{"id":406,"date":"2015-02-26T03:39:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T03:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azmi.co\/cust\/ngba-wp\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2017-04-14T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T14:41:32","slug":"islam-and-lying","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=406","title":{"rendered":"Islam-and lying\/Taqiyyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">In the name of All\u0101h,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">the Beneficent, the Merciful.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">DEDICATED TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All\u0101h\u2013the Glorious and the High,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Lord of the worlds<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: red; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">AND TO<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Mohammad\u2013who brought the world<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">to our feet and eternity to our arms.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">ISLAM ALLOWS LYING\/TAQIYYAH<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cO you who believe, be maintainers<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">of justice, bearers of witness for All\u0101h,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">even though it be against your own selves<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">or (your) parents or near relatives \u2014<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">whether he be rich or poor, All\u0101h has a<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">better right over them both.<\/span><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">So follow not (your) low desires,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">lest you deviate. And if you distort or<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">turn away from (truth), surely<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All\u00e5h is ever Aware of what you do.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">(Qur\u2019an 4:135)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TAQIYYA literally means &#8220;prudence, fear, caution&#8221;). But Christian and other critics of Islam have used this term indiscriminately to villainize Islam and Muslims, claiming that Muslims are allowed to lie\/deceive to spread Islam and in other matters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christians do not have a Divinely revealed religion.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=203\">Trinity<\/a>, <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=270\">inherited sin<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">and vicarious atonement are not only human assumptions, they are blasphemous.<\/span><br \/>\nInstead of governing their belief by reason and truth\/facts as God and Jesus require them\u2013(Isaiah 1:18; John 8:32),\u00a0Christians toss behind their backs Jesus\u2019 clear teachings that he was sent <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=241\">only for Jews<\/a><\/span> and that eternal life lies in observance of the Mosaic Law<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (until the coming of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=278\">Comforter<\/a><\/span> who will then guide them into \u201call truth\u2019 and will \u201cabide for ever\u201d)<\/span> and they hold on to unGodly human inventions and employ whatever methods they can devise to lead unschooled and unthinking Muslims from Islam, and to snare unsuspecting natives into drinking the mythical blood of Jesus Christ and eating his body <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u2013spiritual cannibalism.<\/span> (See <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=2583\">Jesus-allows lying\/deception<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whereas a Muslim can \u201clie\u201d about his religious belief to avoid persecution or death<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> (and perhaps you also would lie about your religious belief to save yourself from persecution and death; Jesus tells his followers to lie even to save themselves from being thrown in jail\u2013Matthew 5:25)<\/span> Muslims do not have to lie to spread our religion, Islam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unlike the cardinal doctrines of Hinduism (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=197\">Karma &amp; Reincarnation<\/a><\/span>) which are not clearly expressed in the Veda and which are not conducive to reason; and unlike and the cardinal doctrines of Christianity (<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Trinity, inherited sin and vicarious atonement<\/span>) which are not clearly expressed in the Bible, and are not conducive to reason, but are in fact repugnant to reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cardinal doctrines of Islam (<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Unity\/Purity of God, Prayer, Zakaat\/charity, Fasting and Hajj<\/span>) are clearly expressed in the Qur\u2019an and conducive to reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That the Prophet Mohammad taught that a Muslim can lie under three conditions. These are not without merit and are only applicable when it does not cause an injustice to another\/others. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(Dealt with later).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TAWRIYA means \u201chiding\u201d or \u201ccover\u201d as in Cain \u201chiding\u201d his brother, \u00a0Abel\u2019s, dead body, and All\u0101h providing clothes for us to cover our private parts\u2013(Qur\u2019an 5:31; 7:26).<br \/>\nMuslims do not have to have to lie or hide the Qur\u2019anic truths that\u00a0 those on whom All\u0101h\u2019s wrath is upon are the Jews <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(for not keeping their covenant<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>1<\/sup> <\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">with All\u0101h, one factor of which is for them to accept Prophet Mohammad\u2013see<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=199\">Judaism-no future<\/a><\/span>) and that those who are astray are Christians for ascribing Divinity to Jesus.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Notably Jews were cursed by David and Jesus<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>2<br \/>\n<\/sup><\/span>Wishing that Christians <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(and all non-Muslims)<\/span> become Muslims is the \u201cbest\u201d wish in the world. Jesus, who was a Muslim <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013one who submits to God\u2013<\/span> also exhorted his followers to become Muslims. (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=290\">Jesus-a Muslim taught Islam<\/a><\/span>).<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0\u00a0 All\u0101h has revealed the truth in His Qur\u2019an. Muslims are to be not afraid to verbalize them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Insha All\u0101h<\/em> (\u201cif All\u0101h wills\u201d). As onl<\/span>y All\u0101h knows the future and we do not know if we will be alive at that time, when we say that we will do something in the future we are only assuming that we will be able to do it.