[Muhammad_4]

The Muslim worships One God, Who has no partner, and Who has the most beautiful names and the highest attributes. Thus the Muslim’s focus and aim is concentrated, focused on His Lord and Creator; he puts his trust in Him and asks Him for help, patience and support; he believes that Allaah is able to do all things, and has no need of a wife or son. Allah created the heavens and earth; He is the One Who gives life and death; He is the Creator and Sustainer from Whom the slave seeks provision. He is the All-Hearing Who responds to the supplication of His slave, and from Whom the slave hopes for a response. He is the All-Merciful and All-Forgiving, to Whom the slave turns in repentance when he has committed a sin or fallen short in his worship of Allaah. He is the Omniscient and All-Seeing, who knows all intentions and what is hidden in people’s hearts. The slave feels ashamed to commit a sin by doing wrong to himself or to others, because his Lord is watching over him and sees all that he does. He knows that Allah is All-Wise, the Seer of the Unseen, so he trusts that what Allah decrees for him is good; he knows that Allah will never be unjust to him, and that everything that Allaah decrees for him is good, even if he does not understand the wisdom behind it.
The effects of Islamic worship on the soul of the Muslim include the following:
Prayer keeps the slave in contact with his Lord; if he enters it in a spirit of humiliation and concentration, he will feel tranquil and secure, because he is seeking a "powerful support," which is Allah, may He be glorified and exalted. For this reason, the Prophet of Islaam, Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) used to say: "Let us find relaxation and joy in prayer." If something distressed him, he would hasten to pray. Everyone who finds himself faced with disaster and tries prayer finds strength, patience and consolation, because he is reciting the words of his Lord, which cannot be compared to the effect of the words of a created being. If the words of some psychologists can offer a little comfort, what do you think of the words of the One Who created the psychologist?
MORE TO FOLLOW INSHAALLAH.

[bible_reader]

He is the All-Merciful and All-Forgiving, to Whom the slave turns in repentance when he has committed a sin or fallen short in his worship of Allaah.

about two years ago the catholic pope quoted some scrips written by a former dictator about prophet mohammad.The muslims got infuriated and protests held all over the muslim world even in somalia a catholic nun was shot dead by militants.I recall vividly the pope apologising and asking for forgiveness yet the very same top muslims clrics and scholars still continued to call for protest.That is very opposite of what you teach,and every sane person struggles with this question why is it so hard for muslims to forgive.

[ghost rider]

The reason why we hide behind the cloak that is religion is because we lack concrete answers to the mystery that is life.My view is that Islam is one formula for life,Christianity another and so on and so forth.By the mere fact that we proscribe to a particular religion is in itself an indicator that we are all in the same boat.My point is that Islam is not the solution since whether Muslim or Christian we still are human complete with our many flaws and shortcomings

[Muhammad_4]

Now let us look at Charity (zakaat), which is one of the pillars of Islam. Zakaat purifies the soul from stinginess and miserliness, and accustoms people to being generous and helping the poor and needy. It will bring a great reward on the Day of Resurrection, just like other forms of worship. It is not burdensome, like man-made taxes; it is only 25 in every thousand, which the sincere Muslim pays willingly and does not try to evade or wait until someone chases him for it.
Fasting involves refraining from food and sex. It is a form of worship, and a way in which one can feel the hunger of those who are deprived. It is also a reminder of the blessings of the Creator, and it brings rewards beyond measure.
Hajj is the Pilgrimage to the sacred House of Allah, which was built by Ibraaheem (Abraham, upon whom be peace). By performing Hajj one is obeying the command of Allah and the call to come and meet Muslims from all over the world.
Islam commands all kinds of good and forbids all kinds of evil. It encourages good manners and proper treatment of others. It enjoins good characteristics such as truthfulness, patience, deliberation, kindness, humility, modesty, keeping promises, dignity, mercy, justice, courage, patience, friendliness, contentment, chastity, good treatment, tolerance, trustworthiness, gratitude for favours, and self-control in times of anger. Islaam commands the Muslim to fulfil his duty towards his parents and to uphold family ties, to help the needy, to treat neighbours well, to protect and safeguard the wealth of the orphan, to be gentle with the young and show respect to the old, to be kind to servants and animals, to remove harmful things from the road, to speak kind words, to forgive at the time when one has the opportunity to take revenge, to be sincere towards one’s fellow-Muslims, to meet the needs of the Muslims, to give the debtor time to repay his debt, to prefer others over oneself, to console others, to greet people with a smiling face, to visit the sick, to support the one who is oppressed, to give gifts to friends, to honour his guest, to treat his wife kindly and spend on her and her children, to spread the greeting of peace (salaam) and to seek permission before entering another person’s house, lest one see something private that the other person does not want one to see.

