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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 8809111" data-attributes="member: 91140"> #1 You Were Born Without Sin   I am sure you must have heard it said that we were born in sin- and  perhaps you even believe that.  But let's think about that for a moment.   Would the Just God blame you for a sin you never committed?  Would HE  hold you responsible for what someone else did?  Definetely not!  God's  book teaches that you are responsible for only your own actions.  You  cannot sin until you do something wrong.  And you certainly could not  have done wrong before you were even born.   Yet we often meet people who say that we are somehow born in sin.   Could that possibly be true?  They say that the first human being, Adam  (on whom be peace) sinned, and through him sin entered the world; and  now sin corrupts everything, including every newborn baby. Can you  follow that logic?  Can you believe that human beings are condemned  before they do anything?  Which judge would condemn people for crimes  they never committed?  A just judge cannot do that except by mistake.   But what about God?  Would He make such a mistake?  We cannot image such  false ideas about God.  HE is Just.   HE holds you responsible for what you do, and HE does not blame you  for what the first human being did.  But, even after you do wrong, God  is always willing to forgive.  HE is full of loving kindness, and HE  loves to forgive.  HE is willing to forgive anyone who turns to Him and  seeks forgiveness.  This means that if you did something wrong you can  still turn back to God and He will forgive you, if you sincerely decided  to give up that sin.  Isn't this refreshing to know?  Isn't it  wonderful to know that even if we lived a whole life of sin but we  decide now to change our lives and obey God HE would forgive us this  minute?  And that's just between us and God.  We don't need any  confession box, and we don't need anyone to suffer for our sins.  Could  we resist the loving kindness that God is offering us?  God wants us to  know about HIS love.  He wants us to know that HE is Just.  HE wants us  to know the truth about HIM so that when we turn to HIM we know to Whom  we are turning.  But, there is so much misinformation about God.  Where  can we get correct information about Him?  In His Book!  That's so  obvious, isn't it?  God told us about Himself in His book.  We owe it to  ourselves to see what God has to say about Himself.  Shouldn't you be  reading God's book?  Here's God's message to you in His book:        O mankind! Now has a proof from your Lord come unto you,  and We have sent down unto you a clear light; as for those who believe  in Allah and hold fast unto Him, them will He cause to enter into His  mercy, and grace, and will guide them unto Him by a straight road. (Quran 4:174-175). The Qur'an is God's final book which He revealed for the guidance of all humankind.    <img src="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/images/images3/flower-b.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  #2 Why God's Book Cannot Contain Error   I. God Revealed It => "Those who disbelieve in the Reminder when  it comes unto them (are guilty), for indeed it is an unassailable  Scripture. Falsehood cannot come at it from before it or behind it.  It  is a revelation from the Wise, the Owner of Praise." (Qur'an 41:41-42). "Praise be to Allah, Who has revealed the Scipture unto His slave, and  has not placed therein any crookedness (but has made it) straight"  (Qur'an 18:1-2). "Allah has (now) revealed the fairest of statements, a Scripture  consistent" (Qur'an 39:23). "A Qur'an in Arabic, containing no crookedness" (Qur'an 39:28).  II.  God Preserves It => God has promised to always preserve His book.   He says;  "Surely We, even We, revealed the Reminder (the Qur'an) and We  verily are it's Guardian." (Qur'an 15:9).  The Qur'an contains no  additions.  It remains today letter for letter as it was revealed over  1400 years ago.  Nothing added, nothing taken away.  Two of the original  manuscripts of the Qur'an prepared 1400 years ago still exist today.   One is in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, and the other in  Tashkent, Russia.  Both of these are identical in content with the  Qur'an available all over the world today.  God says:  "Will they not  then consider the Qur'an with care?  If it has been from the other than  Allah they would have found therein much discrepancy." (Qur'an 4:82).   Here God challenges people to find an error in the Qur'an.  If it  contains errors then it cannot be from God.  If, on the other hand, it  had been the production of a human being it would definitely contain  errors.  A human writer 1400 years ago would have written on the basis  of the level of knowledge of his or her day. And many of those ideas  would turn out to be false later as humankind learns more, especially in  the field of science.  But the Qur'an is remarkably free of error.   <img src="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/images/images3/flower-b.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  #3 The One True God   Most people realize that there is only one true God.  Throughout  history, this one true God has appointed many good men to tell others  about Him so that humans everywhere may turn away from false gods and  worship Him alone.  Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (peace be upon all of  them) all spoke about this one God and worshipped Him alone.  In the  Gospel according to Matthew, 26:39 (King James Version) we are told that  Jesus 'fell on his face, and prayed' to God.  In the Gospel According  to John, 17:3, Jesus declares that the one he prayed to is the only true  God.  This very God speaks to us in these last days in His final  Scripture which He will safeguard from corruption.  God announces in His  book good news to all those who believe in Him and do right.  He says:   Surely those who say, Our Lord is Allah, and afterwards are upright,  the angels descend upon them saying, Fear not nor grieve, but hear good  tidings of the Paradise which you are promised.  