Needed ISLAMIC Knowledge

ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE

by Donald A. Syvanen

When I was young, I watched the news for the latest

 accurate information. When I was a little older, I verified

 on another median the information I heard or,read. Now, I

 need to verify the information just as a journalist does:

 read or see the actual information reported. So when the

 general media states that 'Allah' is Arabic for the God of

 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, I read the Quran. What about

 Jesus?

I did a search at Wikipedia.org about 'Jesus in Islam.'

 I suspect a lot of the story was done by a Muslim.

 Therefore, I tend to believe a lot of the Wikipedia words.

 I verified the words in my own copy of the Quran, and let

 me tell you now, the words of the general media are

 baloney! Allah and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

 are two different beings! And I don't think they even want

 to be seen in the same place at once! In reality, they

 cannot be in the same place at once.

First  off,  Muslims  deny that Jesus was God's Son.

To Muslims, the belief that Jesus is the Son of God is

 called a 'shirk,' or a denial of the monotheism of God and

 it is the sole unpardonable sin. Whew! That's a little

 heavy duty stuff for me! Don't be led astray by a Muslim

 then!

Read the Word of God, and learn that the Unpardonable

 Sin is when you deny the HOLY GHOST! God, our

 Father in Heaven, witnesses to us through the Holy

 Ghost! God will guide us through Scripture, people we

 meet, things that happen, and the witnessing of the Holy

 Ghost. At the baptism of Jesus, three manifestations of

 the Godhead appeared. God spoke from heaven to say:

 "This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased"

 (Matthew 3:17).

The next heavy duty concept with Muslims is that

 Jesus was NOT crucified!

"Thatthey said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of

 Mary, the Messenger 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:-Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and

 Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise;—Quran sure.4 (Al-Nisa

??????) ayah 157-158[21]    
   

The Muslim story follows that Jesus did not atone for any

 sins, and a belief in Jesus as your Savior is worthless.

 Muslims see Jesus as another mortal prophet, another

 person crucified instead, and that Jesus was taken by

 God to the heavens to await his return.

Again, read the Word, and pray. Muslims say the Holy

 Bible was corrupted, but rely on the Holy Ghost to

 witness and verify Jesus' words in John 3:16 "For God so

 loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that

 whoever believes in Him should not perish but have

 everlasting life."

The next point, the return of Jesus is a very

 intriguing item. Most Christians look forward to the

 return of Jesus. Muslims also look forward to the return of

 Jesus, but for some different reasons. Let me just quote

Wikipedia.org on their 'Jesus in Islam' page. It is

 presented fairly well:

Muslims believe that Jesus will return to earth near the Day

 of Judgment to restore justice and to defeat Mas/77

ad-Daijal ("the false messiah," also known as the Antichrist

[4][5]

According to Islamic tradition which describes this

 graphically, Jesus' descent will be in the midst of wars

 fought by the Mahdi (lit. "The rightly guided one"), known

 in Islamic eschatology as "the redeemer of Islam

against the Antichrist" (al-Masih ad-Dajjal, "False

 messiah") and his fo!Iowers.[26] Jesus will descend at

 the point of a white arcade, east of Damascus, dressed

 in yellow robes-his head anointed. He will then join the

 Mahdi in his war against the Antichrist. Jesus, considered

 as a Muslim, will abide by the Islamic teachings.

 Eventually, Jesus will slay the Antichrist, and then

 everyone from the People of the Book (ahl al-kitab,

referring to Jews and Christians) will believe in him. Thus,

 there will be one community, that of Islam.[27]

Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 43: Kitab-ul-llm (Book of

 Knowledge), Hadith Number 656: Narrated Abu

 Hurairah: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be

 established until the son of Mary (i.e. Jesus) descends

 amongst you as a just ruler, he will break the cross, kill

 the pigs, and abolish the Jizya tax. Money will be in

 abundance so that nobody will accept it (as charitable

 gifts)"—Collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari. Sahih ai-

Bukhari.[28]

