الله وترنيمة الخروف قائلين عظيمة وعجيبة هي اعمالك ايها الرب الاله القادر على كل شيء عادلة وحق هي طرقك يا ملك القديسين.” (رؤيا 15:3 Arabic)

Eens het juiste pad gevonden mag men niet gaan dwalen, want dan komt men (door zondigheid of door het afstand nemen van het geloof) terecht bij de afvalligen.

“en bad: ‘Mijn God, ik voel mij zo diep beschaamd dat ik mijn gezicht niet tot U durf op te heffen, want onze zonden zijn boven ons hoofd uitgestegen en onze schuld reikt tot aan de hemel.” (Ezra 9:6 WV78)

“(51:7) Zie, als zondig mens ben ik geboren, in die schuld bij mijn moeder verwekt;” (Psalmen 51:5 WV78)

“Onthield Gij de schulden, o God, wie hield stand in uw oordeel?” (Psalmen 130:3 WV78)

“Hij werd doorstoken om onze weerspannigheid, om onze zonden gebroken; hij werd gestraft; ons bracht het vrede, en dank zij zijn striemen is er voor ons genezing.” (Jesaja 53:5 WV78)

“Ik zuiver hen van alle zonden die ze tegen Mij hebben bedreven; Ik vergeef hun schuld en hun ontrouw.” (Jeremia 33:8 WV78)

“weet dan dat hij die een zondaar van zijn dwaalweg bekeert, zijn ziel zal redden van de dood en tal van zonden zal bedekken.” (Jakobus 5:20 WV78)

“Met hun holle grootspraak en bandeloze wellust verlokken zij hen die nauwelijks begonnen zijn zich af te keren van de levenswijze der verdoolden.” (2 Petrus 2:18 WV78)

“Dat alleen al pleit voor mij, want een goddeloze durft zoiets niet.” (Job 13:16 WV78)

“De rechtvaardige distantieert zich van mijn geval, zet zich af, in zijn onschuld, tegen zo’n goddeloze;” (Job 17:8 WV78)

“Immers, wat mag ik als zondaar verwachten? God snijdt je weg, God eist je leven op.” (Job 27:8 WV78)

“zij tempteerden mij, deden mij na, knarsetandend als ze mij zagen.” (Psalmen 35:16 WV78)

“Door zijn mond richt de goddeloze zijn naaste te gronde, maar de rechtvaardigen worden door hun kennis gered.” (Spreuken 11:9 WV78)

“(9:16) Daarom spaart de Heer de jonge mannen niet en heeft Hij geen medelijden met weduwen en wezen. Het hele volk is godvergeten en boos, iedere mond kraamt goddeloze taal uit. En nog bedaart zijn gramschap niet, zijn hand blijft opgeheven.” (Jesaja 9:17 WV78)

“In Sion schrikken de zondaars, de bozen sidderen van angst: Wie van ons is tegen dit verterend vuur bestand? Wie houdt het uit bij die aanhoudende gloed?” (Jesaja 33:14 WV78)

“Om zijn misdaden was Ik korte tijd vertoornd, Ik sloeg hem met afgewend gelaat en toornde, maar in zijn afvalligheid ging hij de wegen die zijn hart hem ingaf.” (Jesaja 57:17 WV78)

“وقلت.اللهم اني اخجل واخزى من ان ارفع يا الهي وجهي نحوك لان ذنوبنا قد كثرت فوق رؤوسنا وآثامنا تعاظمت الى السماء.” (عزرا 9:6 Arabic)

“(51:6) ها قد سررت بالحق في الباطن ففي السريرة تعرّفني حكمة‎ .” (مزامير 51:5 Arabic)

“(130:4) ‎لان عندك المغفرة لكي يخاف منك‎ .” (مزامير 130:3 Arabic)

“وهو مجروح لاجل معاصينا مسحوق لاجل آثامنا تاديب سلامنا عليه وبحبره شفينا.” (اشعياء 53:5 Arabic)

“واطهرهم من كل اثمهم الذي اخطأوا به اليّ واغفر كل ذنوبهم التي اخطأوا بها اليّ والتي عصوا بها عليّ .” (ارميا 33:8 Arabic)

“فليعلم ان من رد خاطئا عن ضلال طريقه يخلّص نفسا من الموت ويستر كثرة من الخطاياٍ” (يعقوب 5:20 Arabic)

“لانهم اذ ينطقون بعظائم البطل يخدعون بشهوات الجسد في الدعارة من هرب قليلا من الذين يسيرون في الضلال” (2 بطرس 2:18 Arabic)

“فهذا يعود الى خلاصي ان الفاجر لا يأتي قدامه.” (ايوب 13:16 Arabic)

“يتعجب المستقيمون من هذا والبريء ينتهض على الفاجر.” (ايوب 17:8 Arabic)

“لانه ما هو رجاء الفاجر عندما يقطعه عندما يسلب الله نفسه.” (ايوب 27:8 Arabic)

“(35:17) يا رب الى متى تنظر.استرد نفسي من تهلكاتهم وحيدتي من الاشبال‎ .” (مزامير 35:16 Arabic)

“بالفم يخرب المنافق صاحبه وبالمعرفة ينجو الصدّيقون.” (امثال 11:9 Arabic)

“لاجل ذلك لا يفرح السيد بفتيانه ولا يرحم يتاماه وارامله لان كل واحد منهم منافق وفاعل شر.وكل فم متكلم بالحماقة.مع كل هذا لم يرتد غضبه بل يده ممدودة بعد” (اشعياء 9:17 Arabic)

“ارتعب في صهيون الخطاة.اخذت الرعدة المنافقين.من منا يسكن في نار آكلة.من منا يسكن في وقائد ابدية.” (اشعياء 33:14 Arabic)

“من اجل اثم مكسبه غضبت وضربته.استترت وغضبت فذهب عاصيا في طريق قلبه.” (اشعياء 57:17 Arabic)

Diegenen op wie Gods toorn rust zijn zij die niet van Hem willen weten en Zijn geboden niet willen onderhouden, diegenen die de Waarheid verwerpen of verbergen. De ‘dwalenden’ zijn diegenen die zich hebben laten misleiden en onachtzaam zijn of het verkiezen om menselijke tradities boven de Wetten van God te stellen.

Laten we allemaal op zoek gaan naar de Allerhoogste God en bidden:

اهدنا الصراط المستقيم
صراط الذين أنعمت عليهم غير المغضوب عليهم ولا الضالين

Lieve God,
Toon ons of Leid ons op het rechte weg
De weg van degenen aan wie U Uw genade heeft geschonken, die waarvan (het deel) niet toorn is, en die niet dwalen.

Lees ook de inleidende artikelen en de openingsbespreking:

Koran tegenover veel oudere Heilige Geschriften

Al-Fatiha [De Opening] Surah 1:1-3 In de naam van Allah de Barmhartige Heer van de Schepping

Nota:

* Vijf zuilen van de islam: geloof (al iman)

Geloofsbelijdenis (sjahada)
Rituele gebeden (salat of salah)
Geven van aalmoezen (zakat of zakah)
Vasten tijdens ramadan (saum/sawm of siyam)
Pelgrimstocht naar Mekka (hadj, hajj of haj)

** Zes zuilen van geloof (Imaan of iman (Arabisch: إيمان)) zijn de volgende:

de eenheid van God (tawhid)
de engelen
de geopenbaarde Boeken (Rollen van Abraham, de Thora, de Psalmen, de Evangeliën en de Koran)
de profeten en de boodschappers
de Wederopstanding en de Laatste Dag
de Voorbeschikking Gods. Dit is onder te verdelen in vier punten:
- Gods Kennis. God weet alles van tevoren en heeft dat voorbeschikt
- Gods Wil om iets te laten gebeuren of te laten ontstaan. Dit zal ongetwijfeld ook gebeuren of ontstaan
- Gods Schepping van alle levende en niet-levende objecten en dat alles in (en eventueel buiten) het universum met de wil en schepping van God tot bestaan is gekomen
- Gods Toestemming voor al het goede en het kwade (vanuit menselijke perceptie) dat tot stand komt.

Binnen de islam zijn er in de loop der jaren verschillen ontstaan, door middel van interpretaties, onwetendheid, gebrek aan kennis over de Arbische taal, culturele invloeden etc. Hier uit voort zijn verschillende stromingen ontstaan die elk andere regels opvolgen.

Vindt aansluitend ook:

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The Blessings And Sunnahs Of Eid Ul Adha BY Imam Murtada Gusau (abusidiqu.com)
Whomever Allah guides, no one can misguide. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, I also bear witness that our Master Muhammad is the servant and messenger of Allah.
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There is a verse in the Noble and Magnificent Qur’an, which if it was revealed on us, the Jews, we would have taken that day as an Eid (festival). Umar asked: which verse? He said:“This day I have perfected your religion for you, completed my favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.” [Surah al-Maidah (5):3]
+Shaikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullah) said:“The most correct saying concerning the Takbir – that which the majority of the Salaf (Pious Predecessors), and the Scholars from the Companions and Imams were upon – is to begin making the Takbir from Fajr (dawn) on the day of Arafat up until the last day of at-Tashriq (the thirteenth of Dhul-Hijjah), after every Prayer.” [See Majmu al-Fatawa (24/220)]

Imam al-Khattabiy (rahimahullah) (d. 456H) said:

“The wisdom behind saying the Takbir in these days is that in the time of Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance), they used to slaughter for their Taghuts (false objects of worship). So the Takbirs were prescribed in order to indicate that the act of slaughtering is directed to Allah alone, and by mentioning only His Name.” [See Fath al-Bari of Ibn Hajar Al-asqalani rahimahullah
What is Quran? (qwhatis.com)
Quran or Qur’an is the Muslim religion’s most sacred book. Christians have the Holy Bible while Jews have the Torah. For Muslims, Quran is their main book about their faith. Many of the entries included in the Quran are written during the time of Muhammad, the revered prophet in the Muslim religion. For all Muslims, the writings included in the Quran all came from God or Allah which were relayed to Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel. It is also through the Quran that Muhammad is revered as a true prophet of Allah.
Shariah and Child Abuse – Is There a Connection?. (gunnyg.wordpress.com) >Shariah and Child Abuse – Is There a Connection
A careful reading of the Quran and hadith leaves us with the impression that when Mohammed wanted something, he would go into a trance and Allah would then respond to Mohammed’s request. That is why we have a Quran that seems to contradict itself, and why we have the resulting abrogation of the mainly ‘peaceful’ passages, to the much more violent passages as time passes.
Shariah stands or falls therefore upon the behaviour of Mohammed as a man to be emulated, since it is his life and preaching which is enshrined in Shariah (and the hadith).
Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels (vhoagland.wordpress.com)
Their names, Gregory says, tell the service they perform. “Thus, Michael means “Who is like God”; Gabriel is “The Strength of God”; and Raphael is “God’s Remedy.“Whenever some act of wondrous power must be performed, Michael is sent, so that his action and his name may make it clear that no one can do what God does by his superior power…“So too Gabriel, who is called God’s strength, was sent to Mary. He came to announce the One who appeared as a humble man to quell the cosmic powers. Thus God’s strength announced the coming of the Lord of the heavenly powers, mighty in battle.

“Raphael means, as I have said, God’s remedy, for when he touched Tobit’s eyes in order to cure him, he banished the darkness of his blindness. Thus, since he is to heal, he is rightly called God’s remedy.”
You Don’t Qualify as a Martyr! (salaf-us-saalih.com)

Allah the Exalted said:

وإِذَإ جَاءَهُمْ أَمْرٌ مِنَ إلَْْمْ نِ أَوِ إلْخَوْفِ أَذَإعُوإ بِهِ وَلَوْ رَدُّوهُ إِلَى إلرَّسُولِ وإِلَى أُولِي إلَْْمْرِ مِنْهُمْ لَعَلِمَهُ إلَّذِينَ يَسْ تَنْبِطُونَهُ مِنْهُمْ وَلَوْلََ
فَضْلُ إللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَتُهُ لََتَّبَعْتُمُ إلشَّيْطَانَ إِلََّ قَلِيلً

When there comes to them some matter touching (public) safety or fear, they make it known (among the people), if only they had referred it to the Messenger or to those charged with authority among them, the proper investigators would have understood it from them (directly). Had it not been for the Grace and Mercy of Allah upon you, you would have followed Shaytan, save a few of you. [Soorah An Nisa 4:83]

Therefore as it relates to the great affairs which concern the Ummah—from them being Jihad—the final say belongs to the Muslim ruler; it is not for any and everyone (to have a say in the matter). End Quote.
The Prophet صَلَّى اللََُّّ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ , said:

إِنَّمَا الِْْمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ
Only the Imaam is only a shield who is fought behind.
[Collected by Muslim 1841]

Ibn Taymiyyah —may Allah have mercy upon him—said: Jihad is only established by the leader of the affairs of the Muslims.[Minhaj As Sunnah (6/118)] Thus the Muslim ruler is the one who calls for Jihad not rogue leaders, or individuals.
Jihad Watch: “It???s either Jihad or Disgrace, so choose!” (jihadwatch.org)
The pro-jihad site “Descendants of the Sahaba” (companions of Muhammad) has just posted this Qur’anic explication of the necessity to wage jihad against Infidels, attributing it to the slain al-Qaeda jihadist Abu Yahya al-Libi. All the chapter and verse citations are from the Qur’an. Will Muslims who reject this perspective explain how al-Libi misused the Qur’an in this piece? In all these years I have yet to see a direct refutation on Islamic grounds of a jihadist exposition of the Qur’an. If any Muslim refutes this, please alert me to the refutation — I can be reached at director[at]jihadwatch.org. But in the absence of such a refutation, this kind of Qur’anic exposition will continue to move peaceful Muslims to take up arms in the cause of jihad — and while they continue to fail to present Muslims with any Islamically coherent alternative, the moderates’ protestations that they reject all this will continue to ring hollow.
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It is not meant by leaving the religion, and Allah knows best, the typo of kufr which takes one outside the fold of the religion as some might understand. I don’t think that anybody from amongst the people of knowledge would day concerning the Muslims who intently leaves Jihad and relies on dunya that by doing so becomes a disbeliever. But, and Allah knows best, the comprehensive meaning is to declare that abandonment of the “˜Ibaadah of Jihad and occupying oneself with the affairs of the dunya which diverts one from it will consequently lead to the dominance of the disbelieving enemies which imposes its mastery over the land of the Muslims. It also leads to the implementation of their blasphemous man-made rulings upon them along with their fighting against the religion and its law out of envy, hatred and enmity towards the truth and its people.
Muslim Group Promises Continuation of Jihad Massacre of Jews, Praises French Jihad Murderer, Claims Responsibility (atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com)
It is not meant by leaving the religion, and Allah knows best, the typo of kufr which takes one outside the fold of the religion as some might understand. I don’t think that anybody from amongst the people of knowledge would day concerning the Muslims who intently leaves Jihad and relies on dunya that by doing so becomes a disbeliever. But, and Allah knows best, the comprehensive meaning is to declare that abandonment of the “˜Ibaadah of Jihad and occupying oneself with the affairs of the dunya which diverts one from it will consequently lead to the dominance of the disbelieving enemies which imposes its mastery over the land of the Muslims. It also leads to the implementation of their blasphemous man-made rulings upon them along with their fighting against the religion and its law out of envy, hatred and enmity towards the truth and its people.
Seek Refuge in Allah!! (visual.ly)
Hajj 2014 – The Day of Arafat… (faithiswheretheheartis.wordpress.com)
For me personally, the best part of Eid is having that Eid Breakfast with my family when my Dad and Brother’s have come home after praying Eid Namaaz (Prayer).
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“Here I am before You, my Lord, as a slave.” I am preparing for Umrah, inshaAllah. I pray that Allah (SWT) continues to keep me protected and guided on the righteous path. I pray that with the Will of Allah (SWT), I am amongst those individuals who go on this journey of a life time very soon and that I perform Umrah and Hajj for the sake of Allah (SWT), inshaAllah. Ameen Summa Ameen.

