I thought I share my views on Islam just as a matter of conscience since Islam has become a very fast growing religion with much to consider. Just like Christianity there are well meaning Muslim and then there are the radicals. I consider the majority of Muslins I have met to have a deep desire for peace and love amongst all people. They are indeed looking for peace in the world. Those that have a military view however are dangerous such as the followers of Minister Luis Farrakhan. But than so are there Christians who support war instead of turning the other cheek. You see its easy to be religious and advocate war when someone is doing the fighting for you and you don’t have to watch the bombs blow up children. Both sides preach Jesus but fail to obey his teachings to love your enemies and pray for those that persecute you. There are much familiarity between the two in terms of beliefs as well as opposing views. In both there is truth as well as lies. But to make a point clear at the end of the day it is YHWH, the Most High, I Am That I Am which comes down and enlightens an individual to have a certain understanding that is true to His will not the religion.
My position to organized religion is I do not subscribe to them therefore I belong to none, I thus do not consider myself “religious“. Islam however calls itself a “religion” of peace while I call the Most High‘s way a state of being. True worship comes by having an understanding mind thru the conscience in the form of intuition and discernment. The printed and spoken word are just a median of communication to ignite the spark in a person. This is the way things work accordingly to the council of His will. But if God desires, as He has done with all the Prophets to open a person’s mind and simply give him the understanding and wisdom, He does.
The Muslim religion adheres more to the teaching of the Torah and Christianity to the New Testament. Islam makes certain claims regarding Jesus such as the belief the immaculate conception but just regard him as a servant of God. Christianity on the other hand believe Jesus is God. Scripturally there is no such claim since Jesus himself said he could do nothing on his own. But let me be clear there is more to this man than being a mere man. Christianity correctly believe Jesus to have atoned for the sins of all mankind while Muslim do not. Muslins do not believe in man having free will while Christians do. Yet both teach the salvation of man on his own merits. As we can see there is lots of contentions between the two.
However, there is one doctrine both share in particular that goes way back to Egypt. The believe in people going to hell to be tortured. This concept alone, they both agree on, shows both err in their philosophical thinking. The fact is that nor the Old Testament or New promotes such a doctrine. Both religion when scrutinized are narrowed down to using scare tactics to get people to come on board with them or else by using such doctrines as hell. Please read the article on the “Hell Hoax”. It is a Biblical perspective in detail like never before proving there is no such thing as hell as it is taught.
King David who was a man after God’s own heart failed miserably with his children, committed adultery, murdered and as a result had so much blood in his hands. God did not permitted him to built His temple. So is the way with all men that have been born. Yashuah (Jesus) is the only exception to the rule. We shall however shall now see the inescapable human frailty with the prophet Mohammed.
For the first thirteen years of the prophet hood, military combat was forbidden.. The Scripture tells us that Ishmael was prophesied to be an ass of a man.
Gen 16:12 And he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against all, and the hand of everyone against him; and he shall live before all his brothers.
Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael son of Hagar Abraham’s concubine. They have always down thru time fought against each other but so have all other races. However, for the prophet Mohammed it was not until the proper method of warfare was instituted by Allah in the Quran, with proper rights and limitations according His Commandments, that any retaliation or combat was sanctioned by Muslims. Orders from Allah made it clear who was to be attacked, how and when and to what extent fighting could take place. So while Mohammed received instruction on the art of war by Allah Jesus taught to “love thy enemies and that he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword? Totally contradictory philosophies by both prophet. May I add that Muslims are taught by Mohammed to adhere to the Good Book’s teachings (the Bible). Yet turning the other cheek is not part of the equation. This alone distinguishes Jesus from Mohammed as being totally incomparable as Jesus brought into the human conscience a spiritual basis way above Mohammed‘s abilities to live up to.
I will add two more that really hits home in terms of showing just how carnal minded Mohammed like the rest of human kind was.
One of the worst thing the Prophet Mohammed committed was sex with a minor. Now I know that in certain cultures and at certain time in the history of all cultures such things were and are permitted, even here in the US. But here we are talking about a 54 years old man with a 9 years old child. Not a 15 year old boy. The though of such a heinous act aught to make any decent person crinche. By some strange reason there are those that justified this act. While doing my research I stumbled upon a website of a formal Christian Pastor and once Priest who converted to Islam name Yusuf Estes. You can check out his website below.
http://www.islamtomorrow.com/converts.asp
This is what he said regarding Mohammed marriage to a child. I quote:“He never once engaged in sex outside of marriage, nor did he ever approve of it, even though it was very common at the time. His only relationships with women were in legitimate, contractual marriages with proper witnesses according to law. His relationship to Ayesha was only that of marriage. He did not marry her the first time her father offered her hand to him in marriage. He married her only after she reached the age of puberty and could decide for herself. Their relationship is described in every detail by Ayesha herself in the most loving and respectful manner as a match truly made in heaven. Ayesha is considered as one of the highest scholars of Islam and lived out her entire life only having been married to Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. She never desired any other man, nor did she ever utter a single negative statement against Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. He did not marry her the first time her father offered her hand to him in marriage. “
Yet we read in Sahih Bukhari 7.18 Narrated ‘Ursa:
The Prophet asked Abu Bakr for ‘Aisha’s hand in marriage. Abu Bakr said “But I am your brother.” The Prophet said, “You are my brother in Allah’s religion and His Book, but she (Aisha) is lawful for me to marry.”
