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  • A Brazilian sister asks about Quranic verses on morality 

    Tell me a verse talking about morality
    The word morality comes from Latin moris meaning one’s disposition. Islam teaches that every child is born on a sinless and pure disposition or fitrah unlike original sin. { Quran 30:30 Asad AND SO, set thy face steadfastly towards the [one ever-true] faith, turning away from all that is false, in accordance with the natural disposition which God has instilled into man: [for,] not to allow any change to corrupt what God has thus created this is the ever-true faith; but most people know it not. } {Verily, We have shown him the way: [and it rests with him to prove himself] either grateful or ungrateful. – 76:3 (Asad) } { and shown him the two highways [of good and evil]? – 90:10 (Asad) }
    BEHOLD, God enjoins justice, and the doing of good, and generosity towards [one’s] relatives and He forbids all that is shameful and all that runs counter to reason, as well as opression; [and] He exhorts you so that you might bear [all this] in mind. – 16:90 (Asad)}
  • Abrahamic unitarianism(tawhid) of Magnificat-I

    July 26 at 12:54pm ·
    The Magnificat tells us that rather than calling Mary or Jesus peace be upon both one must magnify their Creator
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly I have no idea what the Magnificat is…My final authority is the Bible. Islam is the creation of Catholic Jesuits. Their finger prints are all over Islam.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham If Christians were not ignorant about Bible and Quran, the intellectually honest ones would convert to Islam Luke 1:46-55
    Mary’s Song of Praise: The Magnificat
    46 And Mary said,
    “My soul magnifies the Lord,
    47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
    48 for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant.
    For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
    49 for he who is mighty has done great things for me,
    and holy is his name.
    50 And his mercy is for those who fear him
    from generation to generation.
    51 He has shown strength with his arm;
    he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;
    52 he has brought down the mighty from their thrones
    and exalted those of humble estate;
    53 he has filled the hungry with good things,
    and the rich he has sent away empty.
    54 He has helped his servant Israel,
    in remembrance of his mercy,
    55 as he spoke to our fathers,
    to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Daniel, Isaiah, Elijah, Job, King David…..and Mary…….They are all dead and buried. None of them can save you. Of course Mary is blessed !!!! But she is not to be worshiped.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Elijah peace be upon him is not buried.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Only God the Creator can save us not creation no matter how holy they are according to first and greatest commandment.
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:
    Hebreews 9:27
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly And YES…Elijah is dead…When Christ and the apostle Peter state that not ONE human being is now in heaven, they are referencing the location of God’s throne, which is the center of the entire universe. When the book of Hebrews says Enoch was “translated” or “taken” (the same thing which occurred to Elijah), it is not stating that the Eternal somehow took him ‘early’ because of his righteousness to receive his eternal award AHEAD of countless people who also deserve eternal life. He traveled WITHIN what we today call the sky to another location on planet earth, which God decided not to name, in order that he should not die at that time.
    The Lord, in His wisdom, decided to transport Enoch and Elijah away from where they were originally located so that someone (or something) would not be able to physically kill or murder them at that particular time. They did NOT go to heaven, but continued to live the SAME kind of fleshly existence we do after they moved until they died. This is in agreement with other scriptures that state ALL men must die a physical death.
    27. And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment (Hebrews 9:27)
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly Something similar could have happened to PhillipActs chapter 8 …….9 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Jesus peace be upon him will be concerned with himself and he will not advocate for anyone. Abu Huraira reported:
    Meat was one day brought to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and a foreleg was offered to him, a part which he liked. He sliced with his teeth a piece out of it and said: I shall be the leader of mankind on the Day of Resurrection. Do you know why? Allah would gather in one plain the earlier and the later (of the human race) on the Day of Resurrection. Then the voice of the proclaimer would be heard by all of them and the eyesight would penetrate through all of them and the sun would come near. People would then experience a degree of anguish, anxiety and agony which they shall not be able to bear and they shall not be able to stand. Some people would say to the others: Don you see in which trouble you are? Don’t you see what (misfortune) has overtaken you? Why don’t you find one who should intercede for you with your Lord? Some would say to the others: Go to Adam. And they would go to Adam and say: O Adam, thou art the father of mankind. Allah created thee by His own Hand and breathed in thee of His spirit and ordered the angels to prostrate before thee. Intercede for us with thy Lord Don’t you see in what (trouble) we are? Don’t you see what (misfortune) has overtaken us? Adam would say: Verily, my Lord is angry, to an extent to which He had never been angry before nor would He be angry afterward. Verily, He forbade me (to go near) that tree and I disobeyed Him. I am concerned with my own self. Go to someone else; go to Noah. They would come to Noah and would say: O Noah, thou art the first of the Messengers (sent) on the earth (after Adam), and Allah named thee as a” Grateful Servant,” intercede for us with thy Lord. Don’t you see in what (trouble) we are? Don’t you see what (misfortune) has overtaken us? He would say: Verily, my Lord is angry today as He had never been angry before, and would never be angry afterwards. There had emanated a curse from me with which I cursed my people. I am concerned with only myself, I am concerned only with myself; you better go to Ibrahim (peace be upon him). They would go to Ibrahim and say: Thou art the apostle of Allah and His Friend amongst the inhabitants of the earth; intercede for us with thy Lord. Don’t you see in which (trouble) we are? Don’t you see what (misfortune) has overtaken us? Ibrahim would say to them: Verily, my Lord is today angry as He had never been angry before