<br \/>\nThus, Insha Allah signifies \u2018if God gives us life and well-being at that point in time\u2019 then we will do that thing <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(and if there is no other matter of greater importance to prevent us from fulfilling our promise)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That Muslims are allowed to tell half-truths, such as that jihad means only \u201cinternal, spiritual struggle.\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem;\">Jihad is \u201cinternal, spiritual\u201d as well as armed struggle. Muslims do not have to give half truths about Jihad. Jihad is the noble undertaking against injustice even on behalf of non-Muslims. Muslims are to be pleased of Jihad and vociferate its virtue. (See <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem; color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=370\">Islam-Jihad &amp; Jihad Watch<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem;\">).<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It is Christians who engage in<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=1398\">stealth Crusade against Muslims<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.1875rem;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0That there is abrogation in the Qur\u2019an is a colossal error on the part of those who make this claim. (See <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=135\">Qur\u2019an-abrogation &amp; collecting<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MURUNA is said to mean \u201cstealth\u201d or \u201cflexibility\u201d which allows Muslims to blend in with the enemy or the surroundings so as to cause non-Muslims to lower their guard and place their trust in their Muslim counterpart.<br \/>\nSuch as Muslims shaving off their beards, wear western clothing, or consume alcohol to blend in with non-Muslims. Or for Muslims to marry non-Muslims or to behave like non-Muslims to hide their true agenda which is to destroy Western practices.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">What a maroon!<\/span><br \/>\nOnly a few verses from All\u0101h need be entered to obliterate this paranoia of Christians and other critics:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>And wrong not men of their dues, and act not corruptly in the earth, making mischief\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 26:183)<\/li>\n<li>And fight in the way of All\u0101h against those who fight against you but be not aggressive. Surely All\u0101h loves not the aggressors\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:190)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2026And let not hatred of a people \u2014 because they hindered you from the Sacred Mosque \u2014 incite you to transgress. And help one another in righteousness and piety, and help not one another in sin and aggression\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 5:2)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCall to the way of thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner. Surely thy Lord knows best him who strays from His path, and He knows best those who go aright.<br \/>\nAnd if you take your turn, then punish with the like of that with which you were afflicted. But if you show patience, it is certainly best for the patient\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 16:125-126).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Only the occupier\/usurper, the oppressor, the aggressor\/transgressor, the exploiter, the bigots and those dedicated to falsehood are terrified of Islam\/Shari\u2019ah.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As stated, it is Christians who engage in<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=1398\">stealth Crusade against Muslims<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Christians and other critics also note the assassination of Ka&#8217;b ibn Ashraf. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(This is addressed in the section \u201cMore lying in Islam\u201d).<br \/>\n**********************************************<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Nonie Darwish\u00a0states in her book\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=610\">Now They Call Me Infidel<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">: \u201cLying is forbidden in Islam except in certain situations such as war to spread Islam to non-Muslims.\u201d (p. 152).<span style=\"color: red;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: purple; font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">What utter rubbish!<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; color: red;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; color: purple;\">Here are the \u201clying\u201d in Islam that Nonie Darwish (and others) is talking about:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Prophet taught: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cHe who makes peace between the people by inventing <span style=\"background: yellow;\">good information<\/span> or <span style=\"background: yellow;\">saying good things,<\/span> is not a liar\u201d\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 3, #857; Muslim Vol. 4, #6303; Abu Dawud Vol. 3, # 4902).<\/span><br \/>\nAnd that exemption was granted for one who tell lies in 3 cases only: \u201cin battle, for <span style=\"background: yellow;\">bringing reconciliation<\/span> amongst persons and the narration of the words of the husband to his wife, and the narration of the words of a wife to her husband\u201d\u2013(Muslim Vol. 4, #6303; Abu Dawud Vol.3, #4903).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding making peace by \u201cinventing good information or saying good things\u201d This does not mean that \u201cthe end justifies the means.\u201d Two points need to be borne in mind: (1) the end result must be \u201cpeace.\u201d and (2) this \u201clying\u201d is not to cause harm or injury or injustice to any person. Since such \u201clying\u201d would not result in harm or injustice to anyone but rather effect peace and harmony, where then is the problem?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding \u201clying\u201d in battle. It is doubtful that one would tell the truth to his enemies, and\/or that a wise general would divulge sensitive materials to his soldiers and risk betrayal should there be a traitor in his outfit.<br \/>\nIncidentally, blatant \u201clies\u201d were told<span style=\"color: #800080;\"> \u2013that Iraq was killing Kuwaiti babies and that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction\u2013 that led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of innocents and billions of dollars worth of devastation.<\/span><br \/>\nWhere are Nonie Darwish\u2019s pen and mouth on this? Why aren\u2019t you vociferating that these \u201cliars\u201d be hauled before the World Court? Is your mouth \u201cmuzzled by the food it eats\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding a husband and wife \u201cnarration of words to\u201d each other.<br \/>\nIf during a get-together of some sort it appears to you that Mark fumbled your wife; would it not be better if your wife lie to you that he did not? preventing the possibility of you taking a cleaver to Mark? avoiding the possibility of one of you getting killed or maimed or disfigured?