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The Emergence of
Islam
By
Justin T. Alfred
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Introduction
Islam is a tyrannical, oppressive, political system cloaked in the guise of a religious belief.
The religious leadership of Islam, as with the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, are
placed in a semi-divine status where any criticism of them or their teachings is tantamount to
blaspheming and attacking God. Wherever this type of rule and leadership is enacted, be it in a
purely political setting, or in a business, educational, and religious setting, then the result will be
abuse, deceit, lies, distortion, and a full on exploitation of those under its authority and control.
Thus, when such a system is in power, it cannot be changed from within because of the selfdeified narcissism and conceit of those who are the leaders – the only way it can be changed is
by its dissolution from without through exposing it for what it is and rescuing those who have
been held captive by its lies and intimidation by means of liberating and “commitment to the
death” truth. This can be seen in our own time frame within the past one hundred years with
Marxism and Nazism, and five hundred years ago with the Protestant Reformation that was
sparked by Martin nailing his Ninety-Five Thesis on the Castle Church door in Wittenburg,
Germany on October 31, 1517. Therefore, regardless of the type of oppression where God’s
ordained, liberating truth is being stifled and repressed, the result is going to be a spiritual,
mental, emotional, and physical enslavement that can only be removed by His sovereign power
and hand through His eternal truth represented in the person of Jesus Christ.
The Source of the Lies
When Jesus was confronted by the Pharisees who were challenging His claims of being sent
by God, and ultimately, His claim indeed to be God, Jesus said of the Pharisees:
They answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to them, "If you are
Abraham's children, do the deeds of Abraham. "But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a
man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do. "You
are doing the deeds of your father." They said to Him, "We were not born of fornication;
we have one Father, even God." Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would
love Me; for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My
own initiative, but He sent Me. "Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is
because you cannot hear My word. "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do
the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in
the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies. "But because I speak the truth, you do
not believe Me. "Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not
believe Me? "He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear
them, because you are not of God." (John 8:39-47)
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When we do a thorough reading of the Quran and the Hadith in comparison to the Bible, then
you will clearly begin to see that the Quran and the Hadith are saying that “2 + 2 = 5,” whereas
the Bible is clearly saying the absolute antitheses, “2 + 2 = 4.” Therefore, we are now going to
begin looking at the Quran, Hadith, and Islamic history through biblical and historical lens of
truth.
Muhammad’s Source of Truth
1) When Muhammad was forty years old, he had a revelation and a teaching from the Angel
Gabriel, and that was the beginning of his revelations and teachings:
1. By the Star when it goes down— 2. Your Companion is neither astray nor being
misled. 3. Nor does he say (aught) of (his own) Desire. 4. It is no less than inspiration
sent down to him: 5. He was taught by one Mighty in Power, 6. Endued with Wisdom:
for he appeared (in stately form); 7. While he was in the highest part of the horizon: 8.
Then he approached and came closer, 9. And was at a distance of but two bow-lengths or
(even) nearer; 10. So did (Allah) convey the inspiration to His Servant—(conveyed) what
He (meant) to convey. 11. The (Prophet’s) (mind and) heart in no way falsified that
which he saw. 12. Will ye then dispute with him concerning what he saw? 13. For indeed
he saw him at a second descent, 14. Near the Lote-tree beyond which none may pass: 15.
Near it is the Garden of Abode. 16. Behold, the Lote-tree (this is a tree in the Garden of
Eden, according to Islamic teaching, that is a cultivated symbol of heavenly bliss) was
shrouded (in mystery unspeakable!) 17. (His) sight never swerved, nor did it go wrong!
18. For truly did he see, of the Signs of his Lord, the Greatest! (Surah 53:1-18)
2) Furthermore, the Angel Gabriel is identified with the Holy Spirit as the agent of revelation to
Muhammad:
101. When We substitute one revelation for another—and Allah knows best what He
reveals (in stages)—they say, “Thou art but a forger”: but most of them understand not.
102. Say, the Holy Spirit has brought the revelation from thy Lord in Truth, in order to
strengthen those who believe, and as a Guide and Glad Tidings to Muslims. (Surah
14:101-102)
In a commentary note on this passage by the Musim author, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, he writes in
his translation of the Quran with regard to the identity of the Holy Spirit the following: “The
title of the Angel Gabriel, through whom the revelation came down” (Abdullah Yusuf Ali,
The Meaning of the Holy Quran, 10th ed. [Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 1999], p.
664, note 2141). That being the case, according to Islamic teaching, that the Holy Spirit is
the Angel Gabriel revealing these things to Muhammad, then we should, according to the
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perspective of unmitigated and unquestioned truth that came to Muhammad, see consistency
throughout the Quran and Hadith, as well as a foundational premise of Divine truth, and that
is what we will now look at.