[Muhammad_4]

Originally Posted by ghost rider

The reason why we hide behind the cloak that is religion is because we lack concrete answers to the mystery that is life

This is how I am telling you that, the only solution is Islam. We know from Quran what is the purpose of life.But unfortunately you have no guider.

[bible_reader]

Muhammad produced no miracles and when pressed he claimed that his miracle is the Quran. Yet a cursory look at the Quran reveals that this book is full of errors. Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. It is badly compiled and it contradicts itself. There is nothing intelligent in this book let alone miraculous. Muhammad challenged people to produce a "Surah like it" or find an error therein, yet Muslims would kill anyone who dares to criticize it. In such a climate of hypocrisy and violence truth is the first casualty.

One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives and their "right hand possessions" (Quran 33:50) He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way.

Moreover, early and reliable traditions depict Muhammad and his Muslims stoning adulterers and adulteresses, as recorded by the two most reliable collectors and editors of the hadith, Bukhari (AD 810-870) and Muslim (c. AD 817-875):

Umar said: God sent Muhammad with the truth and sent down the Book [Quran] to him, and the verse of stoning was included in what God most high sent down. God’s messenger [Muhammad] had people stoned to death, and we have done it also since his death. Stoning is a duty laid down in God’s Book for married men and women who commit fornication when proof is established, or if there is pregnancy, or a confession. (Muslim no. 4194)

Umar was Muhammad’s right-hand lieutenant (along with Abu Bakr), and even shortly after Muhammad’s death he tried very hard to get a verse allowing stoning into the Quran, but he did not succeed . Be that as it may, this and the next hadith are sufficient for many Muslims today to endorse stoning.

Perhaps the most gruesome hadith is the following. A woman came to the prophet and asked for purification (by being punished for her sin). He told her to go away and seek God’s forgiveness. She persisted four times and admitted that she was pregnant as a result of fornication. He told her to wait until she had given birth. Then he said that the Muslim community should wait until she had weaned her child. When the day arrived for the child to take solid food, Muhammad handed the child over to the community and ordered the woman’s death by stoning

[Muhammad_4]

muhammad produced no miracles and when pressed he claimed that his miracle is the quran.

[color="blue"]This claim was long time ago exemplified by Andrew , who wrote that in order to mislead ignorant people among non Muslims.and he was refuted:
It appear that we are reading different Quran then, because there are many miracles and prophesies performed by Muhammad peace be upon him: -the triumph of the Byzantines over th

1. muhammad produced no miracles and when pressed he claimed that his miracle is the quran.

   This claim was long time ago exemplified by Andrew , who wrote that in order to mislead ignorant people among non Muslims.and he was refuted:

thee Persians the Romans have been defeated in a land close by,.... (al-rum, 30.1-5).
I can go into details if you wish
-The Qur’an gave the news of the conquest of Makka two years . (al-fath, 48.27–8)
-The Qur’an gave the news that the dead body of Pharaoh would one day be discovered in ancient Egypt, pharaoh used to torture the children of Israel. God sent Moses to him with the mission of inviting him to believe in One God and allow the Israelites to leave Egypt with Moses. Pharaoh refused and the struggle between them continued for a long time. However, one night Moses succeeded in marching towards the frontier with his people but pharaoh, becoming aware of his attempt, set out to follow him. When Moses reached the Red Sea, he touched it with his staff, and a furrow opened across the sea. Pharaoh attempted to follow him, but was engulfed with his legions. While narrating this event, the qur’an makes a very interesting prediction: today we shall preserve your body that you may be a sign to those after you: although most men give no heed to our signs. (yunus, 10.92) the dead body of pharaoh was later found floating on the western shores of the sinai peninsula. The native residents can still show you to this land, which is now known as Jabal Firawn (Hill of Pharaoh). A few miles from this hill is a hot spring called Hammam Firawn (the Bath of Pharaoh). There are many miracles which I can not mention all here.

quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies.