and would never be angry afterwards. and (Ibrahim) would mention his lies (and then say): I am concerned only with myself, I am concerned only with myself. You better go to someone else: go to Moses. They would come to Moses (peace be upon him) and say: O Moses, thou art Allah’s messenger, Allah blessed thee with His messengership and His conversation amongst people. Intercede for us with thy Lord. Don’t you see in what (trouble) we are? Don’t you see what (misfortune) has overtaken us? Moses (peace be upon him) would say to them: Verily. my Lord is angry as He had never been angry before and would never be angry afterwards. I, in fact, killed a person whom I had not been ordered to kill. I am concerned with myself, I am concerned with myself. You better go to Jesus (peace be upon him). They would come to Jesus and would say: O Jesus, thou art the messenger of Allah and thou conversed with people in the cradle, (thou art) His Word which I-Ie sent down upon Mary. and (thou art) the Spirit from Him; so intercede for us with thy Lord. Don’t you see (the trouble) in which we are? Don’t you see (the misfortune) that has overtaken us? Jesus (peace be upon him) would say: Verily, my Lord is angry today as He had never been angry before or would ever be angry afterwards. He mentioned no sin of his. (He simply said: ) I am concerned with myself, I am concerned with myself; you go to someone else: better go to Muhammad (ﷺ). They would come to me and say: O Mahammad, thou art the messenger of Allah and the last of the apostles. Allah has pardoned thee all thy previous and later sins. Intercede for us with thy Lord; don’t you see in which (trouble) we are? Don’t you see what (misfortune) has overtaken us? I shall then set off and come below the Throne and fall down prostrate before my Lord; then Allah would reveal to me and inspire me with some of His Praises and Glorifications which He had not revealed to anyone before me. He would then say: Muhammad, raise thy head; ask and it would be granted; intercede and intercession would be accepted I would then raise my head and say: O my Lord, my people, my people. It would be said: O Muhammad, bring in by the right gate of Paradise those of your people who would have no account to render. They would share with the people some other door besides this door. The Prophet then said: By Him in Whose Hand is the life of Muhammad, verify the distance between two door leaves of the Paradise is as great as between Mecca and Hajar, or as between Mecca and Busra. http://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/1…
    Hadith – The Book of Miscellaneous ahadith of Significant Values – Riyad…
    SUNNAH.COM
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham { If you are in front of a Sharia Court and the judge says you MUST pay your fine or go to jail or die….and a rich man walks in the court and says that he will pay your debt….hopefully the court allows you to go freely.} According to Ezekiel 18:20 no one can die for another or pay for another.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham {And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment (Hebrews 9:27)} Then the one who died on cross must be a man.
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly I agree Jesus is a man and he died…and he was resurrected.
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly It is obvious above Ishmael that Jesus is not the Messiah in your theology but the dead Mohammed. Very sad indeed.
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    Angelica Elsayeeda
    Angelica Elsayeeda Lol…Steven do more research. That statement shows you don’t know anything about Jesus in Islam. He was the Messiah and we are awaiting his return, just like you.
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    Linda Spencer
    Linda Spencer I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God, that he came to this earth to die a horrible death to pay the penalty for man’s sin, that each of us must accept him as,Lord and Saviour and live a pleasing life for his glory and honor, and that he is coming back to receive his blood washed church that where he is there we may be also. There’s NOT alot of time to get ready for him, we must get ready and STAY ready for his coming is very SOON. God bless each of you>he loves you!!
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    Jerry Sexton
    Jerry Sexton Vicarious redemption is an immoral teaching. It is a death cult that enables it’s followers to commit wrongdoing without responsibility for actions. Jeffery Dahmer, the serial killer, will be in heaven while I, a law abiding atheist who tries to treat others as I would like to be treated, will be tortured for eternity?
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    Angelica Elsayeeda
    Angelica Elsayeeda Linda Spencer we believe Jesus was a Prophet of God with a message. We believe God is not human or anything even that our small minds can imagine. We also don’t believe in any one person having to pay for the sins if another. In Islam we are solely accountable for ourselves, before God. We believe God himself is the only savior and our way to Him is through Him and only Him. We are waiting for Jesus to return and rule in peace while giving humanity the chance to come to God. I was raised Catholic. There is no way to explain or make any sense of the trinity (doesn’t exist in the Bible) or the torture and killing of Jesus (a man) as punishment for humans just BEING BORN. God is God. There are no others, no partners, no anything like Her. While you want us to turn to a man, worship him and ask for his acceptance so we can get to God, we have a personal line directly to Him and if you so choose, you can too. There is and should not be ANYONE or anything between you and God.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Here are the nine verses in Quran which call him the Messiah a word used not once for Ishmaelite Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him. { http://legacy.quran.com/search?q=ma… } Ishmaelite Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him is Light to Gentiles (Isaiah 42) while Jesus peace be upon him is Light for Israelites ONLY.
    maseeh – Qur’an Search – The Noble Qur’an – القرآن الكريم
    The Noble Qur’an in many languages in an…
    LEGACY.QURAN.COM
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham { God is God. There are no others, no partners, no anything like Her. } I think you wanted to say Him Angelica Elsayeeda 🙂
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Linda Spencer {I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God } Bible in Numbers says God is not a man, so He cannot have sons. He is a King so He can have servants like Bible says in Acts that Jesus peace be upon him is a servant of God like Muslims say.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham {that he came to this earth to die a horrible death} Isaiah 53 only says he was wounded not killed.