Consistency or Inconsistency in Islamic Teaching?
With regard to the consistent or inconsistent aspect of the Quran, we will look at two areas
within the Quran that expose a rather stark contrast to its own teaching, as well as biblical truth:
1) The Fall of Satan – The teaching of the Fall of Satan in the Quran is the total opposite of the
biblical teaching as we shall see:
30. Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: “I will create a vicegerent on earth.” They
said: “Wilt Thou place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed
blood?—whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy holy (name)?” He said:
“I know what ye know not.” 31.
And He taught Adam the nature of all things;
then He placed them before the angels, and said: “Tell me the nature of these if ye are
right.” 33. He said: “O Adam! Tell them their natures.” When he had told them,
Allah said: “Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of heaven and earth, and I know
what ye reveal and what ye conceal?” 34. And behold, We said to the angels: “Bow
down to Adam” and they bowed down. Not so Iblis: he refused and was haughty: He
was of those who reject Faith. (Surah 2:30-34)
Now although Islam does not believe in “fallen angels” as such, they do believe there are
entities called “Jinn,” which are considered to be made of “fire,” whereas humans are made
of “baked clay”: “14. He created man from sounding clay like unto pottery, 15. And He
created Jinns from fire free of smoke” (Surah 55:14-15). Thus, Satan is viewed as a “Jinn”
who was cast out of heaven for not “bowing down to Adam”:
11. It is We Who created you and gave you shape; then We bade the angels bow
down to Adam, and they bowed down; not so Iblis; He refused to be of those who
bow down. 12. (Allah) said: “What prevented thee from bowing down when I
commanded thee?” He said: “I am better than he: Thou didst create me from fire, and
him from clay.” 13. (Allah) said: “Get thee down from this: it is not for thee to be
arrogant here: get out, for thou art of the meanest (of creatures).” 14. He said: “Give
me respite till the day they are raised up.” 15. (Allah) said: “Be thou among those
who have respite.” 16. He said: “Because thou hast thrown me out of the way, lo! I
will lie in wait for them on thy straight way: 17. “Then will I assault them from
before them and behind them, from their right and their left: Nor wilt thou find, in
most of them, gratitude (for thy mercies).” 18. (Allah) said: “Get out from this,
disgraced and expelled. If any of them follow thee—Hell will I fill with you all.
(Surah 7:11-18)
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What we want to focus on in these two passages of the Quran (Surah 2:30-34 & 7:11-18)
is the term “bow down” in the Arabic. In the Arabic, this verb is ‫( سجد‬sajada), and its
expanded meaning is: “to worship and to bow down in adoration with the forehead and nose
touching the ground, and make obeisance to,” which is what Muslims do in bowing down
and worshiping Allah. Elsewhere in the Quran, this same term is used with reference to
bowing down and worshiping Allah:
a)
Surah 2:125: “Remember We made the House a place of assembly for men and a
place of safety; and take ye the station of Abraham as a place of prayer; and We
covenanted with Abraham and Isma’il, that they should sanctify My House for
those who compass it round, or use it as a retreat, or bow, or prostrate
themselves (‫ السُّجُ و ِد‬- alssuj¥di) (therein in prayer).
b) Surah 3:43: “O Mary! Worship Thy Lord devoutly: Prostrate thyself (‫ َواسْ جُ دِي‬wasjud£), and bow down (in prayer) with those who bow down.”
c) Surah 9:112: “Those that turn (to Allah) in repentance; that serve Him, and praise
Him; that wander in devotion to the cause of Allah,: that bow down and
prostrate themselves in prayer (‫ون‬
َ ‫ السَّا ِج ُد‬- alss¹jid¥na); that enjoin good and
forbid evil; and observe the limit set by Allah—(These do rejoice). So proclaim
the glad tidings to the Believers.
d) Surah 13:15: “Whatever beings there are in the heavens and the earth they do
prostrate themselves (‫ َيسْ جُد‬- yasjudu) to Allah (Acknowledging subjection)—
with good-will or in spite of themselves: so do their shadows in the morning and
evenings.”
Thus, what we have is God commanding the angels and Satan, who is a “Jinn,” to bow down
and worship Adam with the same adoration and obsience they and all “beings in the heavens
and the earth” give to Allah – consequently, what we see in Islam is a very subtle, but
unmistakable deification of man in Islamic doctrine, making him equal to Allah as a focus of
worship and adoration. In contrast to this from a biblical perspective, we see two passages in
particular that give us an unequivocally antithetical position:
a) Matthew 4:8-10: “Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain, and
showed Him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; and he said to Him,
‘All these things will I give You, if You fall down and worship me.’ Then Jesus
said to him, ‘Begone, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the Lord your
God, and serve Him only.’”
b) Hebrews 1:6: “And when He again brings the first-born into the world, He says,
‘And let all the angels of God worship Him.’”
