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These are very important keys in understanding the Koran. Because the Church and its
function is avoided by the Hadithic commentators, the meaning of the Koran (Qur’an) is
trivialised and misconstrued so that the followers of Islam can make no real sense out of it.
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FAQs in Islam
1: The Prophet termed Muhammad
Q1. What is the correct name of the Prophet
to the Arabians?
A. By the sixth century the Sabbatarian Church
of God in the East spread from the headwaters
of the Nile into Arabia and Asia Minor into
India and the Middle East. From 610 a
Monophysite Christian convert was raised and
educated, Perhaps as a priest (Abu) but his
eldest son was also names Al Qasim. He was
named Qasim bin ‘Abdullah, bin ‘AbdulMuttalib bin Hashim of the tribal group of
Hashim his great grandfather. He was
converted to Sabbatarian Christianity (see also
the paper Descendants of Abraham Part III:
Ishmael (No. 212C)).
Soon his earnest desire to seek the truth in the
Scriptures brought problems to his attention
with the Monophysite Nasaari doctrine, which
seemed to contradict the original texts
themselves. Basically the Spirit was beginning
to call him through the veil, which was termed
the “Evangelion”. He sought the true Church.
Purana scriptures from India indicate that he
became known to the Churches of God based
there. The Church's Muhammad called out to
him in a dream, and Arabia's Apostle had a
vision during his meditations in the cave. It
terrified but inspired him. Thus he became a
Sabbatarian Unitarian from the Church there in
Arabia, being baptised (again) prior to his
mission. Not being genetically of Aaron or
Levi, he was grafted into the AhlulBayt of
Rasulullah's brides as a Nasraani Sabi
(TheoSebes/
=
God Worshipper) Mursal. Several Hadith attest
to the fact that he became a Sabi. As a Mursal
(Bride of Rasulullah) he received more and
more insight. Eventually, from his baptism, he
was strengthened in The Holy Spirit (Ahmed)
and reached the Mahmoodan state becoming
Muhammad as a true Christian in the Churches
of God.
Q2. It is alleged that the term The Praised
One (or Ahmed) is one of the names of the
Prophet, as a referral to himself, but it is a
reference to the Spirit or Comforter, and
some say it means both and is evidence for
the Prophet’s acceptance. So, what is Ahmad
really?
A. Muslims by and large are unaware that
Ahmed is not the name of Qasim but is rather
the Holy Spirit, because they do not read the
Bible, and especially the text of John in
Aramaic.
It would be unusual for the Prophet not to
understand the role of the Spirit and it is unlikely
that he would attempt to appropriate to himself
the role of the Spirit.
At Surah 61:6 we see that Christ is declared the
apostle of God. The good news of the Ahmed
was of "the Comforter" that was to be sent to
the Church. The Holy Spirit appeared
conveying the power of God as the messenger
or comforter of the Church at Pentecost 30 CE,
but the power of it was rejected or mocked by
many. The text refers to the section in Acts
chapter 2 (cf. also Acts 8:11 etc.). The Hadith
has deliberately obscured the understanding.
Q3. Do we know the true lineage of the
Prophet?
A. The line is Ishmael to Kinana to Quraish, to
Hashim to Qasim (cf. Muslim 2/245; Tirmidhi
2/201). He was later erroneously referred to as
Muhammad which was never his name but
rather a title of the body of the Church of God.
The Prophet was influenced by his father’s clan
and several of his contemporaries at Mecca,
Medina and Taif, who had become
monotheists. Thus, they could accommodate
some of the non-Trinitarian Monophysite forms
of Christianity, but not the Athanasian
Trinitarian forms, which had influenced the
worship of saints and relics in accordance with
Chaldean animism. They had adopted the
worship of a deity, “Mary,” in forms of the
Mother goddess cult, derived in Arabia from
Astarte and linked with the Sun as a feminine
entity in some of the mysteries (see the paper
Mysticism Chapter 5 Islam (No. B7_5)).
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Q4. We see and hear everywhere, in the
press and in daily life, references to "the
prophet of Islam, Muhammad" or Mahomet
or Mohammed, etc. Does not "MAHOMET"
mean the one who is not praised from the
negation given by the prefix "ma"? In
contrast, "MUHAMMAD" means the one
who deserves praise. Can you explain this
apparent contradiction?
A. Muhammad is The Godhead's religion (see
Surah 48:29) that is, images of the One True
God through the Spirit of God. Muhammad is
the seal of the prophets according to Surah
33:40. The name of the preacher in question is
not to be confused with the use of the term
Muhammad since this is just a seal or title.
Muhammad was originally not a name at all.
The word Muhammad is equivalent to a plural
meaning: advocated ones. We can see that the
meaning of the title Muhammad is actually
synonymous with whatever titles may be given
to the most blessed ones among the First Fruits.
Muhammad (Surah 3:144, 33:40, 47:2, 48:29)
and Mahmoodan (Surah 17:79) certainly
express a relationship to Ahmed, but may have
different nuances to what we expect as words
that don't have an appropriate equivalent in
English.
Q5. Some say that the Prophet’s Night Trip
that brought him to Jerusalem, and then to
Paradise, was a vision. What is the real
meaning of the Night Trip?
A. The Hadith has corrupted a text in the Koran
in Surah 17:1 where the prophet claimed that he
had a vision where he was taken by night from
the “Inviolable Place of Worship” (interpreted
as Mecca) to the “Far Distant Place of
Worship” (interpreted as the Temple Mount at
Jerusalem). This vision was for the purpose of
revealing the place of the Children of Israel in
Scripture. The Hadithic traditions claim that
this was on the winged horse “Buraq” and from
there the prophet was taken into heaven and
back. The original understanding was as
portrayed in Pickthall’s translation in the
introduction to the Surah, where it was
understood he had been transported on a
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heavenly steed through the seven heavens to the
very presence of God in vision, in much the
same way Paul and John wrote in the NT.
Much nonsense is spoken of regarding 27
Rajab. Some US commentators even claim that
on this date the prophet ascended from the Al
Aksa mosque into heaven, which is scripturally
and theologically impossible in both systems.
2: Islam
Q1. We know that Muslims worship one
God but what is their religion? Was the
Koran intended to form the basis of a new
religion?
A. The group termed “Muhammad” formed the
church as the Surrender to God or Al Islam.
There is only one religion and one system of
worship and that is the Islam that was given to
Noah and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and to
Moses and Aaron, and to the prophets and to
Christ to Qasim and the church which is
“Muhammad” and on through the Churches of
God until the present time. The Koran gives
that sequence of authority in the Surah 37 As
Saffat “Those who set the Ranks.”
When the faith was under attack by both the
Trinitarians and the Jews in Arabia, the prophet
Qasim, and the church called "Muhammad",
was raised up in Arabia from the Unitarian
Christians there, to deal with the false doctrines
attacking the Oneness of God and the false
practices the Trinitarians introduced. Qasim
and the Council of Elders produced doctrinal
explanation of the Bible providing leadership to
the desert tribes.
Under Qasim they educated the Arab tribes into
the Body of Christ and set up the body of the
church under the twelve. This was Muhammad.
They had to fight the Jewish monarchy over the
Arab tribes and the pagans who allied with
them. Qasim was succeeded by four Rightly
Guided Caliphs or successors. Then the system
was destroyed by so called “converts” who
were in reality Arab pagans who compiled a
false system called the Hadith and destroyed
the meaning and structure of the writings that
were compiled as a record of the Arab church.
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The murder of Ali was committed to ensure the
suppression of the true faith in Arabia. See the
paper Introduction to the Commentary on the
Qur’an (Q1).
Q2. Most Muslims refer to their religion as
Al Islam. What does Al Islam mean?
A. Alislam, meaning The Submission or The
Surrender, is the term used to refer to the
religious system and has effectively become the
name of the religion. However, it really is the
name of the legal system or Din (Surah 3:19,
85; 5:3; 61:7-9). The True Faith is the term. In
the NT it was the sect called The Way or the
Faith Once Delivered to the Saints and that is
the sense used in Surah 61:7-9. It is clear from
the Koranic usage, and compared with the NT,
that CHRIST is the embodiment of our religion
as the revelation of God to Mariam, his mother.