Why is it that Christians don’t understand Muslims and Muslims do not understand Christians?

Posted on 2014/10/04 by Marcus Ampe

A Catholic girl denouncing Christians

On WordPress can be found an article with the title: Why is it that Christians don’t understand Muslims? by a Roman Catholic convert to Islam, who now has found the need to inform others that don’t know about Islam: the true message of the religion. From what the media has to say nowadays, it’s quite a shame to see the wrong ideas people have about Islam. but this girl seems also to keep promoting the wrong ideas many do have about Christendom or Christianity.

The writer of the article has been raised in a Latin culture, which explains a lot about her previous heathen uses and pagan rituals she had in her church. She says she had never been exposed to Islam ever, and I wonder if she ever has been exposed to other forms of Christendom or strangely enough did not get to know other Christian communities which keep to the Biblical faith.

Convert to Islam

Not sharing the belief any-more

In her article it is made clear that even many who converted from Christendom (mostly Catholics) to Islam, did never undertook a search in Christianity where they could find lots of Christians who only adhere One God and do not accept a Trinity.
Most Muslims do have a misunderstanding of Christians because they only see those Trinitarian Christians and do not get enough contacts with non-trinitarian Christians. shame to find an ex-Christian not confirming to her Muslim brothers and sisters that there are many Christians who are not liked by the Trinitarian Christians, because they only want to worship One Holy God of gods, Allah, the Elohim Most High Almighty Merciful Hashem Jehovah.

Wrong picture

As such we can find many Muslims who give like many Christians a wrong picture of Christianity: presenting that “The first point of interest is that Christians believe in a trinity.” This author, being an ex-Catholic may be raised up, like many, to believe that God is not one – all Supreme, all Knowing – but that He would be composed of three “sections” that form Him as one. Each Christian has the Bible, which speaks clearly and can give enough inside in “Who is who”. The only matter is the persons have to investigate themselves, and that is what we do not see to happen much.

Decision of a Fatwa committee on the case of a convert to Christianity: “Since he left Islam, he will be invited to revert. If he does not revert, he will be killed pertaining to rights and obligations of the Islamic law.” The fatwa outlines the same procedure and penalty for the male convert’s children, on reaching the age of puberty. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

She wrote:

A year ago I was a Catholic and I currently live in a community where everyone is mainly Catholic. Catholics, like any other Christian branch believe in a few points that blind them from the truth of Islam. This creates a shield between them and the religion.

Where I’m from you are simply a Catholic and that’s it. If you dare venture out of the religion you are automatically tagged as a betrayer and mocked upon. I saw this with some family members that have left the roman Catholic church and decided to follow other Christian churches. They were laughed at and even called fanatics.

It might well be that the one who dares “venture out of the religion” is automatically tagged as a betrayer and mocked upon, this we can find in many religions, like in Hinduism and in Islam as well, where even people have to fear for their life when they took on an other religion.

Converting to another branch of Christianity

She adds:

When you are raised into a community where everyone follows their father’s religion without questioning it’s rather difficult for people not to judge you if you convert to another branch of Christianity, like my brother did. It’s even worse when you revert to Islam.

Normally at a certain age each infant starts questioning the teachings of its parents and of its teachers. I wonder how it came to be that in the transition to adulthood this girl did not question her parents, priests and people around her about her religion and about her faith. Wwhat did she believed or wanted to believe from childhood onwards and how did she work around it?
When her brother did find an other church where he felt at ease, did he not share those ideas of that church with her sister. I presume he stayed in a trinitarian church of Christendom, and wonder how he made his decisions to change church-community.

Human instructions and teachings people follow

Instruction to examine

She herself admits she did not follow the Torah or Bible instructions, which say the same as the Quran, not to follow human (parents/teachers) instructions about ‘belief’, without examining them:

In the Qur’an it tells us:

And when it is said to them, “Follow what Allah has revealed,” they say, “Rather, we will follow that which we found our fathers doing.” Even though their fathers understood nothing, nor were they guided? (2: 170)

Allah (subhana wa’ tala) mentions those that follow their generation’s religion and ignore the truth.

and the problem is that we see that in every religion, also in Islam, where many people do not prefer to follow the Quran, but give more attention to the Hadith, a report of the teachings, deeds and sayings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, according to traditions, and other writings by human beings. she must remember and know that the Hadith also had a profound and controversial influence on molding the commentaries (tafsir) on the Quran. As such it is common knowledge that the earliest commentary of the Quran by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari is mostly sourced from the hadith.

Islamic teachers

In Islam there is even less basics on the Quran writings than in many Christian denominations where the individual theologians are taken to be just as people who study the Bible professionally, but have not an overall everything saying power. In many Muslim groups those theological imams are given the power to say it all. Like we have different schools in Christendom, we can find also many madhhab or Islamic Schools of Law: evolution, devolution, and progress in the Islamic world. to give a few examples: Awza’i, Thawri, al-Fazarl, Malik, madrasah,Al-Ghazzali, plus having lots of writings out of the regular Quran, like: al-Risala al-qudsiyya fi qawa’id al-‘aqa’id (“The Jerusalem Epistle”), al-Arba’in fi usul al-din (“Forty Points on Islamic Orthodoxy”, al-Iqtisad fil-i’tiqad (“The Golden Mean in Belief’), Faysal al-tafriqa baynal-Islam wal-zandaqa (“The Criterion of Distinction between Islam and Clandestine Unbelief” al-Maqsad al-asna fi sharh asma’ Allah al-husna (“The Brilliant Aim of Explaining Allah’s Beautiful Names”) and Iljam al-‘awam ‘an ‘ilm al-kalam (“Saving Muslims from Scholastic Theology”).

Islam by the passing time has undergone the same dangerous introduction of human teachings which have received more attention by its followers than the original Holy Scripture, in this instance the Quran which also refers that the faithfull to God have to read the Hebrew Bible is a term that refers to the Tanakh (Jewish canon) and the Greek canon or New Testament.

Holy Scriptures should be the main Source and Guide

She continues:

Even in Muslim countries there are those that follow the religion without truly believing and being a devote Muslim.

which does not make it clear if she understands that reading the Holy Scriptures should be the main source of building up the faith. but she mention a general problem of all times that we can find in all religions people who say they are part of such a religion and who follow lots of traditional rites in that religion, but who are not real believers.

What is said in the Quran about disbelievers is also to concer for atheists, Jews, Christians as well as Muslims:

It says in the Qur’an:

Indeed, those who disbelieve – it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them – they will not believe. (2:6)

From the Bible we should know it says the same as in those older books:

“in whom the god of this {1} world hath blinded the {2} minds of the unbelieving, {3} that the {4} light of the {5} gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them]. {1) Or [age] 2) Gr [thoughts] 3) Or [that they should not see the light…image of God] 4) Gr [illumination] 5) See marginal note on 2 Co 2:12}” (2 Corinthians 4:4 ASV)

“14 Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? 15 And what concord hath Christ with {1} Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever? {1) Gr [Beliar]}” (2 Corinthians 6:14-15 ASV)

“but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?” (1 Corinthians 6:6 ASV)

“Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.” (1 Corinthians 14:22 ASV)

“And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages teaching.” (Mark 6:6 ASV)

“yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,” (Romans 4:20 ASV)

“Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:” (Romans 11:20 ASV)

“And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:19 ASV)

“And he did not many {1} mighty works there because of their unbelief. {1) Gr [powers]}” (Matthew 13:58 ASV)

“For what if some were without faith? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God?” (Romans 3:3 ASV)

“And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.” (Romans 11:23 ASV)

“though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;” (1 Timothy 1:13 ASV)

Demand to open up the mind in willingness to receive faith

The Word of God is clear a believer has to open his mind and be willing to come to belief and to the right faith. In the world there are lots of people who, like told in the Holy Scriptures, do all that is possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth and to work against those who believe in the Most High God Jehovah.

Endpoint of a Christians’ acceptance of the unity of God

The author of the spoken of article does still finds that the

trinity is truly the endpoint of a Christians’ acceptance of the unity of God and believing that God is One (tawheed). Although Christians state that they believe in one God only, they are actually denying this since they have the belief in the trinity and associating another with Allah (swt).

With such a statement for her Muslim brothers and sisters, she does injustice to the many Christians who do not believe in the false teaching of the trinity, and continues to create false ideas about Christians by Muslims.

Incarnation by Christians, Jews, Persians and Hindus

Even worse she wants them to give the impression that even other faith-groups have such contorted ideas:

The reason behind this is that Christians also believe in that Jesus (peace be upon him) was God incarnate on this Earth. Christians believe that Allah (swt) came down on Earth in the form of a man, as well as Jews, Persians and Hindus believe in that God has taken Himself into some human or animal form here on Earth. This happens when you lose the transcendency of Allah and the importance of his highness and start to believe that Allah (swt) is everywhere, when He is in fact above and beyond his creation.

Page from an 11th-century Aramaic Targum manuscript of the Hebrew Bible.

The Jews who did not accept Jesus as their Messiah and who stayed religious Jews never would agree with any idea of their God having taken on a human or animal form. About the Messianic Jews I do agree we can find two sorts: the faithful Israelites which accept Jeshua (Jesus) as the son of man who brought salvation; but then strangely enough we also can find Messianics who take Jesus Messiah also to be the incarnate God.

Picture representing a cross and trinity

This girl also present pictures, but if she would have read her Bible very carefully she also should have found out Jews and Christians may not make or use pictures of God. So in case Jesus is God why did she use such pictures in her childhood and why did she pray in front of pictures and statues, which is forbidden by the Word of God, which can be found in the Bible. (You could also wonder if she agrees that Allah is the Most High God, why she publishes a picture of somebody who has to present the Divine Creator?)

Taking everything for granted

Growing up in one’s parents faith

It all points out, that most people just grow up in a denomination and just take everything for granted. Most of them take over the dogmatic teachings and refer all time to such dogma’s, which make them blind for what is really written in the Holy Scriptures. The same we can see by several Muslim groups which take other books than the Quran for their guide.

Encountering other Christians

The girl, also making the cross, the sign of the god Tamuz (the god of evil), thinking that all Christians would do such abolition in the eyes of God, has, we regret, not found other Christians, which could have shown such signs are not right. Strange enough you would think in her life she should have at least encountered some preaching Christians, like the Mormons and like the Jehovah Witnesses. Why did she not encounter and talk with Jehovah Witnesses. And when she did, why does she not refer in her article to such other Christians who do not believe in the Trinity? Everywhere in the world people can find people knocking at the door in the name of Jehovah. How did it come that it not happen to this girl’s house?

We are happy she at last came to see that the Trinity is not true, but regret she left Christendom without finding real Christianity. Now she herself finds places in the Bible which say it all. Why could she not find them before she became a Muslim?

Late discovery

Now she herself got also got to see how and where the trinity came into existence:

The trinity is actually not true. This ideology was a man made factor that later on throughout the years became a basic principle in Christianity. This so-called trinity was actually obtained by Greek philosophers (Plato’s theories) and Jewish Gnosticism; none of it is pure Christianity.

How did it come she discovered this so late?
How did it come she did not find the Gospel faith and turned away from Christianity? Was it because she did not look enough for the truth? Was she so blinded by the doctrinal teachings of her church?
Was she not willing to accept thinkings from those who preached the truth, but other Christians called them Antichrist or said it were not Christians, which frightened her so much she did not dare to meet them again or continue looking for more of such people?

Allah is everywhere

Though we can see she does not want to see, yet, that the Most High God (Allah) has His Eyes everywhere, and is everywhere. She writes:

” Stating that Allah (swt) is everywhere would mean that you also believe that Allah (swt) is in excrement or in dirty and filthy places, which obviously He’s not.” though why should God not be there where people live in slums, prisons and dirty places? Why would the Most High Merciful Allah not be there by those who are most in need of Him?

She also says:

” If you as a Christian respect, cherish and fear your Lord, then explain to me how on Earth you will ever learn to fear a God that made himself into a man, or is in these filthy places?”

but does not see that God never made himself into a man. Christ Jesus is a man of flesh and blood who was born and died, whilst Allah/God, the Elohim Most High, is an Eternal Spirit, Who has no beginning and no end, and as such was never born and cannot die. (Naturally she started of with the thesis that all Christians believe in the trinity,which was already a wrong start.)

Allah knowing each heart

According to the Holy Scriptures God is everywhere and as the Creator of the universe allows everything to be what is on earth and in heavens (the Worlds where the Quran and God, Allah, The Cherisher and Sustainer of the Worlds is talking about).
Also the Quran agrees that Allah knows the hearts and as such knows every individual. Having His eyes on each person He sees than also each person even on dirty places. Nobody can hide before Allah.

