tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58260894562203909152024-03-08T03:57:09.167+01:00Islam in its own wordsOmnia Ad Majorem Dei GloriamUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger988125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-43816666998993277722024-02-23T18:43:00.006+01:002024-02-23T18:43:40.199+01:00Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 4<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We come to the fourth segment of our rebuttal.</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">A Walking Contradiction</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Recall what Brown wrote:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Finally, there are some elements of the Prophet’s Sunnah that are actually prohibited for us, like continuous fasting </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and marrying more than four women</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Brown could not have picked a worst example to justify what his prophet did. Muhammad clearly violated his own commandment that a man is to marry up to four wives only if and when he can love and treat them all equally; otherwise he is to have only one spouse:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with the orphan girls, then marry (other) women of your choice, two or three, or four </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but if you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one or (the captives and the slaves) that your right hands possess</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. That is nearer to prevent you from doing injustice. S. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">4</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">:3 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to the hadiths, Muhammad would even force men who had more than four wives to divorce some of them:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… This was because they used to marry as many women as they liked, as many as nine or ten. Qays Ibn al-Harth for example had eight wives. Allah forbade them from doing so and prohibited them from marrying more than four wives, saying: (marry of the women, who seem good to you) marry that which Allah has made lawful for you, (two or three or four) marry one, two, three or four but do not marry more than four wives…” (‘Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi, </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=3&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><i><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Asbab al-Nuzul</span></i></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(741) Chapter: Regarding A Man Who Was Married To More Than Four Women, Or To Two Sisters, And Then He Accepts Islam</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Al-Harith ibn Qays al-Asadi:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I embraced Islam while I had eight wives. So I mentioned it to the Prophet. The Prophet (said) said: Select four of them.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been narrated to us by Ahmad b. Ibrahim from Hushaim. He said: Qais b. al-Harith instead of al-Harith b. Qais. Ahmad b. Ibrahim said: This is correct, i.e. Qais b. al-Harith.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Sahih</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Al-Albani)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud 2241</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In-book reference: Book 13, Hadith 67</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English translation: Book 12, Hadith 2233 (</span><a href="http://sunnah.com/abudawud/13/67"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunnah.com</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad, on the other hand, had nine wives at the time of his death:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet used to pass by (have sexual relation with) all his wives in one night, and at that time he had nine wives. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=62&translator=1&start=0&number=142"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 7, Book 62,Number 142</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">26 The Book of Marriage</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(1) Chapter: Mentioning the Command of the Messenger of Allah Concerning Marriage, His Wives and what Allah, The Mighty And Sublime, Permitted To His Prophet </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">When It Is Forbidden To Other People, Because Of His Virtue And High Status</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated that Ibn ‘Abbas said: “When the Messenger of Allah died he had nine wives; he used to be intimate with all of them except one, who had given her day and night to ‘Aishah.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade : Sahih</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Reference</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: Sunan an-Nasa’i 3197</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In-book reference: Book 26, Hadith 2</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English translation: Vol. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">4</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 26, Hadith 3199 (</span><a href="http://sunnah.com/nasai/26/2"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunnah.com</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Both the Quran and hadiths attest that the reason Muhammad took so many wives was primarily because of his lust for beautiful women:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O Prophet (Muhammad)! Verily, We have made lawful to you your wives, to whom you have paid their </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mahr </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(bridal money given by the husband to his wife at the time of marriage), </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and those (captives or slaves) whom your right hand possesses</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> – whom Allah has given to you, and the daughters of your ‘</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Amm</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (paternal uncles) and the daughters of your ‘</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ammah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (paternal aunts) and the daughters of your </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Khal</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (maternal uncles) and the daughters of your </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Khalah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (maternal aunts) who migrated (from Makkah) with you, and a believing woman if she offers herself to the Prophet, and the Prophet wishes to marry her; a </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">privilege for you only, not for the (rest of) the believers</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Indeed We know what We have enjoined upon them about their wives and those (captives or slaves) whom their right hands possess, – in order that there should be no difficulty on you. And Allah is Ever Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. You (O Muhammad) can postpone (the turn of) </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">whom you will of them</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (your wives), and you may receive </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">whom you will</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And whomsoever </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">you desire</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of those whom you have set aside (her turn temporarily), it is no sin on you (to receive her again), that is better; that they may be comforted and not grieved, and may all be pleased with what you give them. Allah knows what is in your hearts. And Allah is Ever All-Knowing, Most Forbearing. S. 33:50-51 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu’minin:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Juwayriyyah, daughter of al-Harith ibn al-Mustaliq, fell to the lot of Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas, or to her cousin. She entered into an agreement to purchase her freedom. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">She was a very beautiful woman, </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">most attractive to the eye</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Aisha said: She then came to the Apostle of Allah asking him for the purchase of her freedom. When she was standing at the door, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I looked at her with disapproval. I realised that the Apostle of Allah </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">would look at her in the same way that I had looked</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She said: Apostle of Allah, I am Juwayriyyah, daughter of al-Harith, and something has happened to me, which is not hidden from you. I have fallen to the lot of Thabit ibn Qays ibn Shammas, and I have entered into an agreement to purchase of my freedom. I have come to you to seek assistance for the purchase of my freedom.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Apostle of Allah said: Are you inclined to that which is better? She asked: What is that, Apostle of Allah? He replied: </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I shall pay the price of your freedom on your behalf, and I shall marry you</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She said: I shall do this. She (Aisha) said: The people then heard that the Apostle of Allah had married Juwayriyyah. They released the captives in their possession and set them free, and said: They are the relatives of the Apostle of Allah by marriage. We did not see any woman greater than Juwayriyyah who brought blessings to her people. One hundred families of Banu al-Mustaliq were set free on account of her. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunan Abu Dawud</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=29&translator=3&start=0&number=3920"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 29, Number 3920</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to Ibn Humayd–Salamah–Muhammad b. Ishaq – Muhammad b. Ja‘far b. al-Zubayr – the Prophet’s wife ‘A’ishah, who said: When the Messenger of God divided the captives of the Banu al-Mustaliq, Juwayriyah bt. Al-Harith fell to the share of Thabit b. Qays b. al-Shammas (or to a cousin of his), and she contracted with him for her freedom. She was a sweet, beautiful woman </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who captivated anyone who looked at her</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She came to the Messenger of God seeking his help in the matter of her contract. By God, as soon as I saw her at the door of my chamber, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I took a dislike to her, and I knew that he would see in her what I saw</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The History of al-Tabari: The Victory of Islam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by Michael Fishbein [State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany, NY 1997], Volume VIII (8), pp. 56-57; bold and italic emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Note what the translator says concerning Muhammad’s reaction after seeing Juwayriyah:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Similar frankness appears in the account in A.H. 6 of Muhammad’s marriage to Juwayriyah, ‘a sweet, beautiful woman, who captivated anyone who looked at her’ (the words of ‘A’isha’s). She had been captured during the raid on the Banu al-Mustaliq and, in accordance with custom, became the slave of one of her captors. The latter agreed to free her in exchange for a sum of money. Juwariyah approached Muhammad for help, and the latter, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">CAPTIVATED BY HER BEAUTY</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, offered her ‘something better’ then payment of the price of her freedom – namely, marriage with himself…” (Ibid., p. xiii; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Juwayriyah wasn’t the only woman whose beauty caught Muhammad’s attention:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Anas bin Malik: We arrived at Khaibar, and when Allah helped His Apostle to open the fort, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the beauty of Safiya bint Huyai bin Akhtaq</span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">whose husband had been killed while she was a bride,</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">was mentioned to Allah’s Apostle. The Prophet selected her for himself</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=59&translator=1&start=0&number=522"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 5, Book 59, Number 522</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In fact, Muhammad was so captivated by Safiyya’s beauty that he gave up seven slaves in exchange for her!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(2991) Anas said: A beautiful slave-girl fell to Dihyah. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Apostle of Allah purchased her for seven slaves</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He then gave her to Umm Sulaim for decorating her and preparing her for marriage. The narrator Hammad said: Safiyyah daughter of Huyayy should pass her waiting period in her (Umm Sulaim’s) house. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunan Abu Dawud</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, English translation with Explanatory Notes by Prof. Ahmad Hasan [Sh. Muhammad Ashraf Publishers, Booksellers & Exporters; Lahore, Pakistan, 1984], Volume II, Book XIII. </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kitab al-Kharaj</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Book of Tribute, Spoils & Rulership</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), Chapter 1109: On the Special Portion of the Prophet Taken Exclusively By Him From The Booty, </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/abudawud/20/70"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">p. 848</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and italicized emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The translator has a rather interesting footnote here:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">2414. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As Safiyyah was already married </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">and her husband had been killed</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, it was necessary for her to wait till she was purified for remarriage. (Ibid.; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now guess who was responsible in getting her husband murdered? If you guessed Muhammad would you be right.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It therefore comes as no surprise that Muhammad’s contemporaries accused him of being a womanizer:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Layla bt. al-Khatim b. ‘Adi b. ‘Amr b. Sawad b. Zafar b. al-Harith b. al-Khazraj approached the Prophet while his back was to the sun, and clapped him on his shoulder. He asked who it was, and she replied, ‘I am the daughter of one who competes with the wind. I am Layla bt. al-Khatim. I have come to offer myself [in marriage] to you, so marry me.’ He replied, ‘I accept.’ She went back to her people and said that the Messenger of God had married her. They said, ‘What a bad thing you have done! You are a self-respecting woman,</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> but the Prophet is a womanizer</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Seek an annulment from him.’ She went back to the Prophet and asked him to revoke the marriage and he complied with [her request]…” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The History of Al-Tabari: The Last Years of the Prophet</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated and annotated by Ismail K. Poonawala [State University of New York Press, Albany, 1990], Volume IX (9), p. 139; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Even Muhammad’s child bride noticed something strange with Allah going out of his way to make sure that Muhammad’s carnal desires were fulfilled to his satisfaction:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Aisha: </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I used to look down upon those ladies who had given themselves to Allah’s Apostle</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and I used to say, “</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Can a lady give herself (to a man)?”</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> But when Allah revealed: “You (O Muhammad) can postpone (the turn of) whom you will of them (your wives), and you may receive any of them whom you will; and there is no blame on you if you invite one whose turn you have set aside (temporarily).’ (33.51) I said (to the Prophet), “</span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your wishes and desires</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=0&number=311"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 6, Book 60, Number 311</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Hisham’s father: Khaula bint Hakim was one of those ladies who presented themselves to the Prophet for marriage. ‘Aisha said, “Doesn’t a lady feel ashamed for presenting herself to a man?” But when the Verse: “(O Muhammad) You may postpone (the turn of) any of them (your wives) that you please,” (33.51) was revealed, ‘Aisha said, “O Allah’s Apostle! </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I do not see, but, that your Lord hurries in pleasing you</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=62&translator=1&start=0&number=48"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 7, Book 62, Number 48</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For more on this topic we recommend the following rebuttals:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="http://answering-islam.org/Shamoun/badawi_mhd_marriages1.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad’s multiple marriages</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style="background: rgb(255,255,255);"><a href="http://answering-islam.org/Shamoun/badawi_mhd_marriages2.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Never Shall He Be Satisfied</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="http://answering-islam.org/Responses/Osama/zawadi_safiyyah.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad’s Marriage to Safiyyah: A Case Study in Allah’s Mercy</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style="background: rgb(255,255,255);"><a href="http://answering-islam.org/Responses/Osama/zawadi_safiyyah2.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad’s Marriage to Safiyyah Revisited</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad and Safiyyah Revisited </span><a href="http://answering-islam.org/Responses/Osama/zawadi_safiyyah3a.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">3a</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://answering-islam.org/Responses/Osama/zawadi_safiyyah3b.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">3b</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In light of the foregoing, what further evidence does Brown need before he comes to his senses and realizes that Muhammad was not a moral example for anyone to emulate, let alone a true prophet of God. After all, how can a 54-year-old man who married a 9-year-old prepubescent minor that was still playing with her dolls, and then went ahead and permitted other men to wed premature girls as well, who also lusted after and took his adopted son’s wife and then proceeded to abolish adoption because of it in order to save face, and who even gave himself the license to have more wives than what he allowed for others, be God’s inspired emissary for all peoples at all times?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With that said, Brown must come to grips with reality and recognize that Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha violates even his own claim that all the surrounding cultures set puberty as the appropriate age for marriage, since all of Islam’s earliest and most reliable records clearly affirm that Aisha hadn’t reached puberty when Muhammad took her to his bed.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Brown must further face the fact that his assertion that no one complained about Muhammad’s marriage to a young girl is not only fallacious, seeing that it is nothing more than an argument from silence, but also totally irrelevant. After all, just because something is deemed to be appropriate by certain cultures doesn’t make it morally justifiable, especially when that practice results in irreparable psychological and physiological damage to children.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Besides, since Muhammad was supposed to be a role model for all times and places then his god would have surely known that marrying a premature minor, and permitting others to do so, would eventually come to be seen as pedophilia, as well as child abuse due to the great physical and emotional harm that such relationships cause to premature minors. Therefore, why didn’t Allah look out for the interests of these young girls, instead of doing what was best for Muhammad and his men? Where is the mercy and compassionate in that?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So much for Brown’s arguments.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Please make sure to read the postscript to this series of rebuttals.