In the letters of Paul for example we read
Christ is Christianity. Christians are followers
of Christ not followers of Christianity. The
Religion is also called "Remembrance of
Allah" and Truth. Jesus' testimony is "The
Spirit of Prophesy”. There is another aspect
seemingly applied also as reflected in Gabriel
(Surah 2:97). Gabriel is sometimes incorrectly
referred to as the Ameen Spirit (Surah 26:193)
or the Spirit of Truth, which is The Holy Spirit
(see Jn. 14:17, 15:26, 16:13). The angel of the
Lord appeared to John on Patmos as the one
like the son of man (Rev. 1:13). After
the incarnation of Christ this being is identified
as Gabriel, the Angel to the Prophets and the
Church (Dan. 8:15-12:13), as well as to
Arabia's Apostle in the cave.
Q3. I am Muslim and have had reason to
peruse what is written in the Old Testament
- as it mirrors so closely many of the stories
in the Qur’an. I don’t even know where to
begin with the New Testament. Who were
the men that wrote it? How many years did
they live after Jesus? Basically do all
Christians give the same weight to the Old
and New Testaments? I’m asking because
many converts ask to have this information
cleared up after they become Muslim. I
guess we want religion put into some kind of
perspective of history.
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A: The answers can also be found in the Koran.
When the NT was written, Scripture was the
OT. The NT is explanation of the prophetic
purpose of the OT. Thus, it is commentary, as
the Koran is also commentary, on the Law of
God.
The OT is explained by the NT, and the Koran
cannot be understood without the Bible because
it is corrective commentary on it. There is only
one Al Islam and it was given from the very
beginning and all men are obliged to keep the
laws of the living God, Eloah or Allah’. You
cannot be a true Muslim and not keep the
Sabbath.
From the Surah: Those who stand in ranks, we
see that the Revelation of God was given from
Adam to Noah, and to Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob, and to Moses and Aaron, and to Christ
and the Prophets. Thus, the term surrender
applies to Moses, Christ and the Prophet in the
Old and New Testaments and the Koran.
Muhammad, as Qasim and the Elders, and the
Four Rightly guided Caliphs understood Al
Islam. After that, it fell from the purity of its
initial faith.
Q4. When it is claimed that: "Only Islam is
the religion accepted by God", some say the
better translation of this would be: "Only
submission is accepted by God". Which is
correct?
A. Islam is the surrender to God. If you do not
surrender to God and obey His commandments
you are not of Islam, no matter how much you
protest. You are a donkey laden with golden
books, understanding nothing.
Those who keep the commandments of God
and the faith or the testimony of Jesus Christ
are the elect (Rev 14:12; 12:17).
Q5. In the collective conscience, the word
Jihad means Holy War. Could you explain to
me the precise meaning of this term?
A. It has nothing to do with a Holy War (cf.
Surah 2:218; 3:142; 8:72,74; etc.). The elect are
engaged in a battle against sin on two fronts.
We have to battle against the lusts of our own
flesh (1Pet. 2:11) and also have to resist the
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author of sin, Satan the Devil (cf. the paper
Steps to Overcoming Sin (No. 11)). The elect is
called to overcome (Rev. 2:7; 3:12; Surah
9:19,20), remaining in the ways of God.
3: The Qur’an (Koran)
Q1. Could you explain what the word
Qur’an means and who wrote it?
A. The Koran (meaning "Compilation" or
"Repertoire") is simply a compilation of
hundreds of revelations that came through
prophets of the Church over many years. That
association is why some traditions say Arabia's
Apostle was a Sabi. Sabiyah is the Arabic name
for those who are non-genetic Israelites and
who are not full proselyte members of the
Nabi; it refers only to those who are grafted
into the Church through baptism, but is
sometimes claimed to refer to the followers of
John the Baptist. However, the latter assertion
is impossible from the testimony of the
Scriptures and the Church histories. Sabiyah
refers to the Sabbath-keeping Church of the
Holy Spirit. All these revelations were
compiled into one book in Arabia, probably
under Usman.
Q2. The majority of current Muslims say
that God’s true and authentic book is the
Qur’an not the Bible, and that the Bible we
have today is corrupted. Is there truth in the
assertion that the text of the Torah and/or
the Gospels has been falsified?
A. The Qur’an enjoins its followers to heed the
writings of the Bible including the Gospels and
the writings that make up the accepted canon of
Christian Scriptures (Surah 5:68). No person
can claim to be a follower of Islam and ignore
the teachings of the Bible, as we will see from
the words of the Koran itself.
Modern Islam pretends that the books that the
Prophet read are not the same as those extant
today and hence they do not have to follow the
orders of the Prophet in studying the Torah and
the writings comprising the New Testament. The
Bible has been protected by God as we know
for certain from the finds in the Dead Sea
Scrolls and the ancient documents of history.
Those who claim that the Bible has been lost
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profane the name and power of the One True
God Eloah or Allah'.
We are to do and observe that which God
commands. This cannot be done by claiming
that both the Old and New Testaments have
been altered to the point that we don't know
what the original texts say, as does Modern
Islam. The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that we have
the exact same writings now as were in
existence even before the birth of the prophet
Qasim and the group called ‘Muhammad.” The
Qur’an (Koran) cannot be understood in
isolation from the Bible. Only by having an
understanding of the law and testimony of the
prophets of both Old and New Testaments can
the Qur’an be properly understood. That's why
the prophet himself commanded the reading of
the Scriptures.
Q3. Is the Qur’an really the Word of the
One True God?
A. The Koran is commentary on Scripture and
confirms Scripture according to the Law and
the Prophets and the Apostles who went before.
It details the problems that the church in Arabia
had with the Jewish tribes in trying to stamp
out Christianity, and who used the pagan Arabs
to assist them.
Those who do not follow the Scripture and use
the Koran to pervert the Law and the
Testimony are false teachers and Allah judges
them. They have destroyed Islam as the
Trinitarians have destroyed Christianity and the
Rabbis have destroyed Judaism.
The Koran must be read in conjunction with the
Bible and followed with the Law of God. One
cannot read the Koran in isolation from the
whole Bible and arrive at understanding. That is
why the Imams or teachers in Islam know very
little and teach that it is permissible to lie to
obtain converts or attack Christianity. To lie is to
undermine the Laws of God and the Ninth
Commandment.
Q4. What is the difference between the
Qur’an and the Sunnah? Is the Sunnah
merely an exegesis of the Qur’an?
A. The Sunnah of Allah is comprehensively the
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Torah, the Psalms, the Gospels and the Books
of the Prophets. These are termed the Tawrat,
the Zabur the Injil and the Sahaif respectively.
In other words, the entire Scriptures.
If you do not read the Bible you cannot
understand the Koran. The Koran cannot be
divorced from the Bible. The claims that do are
made so that Islam can be obscured and the
faith perverted.
The modern Muslims even claim that the Bible,
available up to and in 632 CE to the Prophet
and the faith, has been lost. They do this so that
they can ignore the Bible and thus corrupt the
faith. The Prophet calls such false teachers
asses or donkeys laden with golden books.
They carry them dutifully but understand none
of what is written therein.
Q5. Are there differences between the Bible
and the Qur’an?
(Note: The Bible was revealed to more than 40 prophets
over 1,500 years. The Qur’an was allegedly revealed to
one prophet alone in 33 years which is false as we see
above.)
A. The people who claim to be Muslims now
claim that the Bible has been lost and the one
that exists is not the original Torah referred to
in the Koran. They base this false claim on a
fiction introduced in the later Caliphates
regarding the loss in the Caliphates and then
these fabricators absurdly refer back to the text
in Jeremiah 8:8, which rebukes the scribes in
his day for interfering with the texts. In the
same way the Trinitarians get around the Bible
by claims regarding the writings of Paul, and an
appeal to Antinomian Gnosticism, and they
keep the traditions of the Mystery and Sun
Cults. Both systems are based on lies and have
nothing to do with the laws of God and will
lead to world war.