But this moral relativist Prophet would use the same excuse to reject a woman he did not like. Sahih Bukhari V.7, B62, N. 37
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
It was said to the Prophet, “Won’t you marry the daughter of Hamza?” He said, “She is my foster niece (brother’s daughter)
In the following Hadith he confided to Ahesha that he had dreamed of her before soliciting her from her father. Sahih Bukhari 9.140 Narrated ‘Aisha:
Allah’s Apostle said to me, “You were shown to me twice (in my dream) before I married you. I saw an angel carrying you in a silken piece of cloth, and I said to him, ‘Uncover (her),’ and behold, it was you. I said (to myself), ‘If this is from Allah, then it must happen.”
Out of all the mature women he could of married, this 54 years old man justified his action with a dream. Mind you females had no say in such social structures. There are numerous hadithes that explicitly reveal the age of Ayesha at the time of her marriage. Here are some of them. Sahih Bukhari 5.236. Narrated Hisham’s father:
“Khadija died three years before the Prophet departed to Medina. He stayed there for two years or so and then he married ‘Aisha when she was a girl of six years of age, and he consumed that marriage when she was nine years old.”
Must have been quite a surprise! But the following is also interesting because it demonstrates that she was just a kid playing with her dolls. Playing with dolls!! Pay attention to what the interpreter wrote in the parenthesis. (She was a little girl, not yet reached the age of puberty) Sahih Bukhari Volume 8, Book 73, Number 151 Narrated ‘Aisha:
I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet, and my girl friends also used to play with me. When Allah’s Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for ‘Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, not yet reached the age of puberty.) (Fateh-al-Bari page 143, Vol.13)
I simply picked the above website after reviewing it but I could have chosen from thousands. So I am not singling him out for any reason other than to make my point. Most followers of Islam like followers of Christianity mean well but they don’t bother to search and prove things for themselves. But beware many are con-artist hired by the Power That Be to do exactly what they are doing.
What was Mohammed position on slaves? When it came to owning slaves Mohammed also owned slaves as was the practice in those days.Hadith no.436, vol 6, It says: when Umar came to visit Muhammad, he saw a “BLACK SLAVE OF ALLAH’S APOSTLE sitting on the first step” Ibn Qayyim alJawiyya, a great Muslim historian, wrote in his famous book Zad al-Ma’ad (part 1 pg 160): “Muhammad had many male and female slaves. He used to buy and sell them, but he purchased more than he sold, especially after God empowered him by his message, as well as after his immigration from Mecca. He once sold one black slave for two. His name was Jacob al-Mudbir”.
Muhammad also mistreated his ‘Hebrew slaves”. He also said “That if you dreamed of a “black” woman, this was an evil omen (Hadith no 9, vol,162,163). He also referred to black people as “raisin heads” (Hadith no.662, vol 1).
Ok in both case of Christianity and Islam God is going to burn out all these differences and false doctrine by His consuming fire in what is called the lake of fire. It is God spiritual fire in which all men will be baptized into, to purify them as it is done to gold. Both are going to have to settle their differences and come to terms with the Most High God. You will find what the lake of fire really is in this site. Read the Hell Hoax.
In this site you will also find many opposing views on all religion not just Christianity and Islam. What is my point here? Am I picking on Islam? In my writings I pick on the doctrines of Christianity so lets not say I am bias and singling out Muslims. My point is that Mohammed was a human being with all the frailties that comes from being human and thus he like all man had his faults which distinguishes him from Jesus the man who was without sin. If we are to venerate him than why not King Solomon who was the wisest king that ever lived. I am willing to bet the Prophet Mohammed read proverbs and learned quite a lot from them.
I will also ask Christian, “Do you know who you really worship?” Read my article on the Jesus Hoax and see if you do.
I admonish you to think different from what you have been taught as a Muslim. Capitalize on the good you have learned thru Islam but now importune the true Allah who created all things and ask for wisdom and truth. Look at the facts and even thought they go against your better judgment use your God given mind to really connect with Him not Mohammed.
True identity is missing in all religion regarding who or what men is and his purpose and that is why people so easily follow someone. For a while you have been riding on someone’s bang wagon now its time to get off and worship YHWH the great I Am That I Am in spirit and in truth.
Peace and blessing be upon Him and the creation. Don’t take this article personal. Dare to think outside the box as all adherent of religion need to do.
Psa 4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
Psa 46:10 Be still, and know that I am YHWH: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Selah