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-4/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-4/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-73029276104704057532024-02-23T18:42:00.001+01:002024-02-23T18:42:06.140+01:00Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 3<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We continue from where we previously left off.</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">A Role Model for All Times</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Even though Brown appeals to cultural norms to justify Muhammad’s marriage to a premature minor, he forgets to mention that fact that his prophet is supposed to be a role model for all peoples at all times. Therefore, why would Muhammad not only condone, but actually engage, in such a cultural practice seeing that he is supposed to be a mercy for mankind?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And We have sent you (O Muhammad) not but as a mercy for the ‘</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Alamin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (mankind, jinns and all that exists). S. 21:107 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, wouldn’t it have been more merciful for Brown’s moral and spiritual example to have abolished this practice of marrying and having sex with emotionally and physically immature females? Why then enshrine and engage in such a vile practice that leaves girls traumatized sexually, emotionally and physiologically?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Abolishing A Loving and Compassionate Institution</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">After all, didn’t Muhammad abolish adoption, which benefits both orphans and couples who cannot have children of their own?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Why then abolish such a humane practice, which brings great emotional healing and love to so many human lives, while sanctioning the sexual abuse of minors?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This becomes all the more troubling when we read the reason the Islamic sources give for Brown’s prophet getting rid of adoption. According to Muslim tradition, Q. 33:4-5 and 40 were “revealed” in response to the unbelievers mocking Muhammad for taking his adopted son’s wife in marriage:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… This verse was revealed about Zayd ibn Harithah. He was a slave of the Messenger of Allah </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but he freed him and adopted him before he was sent as a Prophet</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. When the Prophet married Zaynab bint Jahsh, who was the divorcee of Zayd ibn Harithah, </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Jews and hypocrites said: ‘Muhammad has married the wife of his son while forbidding people from doing the same!</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’ And so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse. Sa’id ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Nu’aym al-Ishkabi informed us> al-Hasan ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn Makhlid> Muhammad ibn Ishaq al-Thaqafi> Qutaybah ibn Sa’id> Ya’qub ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman> Musa ibn ‘Uqbah> Salim> ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Umar who used to say: ‘</span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We did not use to call Zayd ibn Harithah with any other name except Zayd ibn Muhammad until the Qur’an revealed</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Proclaim their real parentage. That will be more equitable in the sight of Allah) [33:5]’. This was narrated by Bukhari> Mu’alla ibn Asad> ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn al-Mukhtar> Musa ibn ‘Uqbah. (</span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=86&tSoraNo=33&tAyahNo=4&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi, </span></u></a><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=86&tSoraNo=33&tAyahNo=4&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Asbab al-Nuzu</span></u></i></a><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">l</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Muhammad is not the father of any man among you: </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">he is not Zayd’s biological father and so it is not unlawful for him to marry his [former] wife Zaynab [after him]</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” (</span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=33&tAyahNo=40&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><i><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What this means is that Muhammad only abolished adoption in order to save face since he was bothered by the accusation leveled against him that he had pretty much stolen his very own son’s wife, a practice which God’s Word condemns as sexual immorality:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.” Leviticus 18:15</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed perversion, their blood is upon them.” Leviticus 20:12</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To make matters worse, both the Quran and traditions indicate that Muhammad had already started lusting after his daughter-in-law while she was still married to his son, and that it was Allah who had decreed this to happen for the express purpose of showing men that they could also marry the divorcees of their adopted sons if they so desired:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And (remember) when you said to him (Zaid bin Harithah the freedslave of the Prophet) on whom Allah has bestowed Grace (by guiding him to Islam) and you (O Muhammad too) have done favour (by manumitting him) “Keep your wife to yourself, and fear Allah.” </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">But you did hide in yourself (</span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">i.e. what Allah has already made known to you that He will give her to you in marriage</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">) that which Allah will make manifest, you did fear the people (</span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">i.e., Muhammad married the divorced wife of his manumitted slave</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) whereas Allah had a better right that you should fear Him. So when Zaid had accomplished his desire from her (i.e. divorced her), </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We gave her to you in marriage, so that (in future) there may be no difficulty to the believers in respect of (the marriage of) the wives of their adopted sons when the latter have no desire to keep them (i.e. they have divorced them)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And Allah’s Command must be fulfilled. S. 33:37 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, this raises another major problem. How could Muhammad’s marriage to his daughter-in-law be an example for others when Allah decided to abolish the practice of adoption shortly afterwards? Isn’t this proof that Muhammad was simply looking for a pretext to justify lusting after his daughter-in-law?