The Koran has a very definite message
concerning the Bible or Scripture and the Law
and the Covenant. The Koran confirms the
message of the Bible and the Law and the
Testimony and the Covenant of God. No
professing Muslim can be of the Faith without
adherence to Scripture and the Law of God
within the baptism and the body of the Church
of God.
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The Koran or Qur’an is a commentary on
Scripture written by the leaders of the Churches
of God in the seventh century of the Current
Era in Arabia. It will be unfolded and explained
in its relationship to the Scriptures. The
relationship of the texts is quite profound. They
have their place in the history of the Church, as
do the letters of the apostles in the history of the
Church in the first century.
Q6. From Surah 2:4-6, 41-42, 89-91, 101 and
136, can we assert that what the People of
the Book possessed, in the time of the
Prophet, is seen as completely authentic by
the Qur’an?
A. The family of the prophet had the texts of
the Bible. We know when they were written
and we know that the texts are all correct. The
Dead Sea Scrolls show us what texts the people
in the Middle East and the church and its
officers had, and that they were the same as at
the time of Christ and that Eloah does not
change. The fiction was introduced that the
original texts had been lost under the later
Caliphates to avoid keeping the law. They had
to claim that Qasim and the Muhammad had
the correct texts otherwise he would simply
have been uninformed as the Koran refers to
the People of the Book and demands that if
there is any doubt as to the Scriptures they are
to be consulted as its final adjudicators.
The NT was written by the people of the first
century church. The apostles Matthew and John
wrote their gospels, and the disciples Mark and
Luke wrote theirs. The writings of Paul are
genuine and the Book of Hebrews is alleged to
have been initiated by Paul and finished by
another disciple, perhaps Barnabas. John is
accepted as writing the gospel, epistles and the
Revelation was given to him when God gave it
to the Messiah.
The History of the canon is detailed in the
paper The Bible (No. 164). That will give you
more details. The original people of the book
are still around, but they are in the minority. It
is written: “verily we gave unto Moses the
Scriptures and we caused a train of messengers
to follow after Him, and we gave unto Jesus the
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son of Mariam [falsely termed Mary by
Trinitarians] clear proofs and we supported him
within the Holy Spirit. Is it ever so that when
there cometh unto you a messenger with that
which ye yourselves desire not, ye grow
arrogant and some ye disbelieve and some ye
slay?”
Q7. There appear to be important
differences between the Bible and the
Qur’an. People have deduced from this that
it was necessary to reject one in favour of
the other, or to take a little of one and
combine it with a little of the other. What is
your opinion on this?
A. When taken and read in isolation, the Koran,
like the New Testament, can be distorted and it
inevitably became the source of division, hatred,
persecution and war. When all three books are
read together, as they should be, understanding is
possible and a complete plan of salvation
emerges which cannot be misinterpreted.
The Koran is just another element of the New
Testament Church written for the Arabs six
hundred years after the First Century NT now in
the Codex of the Bible.
Q8. Did the Qur’an evolve or/and has it
undergone modifications over the centuries?
A. Usman burned any evidence of the Church
that went against his plans and went as far as he
could to deceive the “sheep” one step at a time
without being caught out by the majority.
However, Ali's party knew what was
happening. When Usman died Ali took control,
but the Usmanites had become strong. Ali was
killed and eventually the Church had to go
underground again. The murder of Ali was
committed to ensure the suppression of the true
faith in Arabia.
The outline of the story is told in the paper
Introduction to the Commentary on the Qur’an
(Q1).
4: Allah
Q1. What is the nature of the god - Allah - of
the Muslims? Is he the same as the Yahweh
of Scripture?
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A. The name Yahovah (Yahweh) is applied to
at least four beings, three of whom are angels
or messengers for the God in Heaven at the
same time as we see from the instance with
Abraham and Lot, and the destruction at
Sodom and Gomorrah. These aspects have been
all examined at the papers: The Angel of YHVH
(No. 24); The Names of God (No. 116); The
Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ (No. 243) and
Abraham and Sodom (No. 91).
There are various names for God in both the
Bible and the Qur’an. The Qur’an uses the
Arabic name Allah’ which is entirely singular
and admits of no plurality whatsoever. It is “the
power” (or the Deity) which is God.
Anyone who does not understand the fact that
there is only one True God is in heresy. A
Biblical Unitarian does not accept that Jesus
Christ was co-eternal or co-equal with the
Father Eloah. There is only ONE TRUE GOD
and He is the Father of all and He sent Jesus
Christ (Jn. 17:3). Understanding that fact is
vital to eternal life.
Allah’ is the Arabic form of the One True God
Eloah who is extending Himself to become
elohim through the people He has called into
His system. Understanding this name of God is
the test of understanding in the Holy Spirit.
Ditheists or Binitarians fail this test.
Q2. If I understand correctly, the Muslims
worship Allah. Is this their only God and if
so, how did they get this name for Him?
A. The names Eloah and Allah’ are derived
from the two variants of the same language
structure.
The Arabic name, “Allah' ” is derived from
Eastern Aramaic and earlier Chaldean, “Elahh.”
It is singular and admits of no plurality. He is
the One True God of the Bible, “Eloah.” The
singular form “Eloah” and the Chaldean
“Elahh” become the plural form “Elohim” in
the Hebrew and “Elahhin” in the Chaldee.
These are the extended being that is God and
the Sons of God that are the heavenly host.
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“Elohim” can be singular in usage and then is
used to refer to “one of the Elohim.” Where it
is used in the case of “Eloah” it is usually “ha
Elohim” or “The Elohim” or “The God.” In
Greek, this practice continued in the Koine as
“Ho Theos” and “Theos” or the accusative “ton
Theon” and simply “theos” is reference to the
elohim. In the plural for elohim it became
“theoi.” Islam recognises the One True God of
John 17:3 as “Allah' ” The meaning of this term
from its ancient origins really refers to God as
“The Power.” It refers to the particle el, which
can be used for a mighty one or the Almighty
and also for the particle referring to the plural
as these or those amongst us. In this sense it is
the same in Hebrew and Chaldean and hence
Aramaic and the variants. In this sense it is only
in the plural when used of “these or those.” In
this sense it is strange that it is plural at SHD
429 when written as ‘elleh in Chaldean but is
grouped with the absolute singular form Eloah.
This word is the same as Eloah (or Eloahh) or
Elowahh in the Hebrew and refers to the
singular one true God. The plural form elohim
or elahhin in the Chaldean is plural except
where the definite article is used making it Ha
elohim meaning The God (cf. SHD 430 and
notes). God is thus the power that extends to
other beings of the heavenly host and exists as
those among us. Thus the name elohim and
yahovah are used of multiple beings as
creations of the One True God, and all acting
for Him. The concept is the same in Chaldean
or Hebrew or the variants derived from those
languages. The name Allah’ is merely a form
that identifies this sense of the singular Power
acting among us. It contains the idea of
plurality only in so far as the agents of The
Power act for it and contain elements of its
power.
The propaganda that emanates from Binitarians
and Trinitarians in the West regarding the name
of God in Islam is uninformed nonsense and
should be challenged whenever it is uttered (see
the papers The Names of God (No. 116) and
The Name of God in Islam (No. 54)).
Q3. Did the Prophet recognize the God of
the Jews as the Only True God?
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A. The Islamic faith refers to the One True God
as Allah. The profession of the faith of Islam
(Shahaadah) is correct in that there is no Eloah
but Eloah (La Elaaha Ella Allah (see also Surah
37:35; 47:19). The corrupted Muslims insist
upon
adding
a
second “Shahaadah”
proclaiming that Muhammad is God’s
Messenger. This is by definition ‘Shirk’
(idolatry) and a flagrant defiance of God and
His messenger(s). The Koran declares that the
faith makes no distinction between the prophets
(Surah 3:83-84). All prophets are equal in their
inspiration from God.
Muhammad and the first four caliphs called the
rightly guided caliphs were the only doctrinally
pure Muslim leaders. After them Islam
collapsed and became perverted by traditions
(named the Hadith or Ahadith) as had Judaism
and Christianity before them.
Qasim and the Muhammad commenced to
preach purely to obviate the Athanasian
Trinitarian doctrines they saw as a heresy, and
to unify the Arab people under Monotheism.