In both of these passages, the Greek word for “worship” is προσκυνέω (proskuneō), and it
means “to express in attitude or gesture one’s complete dependence on or submission to a
high authority figure; to fall down and worship, do obeisance to, prostrate oneself before, do
reverence to, and to welcome respectfully.” In addition, in the Arabic New Testament, the
Arabic verb used to translate the Greek verb προσκυνέω (proskuneō) in all of the above
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mentioned instances in these two New Testament passages is ‫( سجد‬sajada). Thus, IN NO
PLACE IN THE BIBLE DO WE EVER SEE GOD TELLING ANY, CREATED BEING TO
WORSHIP MAN, but man is called on to “worship God alone,” and God calls on the angels
to worship Jesus, not man, and that is because JESUS IS GOD (John 1:1; 8:48-59)! Also,
when we talk about Satan’s fall, the biblical reason Satan fell was because of his pride in
wanting to usurp God’s authority and position, and for that, he was cast out of heaven, along
with the other angels who rebelled with him (Isaiah 14:3-15; Ezekiel 28:12-19; Luke 10:18;
Revelation 12:1-12). Therefore, in summation, what we see is a Satanic ploy at the very
foundation of Islam whereby Satan’s lie and enticement to Eve that she “would be like God,
knowing good and evil,” which means, she would become her own God, making up her rules
for what is right and wrong, which is an insidious and deceptive form of “works
righteousness,” and this is the essence of Islamic salvation – that is, salvation by their own
works of righteousness. On the other hand, the Bible clearly states that such works of
righteousness are non-existent, and that our supposed “works of righteousness” are indeed
comparable to a “used menstrual cloth”: “For all of us have become like one who is unclean,
And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment (i.e., used menstrual cloth); And all of us
wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away” (Isaiah 64:6).
2) The Fall of Man – The Fall of Man in the Quran is extremely interesting because of the
three, different passages and their presentation of the fall:
a) Surah 2:35-36: “35. We said: ‘O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden
(lit. “paradise”); and eat of the bountiful things therein as (where and when) ye
(pl.) will; but approach not this tree, or ye (pl.) run into harm and transgression.’
36. Then did Satan make them slip from the (garden), and get them out of the
state (of felicity) in which they had been. We said: ‘Get ye (pl.) down, all (ye
people), with enmity between yourselves. On earth will be your dwelling-place
and your means of livelihood—for a time.’”
b) Surah 7:19-22: “19. O Adam! Dwell thou and thy wife in the Garden, and enjoy
(its good things) as ye (pl.) wish: but approach not this tree, or ye (pl.) run into
harm and transgression. 20. Then began Satan to whisper suggestions to them,
bringing openly before their minds all their shame that was hidden from them
(before): he said: ‘Your (pl.) Lord only forbade you (pl.) this tree, lest ye (pl.)
should become angels or such beings as live for ever.’ 21. And he swore to them
both, that he was their sincere adviser. 22. So by deceit he brought about their
fall: when they tasted of the tree, their shame became manifest to them, and they
began to sew together the leaves of the garden over their bodies. And their Lord
called unto them: ‘Did I not forbid you (pl.) that tree, and tell you that Satan was
an avowed enemy unto you (pl.)?’”
c) Surah 20:117-121: “117. Then We said: ‘O Adam! Verily, this is an enemy to
thee (sg.) and thy wife: so let him not get you both out of the Garden, so that
thou (sg.) art landed in misery. 118. There is therein (enough provision) for thee
(sg.) not to go hungry nor to go naked, 119. Nor to suffer from thirst, nor from
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the sun’s heat. 120. But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, ‘O Adam! Shall I
lead thee (sg.) to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?’ 121.
In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to them:
they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did
Adam disobey his Lord, and allow himself to be seduced.”
Now unlike the Gospels, which at times have variations of the same story due to the fact
that four different people wrote them from four different perspectives, the Quran is supposed
to have been written by only one man, Muhammad, who was being instructed what to write
by Gabriel, who according to Muslim teaching, is also the “Holy Spirit.” However, in each
of these three accounts, we have three different presentations of the same event, supposedly
written by the same person, under the inspiration of the one angel, Gabriel. One very
interesting and crucial difference between the biblical and Quranic account of the Fall of
Man is that in the biblical account, Satan did not have a conversation with “them,” but rather
with Eve alone, and it was Eve who brought Adam into the deception, versus Adam bringing
Eve, according to the Quran:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God
had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from
any tree of the garden '?" And the woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the
trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of
the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, lest you die.'" And the
serpent said to the woman, "You surely shall not die! "For God knows that in the day
you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good
and evil." When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a
delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its
fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of
both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig
leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. (Genesis 3:1-7)
In addition, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul writes in I Timothy the following:
“For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. And it was not Adam who was
deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression” (I Timothy 2:13-14).
