Material on the Authenticity of the Qur’an & Allah
The Death of Death
Footnotes
‘Allah’ is in fact the proper name for God. It
means ‘the one who alone deserves to be worshipped.’ It is identical to the
Hebrew name for the Creator, ‘Elah’ and the Aramaic (the language of Jesus)
‘Eli’, both being sister languages of Arabic. Arab Christians always called God
_Allah’, even before the Messengership of Muhamma.‘Salawaat’ means Allah’s
mentioning and praising someone to His gathered angels.
The word for ‘religion’ is a translation of the
arabic word ‘deen’ which is more restrictive than the Arabic. Other suggested
translations might be ‘way of life’, or ‘life transaction.’
Shari’ah: literally means ‘watering hole’, but
refers to the whole corpus of the Divine Law.
Jinn: The jinn are a different type of
creation made from smokeless fire that inhabit the world, eat, drink,
procreate, having different languages, tribes, nations and religions just like
us. They often inhabit deserted buildings and dirty places. They also have the
will to choose Islam or disbelieve, and will be judged on the Day of
Resurrection, and punished or rewarded accordingly. They are not visible to us
in their natural form, but are able to take the form of humans and some
animals. They are also able to possess people, and have unique abilities and
strength to carry objects at great distances over a short time. The Devil, or
Shaitaan,(Satan) or Iblees is not a fallen Angel but a jinn. Everybody has an
evil jinn companion that incites them to wrong. It is through communicating
with your familiar jinn that some ‘fortune tellers’ are able to know details of
your life, and some magicians perform incredible feats.
Not the purely materialistic, political, social
or economic reasons as most ignorantly believe, which serves to illustrate just
how blind are those,and helpless the task of those who seek solutions in other
than that which Allah has revealed.
These are just some of the forms of worship that
must be dedicated to Allah alone. Worship consists of everything that Allah
loves, whether it be inward or outer, actions of the limbs, or beliefs of the
heart. Allah must be worshipped with both love, fear and hope and not with one
to the exclusion of others which is a path to error and disbelief. For to
worship Allah with love and hope alone is to deny His wrath, and will
inevitably cause one to fall into sins. To worship with fear alone is to deny
His mercy, and will cause a fall to extremes. There are two conditions for any
good deed to be accepted by Allah. First it must be done sincerely. That
entails that you do the deed only because you wish to please Allah, and not to
be admired by others etc... Secondly the action must be correct. That means it
must be done the way Allah has taught us through the messenger Muhammad. An
action that is sincere but not correct is not accepted, and if it is correct
but not sincere it is also useless. In fact it is sin, and is a type of lesser
shirk, because one is doing something that should be exclusively for Allah for
someone other than Him.
Jihad actually means ‘to struggle to the utmost
of ones ability’, and is not therefor limited to physical combat. This ‘jihad
al nafs’, or jihad of the self has often been called ‘the greatest jihad.’
Although the muhadeetheen (scholars of the sciences of hadeeth) have declared
the hadeeth on which this saying is based to be a fabricatio, the meaning is
correct in the sense ththe purification of the self is the foundation upon
which all the other forms of jihad depend. ‘The matter’ being Islam.
Al-Ainya. the selling of goods to a person for a
certain price and then buying them back from him for a far less price. Also the
selling of goods one does not own by using the buyers money to purchase those
goods. It is a form of riba. This means that the people become content with
agriculture and mere day to day living.. From a treaties on jihad by Sheik
Abdullah bin Muhammed bin Humaid, translated into to English and can be found
in the introduction to the English translation to the collection of Hadith
Saheeh al Bukari, and the English Interpretation of the Qur’an by Dr. Muhammed
Taqi-ud-deen Al Hilali and Dr Muhammed Muhsin Khan.Answer: You don’t! For an
excellent book that refutes the myth of Muslim hords forcing conversion at the
piont of the sword read V.W. Arnolds ‘The Preaching of Islam.’
Sharia: The toatal body of Isalmic law.
Ijtihaad: exertion or effort; a scholars opinion
about a certain matter based on his effort to investigate the sources of
sharia. This will be covered later, inshallah.