    Like · Reply · July 26 at 8:49pm
    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham {to pay the penalty for man’s sin } According to Ezekiel 18:20 no one can die for sins of another.
    Like · Reply · July 26 at 8:50pm
    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham {each of us must accept him as,Lord and Saviour } Jesus peace be upon him accepted God the Creator as Lord and Saviour.
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    Jerry Sexton
    Jerry Sexton I will agree that Jesus only came for Jews. It is evident in Matthew 15:22-29 when Jesus states it plainly.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham { his blood washed church } Bible teaches animal sacrifice like Muslims not pagan human sacrifice.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham {There’s NOT alot of time to get ready for him, we must get ready and STAY ready for his coming is very SOON. } We agree with that and we are preparing for his kingdom by refuting secularism while most Christians are already slaves of secularism.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham { God bless each of you>he loves you!! } God does not love those who commit evil according to Psalm 5:5
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham {Jeffery Dahmer, the serial killer, will be in heaven while I, a law abiding atheist who tries to treat others as I would like to be treated, will be tortured for eternity?} Jeffrey Dahmer will not be heaven according to Quran 48:13 3:85 7:158 25:1 if he knew about Islam like Christopher Hitchens the murderous atheist ideologue who supported Iraq war super-crucifying millions of keepers of first and greatest commandment.
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    Jerry Sexton
    Jerry Sexton He will not be in heaven according to Quran, but will be in heaven according to bible. He received vicarious redemption when he professed Jesus as god while in prison.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Bible mentions Ishmaelite (Deuteronomy 18) Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him from the land of Kedar (Isaiah 42) so he did not follow bible but heretic and pagan man-made Christianity like your man-made greco-roman neo-paganism.
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper Linda Spencer I’m a Christian, and there are a lot of us Christians who question everything we are taught by our churches. I suggest the same for everyone. Are you aware that the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement that you are espousing was a post-apostolic invention? No Christian theologian taught this in the early Christian church until someone in the western Roman empire came up with the idea. Those in the eastern church never did adopt it and the Eastern Orthodox church to this day still teaches salvation as it was taught by Jesus and his apostles, as do a number of Protestant churches that have taken a close look at what the bible teaches. Yes, Jesus died for our sins, but not in the way you think. Muslims are correct in rejecting this doctrine, however, unfortunately they do not understand why he did die for their sins and what that can mean for them. It’s not about a ticket to heaven, it’s about restoration to wholeness. That’s what “salvation” means in the original language. And relax, there’s plenty of time. Jesus already returned just as he said he would.
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    Jerry Sexton
    Jerry Sexton Either you confuse me with someone else or you are trying to insult me by putting belief based labels upon me . Either way, you fell short of your objective.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Modern atheism is simply a sophisticated form of greco-roman paganism. For example sodomites quote a female homosexual greek poetess.
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    Jerry Sexton
    Jerry Sexton I quote Jesus but I am not Christian
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham { Muslims are correct in rejecting this doctrine, however, unfortunately they do not understand why he did die for their sins and what that can mean for them. } What do we not understand? Kirby Hopper
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham {Jesus already returned just as he said he would.} Jesus peace be upon him clearly warned that there would be people who will deny second advent and claim to be Messiahs themselves so Kirby Hopper you are only falling short of claiming to be Messiah. Greg Logan has blatantly called you a Prophet.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Why do you feel the need to quote Jesus peace be upon him instead of merciless or mentally unstable Buddha who left his wife and child on the day he was born, or murderous Hitchens.
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper Angelica Elsayeeda I agree all men can go directly to God without a mediator, however I do believe a mediator can be beneficial for anyone. I think the orthodox understanding that “Jesus died for our sins” was meant to be a blessing for those who were alienated from God and had a hard time believing God would forgive is a great way to view Christ’s crucifixion. The man, who represented God, forgave his executioners – how much more will the All Merciful Allah do the same for those who turn from their wicked ways?
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham I apologize if you find a comment insulting Jerry Sexton Quran forbids insults. I simply want a honest confrontational dialogue for better mutual understanding.
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper BTW the Quran does not teach that Jesus was not crucified. The issue raised by the Quran is who killed him or who thought they killed him, not whether he was killed. It’s all right there in the text.
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    Jerry Sexton
    Jerry Sexton Ishmael, Jesus told his disciples to leave their families to follow him also. I am not limited to Buddha.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Kirby Hopper 50 The Book of Repentance
    (4)Chapter: The Vastaess Of Allah’s Mercy, Which Prevails Over His Wrath(4) باب فِي سَعَةِ رَحْمَةِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى وَأَنَّهَا سَبَقَتْ غَضَبَهُ
    Salman reported that Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said:
    Verily, Allah created, on the same very day when He created the heavens and the earth, one hundred parts of mercy. Every part of mercy is coextensive with the space between the heavens. and the earth and He out of this mercy endowed one part to the earth and it is because of this that the mother shows affection to her child and even the beasts and birds show kindness to one another and when there would be the Day of Resurrection, Allah would make full (use of Mercy). http://sunnah.com/muslim/50/25 Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
    Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “Allah has divided mercy into one hundred parts; and He retained with Him ninety-nine parts, and sent down to earth one part. Through this one part creatures deal with one another with compassion, so much so that an animal lifts its hoof over its young lest it should hurt it”.