ثُمَّ أَنْتُمْ هَٰؤُلَاءِ تَقْتُلُونَ أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَتُخْرِجُونَ فَرِيقًا مِنْكُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِهِمْ تَظَاهَرُونَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِالْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ وَإِنْ يَأْتُوكُمْ أُسَارَىٰ تُفَادُوهُمْ وَهُوَ مُحَرَّمٌ عَلَيْكُمْ إِخْرَاجُهُمْ ۚ أَفَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِبَعْضِ الْكِتَابِ وَتَكْفُرُونَ بِبَعْضٍ ۚ
وَأَقِيمُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَآتُوا الزَّكَاةَ ۚ وَمَا تُقَدِّمُوا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ تَجِدُوهُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ ۗ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ

فَمَا جَزَاءُ مَنْ يَفْعَلُ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْكُمْ إِلَّا خِزْيٌ فِي الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ۖ وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ يُرَدُّونَ إِلَىٰ أَشَدِّ الْعَذَابِ ۗ وَمَا اللَّهُ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ

Do they not know that Allah knows what they keep secret and what they make known?(2:77)

Yet you it is who slay your people and turn a party from among you out of their homes, backing each other up against them unlawfully and exceeding the limits; and if they should come to you, as captives you would ransom them– while their very turning out was unlawful for you. Do you then believe in a part of the Book and disbelieve in the other? What then is the re ward of such among you as do this but disgrace in the life of this world, and on the day of resurrection they shall be sent back to the most grievous chastisement, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.(2:85)

Fear for Allah, Jehovah, the God of heaven and earth

Yes, all people should fear Allah/God, Whose Name He also has given to the world and which we should honour. In fear we should come to see that it is better to get to know the Word of God as best as we can. Even when we are or to live in the dirtiest place in the world, or in the most evil place of the world, we should know that Allah sees us and know what goes on in our heart. It is not because we are in the worst place in the world that God would not see us, would not have attention to us, would not be willing to reach out His Hand to us. Wherever we are we personally do have to make our own choices, and this also concerning who to follow, the world or the Most High God, Allah the Elohim Hashem Jehovah.

“For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.” (Deuteronomy 10:17 ASV)

“And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been {1} wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee. {1) Heb [created]}” (Exodus 34:10 ASV)

“And in thy majesty ride on prosperously, {1} Because of truth and meekness [and] righteousness: And {2} thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. {1) Or [In behalf of] 2) Or [let thy right hand teach]}” (Psalms 45:4 ASV)

“The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; {1} A good understanding have all they that do {2} [his commandments]: His praise endureth for ever. {1) Or [Good repute] 2) Heb [them]}” (Psalms 111:10 ASV)

“He hath sent redemption unto his people; He hath commanded his covenant for ever: Holy and reverend is his name.” (Psalms 111:9 ASV)

“I will give thanks unto thee; For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.” (Psalms 139:14 ASV)

“The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.” (Proverbs 8:13 ASV)

“And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that ye are {1} very religious. {1) Or [somewhat superstitious]}” (Acts 17:22 ASV)

“So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not {1} as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; {1) Some ancient authorities omit [as]}” (Philippians 2:12 ASV)

“But even if ye should suffer for righteousness’ sake, blessed [are ye:] and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;” (1 Peter 3:14 ASV)

“Jehovah will be terrible unto them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the {1} isles of the nations. {1) Or [coast-lands]}” (Zephaniah 2:11 ASV)

Every day to learn from the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures

We do have the warnings from the Holy Scriptures which we should take seriously. For better and for worse, we do have to learn every day, we do have to open our mind (every day) for the Word of God, and let it enter in our minds so that It can feed us, more than the worldly food. Are main interest should go to the Spiritual Food, that God is prepared to give to all those who want to receive His Word, wherever they might be.

All faithful should know how important it is to open their hearts to Allah, because it is God Who knows the hearts and shall judge the people, allowing only those who are justified, because of their willingness to learn and to get to know the Divine Creator.

Let us all cherish the Word of the Sublime Supreme Being Divine Creator and try to get to know Him better.

“{1} But unto us God revealed {2} [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. {1) Some ancient authorities read [For] 2) Or, it}” (1 Corinthians 2:10 ASV)

“14 Now the {1} natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually {2} judged. {1) Or [unspiritual]; Gr [psychical] 2) Or [examined]} 15 But he that is spiritual {1} judgeth all things, and he himself is {2} judged of no man. {1) Or [examineth] 2) Or [examined]}” (1 Corinthians 2:14-15 ASV)

“I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto thee.” (1 Chronicles 29:17 ASV)

“Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that [should come] unto you:” (1 Peter 1:10 ASV)

“I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.” (John 5:30 ASV)

“Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.” (Acts 17:11 ASV)

“3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be {1} judged of you, or of man’s {2} judgment: yea, I {3} judge not mine own self. {1) Or [examined] 2) Gr [day]; See 1 Co 3:13. 3) Or [examine]} 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that {1} judgeth me is the Lord. {1) Or [examineth]}” (1 Corinthians 4:3-4 ASV)

“Good and upright is Jehovah: Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.” (Psalms 25:8 ASV)

“howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.” (1 Corinthians 14:19 ASV)

“not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.” (Hebrews 10:25 ASV)

“And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth {1} the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem. {1) Or [instruction]}” (Isaiah 2:3 ASV)

Let us all read the Bible regularly so that we would not have to question like the author of the article does, with saying:

If this is in the Bible, then I really don’t know why Christians continue believing this so-called trinity.

Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me. (Isa 46:9)

Please do read as well:

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The Abrahamic Religions (robertjrgraham.com)
When the emotions are removed, and we just look at the facts. There really isn’t that much difference between the major religions at all. Is there room for us to look at our beliefs objectively? What about learning from each other, and evolving to understand? Is it possible that there is something we don’t understand about God, the meaning of which could change everything? Just a thought.
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Islam is the second largest religion in the world after Christianity. As a monotheistic faith that originated in the Middle East, Islam holds many beliefs and practices in common with Judaism and Christianity.Judaism, Islam and Christianity are collectively known as “Abrahamic religions” because they trace their history to the covenant God made with Abraham in the Hebrew Bible.The Prophet Muhammad met both Jews and Christians during his lifetime, and Islam has come into frequent contact with both of its fellow monotheistic faiths throughout most of its history.

As a brief guide of the similarities and differences of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the following chart compares the statistics, origins, history and religious beliefs of these three great monotheistic faiths.
Dr. Reza Azlan’s Argument on the ‘Kalimah Allah’ (aimanamani.wordpress.com)
Dr. Aslan says that “Al-Ilah means The God”.

“Al-Ilah means ‘The God’. Allah is not the name of God.”

Fine – Dr. Aslan says that it is okay for the Christians to call their God, Allah because to his understanding, Allah simply means ‘The God’. What Aslan failed to understand is that the Arabic word ‘Al’, meaning ‘the’ in English is used to emphasise the fact that ‘Allah’ is one and the only God. When a Muslim says ‘Allah’, he is referring to our one and only God. Now, for the Malaysian Christians who want to call their god, ‘Allah’ , does it means that they are rejecting the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity? Or do they think that Elohim, YHWH and Jehovah are not classy enough to refer to their god?
Celebrating Christendom’s Demise? (juicyecumenism.com)
Celebrating liberation from the church’s supposed captivity under reputedly fallen Christendom has become popular among some conservative and liberal Protestants. According to this narrative, cultural Christianity often suffocated authentic faith and facilitated superficial religion.
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Christendom’s obituary was even hailed at the recent Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s 221st General Assembly (2014), where it was determined, according to a denominational news report, that “post-Christendom life in the United States can be pretty exciting.”But should Christians really welcome the “excitement” of a more unChristian America? Apparently so, according to one speaker among the Presbyterians.
+“Christendom is over,” declared Lillian Daniel of First Congregational Church in Glen Ellyn, Illinois at the General Assembly Breakfast. “The denominational market-share no longer exists. And in some ways, that is a beautiful thing.” She added, “It is good that we live in a multi-faith world.”

Of course, Christianity has always existed in a multi-faith world, but maybe here she was referring to America specifically, although the adherents of non-Christian religion, according to one recent survey, are only 5 percent of U.S. population.
Islam, Violence, and the Nature of God (catholicworldreport.com)
Although the topic of violence in Islam is a controversial one, Benedict XVI placed it at the center of his treatment of our knowledge of God within his often misunderstood and misrepresented Regensburg Lecture, given eight years ago, on September 12, 2006. Put simply, false views of God’s nature can lead to religiously motivated actions, such as terrorism and violent persecution, which are contrary to the nature and will of God. This discussion is all the more timely and important as the United States marks the anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001, as radical Islamist groups such as ISIS persecute Christians in Iraq and other countries, and as Catholics seek ways to move forward in authentic and meaningful dialogue with Muslims.Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God? A number of prominent Catholic apologists and bloggers have addressed this question recently. This essay will briefly summarize and comment on each of their arguments. It will then present some further thoughts arguing that the question requires assistance from philosophy: how do we know God correctly, or more precisely, how do we get knowledge of God wrong?
Muslim convert calls the Pope’s bluff on Islam (ivarfjeld.com)
Egyptian-born Magdi Cristiano Allam, 61, a prominent journalist and outspoken critic of Islam, publicly entered the Catholic Church on March 22, 2008 during an Easter Vigil service, receiving baptism directly from Benedict.
After his conversion, Allam founded a small right-wing political party that lost badly in Italy’s general elections last April.Writing on Monday in the right-wing daily Il Giornale, Allam explained that he considers his conversion to Catholicism finished “in combination with the end of (Benedict’s) pontificate.”
Malaysian Court: “Allah is not Bible’s God’ (rehmat1.com)
The court decision provided the Zionist Mafia another excuse for Islam-bashing while showing their ignorance of their own Judeo-Christian religious scriptures.The presiding judge, Zawawi Salleh along with Federal Court judge Mohamed Apandi Ali and Appeals Court judge Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahim, provided sufficient religious background to support the court’s decision, which, naturally, was ignored by the Zionist-controlled mainstream media.Judge Zawari said there was potential for ambiguity if Allah was allowed to be used in The Herald.

“If the word Allah is to be employed in the Malay versions of The Herald to refer to God, there will be a risk of misrepresentation of God within Christianity. This is because the Christian concept of God as symbolised by the Trinity is absolutely and completely dissimilar to the concept of Allah in Islam. The potential for confusion is not confined only to Muslims but also to Christians,” said Zawari.
‘I Realized It’s A Beautiful Religion’ – Mexican Catholics Leaving ‘Dios’ For ‘Allah’ (patdollard.com)

For almost five centuries Catholicism has been the dominant religion in Mexico.

In 1970, Catholics comprised 96.7 percent of Mexico’s population. By 2010, that number had fallen to 82.7 percent, according to the Pew Research Center. Most of this change is attributed to growth in other Christian denominations. Evangelicals, Protestants and Jehovah’s Witnesses now account for 8 percent of Mexicans who identify with a religion.

And a small yet growing group of converts are seeking spiritual salvation in Islam. In fact, Pew estimates Mexico will be home to 126,000 Muslims by 2030, up from 111,000 in 2010.
For Bumiputera Christians, ‘Allah’ ban akin to cultural ‘genocide’, says archbishop (malaysia-today.net)
Putrajaya’s persistence in refusing non-Muslim Malaysians the right to use the word “Allah” is tantamount to the systematic destruction of the language and culture of the Bumiputera community in Sabah and Sarawak, the head of the Anglican Church in Southeast Asia said.Archbishop Datuk Bolly Lapok said the word “Allah” has been part and parcel of the community’s language for generations and has become “embedded” in every aspect of their culture, including for the Bumiputera Christians, who make up the majority of Malaysia’s Christian population.However, the government’s prohibition and the Federal Court’s denial for the Catholic Church to appeal for the right to publish the “Allah” in its weekly newspaper, had made the Bumiputera Christians feel they had been wronged, said the Sarawakian senior clergyman.

“In other words, it is in our language and culture DNA. We feel that the judgment was made without taking into due consideration of what the word means to us.

“We feel there has been a miscarriage of justice. It is insidious. It is tantamount to an act of language and culture genocide,” said Bolly, who also chairs the Association of Churches in Sarawak.
Can we call God ‘Allah’? (christiantoday.com)
The language used in the Bible has long been the subject of contention – not least in Malaysia, where authorities ruled this week that non-Muslims cannot refer to God as ‘Allah‘.A Muslim-majority country, many Malays believe that the national conscience must be firmly rooted in Islam, and therefore resent the influence of the Chinese Christian population who are active in evangelising among Malays.However, Mark Beaumont, senior lecturer in Islam and mission at the London School of Theology, says that while there is controversy regarding the way that God and Allah are referred in Malaysia, in other parts of the world it’s considered far less of a contentious issue.

“In the Arab speaking world there’s no difficulty in calling God ‘Allah’ – they’ve been doing it in the Christian church and in the Bible for hundreds of years,” he explains.

“In the Coptic Church in Egypt, the church in Syria, Jordan, Iraq and even Iran, it’s always been the practice to call God ‘Allah’ using the Arabic form. Although the Arabic Bible wasn’t translated fully before Islam came, it’s obvious that people were reading the Gospels using ‘Allah’ before the rise of Islam.

“In the ancient history of the Middle East, ‘Allah’ is the equivalent of ‘Elohim’, the Hebrew word for God.”
Hajj 2014 – The Day of Arafat… (faithiswheretheheartis.wordpress.com)
One has to remember that The Day of Arafat is a significant day for every Muslim. It is significant in many aspects for the Hajj Pilgrims as they travel from Mina to Arafat and it is also significant for the Muslims who are not performing Hajj. The Hajj Pilgrims will be travelling from Mina to Arafat (the place near Makkah, Saudi Arab – where the Mount Arafat is located). Mount Arafat, also known as Jabal-e-Rahmat (Mountain of Mercy) is the place where the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) stood and delivered his last, farewell sermon on 10^th Hijri (632 AD); in accordance with the Islamic calendar.
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One of Prophet Abraham’s main trials was to face the command of Allah (SWT) to kill his only son. Upon hearing this command, he prepared to submit to Allah’s Will. When he was all prepared to do it, Allah (SWT) revealed to him that his “sacrifice” had already been fulfilled. He had shown that his love for his Lord superseded all others; that he would lay down his own life or the lives of those dear to him in order to submit to God.

Al-Fatiha [The Opening/De Opening] Süra 1:1-3 In the name of Allah the Merciful Lord Of The Creation

Posted on 2014/10/04 by Marcus Ampe

English: Sura Al-Fātiha from a Qur'an manuscri...