<br \/>\nAnd if it appears to your wife that Liz fondled you, would it not be better if you lie to her that Liz did not? avoiding the possibility of the two women scratching each other\u2019s eyeballs or breaking nails on each other?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Significantly, the Prophet Mohammad is reported to have said that<br \/>\n-it is among the major sins to give false witness (tell lies)\u2013(Bokhari Vol. 8, #8).<br \/>\n-one who spreads false information to cause enmity will not enter Paradise\u2013(<i>Ibid<\/i>. #82).<br \/>\n-Whoso does not give up telling lies, All\u0101h is not in need of his fasting\u2013(<i>Ibid. <\/i>#83).<br \/>\n-truthfulness leads to righteousness and to Paradise. Lies leads to evil and to Hell\u2013(<i>Ibid.<\/i> #116).<br \/>\n-hypocrite tells lies, does not keep his promise, and is dishonest\u2013(Ibid, #117).<br \/>\nAnd he guarantees a house in Paradise for one who avoids lying even if he were joking\u201d\u2013(Abu Dawud, Vol. 3, #4782). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">The Prophet also said to \u201cAvoid falsehood, for falsehood leads to wickedness, and wickedness to Hell; and if a man continues to speak falsehood and makes falsehood his object, he will be recorded in All\u0101h\u2019s presence as a GREAT LIAR\u201d and on the opposite, the Prophet says: \u201cadhere to truth, for truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise\u201d\u2013(Abu Dawud Vol. 3, #4971).<br \/>\nThe Prophet also taught that telling a child you would give him\/her something and not giving anything then \u201ca lie would be recorded against you\u201d\u2013(Abu Dawud Vol. 3, #4973).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Muslims are required to give justice even if it be against one\u2019s self or family, and to not side with the dishonest\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:105, 135; 7:29; 16:90). Muslims are required to speak straight words\u2013(33:70; 6:152; 2:42); to propagate Islam through \u201cwisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner\u201d\u2013(16:125);<br \/>\nMuslims are not even allowed to conceal testimony, it is a sin to do so\u2013(2:283).<br \/>\nTo \u201clie\u201d in order to propagate Islam would be to tell lies against All\u0101h; and Allah says about those who tell a \u201clie\u201d against Him: <span style=\"color: purple;\">\u201cAnd who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against All\u0101h or gives the lie to His messages\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 6:21, 94, 145; 29:68).<\/span><br \/>\nIt is patent foolishness to charge that Muslims are allowed to spread their religion through \u201clies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Muslims do not have to lie to non-Muslims or deceive to spread Islam. Islam is blessed with the Divine allure of reason <span style=\"color: purple;\">\u2013which Christianity is devoid of. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All\u0101h calls man to belief through wisdom, reason, argument and examples\u2013(Qur\u2019an 16:125). And, there is no compulsion in religion\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:256; 6:107; 9:6; 10:99-100; 17:7; 18:6, 29; 42:15; 50:45; 76:3; 109:1-6).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">All\u0101h not only requires Muslims to give justice even against his own self, and to preach with wisdom and goodly exhortations \u2013which is opposed to \u201clies\u201d\u2013 All\u0101h requires Muslims to speak the truth: <span style=\"color: purple;\">\u201cO you who believe, keep your duty to All\u0101h and <i>speak straight words<\/i>\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 33:70). <\/span>Not to mix truth with falsehood nor hide the truth:<span style=\"color: purple;\"> \u201cAnd mix <i>not <\/i>up truth with falsehood, <i>nor hide the truth<\/i> while you know\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 2:42). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And telling \u201clies\u201d <i>is <\/i>\u201cmixing truth with falsehood\u201d and hiding \u201cthe truth.\u201d Thus, it is not only foolishness to claim that Muslims are allowed to \u201clie\u201d to propagate Islam, it is gross absurdity. <span style=\"color: #800080;\">(More on this further on).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 Contrastingly it is Christianity\u00a0(and Nonie Darwish\u2019s \u201cGod\u201d and Son of God, Jesus) that teaches its followers to lie; Jesus says: <span style=\"color: purple;\">\u201cAgree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison\u201d\u2013(Matt.5:25). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; margin-left: 36pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">Jesus saying to agree with the \u201cadversary\u201d could not be about, or restricted to, a law-suit (Jesus clearly says to give the <i>suer<\/i> your cloak as well as coat\u2013Matt. 5:40). A <i>suer<\/i> would not necessarily receive judgment in his favor so that one would have to agree with him. Unless he likes jail, seems only a crook would wait till he is jailed before paying every \u201cfarthing\u201d he owes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This injunction of Jesus gives Christians a hole so big to accommodate every conceivable lie and deception and for any situation that the battleships Iowa Jima and Lincoln can sail side by side through it. And with mega space to spare.<br \/>\nWith this permission Christians can even frame an innocent person all the way to the executioner\u2019s needle just so they would not be thrown in jail.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Sure the Bible says not to bear false witness, but clearly this is superseded by Jesus (who is said to be son of God and even<\/span> \u201cGod\u201d) for \u201cChristians\u201d to have no borders when it comes to saving their hide. Moreover, <span style=\"color: black;\">Jesus came some five hundred years <strong>AFTER <\/strong>Moses.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; color: #800080;\">(Even Jesus and the Biblical God engaged in \u201clying\u201d as shown further on). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Unlike Islam which calls man to belief through reason and truth. It is Christianity\/<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=582\">Paul<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0that calls people to God through lies and deception.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Paul says, <span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">\u201cbeing <strong><i>crafty,<\/i><\/strong> I caught you with <strong><i>guile<\/i><\/strong><i>\u201d<\/i>\u2013(2 Cor. 12:16); and \u201cFor if the truth of God hath more abounded through my <strong><i>lie<\/i> <\/strong>unto his glory; why yet am I also judged a sinner?\u201d\u2013(1 Cor. 7:25; Rom. 3:7).<\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">It is not \u201cfaithfulness\u201d to forge in the name of God and to have people glorify God through lies. <span style=\"background: yellow;\">However, Paul\u2019s \u201clie\u201d did not bring people into the worship of God, Paul\u2019s \u201clie\u201d brought people into the worship of paganism, as son of God belief is paganism.