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In the name of All\u0101h,<\/span>
\nthe Beneficent, the Merciful.<\/span>
\nPeace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<\/span>
\nDEDICATED TO<\/span>
\nAll\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<\/span>
\nLord of the worlds<\/span>
\nAND TO<\/span>
\nMohammad\u2013who brought the world<\/span>
\nto our feet and eternity to our arms.<\/span>
\n*<\/span><\/p>\n

ALL\u0100H<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c<\/strong>Surely I am All\u0101h, there is no<\/span>
\nGod but I, so serve Me, and keep up<\/span>
\nprayer for My remembrance;\u201d<\/span>
\n\u201cAnd We sent no messenger before<\/span>
\nthee (Mohammad) but We revealed to him<\/span>
\nthat there is no God but Me, so serve Me\u201d<\/span>
\n(Qur\u2019an 20:14; 21:25; 23:32).<\/span><\/p>\n

If Allah is Hubal and Molech and a pagan moon-God as Christians and others have postulated, then this Hubal and Molech and pagan moon-God has given to the world the best Book in Scriptural history. For the\u00a0<\/span>Qur\u2019an<\/a>\u00a0<\/span> contains teachings of past Scriptures and also has teachings not met with in other Scriptures. Thus, the Qur’an consists of, exceeds, and supersedes all other Scriptures.
\n<\/span>Moreover, given that to suffer\/punish someone else for your satisfaction is sadism, the Christian doctrine of original\/inherited sin and vicarious atonement is sadistic. Thus, in contrast to Hubal and Molech and pagan moon-God and All\u0101h Who forgives ALL sins unconditionally, the Christians\u2019 God, needing the satisfaction of Jesus\u2019 blood to forgive sins, is a sadist.
\n<\/span>NB:<\/span>\u00a0The God of Moses and of Jesus Who revealed Divine Unity and self-responsibility for sin(s) is NOT the God of Christians. The Christians’ God, Whoever He is, is the God of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Trinity<\/a><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> original\/<\/span>inherited sin<\/a><\/span> and vicarious atonement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

PROPER NAME:<\/span>
\n\u201cAllah, according to the most correct of the opinions respecting it, is a proper name applied to the Being Who exists necessarily by Himself, comprising all the attributes of perfection<\/em> (T-LL), the al being inseparable from it, not derived <\/em>(Msb-LL). Al-ilah<\/em> is a different word, and Allah<\/em> is not a contraction of al-ilah<\/em>. The word Allah is not applied to any being except the only true God, and comprises all the excellent names, and the Arabs never gave the name Allah to any of their numerous idols.\u201d 1<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That All\u0101h and the God of the Bible are the same\u00a0(though Islam does not accept all of the teachings of the Bible),\u00a0<\/span>Professor Abdul Ahad Dawud\u00a0B.D.\u00a0\u2013\u201cthe former Reverend David Benjamin Keldani, B.D., a Roman Catholic priest of the Uniate-Chaldean sect\u201d\u2013\u00a0<\/span>explains in his book, Muhammad in the Bible<\/em>:<\/span>
\n\u201cIf the Christian priests and theologians knew their Scriptures in the original Hebrew instead of in translations as the Muslims read their Qur-an in its Arabic text, they would clearly see that All\u0101h is the same ancient Semitic name of the Supreme Being who revealed and spoke to Adam and all the prophets.\u201d\u00a02<\/span>
\n<\/sup>Since Allah \u201cis the same ancient Semitic name of the Supreme Being,\u201d it cannot be a name that was originated by \u201cheathen Arabs,\u201d when this name predates the \u201cheathen Arabs\u201d to Adam.<\/span><\/p>\n