The Koran groups Christians with two sets of
names – People of the Scripture and Christians
generally. These distinctions are now lost
because modern Christians do not understand
the distinctions extant at the time. The
distinctions involved the Trinitarians who
fought against Islam and the persecuted
Pergamum Church, which allied with Islam.
Q4. A Christian told me that Allah possesses
a soul. Does Allah possess a soul like the
angels, man and the other creatures, seeing
that all were created just like God? Is the
soul created or not?
A. The Bible talks about a spirit in man. It is
different from the Spirit of God. It is like our
breath. It is a gift of life from God (Zech. 12:1).
When we die the spirit of man leaves us (Ps.
146:4). It returns to God (Eccl. 12:7). When
God made Adam He breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul
(Gen. 2:7; 1Cor. 15:45).
So this spirit in man is not a soul that lives on
in “Heaven” after we die. The Bible says man
became a living soul or a person. This soul can
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die (Ezek. 20:18). When the Bible talks about
the soul it is really talking about the life of the
body. Soul can mean creature, or man or life.
Both animals and man die the same death, but
man will live again. So the spirit of man is
what makes us different to animals.
of the Lord alternating with the saying of
Elohim through the Prophets of old. Just like
the “saying” of the Lord in Exodus 4:22 and
Jeremiah 31:9 concerning Israel, (the)
Godhead's Name speaks to us as its children
from Q31:16-19.
God is not a person; He is a being of pure
Spirit. Teaching that God possesses a soul is
another attempt to assert that the soul is eternal.
The eternal soul is another lie, in the same vein
as demons cannot die and they cannot repent.
In Q90:3, the Name might be swearing by itself
and by Jesus (Q19:15 and 33) respectively as
begetter and begotten which Hebrews 1:8-9
indicates is that certain “Elohim” (of Psalm
45:6-7) subordinate to the Supreme God.
Q5. What is the Holy Spirit in the Qur’an?
Would the Arabic expression ruh al-qodos
indicate the Holy Spirit, as it is very similar
to the Hebrew term for Holy Spirit, ruach al
qodesh?
A. Ahmed certainly means Advocate or “Most
Praised” and refers to the Holy Spirit of which
Jesus (Yahoshua/Joshua) was Herald. The
Church was guided by the Holy Spirit and this
is the Ahmed/Advocate referred to in the
Koran.
In Q43:57-60, (the) Godhead's Name speaking
describes Jesus as a Servant and a Caliph,
indirectly, likewise attesting to his divinity.
(The) Godhead on the other hand while being
the source of Spirit (Q4:171, Q58:22) begets
not (Q10:68, Q17:111, Q18:4, Q19:35,
Q19:88-92, Q21:26, Q23:91, Q25:2, Q37:152,
Q43:81, Q72:3) – save by adoption (Q39:4) –
but even then demands declaration of real
parentage (Q33:5). Nor is it begotten (Q112:3)
though there is no god without it (Q2:163). Yet
while matter is our mother, Spirit is our father,
while (the) Godhead has no consort (Q6:101).
Even so, (the) Godhead's Name is Our Father,
and by its name (the) Godhead is our patron.
Q6. When referring to God, why does the
Koran use both the pronoun "I" and
"WE"? Some say it is a feature of literary
style in Arabic, or a person designated by
using the pronoun "we" out of respect or
glorification. Please advise me so I can
respond adequately to unbelievers that raise
this question.
A. The Koran is narrated through (the)
Godhead's Name –Smillahalrahmanalrahim.
Each chapter is preceded by the equivalent
formula “By Allah-Alrahman-Alrahim's name”
(Q1:1).
The beginning of chapter 9 has been lost and so
the Bismillah is missing there. The Bismillah is
not part of the revelation except where it
appears in the discourse.
Q7. Surah 12:87 contains the expression in
Arabic ruh Allah, rendered by some
translators as mercy of Allah. What is the
concept?
A. The word in the Surah 12 at ayat 87 is not
ruh Allah as many mistakenly construe it. It is
rauh. Abdullah Yusuf Ali in his fn. 1762
makes this statement asserting that many
translators have mistakenly construed it. He
says that: “Rauh includes the idea of a Mercy
that stills or calms our distracted state and is
particularly appropriate here in the mouth of
Jacob.”
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In much of the Koran, (the) Godhead's Name
praises (the) Godhead above all else (Q1:5).
Moreover, (the) Godhead's Name frequently
shifts between speaking in the first person
singular to the first person plural and back
again even in the same sentence (Q2:38). These
patterns are directly comparable with the saying
Q1. In contrast to Talmudic Judaism, which
did not recognize the Messiah, did the
Prophet of Islam recognize Jesus as the
Messiah who had to come?
A. Qasim’s family had been under Christian
influence and was Christian; but he was not
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Trinitarian and that was the issue on which Islam
was founded and the Koran written. It must be
remembered that the Arabian Prophet was
writing to refute the Trinitarian heresy.
Trinitarians claimed that Christ was a true God
when the Bible was clear that there was only
One True God and that Christ was His son
whom He sent (Jn. 17:3; 1Jn. 5:20). The Koran
must be read in that light but it must also be read
in the light of the texts available to Qasim and
the council of the Muhammad.
No self-appointed Muslim will be able to read
the Qur’an and ignore the Torah, or the
Gospels, or the Psalms, or the Prophets.
Q2. It seems that in the Surah 4:171, the
Qur’an recognizes Jesus as the Word of God
sent to Mariam (Mary). Is this a good
understanding of the Surah?
A. Yes, It is His ruach ha qodes and His word
that Allah spread in Christ (cf. Surahs. 2:87;
3:45; 4:171; 5:46). The ayat is directed at the
people of the Book or Scriptures. In the letter to
Negus, king of Abyssinia (Ethiopia),
Muhammad said: "... Jesus is His [Allah’s]
slave and His messenger and His spirit and His
word which He cast unto Mary." Yussuf Ali
also in fn. 676 refers to 3:59 and states he is a
spirit proceeding from God but not the One
True God. The text has the words added: For
God is one God: Glory be to Him (Far Exalted
is He) above having a son; i.e. ‘Far Exalted is
He’ is added to disguise the text which merely
says Glory be to Him above having a son. This
text does not deny the son but rather that the
Glory is to God alone.
Q3. The Koran strongly denies the divinity
of Christ and his divine sonship. What does
the Koran teach concerning Christ, and is
Islam faithful to the faith which was once
delivered?
A. Like the Bible, the Koran must be taken in
context and cannot be read in isolation. Texts
from the Koran taken in isolation indeed appear
to deny the fact of Christ as Son of God as we
see immediately above but the text has been
added to much later (see the paper Christ and
the Koran (No. 163)).
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No prophet can disagree with the law and what
was revealed before him in the testimony (Isa.
8:20). The message of any prophet is merely
explanation of what has gone before, and God’s
revelation of what is to come to pass. Hadithic
Islam has introduced an interpretation that
conflicts with the Koran, as well as with
Scripture. So also does most of Christianity
disagree with the Law and the Testimony.
Christianity can’t even obey the Ten
Commandments.
Judah
can’t
even
acknowledge that they killed the Messiah when
the Scriptures said that they would kill him,
and the NT testifies that they did kill him.
Q4. Why does the Messiah of the Koran
seem to have been born as all human beings;
wasn’t he begotten of God?
A. This is the sentiment of the Koran, which
says Christ was not begotten of God in any
physical sense (cf. Surah 19:34; 4:171) but God
simply said: Be! And he was in the body of
Mariam and a human foetus (Surah 3:59). By
this process the Word became flesh and dwelt
among us (Surah 4:171; John 1:14).
Q5. In the Qur’an, does it say that Jesus was
born as a man who was capable of sinning?
A. Christ had to be able to have sinned or he is
a robot and there is no judgment of Satan. In all
points he was tempted as we are (Heb. 4:15; see
the paper The Purpose of the Creation and the
Sacrifice of Christ (No. 160)). Nowhere in the
Koran does it intimate that he was not capable
of sinning, and his sacrifice and our salvation
depend on it. How else can he be the Messiah
as the Koran proclaims him to be?