Thus, from the very inception of the account of the Fall of Man, there is a major difference
between the Bible and the Quran. However, as initially stated, even within the three accounts
given in the Quran of this one event, there are differences, which, if there were three different
people writing this, as there are four different writers of the Gospels, then those differences
would be quite understandable, but according to the Quran, it is one man, Muhammad, who
is being inspired by one angel, Gabriel, in writing down the one revelation about this event.
In Surahs 2:35-36 and 7:19-22, it is clear that Satan is speaking to both Adam and Eve at
the same time, but in Surah 20:117-121, Satan is addressing Adam alone. Therefore, the
question before us, which is the correct narrative? Now this might not seem to be of any
great significance, but in truth it is. We have at least two different narratives occurring about
the one event by the same author, and this supposed oral revelation given to Muhammad by
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Gabriel, which in turn became the written revelation in the Quran, is believed to be the “pure
Arabic,” which is proclaimed to be the “language of heaven.” If indeed that is the case, then
Gabriel was confused in his transmission to Muhammad, or maybe it was Muhammad who
was confused. On the other hand, as has already been mentioned, we have four different
individuals writing about the same events in the four Gospels, and in many instances there
are written variations of the same events by the different authors. However, this is to be
expected because each of these four writers saw the same events from different angles, and
they then, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote what they saw and heard. God in
turn blended these different perspectives together so that they expand, compliment, and
support the events they are describing into one story. However, with the Quranic text,
according to Islamic tradition as stated above, the Arabic given to Muhammad is claimed to
be “pure Arabic,” which means it is flawless, and it is supposed to be the “language of
heaven.” On the other hand, the text itself, as we have seen, refutes such a belief and
doctrine, but what the text does indicate is that during the eighteen year gap between
Muhammad’s death (632 AD) and the collating and publishing of the Quran (650 AD), there
was a complicit, purposeful, but not very competent redaction in the development and
compilation of the Quranic text. There is a great deal more of this purposeful redaction in the
Quran, and what has been discovered is that there was a dependence on writings of an
apocryphal nature that were circulating in the 6th and 7th centuries AD in the Middle East, as
well as far back into the 1st century BC, versus an actual dependence on the biblical text.
Contrasting Teachings of the Quran and the Bible
1) The Deity of Jesus Christ
a) The Quran
[1] Surah 3:59: “The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him
from dust, then said to him: “Be.” And he was.”
[2] Surah 4:171 a-b: “O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor
say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a
Messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a Spirit
proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Messengers.”
[3] Surah 5:72: “They do blaspheme who say: ‘Allah is Christ the son of Mary.’ But said
Christ: ‘O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord.’ Whoever
joins other gods with Allah – Allah will forbid him the Garden, and the Fire will be
his abode. There will for the wrongdoers be no one to help.”
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[4] Surah 5:75a: “Christ, the son of Mary, was no more than a Messenger; many were the
Messengers that passed away before him.”
[5] Surah 5:116: “And behold! Allah will say: ‘O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say
unto men, ‘Worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of Allah’?’ He will say:
‘Glory to Thee! Never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a
thing, Thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart,
though I know not what is in Thine. For thou knowest in full all that is hidden.”
b) The Bible
[1] Luke 1:31-35: “And behold, you will conceive in your womb, and bear a son, and you
shall name Him Jesus. 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most
High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; 33 and He will
reign over the house of Jacob forever; and His kingdom will have no end. 34 And
Mary said to the angel, ‘How can this be, since I am a virgin?’ 35 And the angel
answered and said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the
Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called
the Son of God.’”
[2] John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being by Him,
and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.”
[3] John 8:58-59: “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was
born, I am (Jesus is here identifying Himself with YHWH in Exodus 3:14: “And God
said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’; and He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the sons of
Israel, I AM has sent me to you’” – my note.). 59 Therefore they picked up stones to
throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple (It was because Jesus
was saying that He is YHWH that the Jews wanted to stone Him – my note.).”
[4] Hebrews 1:1-6: “God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many
portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He
appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the
radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all
things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty on high; having become as much better than the
angels, as He has inherited a more excellent name than they. For to which of the
angels did He ever say, ‘Thou art My Son, Today I have begotten Thee’? And again,
‘I will be a Father to Him And He shall be a Son to Me’? And when He again brings
the first-born into the world, He says, ‘And let all the angels of God worship Him.’”