Sura Al-Fātiha from a Qur’an manuscript by Hattat Aziz Efendi. – Fatiha of Openingsgedeelte uit een Koranhandschrift van Hattat Aziz Efendi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

001.001 بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
001.001 In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

001.002 الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ
001.002 Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds;

001.003 الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
001.003 Most Gracious, Most Merciful;

Al-Qur’an, 001.001-003 (Al-Fatiha [The Opening])

Text Copied from DivineIslam’s Qur’an Viewer software v2.913

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.(1:1)

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.(1:2) / All praise is to Allah, the Lord Of The Creation.

The Beneficent, the Merciful.(1:3)

Bismi Al-Lahi Ar-Raĥmāni Ar-Raĥīmi	[1.1] In naam van Allah, de Barmhartige, de Genadevolle.	بِسْمِ ‌ال‍‍لَّهِ ‌ال‍‍رَّحْمَنِ ‌ال‍‍رَّح‍‍ِ‍ي‍‍مِ
Al-Ĥamdu Lillahi Rabbi Al-`Ālamīna	[1.2] Alle lof zij Allah, de Heer der Werelden.	الْحَمْدُ‌ لِلَّهِ ‌‍رَبِّ ‌الْعَالَم‍‍ِ‍ي‍‍نَ
Ar-Raĥmāni Ar-Raĥīmi	[1.3] De Barmhartige, de Genadevolle.	ال‍‍رَّحْمَنِ ‌ال‍‍رَّح‍‍ِ‍ي‍‍مِ

Translation from / Vertaling van: http://transliteration.org/quran/WebSite_CD/MixDutch/Fram2E.htm

In naam van den lankmoedigen en albarmhartigen God.(1:1)

Lof aan God, meester des heelals.(1:2)

Den lankmoedige, den albarmhartige.(1:3)

In de naam van Allah, de Erbarmer, de Meest Barmhartige.
Alle lof zij Allah, de Heer der Werelden.
De Erbarmer, de Meest Barmhartige.

Allah, title of God as seen by man (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Quran opens with the indication it is willing to speak in the name of Allah/God (الله يهوه יהוה ) the Merciful to Whom praise has to be to Allah/God (الله يهوه יהוה ), the Lord of the Worlds. [(According to tradition Muslims think of: The world we can see: the world of the people and the worlds we can not see: the world of angels (paradise), and the world of the demons or Gjinn-people (hell).]

This part, the Fatiha (Opening) is the first sura (chapter) of the Qur’an and most common prayer of Islam.

De Koran opent met de kennisgeving dat het verlangt te spreken in de naam van Allah/God (الله يهوه יהוה ) de Heer van de werelden [volgens Moslim traditie heeft menhier ook bedacht dat er zichtbare en onzichtbare werelden ((‘Âlamin) zijn: de zichtbare wereld van het mensenvolk, de wereld van het engelenvolk (paradijs) en de wereld van het demonenvolk of Djinn (hel).]

Dit deel, de Fatiha of Opening is het eerste hoofdstuk (sura/surah) van de Koran alsook het meest gebruikte gebed in de Islam.

Allah – beginning with the name of – the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

In de naam van God de Barmhartige Erbarmer [Lofprijzing]
Lof aan God de Heer der wereldwezens

In de naam van Allah, de Erbarmer, de Meest Barmhartige

In the Quran the book starts with praise, says “with the name of” but does not really give the name. It only gives a title ‘Allah’ or ‘God’

Het Koranboek begint haar uiteenzetting met de lofprijzing en melding ‘In de naam van Allah’ maar geeft Zijn Naam niet prijs, doch enkel een titel ‘Allah’ ‘God’.

The Torah and Bible do give us God’s Name.

Torah en Bijbel geven ons God’s Naam.

Exo 6:2 And Elohim spoke to Mosheh and said to him, “I am יהוה.
Exo 6:3 “And I appeared to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, as Ěl Shaddai. And by My Name, יהוה, was I not known to them?
Exo 6:4 “And I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Kenaʽan, the land of their sojournings, in which they have sojourned.
Exo 6:5 “And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Yisra’ĕl whom the Mitsrites are enslaving, and I have remembered My covenant.
Exo 6:6 “Say, therefore, to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am יהוה, and I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites, and shall deliver you from their enslaving, and shall redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments,
Exo 6:7 and shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim. And you shall know that I am יהוה your Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites.
Exo 6:8 ‘And I shall bring you into the land which I swore to give to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give it to you as an inheritance. I am יהוה.’ ”
(Exodus 6:2-8 The Scriptures 1998+)

“and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as {1} God Almighty; but {2} by my name Jehovah I was not {3} known to them. {1) Heb [El Shaddai] 2) Or [as to] 3) Or [made known]}” (Exodus 6:3 ASV)

“but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.” (Exodus 9:16 ASV)

“The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; The righteous runneth into it, and {1} is safe. {1) Heb [is set on high]}” (Proverbs 18:10 ASV)

“And in that day shall ye say, Give thanks unto Jehovah, {1} call upon his name, declare his doings among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted. {1) Or [proclaim his name]}” (Isaiah 12:4 ASV)

Exo 6:2-8 SVD Exo 6:2 ثُمَّ قَالَ اللهُ لِمُوسَى: «انَا الرَّبُّ.
Exo 6:3 وَانَا ظَهَرْتُ لابْرَاهِيمَ وَاسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ بِانِّي الْالَهُ الْقَادِرُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ. وَامَّا بِاسْمِي «يَهْوَهْ» فَلَمْ اعْرَفْ عِنْدَهُمْ.
Exo 6:4 وَايْضا اقَمْتُ مَعَهُمْ عَهْدِي: انْ اعْطِيَهُمْ ارْضَ كَنْعَانَ ارْضَ غُرْبَتِهِمِ الَّتِي تَغَرَّبُوا فِيهَا.
Exo 6:5 وَانَا ايْضا قَدْ سَمِعْتُ انِينَ بَنِي اسْرَائِيلَ الَّذِينَ يَسْتَعْبِدُهُمُ الْمِصْرِيُّونَ وَتَذَكَّرْتُ عَهْدِي.
Exo 6:6 لِذَلِكَ قُلْ لِبَنِي اسْرَائِيلَ: انَا الرَّبُّ. وَانَا اخْرِجُكُمْ مِنْ تَحْتِ اثْقَالِ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ وَانْقِذُكُمْ مِنْ عُبُودِيَّتِهِمْ وَاخَلِّصُكُمْ بِذِرَاعٍ مَمْدُودَةٍ وَبِاحْكَامٍ عَظِيمَةٍ
Exo 6:7 وَاتَّخِذُكُمْ لِي شَعْبا وَاكُونُ لَكُمْ الَها. فَتَعْلَمُونَ انِّي انَا الرَّبُّ الَهُكُمُ الَّذِي يُخْرِجُكُمْ مِنْ تَحْتِ اثْقَالِ الْمِصْرِيِّينَ.
Exo 6:8 وَادْخِلُكُمْ الَى الارْضِ الَّتِي رَفَعْتُ يَدِي انْ اعْطِيَهَا لابْرَاهِيمَ وَاسْحَاقَ وَيَعْقُوبَ. وَاعْطِيَكُمْ ايَّاهَا مِيرَاثا. انَا الرَّبُّ».

2 ثم كلم الله موسى وقال له انا الرب.
3 وانا ظهرت لابراهيم واسحق ويعقوب باني الاله القادر على كل شيء.واما باسمي يهوه فلم أعرف عندهم.
4 وايضا اقمت معهم عهدي ان اعطيهم ارض كنعان ارض غربتهم التي تغربوا فيها.
5 وانا ايضا قد سمعت أنين بني اسرائيل الذين يستعبدهم المصريون وتذكرت عهدي.
6 لذلك قل لبني اسرائيل انا الرب.وانا اخرجكم من تحت اثقال المصريين وانقذكم من عبوديتهم واخلصكم بذراع ممدودة وباحكام عظيمة.
7 واتخذكم لي شعبا واكون لكم الها.فتعلمون اني انا الرب الهكم الذي يخرجكم من تحت اثقال المصريين.
8 وادخلكم الى الارض التي رفعت يدي ان اعطيها لابراهيم واسحق ويعقوب.واعطيكم اياها ميراثا.انا الرب.

2 En Elohim sprak tot Mosje {Mosheh/Mozes } en zei tegen hem: “Ik ben יהוה3{Jehovah }”En ik verscheen aan Aḇraham {Abraham }, Yitsḥaq {Isaak }, en Ya’aqob {Jakob }, als El Shaddai {De Ene Almachtige; De Enige Allerhoogste }. En bij mijn naam יהוה {Jehovah }, was ik niet bekend bij hen? 4 “En ik vestigde ook Mijn verbond met hen, om hen het land van Kena’an {Kanaän } te geven, het land van hun verblijven {oponthouden/ het land van hun oponthoud of van hun vreemdelingschappen }, waarin zij als vreemdeling hebben verkeerd. 5 “En ik heb ook het gekerm {weeklagen } gehoord van de kinderen van Yisra’ĕl {Israël } welke de Mitsrites {de Egyptenaren } tot slaaf namen, en ik heb aan Mijn verbond gedacht. 6 “Zeg dan ook, aan de kinderen van Yisra’ĕl {Israël }: ‘Ik ben יהוה {Jehovah }, en ik zal ulieden uitleiden van onder de lasten van de Mitsrites {Egyptenaren }, en zal je bevrijden van hun slavernij, en zal u verlossen door een uitgestrekte arm, en door grote gerichten {gerechtsuitspraken }, 7 en neemt u als Mijn volk, en ik zal uw Elohim zijn {Ik zal u tot een god zijn }. En gij zult weten, dat Ik ben יהוה {Jehovah } uw Elohim {de Eeuwige, uw God }, die je brengt van onder de lasten {last, lastdiensten } van de Mitsrites {Egyptenaren }. 8 ‘En ik zal u brengen naar het land dat Ik gezworen te geven aan Aḇraham {Abraham }, Yitsḥaq {Isaak }, en Ya’aqob {Jakob }, om het te geven aan u als een erfenis. Ik ben {’Ik ben die ben’ Adonai } יהוה {Jehovah }. ‘” (Exodus 6:2-8 De Geschriften 1998+)

“Aan Abraham, aan Isaak en aan Jakob ben Ik verschenen als God Almachtig; mijn naam Jahwe heb Ik hun niet geopenbaard.” (Exodus 6:3 WV78)

“Maar Ik heb u in leven gelaten om u mijn kracht te laten zien en om mijn naam bekend te laten worden over heel de aarde.” (Exodus 9:16 WV78)

“De naam van Jahwe is een machtige toren: de rechtvaardige snelt erheen en is in veiligheid.” (Spreuken 18:10 WV78)

“Op die dag zult gij zeggen: Looft jahwe, roept zijn naam uit, maakt onder de volken zijn daden bekend, verkondigt zijn hoog verheven naam.” (Jesaja 12:4 WV78)

prophesied in the name of Allah

geprofeteerd in de naam van Allah

Jeremiah 26:9: (SVD) لِمَاذَا تَنَبَّأْتَ بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ قَائِلاً مِثْلَ شِيلُوهَ يَكُونُ هَذَا الْبَيْتُ وَهَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةُ تَكُونُ خَرِبَةً بِلاَ سَاكِنٍ؟] وَاجْتَمَعَ كُلُّ الشَّعْبِ

Why prophesied in the name of Allah, saying this house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without an inhabitant? And all the people met

or: Why prophesied in the name of the Lord (Allah) shall be like Shiloh, saying this house and this city shall be desolate without Sakn.wagtma all the people on Jeremiah in the house of the Lord

(The Scriptures 1998+) (9) “Why have you prophesied in the Name of יהוה {Jehovah}, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city be dried up, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Yirmeyahu in the House of יהוה {Jehovah}.

(De Geschriften 1998+)”Waarom hebt u geprofeteerd in de Naam van יהוה {Jehovah}, zeggende: ‘Dit huis zal worden als Silo, en deze stad worden opgedroogd, zonder inwoner’?” En het ganse volk werd vergaderd tegen Yirmeyahu{Jeremias} in het Huis van יהוה {Jehovah}.

Colosians 3:17: إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدٌ يُفْسِدُ هَيْكَلَ اللهِ فَسَيُفْسِدُهُ اللهُ لأَنَّ هَيْكَلَ اللهِ مُقَدَّسٌ الَّذِي أَنْتُمْ هُوَ.

(svd): وَكُلُّ مَا عَمِلْتُمْ بِقَوْلٍ اوْ فِعْلٍ، فَاعْمَلُوا الْكُلَّ بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ يَسُوعَ، شَاكِرِينَ اللهَ وَالآبَ بِهِ.

And whatever you are saying or doing, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to Allah {الله} and the Father by him.

(The Scriptures 1998+) (17) And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the Name of the Master יהושע {Jeshua/Jesus}, giving thanks to Elohim the Father through Him.

(De Geschriften 1998+) En wat je ook doet in woord of daad, doet alles in de Naam van de Meester יהושע {Jeshua/Jezus}, dankzeggend aan Elohim de Vader langs hem.

Ephesians 1:17 (ASV): that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

Efeziërs 1:17 (WV78) Ik smeek de God van onze Heer Jezus Christus, de Vader der heerlijkheid, u de Geest te geven van wijsheid en openbaring om Hem waarachtig te kennen.

1 Corinthians 10:31 (ASV): Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthiërs 10:31 (WV78): Of gij dus eet of drinkt, of wat gij ook doet, doet alles ter ere Gods.

Ephesians 5:20 (ASV): giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to {1 } God, even the Father; {1) Gr the God and Father }

Efeziërs 5:20 (WV78): Zegt altijd voor alles dank aan God de Vader in de naam van onze Heer Jezus Christus.

All praise is to Allah, the Lord Of The Creation.

Alle lof is aan Allah, de Heer van de Schepping.

Allah/God is seen as the creator:

Isa 40:28 أَمَا عَرَفْتَ أَمْ لَمْ تَسْمَعْ؟ إِلَهُ الدَّهْرِ الرَّبُّ خَالِقُ أَطْرَافِ الأَرْضِ لاَ يَكِلُّ وَلاَ يَعْيَا. لَيْسَ عَنْ فَهْمِهِ فَحْصٌ.

28 أما عرفت ام لم تسمع.اله الدهر الرب خالق اطراف الارض لا يكل ولا يعيا ليس عن فهمه فحص.

“Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;” (Ecclesiastes 12:1 ASV)

“Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? {1} The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding. {1) Or [Jehovah is an everlasting God, the Creator…he fainteth not etc]}” (Isaiah 40:28 ASV)

“I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.” (Isaiah 43:15 ASV)

“Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator.” (1 Peter 4:19 ASV)

“Houd je schepper in ere zolang je nog jong bent, eer de kwade dagen komen en de jaren dat je zegt: het bevalt me niet meer.” (Prediker 12:1 WV78)

“Weet gij het niet of hebt gij het niet gehoord? Jahwe is een God van eeuwigheid, hij heeft de verste hoeken der aarde geschapen. Hij wordt niet moe noch uitgeput, zijn inzicht is niet te doorgronden.” (Jesaja 40:28 WV78)

“Ik ben Jahwe, uw Heilige, de Schepper van Israel, uw Koning.” (Jesaja 43:15 WV78)

“Daarom moeten ook zij die onschuldig te lijden hebben, omdat God het zo toelaat, hun ziel aan hun Schepper toevertrouwen door te doen wat goed is: Hij zal hen niet in de steek laten.” (1 Petrus 4:19 WV78)

English: This is one of the Names of Allah. It...

One of the titles of Allah, the Merciful. It means The Most Forgiving One. – Een van de vele tittelsdie Allah draagt: de Meest Vergevende of de Barmhartige (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Merciful Allah

De Genadevolle Allah

“ولكنه يعطي نعمة اعظم.لذلك يقول يقاوم الله المستكبرين واما المتواضعون فيعطيهم نعمة.” (يعقوب 4:6 (Arabic)

“لان الرب الهك اله رحيم لا يتركك ولا يهلكك ولا ينسى عهد آبائك الذي اقسم لهم عليه” (تثنية 4:31 Arabic)

“وأبوا الاستماع ولم يذكروا عجائبك التي صنعت معهم وصلّبوا رقابهم وعند تمردهم اقاموا رئيسا ليرجعوا الى عبوديتهم.وانت اله غفور وحنان ورحيم طويل الروح وكثير الرحمة فلم تتركهم.” (نحميا 9:17 Arabic)

“وبنو الغريب يبنون اسوارك وملوكهم يخدمونك.لاني بغضبي ضربتك وبرضواني رحمتك.” (اشعياء 60:10 Arabic)

“ها نحن نطوّب الصابرين.قد سمعتم بصبر ايوب ورأيتم عاقبة الرب.لان الرب كثير الرحمة ورأوف” (يعقوب 5:11 Arabic)

“فماذا ان كان الله وهو يريد ان يظهر غضبه ويبيّن قوته احتمل باناة كثيرة آنية غضب مهيأة للهلاك.” (رومية 9:22 Arabic)

“But he giveth {1} more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, {2} God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. {1) Gr [a greater grace] 2) Pr 3:34}” (James 4:6 ASV)

“for Jehovah thy God is a merciful God; he will not fail thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.” (Deuteronomy 4:31 ASV)

“and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art {1} a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and forsookest them not. {1) Heb [a God of forgivenesses]}” (Nehemiah 9:17 ASV)

“And foreigners shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee.” (Isaiah 60:10 ASV)

“Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the {1} patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful. {1) Or [endurance]}” (James 5:11 ASV)

“What if God, {1} willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: {1) Or [although willing]}” (Romans 9:22 ASV)

“Des te rijker is dan ook de genade die Hij ons geeft, volgens het woord van de Schrift: God weerstaat de hovaardigen, maar aan de nederigen geeft Hij genade.” (Jakobus 4:6 WV78)

“Want Jahwe uw God is een barmhartige God; Hij zal u niet aan uw lot overlaten, Hij wil uw ondergang niet en Hij zal het verbond niet vergeten dat Hij uw vaderen met een eed heeft bevestigd.” (Deuteronomium 4:31 WV78)

“Zij weigerden te luisteren en dachten niet meer aan de wonderen die Gij voor hen verricht had: Hardnekkig als ze waren stelden ze een leider aan en wilden ze terug naar de slavernij van Egypte. Maar Gij, God van vergeving, genadig en lankmoedig en groot in barmhartigheid, hebt hen niet aan hun lot overgelaten.” (Nehemia 9:17 WV78)

“Vreemdelingen zullen uw muren herbouwen, hun koningen staan u ten dienste; want al heb Ik u in mijn gramschap geslagen, in mijn welgevallen erbarm Ik Mij weer over u.” (Jesaja 60:10 WV78)

“wij prijzen hen gelukkig, omdat ze hebben standgehouden. Ge hebt ook gehoord van de standvastigheid van Job en ge weet hoe de Heer hem in het eind behandeld heeft, want Hij is rijk aan barmhartigheid en ontferming.” (Jakobus 5:11 WV78)

“En als God nu, om zijn toorn te tonen en zijn macht te doen kennen, de voorwerpen van die toorn, gereed voor de ondergang, met grote lankmoedigheid heeft verdragen,” (Romeinen 9:22 WV78)

An other title of Allah. It means The Very Forgiving One. – Een andere titlel voor Allah: de Zeer Vergevende of de Meest Vergevende (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Find the introduction to this series:

Public not informed enough about Jihad terrorism in Belgium

Quran versus older Holy Writings of Divine Creator

Koran tegenover veel oudere Heilige Geschriften

Additional reading:

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Allahi Allah Kiya Karo (merapoetics.com)
Just like a sunrise can’t be denied
Oh, just like the river will find the sea
O Allah, You’re here and You’re always near
And I know without a doubt
That You always hear my prayer
Reinventing Church – Dutch Style (abnormalanabaptist.wordpress.com)
In het midden van de nacht
Heer fluister ik uw naam heel zacht
Want u neemt mijn aan zoals ik ben
U kent mij zoals niemand kent
Ik ben bang Heer,
want de nacht is kil en koud
Zo benauwd,
Ik hoor alleen maar stilte
None can withhold the Mercy of Allah (xeniagreekmuslimah.wordpress.com)
Imam Ahmad recorded that Warrad, the freed slave of Al-Mughirah bin Shu`bah, said, “Mu`awiyah wrote to Al-Mughirah bin Shu`bah, saying, `Write for me what you heard from the Messenger of Allah .’
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(There is no god (worthy of worship) except Allah alone, with no partner or associate. To Him be praise and dominion, and He is able to do all things. O Allah, there is none who can withhold what You give, and none can give what You withhold, and and good fortune and richness in anything cannot benefit one against Your will.)
Loving Allah & The Holy Prophet Salla Allahu ta’ala’alayhi wa sallam (madinasharif.wordpress.com)
The Holy Prophet Salla Allahu ta’ala’alayhi wa sallam said, “Whoever possesses the following three qualities will have the sweetness of faith: (1). The one to whom Allah and His Apostle become dearer than anything else. (2). Who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah’s sake. (3). Who hates to revert to disbelief as he hates to be thrown into the fire.”
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Islamic history is full of instances of the companions, leaving their homes and properties, abandoning their closest relatives – all out of love for Allah and His Apostle Salla Allahu ta’ala’alayhi wa sallam.
Diversity of the Seven Different Recitations of the Quran Does Not Change the Meanings (sughayyirah.wordpress.com)
It is authentically reported from the Prophet (peace be upon him) that the Qur’an was divinely revealed in seven acceptable styles of recitations, i.e. seven Arab accents and dialects out of mercy and facilitating recitation. The recitations of the Qur’an have been transmitted by Tawatur (a significant number of reliable narrators whose agreement upon a lie is impossible). The consistency of the Qur’an confirms this. All the Qira’at of the Qur’an are based on revelation from Allah, the All-Wise, the Praiseworthy.Therefore, the diversity of Qira’at does not mean perversion, alteration, or ambiguity in the meanings of the Qur’an. Likewise, it does not imply contradiction or disorder in the objectives intended. In fact, each part of the Qur’an confirms and explains the other.
Through Surah al Kahf and Throughout our life! (yassarnalquran.wordpress.com)
Every week the regular reader is reminded that everything in this world happens with the knowledge and permission of Allah. Without the Will of Allah, nothing happens!Muslims are enjoined to say MaaShaaAllah and InShaaAllah in their day to day life. When making a plan, say Inshaa’Allah. If Allah wills, it will happen. Upon witnessing something pleasant or unpleasant, say MaaShaa’Allah. What Allah willed, has happened/What Allah wills, will happen! If you say these phrases by truly understanding its meaning and significance, then you will definitely feel a kind of closeness with your Lord, with Whose help, support, knowledge and permission everything happens!
+In a beautiful hadeeth narrated by Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu anhu) and mentioned in Sahih Muslim, the Prophet Muhammad (sal-lal-laahu-alaihi-wa-sallam) said:“A strong believer is better and is more lovable to Allah than a weak believer, and there is good in everyone, (but) cherish that which gives you benefit (in the Hereafter) and seek help from Allah and do not lose heart, and if anything (in the form of trouble) comes to you, don’t say: If I had not done that, it would not have happened so and so, but say: Allah did that what He had ordained to do, for your ” if” opens the (gate) of the doings of Satan”. (Read the Arabic text here)
‘Eid Al-Adha: Important Reminders (islamgreatreligion.wordpress.com)
we too need to increase in our ibaadah in the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah just as we do in the month of Ramadan. Then, and only then, will we be able to enjoy the community celebration of ‘Eid al-Adha and truly give this blessed day the right and respect that it deserves.
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Another sunnah is to say the takbeerat “Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, laa ilaaha illAllah, wa Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, wa lillaah il-hamd (Allah is Most Great, Allah is most Great, there is no god but Allah, Allah is Most Great, Allah is Most Great, and to Allah be praise)” when coming out of one’s house to the prayer place and until the imam comes.
BREAKING: Muslims Shout “Praise Allah!” Surround OK Police Following Press Conference on Beheading (revolutionradio.org)
Muslims shouting ‘Praise Allah’ surround Oklahoma cops after a press conference on the beheading in Oklahoma.
Who knows you better? (lionkingstress.wordpress.com)
Many of us grow up thinking that no one knows us better than we know ourselves, because we alone experience our sadness and joy, our thoughts and feelings. But many of us forget that Allah is the one who gifts us those joyous moments, those thoughts and feelings, those sadness moments to ponder upon. We tend to forget that if Allah is powerful enough to create us and provide us with everything we have, then he is also the only One who understands what we truly need, what is best for us.
Wahi Manzoom by Seemab Akbarabadi (zjeddy.wordpress.com)
Poet Seemab Akbarabadi translated the entire Holy Quran in beautiful Urdu poetry. It was published in one volume in India under title Wahi Manzoom.
+Naam say Allah kay karta houn aaghaz (e bayan)
Jo badha he rahm wala hai nihayat mehrbaa’n
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(Ay nabi ham ko) qasam hai dhoop chadtay waqt ki
Aur qasam hai raat ki jis waqt ho chayee huee
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Tum ko chora hai Khuda nay aur na hai tum say qafa
Aaqirat dunya say behtar hai tumhain (naam e Khuda.)

Koran tegenover veel oudere Heilige Geschriften

Posted on 2014/09/27 by Marcus Ampe

Ontevreden moslims boos over de wereld

Ik begrijp dat er heel wat moslims heel boos kunnen worden als ze kijken naar de “moderne wereld“, hoe deze evolueert en hoe de mensen zich durven te gedragen. Ook zij die zich Christen of Jood noemen zouden neerdunkend moeten kijken op sommige gebeurtenissen.

Als men de decadentie van onze westerse samenleving bekijkt is het niet verwonderlijk dat diepgelovigen zich hiertegenover ergeren en het op de duur als ontoelaatbaar aanschouwen dat er niet gereageerd zou worden op zulke levenswijze.

Ik kan het met hen eens zijn dat we misschien terug naar een decadente tijd gaan zoals wij reeds eerder in de geschiedenis andere periodes van teloorgang van zeden en gebruiken hebben gezien. Wij treffen botsingen aan van generaties en zien dat er teruglopende prestaties plaatsgrijpen en dat er een vermindering is van ethiek. Ook in onze tijd treffen wij nu een verval aan, zoals in de goede zeden of de kunst.
Dat verval of de morele degeneratie van een groep mensen, heeft meer dan eens plaats gegrepen in de menselijke geschiedenis, altijd aan het einde van een ‘hoge cultuur’. Maar dit staat niet toe dat de islamieten hun woede omzetten in agressie tegen de westerse publiek. Met behulp van terreur, marteling en verkrachting als middel om mensen te bekeren tot hun geloof is een volstrekt onaanvaardbaar iets en ook een onnuttige zaak daar zij enkel zal uitdraaien op een valse bekering. Van zulke bekeringen kan er niets goeds voor de islam voorkomen. Integendeel zal het meer kwaad dan goed kunnen doen. Dat hebben wij al kunnen zien in het christendom, waar men in de afgelopen eeuwen veel geprobeerd heeft om de heidense bevolking tot Christus te brengen, maar door het forceren van de conversie op hen konden ze veel heidense gebruiken en tradities overbrengen in de christelijke godsdienst, waardoor deze minder zuiver werd en een hele reeks doctrines tot het christelijk geloof bracht en meerdere stromingen met verscheiden leerregels deed ontstaan.

Kort menselijk bestaan

1° European verbcular language Quran 1647

1° Koran vertaling naar een Europese taal, het Frans in1647

Het leven is zeer kort en daarin krijgen we veel te leren, te verwerken en worden overladen met een hele boel materiaal om te lezen. Een van de belangrijkste boeken die ik vond dat ik moest lezen in mijn leven, waren boeken die door velen als heilige boeken worden beschouwd.
Een van die heilige boeken kon ik niet lezen in de originele Arabische taal en moest daarom uitkijken naar meerdere vertalingen, die ik met belangstelling en vertrouwen gelezen en vergeleken heb. Sommige van die vertalingen waren gemakkelijk te lezen en te volgen, anderen waren heel moeilijk. Maar van alle van deze vertalingen zijn er nog die zeggen dat we niet die vertalingen kunnen lezen en volgen, omdat we alleen de oorspronkelijke taal zouden moeten lezen, namelijk het Arabisch.

Voor mij zou dit heel vreemd zijn, omdat de mensen die dat ook zeggen, beweren dat zij er zeker van zijn dat hun boek het Woord van God is. Maar als alleen mensen die Arabisch kunnen spreken en begrijpen in staat zouden zijn om dat Woord van God te lezen, zou dit dan niet inhouden dat die god dan de andere mensen iets te kort doet? Zou deze God dan niet de kans geven aan die mensen om ook Zijn Woord te leren kennen en om dat door te geven aan andere mensen? Zou een God van liefde Zijn heilig Woord voor mensen die geen kennis van het Arabisch hebben onthouden?
Is Het Woord van de Schepper dan niet voor al Zijn schepselen?