    Hadith – The Book of Repentance – Sahih Muslim – Sunnah.com – Sayings…
    SUNNAH.COM
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper Ishmael Abraham good grief I never claimed to be messiah and pay Logan no mind he’s just playing with you.
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    Kirby Hopper
    Were Jesus and His Apostles Mistaken About Jesus’ Soon Return? |…
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Quran categorically denies death at cross and Jesus peace be upon him will break cross upon second advent. 4:157 Dr. Ghali
    And for their saying, “Surely we killed the Masih, Isa son of Maryam, (The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary) the Messenger of Allah.” And in no way did they kill him, and in no way did they crucify him, but a resemblance of him was presented to them (i.e. the matter was made obscure for them through mutual resemblance). And surely the ones who differed about him are indeed in doubt about him. (Or: it, “that”) In no way do they have any knowledge about him except the close following of surmise, and in no way did they kill him of a certainty.
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper Dr. Ghali is engaging in eisogesis. Read the text yourself. The issue is who killed him, not whether he was killed or not.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Quran 9:65 forbids engaging in idle talk and jokes about religion. Yet, indeed, if thou wert to question them. they would surely answer, “We were only indulging in idle talk, and were playing [with words]. Say: “Were you, then. mocking at God and His messages and His Apostle?
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper What on earth are you talking about?
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham All translations of Quran 4:157 say they did not kill him for sure and they are confused.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Kirby Hopper I am talking about Greg Logan playing with me.
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    Jerry Sexton
    Jerry Sexton It’s almost as if someone else is on Ishmael’s computer.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham Jerry Sexton { Ishmael, Jesus told his disciples to leave their families to follow him also. I am not limited to Buddha.} Leaving the love of apostate, faithless and pagan families is not the same thing as stopping to care about them. There is no evidence that wife of Buddha was an enemy of truth. Buddha simply believed female seduction to be demonic unlike Islam.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham { I think the orthodox understanding that “Jesus died for our sins” was meant to be a blessing for those who were alienated from God and had a hard time believing God would forgive is a great way to view Christ’s crucifixion.} If God was so forgiving why did He torture a sinless Prophet for sins of others. That is against Ezekiel 18:20. Kirby Hopper
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper The issue addressed in all translations of 4:157 is who gets the “credit” for killing him. Show me one that says, “Jesus was not crucified.”
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper God didn’t torture Christ. The Romans did that, obviously.
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham It clearly says ما قتلوه Ma qataloohu Ma (Not) Qatal(Kill) Loo(they) Hu(him).
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper You aren’t answering my question. I didn’t ask whether the Jews killed him or someone else killed him. Where does it say Jesus was not crucified?
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    Ishmael Abraham
    Ishmael Abraham It also says ما صلبوه Ma salaboohu Ma(Not) Salab(crucify) Boo(They) Hu(him). Cross is called saleeb in Arabic. Dr. Shabir Ally says it means that he did not die on cross so he is willing to accept crucifixion without death unlike mainstream Muslims.
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    Greg Logan
    Greg Logan Ishmael Abraham Ish, dude, I would never play with you!! Who are you to decide who is and is not a prophet from God??? Those of us in Christ are to ALL seek the gift of prophecy – which we use to edify the body of Christ (ICor14:1ff).
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    Kirby Hopper
    Kirby Hopper Again, Ishmael, where does it say in the Quran that Jesus was not crucified? It only says “THEY” did not crucify him. If I say my wife did not paint my house am I saying my house did not get painted?
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    Angelica Elsayeeda
    Angelica Elsayeeda Allah is not he or she 😉
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    Angelica Elsayeeda
    Angelica Elsayeeda Kirby Hopper a man was crucified, but we do not believe that man was Jesus. He ascended and will return. Though the people believed it was Jesus on the cross, Muslims are taught it was not and Jesus was saved
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    Greg Logan
    Greg Logan Angelica Elsayeeda
    1. Why does the Quran use a masculine pronoun?
    2. Just because a Muslim is taught something – does that make it true??
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    Angelica Elsayeeda
    Angelica Elsayeeda The translation of Quran says He in line with Abraham tradition. The word Allah is not masculine or feminine and cannot be made plural. That’s why we prefer the word Allah to God. God can become God’s and Goddess. Allah is all.
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    Greg Logan
    Greg Logan Angelica Elsayeeda With respect, these are just words – and as such, meaningless. What is meaningful is the concept – the model.
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    Angelica Elsayeeda
    Angelica Elsayeeda As for 2, same with Christianity. Is it true just because we were taught it? The bible does not mention a trinity but we were taught that God is 3. But just 1. But 3 separate. But only 1.
    😉
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    Angelica Elsayeeda
    Angelica Elsayeeda This is why translations can be problematic without the study of language.