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2) The Crucifixion & Resurrection of Christ
a) The Quran
[1] Surah 4:156-158: “156. That they rejected Faith; that they uttered against Mary a
grave false charge; 157. That they said (in boast), “We killed Christ Jesus the son of
Mary, the Apostle of Allah”—but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was
made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no
(certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him
not—158. Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power,
Wise—
[2] Surah 3:55: “Behold! Allah said: “O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself
and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme; I will make those who
follow thee superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: Then shall
ye all return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye dispute.
b) The Bible
[1] I Corinthians 15:12-19: “Now if Christ is preached, that He has been raised from the
dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if
there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has
not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain. Moreover we are
even found to be false witnesses of God, because we witnessed against God that He
raised Christ, whom He did not raise, if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead
are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your
faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in
Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men
most to be pitied.”
[2] I Peter 1:3-5: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according
to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is
imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who
are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in
the last time.”
3) The Means of Salvation
a) Islam – Islam believes that one’s salvation is purchased solely by one’s own works of
righteousness, and thus, no Muslim has any assurance of their salvation. Thus, we can see
rather clearly that just on the crucial aspect of the deity of Christ and the atonement of
our sins through His death, burial, and resurrection, the Quran and the Bible are the
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absolute antithesis of each other. And this is the essence of that difference – salvation
through the grace of God, versus salvation through man’s works and his own supposed
righteousness. The latter, according to the Bible, is non-existent. Consequently, the
satanic deception of Islam is perpetuated through a false sense of righteousness attained
by one’s own works as the following passages indicate:
[1] Surah 2:62: “Those who believe (in the Qur’an), and those who follow the Jewish
(scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians—any who believe in Allah and the
Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them
shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.”
[2] Surah 2:277: “Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, and establish
regular prayers and regular charity, will have their reward with their Lord: on them
shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.”
[3] Surah 3:195: “And their Lord hath accepted of them, and answered them: “Never will
I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: Ye are members, one
of another: Those who have left their homes, or been driven out therefrom, or
suffered harm in My Cause, or fought or been slain—verily, I will blot from them
their iniquities, and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing beneath—A reward
from the presence of Allah, and from His presence is the best of rewards.”
[4] Surah 45:21-22: “What! Do those who seek after evil ways think that We shall hold
them equal with those who believe and do righteous deeds—that equal will be their
life and their death? Ill is the judgment that they make. 22. Allah created the heavens
and the earth for just ends, and in order that each soul may find the recompense of
what it has earned, and none of them be wronged.”
Indeed, it is a supernatural event for any human being to come to Christ, but with
Muslims who have been immersed in the Satanic lie that their salvation is by “their
works,” only through great prayer for them will true salvation ever occur in their lives.
b) Christianity – That which Jesus came to do is to deliver us from the enslaving, selfdestructive, and eternally destructive lies of the “god of this world” whose goal for all
humanity is the same as he had for Eve – that is, to believe we can become our own
“god” and make up our own, moral code (which validates and sanctifies our sin and
corruption), with the end result being that we will spend eternity with him and his fallen
angels in the “lake of fire” (Revelation 20:11-15). However, as the following passages
indicate, we see that we have no righteousness of our own that could even remotely
purchase for us our salvation, and thus, the only righteousness we can appeal to is the
righteousness of Christ that we receive when we accept Him as our Lord and Savior:
[1] Genesis 6:5: “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth,
and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
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[2] Genesis 8:21: “And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to
Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of
man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as
I have done.”
[3] Psalm 14:1-3: “The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt,
they have committed abominable deeds; There is no one who does good. The LORD
has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, To see if there are any who
understand, Who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have
become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.”
[4] Isaiah 64:6: “For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous
deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities,
like the wind, take us away.”
[5] Ephesians 2:8-10: “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. For
we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
[6] Philippians 3:8-11: “More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the
surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss
of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ, and may be
found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that
which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the
basis of faith, that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the
fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; in order that I may attain
to the resurrection from the dead.”
[7] II Corinthians 5:20-21: “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God
were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He
made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.”
Thus, it is easy to see from the Scripture that the Quran is saying “2 + 2 = 5,” and the
Bible is correctly saying that “2 + 2 = 4,” and may the Lord undergird us with His truth
continually.
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The Perversions of Islam
1) Muhammad’s Divine Sanction for His Taking His Stepson’s Wife
Muhammad was enamored by the beauty of his stepson’s wife, and when his stepson
discovered that, he told Muhammad that he would divorce her and let him marry her.
