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HINDUISM, SIKHISM AND ISLAM: ARE THESE GOD'S RELIGIONS
CHAPTER 8
Islam – Themes in the Quran
The inspiring spirit being of Islam claims to be the Creator in the Quran. The following quotes are from the English translation of the Quran by M.H. Shakir and published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in 1983. [There are many versions of the English translation of the Quran available online. Reader may wish to check these translations for clarity of certain passages. Shakir’s translation is used throughout this book].
[2.21] O men! serve your Lord Who created you and those before you so that you may guard (against evil).
[2.22] Who made the earth a resting place for you and the heaven a canopy and (Who) sends down rain from the cloud then brings forth with it subsistence for you of the fruits; therefore do not set up rivals to Allah while you know.
[2.28] How do you deny Allah and you were dead and He gave you life? Again He will cause you to die and again bring you to life, then you shall be brought back to Him.
[2.29] He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth, and He directed Himself to the heaven, so He made them complete seven heavens, and He knows all things.
[2.107] Do you not know that Allah's is the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and that besides Allah you have no guardian or helper?
[2.117] Wonderful Originator of the heavens and the earth, and when He decrees an affair, He only says to it, Be, so there it is.
[2.255] Allah is He besides Whom there is no god, the Everliving, the Self-subsisting by Whom all subsist; slumber does not overtake Him nor sleep; whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth is His; who is he that can intercede with Him but by His permission? He knows what is before them and what is behind them, and they cannot comprehend anything out of His knowledge except what He pleases, His knowledge extends over the heavens and the earth, and the preservation of them both tires Him not, and He is the Most High, the Great.
[3.18] Allah bears witness that there is no god but He, and (so do) the angels and those possessed of knowledge, maintaining His creation with justice; there is no god but He, the Mighty, the Wise.
[7.54] Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods [or days] of time, and He is firm in power; He throws the veil of night over the day, which it pursues incessantly; and (He created) the sun and the moon and the stars, made subservient by His command; surely His is the creation and the command; blessed is Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
[10.3] Surely your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in six periods [days], and He is firm in power, regulating the affair, there is no intercessor except by His permission; this is Allah, your Lord, therefore serve Him; will you not then mind?
These verses leave no doubt that the “Allah” of Islam claims to be the Creator and sustainer of the universe, the heavens and the earth and all things that are in them, and he is the Most High God.
Is Quran the Word of God
Allah of Islam claims to be the creator of everything. But has he proved to us in the Quran that he is in fact the Almighty God? Let’s apply our three criteria to determine if Quran is the word of God. If we can prove that it is, then we can believe that Allah is the Almighty.
The only criterion that proves that a holy book is the word of God is whether God prophesied about numerous things in the book and they ALL came to pass exactly as prophesied, which can be historically verified.
The Quran contains absolutely no prophecies that came true in the past. It is totally silent on the subject. Therefore, the Quran has miserably failed our test. It is not inspired by the true God. It contains the lies of one who falsely claims that he is the true God, when in fact he is a charlatan and a cunning deceiver.
There is a future prophecy of the coming of the Mahdi [meaning ‘the guided one’], also known as the 12th Imam, to lead Muslims to victory over the Christian west. Then the antichrist will come and the Mahdi will fight the antichrist. Then Jesus Christ will return to earth to fight along with the Mahdi to defeat and kill the antichrist. Then the entire world will convert to Islam, and Jesus Christ, a Muslim Himself, will rule over the earth and then die.
This prophecy is not in the Quran but is contained in the Hadiths or sayings and actions attributed to Mohammad by the companions of Mohammad. The authenticity of many of these sayings is doubtful. Still why should we believe this prophecy in Islam? The Hadiths or the Quran do not contain any prophecies about the past that came to pass exactly as foretold? Therefore, the coming of the 12th Imam is merely a statement about the future without incontrovertible proof that it has been given by Almighty God and backed by His power. There is no reason to believe in this prophecy. Hence the Quran and the Hadiths have miserably failed the test that they are backed by the power of the Almighty Creator God. The Allah of Islam is proved to be a liar, an imposter and counterfeiter. There is also no reason to believe in the promises of reward in paradise and punishment in hell in the Quran on blind faith. God instead wants us to prove all things before actually believing in them (I Thessalonians 5:21, “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
Much of the world is now aware that the Germans worship Satan as their god, because he has led them to believe that he is more powerful than the God of the Bible. In my book “Does God Exist?” I have provided proof that Satan is fully under control of the God of the Bible, Who can annul any of Satan’s actions any time. Satan can do only what the God of the Bible allows. The Bible identifies Satan as the former archangel Lucifer who rebelled against His Creator, the God of the Bible, and attacked His throne in an event to take over the throne of Heaven from Him. Of course, Satan and his forces of angels under his command were defeated and they were blasted back to the earth. Since then he became an adversary or enemy of God and the angels under his command became demons (or jinns as the Quran identifies them).
Satan communicates with the Germans directly. He has communicated with the Germans that the Quran was his deception. However, we are not relying on Satan’s word to prove that. We have already proved that the whole of Quran is a colossal lie to deceive much of humanity, cause divisions, deep hatreds, leading to violence and destruction.