All\u0101h and Hubal<\/em><\/strong>: Muhammad Ali explained:\u00a0\u201cIt should be further borne in mind that the idolaters did not deny the existence of God the Supreme, Whom they believed to be above their idols, who were recognized only as minor deities.\u201d\u2013(Muhammad Ali, comm. Qur\u2019an 53:62).<\/span>
\nThis belief in the Supreme Lord by the pagan Arabs was evident upon Abraha\u2019s invasion of Makkah in the year 570 to destroy the Ka\u2019ba. \u201cUnable to defend the Holy House against the huge army, \u2018Abd al-Muttalib thus prayed aloud, leaning upon the door of the Ka\u2019bah\u00a0(he did not pray to any of the statues):\u00a0\u201cDefend, O Lord, Thine own House! and suffer not the cross to triumph over the Ka\u2019bah\u201d (Zurqani)\u201d\u2013(M.Ali,\u00a0comm. Qur\u2019an 105:1).<\/span>
\nThus, if to the pagan Arabs \u201cHubal\u201d is the same as Allah, then this idolater, \u2018Abd al-Muttalib was calling on Allah, the Lord of the worlds, to defend His First, Sacred and only House of worship that He has established for all men.<\/span>
\nHowever, Muhammad Ali notes, \u201cHubal, the chief Arab idol in the Ka\u2019bah,\u00a0\u201cwas brought from Belka in Syria into Arabia by \u2018Amr ibn Lohay, pretending that it would procure them rain when they wanted it\u201d\u00a0(Sale\u2019s Preliminary Discourse, sec. 1)\u201d\u2013(comm. Qur\u2019an 71:23).<\/span><\/p>\n

All\u0101h and Molech:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Islam teaches that Allah has ninety-nine names plus the crowning name “Allah” which gives one hundred names. One of these names of Allah is “Malik” -Master.<\/span>
\nQur\u2019an 43:77 refers to the keeper of Hell as Malik. One critic claims that the Qur\u2019an\u2019s \u201cMalik\u201d is obviously a corruption of the Fire God Molech, mentioned in Leviticus, I Kings, and Jeremiah.<\/span>
\nSince Allah \u201cis the same ancient Semitic name of the Supreme Being,\u201d All\u0101h\/Malik cannot be a name that was originated by \u201cheathen Arabs,\u201d when All\u0101h\/Malik predates the \u201cheathen Arabs\u201d to Adam.<\/span>
\nMalik, in reference to Allah is not to be confused with\u00a0Molech, \u201cthe fire God,\u201d of the Bible\u2013(Leviticus 18:21; 20:2-5).<\/span>
\nAs Allah is the God of all the worlds, He is also the God of the prophets and of the people of Israel. In the verses of Leviticus, noted above, the people of Israel are instructed by God to keep their offspring from \u201cthe fire to Molech.\u201d<\/span>
\nThis clearly shows that Molech is an other than God.\u00a0\u00a0If\u00a0Malik\u00a0and\u00a0Molech\u00a0were the one and same being, it would seem senseless for God to instruct the Israelites to avoid\u00a0Molech.<\/span>
\nMolech\u2019s identity is unknown. He was associated with child sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Significantly, whereas Malik means Master; in Qur’an 43:77, as the verse clearly shows, \u00a0Malik is used in a secondary sense to the angel who is keeper over Hell:\u00a0“And they (inmates of hell) cry: O Malik, let thy Lord<\/strong> (Allah) make an end of us. \u00a0He will say : You shall stay (here).”
\n<\/span>Whereas devotees of God claim that we all follow the same God, what is significant is one\u2019s concept of God. The Islamic concept of God is stated succinctly and unambiguously in Qur\u2019an 112:1-4:\u00a0\u201cSay: He, Allah, is One. Allah, the Eternal, Absolute. He begets not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like Him.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

EXISTENCE OF GOD:
\n<\/span>What is to be borne in mind is that Darwin\u2019s presentation on\u00a0Evolution <\/em>is only a \u201ctheory\u201d it is not fact.<\/span>
\nThe Toronto Star, Sunday April 4, 1999, Section C (p. 2), notes in its article \u201cBehold the new god: science\u201d that in 1953 \u201cStanley Miller passed an electrical charge, a simulation of lightning, through a mixture of chemicals that attempted to match those present on Earth at the time life is thought to have begun. Amino acids, the basic elements of life, were formed. This, it seemed, demonstrated that life could emerge from basic chemistry.\u201d\u00a0(Surely, this \u201cmixture of chemicals\u201d that were \u201cpresent on Earth at the time life is thought to have begun,\u201d must still be around; meaning that there are still such creatures evolving, though there does not seem be any evidence of this).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