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">And\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=582\">Paul<\/a>&#8216;s<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0most heinous \u201clie\u201d against God is the introduction of the Pagan\u2019s son of God\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">belief <span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">into the religion of Christ. (Given the millions of those who call themselves Christians lined up behind Paul, perhaps Paul\u2019s biggest and most successful \u201clie,\u201d \u201ccrafty\u201d and \u201cguile\u201d is his shrouding of Jesus in the pagan cloak of \u201cson of God\u201d).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps it is this <i>un<\/i>-principle of Paul to \u201clie\u201d that lead Christians to retain forged verses in the Bible and to keep such materials as \u201cvirgin\u201d of virgin birth and<\/span> \u201cbegotten\u201d of \u201cbegotten son,\u201d etc; <span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">in their 1500 non-English Bibles that they have expunged from English ones.<br \/>\nPerhaps this is where the Church got its inspiration to teach doctrines <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013Trinity, inherited sin, and vicarious atonement\u2013<\/span> that God did not reveal; and which propelled Pope John <\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">XXIII,<\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"> when cornered with irrefutable evidence that the body (of Christ) in the Shroud of Turin \u201c<i>was not a dead body,<\/i>\u201c to proclaim that \u201c<i>the death of Jesus Christ is not essential<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/i> for belief in the <i>\u201cblood of Christ.\u201d<\/i> (See\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=535\">Bible corrupt &amp; obsolete<\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=270\">Jesus-inherited sin to ascension<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">).<i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"plaintextcharchar0\" style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Even the Christian\u2019s son of God (and God as Christians say that Jesus is God) lied; telling his followers: <span style=\"color: purple;\">\u201cGo ye up unto this feast, for <i>my time is not yet full come<\/i>,\u201d \u201cBut when his brethren were gone up, <i>then went he also<\/i> up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in<i> secret<\/i>\u201d\u2013(John 7:8-10).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span>Clearly, Jesus did not want to go with them, and lied that he would be going later; and soon as they had gone from him he left for the feast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Thus, Christians are licensed to lie in material matters to avoid \u201cprison;\u201d and to lie in theological matters to spread their belief (though Paul\u2019s \u201clie\u201d brought people into worship of paganism. See\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=582\">All\u0101h and Jesus or Paul<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">).<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">Are such the works of divine messengers or devil disciples? Are they works of decency and dignity or of dishonesty and deception? (See\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=400\">Islam-antiChrist<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">Moreover, the Biblical God (and the Christian\u2019s God, Jesus) had his prophets \u201clie.\u201d In 1 Kings chapter 22, King Ahab wanted to know if he would be successful in the battle of Ramoth-gilead. Confused, because he was getting conflicting answers from his \u201cprophets,\u201d King Ahab summoned Micaiah, even though he disliked Micaiah because the latter does not give him favorable answers. Micaiah prophesied that king Ahab would be killed and the Israelites defeated\u2013(22:17). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">This upset King Ahab. He wanted to know how it is that he gets conflicting answers from his prophets and Micaiah. Micaiah replied that he had a vision of the Court of God about God asking which one of his spirits will tell King Ahab that he must go to battle and be killed.<br \/>\nThe spirits all came up with one story or the other to convince King Ahab.\u00a0Then one clever spirit elected to do the job by being a <span style=\"color: purple;\">\u201clying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets. And he (God) said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth and do so. Now therefore, behold, the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">LORD<\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\"> hath put a <\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">LYING<\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\"> spirit in the mouth of all these prophets, and the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">LORD <\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">hath spoken <\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">EVIL <\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\"><span style=\"color: purple;\">concerning thee\u201d\u2013(22:17-23. Incident-ally, Micaiah was sent to prison for his prophecy. King Ahab was killed in accordance with the decree of God as prophesied by Micaiah).<\/span><\/span><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\">\u00a0(See\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=2583\">Jesus-allows lying\/deception<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"PlainTextCharChar\" style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Since the Biblical immortal God can allow \u201clying\u201d causing \u201cevil\u201d against King Ahab, why carp at the mortal Mohammad for allowing \u201clying\u201d in order to effect peace and harmony among people and without resulting in \u201cevil\u201d against anyone?<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0 \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">As noted above, Muslims are not allowed to tell a \u201clie\u201d even when joking. Much more to \u201clie\u201d to spread Islam.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\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 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<u><span style=\"color: #800080;\">MORE ON LYING IN ISLAM<\/span><br \/>\n<\/u>One critic lists verses of the Qur\u2019an and Hadith of the Prophet Mohammad to justify his charge that Islam allows lying. Here are his charges (which we have noted in <span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cbrown\u201d<\/span>) and our answers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1. The critic: \u201cQur\u2019an 16:106. Establishes that there are circumstances that can &#8220;compel&#8221; a Muslim to tell a lie.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> Qur\u2019an 16:106 states: \u201cWhoso disbelieves in All\u0101h after his belief \u2014 not he who is compelled while his heart is content with faith, but he who opens (his) breast for disbelief \u2014 on them is the wrath of All\u0101h, and for them is a grievous chastisement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As noted on our <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/\">HOME<\/a> <\/span>page verses of the Qur\u2019an are to be understood as to the background to which they were revealed.