posted on Jun, 3 2011 @ 08:46 PM
This was Interesting... I did not have time to read all the posts, but there were many with distorted information. I do want to clarify that Islam is
not anti Jesus, Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Quran. Even more than Mohamed (saws). Muslims believe in Jesus and believing in his return,
however we don't believe that God has children. Muslims believe that God is most merciful and can forgive, and is capable of forgiveness with out
sacrifing a god in a form of a human being. We don't need to connect with God from a murder or that is the only way for him to forgive us. We can
connect and seek forgiveness any time, any place, physically or emotionally, he listens and hears all ours prayers, whether we believe in him or
not.
One thing concerns me the most, is that your basing your information on the bible which has been changed, text taken out of and new information
inserted, (scientific fact, watch Bart Ehrman Jesus misquoted on you-tube) and your comparing it to another religion, which for over 1400 years has
not been altered or changed to the very dot. It just does not make sence to me, to compare, when Gods words have been cut, copied, pasted, altered,
messed around with and then saying that it is truth, how can you rely on it wholely, how do you know which part is truth and which part is not? The
gospel was 100 % truth, a very long time ago, before Paul, (who has never met Jesus, nor was he one of the apostles) came up with the theory of
original sin, and Jesus being the son of God. Somebody mentioned Mohamed (SAWS) hearing voices by demons and that he was insane, How did Paul begin
his religious journey? He was out to persecute and murder Jesus, this is before he had a "vision" from Jesus.. So who is possessed by demons/
insane? Paul or Mohamed (saws)? They both had visions and heard voices... Most of the Gospel is from the teachings of Paul. Pauls intention was to
persecute Jesus before he had his revelations from God (Jesus). Mohamed had no intentions of murder, nor did he start his journey to God that way, he
was orphaned at a young age, he felt from a young age that idol worshiping was wrong and foreign to him, and that God existed but was not made out of
clay. He was kind to the poor and needy, elderly, the orphaned, he gave women rights of owning property and her earnings are hers alone, and can do
what she pleases with it. Women were sex objects, Islam gave them back their diginity, and so they dressed modestly. Have you seen a picture of Mother
Mary with out a veil or dressing imodestly? Mother Mary is what muslim women look up to, for her pureity and her virtues. There is a whole chapter
dedicated to her in the Quran. Prophet Mohamed started the ban on slavery, all the above were the oppressed at the time, and this was done 1400 years
ago. He doesn't sound so demonic to me, they probably did find him insane, with all his talks of womens rights, and owning property, and his advices
to let all the salves free. That probably did sound insane 1400 years ago. Compare that to recent times, few decades ago women didn't have rights to
vote or to own property, nor did the coloured Americans. Imagine you would bring up a subject of womens rights or an end to slavery a 100 years ago,
you would be laughed out of town.
Somebody also mentioned Mohamed is the only prohet who did not perform miracles, this is wrong, the greatest miracle bestowed upon him was the
revelation of the Qur'an. The Qur'an is miraculous in a number of aspects: Its linguistic perfection and inimitability, its validation by recent
historical, archaeological, and scientific discoveries, its prophecies and so on. Unlike the miracles of other prophets before him, the miracle of the
Qur'an is eternal. Other miracles include ; Splitting of the Moon, Food Multiplication, Water Multiplication, Supplication for Rain, Lights to guide
Companions,Crying of the stem of the Date-palm Tree,Glorification of Allah by the Prophet's meals,The explusion of a liar's corpse by the Earth,The
Speech of the Wolf, The Prophet's Night Journey to Jerusalem and Ascent to the Heavens.
I'm baffled, that most people have a lack of understanding of Islam, and then comment on my religion like it is the truth when in fact how you
perceive it opposite to what it actually is. To find truth, you need to search for it, not be told what it is, You need to READ. One of the first
messages sent from ALLAH to Mohamed was to read. We all need to read and seek for the truth, in this journey, you may find that ur or any other
religion is the right path, or u may find that Islam is the right path for you, in either case, at least we will have a better understanding, a better
understanding of one another, of religion. Thinking for ourselves is a gift, we need to use that gift. If you believe in Jesus teachings, you will
find much wisdom and comfort in them. He was all about love. That is the only way and solution. This world, in its current state, is quite scary, if
we all followed Gods words, the prophets teachings, we would be in a better state. There would be no war, or starvation, or corruption. We are all
children of Adam and Eve, we are all related, its time to come together. Satan likes to divert and create enemies. That is what he is good at, among
other things evil. You are not my enemy and believe me I am not yours. My religion was hijacked by terrorists and been improperly portrayed in the
mass media, I constantly have to defend it because of these injustices. In Islam, if you take a life, it is like committing a crime against the whole
of humanity, if you save a life, it is like saving humanity, this is written in the Quran. If we follow blindly, all of us, we are enemies to our
selves. In Islam, we are taught to not wish any harm on others as we would not wish on our selves, or our own mothers, fathers, brothers or sisters
and I'm sure Christianity teaches the same.You are my brothers and my sisters. Muslims means believer of a God, as a believer to another believer, I
end this message with Asalamulaikum, which means peace be with you, my brothers and sisters.