If life came through\u00a0evolution\u00a0<\/em>rather than\u00a0creation<\/em>, what is the source of this \u201cmixture of chemicals\u201d at the beginning?\u00a0 How did it combine in the wild (as opposed to in a lab) in such sufficient proportion to produce this \u201cbasic elements of life?\u201d And what are the odds of lightning striking this mixture to begin life?<\/span>
\nIf\u00a0Evolution<\/em>\u00a0can produce a universe of immensity, beauty and order and produce beings of symmetry and precision then surely a\u00a0Creator\u00a0<\/em>can produce more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding certain verses (on science) of the Qur\u2019an, Maurice Bucaille states in his book\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Bible, The Qur\u2019an and Science\u00a0<\/em>states:\u00a0\u201cIt was not until much later, at a period not far from our own, that it was possible to translate and interpret them correctly. This implies that a thorough linguistic knowledge is not in itself sufficient to understand these verses from the Qur\u2019an. What is needed along with this is a highly diversified knowledge of science.\u201d (p.121).<\/span>
\nAll\u0101h invites the skeptics: \u201cAnd if you are in doubt as to that which We have revealed to Our servant (Mohammad), then produce a chapter like it and call on your helpers besides All\u0101h if you are truthful\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:23; 10:38; 11:13).<\/span><\/p>\n

As a religion from God is to reflect our service to Him. A Book from God should possess a quality beyond man\u2019s ability to imitate. With its\u00a0prophecies<\/span><\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0scientific<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/a>pronouncements and inimitability All\u0101h has proven His existence through His Qur\u2019an.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Islam\u00a0Creation<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>is not opposed to\u00a0Evolution<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0A thousand years before Darwin, All\u0101h God revealed to us in His Qur\u2019an that He created every living thing from water\u2013(Qur\u2019an 21:30; 24:45. It has taken sophisticated man more than a thousand years to discover this, one of the many truths, conveyed to us by a desert inhabitant. Yet some deny the Divinity of the Qur\u2019an\u00a0 and call Mohammad an \u201cimpostor\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din wrote:<\/span>
\n\u201cA century before (i.e. the 19th<\/sup> century) Biology took the universe as a freak of Nature which in her works, as the then atheistic belief went, observed no order or system. But to-day the rule of the Law has been admitted on all hands. Everything in the world appears to have been enchained by the Law. It follows it implicitly\u2013(Qur\u2019an 3:82).<\/span>
\nNature discloses regularity, precision, punctuality, knowledge, power, command, intellect, preordination, prearrangement, precaution, and several other features that are the possessions of the mind exclusively. In their presence the universe cannot be taken as the outcome of accident. It needs an intelligent Design to precede the process of its creation.<\/span>
\nThe word design sometimes used to bore minds with sceptic tendencies, but it has become now widened in its connotation. It brings within it so many facts and figures recently discovered by Science that disbelief in God would amount to ignorance.<\/span>
\nBut how wonderful of the Holy Qur\u2019an to anticipate, in its pages, all that Science advances to substantiate her belief in Divine Existence!\u00a0 It in itself is an extra-cogent reason, firstly, to believe in an Omniscient Being and, secondly, as to the Divine Origin of the Book itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Holy Book\u2013(Qur\u2019an), though teeming with reasons on the subject, adopts also another novel but laconic method to explain its verities. It gives us a list of Divine Attributes which in their signification also imply the best of logic needed to prove all Qur\u2019anic tenets.<\/span>
\nHere I would give some such Holy Names as work everywhere in Nature, and also strongly refer to the Existence of the Mind who created the universe. I have already explained Al-Rabb<\/em>.<\/span>
\nThis includes: \u2013Al-Badi\u2019<\/em> \u2013He who creates out of nothing. Al-Bari<\/em> \u2013He who originates things with various faculties in them. (Khwaja explains seventeen (17) other Attributes of All\u0101h, including)<\/em>\u00a0Al-Khaliq<\/em>\u2013He who combines things in a given proportion to create new things.\u201d<\/span>
\n\u201cThese Attributes refer to various functions of the Mind that are observed even in the creation of a single thing.\u2026If the world made no progress in material civilization till the appearance of Islam, and if their then success owed its very existence to certain truths revealed in the Qur\u2019an, how can they minimize the importance of Religion?<\/span>
\nOn the other hand, I would ask the rest of the religious world to ponder over these facts. Is it worth while to follow any religious system in these days of culture and progress, if their respective revelations do not invite our attention to the essentially necessary things in life?\u201d<\/em>3<\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Khwaja kamal-ud-Din explains: \u201cThe principle of evolution was taught to the world for the first time in\u00a0Islam.<\/em>\u00a0Four of the ninety-nine Names of All\u0101h, God, are:<\/span>
\n(1)\u00a0Rabb<\/em>\u2013\u201cthe Originator of things and their Combiner to create new forms. It means the Law-giver, Who frames Laws under which He propounds the shapes which things must assume and the ratio and proportion in which various ingredients must combine with each other. He is the Regularizer, i.e., the Lord Who puts things on the way to perfection. He is the Arranger of the different stages through which they have to pass on their way to completion.\u201d (Ref.\u00a0<\/em>Qur\u2019an 87:1-3; 25:2; 54:49).<\/span>
\n(2)\u00a0\u00a0Al-Badi\u2019<\/em>\u2013He Who creates out of nothing;<\/span>
\n(3)\u00a0Al-Bari<\/em>\u2013He Who originates things with various faculties in them;<\/span>
\n(4)\u00a0Al-Khaliq<\/em>\u2013He Who combines things in a given proportion to create new things.\u201d -(Introduction to the Study of the Holy Qur\u2019an<\/em>, pp. 25-26).<\/span><\/p>\n