You can read a book on scienticific miracles in Quran the amazing Quran by Gary Miller with non-Muslims scientist who embraced islam.

he raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives and their "right hand possessions" (quran 33:50)

someone here in mashada made same claim, but he quoted the article written by Sam it didnt go well for him, so you brought another one written by Andrew, you too are going to fall, so bring full verse and show me where is rape allowed?!
But the Bible allows rape, slavery, the sex trade, and murder!
Before reading what is following, I advise people here to beware that i shall be posting some serious disgusting verses which shows that rape is allowed, so is murder, and so is the sex slave.
So without further of due I shall merely quote the passages:
Judges 21: 10- 24 : so they sent twelve thousand warriors to jabesh-gilead with orders to kill everyone there, including women and children. "this is what you are to do," they said. "completely destroy all the males and every woman who is not a virgin." ........they told the men of benjamin who still needed wives, "go and hide in the vineyards. When the women of shiloh come out for their dances, rush out from the vineyards, and each of you can take one of them home to be your wife! ......they kidnapped the women who took part in the celebration and carried them off to the land of their own inheritance......" So note, the men hide behind bushes like stalkers, and they wait for the women and once they see the women they rush the women and kidnap them and then basically marry them! this is clear rape, iI wonder what missionaries Andrew Vargo and Sam Shamoun has to say about this, since the missionaries has a lot to say on the subject of muta to which TheY are always refuted, what will say about men hiding like stalkers and then kidnapping women and marrying them? this is what you call ‘legalized rape’. The fact is no christian can explain those disgusting verses.
Furthermore, numbers 31: 7-18 : ".....they are the ones who caused the plague to strike the lord's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves".
So Moses and his army basically killed all the boys, including infants and just let the little young girls live. Who knows what they did with these little girls. So these passages basically allowed murder and left all the virgins to themselves whom they obviously slept with, many of these virgins were three year olds as well: "....according to the tannaïte Rabbis, Moses therefore had ordered the Israelites to kill all women older than three years and a day, because they were "suitable for having sexual relations."
So would any Christians like to respond? this is very disgusting, 3 year old girls were suitable for sex and soldiers from Moses’ army had slept with 3 year olds! this is utter filth to say the least. Put that on top of a massacre of women and children. This is the loving God of the bible.
Now we shall look at the punishment David got for sleeping with another man’s wife and also being responsible for the ladies husband’s death. 2 samuel 12: 11-14 : thus says the lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural] while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but i will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.' then david said to nathan, "i have sinned against the lord." Nathan answered David: "the lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die.
I wonder what Christians will have to say to this? note the first punishment David will received is that his wives will have open sex for all to see, david’s second punishment is that his son will be killed! what ever happened to the laws in Leviticus where it says the adulterer shall be put to death?
So any christian care to respond?
The Bible allows the sex slave: exodus 21:7-11 the verses are pretty self explanatory. This is a legalized sex slave industry found in the Bible. So we know have legalized rape, and legalize sex slaves.
Here is the laws on rape in the bible, which basically makes it okay to rape a virgin, the only punishment is that you have marry her. Deuteronomy chapter 22:25-29
Another strange rule in the Bible is: "Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the lord your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from israel. Deuteronomy 17:12" the authors of articles andrew and sam could not answer !
Now, is there any Christian who could be kind enough to respond? next I will bring to you:
1- how does Islam view slaves?
2- The liberation of slaves in islam.
3- Can a slave request his freedom from his Muslim owner?