Q6. Why does the doctrine of the Koran say
that Christ was not crucified but it was
another who was crucified and at the same
time it identified Jesus as the Messiah? The
text is in contradiction with the gospels.
A. From Surahs 3:55 and 5:117, it clearly states
that God allows Jesus to die and that Jesus was
resurrected by his God, who brought him back
to Him. Modern Islam rejects comment on the
Messiah and they even deny the Gospels they
are told to read. Modern Islam does not actually
want to obey and do what the Koran says.
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Q7. In Surah 5:110, the Qur’an makes
reference to Jesus and says that he preached
to men from the cradle. Could you explain
this?
A. The text says: So that thou didst speak to the
people in childhood and in maturity (see also
Yussuf Ali fn.817 and 3:46 and n. 388 to that
text). It is a reference to the gospels (Lk. 2:46)
where Christ spoke to the elders at the Temple
and who were amazed with him. The text goes
on to say of God speaking to Christ: Behold! I
taught thee The Book and Wisdom (cf. 3:48),
The Law and the Gospel. In this text it also
refers to the healing of the blind and the lepers
and the resurrection of the dead by God’s will
rather than Christ’s own will and power. The
use of clay to create and heal is referred to in
the text.
6: The Bible and Christianity
Q1. Do the Muslims believe in the same God
as the Christians?
A. The Islamic faith refers to the One True God
as Allah. It is easy for all to see that there is no
God but the One True God. This is eternal life
that you know the One True God and Jesus
Christ whom He sent (Jn. 17:3).
What the Arabian Prophet does do is destroy
completely the Athanasian concept of the
Trinity, which was never held by the original
Christian Church, and for which they have been
continually persecuted.
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Temple as HaElohim or The Elohim or God.
Christ is not the one true God. Only this being,
Eloah (Elahh to the Chaldeans and Allah’ to
Islam) stood alone in abiding perpetuity having
nothing coeval or co-existing with Himself (cf.
the paper Early Theology of the Godhead (No.
127)). Ha Elohim (or The Elohim) was Eloah.
He was Messiah’s God and he appointed
Messiah and anointed him as elohim with the
oil of gladness above his partners (cf. Ps. 45:67; Heb. 1:8-9) and Christ was faithful to the
one who made him (cf. Heb. 3:2 Marshall’s
Greek English Interlinear RSV).
Q2. The majority of the translations of the
Qur’an use the word religion or the religion
of Allah. Is this word religion found in the
original Qur’an?
A. The Koran is often misinterpreted and
mistranslated to hide the interrelated meaning
between the Koran and the Bible.
The Cow
[2.138] (Receive) the baptism of Allah, and who is better
than Allah in baptising? and Him do we serve.
The Holy Qur'an, translated by M.H. Shakir and
published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in 1983 .
Several other translations are listed below.
Pickthall: (We take our) colour from Allah, and who is
better than Allah at colouring. We are His worshippers.
Darabadi: Ours is the dye of Allah! and who is better at
dyeing than Allah! And we are His worshippers.
Mohammed Asad: [Say: “Our life takes its] hue from
The Trinity was built on the lie of
Binitarianism introduced at Nicea in 325 CE.
The concept of the Duality of Christ and God
stems from this error (see the paper Binitarian
and Trinitarian Misrepresentation of the Early
Theology of the Godhead (No. 127b)). The
Prophet Qasim was faced with refuting this
error continually, due to the spread of the false
teaching (see the paper Christ and the Koran
(No. 163)).
Christ was not only pre-existent; he was and is
the elohim or Elohi of Israel, as Yahovah, sent
by Yahovih or Yahovah of Hosts, the Elyon or
God Most High. This being, the one true God,
is Eloah. He is the object of worship of the
God! And who could give a better hue [to life] than God,
if we but truly worship Him?"
Yusufali: (Our religion is) the Colour of Allah: and
who can colour better than Allah? And it is He Whom we
worship.
Comment: Sibghah ‫ ص ب غ‬: the root-meaning
implies a dye or colour; apparently the Arab
Christians mixed a dye or colour in the
baptismal water, signifying the baptized person
got a new colour in life. Yusuf Ali.
The word “Sibghatun” means dye, color, hue
(n). Thus, the words derived from the root
letters mean: to dye, color, baptize, dip,
immerse, hue, assume the attribute, mode,
mature, code of law, religion.
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In the Ayah 138 of Surah Al-Baqaraah of the
Qur’an the attributes of Allah and His Code of
Law is called Allah’s Sibghah.
Israel and was not of the brethren of the
children of Israel and could not be referred to
here.
The Koran commands that the faithful repent
and be baptised. The modern Hadith teaches
that baptism is unnecessary, and uses the text to
imply that Allah baptises rather than any
physical baptism being required, which is the
exact opposite of the intent of the Koran and
the Bible. The message of the Koran must be
interpreted within the context of Scripture.
Baptism is the key requirement of the elect to
attain the First Resurrection. Those who teach
against it, do not attain to the Kingdom of God
and the Garden of the First Resurrection
themselves, and prevent all who listen to them
from doing so.
Verses 16-18 show that God is saying clearly
that He will raise this prophet from Israel and
anyone who will not hearken to him will have it
required of him and the prophet who utters
words not commanded of him will die.
The Bible is clear that there is one Faith, one
Lord, one Baptism, one God and Father of all
who is over all and through all and in all (Eph.
4:5; Surah 2:138; 5:73; 6:82). Most of the
world is not effectively baptised.
Q3. Where is the reference to the "gentile
prophet" that the Qur’an says is in the
Books? I have been looking for it... Surah
7:157. The argument is that the term Ummi
and its derivatives cannot mean "illiterate,"
but it means "Gentile." When searching for
all references to this word and derivative
(seven times)--all instances seem to flow
better with the translation Gentile. I did
find one of the places that the modern
Islamic scholars argue is a reference--but it
is not from the Torah or Gospels. It is in
Isaiah 42. It is interesting because it does
specify a place (where Kedar dwells) which
would indicate the Arabian habitations.
A. Surah 7:157-9 refers to the Church that
follows the laws of Moses (159) (see Pickthall).
Muslim scholars try to make the text refer to the
unlettered prophet as being a reference to
Qasim (Muhammad) of the Arabian church and
Yusuf Ali has a reference to this (1127) and
refers back to the comments by Moses where he
says that The Lord thy God will raise up unto
thee a prophet in the midst of thy brethren like
unto me. He omits the comments by Moses
from Deut. 18:15. Qasim was not of the sons of
This text can only refer to Christ and not Qasim
and the Muslims use this text to avoid the
requirement to follow the law.
Q4. Does the Bible contain prophecies about
the prophet of the Muslims?
A. To properly understand the texts of the faith,
you must be submissive to God and repent and
be baptised and receive the Holy Spirit or be in
that process (look at the paper Repentance and
Baptism (No. 52)). Satan is the god of this
world (2Cor. 4:4) and he established this
tripartite religious system of False Judaism,
False Christianity and False Islam, so that the
faith could not be understood and the divisions
could be used in the last days to establish the
Beast system and ultimately destroy mankind.
Q5. Who are the “People of the Book”?
A. What should be borne in mind when reading
the Koran is that we are talking about three
separate Christianities, with two irreconcilable
concepts of God. The Christian church in the
East included one of the original churches
founded by the Apostles, that of John at
Ephesus and Smyrna, and also, later, quasi
heretical offshoots, including the Nestorians
and various elements, which were later called
Monophysite.
Monophysitism, however, had later heretical
divergences from the original sect of the
Apostles. Monophysitism was both the doctrine
of the Unitarians (often also termed Arians) and
also that of the Asians. Athanasians were
opposed in the west by the Unitarian Christians
termed Arian Christians, by the Trinitarians
from Rome.
The people of the Scripture are seen from
Surahs 2:105, 111ff., 120, 144; 3:23, 64ff.,
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98f.,110ff., 186f., 199; 4:44f., 123, 153ff., 171;
5:5, 15, 19ff., 59, 65, 68, 77, 29:46; 33: 26 f.;
XCVIII 1 to end; LVII: 29. Their history is told
in the papers General Distribution of the
Sabbath-keeping Churches (No. 122) and The
Role of the Fourth Commandment in the
Historical Sabbath-keeping Churches of God
(No. 170).