And Muhammad Ali explains: The Arabic word\u00a0Rabb\u00a0<\/em>which is generally taken as\u00a0Lord, <\/em>\u201cconveys not only the idea of\u00a0fostering, bringing-up<\/em>, or\u00a0nourishing,\u00a0<\/em>but also that of\u00a0regulating, completing\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0 accomplishing\u00a0<\/em>(T-LL), i.e. of the evolution of things from the crudest state to that of the highest perfection. According to R,\u00a0 \u00a0Rabb<\/em>\u00a0signifies\u00a0the fostering of a thing in such a manner as to make it attain<\/em>\u00a0one condition after another until it reaches its goal of completion.\u00a0<\/em>Hence\u00a0Rabb\u00a0<\/em>is the Author of all existence, Who has not only given to the whole creation its means of nourishment but has also beforehand ordained for each a sphere of capacity and within that sphere provided the means by which it continues to attain gradually to its goal of perfection. By the use of the word\u00a0Rabb\u00a0<\/em>the Holy Qur\u2019an thus hints at the law of evolution which is working in the universe.\u201d-(Muhammad Ali;\u00a0 comm.\u00a0 Qur’an 1:1).<\/span><\/p>\n

BELIEF IN ALLAH:<\/span>
\nBelief in All\u0101h means: All\u0101h is One and Only; the Eternal, Absolute; on Whom all depend; He begets not; nor is begotten; there is none like Him; He incarnates not; has no \u201cchosen people\u201d to the exclusion of others; needs no \u201csatisfaction\u201d to forgive sins; belief in all His Angels; Books; Prophets; Resurrection; Judgment; Heaven and Hell.<\/span>
\nWhile we are to believe in all His Scriptures, All\u0101h, God, has informed us what not to believe, such as: polytheism, idolatry, partnership with God, Trinity, sonship of God, inherited sin, vicarious atonement, karma, and reincarnation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Faith<\/em> does not mean acceptance of All\u0101h without proof of His existence. All\u0101h has proven His existence through the Qur\u2019an. The Qur\u2019an makes scientific pronouncements, prophecies and gives insights to the Doomsday. Maurice Bucaille on the Prophet Mohammad and the Qur\u2019an:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merit, in the whole of Arabic literature? How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human being could possibly have developed at the time,<\/em> and all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncements on the subject<\/em>?\u201d<\/span>
\n\u201cIn view of the level of knowledge in Muhammad\u2019s day, it is inconceivable that many of the statements in the Qur\u2019an which are connected with science could have been the work of a man.<\/em> It is, moreover, perfectly legitimate, not only to regard the Qur\u2019an as the expression of a Revelation, but also to award it a very special place, on account of the guarantee of authenticity it provides and the presence in it of scientific statements which, when studied today, appear as a challenge to explanation in human terms.\u201d<\/em>4<\/span> <\/sup>(See\u00a0Qur\u2019an-prophecies<\/a>;\u00a0Qur\u2019an-science<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/p>\n