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    Steven Dubberly
    Steven Dubberly Angelica Elsayeeda That’s funny…..because He Him His are used throughout the bible…..And FATHER is indeed a masculine role….unless of course you believe in Obama liberalism.
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  • A Rhode Island trinitarian invites me to lunch :)

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    Ishmael,Thank you for your kind response. Well, many things could be said. But let me confine myself to just one point. Indeed, God in the book of Numbers says, “He is not a man, that He should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent [change His mind].” The essential nature of God, the Godhead, is wholly uncreated, divine, and has never become corrupted with what He has created. Not even the incarnation of the Word in Jesus Christ made the nature of God any less divine. But when the holy apostles declare that “God was manifest in the flesh,” what they meant was that God clothed Himself, as it were, with the humble garments of flesh. “In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Putting on clothes brings the man into intimate contact with his clothing; it does not in any way make him his clothing. Classic orthodox Christianity since the Council of Constantinople has declared that the God-man, Jesus, is one person with two distinct natures, without any mixing or blending of the two. So in Christ, God has not converted into human nature in any way. Rather, He has come into such intimate contact with human nature for our redemption. How close He has come to us for our salvation! He is “Immanuel, God with us.”I would love to carry on more discussion in person. If you are ever in Rhode Island or near it, drop me an e-mail – mjives dot refparish at gmail dot com. I would be happy to treat you to lunch – that is, if you can dine with a kafir like me!I’m not on Facebook myself, but I notice you’re an electrical engineer. My son wants to go into that line of work.Warm regards,Michael
    Codex Sinaiticus which contains the oldest complete copy of NT does not have the word ‘God’ in 1 Timothy 3:16, so unholy trinitarians used the ‘lying pen of scribes’ as bible puts it. Please read:16 And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in flesh, was justified in spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
    I live in Islamabad, Pakistan, but ,my family members live in Seattle.
    Kosher lunch with People of the Book is allowed according to Quran 5:5.
  • Teaching minister Curt Landry about Samuel and David peace be upon them

    Samuel peace be upon him appeared in a dream to a Jewish scientist Samawal Al-Maghribi and he converted to Islam, and then he wrote a book refuting bible and Jews called The Confutation of Jews.
    As Muslim keepers of first and greatest commandment we find the fabricated(Quran 2:79) story of David peace be upon him committing zina(adultery). We believe all Prophets are sinless role-models for humanity.
  • Tears of Umar may God be pleased with him about a trinitarian and iman-less Christian monk

    It refutes the unbiblical Christian idea about salvation that Muslims and atheists will burn in Hellfire. Jesus peace be upon him said: I am sent ONLY to the lost sheep of house of Israel, while Islam consistently claims universal mission in Quran 48:13 3:85 7:158 25:1
    حضرت عمر – رضي الله تعالى عنه – کا گزر ایک راہب خانے سے ہوا اور وہ وہاں رک گئے، راہب کو بتایا گیا کہ امیر المومنین تشریف لائے ہوئے ہیں، اس پر اس نے اپنی خانقاہ سے جھانک کر دیکھا، تو اس کے چہرے پر مشقت، مجاہدے اور رہبانیت کے گہرے بادل چھائے ہوئے تھے، امیر المومنین حضرت عمر – رضي الله تعالى عنه – نے جب اس کی یہ حالت دیکھی تو آبدیدہ ہو گئے، لوگوں نے تعجب سے عرض کیا: “کہ یہ نصرانی ہے”، فاروق اعظم نے فرمایا: ہاں مجھے یہ معلوم ہے، لیکن مجھے اللہ تعالی کا فرمان یاد آ گیا: وجوه يومئذ خاشعة عاملة ناصبة تصلى نارا حامية تسقى من عين آنية(سورة الغاشية) ترجمہ: بہت سے چہرے اس دن اترے ہوئے ہوں گے، مصیبت جھیلتے ہوئے، تھکن سے چور، وہ دہکتی ہوئی آگ میں داخل ہوں گے، انہیں کھولتے ہوئے چشمے سے پانی پلایا جائے گا۔۱ مجھے اللہ کا یہ فرمایا یاد آگیا اور میرا دل اس پر پسیچ گیا کہ اتنی مشقت اور تھکن کے باوجود آگ کا ایندھن بنے گا ۲ ۱: آسان ترجمہ قرآن، از مفتی تقی عثمانی صاحب ۲: تفسير عبد الرزاق، سورة الغاشية، المستكر على الحاكم، كتاب التفسير، سورة الغاشية، وقال الإمام الذهبي على هذه الرواية: “الجوني لم يدرك عمر لكنها حكاية في موضعها”
    Tafsir Ibn Abbas tells us the same about Khawarij takfiri extremists and Ruhban(anchorites or asexual extremists) in Tafsir of Ayah 104 of Surah Al-Kahf.