We are your protecting  friends in the life of the world and in the Hereafter. There you will  have all that your souls desire, and there you will have all for which  you pray.  A gift of welcome from the Forgiving, the Merciful.  (Qur'an 41:30-32).  Those who believe and do good works and believe  in that which is revealed unto Muhammad - and it is the truth from your  Lord - He rids them of their ill-deeds and improves their condition.   That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood and beause those  who believe follow the truth from their Lord. (Qur'an 47:2).  Accept  this invitation, therefore, and enjoy a life of peace and satisfaction  on earth, then everlasting life in God's Paradise.  The true scripture  promises all this to those who choose no other god except the one true  God who was worshipped by Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be  upon them).  The truth has now come to you from your Lord!  Won't you  accept it?    <img src="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/images/images3/flower-b.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  #4 What the Bible Says About Muhammad   According to the Bible, God said to Moses (on whom be peace):  I  will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers; I  will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I  command him. (The Holy Bible, New International Version, Deuteronomy ch  18, verse 18).   The Prophet described in the above verse must have the following three characteristics;   1) He will be like Moses 2) will come from the brothers of the  Israelites, ie the Ishmaelites.  3) God will put His words in the mouth  of that prophet and he will declare what God commanded him.  Let us see  which prophet God was speaking of.    I. The Prophet like Moses-> Some people feel that this prophecy  refers to the prophet Jesus, (on whom be peace). But, although Jesus (on  whom be peace) was truly a prophet of God, he is not the prophet spoken  of here.  He was born miraculously.  On the other hand, Muhammad (peace  be upon him) is more like Moses (on whom be peace); both were born in a  natural way and both died natural deaths.  2. From among the  Ishmaelites -> Abraham (on whom be peace) had two sons, Ishmael (on  whom be peace) and Isaac (on whom be peace) (genesis, ch 21).  Ishmael  (on whom be peace) became the grandfather of the Arab nation, and Isaac  became the grandfather of the Jewish nation.  The prophet spoken of was  to come not from among the Jews themselves, but from among their  brothers, the Ishmaelites.  Muhammad (peace be upon him) a descendant of  Ishmael, is indeed that prophet.    3. God will put His words in his mouth- "Neither the content of the  revelation, nor its form, were of Muhammad's devising. Both were given  by the angel and Mohammad's task was only to repeat what he heard."  (World Religions from Ancient History to the Present, by Geoffrey  Parrinder, p. 472).  God sent the angel Gabriel (on whom be peace) to  teach Muhammad (peace be upon him) the exact words that he should repeat  to the people.  The words are therefore not his own; they did not come  from his own thoughts, but were put into his mouth by the angel.  These  are written down in the Qur'an word for word exactly as they came from  God.  Now that we know thaat prophet we must listen to him, for,  according to the Bible, God says:  "I will punish anyone who refuses to  obey him" (Good News Bible, Deut. 18:19). <img src="http://www.angelfire.com/me/ummnurah/images/gold.bmp" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    <img src="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/images/images3/flower-b.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> #5 Bible & Qur'an Says; Don't Eat Pork   Both the Bible and the Qur'an prohibit the eating of pork.  Muslims  are are of this prohibition and observe it strictly.  Hover, most  readers of the Bible say they do not know where they can find this in  the Bible.  In the book of Leviticus, ch 11, v. 7, it is recorded that  God declares the pig to be unclean for believers.  Then, in verse 8, God  says: "You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are  unclean for you." This command is repeated in Deuteronomy 14:7-8.  Then  in Isaiah 65:2-4, and 66:17, God issues a stern warning against those  who eat pork.  Some people are aware of this prohibition from God, but  they say they can eat pork because St. Paul said that all food is clean  in his letter to the Romans 14:20.  St. Paul sid this because he  believed (as he wrote in his letter to the Ephesians 2:14-15) that Jesus  had abolished the Law with all its commandments and regulations.   He seems, however, to have misunderstood what he heard about Jesus.   In the Gospel According to Matthew 5:17-20, Jesus is reported to have  said quite the contrary, as follows: "Do not think that I have come to  abolish the Law..." Jesus then went on in that passage (in verse 19) to  denounce anyone who would break the smallest commandment and teach  others likewise.  He also praised his true followers who will practice  and teach even the smallest commandment.  One of the commandments, as we  have seen, is to stay away from pork.  This is why the true followers  of Jesus, holding on to his teachings, did not let unclean food such as  pork enter their mouths, so that Peter, the chief disciple can say, "I  have never eaten anythng impure or unclean" (Acts of the Apostles, ch  10, v. 14).  Five chapters later in the Acts of the Apostles, 15:29, we  find that the original disciples still differentiate between clean and  unclean foods, and this time Paul is in agreement with them.   Six chapters later, in ch. 21, v 25, their decision to impose food  regulations on believers is mentioned without regret, and this time Paul  is challenged to prove that he is in agreement with them; and he  demonstrated his full agreement with them.  What remains, then is that  Jesus (on whom be peace) upheld the prohibition against pork.  His  disciples also upheld it, and so must all his followers.  Those who fail  to uphold it need to be informed and reminded of this rule from God.  