Intro­duc­ing Islam

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.

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The Pil­lars of Islam­ic Belief

Islam, as we had ear­li­er explained before, con­sists of belief and Laws. We have pre­vi­ous­ly men­tioned some pil­lars of the Laws. These pil­lars are the basis of Islam­ic Law. As for the Islam­ic Aqeedah (creed), its pil­lars are : Believ­ing in Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Mes­sen­gers, the Last Day and the good or bad that Qadar (pre­des­ti­na­tion) brings.

The Pil­lars of Islam

The Pil­lars of Islam are the cor­ner­stones on which Islam is built. There are five pil­lars of Islam. This is men­tioned in a hadith on the author­i­ty of Aboo Abd ir-Rah­maan Abdul­laah, the son of Umar ibn al-Khattab(R), who said : I heard the Mes­sen­ger of Allaah say : Islaam has been built on five [pil­lars]: tes­ti­fy­ing that there is no deity wor­thy of wor­ship except Allaah and that Muham­mad is the Mes­sen­ger of Allaah, estab­lish­ing the salaah (prayer), pay­ing the zakaah (oblig­a­tory char­i­ty), mak­ing the Hajj (pil­grim­age) to the House, and fast­ing in Ramadaan.” [relat­ed by al-Bukhaari and Muslim]

The Reli­gion of Islam

Islam is the reli­gion that God sent to Muhammad(P) and made it the final and most com­plete reli­gion for His slaves. Islam is an Ara­bic word which means peace, puri­ty, accep­tance and com­mit­ment. As a reli­gion, Islam calls for com­plete accep­tance of and sub­mis­sion to the teach­ings and guid­ance of God. A Mus­lim is one who freely and will­ing­ly accepts the supreme pow­er of God and strives to orga­nize his life in total accord with the teach­ings of God. He also works for build­ing social insti­tu­tions which reflect the guid­ance of God. Mohamedanism” is a mis­nomer for Islam and offends its very spir­it since the Prophet Muham­mad, peace be upon him, was a mes­sen­ger of God, and not a divine being wor­shipped by Muslims.

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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.