<br \/>\nAs the verse clearly conveys, this is \u201clying\u201d under compulsion to save oneself from harm or death. And which does not cause harm or injustice to anyone.<br \/>\nMuhammad Ali gives the background to which this verse was revealed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOnly very rare instances are met with in the early history of Islam in which the converts even under compulsion ever recanted. For instance, Yasir and Sumayyah, husband and wife, suffered death at the hands of the disbelievers because they would not recant, the latter being put to death most cruelly, her legs being tied to two camels which were made to run in opposite directions. Their son \u2018Ammar, however, was not so resolute. The cruellest persecutions were inflicted on those slaves who had become converts to Islam Muir says: \u201cThese were seized and imprisoned, or they were exposed upon the scorching gravel of the valley to the intense glare of the midday sun. The torment was enhanced by intolerable thirst, until the wretched sufferers hardly knew what they said.\u201d Yet even under these trying circumstances, which would have maddened even the most resolute man, there were those among these slave-converts who were as firm as a mountain; as in the case of Bilal, of whom it is recorded that \u201cin the depth of his anguish the persecutors could force from him but one expression, <em>Ahad! Ahad! <\/em>(One! One! God)\u201d (Muir).\u201d<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">It is without doubt that most people (including the critic) would lie (even if it would cause harm to others) to avoid torture and death.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2. The critic: \u201cQur\u2019an 3:28. This verse tells Muslims not to take those outside the faith as friends, unless it is to &#8220;guard themselves&#8221; against danger, meaning that there are times when a Muslim should appear friendly to non-Muslims, even though they should not feel that way.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> This verse reads: \u201cLet not the believers take the disbelievers for friends rather than believers.<em><sup>a<\/sup><\/em> And whoever does this has no connection with Allah \u2014 except that you guard yourselves against them,<em><sup>b<\/sup><\/em> guarding carefully. And Allah cautions you against His retribution.<em><sup>c<\/sup><\/em> And to Allah is the eventual coming.\u201d<br \/>\nMuhammad Ali comments:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c28a.The Muslims, being in a state of war with the disbelievers, were forbidden to look to their enemies to guard their interests or for help of any kind. The clear statement made in 60:8, 9 settles the point beyond all doubt: \u201cAllah forbids you not respecting those who fight you not for religion, nor drive you forth from your homes, that you show them kindness and deal with them justly.\u2026Allah forbids you only respecting those who fight you for religion and drive you forth from your homes and help (others) in your expulsion, that you make friends with them\u201d. <em>Auliya<\/em>, which I translate as <em>friends <\/em>here, is the plural of <em>wali<\/em>, which is derived from a root meaning <em>he held command <\/em>or <em>had charge of <\/em>or <em>superintended a thing<\/em>, and it accordingly means <em>the manager of a thing <\/em>or <em>of the affairs of another<\/em>, and the <em>guardian <\/em>or <em>maintainer of an orphan<\/em>, and <em>the guardian of a woman <\/em>who gives her away in marriage. It also means <em>the executor <\/em>or <em>heir of a deceased person <\/em>(LL). According to R, it indicates <em>nearness in respect of place, relation<\/em>, and <em>religion<\/em>, and <em>in respect of friendship and help and belief<\/em>, etc. The word therefore includes all relations or nearness. A man may also be said to be <em>wali-Allah<\/em>, as meaning one <em>near to Allah <\/em>or a <em>friend of Allah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">28<em>b<\/em>. This is a new sentence. It is as if it were said: <em>Do not look to them for guarding your interests, rather guard yourselves against them<\/em>.<br \/>\n28<em>c<\/em>. T explains <em>nafs <\/em>here as meaning <em>uqubah<\/em>, i.e. <em>retribution<\/em>. In fact, retribution of evil is a requirement of Divine nature. Or, the meaning is that Allah warns you against disobedience to Himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">3. The critic: <a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/noble\/sura9.html#3\">Quran (9:3)<\/a>&#8211;<em>&#8220;&#8230;Allah and His Messenger are free from liability to the idolaters&#8230;&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0The dissolution of oaths with the pagans who remained at Mecca following its capture. They did nothing wrong, but were evicted anyway.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> To restate, verses of the Qur\u2019an are to be understood from the background to which they were revealed. This part of the verse which the critic quoted is to be read in its context \u2013from verse one to verse four. Following are the four verses:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>1 <\/strong>A declaration of immunity from Allah and His Messenger to those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement.<sup>a<br \/>\n<\/sup><strong>2 <\/strong>So go about in the land for four months and know that you cannot escape All\u0101h and that Allah will disgrace the disbelievers.<br \/>\n<strong>3 <\/strong>And an announcement from Allah and His Messenger to the people on the day of the greater pilgrimage<sup>a<\/sup> that Allah is free from liability to the idolaters, and so is His Messenger. So if you repent, it will be better for you; and if you turn away, then know that you will not escape Allah. And announce painful chastisement to those who disbelieve \u2014<br \/>\n<strong>4 <\/strong>Except those of the idolaters with whom you made an agreement, then they have not failed you in anything and have not backed up anyone against you; so fulfil their agreement to the end of their term. Surely Allah loves those who keep their duty.<sup>a<\/sup><sup>.<\/sup>\u201d<br \/>\nMuhammad Ali comments:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1a. This verse is to be read along with v. 4, which makes a clear exception in favour of those who did not fail in their agreements. It is a fact that the idolatrous tribes of Arabia broke their agreements with the Muslims again and again (8:56), yet the Muslims were enjoined to accept peace if the disbelievers consented to it, even after repeated violations (8:61). But this state of things could not continue long, for it was soon found that it was impossible to trust such neighbours. This repudiation of agreements took place on a large scale when the Muslims were absent on the Tabuk expedition. The first thirteen verses of this chapter were publicly proclaimed by \u2018Ali, on the occasion of the pilgrimage in the ninth year of the Hijrah, and the following announcements made as the result: (1) that no idolater shall approach the Sacred House after this; (2) that no one shall go naked round the Ka\u2018bah (B. 65: ix, 3). The attitude of the tribes to whom this ultimatum was given through \u2018Ali is well indicated in their reply: \u201cO \u2018Ali, deliver this message to thy cousin (i.e. the Prophet), that we have thrown the agreements behind our backs, and there is no agreement between him and us except smiting with spears and striking with swords\u201d (Rz).