WHO IS ALLAH GOD?
\n<\/span>While a worshipper\u2019s action should reflect his belief in God, even an atheist, who may be devoted to his disbelief in God, can produce actions similar to that of a believer in God \u2013honor trusts, give justice, love, etc;.<\/span> One does not have to hold a belief in God to produce actions that are in accordance with a belief in God.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, while the action of a devotee of God should reflect his belief, it is also equally important that the object of his worship be one according to reason. Reason would dictate that, since there is one law operating in the heavens and in the earth there can only be one God.<\/span>
\nHow eloquently All\u0101h, God, has given us the arguments in the Qur\u2019an for the existence of One God.\u00a0 He asks us to reason:<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. If there were other gods with Allah then the idolaters with the help of these other gods would have been able to seek a way to the Lord of the Throne\u2013(Qur\u2019an 17:42).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. If there were other gods besides Allah governing the heavens and the earth wouldn\u2019t there be confusion in them\u2013(21:22).<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. If there were other gods with All\u0101h then each would have taken away what he created, and some of them would have seek to dominate others\u2013(23:91).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If there were other Gods besides All\u0101h it would be expected that they would send their messengers with their own revelations. C. Rajagopalachari states in his Ramayana<\/em>:<\/span>
    \n\u201cViswaamitra was a king who attained sainthood through terrible austerities. He had long ago exhibited his spiritual powers by starting to create another Brahma and a rival uni-verse: he had gone as far as the creation of new constel-lations, but was prevailed upon to stop by the entreaties of the alarmed gods.\u201d (p. 19).<\/span>
    \nImagine polytheism with its multiple gods. Imagine half a\u2019 dozen disgruntled or ambitious gods each creating his own \u201crival universe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    -All\u0101h is the Lord (Creator, Nourisher, and Sustainer) of the worlds; the Beneficent and the Merciful; the Master\u2013(Qur\u2019an 1:1-3).<\/span><\/p>\n

    -All\u0101h is the Ever-living, the Self-subsisting, the Most High, the Great\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:255).<\/span><\/p>\n

    -All\u0101h is the Knower of the mystery and the secrets of the heavens and the earth\u2013(Qur\u2019an 25:6; 49:18).<\/span><\/p>\n

    -All\u0101h is the First and the Last and the Manifest and the Hidden\u2013(Qur\u2019an 57:3); Muhammad Ali notes: \u201cThe Holy Prophet has thus explained the four attributes of the Divine Being mentioned here: \u201cThou art the First<\/em>, so that there was nothing before Thee, Thou art the Last<\/em>, so that there is nothing after Thee, and Thou art\u00a0the Manifest<\/em>, or the Ascendant<\/em> over all, so that there is nothing above Thee, and Thou art the Hidden, the Knower <\/em>of the Hidden things, so that there is nothing hidden from Thee\u2013Muslim 48:13).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    Say: He, Allah, is One.<\/span>
    \nAllah, the Eternal, Absolute.<\/span>
    \nHe begets not, nor is He begotten;<\/span>
    \nAnd there is none like Him.<\/span>
    \n(Qur\u2019an 112:1-4)<\/span><\/p>\n

    –All\u0101h, God, is One<\/em><\/strong> i.e.<\/em> He is not One in a Trinity \u2013whether it be the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the Christian Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, or the Pagan Trinity of Juno, Jupiter, and Minerva\u2013 nor is He One in a Duality \u2013as in the Zoroastrian\u2019s God of darkness and all things evil, and God of light and all things good\u2013 nor is All\u0101h, God, One in a polytheism. And He is One in attributes \u2013there is no other existence with attributes as He.<\/span><\/p>\n

    –All\u0101h God is Eternal, Absolute<\/em><\/strong>, i.e.<\/em> He never dies nor can be killed. As a son is the successor of his father, and as All\u0101h, God, is eternal He does not need a son to succeed Him. To say that God has a son, or that He needs a son, is to say that He is not eternal (and needs someone to succeed Him).<\/span>
    \nAll\u0101h God is not dependent on anyone, but all are dependent upon Him. All\u0101h, God, is Absolute, i.e.<\/em> there was none before Him, and there is none after Him.<\/span><\/p>\n