This is one reason why God sent His final messenger, on whom be peace,  God says: "O people of the Scripture!   Now has Our Messenger come unto you, expounding unto you much of  that which you used to hide in the Scripture, and forgiving much.  Now  has come unto you light from Allah and a plain Scripture." (The Meaning  of the Glorious Qur'an 5:15).    <img src="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/images/images3/flower-b.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> #6 Jesus in the Qur'an   The Qur'an tells us alot of wonderful things about Jesus.  As a  result, believers in the Qur'an love Jesus, honor him, and believe in  him.  In fact, no Muslim can be a muslim unless he or she believes in  Jesus, (on whom be peace).  The Qur'an says that Jesus was born of a  virgin, and he spoke while he was still a baby, that he healed the blind  and the leper by God's leave, and that he raised the dead by God's  leave.  What then is the significance of these miracles?  First, the  virgin birth.  God demonstrates his power to create in every way.  God  created everyone we know from a man and a woman.  But how about Adam,  (on whom be peace)?  God created him from neither a man nor a woman, and  Eve from only a man, but not a woman.  And, finally to complete the  picture, God created Jesus from a woman, not a man.  What about the  other miracles?  These were to show that Jesus was not acting on his own  behalf, but that he was backed by God.   The Qur'an specifies that these miracles were performed by God's  leave.  This may be compared to the Book of Acts in the Bible, ch 2, v.  22, where it says that the miracles were done by God to show that he  approved of Jesus.  Also, note that Jesus himself is recorded in the  Gospel of John to have said, "I can do nothing of my own authority"  (5:30).  The miracles, therefore, were done not by his own authority,  but by God's authority.  What did Jesus teach?  The Qur'an tells us that  Jesus came to teach the same basic message which was taught by previous  prophets from God - that we must shun every false god and worship only  the one true God.  Jesus taught that he is the servant and messenger of  that one true God, the God of Abraham.  These Qur'anic teachis can be  compared with the Bible (Mark 10:18; Matthew 26:39; John 14:28, 17:3,  and 20:17) where Jesus teaches that the one he worshipped is the only  true God.   See also Matthew 12:18; Acts 3:13, and 4:27 where we find that his  disciples knew him as Servant of God.  The Qur'an tells us that some of  the Israelites rejected Jesus, and conspired to kill him, but Allah  rescued Jesus and raised him to Himself.  Allah will cause Jesus to  descend again, at which time Jesus will confirm his true teachings and  everyone will believe in him as he is and as the Qur'an teaches about  him.  Jesus is the Messiah.  He is a word from Allah and a spirit from  Him.  He is honored in this world and in the hereafter, and he is one of  those brought nearest to Allah.  Jesus was a man who spoke the truth  which he heard from God.  This can be compared with the Gospel according  to John where Jesus says to the Israelites:  "You are determined to  kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God." (John  8:40).    <img src="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/images/images3/flower-b.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />  #7 Scientific Accuracy of the Qur'an   This message is based on an article entitled "Highlights of Human  Embryology in the Qur'an and the Hadith" by Dr. Keith Moore, Professor  of Anatomy and Chairman of the Department, Faculty of Medicine, at the  University of Toronto, 1982.  Dr. Moore points out that the study of   how the human embryo develops in the mother's womb could not progress  significantly without the use of microscopes.  Microscopes were not  invented until the 17th century A.D. and were not used in this field of  study until the 18th century.  Therefore when Dr. Moorse studied certain  statements in the Qur'an on this subject, he remarked, "I was amazed at  the scientific accuracy of these statements which were made in the 7th  century A.D."  The Qur'an in 39:6 states that God made us in the wombs  of our mothers in stages.  Dr Moore comments:  "The realization that the  embryo develops in stages in the uterus was not discussed or  illustrated until the 15th century A.D.   The staging of the human embryos was not proposed until the 1940's,  and the stages used nowadays were not adopted worldwide until a few  years ago."  Furthermore he says, "The idea that development results  from a genetic plan contained in the chromosomes of the zygote was not  discovered until the end of the 19th century.  The verse from the Qur'an  80:18) clearly implies that the nutfa (the intial drop of fluid)  contains the plan or blueprint for the future characteristics and  features of the developing human being."  The Qur'an 23:12-16 indicates  that there is a lag or gap between two of the early stages of growth.   How does that compare with modern scientific knowledge?  Remarkably!   Says Dr. Moore:  "It is well established that there is a lag or delay in  the development of the embryo during the implantation... The agreement  between the lag or gap in development mentioned in the Qur'an and the  slow rate of change occurring during the second and third weeks is  amazing.  These details of human development were not described until  about 40 years ago."   Finally Dr. Moore concludes by saying that the agreement he has  found in the Qur'anic statements "may help to close the gap between  science and religion which has existed for so many years."  The above  evidence shows that the Qur'an must be from God as it claims.  The  Qur'an says that you and every human being should consider this book  with care.  Had it been from anyone other than God, you would have found  much discrepancy in it (4:82). <img src="http://www.angelfire.com/me/ummnurah/images/Quran0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/doc/images/images3/flower-b.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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