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3a. By the day of the greater pilgrimage is meant either the ninth of Dhu-l-Hijjah, when all pilgrims gather together in the plain of \u2018Arafat, or the tenth when they assemble in Mina.<br \/>\n4a. Only two tribes, the Bani Damrah, and the Bani Kananah, are related to have adhered to their treaties. The exception given here makes it clear that the Muslims were not fighting with the idolaters on account of their religion, but on account of their having been untrue to their engagements.<br \/>\n5a. The clear exception of the last verse shows that by the idolaters here are meant, not all idolaters or polytheists wherever they may be found in the world, not even all idolaters of Arabia, but only those idolatrous tribes of Arabia assembled at the pilgrimage who had first made agreements with the Muslims and then violated them.\u201d (For Muhammad Ali\u2019s translation of the Qur\u2019an contact <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.muslim.org\/\">www.muslim.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Every person interested in religion should have a copy).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">4. The critic \u201c<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/noble\/sura40.html#28\">Quran (40:28)<\/a>\u2013 A man is introduced as a believer, but one who had to \u201chide his faith\u201d\u00a0among those who are not believers.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> This verse states: \u201cAnd a believing man of Pharaoh\u2019s people, who hid his faith, said: Will you slay a man because he says, My Lord is Allah, and indeed he has brought you clear arguments from your Lord? And if he be a liar, on him will be his lie, and if he be truthful, there will befall you some of that which he threatens you with. Surely Allah guides not one who is a prodigal, a liar.\u201d<br \/>\nClearly, as the context \u2013reading from verse 26 shows\u2013 All\u0101h is only recounting an exchange between Pharaoh and one of his subjects about Moses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">5. The critic: <a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/noble\/sura2.html#225\">Quran (2:225)<\/a>-&#8220;Allah will not call you to account for thoughtlessness in your oaths, but for the intention in your hearts&#8221;\u00a0 The context of this remark is marriage, which explains why Sharia allows spouses to lie to each other for the greater good.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> Reading this verse with the previous verse:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\" start=\"224\">\n<li>\u201cYour wives are a tilth for you, so go in to your tilth when you like, and send (good) beforehand for yourselves. And keep your duty to Allah, and know that you will meet Him. And give good news to the believers.<\/li>\n<li>Allah will not call you to account for what is vain in your oaths, but He will call you to account for what your hearts have earned. And Allah is Forgiving, Forbearing.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It does not seem that this verse is about marriage relations but is of a general nature which is elaborated in Qur\u2019an 5:89: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cAllah will not call you to account for that which is vain in your oaths, but He will call you to account for the making of deliberate oaths; so its expiation is the feeding of ten poor men with the average (food) you feed your families with, or their clothing, or the freeing of a neck. But whoso finds not (means) should fast for three days. This is the expiation of your oaths when you swear. And keep your oaths. Thus does Allah make clear to you His messages that you may give thanks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, even if the verse \u201callows spouses to lie to each other for the greater good,\u201d there is no harm in this for the \u201cgreater\u201d good. So long, as noted above, as this \u201clying\u201d does not result in harm or injury or injustice to the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">6.The critic: <a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/noble\/sura3.html#54\">\u201cQuran (3:54)<\/a>-&#8220;And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers.&#8221;\u00a0The Arabic word used here for scheme (or plot) is\u00a0makara, which literally means &#8216;deceit&#8217;. If Allah is supremely deceitful toward unbelievers, then there is little basis for denying that Muslims are allowed to do the same. (See also\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/noble\/sura8.html#30\">8:30<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/noble\/sura10.html#21\">10:21<\/a>).\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> This verse is about the Jews planning to kill Jesus; it reads: <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cAnd (the Jews) planned and All\u0101h (also) planned. And All\u0101h is the best of planners.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Muhammad Ali explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c54a. Makr is explained by R as the turning of another with ingenuity or skill from that which he aims at, and he considers makr as of two sorts, a good one and an evil one. Therefore the best interpretation of the word makara (including both sorts) is that adopted by T, viz. <em>he exercised craft, cunning, art<\/em><em>, or <\/em><em>skill in the management <\/em><em>or <\/em><em>ordering of affairs with excellent consideration <\/em><em>or <\/em><em>deliberation, and ability to manage according to his own free will <\/em>(LL). The idea of the plan being contrived for an evil purpose or clandestinely, which is included in the significance of the word, has led many to take that idea as its exclusive significance, which is not the case. <em>Makara-llahu<\/em> may also signify that <em>Allah recompensed <\/em><em>or <\/em><em>requited them for their makr <\/em>(T-LL). According to some<em>, <\/em><em>its original significance is the gathering of an affair and its strengthening<\/em> (Rz). All these explanations show that it is the equivalent of the word plan, the good or evil nature of the plan being dependent on the object or doer\u2019s intention. Allah is called here <em>Khair al-makirin<\/em> or the <em>Best of planners<\/em>, the qualifying word <em>khair<\/em> being <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>inapplicable to an evil object. <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Emphasis added)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">54b. The Jews planned to put Jesus to death by crucifixion, and Allah made a plan to frustrate their plans; and Allah\u2019s plan was successful, i.e. he was saved from death on the cross, for which see 55a and 4:157a.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The critic: \u201cTaken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be &#8220;compelled&#8221; to deceive others for a greater purpose.