    –Allah God begets not<\/em><\/strong>, i.e.<\/em> being One and Only, the First and Creator of all and thus could not have a consort<\/em>, He begets not.<\/span>
    \nFatherhood (begetting)<\/em> requires the joining of sperm with ovum. Apart from Mary not being the consort of God, \u201cGod is a Spirit\u201d \u2013(John 4:24). Spirit cannot bear parental relations with mortal, who is flesh and blood.<\/span>
    \nThe belief that Jesus was born through a miracle does not make him son of God. Adam and Eve had neither mother nor father; and Melchisedec had neither mother nor father nor beginning nor end\u2013(Heb. 7:1-3).<\/span>
    \nThat God can do anything is no argument (God cannot create His mother).<\/span> This is not a question about God creating an item; it is a matter of God having a relation.<\/span>
    \nWhereas God has the power to create an object, He could not have a mother\/father as He is \u2018un-born\u2019 and is the First and the Creator of all. Mary was not the consort of God so that her son, Jesus, could be son of God.<\/span>
    \nScientists who clone animals are not fathers of these clones; clones are not children of these scientists. If Jesus is son of God because he is said to be \u201cfatherless\u201d and of \u201cvirgin\u201d birth, human clones who would be \u201cfatherless\u201d and even of \u201cvirgin\u201d birth would also be sons\/daughters of God.<\/span>
    \nSon of God as All\u0101h God reveals and as research has uncovered, is a remnant of Paganism\u2013(Qur\u2019an 9:30. Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din has detailed the pagan nature of Christianity in his revealing book, The (pagan) Sources Of Christianity<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n

    –All\u0101h, God, is not begotten<\/em><\/strong>, i.e. Being the First and Creator of all and thus having no mother and father<\/em>, He is not born. A woman created by God cannot be the mother of God. God cannot be son of a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

    –There is none like All\u0101h, God<\/em><\/strong>, i.e. <\/em>being First and Last,\u00a0 Evident and Immanent and one in attributes <\/em>there is none like Him; being Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent <\/em>He incarnates not; being Just <\/em>He has no \u201cchosen people\u201d to the exclusion of others; being Beneficent and Merciful <\/em>He needs no \u2018blood sacrifice\u2019 to forgive sins; and does not give to every action an equal and opposite reaction \u2013He forgives sins altogether or He requites evil with its like; and He rewards good up to seven hundredfold\u2013(Qur\u2019an 39:53; 6:160; 2:261. Bokhari Vol. 1; ch. 32, #40).<\/span><\/p>\n

    WHY DID ALLAH GOD CREATE MAN?
    \n<\/span>The Prophet Mohammad is reported to have said that All\u0101h, God, said that I loved that I should be known, so I created man.<\/em>\u00a0All\u0101h God created us to serve Him\u2013(Qur\u2019an 51:56). Service to humanity is service to God. \u201cIf you wish to love your God, love His creatures,\u201d says the Prophet Mohammad.5<\/span>
    \n<\/sup>(Thus, even atheists who serve humanity serve All\u0101h, though they do not believe in Him. But this service does not afford them Paradise. For, as Islam teaches, righteousness is dependent not on good acts alone, or on faith alone, but on both<\/em> belief in All\u0101h and on good deeds.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    To make us aware that He is the Creator of all things, the Vanquisher of all things, that man is created to serve Him, and that there is a Day of Judgment when we must answer for our wrongdoings, Allah raised messengers among all nations to instruct us. These messengers were given one common message: \u201cAnd We sent no messenger before thee (Mohammad) but We revealed to him that there is no God but Me, so serve Me<\/em>\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 21:25).
    \n<\/span>Thus All\u0101h is known by a name according to the language of the people\u00a0-some of which are Eli, the name to which Jesus called out from the \u201ccross\u2019; and Ishwar of Hinduism-\u00a0(though \u201cJehovah\u201d is not a scriptural name of God;\u00a0    JEHOVAH DOES NOT<\/span> EXIST<\/span><\/a>).
    \n(While there is only one God, what is critical is one\u2019s concept of God\u00a0-heaven lies in following clearly expressed Divine doctrines; not in following human assumptions and inventions).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    And that since humans are the recipients of All\u0101h\u2019s, God\u2019s, message \u2013and as only man can be a model for man : God in the form of man is still God (an ape regardless of whatever cosmetic surgery is still an ape)\u2013 then all these messengers\/prophets were humans\u2013(Qur\u2019an 17:95; 21:7-8; 42:51).<\/span><\/p>\n