After the death of the Mahdi, Jesus will assume

 leadership. This is a time associated in Islamic narrative

 with universal peace and justice. Islamic texts also allude

 to the appearance of Ya'juj and Ma'juj (known also as

 Gog and Magog), ancient tribes which will disperse and

 cause disturbance on earth. God, in response to Jesus'

 prayers, will kill them by sending a type of worms in the

 napes of their necks. [26] Jesus' rule is said to be around

 forty years, after which he will die. Muslims will then

 perform the funeral prayer for him and then bury him in

 the city of Medina in a grave left vacant beside

 Muhammad, Abu Bakr, and Umar (companions of

 Muhammad and the first and second Sunni caliphs

 (Rashidun) respectively).[5]

Let me further qualify some of the information in the

 Wikipedia quote. Mahdi was a seven year old boy in the

 days shortly following the original Muslim Muhammad. He

 did not die, apparently taken by God until the last days.

     This belief is of one sect of Islam, the ones in the

     Mideast, Persia, called Shia.

The other Islam majority is called the Sunni. They are

 basically worldwide. One more sect of Islam is called

 Wahhabi, or the sect in Saudi Arabia. Wikipedia has a

 good story about the Saudi religious sect too. I made

 some preliminary assumptions and wrote an eBook

 available at http://soIomonwright.9f.com. But with this

 information on the Muslim perception of Jesus' return and

 the Last Days, I am going to redo my assumptions.

From the Wikipedia text, one can see some 'common-

ground' between the Christian and Muslim Last Day

 perception: an Anti-Christ. This doctrine is not one I could

 find in the Quran, it is in the Hadith, writings of

 Muhammad's associates about what Muhammad said

AI-Masih-ad-Dajjal, the Anti-Christ, is in Hadith Number

 649 and 650 Volume 4, Sahih Al-Bukhari.

In comparison, the word 'antichrist' appears in the New

 King James Bible three times in 1 John 2:18, 22. The

 Apostle John sums it up in verse 22b: 'He is anti-Christ

 who denies the Father and the Son' NKJV. That means

 that Muslims, atheists, and agnostics, are rated as anti-

Christ's in that they ALL deny that Jesus is our Savior, the

 Son of God.

The next is from Islamic traditions of how Jesus returns to

 aid Muhammad Mahdi in the fight against evil and the

 anti-Christ. They win the wars and lead a worldwide

Caliphate, or a worldwide state of Islam! The Devil seems

 to have an ace up his sleeve. If a person claiming to be

 Mahdi shows some exceptional powers, has another

 person appear in a yellow robe coming down from the sky

 east of Damascus claiming to be Jesus, I assume that

 even Sunnis that do not believe in the appearance of

 Mahdi will change their minds!

Now it then does not seem too far-out of an idea to think

 of the "we only sell to Muslims" may become a very

 popular idea! The Mark-of-the-Beast is a symbolic item.

 What you think and what you do come from the mark on

 your head and your hand.

Again, read the Word, study and pray. I refer to Zachariah

 14:3-4a: Then the Lord will go forth. And fight against

 those nations, As He fights in the day of battle. And in

 that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which

 faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives

 shall be split in two." NKJV

So we can see how the Lord (whom I interpreted to mean

 Jesus) will return and put-His feet on the Mount of Olives!

 Not Damascus!

So in summary, remember three things about Muslims:

They deny the divinity of Christ.

They deny the crucifixion of Christ.

They have a different Christ returning in the Last-Days.

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From "ACTS" MAGAZINE - Nov/Dec 2012 - published by the




Association of Churches of God, Seventh Day - Meridian, ID.

USA.



IT  SHOULD  BE  CLEAR  THAT  ISLAM  IS  JUST  

ANOTHER  FALSE  RELIGION  IN  THE  ARSENAL  OF 

OUR  GREAT  ENEMY  SATAN  THE  DEVIL  WHO  

HAS  BLINDED  THE  EYES  OF  99.9  PERCENT  OF  

THE  PEOPLE  ON  EARTH,  BUT  WHEN  JESUS  

RETURNS  THE  BLINDNESS  CAST  OVER  ALL PEOPLE


WILL  BE  REMOVED  -  GOD  SPEED!!

  THAT DAY.