Re: From Abraham to Mohammad The Thread that Links all the Prophets
- From: "Rock" <peace@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:09:22 GMT
"The SPIRIT OF TRUTH" <avatar1.shyke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The fatal error that most students of the life of Muhammad the
> prophet of Islam (pbh) commit is to study his life out of its
> historical and geopolitical context. The historical geopolitical
> context that we refer to here is the fact that he descended from the
> family of Abraham and that the children of Abraham constitute a major
> portion of the inhabitants of the land stretching between the Euphrates
> and the Nile.
> The family of Abraham (pbh) is generally understood to have two
> parts. Those descending from his first wife Sarah and those descending
> from his second wife Hagar. Sarah gave birth to a son known as Isaac
> who became the father of Jacob who was given the nickname Israel.
> Israel became the father of twelve sons who themselves became the heads
> of the famous twelve tribes of Israel. The Holy Qur'an refers to this
> side of the family of Abraham (pbh) as the 'children of Israel'.
> The designation 'Jews' refers to only one of the twelve tribes of
> Israel, i.e. the children of Judas the son of Israel.
> The second branch of Abraham's family is normally called after
> their father Ishmael Abraham's first born son, being the fruit of his
> marriage with his maidservant Hagar. Ishmael became the father of
> twelve sons who themselves became the heads of twelve tribes generally
> known as the Ishmaelite tribes of Arabia or the Musta'riba Arabs.
> The children of Israel lived in parts of Palestine according to the
> promise given to Abraham by God. For this side of the family Jacob
> (pbh) built the House of Sanctity (Baitul Maqdis) in Jerusalem.
> According to a decision made by God himself Abraham (pbh) took his
> wife Hagar and his first born child and planted them in the valley of
> Becca in a completely lifeless quarter. Around the valley of Becca
> lived the twelve tribes of Ishmael. For this branch of the family
> Abraham built the Inviolate House (Al Baitul Haraam) at Mecca under
> direct commands from Almighty God himself.
> The question that arises from the very outset is, what religion did
> Abraham (pbh) follow? The answer is very simple. In the book of Genesis
> we are told that Abraham was the son of an idol maker. He rejected all
> forms of idolatry and sought the true Lord of the universe. God
> received him and guided him to His righteous ways. As a consequence, he
> was trained as a model for mankind and as a founder for a faith that
> was destined to reach every corner of the earth. In the book of
> Genesis, chapter 22 verse 02 (22:02) God tells Abraham "Take your
> son, your only son ... whom you love.. Sacrifice him there as a burnt
> offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about". Both the
> Qur'an and the Bible tell us that he submitted totally to the will of
> his Lord and was about to slaughter his only son when "the angel of
> the Lord called out to him from heaven" and told him (Genesis 22:12)
> "now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me
> your son, your only son." The same situation is described in the
> Qur'an as follows: And when they surrendered totally and he (Abraham)
> caught him by his forehead We called unto him: Oh Abraham! You have
> already fulfilled the vision. Lo thus do we reward the good. Lo that
> verily was a clear test." The Bible specifies the nature of the
> reward that Abraham was going to receive in return for his total
> submission to God. In Genesis 22:16 God declares the following reward:
> "I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done
> this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless
> you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and
> as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of
> the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on
> earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.".
> Obviously, this was not the only time in which Abraham's total
> submission to the decrees of his Lord was tested. The Old Testament
> tells us that on the day Sarah's son Isaac was weaned Abraham held a
> great feast and Sarah saw Ishmael, Hagar's son mocking, and she said
> the following to Abraham, Genesis 21:10 "Get rid of that slave woman
> and her son, for that slave woman's son will never share in the
> inheritance with my son Isaac." The matter distressed Abraham greatly
> because it concerned his son. But God said to him, "Do not be
> distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to whatever Sarah
> tells you... I will make the son of the maidservant into a nation also,
> because he is your offspring".
> As a result of this directive Abraham had to take his wife and his
> first born child Ishmael from Hebron where he lived to Mecca, at a
> time when there was not a single house in the whole area, another
> tremendous display of total submission on the part of Abraham.
> Neither the Old Testament nor the Qur'an say that Abraham had any
> religion other than monotheism and total submission to the will of the
> only God. The Arabic word to express this faith is Islam.
> The Holy Quraan 22:78 tells us that Abraham was the first man to
> coin the word Muslim :
> "And strive in the way of Allah exactly as you should. He has chosen
> you and hath not
> laid upon you in religion any hardship; keep to the faith of your
> father Abraham. He has
> named you Peace Makers (Muslims) long ago and in this revelation [you
> are called
> Muslims] that the messenger may be a witness against you, and that you
> may be witness
> against mankind. So establish worship, pay the poor-due, and hold fast
> to Allah. He is your protecting friend. A blessed Patron and a blessed
> Helper.