    However, through the passage of time Divine Revelation lost its purity:\u00a0\u201cBy Allah! We certainly sent (messengers) to nations before thee (Mohammad), but the devil made their deeds fair-seeming to them.\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 16:63).\u00a0Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din points out in his\u00a0Open Letters To The Bishops of Salisbury And London<\/em>: \u201cThe whole world was a world of fetish worshippers at the appearance of Islam. From an eggshell to the man-worship of Christianity and Hinduism, the adoration that should go to God went to His creatures.\u201d (p. 17).<\/span><\/p>\n

    And in his book\u00a0Muhammad in World Scriptures,\u00a0<\/em>Vol. 1. Abdul Haque Vidyarthi notes:<\/span>
    \n\u201cThe condition in which the sacred scriptures of the world are found today, is really a harried one. These are, no doubt, the relics of those great Books that were given to the prophets of yore. No scripture of any religion was to be found in its original form and pristine purity at the time of the Holy Prophet\u2019s (Mohammad) advent, nor is one found today. Such books, therefore, cannot prove the truth of religion, nay, their own prophets stand in need of vindication. A number of suspicions and misgivings have sprung up about the prophets, Zoroaster, Abraham, Krishna and Christ so much so that they are being looked upon as mere fictitious persons.\u201d (p. 6).<\/span>
    \n\u201cReligious scriptures underwent vicissitudes and had dark ages upon them, that their very contents and their existence became suspected. It was in this obscurity that the Vedas grew from one into four, and then from four to as many as 1131, there is a verse in Maha Bhashya which explains that there are one hundred and one shoots of Yajur-veda, one thousand of Sama-veda, twenty-one kinds of Rig-veda and nine of Atharva-veda.<\/span>
    \nIn these days we can see a dozen vedas published, in fact, which throws light on their vicissitudes.<\/span>
    \nThe Masorah and Septuagint versions of the old Testament, the different authorized editions of the Sadducees and Pharisees, the apocryphal literature believed as part of inspired scriptures by some sects and rejected by others, the different versions of apocryphal Gospels, prove the credibility of the fact that no religious scripture was kept intact or properly maintained or committed to memory in the life-time of the prophet to whom it was revealed.\u201d\u2013(pp. 314-315).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Not only are religious Books not in their pristine purity. Cardinal doctrines of religions contradict one another:<\/span>
    \n-Hinduism teaches     Karma and Reincarnation<\/a>
    \n<\/span><\/span>-Christianity teaches\u00a0<\/span>    Trinity<\/a><\/span>, <\/span><\/a>inherited sin<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and vicarious atonement<\/span>
    \n–    Islam<\/span><\/a> teaches Unity of All\u0101h God, Prayer, Zakaat\/Charity, Fasting, and Hajj\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

    MERCIFUL GOD:
    \n<\/span>The Prophet Mohammad is reported to have said that it is written over the Throne of All\u0101h, \u2018My Mercy precedes My anger\u2019\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 9, #518)<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    All\u0101h says He created man to have mercy on him\u2013(Qur\u2019an 11:119); He has ordained mercy on Himself\u2013(Qur\u2019an 6:12, 54); And \u201cMy mercy encompasses all things\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 7:156). Muhammad Ali points out:<\/span>
    \n\u201cNo attribute of the Divine Being receives such prominence in the Holy Qur\u2019an as the attribute of mercy. <\/em>Evil there is in the world, and the evil-doers must receive their due, but mark the contrast: And My mercy encompasses all things<\/em>.\u00a0 The truth is that even chastisement is a phase of Divine mercy, because it seeks not to punish, but to correct the evil doer.\u201d (comm. # 949a)<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cWhoever brings a good will have tenfold like it,\u00a0and whoever brings an evil deed, will be\u00a0recompensed only with the like of it,\u00a0and they shall not be wronged.\u201d-(Qur’an 6:160).
    \n<\/span>\u201cNo other sacred book gives such prominence to the preponderance of the quality of mercy in the Divine Being. While evil must have its evil consequence, it is only its like, but virtue brings a tenfold reward. According to a saying of the Holy Prophet, evil is pardoned or recompensed with its like, while good brings from a tenfold to a seven-hundred-fold reward (Bukhari 81:33). Thus the verse mentions only the maximum punishment of evil and the minimum reward of good.\u201d (M. Ali, comm. 849).<\/span><\/p>\n