Alzeggend Woord voor allen die godsbewustzijn willen hebben

Is het ook niet zo, dat de God der goden Zijn woord vertelt aan de wereld dat alle mensen worden gemaakt op basis van een enkele man en een vrouw, en dat Deze God/Allah de mens onderverdeelde in rassen en stammen, zodat zij elkander zouden herkennen. Is het ook niet opgetekend in de Schrift, dat in Gods ogen, de meest geëerde van die mensen degenen zijn die het Woord van God willen leren kennen? Staat Hij juist niet open voor hen die Zijn Woord willen bestuderen en meer inzicht willen krijgen in het Plan van die Schepper?

049.013 يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ مِنْ ذَكَرٍ وَأُنْثَى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
049.013 O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

Al-Qur’an, 049.013 (Al-Hujraat [The Private Apartments, The Inner Apartments])

Text Copied from DivineIslam’s Qur’an Viewer software v2.913

O, mensdom! Wij hebben u uit man en vrouw geschapen en Wij hebben u tot volkeren en stammen gemaakt, opdat gij elkander moogt kennen. Voorzeker, de godvruchtigste onder u is de eerwaardigste bij Allah. Voorwaar, Allah is Alwetend, Alkennend. (Soera 49:13).

O menschen! waarlijk, wij hebben u uit een mannelijk en een vrouwelijk wezen geschapen, en wij hebben u in volkeren en stammen verdeeld, opdat gij elkander zoudt kennen. Waarlijk, de achtingwaardigste uwer in Gods oog, is de vroomste, en God is wijs en alwetend.(49:13)

Een Ilkhanid Koran met Perzische vertaling tussen de lijnen. (Foto credit: Wikipedia)

Als ik denk aan de vele keren dat ik de koran las en herlas kreeg ik toch de indruk dat de woorden van de oude joodse en christelijke geschriften werden samengebracht en nog eens werden uitgelegd, soms in een andere volgorde, maar nog steeds hetzelfde bleken te willen vertellen. Had ik het mis om deze indruk te krijgen en te begrijpen dat volgens de koran onderwijs, religieus pluralisme van vitaal belang is voor de sociale orde en vooruitgang te krijgen? Had ik het mis om de indruk te wekken dat, op dezelfde manier waarop Jezus sprak over agape liefde, dat de Koran ons ook kwam te vertellen dat God wil dat mensen die tolerantie opbrengen voor anderen? Hebben de woorden van de profeet Mohammed ook niet hetzelfde te vertellen over de houding die we naar anderen moeten aannemen? Zou de kennis van de Koran ook niet de sleutel tot verdraagzaamheid bieden? Indien de zogenaamde voltooier van het monotheïstische geloof dat volgens de islam is begonnen met Adam en daarna werd geherintroduceerd door Nuh (Noach), Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Mozes), Isa (Jezus) en de overige profeten werkelijk een Boodschapper van God is, zou deze profeet dan ook niet in diezelfde lijn blijven voort prediken en al de voorgaande gezegden van de Allerhoogste hoogachten?

Verschil koesteren

Zijn er niet veel van de leerkrachten in de islam, die ons leren dat de Koran de verschillen viert tussen de mensheid, en niet alleen een geloofsgemeenschap instrueert, maar de gehele mensheid leert om goede daden te verrichten,de goede zeden en moraal leert te behouden, en aanmaant in vrede te leven met elkaar.

In de afgelopen jaren van het lezen (meerdere malen) van de Koran kreeg ik toch de indruk dat in de verscheidene kampen dit boek geweld werd aangedaan. Ik had, als ik mij goed herinner toch de indruk dat die woorden in dat boek herhaaldelijk gericht waren tot de mensheid als geheel en de wereld vertelde hoe we ons moeten gedragen, hoe we moeten proberen om ons eigen karakter te vormen, en hoe we onszelf aan anderen moeten presenteren. Een aantal geleerden van de oude islamitische school beweren ook dat de Koran mensen naar rechtvaardigheid leidt, en hen morele en spirituele waarden ingeeft. Die vroegere islamitische wijzen verwijzen de Islamieten of Mohammedanen zich naar daden van aanbidding en de islamitische wet te richten.
Ze zeggen ook dat:

De Koranische boodschap van diversiteit en samenleven de hoeksteen is van het islamitische principe voor een rechtvaardige en harmonieuze samenleving. Zo is religieus pluralisme, volgens de het onderwijs van de koran, van vitaal belang voor de sociale orde en vooruitgang, en biedt het de sleutel tot tolerantie: “Er is geen dwang in de godsdienst (2: 256);

“Je hebt je religie en ik heb de mijne.” (109: 6).

Opgezet tegen elkaar vanwege misverstanden

Folio van een Koran van de Abbasiden dynastie, het Nabije Oosten en Noord-Afrika. Inkt en kleur op perkament, 23,9 × 33,3 cm. Een deel van de Al-Fath Sura (48) verzen: 27-8. (Foto credit: Wikipedia)

Vanwege de hedendaagse moeilijkheden in het Oosten en in Noordelijk Afrika is er een verzuring ontstaan. De onderlinge ruzies waarbij de godsdienst als wapen gebruikt wordt heeft verschillende moslims, joden en christenen hun houding doen veranderen en gaat er heel wat verkeerd onder elkaar. Wegens de toenemende negatieve houding tegenover elkaar, vond ik het belangrijk om de woorden uit die drie monotheïstische godsdiensten samen te brengen en onder een loep te vergelijken. Met een opzet van neutraliteit wil ik die teksten onder de ogen van onze lezers brengen en hen ook vragen om er onbevooroordeeld naar te kijken. Persoonlijk durf ik dan ook nog mijn christelijke Christadelphian standpunt voor te leggen.

Graag zal ik de Koran verzen vergelijken met wat wij in de Bijbelvertalingen kunnen vinden. De Islamisten die bezwaren hebben aan een vertaling van de Koran verzoek ik dan naar de Arabische versie te kijken en naar de Arabische versie van de Bijbel en de vertaling daarvan.
Deze verzen naast elkaar leggend hoop ik dat wij en zij meer duidelijkheid kunnen krijgen in wat er werkelijk in die Heilige Geschriften geschreven staat.

Iedereen moet een idee krijgen van wat er werkelijk in die heilige boeken geschreven staat zodat zij ook kunnen nagaan waar mensen afwijken van wat er in die Heilige Geschriften staat, ook al beweren zij die te volgen..
Die Geschriften zijn: De Thora ook gespeld als Tora/Torah (Mozaïsche Wet / Tawraat) ook wel bekend als de Pentateuch, de Nevie’iem of Profeten, de (Aleph) Kethuvim/Ketoeviem of Hebreeuwse Geschriften, Bet- Kethuvim of Messiaanse of Griekse Geschriften (Nieuwe Testament met de evangeliën of Injil/Indjil (openbaring aan de profeet aan Isa/Jeshua/Jezus/Jesus gegeven), Apostolische Geschriften of brieven van de apostelen (epistels) en de Openbaring van Johannes de apostel) en de veel later geschreven Koran, die door velen ook wordt gezien als het woord van de “Heer van de Heren” of het “Woord des Heer des Heren”, dat Allah geopenbaard heeft aan Zijn “Boodschapper Mohammed (vrede en zegeningen van Allah zij met hem)”, om de mensheid voort uit de duisternis naar het licht te brengen.

In geval we het woord van Allah, God, kunnen vinden in dat boek dat ook “de recitatie” wordt genoemd, zoals het gepresenteerd wordt, als God de Almachtige Die mondeling geopenbaard zou hebben aan de profeet Mohammed in de 7 ° eeuw CE, moeten die woorden in harmonie en complementair zijn met de vorige woorden van de Goddelijke Schepper.

De vorige geschriften niet het eliminerend

Veel mensen lijken te vergeten dat de Koran de vorige geschriften, die bekend staan als het Woord van God niet uitsluit. Het boek dat we nu vaak vermeld horen in het nieuws en waar veel van die terroristische groepen over schreeuwen, namelijk de Koran (Quoran/Quran) bevestigt de Boeken die ervoor kwamen, namelijk de bovenvermelde Tawraat of Tawrat (Torah) en de Indjil (Evangelie). Velen lijken niet te begrijpen dat de Koran er ook eigenlijk een getuige van is, zoals Allah zegt:

005,048 وأنزلنا إليك الكتاب بالحق مصدقا لما بين يديه من الكتاب ومهيمنا عليه فاحكم بينهم بما أنزل الله ولا تتبع أهواءهم عما جاءك من الحق لكل جعلنا منكم شرعة ومنهاجا ولو شاء الله لجعلكم أمة واحدة ولكن ليبلوكم في ما آتاكم فاستبقوا الخيرات إلى الله مرجعكم جميعا فينبئكم بما كنتم فيه تختلفون

Al-Qur’an, 005.048 (Al-Maeda [The Table, The Table Spread])

005.048 To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee. To each among you have we prescribed a law and an open way. If Allah had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all virtues. The goal of you all is to Allah; it is He that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute;

Tekst Overgenomen uit DivineIslam’s Qur’an Viewer software v2.913 (Engels interpretatie van het koranvers):

مَا آتَاكُمْ ۖ فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ ۚ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ

Wij hebben u ook het boek, den Koran, gezonden, met waarheid, bevestigende de schrift, welke te voren was geopenbaard en dat haar voor verminking behoedt. Richt dus tusschen hen, overeenkomstig hetgeen God heeft geopenbaard, en volgt hunne begeerten niet, door van de waarheid af te dwalen, die u is geworden. Ieder uwer hebben wij eene wet gegeven en een open weg. En indien het Gode had behaagd, zou hij zeker één volk van u hebben gemaakt; maar hij heeft uwe getrouwheid willen beproeven, nopens de inachtneming van hetgeen hij u heeft gegeven. Streeft er dus naar, elkander in goede daden te overtreffen. Gij zult allen tot God terugkeeren en dan zal hij u datgene verklaren, waarover gij getwist hebt.(5:48)

En Wij hebben u het Boek (de Koran) met de waarheid geopenbaard vervullende hetgeen daarvََoor in het Boek (de Bijbel) was (verkondigd) en als bewaker daarover. Richt daarom tussen hen naar hetgeen Allah heeft geopenbaard en volg hun boze neigingen niet tegen de waarheid die tot u is gekomen. Voor iedereen bepaalden Wij een wet en een weg. En indien Allah had gewild zou Hij u allen tot één volk hebben gemaakt, maar Hij wenst u te beproeven met hetgeen Hij u heeft gegeven. Wedijvert dus met elkander in goede werken. Tot Allah zult gij allen terugkeren, dan zal Hij u datgene mededelen, waarover gij van mening verschilt.

Dezelfde of een andere god sprekend

Wanneer het de God van Mozes is die spreekt tot de favoriete profeet en boodschapper Abu al-Qāsim Muhammad ibn’Abd Allah ibn’Abd al-Moettalib ibn Hashim, beschouwd als de grondlegger van de religie van de islam en voor de moslims over de hele wereld geaccepteerd als de laatste van de profeten van God, over het heilige boek dat Koran (Quran) dan zou het diezelfde waarheid moeten verkondigen als die boeken die vóór hem werden opgetekend als het Woord van God. De Koran zou deze boeken dan moeten bevestigen en Muhaymin (betrouwbaar in hoogheid en een getuige) zijn over die oude geschriften.

Bahá’í-wereldcentrum in Haifa.

Volgens Sahih al-Bukhari, werd de Koran gereciteerd onder Levantijnen en Irakezen, en werd het ook besproken door christenen en joden, voordat het werd gestandaardiseerd. Er zijn ook een aantal niet-islamitische groepen die de Koran als heilig aanschouwen, zoals de Bahà’i en Druzen. Unitarische Universalisten kunnen ook inspiratie zoeken uit de koran.

Als een van de meest verguisde figuren uit de geschiedenis van het Westen van de 7de eeuw tot vrij recente tijden heeft Muhammad of Mohammed, ook veel controverse ondervonden, en zijn, door de eeuwen heen, zijn leven, daden en gedachten besproken door aanhangers en tegenstanders.

De verovering door de kruisvaarders van Jeruzalem in 1099

Omdat in het verleden er personen waren die proberen om het geloof tot de anderen te brengen en daarbij een heleboel agressie gebruikt hebben, is er een angst gekomen aan beide zijden voor de andere gelovigen in de Goddelijke Schepper. De kruistochten en inquisitie staan bekend als een verschrikking voor anders gelovigen dan de Katholieken en heden ten dage lijkt het alsof er een nieuw soort kruistochten aan de gang is met de Moslims nu als strijders.

Volgelingen van valse profeten en valse leraren

Vlag van de Islamitische Jihad Beweging in Palestina met Koran vers in de banner

Door godsdienstige verschillen of gelegitimeerd door godsdienstige argumenten zijn er in de geschiedenis meerdere valse leraren geweest, die de kans mooi zagen om hun leerstellingen te gebruiken om mensen tegen elkaar op te zetten.
Vandaag liggen zo de termen “heilige oorlog” of “jihad” op vele lippen. Op de vlag van de Islamitische Jihad Beweging in Palestina kan men zo een vers uit de Koran terugvinden: “En degenen die de jihad doen voor ons, zullen we begeleiden naar onze wegen. En God is met hen die goed doen. ”

Strijdlustige Taliban in Herat, juli 2001

Vandaag is het zelfs uitgegroeid tot een groter probleem, met groepen als die welke inspiratie vinden bij Osama bin Laden, Al Qaida, de Moslimbroederschap, Moedjahedien, de Harakat al-Jihad of Palestijnse Islamitische Jihad (PIJ), Hezbollah, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami, Hamas, Boko Haram, de Taliban, en dichter bij ons de Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Beweging en andere jihadisten die beweren dat hun wereldwijde jihad is gebaseerd op de Koran en hun strijd berust op “goddelijk gebods ethiek.” De leiders van die groeiende groepen doen aanspraak op het gezag van de religieuze tekst juist te interpreteren. Net als we sommige conservatieve christenen vinden die de Bijbel geschriften zeer letterlijk opnemen en geen rekening houden met de spreektaal van de vroegere schrijvers, vinden wij ook bij de islamieten volgelingen van Muhammad of Mohammed die geen rekening houden met de zegswijze van de oude taal. Die de islamitische predikers zijn echt er van overtuigd ‘dat zij alleen’ de waarheid zien en dat anderen hen zouden moeten volgen, omdat zij de ‘zuivere islam’ prediken.

جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد People Committed to the Prophet’s Teachings for Propagation and Jihad

De ‘zuivere islam’, die deze leraren prediken, is een geloof

“om Allah Azzawajal te behagen door de islam te dienen binnen de middelen die Hij heeft geschonken aan de wereld” Insha Allah “”.