    Sayyidunaa ‘Umar Weeps Over the Exertion of a Christian Monk
    Aboo `Imraan Jowni narrates that ‘Umar , radiAllaahu ‘anhu (may Allaah be pleased with him), once passed by a monk and remained standing there. Someone called the monk and told him that the Ameeru`l-Mu`mineen (Leader of the Faithful) was there. When the monk peeped out, the effects of difficulty, exertion and forsaking the world were clearly apparent on his face . Looking at him, ‘Umar, radiAllaahu ‘anhu, began to weep. “But he is a Christian”, someone commented. ‘Umar, radiAllaahu ‘anhu, replied “I know, but I feel sorry for him becasue I thought of the Verse in which Allaah mentions… :
    عَامِلَةٌۭ نَّاصِبَةٌۭ
    تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةًۭ
    “‘Aamilatu`n-naasibah. Taslaa naaran haamiyah.”
    “He who suffered affliction and who endured many difficulties (thinking that he was pleasing Allaah whereas his beliefs and actions did not conform with the injunctions of Allaah); he shall enter the blazing fire.” [Soorat al-Ghaashiyah (088:003-004)]
    “… I feel sorry for him because despite his exertion and efforts in this world, he shall still end up in Jahannam (Hell).”
    This is related by Bayhaqee, ibn Mundhir, and Haakim as quoted in Kanzu`l-‘Ummaal (1/175).
  • Dialogue with a researcher from University of Melbourne about Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd 

    Adis Duderija

    One element of progressive interpretation of the Islamic tradition is contextualisation and one important element of contextualisation is the differentiation between meaning of a text and its significance. While the meaning can be static ( as well as operate at different levels) its significance is dynamic. This aspect of progressive islamic hermeneutics is discussed most systematically by N.H. Abu Zayd as per the quote below taken from Sukidi (2009,207) :The first task of the human interpreter, insists Abū Zayd, is to fully understand the historical meaning of the Qur’ān (al-dalāla al-tārīkhiyya) within the social, historical, and cultural contexts of the first addresses of the text, i.e. the Prophet and his communities. Meaning (ma’nā) of the text may be valid and stable according to what the Prophet meant in the historical past. However, the significance (maghzā) of the text may vary in the present context as a result of the text’s encounters with the human interpreter or the reader in a different time and space. A subsequent task Abū Zayd assigns to the human interpreter is to discover the changing character of significance of the text in the present context.
    Ishmael Abraham Abu Zayd was a blind anti-traditionalist and he criticized the legacy of traditional scholars like Salafi extremists. Quran 9:100 praises people who follow the pioneers and predecessors of Islam, and Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him also warned that later impious generations will hate and abuse former righteous generations like Shia extremists. The Arabic word for ‘following’ is Ittiba’ which means following like shadow follows the sun and honey bees follow the queen(yasub).
  • A diffident and apologetic sister from Oregon discovers the Quranic basis of abolitionism

    Floris Noor to Ismaa’eel Abu Adam

    I am so sad that you have given up your Iman but I pray and hope you will return to Allah. It really pains me to see a practicing muslim like you leaving Islam only because you have somehow concluded that Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) was infallible, divine or angelic while his actions tell you otherwise. I know many muslims over glorify him and the opposite is true with Wahabbism. There are the two extremes. The middle path is realizing, that he was a human, a politician, a 7th century ARAB, and a prophet of Allah. I guess I am able to accept that. I weigh his side which my 21st century lifestyle cannot comprehend, but when I look at the Progressive laws/rules and regulations he introduced in 7th century, it out weighs the other side. I don’t believe there is any morality in slavery but I also know it exited in 7th century Arabia. Even though Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and Quran doesn’t command to abolish it, but the out pouring regulations that were applied to this practice are far more convincing to me that it cannot be from anyone but God. You also talk about “imagine your wife, your sister etc ” May I say, IF you were living in a 7th century Arabia, would you rather be a slave under Muhammad, or slave under other religions/culture? I know that the best option would be there was no slavery but if we are dealing with practical life and ground realities, we need to address them.He was a MAN! he wasn’t an angel nor a god. He was a politician, a strange king who LIMITED to 9 wives, 2 slaves in an era when he would not have been questioned for having MORE than 100 even. Why stop at 9 when he could have had as many as he wanted? Ok let’s say for argument sake, because wives have rights so he didn’t want to deal with that but what about slaves? Why not have 100s? I mean come on, Thomas jefferson, the father of our constitution even had 300 slaves in 18th century and no one questioned his integrity because 300 is socially acceptable in 18th century. 7th century slave practice would have justified having a lot more than 2 slaves, don’t you think? It would look bad for him if it was in 21st century, but in 7th century it was a norm for kings to have many while Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم only few? How do you rationalize that? The embarrassment (like you mentioned in case of christian slave woman) that you claim he wanted to avoid, it almost seems like you are looking at 7th century Arabia through the glasses on 21st century man. What embarrassment because in 7th century, it was not just normal, but accepted. Let’s come back to recent history when slave owners, our founding fathers’ wives knew who their husbands are sleeping with and the kids that are born through them. The only difference is that in 18th century, those kids are considered slaves while Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم accepted and wept for his sons who died, one of whom was born through his slave girl. I am sorry if this doesn’t shock you. 7th century man sounds way more progressive than Thomas Jefferson who has given us our “21st century constitutional rights” that we so proudly take as highest level of living standards. Unless you are willing to GIVE UP your constitutional rights because they were penned