Q6. What is Nazarenism; is it Judaism, and
where did it develop? Is Islam a form of
Arabic Nazarenism?
A. The Nazarenes were one of two forms of
Judaizing in the Christian Middle East. They
kept themselves distinct from Gentile
Christianity. The first were referred to as
Ebionites. They admitted only a gospel
according to St Matthew; they rejected Paul as
an apostate heretic (and denied the divinity of
Christ as the Trinitarians saw it).
The Nazarenes acknowledged the obligation of
the whole “Mosaic Law” for Christians of
Jewish descent, but allowed Gentile Christians
as proselytes of the gate, to omit these
observances (cf. ERE, art. “Judaizing”, Vol. 7,
p. 611a).
They were thus not seen as part of the church or
of early Islam.
Q7. Are the Nazarenes different from Jews
and Christians?
A. Nazarenes were basically Messianic Jews
who acknowledged the whole Mosaic Law and
introduced in effect a distinction into the
Christian faith in the Middle East. As such they
could not be of Islam in the same way the
church was operating.
Q8. Who was Theophilus of Dibous? What
was his role for the origin of Christianity in
Arabia and his beliefs?
A. Theophilus the Indian came from the island
of Dibous and was appointed by the Emperor
Contantius (d. November 3, 361) who was
Roman Emperor from 337 to 361. He was an
Arian but like his father Constantine he was not
formally baptised until he was near death and
was baptised as an Arian and he certainly
advanced the Arian cause throughout his reign.
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Not a lot is known with certainty as the later
Trinitarian theologians vilified all and claimed
that Constantius and the bishop of Antioch at
the time were so-called semi-Arians. That was
a term and a sect that did not emerge until after
the Council of Constantinople in 381 and is
improbable. He acted against Jewish interest by
limiting the capacity to own slaves or convert
Christians to Judaism as slaves. Writers closer
to the time were more adamant that he was a
pure Arian and the history of the Emperors
indicate he could have been nothing else.
However, he was also a pagan and retained the
title of Pontificus Maximus and he appointed
Julian the Apostate as his successor in
November 361. Theophilus of Dibous was
appointed by him to go to Asia Minor
throughout the South and Southeast particularly
and into Ethiopia before the death of
Constantius and reportedly in the sixth decade,
which meant he was appointed sometime in
360 and well before November of 361. He is
also reported to have gone from Asia Minor
and Ethiopia into India. This is most likely as
the Archbishop of Abyssinia, bishop Mueses
followed his footsteps into India and on into
China (see the paper General Distribution of
the Sabbath-keeping Churches (No.122)).
There is no doubt that Antioch was not
Trinitarian at that time and the Sabbatarian
Arians were in control of Asia Minor under the
Paulicians and the Arabs generally and also the
Nestorians. That was to continue until and
contribute to the rise of Islam ca 622.
Q9. In numerous texts and translations
relative to the religion of Islam we see the
word unfaithful appearing (in Arabic al
kafir). Who were these persons referred to as
al kafir or non-believers in the time of
Mohammad?
A. Unbelievers at the time were people who
denied the faith by breach of the Laws and the
testimony. They could be Pagans usually as
Trinitarians were specifically identified by their
doctrines. However, Trinitarians could not
marry in Islam but Sabbatarians Unitarians
could.
Q10. In Surah 6:125, it says that Allah
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guides certain people to believe, and yet He
also punishes those who do not believe. We
know that Allah is perfectly just, so how
would you explain this Surah?
A. The Surah refers to the calling of God as
referred to in the NT text where God calls and
is a reference to Romans 8:29-30. God calls
those who He wills and opens their breasts to
the faith. Those whom He does not call he
leaves straying. These are those who refuse to
believe and are those He consigns to the
Second Resurrection as we see in the NT texts
and especially in Romans and in Revelation
chapter 20. Each is called in their proper time.
Q11. There are also ayats (verses) which say
to kill the "miscreant". What do these verses
mean, and would it be necessary to put them
in the context of the era in which they were
written?
A. The OT Scriptures are clear on the
punishments under the law and the Koran
merely reinforces the law and the penalties
which in many cases are allocations to the
Second Resurrection.
Q12. Surah 5:69 does not say "the Jews" but
uses a verb "those who Judaized". What
believers is it talking about?
A. These are the Ebionites and Nazarenes
referred to above.
Q13. Why does the Qur’an make a
distinction between Sabeans and Christians?
A. Sabaeans are not specifically Sabbath–
Keeping Christians although they probably
were from the intrusions of the Abyssinians ca
300-350. They were at the time of Islam
Southern Arabians although their origin may
have been in the North and originally (probably
from before Solomon) they worshipped the
Moon God and the sun consort Shams and the
Morning Star system of Astarte. They were
overthrown in the South by another dynasty.
About A.D. 300 the ever-increasing Abyssinian
immigrants overthrew the Himyarite dynasty in
Southern Arabia, and inaugurated the
"Kingdom of Saba, Raidan, Hadhramôt, and
Yemen", which, after yielding place for an
interval to a Judaeo-Sabean kingdom and
violent religious persecution, which was no
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doubt aimed at the formerly Abbysinian
Christian community (cf. Pereira, "Historia dos
Martyres de Nagran", Lisbon, 1899) was reestablished by Byzantine intervention in 525.
After the rout of the Viceroy Abraha at Mecca
in 570, the Persians seized control. Southern
Arabia became a Persian province till its
incorporation in Islam.
After this period there were three forms of
Sabean groups. The First in Iraq near Basra
were also called Nasorians or Mandeans or
Christians of St. John. There was a Gnostic
group who practiced regular immersion
probably on a yearly basis. They live in
harmony with Islam but are probably not the
group mentioned in the Koran (cf. Yusuf Ali n.
76).
Another group of pseudo-Sabeans lived near
Harran and attracted attention ca 820. They had
long hair and peculiar dress and probably
adopted the name to obtain privileges because
the Sabeans were mentioned in the Koran and
they then claimed they were people of the Book
(ibid).
Q14. Is it true that Islam and Muslims are
neologisms that the Christian monks or
friars forged on the basis of the Arab word
"muslim"?
A. The Arabic word Muslim is the active
participle of aslama of which the noun of
action is Islam. Thus it is a product of the
Arabic language itself. It means the
Resignation or Surrender to God and carried
with it that meaning from its root forms.
Christian monks and ascetics did not occur
until the later centuries of the Christian Church
just before the rise of Islam itself. It is thus
impossible to be an invention of these aberrant
groups.
7: Four Rightly Guided Caliphs
Q1. I have heard there are different
branches of Islam if so what are they?
A. The two main branches of Islam are Sunni
and Shi’a Islam. There are also Sufi Mystics
that have numerous lodges all over the world.
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Other major branches are Karijite, Ahmadiyya,
and also the Quranism movement.
Details of these and other smaller branches such
as

Ahl-e Haqq

Mahdavism

Messiah Foundation International

Moorish Science

Nation of Islam

Zikri
are found in the reference at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_a
nd_branches
Also there are various groups such as the Kurds
who were the tribe of Sala u Din or Saladin the
great general of Islam at the time of the
Crusades. Also the Alawites in Syria who are
another minor branch but effectively control its
politics and officer corps. The conflicts between
the Islamist and the Liberal schools are also
extensive.
Q2. What does each branch of Islam believe?
A. This topic is too large for reference here but
details can be found in the Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics (ERE) and the various
Wikipedia articles such as those above.
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It is the Muslim title for the civil and religious
ruler as successor to the prophet Qasim and
leader of the “Muhammad.” His dominion is a
Caliphate.
The first four caliphs were called the Four
Rightly Guided Caliphs. After that period Islam
is considered to have deteriorated theologically
under the Ummayids and Abbasids. There are a
series of papers on Islam on the web at
www.ccg.org and also on the fall of Jerusalem
under Omar in the paper Golgotha: the Place of
the Skull (No. 217). Look also at Mysticism
Chapter 5 Islam (No. B7_5).