John B. Taylor, Director of Dialogue with people
of Living Faiths and Ideologies of the World Council of Churches wrote in his
book _Thinking about Islam’: ‘...Thus we can feel confident that the Qur’an which
we have today is as far as is humanly possible the text which was established
within a few years of the Prophet’s death.’ A brief comparison with the
Biblical texts would be useful. The oldest complete Biblical text is the Codex
Sianaticus, found in St. Catherine’s monastery by a German biblical scholar,
Constantine Tishendorf, in 1844 and is now located in the British Museum. This
oldest complete Biblical text was written three hundred and sixty years after
Christ. It also contains notable textual differences from the modern standard
bibles, including an extra gospel, the gospel according to the Shepherd Hermes,
and also an Epistle of Barnabas, not found anywhere else. The oldest copies of
any substantial portion of the gospels date to about 200 C.E. The Catholic
Bible contains seventeen extra books considered apocrypha by the Protestants,
and other variations exists between the numerous different Christian sects. The
language of Jesus was Aramaic, and all the oldest Biblical fragments are in
Latin and Greek. No original Aramaic text exists, and it is noteworthy that all
three languages (four including ancient Hebrew) are dead. This, as any
entomologist will tell you, leaves serious problems for the correct
interpretation of texts. A phrase, that in its original form and context might
have a completely inoculous meaning, translated literally into another language
takes a completely different connotation. Indeed it is open to serious
scholarly dispute as to how much of the sayings and happenings ascribed to
Jesus actually took place. None of the evangelists were eye witnesses. Even the
names of the Gospellers are questionable, as the Gospels were originally
circulated anonymously. In fact it was not until the council of Nicea, three
hundred and forty five years after Christ, that the beginnings of what is now
called "the Bible" began to be canonised. In the council of Nicea,
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were four gospels chosen out of over two thousand,
and by whom, and by what criterion? All the gospels were put in the middle of a
room, and the group of assembled Bishops were told to go away and pray all
night. The four on top were to be chosen as canonical! The Gospels themselves
contain numerous contradictions, as does the Old Testament. The Hindu vedas, and
writings of the Buddhists and Zoroastrians are not more able to validate
scriptural texts. The Qur’an suffers from none of these inadequacies.
The Islamic calender starts from the emigration
of the Prophet from Mecca to Medina, so is called Hijri, meaning
_emigration’.The nineteenth century saw an attempt by the likes of Noldeke and
Goldiziher to discredit the hadeeth. Their arguments have been effectively
refuted. Francesco Gabrielli comments in his book _Muhammad and the Conquests
of Islam’:’This scepticism is opposed by some of Muhammad’s recent biographers
who, while admitting that our knowledge, especially of his origins and early
life, contains gaps, uncertainties and pious legends, consider tradition on the
whole trustworthy and worth using, with critical discrimination, in its main
out line and many details.’This position is exactly that which has always been
held by the Muslim scholars of Hadith. John Bagot Glubb wrote in _The Life and
Times of Muhammad’:’In consequence a new learned profession came into
existence, that of the traditionalist, whose task it was to distinguish between
the real saying of Muhammad and those false stories which had been forged.’Uhaz
is in Iraq.The Kaaba is the cube like structure in the centre of the sacred
Mosque in Mecca originally built by Abraham and Ismael for the worship of
Allah. It was rebuilt when the Prophet was a youth, and had become the centre
of idol worship throughout Arabia.Al Bihar-Seas, so called because of the way
the poem moves, according to its rhythmic patterns. At-Tawil, al-Bassit,
al-Waafir, al-Kaamil, ar-Rajs, al-Khafeef, al-Hazaj, al Muttakarib,
al-Munsarih, al-Muktatab, al-Muktadarak, al-Madeed, al-Mujtath, al-Ramel, al
Khabab.
Quraish: The leading tribe of Mecca, indeed of
Arabia. They were responsible for caring for the pilgrims during Hajj, the
annual pilgrimage. Muhammad was from Beni Hashim, a sub-tribe of the Quraish.
Tawaaf: the ritual of circumbulating the Ka'abah
as part of the pilgrimage. See Appendix 1 Muhammed’s Prophethood. An analytical
view.Islam rejects belief in astrology. The stars do not determine anyone’s
fate, nor influence their life. Ultimate control is with Allah, and _good’ and
_bad luck’ are solely under the power of Allah. Belief in fortune tellers, or
the stars, or the belief that some things, like rabbits feet, bring good
fortune, or others bad luck, is to ascribe to those things power that only
belongs to Allah, and thus commit shirk, or polytheism. Some knowledge,
however, is picked up by the evil jinn who listen to the Angels issuing
commands, and they carry this information to the fortune-teller, but mixes the
truth with a hundred lies.
For a fascinating insight into the statements in
the Bible, and the mentioning of the Prophet’s name, see Appendix ‘Muhammad in
the Bible. ’Deuteronomy 18:20-22S
Shaving, or cutting the hair is one of the
rituals of the pilgrimage.
This was before the verses forbidding gambling
were revealed The two authorative books of hadeeth are Saheeh al Bukhari and
Saheeh al Muslim.
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