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">But as shown such a view is pure hogwash!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The critic also states: \u201cThe Quran says in several places that Allah is the best at deceiving people. An interesting side note is verse\u00a0<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/noble\/sura7.html#99\">7:99<\/a>, which says that the only people who feel secure from Allah are those destined for Hell. Taken literally, this could mean that Muslims who arrogantly assume that they will enter heaven are in for a rude surprise (such are the hazards of worshipping an all-powerful deceiver).\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> While All\u0101h is the ultimate in Power and is not accountable to anyone or bound by anything, Muslims do not \u201carrogantly assume that they will enter heaven,\u201d the Word of All\u0101h is true. Allah is true to His promise! When we follow All\u0101h\u2019s instructions <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=362\">Muslims are destined<\/a> <\/span>to be successful, victorious and triumphant!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding Qur\u2019an 7:99 under discussion. Reading from verse 94 shows that All\u0101h states that He sends prophets so evil people would reform. And whereas some people heeded others reject Divine message because they do not believe in God. Thus, All\u0101h calls them to reason as to what guarantee they have that they would not \u201cperish\u201d (verses 97-99):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAre the people of the towns, then, secure from Our punishment coming to them by <strong>night<\/strong> while they sleep?<br \/>\nOr, are the people of the towns secure from Our punishment coming to them in the <strong>morning<\/strong> while they play?<br \/>\nAre they secure from All\u0101h\u2019s plan? But none feels secure from All\u0101h\u2019s plan <strong>except the people who perish<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As emphasized the verse does not speak about \u201chell\u201d as the critic enters, it only says the people might \u201cperish\u201d either in the \u201cnight\u201d or \u201cmorning\u201d (perhaps by earthquake or some other).<br \/>\nAnd as noted above, Muhammad Ali explains: \u201cAllah is called here <em>Khair al-makirin<\/em> or the <em>Best of planners<\/em>, the qualifying word <em>khair<\/em> being <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>inapplicable to an evil object.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cCall to the way of Thy Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and argue with them in the best manner\u201d\u2013Qur\u2019an 16:125).<\/span><br \/>\nMuslims do not have to lie and deceive to spread our religion. Our religion \u2013Islam\u2013 is blessed with the Divine allure of reason; and its doctrines <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013Unity\/Purity of God; Prayer; Zakaat\/Charity; Fasting and Hajj\u2013<\/span> are clearly expressed in the Qur\u2019an and observed by the Magnificent Messenger of All\u0101h \u2013Mohammad.<br \/>\nIt is Christians who lie and deceive to spread their religion. And they have assent for this from their God, Son of God and Paul, as noted above. (See also <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=2583\">Jesus-allows lying\/deception<\/a>;\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=582\">All\u0101h and Jesus or Paul<\/a>; <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=535\">Bible corrupt &amp; obsolete<\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The critic: \u201c<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/org\/cmje\/religious-texts\/hadith\/bukhari\/052-sbt.php#004.052.269\">Bukhari (52:269)<\/a>&#8211;<em>&#8220;The Prophet said, &#8216;War is deceit.'&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em>The context of this is thought to be the murder of Usayr ibn Zarim and his thirty unarmed men by Muhammad&#8217;s men after he &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; them safe passage.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> : <span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cThought to be\u201d<\/span> the murder of Usayr ibn Zarim?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And what do you think war is \u2013love connection?<\/span><br \/>\nIsn\u2019t \u201cundercover\u201d work deceit\/deception?<br \/>\nIsn\u2019t one country or organization infiltrating another country or organization deceit\/ deception?<br \/>\nGo ask the Allies of World War II what tactic they employed to rout \u00a0Germany?<br \/>\n\u201cThe British located all the Nazi spies imbedded in England and turned them into double agents. They managed to keep Hitler completely fooled as to the real location of the invasion to the point he firmly believed Normandy was a diversion meant to trick him into sending his troops away from the true location of the invasion. The Nazi knew an invasion was coming but did not know where. Rommel was tasked with turning it back but was unable to convince Hitler the real invasion was already underway in Normandy.<br \/>\n&#8220;Operation Fortitude&#8221; remains one of the most sophisticated and successful military deceptions in history. A phony army was created complete with fake military equipment and radio chatter under the command of General Patton to fool the Germans into believing the D-Day invasion would take place in Northern France at Calais.\u201d <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Was-there-really-no-leak-of-information-about-the-allied-D-Day-landings-It-was-a-complete-surprise-to-the-Germans#!n=12\">https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Was-there-really-no-leak-of-information-about-the-allied-D-Day-landings-It-was-a-complete-surprise-to-the-Germans#!n=12<\/a>).<br \/>\n<\/span>Go ask America and Britain what tactic they used to invade\/destroy\u00a0Iraq\/Saddam Hussein?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The critic: \u201c<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/org\/cmje\/religious-texts\/hadith\/bukhari\/084-sbt.php#009.084.064\">Bukhari (84:64-65)<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Speaking from a position of power at the time, Ali confirms that lying is permitted in order to deceive an &#8220;enemy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER<\/span>: Again, you can tell the enemy the truth. And take his word and bare your head to him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The critic: \u201c<a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/org\/cmje\/religious-texts\/hadith\/bukhari\/059-sbt.php#005.059.369\">Bukhari (50:369)<\/a>&#8211; Recounts the murder of a poet, Ka&#8217;b bin al-Ashraf, at Muhammad&#8217;s insistence. The men who volunteered for the assassination used dishonesty to gain Ka&#8217;b&#8217;s trust, pretending that they had turned against Muhammad. This drew the victim out of his fortress, whereupon he was brutally slaughtered.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ANSWER:<\/span> The question is why did the Prophet want Ka&#8217;b bin al-Ashraf killed?