>
>
> The word Islam is derived from the root / s l m/ from which both
> the noun salaam meaning peace and the noun Muslim meaning peace maker
> are derived. However, from the same root the verb 'aslama' meaning
> submitted is also derived. This makes it a hard job to find a single
> counterpart in the English language. If Abraham was the first man to
> coin the word Muslim then the word must have been in use among his
> descendants. Accordingly one finds that the translators of the Bible
> decided to render the word as 'Peace Makers' as in the statement of
> Jesus in Matthew 05:05:
> Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
>
> If Abraham was a man who totally submitted to his Lord and made peace,
> then naturally he was a Muslim (peace maker). He was not Jewish because
> he did not belong to the tribe of Judas nor was he Christian because he
> did not follow the teachings of Saul of Tarsus (Paul).
> If we use the same criteria to Moses we will easily discover that Moses
> was not Jewish because he did not descend from the tribe of Judas,
> rather he came from the tribe of Levi. However, from the religious
> point of view his faith was based on total submission to the will of
> God manifested in his law; that Law was received written on clay
> tablets on the Mount of Sinai. That Law was neither Jewish nor written
> by Judas. That Law was Gods Law and totally submitting to it is called
> Islam. In short, you don't need to descend from the tribe of Judas to
> totally submit to God's Law, if you do submit (to God's law) you
> would not be called Jewish, rather, Muslim (Peace Maker).
> Let us consider the case of Jesus Christ (pbh). Again the New Testament
> tells us that Jesus was not Jewish. According to the New Testament
> Jesus Christ had no human father. His miraculous birth was the direct
> consequence of a word said by God that he will be and he was. That is
> why the Qur'an refers to him as the word of God. That is on the side
> of the father he was not Jewish. On the side of his mother Mary (pbh),
> he was a Levite, since Mary was the sister of Elizabeth and Elizabeth
> was the wife of Zachariah the father of John the Baptist who were all
> Levites descending from Aaron.
> If Jesus and his cousin John the Baptist were in fact Levites, then
> they were not Jewish nor were they Christian. In all his speeches in
> the synagogues Jesus was actually attacking the Jews and trying to
> prove to them that they were not only misguided but misguiding the rest
> of Israel "the blind leading the blind".
> So what religion was Jesus following? Did he have a golden cross around
> his neck? No! Did he go to church every Sunday? No! Did he believe in a
> trinity? No! Did he believe that sacrifice is the solution? No! Did he
> believe that he came to die on the cross? No! Did he want to die on the
> cross? No! Did his disciples believe that he came to die on the cross?
> No! Did they believe that he was supposed to die on the cross and arise
> on the third day? No! Was he actually crucified? If so what was he
> doing in the clothes of a gardener on the Sunday following the
> crucifixion? What was he trying to prove by eating fish? Let us trace
> his beliefs in the New Testament.
> Matthew (04:08):
> Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the
> kingdoms of the world and their splendor. "All this I will give
> you." he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."
> Jesus said to him, "Away from me Satan! For it is written:
> 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only." Then the devil
> left him, and angels came and attended him.
> He consciously rejected the devil and his offer of worldly power and
> opted to worship God almighty alone.
> Matthew (19:16)
> Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, "Teacher, what good thing must
> I do to get eternal life?"
> "Why do you ask me about what is good?" Jesus replied. "There is
> only one who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the
> commandments."
> He makes a clear distinction between himself and God who is the only
> perfect being, and teaches people to obey God's commandments.
>
> Luke (18:18):
> A certain ruler asked him, "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit
> eternal life?" "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered.
> "No-one is good -except God alone. You know the commandments: 'Don
> not commit adultery, do not murder. do not steal, do not give false
> testimony, honor your father and mother.'"
> Again Jesus is emphasizing the distinction between himself as a
> fallible human being and God the perfect being.
> Mark (12:28):
> "One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating.
> Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "of
> all the commandments, which is the most important?"
> "The most important one" answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear Oh
> Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with
> all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with
> all your strength'. The second is this: Love your neighbor as
> yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
> "Well said, teacher," the man replied. "You are right in
> saying that God is one and there is no other but him. To love him with
> all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength
> and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt
> offerings and sacrifices."
> The essence of monotheism is that God is one indivisible entity (Ehad).
> Associating any partners with God is idolatry.
> Deuteronomy (05:07) "You shall have no other gods before me. You
> shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven
> above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow
> down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God am a jealous
> God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and
> fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to thousands
> who love me and keep my commandments.
>
> Accordingly, Jesus was not Christian nor was he Jewish. He was a
> believer in worshipping God alone and serving him only. He believed and
> taught that attaining eternal life can only come through total
> submission to God through following his commandments. He said that his
> mission was to implement the Law of God and that is why he declared
> himself to be the King of Israel (The Messiah, the anointed one, the
> Christ). Listen to him speaking: "
> "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the Prophets; I
> have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the
> truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not
> the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the law
> until everything is accomplished" (Matthew 5:17).
> Matthew 05:19 Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments
> and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom
> of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be
> called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your
> righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the
> law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven".