Umar said: god sent Muhammad with the truth and sent down the book [Quran] to him, and the verse of stoning was included in what god most high sent down. God’s messenger [Muhammad] had people stoned to death, and we have done it also since his death. Stoning is a duty laid down in god’s book for married men and women who commit fornication when proof is established, or if there is pregnancy, or a confession. (muslim no. 4194)

I do not know what is your question here! everybody knows that IN the shariah of islam does stone married men and women who commit adultery when the proof is established. And this is the purification of sin. You yourself you quoted these words! " a woman came to the prophet and asked for purification (by being punished for her sin). He told her to go away and seek god’s forgiveness". (iI will write in more details on the concept of sin in islam, by allah permission) we are not like you Christians and Jews (where in your bible adulteries are punished like this: Ezekiel 23:45-48 and the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. For thus saith the lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness".
Dr. Constable's notes on Ezekiel , page 113 the Lord commanded a group of soldiers to attack these cities and to terrorize and plunder them. These invaders would stone the guilty (the punishment for adulterers and murderers in the mosaic law), slay them and their children with their swords, and burn their houses.
Why do innocent childeren have to be slay (as punishment) for the crimes (adultery) commited by their parents? do you call this righteous ? even those slayers of innocent children are called righteous men in the Bilbe!
more to follow.....

[bible_reader]

After muhammad's marriage to khadija, bishop waraka ibn nofal befriended him and set his mind to train and disciple muhammad to succed him as the ebionite bishop of mecca. Muhammad's prosperous union with khadija gave him time for solitude at the cave fo mount hira in a suburb of mecca. It was there that bishop waraka began to teach and train him. Bishop waraka taught muhammad many of the old and new testament stories of the bible. These stories are mentioned in the quran with great distortion. He also taught muhammad about jesus according to the ebionites' belief, which as we mentioned before denies the deity of christ. One night when muhammad was forty years old, he was alone in the cave of hira when a spirit appeared to him at the door of the cave. That spirit grasped him suddenly and squeezed him until he thought he would die and commanded him, "read." "i cannot read," muhammad answered, because he was illiterate. The spirit squeezed him again so tightly he that thought he would die, and commanded him again, "read." "i cannot read," he answered. The the spirit tightened his grasp and squeezed him more and said for the third time, "read." afraid that he might die, muhammad said, "what shall i read?" the spirit said: read: in the name of thy lord who createth. Createth man from a clot. Read: and thy lord is the most bounteous, who teacheth by the pen, teacheth man that which he knew not (surat al-alaq 96:1-5 mpt) then the spirti disappeared. Muhammad returned to his wife, frightened and in great distress. He worried that what had happened to him was an hallucination or the appearance of a jinni. The reader's digest illustrated encyclopedic dictionary defines the word "jinni" as follows: jinni: (plural jinn) in muslim legend, a spirit capable assuming human or animal form and exercising supernatural influence over man. Muhammad asked khadija to cover him for he was shivering. Khadija covered him, suprised by his fear, his shivering, and his pale face. Khadija took mohammad to her cousin, bishop waraka ibn nofal, who declared his belief that muhammad was chosen to be the prophet of his people. Keep in mind it was an ebionite bishop who declared that muhammad was a prophet! muhammad declared in his quran in surat al-imran 3:19:

[bible_reader]

Who was the spirit that squeezed muhammad at the cave? it is of great importance to identify the spirit who squeezed muhammad at the cave of hira near mecca. After his encounter with the spirit, muhammad was afraid that what happened to him was from a jinni. Then later, muhammad declared in the quran that the spirit who squeezed him was the angel gabriel.

We read in surat al-baqarah 2:97:say: whoever is an enemy to gabriel - for he brings down the (revelation) to the heart by allah's will, a confirmation of what went before, and guidance and glad tidings for those who believe. First: had the spirit been gabriel, he would have calmed muhammad and relieved his fear. But the spirit left him in extreme distress. Gabriel appeared to many people before his alleged visit to muhammad and each time the first thing he did was to allay that person's fear. Gabriel appeared to the prophet daniel. Daniel was afraid but gabriel touched him, he did not squeeze him, he only touched him: and i heard a man's voice between the banks of ulai, which called, and said, "gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." so he came near where i stood: and when he came, i was afraid, and fell upon my face. . . But he touched me, and set me upright. . . (daniel 8:16-18).

Gabriel appeared to zacharias, the father of john the baptist, who is called yihia in the quran; he identified himself and said to zacharias: do not be afraid, zacharias... I am gabriel that stand in the presence of god (luke 1:13, 19). Gabriel appeared to mary, the mother of jesus. Mary was greatly troubled but gabriel said to her: do not be afraid, mary (luke 1:30). But the spirit who squeezed muhammad left him frightened and in great distress. Therefore the spirit could not have been the angel gabriel.

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Anyway, So Mohammed is the solution. To what problem?