Q5. Could you please explain what is/was an
Imam and how one becomes/became an
Imam?
A. There are two meanings and uses for Imam.
The title means to go before or precede. It is
used of an officiating priest at a Muslim
Mosque.
It was also used as a title given to various
Muslim leaders and chiefs including the
Caliphs or independent princes. The normal
study and acceptance of a Muslim community
are required.
8: Paradise
Q3. Are there conflicts of belief between the
branches of Islam?
A. Islam is riddled with deadly and vicious
sects and their consequent wars. The problems
in Iraq are largely caused by the Sunni/Shi’a
conflicts as are the conflicts between Iran and
Iraq and elsewhere also.
Q1. What does a system which claims that
they go directly to heaven with 70 virgins
attending to one’s every wish (provided they
mangle as many people who disagree with
them as possible) have to do with God and
the Scriptures or the Qur’an?
A. The answer is nothing, no such doctrine
exists in the faith or the Quran and those who
teach so are liars and will face the judgment of
the prophets and the elect in the second
resurrection.
Q4. Can you please describe what a Caliph
is? Also is this office or person (whichever it
may be) in operation today?
A. The office of Caliph was a ruler in Islam. It
is derived from the Arabic Khalifah meaning
successor. The form now in use is Khalif. The
Oxford Universal Dictionary says the
pronunciation with a long a is bad.
In Surah 2, The Cow, at verses 111-113, the
Koran says:
“And they say: None enters Paradise unless he
be a Jew or a Christian. These are their own
desires. Say bring you proof if you are truthful.
No, but whosever surrenders his purpose to
Allah while doing good, his reward is with his
Lord; and there shall no fear come upon them
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neither shall they grieve.
And the Jews say the Christians follow nothing,
and the Christians say the Jews follow nothing;
yet both are readers of the Scripture. Even thus
speak those who know not. Allah will judge
between them on the day of the Resurrection
concerning that wherein they differ.”
Thus the Koran is clear that the Resurrection of
the dead is applicable to all flesh and not only
to Christian or Jew, or indeed to any so-called
“Muslim.”
The Bible and the Koran are explicit that the
resurrection of the dead is to the Gardens of
Paradise, as they are termed in the Koran, and
to judgment. No one goes to heaven or hell
after he dies. There is no such thing as heaven
and hell in the Bible or the Qur’an (see the
paper The Soul (No. 92) and also The
Resurrection of the Dead No. 143)).
Q2. Where does this idea come that people
think we can blow each other up and
somehow be admitted to a heavenly place
administered to by females of beauty and
virtue?
A. Certainly those who think that they are a
martyr for the faith and that they will go
straight to heaven and will have some 70
beautiful virgins waiting on his needs in heaven
did not get them from the Koran, as it says no
such thing.
If you say you are a Christian, or Jew, or of
Islam, and do not acknowledge the truth of the
Resurrection of the dead, and the Rule of the
Messiah, you are not a follower of the Law and
the Testimony of the Prophets and the faith of
Jesus Christ and there is no light in you (Isa.
8:20). The Koran and the Bible do not differ on
this teaching. Nor could they because if the
Koran and the Bible differ, then the Koran is a
false work by a false prophet.
Christ said that the angels in heaven neither
marry nor are given in marriage. The risen dead
are not permitted to marry. Christ said: “For
when they shall rise from the dead, they neither
marry nor are given in marriage but are as the
angels, which are in heaven” (Mark 12:25).
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Q3. The New Testament talks about the
third Heaven where paradise is, and the
Koran shows a seventh Heaven, where the
prophet found it?
A. The terms are generic. The NT term refers to
the classifications of the basic Atmosphere,
Solar and Galactic structure of the Earth and the
heavenly structure of the Throne of God in the
“sides of the North.” The seven classifications
of the Koran are developments of these making
distinction between the Atmospheres, inner and
outer space, the Solar system, the Galaxy and so
on.
9: The Sharia
Q1. On what basis is Sharia established?
Where does its source come from, the Koran
or Hadiths or neither?
A. Sharia is based on the Hadith and has no
basis in the Bible or the Koran. It is heresy.
Q2. Does Islam authorise polygamy? Many
people use verse 3 of Surah 4 to assert that it
does, but is that indeed what the text says?
A. Polygamy is far from ideal but if present in
society it requires regulation. That is why
Mohammad regulated it based on the laws of
God given to the prophet Moses (see the paper
Polygamy in the Bible and the Koran (No.
293).
Q3. Are there passages in the Qur’an that
refer to tithing, and if so, would it show that
those who wrote the Qur’an actually gave
their tithe?
A. God said through the prophet Malachi that
Tithing is the sign of the repentance of the
individual and is the test of the return to God
(Malachi 3:6-18). Note that the Tithes are the
basis of the sign of the return to God according
to these Surahs 2:43,83; 4:162; 5:12,55; 9:11;
19:31,55; 21:73; 27:3; 98:5 etc. Thus, the
prophet enjoined to the Church the keeping of
tithing. The correct doctrines on tithing are
explained in the paper Tithing (No. 161).
Q4. Muslims claim that consumption of
alcohol is prohibited in the Qur'an? Is it the
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consumption or intoxication that is
prohibited?
A. A drunkard will not inherit the Kingdom of
God because of his control problems.
Moderation is promoted - not abstinence (cf.
Surah 16:67; 2:219; 10:91 and Wine in the
Bible [188]). Alcohol in moderation is good. If
you have problems with alcohol, learn to
control it.
10: Islamic Calendar
Q1. Islam follows a lunar calendar but why
don’t they calculate the months from the
conjunction instead of the crescent moon?
A. The Fuqaim, a clan of the Kinana in preHadithic times had responsibility for the
calendar in Ishmael as the Levites and Issachar
had in Israel. At the beginning of Islam, the
children of Israel and Ishmael observed initially
the holy days on the same or similar days. The
calendar was predicted accurately for years in
advance, for millennia, until the crescent was
introduced from paganism and the Babylonian
system. The Arabs followed the original system
down to the times of the prophet.
No sooner was the prophet dead than his
teachings were perverted and the calendar was
corrupted. Under or after the Caliph Omar II
(717-720) what became known as the Hadith
commenced to be written. From the time of the
death of Qasim in 632 the sayings not
recognised by “the Muhammad” were rejected
and refused to be written or compiled for good
reason. The Hadith had wrecked the calendar of
Islam due to its interpretation of the Surah, and
for centuries this false system corrupted Islam
and prevented any unification or reconciliation
of the three great faiths.
Islam has made a farce out of God’s Calendar
by misusing the words of the prophecy and
dislocating the calendar from the seasons and
the harvests of the Bible narrative. Thus, the
plan of salvation is made obscure to the Arabs
who claim to follow God and the faith of Islam
as revealed to Abraham, Moses, Aaron, the
prophets, Christ and the Church, which is the
true Muhammad of the texts.
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Q2. In Christianity and Judaism there are
sacred months, does Islam have its own
sacred months?
A. The Four Sacred Months in Islam are Rajab,
Sha’aban, Ramadhan and Muharram. They
were originally the same four months as found
in Judaism and in the Bible and Ancient Israel.
The Four Sacred months of the Faith, which
were Abib, Iyar and Sivan as the first three
months, and Tishri as the Seventh month
according to the Bible, were restated in the
Koran, but their names were not given so the
Hadith wrecked that nexus as well. The Hadith
did to Islam what the Talmud did to Judaism.
The calendar of the Church of God in Arabia
was destroyed by the Hadith and the pagan
Arabs after the death of the last Rightly Guided
Caliph and the Crescent Moon was not
introduced to Islam and its rituals for almost a
thousand years after the formation of the faith
there.
We know for a fact that the prophet and the
church fasted according to the New Moon as
determined by the Temple Calendar and we
know that the Conjunction was kept as the New
Moon according to the inscriptions in Mecca
made after the establishment of Islam (see the
paper Hebrew and Islamic Calendar Reconciled
(No. 053)).
Q3. Does the Koran advocate the observance
of the 7th day Sabbath?
