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Dif­fer­ences Between The Mus­lim And Chris­t­ian Con­cepts Of Divine Love

Chris­tians might argue that nev­er­the­less we need lofty ideals to strive for, even if they are vir­tu­al­ly unat­tain­able. Mus­lims might reply that it is detri­men­tal for pub­lic moral­i­ty if unat­tain­able rules are pro­mot­ed which, of course, are con­stant­ly vio­lat­ed by every­body in sight, because that (Chris­t­ian) approach cre­ates a cli­mate of, and pro­motes, hypocrisy at a mas­sive scale.

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The Hijab and The Mus­lim Woman

The Islam­ic revival sym­bol­ized by the cur­rent resur­gence of the hijab is often con­sid­ered as an attempt of Arab Mus­lims to restore their pride and iden­ti­ty which have been repeat­ed­ly under­mined by col­o­niza­tion and eco­nom­ic retar­da­tion. Man has always had a con­ser­v­a­tive ten­den­cy and reacts against which is new and unfa­mil­iar with­out real­iz­ing whether it is good or bad for him. Some peo­ple still think the Mus­lim women insist on wear­ing hijab which is the very sym­bol of the oppressed sit­u­a­tion because they are enslaved by the tra­di­tion and are not suf­fi­cient­ly aware of their lam­en­ta­ble sit­u­a­tion. If only”, they prob­a­bly think, the move­ment of the wom­en’s lib­er­a­tion and inde­pen­dence awakes those wom­en’s mind, they will take away the hijab.”

Do Not Be Fooled By Propaganda

There is an ongo­ing slan­der cam­paign against Islam, claim­ing that it is a reli­gion that pro­motes vio­lence and hint­ing that it seeks world con­quest. Before you buy the malarkey that is being pro­duced by peo­ple with their own agen­das or prej­u­dices or who are just plain igno­ra­mus­es, fol­low these few suggestions.

Clas­si­cal Islam­ic Argu­ments for the Exis­tence of God

After Wensinck’s bril­liant study, a fresh exam­i­na­tion of the argu­ment for the exis­tence of God in Islam might appear imper­ti­nent. Some jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for the present dis­cus­sion, how­ev­er, may be found in the fact that some of the mate­r­i­al on which this study is based was not avail­able to Wensinck, when his mono­graph appeared in 1936, and in the slight­ly dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tion of cer­tain rel­e­vant data here attempted.

Accept­ing Islam : A Young Man Affirms his Shahadah

The fol­low­ing is a mul­ti­me­dia video of a young man who takes his sha­hadah (tes­ti­mo­ny of faith) and affirms that he is a Mus­lim before a num­ber of wit­ness­es. To be a Mus­lim is a sim­ple as sim­ply say­ing Ash­hadu ana illa­ha illa Allah, Muham­mad Rasul Allah (I bear wit­ness that there is no deity but God Almighty and that Muham­mad is His Mes­sen­ger) and he is imme­di­ate­ly accept­ed as a Mus­lim. Such strict monothe­ism is the fea­ture of Islam as the reli­gio nat­u­ralis of man and the reli­gion par excel­lence of mankind. 

Why I Love the Mus­lim Veil

Hav­ing been on both sides of the veil, I can tell you that West­ern male politi­cians and jour­nal­ists have no idea what they are talk­ing about when they blame Islam for child brides, female cir­cum­ci­sion, hon­or killings and forced mar­riages. A care­ful read­ing of the Qur’an shows that just about every­thing West­ern fem­i­nists fought for in the 1970s was avail­able 1,400 years ago to Mus­lim women, who are con­sid­ered equal to men in spir­i­tu­al­i­ty, edu­ca­tion and worth. When Islam offers women so much, why are West­ern men so obsessed with Mus­lim wom­en’s attire ? Even British gov­ern­ment min­is­ters Gor­don Brown and John Reid have made dis­parag­ing remarks about the niqab, and they hail from Scot­land, where men wear skirts.

Eid Mubarak ! On Occa­sion of Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice)

At the end of the Hajj (annu­al pil­grim­age to Mec­ca), Mus­lims through­out the world cel­e­brate the hol­i­day of Eid al-Adha (Fes­ti­val of Sac­ri­fice). In 2006, Eid al-Adha will begin on approx­i­mate­ly Decem­ber 31st, and will last for three days. Dur­ing the Hajj, Mus­lims remem­ber and com­mem­o­rate the tri­als and tri­umphs of the Prophet Abra­ham. One of Abra­ham’s main tri­als was to face the com­mand of Allah to kill his only son. Upon hear­ing this com­mand, he pre­pared to sub­mit to Allah’s will. When he was all pre­pared to do it, Allah revealed to him that his sac­ri­fice” had already been ful­filled. He had shown that his love for his Lord super­seded all oth­ers, that he would lay down his own life or the lives of those dear to him in order to sub­mit to God.

60 Ques­tions For The Chris­tians To Answer

Accord­ing to most Chris­tians, Jesus was God-incar­nate, ful­ly man and ful­ly God. Can the finite and the infi­nite be one ? To be ful­ly God” means free­dom from finite forms and from help­less­ness, and to be full man” means the absence of divin­i­ty. Chris­tians assert that Jesus claimed to be God when they quote him in John 14:9 : He that has seen me has seen the Father”. Didn’t Jesus clear­ly say that peo­ple have nev­er seen God, as it says in John 5:37 : And the father him­self which Has sent me, has borne wit­ness of me. You have nei­ther heard His voice at any time nor seen His shape”?