Themes in the Quran
We have proved that the Quran is not the word of God. Yet one in it falsely claims to be the creator God. Therefore, the whole of the Quran contains some very cunningly devised lies. We will address and expose the commonly believed lies among the Muslims, that are described in its pages.
The only holy book that passes our test of being God-inspired is the Bible. It contains literally hundreds of prophecies that have come true, exactly as prophesied over years, decades, centuries and even thousands of years. Many of these prophecies given thousands of years ago are coming true even today. And many of the prophecies are even being fulfilled today. I have provided this detailed proof in my book “Which Holy Book is the Word of God?” available free at my website www.ChurchofGodMessage.com.
Since the Bible is the word of God, it means that the God of the Bible is the true God. Anyone else who claims to be the Creator God is a liar. That is true of Krishna of the Hindus, and also Allah of Islam.
If a liar wanted to deceive mankind, what strategies would he use? His most important strategy would be to attack various aspects of the truth and cast doubts about the credibility of the book that has recorded the truth. Then he would try to have his lies accepted as the truth with false promises and incentives. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister is credited with the statement, “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.”
If the liar is also a destroyer, what strategies would he use to destroy people? He would cause divisions and hatred among them. One very effective strategy to accomplish that is to make a particular group of people feel superior to others, and consider themselves as the ‘Chosen Ones’ and make them believe that all others are condemned to be destroyed.
Then the destroyer would incite the ‘Chosen Ones’ to convert all others to their religion, with violence and warfare if needed. The use of violence would create further implacable hatred between the ‘Chosen Ones’ and those who actually believe in the truth. And warfare would lead to people destroying one another.
Those are the very strategies the Allah of Islam developed and had them recorded in the Quran for his followers. These strategies are reflected in the themes in the Quran that are repeated over and over and over again in virtually every major Sura or Chapter. Here are the themes in the Quran:
1) There is only one God, Allah, the creator and sustainer of everything. Believers are not to associate any other gods with him. This is designed to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ.
2) Jesus Christ was merely a prophet, and not the Son of God. Though the Quran claims that He was born of a mother without a human father. Jesus Christ also did not die on the cross, but God made it appear that way to them. Since He did not die, He was not resurrected.
3) Allah acknowledges that an evil Satan and jinns (presumably demons) exist.
4) Allah is the God of the Bible. He is the one who gave the Old Testament to the Jews and the New Testament to Christians. For this purpose, many of the Bible stories, such as the Exodus, Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac - though the Quran substitutes Ishmael for Isaac – are repeated in the Quran, but not exactly the way described in the Bible. That way Allah can claim those as his deeds as they can be verified in history.
5) Allah claims that the Jews and Christians altered the Bible that he gave them. But the Quran is his latest revelation to mankind. For this reason, Muslims are willing to accept those parts of the Bible that agree with the Quran and reject all else, as it was altered.
6) Allah warns the believers in the Quran that by and large the Jews and Christians will not believe in the Quran.
7) Any who don’t believe in the Quran will be sent to ever-burning hell fire and tortured for eternity. That will include all the unbeliever Jews and Christians. Since that is their fate, the believers can use force to convert them, or impose taxes on them or enslave them.
8) Those who believe in the Quran and worship Allah and do good deeds will go to Gardens in Paradise where they will enjoy delicious food, wine, the company of submissive fair/pure women for eternity. Good believing women in Islam are also promised Paradise, but no corresponding company of fair/pure men.
These themes are repeated over and over again in virtually ALL lengthy Suras, particularly concerning believers going to Paradise and the non-believers being tortured in an ever-burning hell for eternity. There is very little instruction on how to live one’s life and some judgments on some situations that may arise among Muslims, but that is only a very small part of the Quran. Most of the pages in the Quran are taken up in repeating the above themes ad nauseum.
Besides these themes in the Quran, Muslims also have certain beliefs about Muhammed as a prophet and about the Quran. These are:
9) Coming of Muhammed as a prophet was prophesied in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
10) Muhammed was unlettered, meaning he was illiterate. Muslims cite that as proof that the Quran was revealed to him by the archangel Gabriel, and he did not make it up.
11) Muslims refer to the Quran as a miracle because it has been transmitted unaltered, meaning that not a word in the Quran we have today has been changed since the time it was revealed to Muhammed.
12) Muslims claim that the four gospels in the Bible are not God inspired because they are all different.
I would like to reiterate that according to the criteria we developed for testing whether the scripture of a particular religion or not, only the Bible passed our test. The Quran and the scriptures of Hinduism and Sikhism have miserable failed that test. Therefore, only the Bible is the true inspired word of God. All others are either deliberate deceptions or the philosophies of men.
Since the Quran attacks the authenticity of the Bible, it is deliberate deception. It contains monumental lies to cast doubts about the truths in the Bible and turn the believers in the Quran into deadly enemies of Jews and Christians.
Therefore, the issue of the Bible being altered is the most important as a starting point, and whether it is indeed the inspired word of God.
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