<br \/>\nMuhammad Ali notes in his commentary to Qur\u2019an 59:2:<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cThe Bani Nadir made a treaty with the Holy Prophet to stand neutral between him and his enemies. When he was victorious at Badr, they said that he was the Prophet promised in the Torah, on account of the victory, but when the Muslims suffered a loss on the day of Uhud, they (i.e., the Bani Nadir) repudiated their vow and broke the agreement. Ka\u2018b, son of Ashraf, went to Makkah with forty horsemen and made an alliance with Abu Sufyan. As a consequence, Ka\u2018b was murdered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ka&#8217;b bin al-Ashraf was killed for treachery. No wise leader would allow such a traitor to group with others to annihilate him. Even in modern times man is flying thousands of miles to distant lands to \u201cmurder\u201d those who are viewed as threats to him.<br \/>\nAnd Mohammad was no transgressor, no occupier, no exploiter. Had Mohammad\u2019s enemies left him to his preaching and not force him into a defensive war, these enemies would not have lost their heads and property.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(It is to be known that a large number of these \u201ckillings\u201d that the Prophet Mohammad is said to have ordered was quoted from Ibn Hisham, a commentator on Ibn Ishaq. It is said of Ibn Ishaq that:<\/span><br \/>\n\u201cThroughout his work, Ibn Ishaq precedes every statement with the word <em>za`ama<\/em> or <em>za`amu<\/em>, he (they) alleged). It carries with it more than a hint that the statement may not be true, though it might be sound. This attitude reflects Ibn Ishaq&#8217;s caution and fairness.\u201d<sup><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1<\/span><br \/>\n<\/sup><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Thus, it is evident that such \u201ckillings\u201d may be doubtful. Nevertheless even if the Prophet Mohammad ordered such \u201ckillings\u201d they, as shown, are hardly a blot on the Prophet\u2019s character).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The critics of Islam are vast on text and void of substance. From what we have observed (on the <em>Internet<\/em>) they all ruminate on the same old charges against All\u0101h, the Qur\u2019an, Islam and Prophet Mohammad. Which we have debunked on our site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No religion can be shown to be superior to, or equal with, Islam.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=414\">Islam is superior to all other religions<\/a>.<\/span><br \/>\nAnd there is no system on the face of earth that is more equitable and just than\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/?page_id=346\">Shari\u2019ah<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muslims who have apostatized from Islam (instead of learning about Islam) have the grand opportunity, while you are alive, to return to All\u0101h; when you die\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2013and no one knows the time of his\/her death\u2013<\/span> there is no second chance: this grand opportunity evaporates like a dewdrop in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/nogodbutallah.org\/hell\/\">Hell<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\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 \u00a0<\/span>NOTES<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">1.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Jews broke their covenant:<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>\u201c<\/strong>The People of the Book ask thee to bring down to them a Book from heaven; indeed they demanded of Moses a greater thing than that, for they said: Show us All\u0101h manifestly. So destructive punishment overtook them on account of their wrongdoing. Then they took the calf (for a god), after clear signs had come to them, but We pardoned this. And We gave Moses clear authority. And We raised the mountain above them at their covenant. And We said to them: Enter the door making obeisance. And We said to them: Violate not the Sabbath; and We took from them a firm covenant. Then for their breaking their covenant and their disbelief in the messages of Allah and their killing the prophets wrongfully and their saying, Our hearts are covered; nay, All\u0101h has sealed them owing to their disbelief, so they believe not but a little: And for their disbelief and for their uttering against Mary a grievous calumny: And for their saying: We have killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of All\u0101h, and they killed him not, nor did they cause his death on the cross, but he was made to appear to them as such. And certainly those who differ therein are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge about it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for certain: Nay, All\u0101h exalted him in His presence. And All\u0101h is ever Mighty, Wise\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an 4:153-158).<br \/>\n\u201cAbasement will be their lot wherever they are found, except under a covenant with Allah and a covenant with men, and they shall incur the wrath of Allah, and humiliation will be made to cling to them. This is because they disbelieved in the messages of Allah and killed the prophets unjustly. This is because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits\u201d\u2013Qur\u2019an 3:112).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">2.<\/span> \u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Jews were cursed by David and Jesus:<\/span><br \/>\n\u201cThose who disbelieved from among the Children of Israel were cursed by the tongue of David and Jesus, son of Mary. This was because they disobeyed and exceeded the limits. They forbade not one another the hateful things they did. Evil indeed was what they did\u201d\u2013(Qur\u2019an\u00a0 5:78):<br \/>\nMuhammad Ali comments:<br \/>\n\u201cAfter Moses, David and Jesus, who represent the highest achievement of Israelite prophethood in temporal and spiritual glory, spoke of the advent of the Holy Prophet in unmistakable terms. The <em>curse <\/em>is used here in its original sense of being removed further off from Divine mercy. Both prophets had warned the Jews that their transgressions called for Divine punishment which should soon overtake them if they did not mend their ways. The time of both was followed by a great affliction overtaking the Jews, in the respective depredations of the Babylonian kings and the destruction wrought by Titus.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cJerusalem was destroyed twice as a punishment for the transgressions of the Jews, once by the Babylonians, and again by the Romans. See Jesus\u2019 warning in Matthew 23:38: \u201cBehold, your house is left unto you desolate,\u201d and Luke 21:24: \u201cAnd Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles,\u201d and various other like references. The Psalms are also replete with warnings.\u201d (Muhammad Ali comm. Qur\u2019an 17:4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">3.<\/span> Taken from the <em>Internet<\/em>, art. Ibn Hisham, from an answer given to an inquirer about the authenticity of reports by Ibn Ishaq.<br \/>\nIbn Hisham is said to have edited the biography of the Prophet Mohammad written by\u00a0Ibn Ishaq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the name of All\u0101h, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Peace and Blessings of All\u0101h on Mohammad. 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