Ze zeggen dat hun gids de Speech van Allah Azzawajal is zoals het is opgenomen in de Koran en hun voorbeeld is in de authentieke Soennah van Mohammed sallAllahu ‘alayhi wa salaam

“Zoals die door de Sahaabah radiallaahu ‘anhoem en de rechtschapen dienaren van Allah Azzawajal gepraktiseerd wordt, door hen die in hun edele voetsporen hebben gevolgd.”

De Kafirs en Kaffers

Velen van hen die door de Saoedische soennieten betaald worden aanschouwen veel andere islamitische groepen als ‘kafir’ (كافر) welk vergelijkbaar is alsof ze “ongelovige” zouden zijn. In het Nederlands betekent het niet-gelovige, niet-mohammedaanse, en de variant ‘kaffer’, is een scheldwoord dat de betekenis heeft van boer, boerenpummel, lomperd, schooier, schoelje, ragamuffin schelm, schurk,; eikel; bastaard, lomp persoon; boor; lomp; ongelovige.

Ik geloof dat om de ware, vreedzame islam, te begrijpen wij best we ook de Koran moeten lezen en er inzicht in krijgen door er kennis in te verwerven. Alleen door ook hun heilig boek werkelijk onder de loep te nemen kunnen wij de die moslimbroeders beter te woord staan over hun Heilige Schrift. Door kennis van de Koran te hebben kunnen wij ook diegenen die er misbruik van maken of de woorden verdraaien er op wijzen en terecht wijzen. Te veel zien wij dat er mensen zijn die de ene of andere groep verwerpen maar eigenlijk hun leerstellingen niet kennen.

Brabbeltaal ten opzichte van niet begrepen bewoordingen

Titelpagina van de eerste Duitse vertaling van de Koran in 1772: “De Turkse Bijbel, of de eerste Duitse vertaling van de Koran uit het Arabische origineel” door professor M. David Friederich Megerlin 1772 (Foto credit: Wikipedia)

We moeten ons ervan bewust zijn dat de grote meerderheid van de moslims in de hele wereld vandaag de dag, geen Arabisch spreken noch voldoende kennis er van hebben, zodat zij ook net als wij afhankelijk zijn van vertalingen. Het grootste gevaar is dat veel van die moslims niet durven om een vertaling te gebruiken, maar koranverzen in het Arabisch reciteren, zonder echt te weten wat ze zeggen, een beetje zoals een aantal decennia geleden in Europa in de Katholieke Kerken, waar de priester sprak in het Latijn, terwijl de meerderheid in de kerk niet echt wist wat hij werkelijk zei. In bepaalde moskeeën wordt er zo ook in het Arabisch gepredikt en weet een deel van de moskeegangers niet echt wat hij zegt. Voor het uitleggen van die teksten kan de prediker dan ook van alles zeggen en de mensen doen geloven geloven wat hun denominatie wil dat ze geloven. Dat is ook wat we vandaag zien gebeuren met de verschillende islamitische groepen. Ik ken gezinnen in mijn straat die getrouwde kinderen hebben in twee verschillende islamitische groepen die elk van de ander zegt dat zij totaal verkeerd zijn en slechte moslims zijn. Maar geen van hen is bereid om de zaken te bespreken of om te kijken naar een Nederlandse Koran vertaling. De vraag is of zij wel degelijk de Koran lezen, zoals wij die vraag ook naar Christenen kunnen stellen. Hoevelen lezen werkelijk regelmatig de Bijbel?

Met het prevelen van gebeden komt men niet echt verder in het begrijpen van de Heilige Geschriften als er ook niet daadwerkelijk de inzet is om meer van de tekst te leren kennen en te begrijpen. Persoonlijk heb ik nog onvoldoende Islamitische diensten kunnen vergelijken en predikers hun ‘kudde’ horen toespreken. Wel heb ik al diensten gezien waar iemand in het Arabisch sprak maar de meesten die tal niet machtig genoeg waren om alles goed te verstaan.

Spreken met elkaar

De volgelingen van de profeet Jezus moeten alle kansen waarnemen om over hun geloof te spreken. Zij, in de groeiende islamisering van onze wereld, moeten anderen laten zien wat Jezus predikte, en hoe hij de vorige woorden van zijn hemelse Vader verduidelijkte. In geschriften van de profeet Muhammad wordt hier trouwens naar verwezen (openbaring van Isa = Openbaring van Jeshua/Jezus/Jesus). Het is waar dat het niet Jezus zelf was die zijn woorden heeft opgetekend noch de Woorden van zijn vader heeft opgeschreven, maar Mohammed liet ook de schriftelijke vastlegging van zijn berichten door anderen verrichten. Beiden staan gekend als profeten en hun woorden moeten ook zo als meldingen van profeten met elkaar worden vergeleken. Alleen door te erkennen wat de ander leest in zijn Heilige Schrift is er een mogelijkheid om tot een goed begrip te komen. Maar door de woorden van de geschriften en de woorden van de predikers te vergelijken kan ook worden aangegeven waar bepaalde islamitische predikers fout gaan en zelfs zo ver gaan om de zaken in strijd met de Koran aan te leren.

Daarom is het belangrijk met enige kennis van de Koran die mensen er op te wijzen waar bepaalde moslims verkeerd gaan of afdwalen en hen terug te brengen op het juiste pad, plus aan beide, niet-gelovige, gelovige in een of andere god, jood, christen en moslim een idee te geven van wat bedoeld wordt in dat geschreven woord en een beeld te geven wat er degelijk in bepaalde geschriften staat. Om dit mogelijk te maken, zal ik een vergelijking van de Koran en de Bijbel presenteren en soms de verzen van beide boeken bespreken.

Net als in het christendom zijn er veel menselijke schrijvers of theologische geleerden die ideeën en scholen in de Islamitische godsdients teweeg gebracht hebben. Zoals in het Christendom we veel tradities kunnen vinden, kunnen wij ook in islamitische gezinnen meerdere tradities vinden die eigenlijk niet in overeenstemming zijn met wat er in de Heilige Geschriften staat. Hiervoor kunnen wij ook een aantal boeken van de traditionele commentaren onder ogen nemen, om licht te werpen op de verschillende passages uit de Koran. Ik zal ook daar durven om een blik op hen te nemen en nodig moslims en christenen uit om hun commentaar of inzicht ook daarop te geven op al die verzen, traditionele scholing en commentaren.

Een koran uit de 9de eeuw. Het is een vermeende 7e eeuw origineel van de editie van de derde kalief Uthman (Uthman Koran), maar dit is omstreden, omdat het is geschreven in kufic. De Koran is bewaard in de kleine Telyashayakh moskee in Tasjkent. (Foto credit: Wikipedia)

Door te kijken naar de Koran en de Bijbel, naast elkaar, kunnen moslims en christenen tot het beter begrijpen van elkaar komen, geloof ik. Maar het zal ook de mogelijkheid geven om beter in staat te zijn om tot meer duidelijkheid te komen wat de jihadisten aanhalen en waarom – en misschien zullen wij hierdoor ook wel makkelijker een weg vinden hoe zulke fundamentalistische denkers te woord te staan, hen te begrijpen, maar ook wat we kunnen en moeten doen om ze te weerstaan.

Door die hun geloof aan anderen op te dringen en dit zelfs te willen doen door middel van geweld, ondergaat de islamitische gemeenschap meer schade dan dat het haar ten goede zou komen. Het is ook geen hulp voor de islamitische gemeenschap dat de meeste islamitische leraren zichzelf verstoppen of niet openlijk reageren tegen die valse leraren in de islamitische wereld. Door hun stilzwijgen zijn heel veel mensen in het westen beginnen te geloven dat die woorden en daden van die fundamentalisten echt worden gepromoot in de Koran. Veel mensen beginnen te geloven dat wat die vechters beweren te doen voor het goede doel van het geloof is gebaseerd op de Koran. Maar dat is niet zo. Zeer veel van die dingen die ze doen zij zelfs verboden volgens de Koran.

Vergelijken van de Koran, joodse en christelijke Heilige Geschriften

Vele christenen willen de relatie van de grote verhalen verteld in de joodse en christelijke geschriften niet zien. Daarom zou het niet slecht zijn om de centrale religieuze tekst van de islam, waarin moslims geloven dat een openbaring van God te vergelijken (Arabisch: الله, Allah) met het Boek van de boeken van het christendom. Om die reden wilde ik ook een aantal islamitische leraar de vrijheid geven om uit te leggen hoe de moslims de koran hoofdstukken (soera’s genoemd) en zijn verzen of verzen interpreteren. Hoewel na maanden geduld en velen aangesproken te hebben kon ik toch niemand bereid vinden om dat te doen. Dit geeft mij alleen de keuze om het zelf te doen. Om Christenen zowel als moslims te laten zien wat de Bijbel en de Koran zeggen, ofwel hetzelfde, of iets anders, begin ik hier op dit platform met de vergelijking van beide geschriften en wil ik zo laten zien wat de Goddelijke Schepper, Allah, de Allerhoogste God der goden Zijn schepselen wilde doen horen, begrijpen en laten volgen.

In de hoop een manier te vinden waar we in vrede kunnen leven volgens de Wil van Allah, de Allerhoogste God, de Almachtige, de Elohim Hashem Jehovah.

English readers may find:

Public not informed enough about Jihad terrorism in Belgium

Quran versus older Holy Writings of Divine Creator

Sommige vertalingen van de Koran door de Ahmadiyya Moslim Jamaat op de Frankfurter Buchmesse 2009 (Foto credit: Wikipedia)

Aanvullende lectuur:

For English readers to remember:

I do understand that many Muslims may be very angry when they look at the “modern world”, seeing the decadence of our western society.

In Christendom, where in the past centuries many tried to bring the heathen populations to Christ but by forcing conversion on them allowed them to bring heathen uses or traditions into the Christian religion, making it less pure and bringing lots of umbilical doctrines to the Christian faith.

By wanting to push faith onto others by force, the Islamic community is undergoing more damage than receiving good.

Lots of people start believing that what those fighters claim to be for the good cause of faith and based on the Quran, is really based on what is written in the Quran. But that is not so. Lots of things they do are forbidden by the Quran.
Lots of Christians do not want to see the relationship of major narratives recounted in the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Therefore it would not be bad to compare the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God (Arabic: الله‎, Allah) with the Book of books of Christianity.

Lot of teachers in Islam teach that the Quran celebrates the differences amongst humankind, and instructs not only one faith group, but all of humanity to do good deeds, remaining good manners and morals, and to live in peace with each other.

The Quranic message of variety and coexistence is the cornerstone of the Islamic principle for a just and harmonious society. Thus religious pluralism, according to the Quranic teaching, is vital for social order and progress, and provides the key to tolerance: “There is no compulsion in religion (2:256); “You have your religion and I have mine.” (109:6).

Find also to read:

Additional reading:

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The Mysterious Moderate Muslim (americanthinker.com)
Islamic values are codified in the Koran. The idea that some Muslims might interpret those values in a moderate way is like saying there’s such a thing as jihad lite. There’s no getting around the fact that a central tenet of the Koran is mass murder – whether through the directive to kill infidels (non-believers), apostates (those who leave Islam), or hypocrites (Muslims who don’t practice their religion appropriately). In other words, most of civilization is fair game for slaughter. What, pray tell, would be a moderate version of that?
The Sword of the Quran: a Treatise on Religious Violence in Islam (heavenboundpkay.wordpress.com)
Islamic militancy is rooted in divinely mandated blood-lust. Many would object, and yet it is more evident now than ever to the world that the Quran provides the theological and ideological framework within which bigotry, brutality and bloodshed is not sanctified but demanded from the faithful.It is more shameful to know that the words of this book are mostly inspired by the thoughts of the man Muhammad who was a brutal conqueror, marauding towns, and laying cities to waste, massacring men, enslaving their children and usurping their properties. He actually inspired his followers to battle when they felt it was not right to, promising them captured humans as commodities – slaves; and threatening them with Hell if they would not oblige. Muhammad allowed his men to rape women captured in battle, sometimes on the same day that their husbands were slain like wayward livestock.
Destroying churches part of ‘Islamic doctrine’ (wnd.com)

A campaign by ISIS, also known as Islamic State, to destroy churches across Mosul, one of the ancient seats of Christianity where the faith has been practiced for 2,000 years, complies with the teaching of the Quran, according to several analysts.