However, Muhammad told him to remain with his wife and not divorce her, but his stepson
did divorce her at a later time. At that point, Muhammad received a “divine revelation” from
Allah that he was to marry his adopted son’s ex-wife, and thus, divine sanction was now
covering Muhammad’s desire for her, his stepson’s divorce of her, and Muhammad’s
marriage to her as the following passage indicates:
“It is not fitting for a Believer, man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah
and His Messenger to have any option about their decision: if any one disobeys Allah and
His Messenger, he is indeed on a clearly wrong Path. Behold! Thou didst say to one who
had received the grace of Allah and thy favour: "Retain thou (in wedlock) thy wife, and
fear Allah." But thou didst hide in thy heart that which Allah was about to make manifest:
thou didst fear the people, but it is more fitting that thou shouldst fear Allah. Then when
Zaid had dissolved (his marriage) with her, with the necessary (formality), We joined her
in marriage to thee: in order that (in future) there may be no difficulty to the Believers in
(the matter of) marriage with the wives of their adopted sons, when the latter have
dissolved with the necessary (formality) (their marriage) with them. And Allah's
command must be fulfilled. There can be no difficulty to the Prophet in what Allah has
indicated to him as a duty. It was the practice (approved) of Allah amongst those of old
that have passed away. And the command of Allah is a decree determined” (Surah 33:3638).
The following commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali not only supports and justifies
Muhammad’s actions, but presents an astonishing, Islamic perspective on marriage and
divorce:
Zayd’s marriage with the Prophet’s cousin Zaynab, daughter of Jahsh, did not turn out
happy. Zaynab the high-born looked down upon Zayd the freedman who had been a
slave. And he was not comely to look at. Both were good people in their own ways, and
both loved the Prophet, but there was mutual incompatibility, and this is fatal to married
life. Zayd wished to divorce her, but the Prophet asked him to hold his hand, and he
obeyed. She was closely related to the Prophet; he had given a handsome marriage gift
on her marriage to Zayd; and people would certainly talk if such a marriage was broken
off. But marriages are made on earth, not in heaven, and it is not part of Allah’s Plan to
torture people in a bond which should be a source of happiness but actually is a source of
misery. Zayd’s wish – indeed the mutual wish of the couple – was for the time being put
away, but it became eventually an established fact, and everybody came to know of it.
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Meaning of the Holy Quran,10th ed. [Beltsville, MD: Amana
Publications, 1999], 1068 – commentary #3723)
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As I view our sexual sin, before or after Christ, whether heterosexual or homosexual, I
thank God for His mercy and grace toward us when we turn to Him, and I am also deeply
grateful for the truth of genuine repentance and brokenness that God works in our lives by
His Holy Spirit concerning our sexual sin in order to bring us into a true, liberating, and
sanctifying relationship with Jesus. On the other hand, there are not too many things more
self-destructive and damnable than a false, deceptive, and corruptible form of religiously,
sanctioned, sexual sin, which is what we have in Surah 33:36-38. When one is in a true father
–son/daughter relationship with God, God disciplines His children “that we may share His
holiness” (Hebrews 12:10). Such discipline may be very painful, but it is healing and
restorative, separating us from sin and its deception, giving us discernment and solidity
whereby we uncompromisingly call sin, sin, and we turn from it: “All discipline for the
moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it,
afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” (Hebrews 12:11). On the other hand,
the pseudo discipline of Islam leads Muslims into greater sin so that they both embrace and
sanction Muhammad’s sexual sin as being “good,” and thus, fall even more deeply into sin’s
enslaving, self-destructive darkness. Tragically, therefore, this is exactly what Surah 33:3638 does in sanctifying the sexual sin of Muhammad (i.e., justifying his overt concupiscence),
which sin is continually being perpetrated by millions of Muslims today, leading to their
temporal and eternal separation from God’s liberating truth in Jesus.
2) Muhammad’s Pedophilia with Aisha
When Muhammad’s first wife died in 619 when Muhammad was forty-nine years old, and
it was after her death that he began to take on other wives. However, these were all women
who for the most part had been either dovorcees or widows, including the wife of his stepson.
The story of Aisha is a completely different matter, as she was six years old when
Muhammad became betrothed to her, and he was 50-51, and then when she was nine years
old, the marriage was consummated, and Muhammad was 53-54 years old. In anybody’s
reasoning and observation, this is pedophilia, and the tragedy of this action is that it is still
being carried on today in Muslim countries, which is another clear example of the pseudodivine sanction given to Islamic, sexual perversion.
3) Quick, Multiple Marriage & Divorce Laws That Sanction Adultery
In Islam, “temporary marriages” have been sanctioned and practiced since the days of
Muhammad, and their validation is based on Surah 4:24: “Also (prohibited are) women
already married, except those whom your right hands possess: Thus hath Allah ordained
(Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in
marriage) with gifts from your property—desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive
benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is
prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-knowing,
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All-wise.” In Arabic, the term is “nikaµ-almut‘ah (‫)نكاح المتعة‬,” which literally means,
“pleasure marriage,” and the following article describes it very well:
An increasing number of Muslims in Britain are reviving the Islamic practice of
temporary marriage, according to a recent BBC television documentary focusing on the
"taboo subject." Temporary marriage -- a euphemism for religiously sanctioned
prostitution -- is an Islamic custom that unites a man and an unmarried woman as
"husband and wife" for a limited period of time (sometimes for less than half an hour).