Sura’ al-Fati­hah and the Mis­sion­ary’s​“Straight Path”

Some Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies have the inher­ent fan­ta­sy that Sura’ al-Fati­hah (the first Sura’ of the Qur’an) some­how sup­ports their false pagan doc­trine of the Trin­i­ty. They will first cite the whole ayaat and then twist this inter­pre­ta­tion to suit their false doc­trine. Let us now deal with this lat­est polemic in the fol­low­ing paragraphs.

Tony Blair : Islam the Stan­­dard-Bear­er of Tolerance

We present as fol­lows a quote from Tony Blair, Prime Min­is­ter of Unit­ed King­dom, which was pub­lished quite recent­ly in For­eign Affairs, January/​February 2007.

Rul­ing on Cel­e­brat­ing Christ­mas and Con­grat­u­lat­ing Them

Since the pagan fes­ti­val of Christ­mas, cel­e­brat­ed by the Trini­tar­i­an poly­the­ists, is fast approach­ing on the 25th of Decem­ber, we would like on this occas­sion present a fatawa (Islam­ic rul­ing) for the Mus­lims with regard to cel­e­brat­ing their fes­ti­val or even con­grat­u­lat­ing them. It should be not­ed that the Chris­tians believe that Jesus is lit­er­al­ly God, hence to par­tic­i­pate or even greet them is to agree with their doc­trine. There­fore Mus­lims should be aware of the bound­aries with regard to Christ­mas and how one should approach it.

The Soul of Hajj

What then is hajj ? In essence, hajj is man’s evo­lu­tion toward Allah ; his return to Him. It is a sym­bol­ic demon­stra­tion of the phi­los­o­phy of cre­ation of Adam (AS : alay­his salam), the first man. To fur­ther illus­trate this, it may be stat­ed that the per­for­mance of hajj is a simul­ta­ne­ous show or exhib­it of many things. It is a show of cre­ation. It is a show of his­to­ry. It is a show of uni­ty. It is a show of Islam­ic ide­ol­o­gy. It is a show of Ummah, the com­mu­ni­ty of Muslims.

Beware The Hap­py Clappies

I am grow­ing increas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed at the mealy-mouthed, apolo­getic bunch of Mus­lims parad­ed across our TV screens these days. And just when one lot sud­den­ly wake up, smell the cof­fee and begin to dis­agree with US and British for­eign poli­cies, anoth­er bunch take their place.

Pope Bene­dict, Islam and Violence

But why did the Mus­lim react in such a man­ner when Pope Bene­dict repeat­ed some­thing that we are already accus­tomed to hear­ing from not so friend­ly west­ern pub­lic fig­ures ? After all flam­boy­ant tel­e­van­ge­lists like Jer­ry Fal­well have said worse things than the Pope –- call­ing the Prophet of Islam a pae­dophile and ter­ror­ist – yet we nev­er asked for an apol­o­gy. In the mod­ern era, not least because of the late Pope John Paul II, Mus­lims have a gen­uine respect for the head of the Catholic church. The Cru­sades, the Recon­quista, the Inqui­si­tions were far behind us. The Catholic Church with its long his­to­ry and tra­di­tion, its large num­ber of faith­ful and the author­i­ty of its lead­er­ship, its unam­bigu­ous moral pre­cepts and its litur­gies and rites rep­re­sent what con­sti­tutes Chris­t­ian ortho­doxy to ordi­nary Mus­lim eyes, as the last bas­tion against the inex­orable march of sec­u­lar­iza­tion of west­ern society.

We can­not afford to main­tain these ancient prej­u­dices against Islam

In the 12th cen­tu­ry, Peter the Ven­er­a­ble, Abbot of Cluny, ini­ti­at­ed a dia­logue with the Islam­ic world. I approach you not with arms, but…

Tarif Kha­li­di,​“The Mus­lim Jesus”

The fol­low­ing is a syn­op­sis of Tarif Kha­lidi’s book enti­tled : The Mus­lim Jesus”, which might lead peo­ple to learn more about Islam. Tarif Kha­li­di is Sir Thomas Adams’ Pro­fes­sor of Ara­bic, Direc­tor of the Cen­tre of Mid­dle East­ern and Islam­ic Stud­ies, and Fel­low of King’s Col­lege, Cam­bridge. Here is a cross-sec­tion of book reviews from a vari­ety of sources.

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Nabeel Qureshi (1983 – 2017): The Shock­ing Truth Behind a Man­u­fac­tured​“Ex-Mus­lim” Martyr

Nabeel Qureshi died at the age of 34 years old in 2017 from a rare and dead­ly form of stom­ach can­cer” on 16th of Sep­tem­ber 2017 with mixed reactions. 

Paul Says That Mark Is Futile : No Res­ur­rec­tion In Mark’s Gospel

But the first of the four gospels, i.e., the Gospel accord­ing to Mark, appar­ent­ly did not receive Paul’s memo. And this is a very impor­tant point as we keep in mind that each of the gospels were ini­tial­ly divorced from each oth­er and were writ­ten in dif­fer­ent local­i­ties for dif­fer­ent audiences.

The Gospels’ Accounts Regard­ing the Call of the First Disciples

So which is the cor­rect Gospel account con­cern­ing the choice of Jesus’ first apos­tles ? The fol­low­ing Bible con­tra­dic­tion was extract­ed from an unpub­lished the­sis enti­tled Ibn Hazm On The Doc­trine of Tahrif which cites Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa’ wa al-Nihal and insha’allah this will be part of an ongo­ing series to repro­duce extracts of Ibn Hazm’s crit­i­cisms of the Bible and Christianity.