>
> Rome tells us that by hanging on the cross Jesus fulfilled God's Law.
> A very funny joke, isn't it. let us try it today and see how much fun
> we will have. If we crucify Tony Blair and forget about the highway
> Code imagine the amount of fun we will have.
> The truth of the matter is that it wasn't Jesus' own desire to die
> on the cross. It was the desire of the Roman Empire that Jesus or
> anybody who rebelled against Caesar should die a terrifying death on
> the cross (state terror tactics). We all know that Rome got rid of
> Jesus Christ because he challenged its authority by claiming he was
> "the king of the Jews" (Luke 19:38) "Blessed is the king who
> comes in the name of the Lord". Not only did he claim that he was the
> king of the Jews but he acted as a king preparing his army to face the
> Roman army and was stalling for time (Luke 14:31)"or suppose a king
> is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down
> and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one
> coming against him with twenty thousand? If he is not able, he will
> send a delegation while the other is still along way off and will ask
> for terms of peace". He was anointed king in Bethany (Mark 14:03) in
> exactly the same way in which king Saul was anointed by Samuel (Samuel
> 10:00). He was urging his followers to buy swords even if that meant
> selling their own garments (Luke 22:36)"and if you don't have a sword
> sell your cloak and buy one." In many places he was simply preparing
> his followers to die on the cross, a well known punishment for those
> who dared rebel against the Roman Empire (Luke 14:27) "anyone who
> does not carry his cross and follow me can not be my disciple". More
> important is his proclamation that he came to fulfill the law cursing
> anybody who dared delete a letter from the law (Matthew 5:17) "Do not
> think that I have come to abolish the law or the Prophets; I have not
> come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until
> heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least
> stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the law until
> everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these
> commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in
> the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these
> commandments will be called great in the kingdom of heaven". All
> this shows that Jesus was the enemy of Rome. It was in Rome's interest
> to get rid of Jesus Christ at any cost and so Rome did. Having
> eliminated Jesus, the problem seems to have become worse because we all
> know that at 70 AD the Roman emperor Titus had to destroy the Holy land
> to stem all forms of opposition that seem to have assumed very
> dangerous military proportions.
> The problem with most Christians is that although they are aware of
> all the above facts they will only accept as final truth about Jesus
> Christ "the bible according to Rome". They fail to realize that the
> bible that exists in our hands today is the only version that Rome
> chose not to censer *. Why? Because Rome's own word is written therein.
> The mission of St. Paul, a self admitted enemy of Jesus Christ, has
> basically been to undermine that of Jesus Christ. A simple comparison
> of the objectives of the two adversaries shows the hidden agenda. Jesus
> Christ wanted to establish a kingdom based on the rule of God's law in
> line with that of King David's (Matthew 5:17). Consider for a moment
> why God was angry with the Jews. In Jeremiah 9:11 God says "I will make
> Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals;" and in 9:13 He explains
> why: "It is because they have forsaken my law, which I set before
> them". Jesus' mission is clearly to redress the situation and
> reestablish God's rule (kingdom) on earth. Whereas St. Paul's mission
> was basically to nullify the law (Acts 21:28)"This is the man who
> preaches to everyone everywhere against our people and our law ..
> "sanctioning, thereby, the rule of Caesar(pagan Rome), and to blame
> the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on the Israelites themselves absolving
> Rome from the blood of Jesus . As a matter of fact, had it not been for
> the protection of the Roman Army he would have been killed by the
> Children of Israel (Jesus and his followers were subscribers to the Law
> of Moses not Christians) long before his escape to Rome.
> If Jesus did not come to die on the cross, what mission did he come to
> fulfill? He says I came to implement the Law. But how did he think he
> was going to implement the Law? Obviously by becoming the king of the
> Jews (the Messiah). Is this truly what he had in mind all along and is
> this the manifesto on which his followers chose to support him and were
> ready to die on the Cross if need be? Let us listen to this brief
> conversation between Jesus (pbh) and his followers, even after the
> crucifixion had taken place:
> Acts (01:06) So when they met together, they asked him, "Lord, are
> you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?". He said to
> them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has
> set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy
> Spirit comes on you"
> So the Disciples were expecting Jesus to restore the Kingdom of God to
> Israel, but Jesus indicated that it was not going to happen in his life
> and that only when the Holy prophet comes will the Kingdom of God
> return to Israel. The word spirit in the language of the bible does not
> always refer to ghost, rather it has been used frequently to indicate
> prophet (please refer to 1 John 04).
> History testifies that what Jesus promised his Disciples did take place
> literally. The armies of the Holy prophet did defeat the armies of the
> Roman Emperor Heraclius and the Kingdom of God was reestablished on
> earth and the children of Israel were free again to worship Elohim and
> to submit totally to his commandments".
>
The word "Islam" comes from the word "Aslama", which means to surrender.
Jesus was able to survive even death; Mohammad was not. Christ warned us of
false prophets, especially those who would come in his name.
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