The proliferation of temporary marriages -- combined with the spike in polygamous
marriages -- shows how Muslims in Britain are using Islamic Sharia law with impunity to
establish parallel forms of "marriage" that are otherwise illegal for non-Muslims in the
country. The 30-minute documentary examining temporary marriages in Britain is called
“Married for a Minute" and first aired on the BBC on May 13. Called Nikah alMutah ("short-term marriage") in Arabic, the union consists of a verbal or written
contract in which both parties agree to the length of time and conditions for the marriage.
The union can last for a few minutes or a few years and when the contract ends so does
the marriage. The "wives" in such unions are not counted toward the maximum of four,
and the offspring, if any, are often the exclusive responsibility of the woman. Also
known as a "pleasure marriage," Mutah was established within Islam by the Muslim
prophet Mohammed himself as a way to reward his jihadists for services rendered to
Allah. Although Mutah is sanctioned by the Koranic verse 4:24, the practice was later
outlawed by the second Muslim Caliph, Omar I (634-644), who said he viewed
temporary marriage as legalized adultery and fornication. . . . Although Nikah al-Mutah
is indeed practiced by Shia Muslims, Sunni Muslims engage in an even more libertine
practice called Nikah al-Misyar (also Zawaj al-Misyar, meaning "traveler's marriage").
The Misyar is not a normal marriage in the sense that the "husband and wife" in this type
of union normally live separately and meet only to fulfil their conjugal obligations. The
man is usually already married and cannot afford another regular wife. In a Misyar, the
man enters into what is essentially a temporary marriage in which the woman has limited
rights. Misyar marriages are often entered into by Sunni Muslim men who are living
away from their regular wives in another country. It is also used by Muslim men who are
on vacation and want to avoid incurring Islamic penalties for extramarital sex. Critics of
these informal marriages -- with men, both Sunni and Shia -- taking on multiple "wives"
for a number of hours -- argue that they allow a Muslim man to have innumerable sexual
partners (often underage girls), who are used as an "Islamic cover" for prostitution and
the exploitation of women. . . . In an interview with the BBC, Omar Ali Grant, from
London, and a convert to Shia Islam, says that has had around 13 temporary marriages
but argues that he was just trying to find the right person to spend his life with. He
concedes they could be used as a cover for premarital sex, but adds: "Sex is not
haram [forbidden] per se. In Islam sex doesn't have negative connotations; it is not
impure and is not dirty. What Islam is saying is sex has to be between consenting adults
who are also responsible. Very often it is said that temporary marriage may amount to
some prostitution, but it is not that. Prostitution does occur in certain areas of Muslim
society, but then again prostitution happens everywhere.” According to the Islamic
Scholar Mushtaq Lodi, "Islamic society has evolved ingenious methods to bypass its own
restrictions on premarital sex and promiscuity and to help one avoid committing the
serious sin of zina -- sex outside of marriage, which is considered illicit and calls for a
very heavy penalty. The sole object of the Misyar and Mutah marriages is for sexual
gratification in a licit manner. Like most practices in Islamic society, this is also skewed
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in favor of the male.” (http://www.gatestonrinstitute.org/3748/uk-Islamic-temporarymarriages)
Thus, as you can read from the above, the sexual perversion that began with and was
divinely sanctified by Muhammad through his lying revelations and his perverted actions is
still continuing today in abundance throughout Islam. JESUS IS THE ONLY CURE AND
REDEMPTION FOR THIS ENSLAVED, TEMPORARY AND ETERNAL SELFDESTRUCITON MODE ISLAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN!
Sharia Law
Over the centuries, the application of Sharia Law has undergone various changes and
alterations, in large part to better coincide with Western jurisprudence (Saudi Arabia being a
clear exception). However, over the past fifty years, Islamic fundamentalism, fueled especially
by the emergence of Israel, and by what many fundamentalist Muslims see as an encroachment
of corrupt, Western ideeas and concepts into their culture, the strict conformity to Sharia Law has
been reintroduced into many Muslim societies. Time does not permit to go into great detail
about this Law, but the following is a brief delineation of Sharia Law that is being implemented
now in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and by such groups as Al Qaeda and ISIS (or ISIL):
• Theft is punishable by amputation of the right hand (above).
• Criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death.
• Criticizing or denying Muhammad is a prophet is punishable by death.
• Criticizing or denying Allah, the moon god of Islam is punishable by death.