    However, according to Christian belief, God cannot forgive sins without \u201creceiving some satisfaction,\u201d hence the sacrifice of his \u201conly begotten son.\u201d Muhammad Ali points out:<\/span>
    \n(Like the Arabs of early Islam) \u201cThe Christians also do not recognize All\u0101h to be Rahman<\/em> (Beneficent),<\/em> because it means All\u0101h shows mercy to His creatures without their having done anything to deserve it, while the Christian doctrine of atonement is based on the belief that All\u0101h cannot show mercy to His creatures without receiving some satisfaction.\u201d (comm. # 1476).<\/span>
    \nAny religion whose God \u201ccannot show mercy to His creatures without receiving some satisfaction\u201d could not be more merciful than, or superior to, or equal with, Islam, where All\u0101h forgives without such a need.<\/span><\/p>\n

    All\u0101h God also invites us to forgive us our sins\u2013(Qur\u2019an 14:10). And He implores us in loving, compassionate terms through His illustrious Prophet and mercy to the world, Mohammad, to convey to us:<\/span>
    \n\u201cSay:\u00a0O My servants\u00a0who have sinned against their souls,\u00a0despair not of the mercy of All\u0101h,\u00a0surely All\u0101h forgives all sins.\u00a0Verily, He is Most Forgiving. Ever Merciful\u201d-(Qur\u2019an 39:53).<\/span><\/p>\n

    HOW MANY RELIGIONS DID ALL\u0100H REVEAL?:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
    \n<\/strong>As noted, All\u0101h raised prophets among all people and gave them rites and ceremonies. These prophets prior to Mohammad were national prophets and their teachings were restricted to their respective people and were for a limited time. Neither of these prophets gave the name of a religion to follow nor claimed to be the last prophet to come. That is because while the teachings were adequate for these individual people; man\u2019s religion was not yet perfected and God\u2019s favor to man was not completed.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Moses and Jesus clearly spoke of another teacher to come.\u00a0Moses<\/span><\/a>\u00a0spoke of the coming of another prophet like him;\u00a0and Jesus foretold the coming of another\u00a0Comforter<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>who will give \u201call truth\u201d and will \u201cabide for ever\u201d and whom all are to follow.\u00a0(As another prophet will come with \u201call truth\u201d and will \u201cabide for ever\u201d then the<\/span>\u00a0Bible<\/span><\/a> devoid of ‘all truth is OBSOLETE and Jesus not giving “all truth” and will not “abide for ever”<\/span> JESUS IS REDUNDANT though he is to be honored.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    The Prophet Mohammad came both, to the Arabs who until then had not received a prophet, and to all mankind. To unite us under one Divine Message \u2013the\u00a0Qur\u2019an<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Through Mohammad, Allah’s favor to man was completed and man’s religion perfected: \u201cThis day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favour to you and chosen for you Islam as a religion\u201d\u2013Qur\u2019an 5:3).<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    The\u00a0Qur\u2019an<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>contains the teachings of previous scriptures that are applicable for all time, and contains teachings that are not met\u00a0 with in past scriptures: thus the Qur\u2019an consists of, exceeds, and supersedes all scriptures: \u201c(Mohammad) A Messenger from All\u0101h, reciting pure pages, Wherein are (all) right books\u201d\u2013Qur\u2019an 98:2-3).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

    The Divine truth is<\/span> \u201cThere is no God but All\u0101h; Mohammad is the Messenger of All\u0101h!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

    \n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0NOTES<\/span>
    \n1.<\/span> Muhammad Ali, comm. Qur\u2019an chapter one.<\/span>
    \nT-LL=Taj a\u2019Arus (Dictionary); Arabic English Lexicon by Edward William Lane.<\/span>
    \nMsh-LL=Mishkat Masabih (Hadith); Arabic English Lexicon by Edward William Lane.<\/span><\/p>\n

    2.<\/span>\u00a0Prof. \u2018Abdul Ahad Dawud, Muhammad in the Bible<\/em>, pp. 12-13.<\/span><\/p>\n

    3.<\/span> Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, Introduction to The Study of The Holy Qur\u2019an<\/em>, pp. 29-31.\u00a0 (Highlight added).<\/span><\/p>\n

    4.<\/span>\u00a0The Bible, The Qur\u2019an and Science, <\/em>pp. 125, 251-252. (Emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n

    5.<\/span> Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din, The Sources of Christianity<\/em>, p. 92.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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