Chris­tian­i­ty

Recent­ly Sam Shamoun, a well-known bel­liger­ent and provoca­tive Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ary at Answer­ing Islam, issued a chal­lenge to Mus­lims to prove that Jesus (peace be upon him) did not claim to be God, as per the Qur’an­ic state­ment. It is obvi­ous, how­ev­er, that his demands are as pre­pos­ter­ous as it is stu­pid. The Qur’an cer­tain­ly quotes or para­phras­es Jesus as say­ing that he is not God, but in Ara­bic. This is because the Qur’an has affirmed itself to be revealed in Ara­bic text, sent down to an Arab prophet, lest its audi­ence uses the excuse that they will not be able to under­stand the Qur’an if were brought down in a for­eign tongue.

The Chris­t­ian mis­sion­ar­ies and their allies have been call­ing for the destruc­tion of Islam open­ly ever since the advent of the Inter­net. A cur­so­ry glance at these fanat­i­cal and big­ot­ed web­sites will at once give the dil­li­gent read­er an idea of their geno­ci­dal ten­den­cies against the Mus­lim Ummah, unfair­ly equat­ing Islam with ter­ror­ism, and even denounc­ing Islam as equal to Nazism and hence Islam is not a ​“reli­gion”, accord­ing to their big­ot­ed lens­es. While their inten­tion is clear (i.e. the destruc­tion of Islam), some lib­er­al Chris­tians who have tak­en this author to task for the so-called ​“call” for the destruc­tion of Chris­tian­i­ty are bliss­ful­ly unaware of these devel­op­ments. Sad­ly too, some igno­rant lib­er­al Mus­lims from among the ummah are sid­ing with these pas­sive Chris­t­ian lib­er­als and are too caught unawares of this hid­den mis­sion­ary threat. Even more, there are groups who open­ly pan­der to the hid­den agen­das of the kufaar and open­ly side with them in their geno­ci­dal ambitions.

In the post‑9/​11 era the West­ern media are at the fore­front of a high­ly orches­trat­ed assault against Islam and its peo­ple. So, I am not too sur­prised with the Times Online piece try­ing to raise storm over some 13th cen­tu­ry text that are taught at a Shi’ite reli­gious school in Lon­don. The sub­ject in ques­tion is najasa or impu­ri­ty : what makes some­thing impure accord­ing to Muhaqqiq al-Hilli, a 13th cen­tu­ry Shi’ite schol­ar. The text says, ​“The water left over in the con­tain­er after any type of ani­mal has drunk from it is con­sid­ered clean and pure apart from the left over of a dog, a pig, and a dis­be­liev­er.” So, the Times reporter Sean O’Connell draws the con­clu­sion that Mus­lim stu­dents are ​“being taught to despise unbe­liev­ers as filth”, which becomes the news head­ing, sure to draw much pub­lic­i­ty in UK before the elec­tion in May.

The saga of Abdul Rehman’s con­ver­sion to Chris­tian­i­ty may be over but the after­math is far from set­tled. Like a clock­work of hate, the episode has brought upon yet anoth­er wave of crit­i­cisms against Islam and its record for reli­gious tol­er­ance. But what few would realise is that the West has a his­to­ry of reli­gious intol­er­ance and per­se­cu­tions that would put Mus­lim Afghanistan to shame.

In study­ing var­i­ous top­ics about Chris­tian­i­ty and Islam over the years I will nev­er for­get an arti­cle I came across on the top­ic of racism. It was called : ​“Chil­dren of a White God” and the author was Matthew C. Ogilvie. I remem­bered that the major­i­ty of slav­ery in the Unit­ed States had been jus­ti­fied by Chris­tians in the past, but cer­tain­ly, I thought, this was over. I thought this was just the igno­rance of poor­ly edu­cat­ed Chris­tians of old. But as I read the words in this mans essay, I began to real­ize that indeed, there were sev­er­al Chris­t­ian sects who taught racist the­olo­gies to this day, and such the­olo­gies result­ed in count­less acts of ter­ror­ism in the world.