• A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.
• A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
• A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.
• Girls' clitoris should be cut (per Muhammad’s words in Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251).
• A woman can have 1 husband, but a man can have up to 4 wives; Muhammad can have more.
• A man can unilaterally divorce his wife but a woman needs her husband's consent to divorce.
• A man can beat his wife for insubordination.
• Testimonies of four male witnesses are required to prove rape against a woman.
• A woman who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s).
• A woman's testimony in court, allowed only in property cases, carries half the weight of a
man's.
• A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits.
• A woman cannot drive a car, as it leads to fitnah (upheaval).
• A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
• Meat to be eaten must come from animals that have been sacrificed to Allah - i.e., be Halal.
• Muslims should engage in Taqiyya and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.
(http://www.billionbibles.org/sharia/sharia-law.html)
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ISIS
Out of Al Qaeda has emerged an even more virulent, brutal, and odious Islamic, terrorist
group called ISIS, or ISIL. The letters IS stand for Islamic State, and in Arabic it is written ‫ةيم‬
‫( ةلودلا السإلا‬aldawlaha al’isl¹miyyah), which literally means “the (al) state (dawlah) the (al)
Islamic (isl¹miyyah).” The term ISIS stands for “The Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham,” with
“Al-Sham” referring to Syria, and ISIL stands for “The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,”
with “Levant” also referring to Syria. There is also a third name referring to ISIS and ISIL, and it
is DAESH, which in Arabic is an acronym for the Arabic word for “state” (‫ ةلود‬- dawlah), which
begins with a “d”; “Islamic” (‫ ةيمالسإلا‬- al’isl¹miyyah) for the “a” for the Arabic word al, which
is “the” in English; “Iraq” (‫ قارعلا‬- al‘iraq) for the “e” which is pronounced as “i” in Arabic and
is written ‫ ع‬in Arabic, but in the middle of a word, as it is here, it is written in Arabic as ‫;ع‬
“Sham” (‫ لامش‬- shamal) for the “sh” that is the territory northwest of Iraq, which is Syria – thus,
we have DAESH, which is also referring to the same territory as ISIS and ISIL.
The following article is an excellent, succinct analysis of ISIS and its goals:
On June 29, 2014—or the first of Ramadan, 1435, for those who prefer the Islamic
calendar to the Gregorian—the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS)
publicly uttered for the first time a word that means little to the average Westerner, but
everything to some pious Muslims. The word is “caliph.” ISIS’s proclamation that day
formally hacked the last two letters from its acronym (it’s now just “The Islamic State”)
and declared Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, born Ibrahim ibn Awwad ibn Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn
Muhammad al-Badri al-Samarrai (b. 1971 – Samarra, Iraq – my note), the Caliph of all
Muslims and the Prince of the Believers. For Muslims of a certain hyper-antiquarian
inclination, these titles are not mere nomenclature. ISIS’s meticulous use of language,
and its almost pedantic adherence to its own interpretation of Islamic law, have made it a
strange enemy, fierce and unyielding but also scholarly and predictable. The Islamic State
obsesses over words like “caliph” (Arabic: khalifa) and “caliphate” (khilafa), and news
reports and social media from within ISIS have depicted frenzied chants of “The
Caliphate is established!” The entire self-image and propaganda narrative of the Islamic
State is based on emulating the early leaders of Islam, in particular the Prophet
Muhammad and the four “rightly guided caliphs” who led Muslims from Muhammad’s
death in 632 until 661 (Abu Bakr [632-634]; Umar I [634-644]; Uthm¹n ibn ‘Aff¹n [644656]; Ali ibn Abi Talib [656-661] – my note). Within the lifetimes of these caliphs, the
realm of Islam spread like spilled ink to the farthest corners of modern-day Iran and
coastal Libya, despite small and humble origins. Muslims consider that period a golden
age and some, called Salafis (a school of thought which surfaced in the second half of the
19th century as a reaction to the spread of European ideas), believe the military and
political practices of its statesmen and warriors—barbaric by today’s standards but
acceptable at the time—deserve to be revived. Hence ISIS’s taste for beheadings,
stonings, crucifixions, slavery, and dhimmitude, the practice of taxing those who refuse to
convert to Islam.
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Islamic Beheading
Questions have arisen since ISIS has come on the scene with regard to the beheading of “nonbelievers” and of non-supportive Muslims who do not embrace ISIS’ beliefs, and the following
are those passages in the Quran, issued by Muhammad, that fully support beheading:
1) Surah 8:12: “Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): “I am with you:
give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye
above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.”
2) Surah 47:4: “Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), smite at their necks; At
length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is
the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye
commanded): but if it had been Allah’s Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution
from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those
who are slain in the Way of Allah—He will never let their deeds be lost.”
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