down by, according to your moral standards, by very immoral and cruel men. You need to remind yourself, its IMMORAL for 21st century, in 7th century even the enslaved didn’t consider it immoral because they would enslave others if given the opportunity. You spoke about saffiya, while completely ignoring the fact that she has transmitted hadiths and has praised Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم saying, he has the “best of character” than any man she knew. That statement means she compared him with her father, her brother and her ex-killed husband and yet she found him the man with best of character. Killing of those men was not to marry Saffiya only which I know you know! their execution was a political move which could mean life and death for muslims of that time.May I recommend you do some introspection because I feel, you left christianity but not the indoctrination of finding divinity in humans. In psychology we call it subconscious social conditioning. It is a mindset, attitude that we learn UNCONSCIOUSLY. The celibacy lifestyle, the catholic fathers, saints and mothers who devoid their beastial nature any gratification, that life is of lie which is not Islam. Jesus is made out to be divine, so he never had wives or any sexual relation, as if sex is sinful filthy. Islam doesn’t preach that and recognizes beastial desires, only teaches us to regulate and control. Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was not god, he did have urges, he did feel pain, he did desire women and he did lead people towards a much higher social standards than what was being practiced around him, in 7th century Arabia.You bring 7th century social practices into 21st century then even their dressing will bother you. Their level of hygiene will bother you. But that would be irrational and flawed way of looking at History and Islam. What Muhammad did was the best in his social context. Islam is not “practicing slavery” or how many times you can or must have sex with who and where. these are not part of the foundation of our faith. To be a muslim, this is the Hadith that holds significance FOR ALL TIMES because it defines Islam. What you are describing is not Islam, but the prescription which was written for a 7th century Arabian society. I am pasting the Hadith that pin-points at what ISLAM is for eternity. (read closely because no where in it is stated that belief in 7th century rules & regulations is part of Islam)While we were one day sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him), there appeared before us a man dressed in extremely white clothes and with very black hair. No traces of journeying were visible on him, and none of us knew him. He sat down close by the Prophet (peace be upon him), rested his knee against his thighs, and said, “O Muhammad! Inform me about Islam.”The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, “Islam is that you should testify that there is no deity except Allah and that Muhammad is His Messenger, that you should perform salah, pay the Zakah, fast during Ramadan, and perform Hajj to the House, if you are able to do so.”The man said, “You have spoken truly.” We were astonished at his questioning him (the Messenger) and telling him that he was right, but he went on to say, “Inform me about iman.”He (the Messenger of Allah) answered, “It is that you believe in Allah and His angels and His Books and His Messengers and in the Last Day, and in qadar (fate), both in its good and in its evil aspects.” He said, “You have spoken truly.”Then he (the man) said, “Inform me about Ihsan.” He (the Messenger of Allah) answered, “It is that you should serve Allah as though you could see Him, for though you cannot see Him yet (know that) He sees you.”He said, “Inform me about the Hour.” He (the Messenger of Allah) said, “About that, the one questioned knows no more than the questioner.” So he said, “Well, inform me about the signs thereof.” He said, “They are that the slave-girl will give birth to her mistress, that you will see the barefooted, naked, destitute, the herdsmen of the sheep (competing with each other) in raising lofty buildings.” Thereupon the man went of. I waited a while, and then he (the Messenger of Allah) said, “O Umar, do you know who that questioner was?” I replied, “Allah and His Messenger know better.” He said, “That was Jibril (the Angel Gabriel). He came to teach you your religion.”
    Ishmael Abraham Assalamu alaykum sister May Allah reward you for the passionate and persuasive comment on brother Isma’eel’s timeline. I would add that Quran 90:11-13 does abolish slavery by saying that if we want to liberate our souls from a valley in Hellfire called aqabah we must liberate slaves. And, liberation from Hellfire is an eternal issue transcending 7th century.
    Floris Noor JazakAllah khayr…this is so beautiful and precise “…And have shown him the two ways? But he has not broken through the difficult pass. And what can make you know what is [breaking through] the difficult pass? It is the FREEING of a slave Or feeding on a day of severe hunger…”
  • Arian Catholicism on Tumblr and a mysterious Hadith text

    Atheists show cowardice in specifically dealing with theological nuances of Islam and how it is the most dialectically victorious faith
    Lincoln Phipps WTF did I read ? “Atheist” is NOT the same as “Arian”. Is the OP autocorrect playing up ?
    Ishmael Abraham The post is intended to show to atheists why Islam is the most rationally consistent faith, and atheists use religious differences a lot as a red herring.
    Lincoln Phipps No, your intent is to insult atheists and your evidence is that you post examples of a number of tumblr blogs, none of which are “atheist”
    Ishmael Abraham If you find a rational concern insulting then your insecure ideology is built upon the brink of a fiery abyss(Quran 3:103).
    Lincoln Phipps If Islam is victorious then it is as the antithesis. In time it will pass and remain as a residue in the cultural artefacts of society.
     Ishmael Abraham Islam has a spiritual resonance transcending Hegelian dialectic.
    frederick-the-ii:
    Kind of an off question for what’s usually on my blog, but I was doing some reading on Sir Issac Newton and I came across one of his archived notes, it was twelve points why he thought Arian Christianity was the correct doctrine of the biblical relationship between God and Jesus. Could I maybe ask my followers and the Lutheran/Catholic/Protestant/Orthodoxy and even Arian (if it exists on here) sides of tumblr to weight in on it?