Dur­ing his years at McGill, Dr. Ismail al-Faruqi?s tal­ent as a dis­putant was rec­og­nized by his peers. His abil­i­ty to pur­sue the opponent?s argu­ment to its log­i­cal con­clu­sion was aug­ment­ed by his mas­tery of the rhetoric. The way he con­duct­ed him­self dur­ing his encoun­ters with peo­ple of oth­er faiths can be seen in the fol­low­ing excerpt from his dia­logue with Bish­op Ken­neth Cragg and Father Michael Fitzger­ald at Chem­besy on June 26, 1976.

Philo­soph­i­cal the­ism, in con­tem­po­rary times, has been dom­i­nat­ed by philoso­phers who are Chris­tians. These the­is­tic philoso­phers have pub­lished a great amount of lit­er­a­ture defend­ing the ratio­nal­i­ty of belief in God, and any par­tic­i­pant in the great debate will sure­ly be famil­iar with the names of intel­lec­tu­al giants like Alvin Planti­nga, Richard Swin­burne, William Lane Craig, among many oth­ers. Swin­burne, for exam­ple, gives the­is­tic belief, and in par­tic­u­lar Chris­t­ian belief, philo­soph­i­cal treat­ment in toto. I have noticed the fol­low­ing pro­gres­sion in his case for Chris­tian­i­ty. First, he argues that the notion of ​‘God-talk’ is per­fect­ly coher­ent, and there are no a pri­ori rea­sons to reject the­is­tic belief. Next, he argues on cumu­la­tive grounds that nat­ur­al the­ol­o­gy ren­ders the exis­tence of God more prob­a­ble than not. Final­ly, Swin­burne artic­u­lates var­i­ous argu­ments for Chris­t­ian par­tic­u­lar­ism, e.g. rea­sons to believe in the Chris­t­ian Rev­e­la­tion, the Res­ur­rec­tion of Christ, etc. He there­fore epit­o­mizes the clas­sic Lock­ean evi­den­tial­ist, who is pre­pared to give ratio­nal rea­sons for all his beliefs.

In this paper I attempt to present an argu­ment dis­put­ing and refut­ing the Chris­t­ian Belief in the Trin­i­ty of God. We believe this ill con­cept was insert­ed into Chris­t­ian belief by the dev­il at a time of absence of mind and a state of pow­er­less­ness on the part of true uni­tar­i­ans and sin­cere believ­ers in the One God. To this day, fol­low­ers of this belief are faith­ful to the evil that found­ed it and we are aware that there is lit­tle or no ben­e­fit in attempt­ing to argue them out of this line of thought. How­ev­er, we are like that who is describ­ing the sor­ry state of a lost and mis­guid­ed per­son to peo­ple so that oth­ers may take exam­ple and les­son from it. And Allah shall guide whom He choos­es to the right path.

The his­tor­i­cal dis­tor­tion per­pe­trat­ed on his­tor­i­cal think­ing by Thomas F. Mad­den is not a new fal­la­cious con­cept intro­duced by con­tem­po­rary Chris­t­ian revi­sion­ists but has been preva­lent since the emer­gence of Islam on world stage. For many cen­turies, the Chris­t­ian his­to­ri­ans and ori­en­tal­ists direct­ly pro­mul­gat­ed lies and fab­ri­ca­tions about Islam in order to instil prej­u­dice against the Mus­lims. And yet in the mod­ern age, Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist his­to­ri­ans still con­tin­ue to car­ry the flag and prop­a­gate indi­rect­ly their revi­sion­ist the­o­ries regard­ing Islam.