The ISIS army of Islamic terrorists has been marching across Iraq, destroying Christians and evidence of their faith for months now. ISIS is blamed for the destruction of about 45 churches in Mosul.
Former Muslim Tells Obama How It Really Is With Islam and ISIL (pjmedia.com)
A former Muslim, the son of a Moroccan imam, posted a video this week called “A Message to President Obama From a Former Muslim,” in which he outlines both the dangers and motivations behind radical Islam.“Brother Rachid,” as he calls himself, says sarcastically that he does not disclose his full name because Islam is “the religion of peace.” He begins, “Dear Mr. President, with all due respect, sir, I must tell you that you are wrong about ISIL.” Rachid explains that his father is an Imam and he spent more than twenty years studying Islam. He said the president was wrong when he said that ISIL speaks for no religion. “I can tell you with confidence that ISIL speaks for Islam,” he said. “Allow me to correct you, Mr. President. ISIL is a Muslim organization.” He noted that even the name suggests ISIL is an Islamic movement.Brother Rachid, who has said that he converted to Christianity after listening to Trans World Radio broadcasts into Morocco, now preaches Christianity via an Arabic satellite TV program, which is broadcast throughout the Middle East. He explained to President Obama in his video that ISIS’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, holds a PhD in Islamic studies.”I doubt you know Islam better than he does. He was a preacher and an Islamic leader in one of the local mosques in Baghdad. ISIL’s 10,000 members are all Muslims. None of them are from any other religion. They come from different countries and have one common denominator — Islam.”
Top Guantanamo Detainees Release Statement Defending 9-11 Attacks on America (thegatewaypundit.com)
Many thanks to God who revealed the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran, and may God praise his messenger, the prophet Mohamed, so that he causes mercy to the two realms. Also, may God praise the prophet’s household, his entire companionship, and his followers until judgment day.With regards to these nine accusations that you are putting us on trial for; to us, they are not accusations. To us they are badges of honor, which we carry with pride. Many thanks to God, for his kind gesture, and choosing us to perform the act of Jihad for his cause and to defend Islam and Muslims.Therefore, killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you, responding back to your attacks, are all considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion. These actions are our offerings to God. In addition, it is the imposed reality on Muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq, in the land of the two holy sites [Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia], and in the rest of the world, where Muslims are suffering from your brutality, terrorism, killing of the innocent, and occupying their lands and their holy sites. Nevertheless, it would have been the greatest religious duty to fight you over your infidelity. However, today, we fight you over defending Muslims, their land, their holy sites,and their religion as a whole.
SHOCK: For First Time Ever Pope to Allow Reading of Quran and Islamic Prayers at Vatican This Sunday! (libertynews.com)
The Muslim world is finding much to rejoice about in a confusing and quite shocking decision made by the Pope. The Pope will allow Muslims to read from the Quran and chant Islamic prayers from the Vatican in a move said to promote peace.
Islam Condemns Terrorism (ireport.cnn.com)
I am a member of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. We are Muslims who believe in the Messiah, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is the only Islamic organization to believe that the long-awaited Messiah has come in the person of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908) of Qadian, India. Ahmad claimed to be the metaphorical second coming of Jesus of Nazareth and the divine guide, whose advent was foretold by the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad.
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The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community believes that God sent Ahmad, like Jesus, to end religious wars, condemn bloodshed and reinstitute morality, justice and peace. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is the leading Islamic organization to categorically reject terrorism in any form. More than a century ago, Ahmad emphatically declared that the doctrine of violent jihad goes against the teachings of the Holy Quran and the practice of Muhammad. The Holy Quran says, “Whosoever killed a person – unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land – it shall be as if he had killed all mankind.” ( Ch.5: v. 33)
Former imam: God saved me from torture after Christian conversion (catholicnewsagency.com)
“The holy Quran converted me to Christianity,” said Mario Joseph, a former imam who shared the story of his conversion and subsequent persecution with the HM Television program “Changing Tracks,” broadcast by the EUK Mamie Foundation run by the Home of the Mother religious community.
The Ice Bucket competitor: Can the Quran Challenge go viral? (religionnews.com)
Issam Bayan, a 26-year-old student and professional Islamic singer, came up with the idea as a way to awaken Muslim piety, just as the Ice Bucket Challenge raised awareness and well over $30 million for ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease..While the #QuranChallenge has no specific cause, Bayan, who lives in Germany, said he wanted to make it available to all Muslims regardless of their financial ability to make a contribution. In an email interview, he said the benefits for this challenge are the rewards that a Muslim receives for reciting the Quran.
Muslims are crucifying Christians who refuse to convert to the Religion of Peace (wdtprs.com)
Won’t convert? Won’t pay your fine for being an infidel? You have 4 punishments options: public execution (Qatl), crucifixion (Salb) and amputation of one hand and one foot from opposite sides (Yuqata’ Aydihim wa-Arjulihim) or exile (Nafy).
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To the awe of its readership, a recent Daily Mail article reports that the “jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant [ISIL],” [ISIS] which is currently entrenched in Raqqa, Syria, “publicly crucified two Syrian rebels in northeastern Syria in revenge for a grenade attack on members of their group.”While the Daily Mail is to be commended for exposing these barbaric acts-along with posting photos of the crucified-it nonetheless minimized their significance, in two important ways: 1) by repeatedly saying things like “even al-Qaeda is distancing itself from ISIL,” and so implying that the act of crucifixion is some wild aberration that even the poster-child of jihadi terror, al-Qaeda, wants nothing to do with it; and 2) ignoring the much “sexier” story that Christians in Syria are also being crucified simply for refusing to embrace Islam (as opposed to the rather mundane but politically more correct story of Islamic jihadis crucifying each other in the context of vendetta killings).

Quran versus older Holy Writings of Divine Creator

Posted on 2014/09/23 by Marcus Ampe

Non-Arabic speaking people

Life is very short and in it we get a lot of material to read. One of the more important books I got to read in my life were books which are considered by many as Holy Books.
One of those Holy Books I could not read in the original Arabic and had to trust several translations, which I read and compared with interest. Some of those translations were easy to read and follow, others were very difficult. But of all of them, some would say we may not read and follow those translations, because we only should read the original language: Arabic.

For me this would be very strange, because the people who say that also are sure their book is the Word of God. But when only people who can speak and understand Arabic would be able to read that Word of God, would this God not give the other people the chance to get to know His Word? Would a God of love withhold His Holy Word for people who have no knowledge of Arabic?

A Word of the Creator for all His creatures

Is there also not that God of gods Who tells the world that all people are created from a single man and a single woman, and made into races and tribes so that they should recognise one another. Is also not written in those Scriptures that in God’s eyes, the most honoured of those people are the ones most mindful of Him: God is all knowing, all aware. (Sura 49:13)?

Front of the Quran (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When I remember the many times I read and reread the Quran/Koran I got the impression words from the Old Jewish and Christian writings were brought together and were once more explained, sometimes in a different order, but still telling the same. Was I wrong to get the impression that according to Quranic teaching, religious pluralism is vital for social order and progress? Was I wrong to have the impression that, in the same way Jesus spoke about agape love, and telling us that God wants to see people who have tolerance for others? Did the words of the prophet Muhammad also not tell about the attitude we should take unto others? Would the knowledge of the Quran also not provide the key to tolerance?

Celebrating difference

العربية: القرآن في متحف التاريخ الطبيعي في نيويورك (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Are there not a lot of teachers in Islam who teach us that the Quran celebrates the differences amongst humankind, and instructs not only one faith group, but all of humanity to do good deeds, remaining good manners and morals, and to live in peace with each other.
I in the previous years of reading (several times) the Quran, that those words repeatedly addressed humanity as a whole and told the world how we should behave, how we should try to form our own character, and how we should present ourselves to others. Several of the old Muslim school taught that the Quran directs people towards justice, moral and spiritual values, and addresses Muslims specifically when referring to acts of worship and Islamic law.

They also say that:

The Quranic message of variety and coexistence is the cornerstone of the Islamic principle for a just and harmonious society. Thus religious pluralism, according to the Quranic teaching, is vital for social order and progress, and provides the key to tolerance: “There is no compulsion in religion (2:256); “You have your religion and I have mine.” (109:6).

Set up against each other because of misunderstandings

Because of the difficulties by different Muslims, Jews and Christians and their attitude going wrong against each other, I found it important to compare the words from those three monotheist religions together under one loop of neutrality and to look at them from my Christian Christadelphian viewpoint.

Bringing these verses next to each other should give an idea of what is really written in those Holy Books: The Torah (The Law/Tawraat) also known as the Pentateuch, the Nevi’im or (Hebrew) Prophets, the (Aleph) Kethuvim or Hebrew Writings, (Bet-)Kethuvim or Messianic or Greek Writings (New Testament with its Gospels or Injeel/Injil, Apostolic Writings or Epistles and the Revelation of Saint John the apostle) and the much later written Quran, which is by many also considered to be the word of the “Lord of the Worlds”,

which Allah revealed to His Messenger Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), to bring mankind forth from darkness into light.

In case we can find the word of Allah, it is God, also in “the recitation” as presented, Who verbally revealed, to the prophet Muhammad in the 7°century CE, those words should be in unison and complementary with the previous words of the Divine Creator.

Not eliminating previous scriptures

Lots of people seem to forget that the Quran does not eliminate the previous writings, known as the Word of God. The book we often hear about in the news and where many of those terrorist shout about, namely the Quran (Quoran/Koran) confirms the Books which came before it, the Tawraat (Torah) and Injeel (Gospel).Many do not seem to understand the Quran is a witness over them, as Allah says

005.048 وَأَنْزَلْنَا إِلَيْكَ الْكِتَابَ بِالْحَقِّ مُصَدِّقًا لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مِنَ الْكِتَابِ وَمُهَيْمِنًا عَلَيْهِ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ وَلا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ عَمَّا جَاءَكَ مِنَ الْحَقِّ لِكُلٍّ جَعَلْنَا مِنْكُمْ شِرْعَةً وَمِنْهَاجًا وَلَوْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَلَكِنْ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ فِي مَا آتَاكُمْ فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ إِلَى اللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ
005.048 To thee We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it, and guarding it in safety: so judge between them by what Allah hath revealed, and follow not their vain desires, diverging from the Truth that hath come to thee. To each among you have we prescribed a law and an open way. If Allah had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all virtues. The goal of you all is to Allah; it is He that will show you the truth of the matters in which ye dispute;

Al-Qur’an, 005.048 (Al-Maeda [The Table, The Table Spread])

Text Copied from DivineIslam’s Qur’an Viewer software v2.913(English interpretation of the Quranic Verse):

Same or different god speaking

When it is the God of Moses speaking to the favoured prophet Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim, considered to be the founder of the religion of Islam and accepted by Muslims throughout the world as the last of the prophets of God, about the Holy Book that Quran (Quran/Koran)) in truth should confirm those books that came before it and Muhaymin (trustworthy in highness and a witness) over it (old Scriptures).

According to Sahih al-Bukhari, the Quran was recited among Levantines and Iraqis, and discussed by Christians and Jews, before it was standardized. There are also some non-Muslim groups who view the Quran as holy, such as Baha’is and Druze. Unitarian Universalists may also seek inspiration from the Quran.

Being one of the most-reviled figures in the history of the West from the 7th century until quite recent times Muhamad has encountered also a lot of controversy, his life, deeds, and thoughts having been debated by followers and opponents over the centuries.

Because in the past those trying to bring faith unto others having used quite often a lot of aggression, there has come a fear on both sites for the other believer in the Divine Creator.

Followers of false prophets and false teachers

Flag of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. The organization’s banner leads from a verse in the Qur’an “And those who do jihad for Us, we shall guide them to our paths. And God is with those who do good.”

Today it even has become a bigger problem, having groups like those which foud inspiration in Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, Mujahideen, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Harakat al-Jihād or Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hezbollah, Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen- al-Islami, Hamas, Boko Haram, Taliban, closer to us the Mirza Ghulam Ahmad movement, and other jihadists who claim their global jihad is grounded in Quranic “divine command ethics.” The leaders of those growing groups claim authority to interpret the religious text. Like we can find some Christians taking the Bible writings very literally and not taking the old language in mind, those Islamic preachers do the same with an almost literal reading of their sacred scripture. They are really convinced ‘they alone’ see the truth and others should have to follow them, who are following “pure Islam.”

The “Pure Islam,” those teachers present, is a faith

“to please Allah Azzawajal by serving Islam within the means He has bestowed upon the world “Insha Allah””.

They say their guide is the Speech of Allah Azzawajal as it is contained in the Qur’an and their example is in the authentic Sunnah of Muhammad sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam

“as practiced by the Sahaabah radiallaahu ‘anhum and the righteous servants of Allah Azzawajal who have followed in their noble footsteps.”

The Kafirs and kaffers

Many of them paid by the Saudi Sunnis consider lots of other Muslim groups as ‘Kafir’ (كافر) which would be similar to calling them “disbeliever”. In Dutch it means non-believer, non-Mohammedan, and its variant ‘kaffer‘, invective, which has the meaning of peasant, ragamuffin rascal, scoundrel; peasant bastard; jerk; bastard, boorish person; boor; uncouth; infidel.

I do believe that in order to understand the true, peaceful Islam, we also should read the Quran and by having knowledge of that book, we also should be more able to speak to those Muslim brothers about their Holy Writing and about the matters spoken off in the Holy Scriptures the Bible.

Gabble over non-understandable words

We must be conscious that the great majority of Muslims around the world today, do not speak Arabic, and they too like we have to depend on translations. The greatest danger is that many of those Muslims dare not to take a translation but recite Quran verses in Arabic without really knowing what they say, a little bit like some decennia ago in Europe in the Catholic Churches, the priest speaking in Latin, with the majority in church not knowing what he really was saying. This way the preacher can say anything and make them believe anything what their denomination wants them to believe. That is also what we see happening today with the different Muslim groups. I know families in my street who have children married to two different Islamic groups, each saying the other is totally wrong and a bad Muslim. But none of them is willing to discuss the matters or to look at a Dutch Koran translation.

Speaking to each other

The followers of the prophet Jesus should take all opportunities to speak about their faith. They, in the growing Islamization of our world should let others see what Jesus preached and how he made the previous words of his heavenly Father clear. It is true Jesus did not write down his nor his Father‘s Words, but Muhammad left also the written recording of his messages to others. Both those prophets words should be compared with each other. Only by recognising what the other reads in his Holy Scriptures there can come an understanding but can also be shown where certain Muslim preachers go wrong and even go so far to teach matters contrary to the Quran.

Therefore to show people where certain Muslims went or go astray and to bring them back on the right path, plus to give both, non-believer, believer in One or a god, Jew, Christian and Muslim an idea of what is written and meant in certain scriptures, I shall present a comparison of the Quran and Bible and sometimes discuss the verses of both books.

As in Christendom there have been many human writers or theological scholars who brought ideas and schools. As in Christendom we can find many traditions in Islamic families and may find several books of traditional commentaries, to shed light on various passages. I also shall dare to have a look at them and invite Muslims and Christians to give their commentary or understanding on all those verses, traditional schooling and commentaries.

By looking at the Quran and the Bible, next to each other, Muslim and Christian can come to understanding each-other better, I do believe. But we all shall be able to come to see more clearly what makes the jihadists tick — and also perhaps understand what we can and must do to resist them.

In the hope to find a way were we can live in peace according to the Will of Allah, the Most High Almighty God, The Elohim Hashem Jehovah.

from Smithsonian :Folio from a Koran :9th-10th century :Abbasid dynasty :Ink and color on parchment :H: 22.5 W: 29.7 cm :Egypt :Purchase, F1929.71 The verses are from sura (chapter) 22, entitled al-Hadj (Pilgrimage) and include a discussion of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The Hadj is one of the five principal duties of every Muslim. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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“Huffaz” is plural for “hafiz,” (pronounced HA-fizz) the Arabic term for someone who has memorized the Quran. In the Muslim world, it’s an honor of high respect akin to professor or scholar.
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in countries like the United States, where Islam is young, huffaz have until recently been hard to come by. Many communities outsource the job during Ramadan.“Some parts of the world have a number of huffaz and other parts not so many,” said Ebrahim Moosa, a professor of religion and Islamic studies at Duke University. “In the U.S., there’s not a big supply of huffaz, so you have to get them from abroad.”Throughout the Muslim world, children begin to memorize the Quran early and even small, rural communities have a hafiz they can rely on during Ramadan. Similarly many large cities around the world have more huffaz than can be employed by their mosques during the holy month. Egypt, in particular, produces a number of highly respected huffaz, according to Moosa.
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