    Arianism is the belief that I primarily identify with, though it isn’t around anymore in an institutionalized form. It’s a hierarchical form of Christianity that stresses the inequality of the father over the son. It was favoured by Roman emperors, the first king of Italy; and Gothic, Vandal, and Lombardic warlords. Unitarians and Jehovahs Witnesses are sort of like modern, neutered Arians. For someone like Newton, who believed that our existence was subordinate to the laws of a greater force, this makes sense. He even defines the supremacy of God in terms of greatness, power, that which we are dependent on, that which has an affect on the future, and that which has a causal affect on us. Tesla once said that “what one man calls God another calls the laws of physics”, however, in the case of many natural philosophers, God and the laws of physics were one (if not highly interrelated).
    1. georgewashingtongenocidePagan heretics who need purged tbqh
    2. zenopopafrederick-the-iiThe great Orthodox Christian denominations – both Catholic and Eastern – would consider this a great heresy because it rejects the immaculate conception (mostly). Depending on when these Arians consider Jesus to have been “adopted” by God, it would also be heretical as it would reject the miracles of Christ (His birth aside). Protestants vary greatly in their beliefs and I would personally and perhaps incorrectly consider Arianism an extreme branch of Protestantism.
    3. frederick-the-iizenopopaThank you for the response; so in laymen’s terms, to an Arian, God did not give child to Mary, but instead, Jesus was already a born, but said “Hey, be the Messiah” to him?
    4. crownedpatriotfrederick-the-iiYeah. It more or less puts Jesus in the “Grand Prophet” camp than the actual son of God.
    5. mantheharpoons9frederick-the-iiTreadgold, History of Byzantine state and society, pg 35Also, Chadwick’s The Early Church and Jesuit schoolingTo be simpler, the Son is not a mere man made God. He is inferior to God, created by Him, but he existed before Jesus became man.
    6. gruene-teufelcrownedpatriotLutheran here. Our beliefs align similarly to Catholics. We reject any notion that Jesus’ birth was anything but immaculate conception, and that he was born as the son of God.
    7. artist-tyrantfrederick-the-iiArianism is the belief that I primarily identify with, though it isn’t around anymore in an institutionalized form. It’s a hierarchical form of Christianity that stresses the inequality of the father over the son. It was favoured by Roman emperors, the first kind of Italy; and Gothic, Vandal, and Lombardic warlords. Unitarians and Jehovahs Witnesses are sort of like modern, neutered Arians. For someone like Newton, who believed that our existence was subordinate to the laws of a greater force, this makes sense. He even defines the supremacy of God in terms of greatness, power, that which we are dependent on, that which has an affect on the future, and that which has a causal affect on us. Tesla once said that “what one man calls God another calls the laws of physics”, however, in the case of many natural philosophers, God and the laws of physics were one (if not highly interrelated).
    8. artist-tyrantAlso, it doesn’t dispute the status of Christ as the son of God. Newton explicitly puts the following argument forward in defence of Arianism: “It was the son of God which He sent into the world and not a human soul that suffered for us. If there had been such a human soul in our Saviour, it would have been a thing of too great consequence to have been wholly omitted by the Apostles.”
    9. wilhelm-tellquiet-observationsArianism is a third century heresy that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity, saying that the Father created the Son. It says that the Son is subjugated to the Father in eternity, while the orthodox position is that the Son was subjugated only temporarily–that was His incarnation as Jesus. No serious Christians (including Protestants) are Arians. The immaculate conception refers to the conception of Mary, not of Jesus, and was only declared “orthodox” by the Vatican in the 19th century. I don’t know where Arians would stand on the virgin birth of Jesus, as it is irrelevant to their Christology.
    10. neorientalist-blog There is a mysterious word الأَرِيسِيِّينَ in a Hadith text (http://sunnah.com/bukhari/1/7) which some speculate means Arians in the Byzantine empire. Ishmaelite(Deuteronomy 18) Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him from the land of Kedar(Isaiah 42) sent an epistle to Byzantine emperor Heraclius to urge him obey him ( as there was no feasible alternative for freedom of salvation of the souls of subjects) so that he and his Arian subjects are saved through faith in him in accordance with Quran 7:158 48:13 3:85
  • Refuting Arab Sodomites or Qawmu Lut

    { أفتؤمنون ببعض الكتاب وتكفرون ببعض }حرم الله معصية الرسول في Quran 58:9 الحرام ما حرم الرسول كما قال الله في Quran 9:29 { ولا يحرِّمون ما حرَّم الله ورسوله }حرم الله المثلية فيQuran 7:81 { أئِنَّكُم لتأتون الرجال شهوة من دون النساء بل أنتم قوم مسرفون } المثليات هن من مسافحات و متخذات أخدان في القران و سحاق اتيان النساء شهوة من دون الرجال
  • Teaching a Chinese Muslim about Islamic counterparts of Chinese Red Dragon mythology

    The Islamic counterpart of 望子成龍(望子成龙 would be: May my son become a Lion of God or Asadullah. And, since dragon was considered the ruler of weather, the Islamic counterpart would be angel Michael peace be upon him. Since some people call themselves children of Dragon, the Islamic counterpart would be what Salman the Persian may Allah be pleased with him said: I am a son of Islam and a grandson of Islam.