A. Early Islam under the Arabs adopted the
week from the Jews and Christians. The names
of the week came from the Jewish and Early
Christian practices such as al Jumaah, meaning
the meeting or congregation for worship, and
the following or seventh day of the week was
named as- Sabt, the Sabbath, on which worship
was commanded by the God through the
prophets and on which the Prophet Qasim
himself did double prayers at the mosque and
refrained from trade. The days go from twilight
to twilight when colour can no longer be
distinguished in thread. This has never changed
from ancient times and agrees with ancient
Hebrew systems.
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When Islam is summoned to Juma’ah prayers,
they are to hasten to the remembrance of Allah
and cease trading (cf. Surah 62 Juma’ah
(Congregation)). This is a reference to the fact
that in the afternoon of Friday all trading
ceased and people prepared for the Sabbath.
The more cunning of later Islam directed this to
the afternoon of the sixth day alone, and
abandoned the Sabbath. Christianity replaced
the seventh-day Sabbath and made the first day
of the week (known as Sunday) their Sabbath, a
practice firmly established by Zoroaster in
Persia from the eighth century BCE.
The Sabbath is provided for spiritual
development through submission to the divine
command and through the recitation, hearing,
and studying of the sacred books in worship.
To fail to submit oneself to God and neglect the
revelatory blessings of the Sabbath is to make a
monkey of oneself. That is, to make oneself
capable of obedience only as mimicry and
without spiritual understanding.
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Jews invented the Talmud to destroy the Torah.
Even the Modern Islam emblem of the crescent
and star is the symbol of the mother goddess
system of Istar or Easter. There is not one major
religious system that follows the message of the
Torah, the Prophets, or the Church.
11: Abraham
Q1. What was the religion of Abraham?
Was he Jewish, Christian or Muslim?
A. There is only one religion and one system of
worship from the Patriarchs through Moses and
Christ to Qasim and the elders of the
“Muhammad” and on through the Church of
God until the present time.
The Surrender and the Law of God was given to
Abraham and to Isaac, prophet of the righteous
and through his line (Surah 37:83-113). The
descendants of Abraham were to have a major
role in the future of the world and through them
the world was given a great legacy.
Muhammad said to keep the Sabbath and
whoever did not do so was an ape. Like Christ
and the Apostles, all of Al Islam from Adam to
Christ kept the Sabbath. But those who
believed a lie subverted it and changed the day
of worship of the faith to Sunday. They also
introduced Easter for the worship of the ancient
Goddess, which caused both Israel and the
Arabs and the Sons of Keturah to stumble. In
the same way, the Juma’ah was confined to
Friday prayer session and the Sabbath was
forgotten in Islam. Look at the paper The
Juma'ah: Preparing for the Sabbath (No. 285).
Q2. Who is the "only son" of Abraham?
Muslims state that it was Ishmael his first
born son and not Isaac.
A. The misunderstanding in the Koran
regarding the sacrifice of Isaac is explained in
the text Genesis 22, Judaism, Islam, and the
sacrifice of Isaac (No. 244). It was Isaac that
was mentioned as the intended sacrifice and not
Ishmael as taught by the Hadith. The concept
regarding a rite of passage makes the conflict
irrelevant; however, it does not mention
Ishmael directly in the texts but rather the
Hadith.
To suggest that Ishmael had a different
calendar from Israel and later Judah and early
Christianity is nonsense. The week is tied to the
Sabbath and had to remain and did so remain,
being ordained by the Prophet to be kept (see
the paper The Sabbath in the Qur'an (No.
274)).
Q3. Was Abraham really the father of
Monotheism?
A. No, Adam was the Father of Monotheism
and all the patriarchs and prophets were
monotheists.
Q4. Why doesn’t Modern Islam keep the
Sabbath?
A. Islam was corrupted by the eastern mystical
influences and the pagans destroyed it. Mystics
invented the Hadith to destroy the Qur’an as the
Q4. The Qur’an says that Abraham was a
friend of Allah. Why was this so?
A. The reasons are all found in Scripture and
the comment is a direct reference to the texts in
Scripture. The reasons are explained in the text
Why was Abraham called "the Friend of God"?
(No. 35).
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Q5. Which are the Scriptures of Abraham?
A. It is in fact the Religion of Abraham not the
Scriptures. The faith was given to Abraham and
He was called from Ur of Chaldea. It was this
legacy that he gave to his descendants.
Q6. According to Surah 2:130, was
Abraham one of the elect?
A. The Surah and ayat confirm he was called of
God and given the faith and it was this faith
that he gave to his descendants. This was the
faith of the Surrender or Al Islam in the Arabic.
Ayat 130 says he will be in the hereafter as one
of the Righteous and thus he was one of the
elect. The Hebrew text of Genesis states that
the Gentiles recognised him as a prince of the
elohim and hence a son of God. The English
translations do not translate this correctly.
Q7. In what way is Abraham an example to
follow, according to the Surah 60:4?
A. According to the ayat, Abraham and those
with him are an example of the faith and the
distinction between the faith and infidels,
unless as Abraham did, when he prayed for
forgiveness for them.
Q8. What is the meaning of the Arabic word
hanif?
A. A Hanif is a person who maintains the pure
monotheistic beliefs of the prophet Abraham.
In other words, the Church of God and the
prophets and patriarchs are the Hanif of the
“Muhammad,” which is the body of Christ.
Note that many Hanifs were Christian friends or
even opponents of Islam. The requirement was
to have devoted one’s self to the faith of
Abraham. On the collapse of true Islam after
the Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs some Hanif
were obliged to oppose what Islam had become.
Some were classified as Sabbatarian Christians
and others as opponents of Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanif
12: Prophesies in the Qur’an
Q1. What does the Qur’an have to say in
prophecy or about the prophets?
A. The Koran has much to say about the
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prophets in Surahs 2:61, 91, 136, 177, 213;
3:21, 80ff.
Their inspiration is discussed in 4:163 and
6:86ff. There is an adversary to each (6:113).
God has made His covenant with them (33:7).
Much of the prophecy in the Koran is merely
restatement of the plan of Salvation in
Scripture particularly concerning the Gardens
of Paradise (cf. Surahs 2; 7; 13; 15; 18; 19; 22;
25; 36; 37; 38; 43; 44; 47; 52; 55; 56 and 76).
Because the Imams don’t study Scripture they
are ignorant of the time frames between the
Gardens and differ greatly on the time interval
between the two Gardens of the First and
Second Resurrection.
13: Arabs
Q1. Can you explain the context of the
beliefs of the Arabs before Islam emerged
among the Arabs?
A. The Arabs had a mixture of beliefs that
ranged between Christianity, Paganism and
Judaism. Their Christianity was of a few types
ranging from Unitarian Sabbatarianism, of
which Qasim was one, to Trinitarianism and on
to Nestorianism. The paganism was in fact the
worship of the Moon God sin and Shams or
Shamas his female consort the Sun and the
Morning Star Istar, or Easter, the Goddess.
Judaism among the Arabs had long since been
corrupted to Talmudic Mysticism.
14. Taqiyya
Q1. Muslims teach that it is OK to lie to
others to conceal the faith or gain
advantage. Where does this idea come from?
A. This practice is termed Taqiyya. It stems
from the misrepresentation and corruption of
the Koran at Surah 3:28 and 16:106.
Let not the believers take for friends or helpers
Unbelievers rather than Believers: if any do
that, in nothing will there be help from God:
except by way of precaution, that ye may guard
yourselves from them. But God cautions you (to
remember) Himself; for the final goal is to God
(cf. Yussuf Ali and fn. 373).
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Muslims even lie to each other over matters of
their views and association. In some areas it is
difficult to know who are Sunni and Shia as
many (Shia particularly) conceal their
classification and identify as Sunni in some
Sunni or Shia controlled areas under this
doctrine of Taqiyya.
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This view is completely contrary to Scripture
and the Koran. The view is a corruption of the
Koran and a direct breach of the Ninth
Commandment. Surah 16:106 exonerates those
who are under torture or duress (cf. Yussuf Ali
n. 2145 re ‘Ammar bin Yasir).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqiyya
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