In the usu­al vein of mis­sion­ary tra­di­tion, the mis­sion­ar­ies have made a rather pathet­ic attempt at ​“refut­ing” one of our arti­cles which shows the Bible per­ver­sion in encour­ag­ing homo­sex­u­al­i­ty. Pre­vi­ous­ly, we have shown in anoth­er expo­si­tion how the so-called ​“apos­tle” from Tar­sus had dis­played some homo­sex­u­al ten­den­cies. In the lat­er part of this arti­cle, we will pro­vide some exam­ples of how the Chris­tians have prac­tised this par­tic­u­lar teach­ing from the Bible in their day-to-day lives.

In Hans Kung’s address to this con­fer­ence he has once again proven him­self a pio­neer of inter­re­li­gious dia­logue. What he has been doing through­out most of his the­o­log­i­cal career, he was doing again-explor­ing new ter­ri­to­ry, rais­ing new ques­tions in the encounter of Chris­tian­i­ty with oth­er reli­gions. Although Kung made his great­est con­tri­bu­tion in the inner-Chris­t­ian, eccle­sial are­na, he has always real­ized-and increas­ing­ly so in more recent years-that Chris­t­ian the­ol­o­gy must be done in view of, and in dia­logue with, oth­er reli­gions. As he has said, Chris­tians must show an increas­ing­ly ​“greater broad-mind­ed­ness and open­ness” to oth­er faiths and learn to ​“reread their own his­to­ry of the­o­log­i­cal thought and faith” in view of oth­er tra­di­tions. As a long-time read­er of Kung’s writ­ings, and as a par­tic­i­pant with him in a Bud­dhist-Chris­t­ian con­fer­ence in Hawaii, Jan­u­ary 1984, I have wit­nessed how much his own broad-mind­ed­ness and open­ness to oth­er reli­gions has grown. He has been changed in the dialogue.

This is not the place to review the his­to­ry of Chris­t­ian-Mus­lim rela­tions. This his­to­ry may now be read in the eru­dite works of Nor­man Daniel. The read­ing is sad and ago­niz­ing. The con­clu­sion which may be safe­ly drawn from this his­to­ry is that Chris­tian­i­ty’s involve­ment with the Mus­lim World was so full of mis­un­der­stand­ing, prej­u­dice, and hos­til­i­ty that it has warped the West­ern Chris­tian’s will and con­scious­ness. ​“Would to God Chris­tian­i­ty had nev­er met Islam!” will rever­ber­ate in the mind of any stu­dent patient enough to peruse that history.

(I) JESUS IN JUDAISM * LIFE : — Estab­lish­ing the time of the ​“Jew­ish Jesus”: The ref­er­ence to Jesus in the Tal­mud is by the title : ​“Yeshu Ha-Notzri,”…

This great mis­sion is that, among the major signs of the final Hour and among the keys of the huge deliv­er­ance that will dawn upon this Com­mu­ni­ty of Islam there will come a time on this earth when the call to the pre-morn­ing prayer will be raised in Dam­as­cus — at the white minaret East of Dam­as­cus ; the imam will want to step for­ward to lead the prayer when — lo and behold ! — the peo­ple will watch in aston­ish­ment while our liege-lord Jesus descends from the heav­en, his two hands rest­ing on the wings of the angels, his head seem­ing­ly drip­ping with water, wear­ing clothes which our liege-lord Muham­mad — upon him bless­ings and peace — described in great detail. He said that the col­or of his clothes resem­bled saf­fron dye, as if his clothes had been dyed with saf­fron and wars. Our Prophet Muham­mad — upon him bless­ings and peace — described for us the very appear­ance of the clothes in which Jesus would descend ! Such ves­ti­men­ta­ry descrip­tion sig­ni­fies noth­ing oth­er than addi­tion­al empha­sis on reflec­tion, per­cep­tion, and dis­cern­ment (dhawq) for the mean­ing of our con­nec­tion with this great mas­ter who was thus hon­ored by his Lord.

TRINITY Basic claim is that the Father, Son (Jesus) and Holy Ghost are equal­ly one — and are all GOD There­fore, Jesus IS God. CRUCIFIXION Chris­tians believe that…