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">No matter how Muslim apologists try to spin this, the fact remains that both Muhammad and his deity stand condemned by the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who looks at a woman with lust</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> has already committed adultery with her in his heart… It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Matthew 5:27-28, 31-32</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to Christ, Muhammad was an adulterer who caused his son’s divorced wife to commit adultery with him. This means that Allah is in the business of turning people into sexual deviants and adulterers, a fact which Muhammad candidly admitted:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas: I did not see anything so resembling minor sins as what Abu Huraira said from the Prophet, who said, “</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah has written for the son of Adam his INEVITABLE share of adultery whether he is aware of it or not:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> The adultery of the eye is the looking (at something which is sinful to look at), and the adultery of the tongue is to utter (what it is unlawful to utter), and the innerself wishes and longs for (adultery) and the private parts turn that into reality or refrain from submitting to the temptation.” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=77&translator=1&start=0&number=609"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 8, Book 77, Number 609</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Verily Allah </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">has fixed the very portion of adultery which a man will indulge in, and which he OF NECESSITY MUST COMMIT</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (or there would be no escape from it). (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=033&translator=2&start=0&number=6421"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 033, Number 6421</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With this in mind, what kind of god would force people, specifically his own messenger, to commit adultery? And what kind of deity would abolish a loving, compassionate institution such as adoption in order to spare his prophet from enduring further humiliation from the people who rightfully complained and condemned him for taking his adopted son’s former spouse in marriage?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What all of this shows is that, far from being a mercy to mankind, Muhammad brought untold misery, pain and suffering to countless numbers of lives especially to young girls, as well as to orphans and barren couples who will never experience the joy of having a family to belong to, no thanks to Allah and his messenger!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In light of the foregoing, we need to ask Dr. Brown whether he really is ok with his prophet doing away with adoption, which benefits millions of people by placing orphaned children into the arms of loving families, especially couples who can’t have children of their own, while sanctioning the inhumane practice of grown men marrying and having sex with prepubescent minors.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Marrying Minors – A Cultural Practice?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Besides, not all Muslims agree that it was culturally acceptable for grown men to marry and/or have sex with physically and psychologically premature minors. Moiz Amjad of </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Understanding Islam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> says:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In my opinion, neither was it an Arab tradition to give away girls in marriage at an </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">age</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> as young as nine or ten years, nor did the Prophet marry </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ayesha</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> at such a young </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">age</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. The people of Arabia did not object to this marriage, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">because it never happened in the manner it has been narrated</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><a href="http://www.understanding-islam.com/what-was-ayesha-s-ra-age-at-the-time-of-her-marriage-to-the-prophet-pbuh/"><i><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">What was Ayesha’s </span></i><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Age</span></i></b><i><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> at the Time of Her Marriage to the Prophet?</span></i></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following Muslim agrees with Amjad over against Brown:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A Christian friend asked me once, “Will you marry your seven year old daughter to a fifty year old man?” I kept my silence. He continued, “If you would not, how can you approve the marriage of an innocent seven year old, Ayesha, with your Prophet?” I told him, “I don’t have an answer to your question at this time.” My friend smiled and left me with a thorn in the heart of my faith. Most Muslims answer that such marriages were accepted in those days. Otherwise, people would have objected to Prophet’s marriage with Ayesha.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">However, such an explanation would be gullible only for those who are naive enough to believe it</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. But unfortunately, I was not satisfied with the answer.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Prophet was an exemplary man. All his actions were most virtuous so that we, Muslims, can emulate them. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">However, most people in our Islamic Center of Toledo, including me, would not think of betrothing our seven years daughter to a fifty-two year-old man. If a parent agrees to such a wedding, most people, if not all, would look down upon the father and the old husband</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In 1923, registrars of marriage in Egypt were instructed not to register and issue official certificates of marriage for brides less than sixteen and grooms less than eighteen years of age. Eight years later, the Law of the Organization and Procedure of Sheriah courts of 1931 consolidated the above provision by not hearing the marriage disputes involving brides less than sixteen and grooms less than eighteen years old. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Women in Muslim Family Law</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, John Esposito, 1982). </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">It shows that even in the Muslim majority country of Egypt the child marriages are unacceptable</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So, I believed, without solid evidence other than my reverence to my Prophet, that the stories of the marriage of seven-year-old Ayesha to 50-year-old Prophet are only myths. However, my long pursuit in search of the truth on this matter proved my intuition correct. My Prophet was a gentleman. And he did not marry an innocent seven or nine year old girl. The age of Ayesha has been erroneously reported in the hadith literature. Furthermore, I think that the narratives reporting this event are highly unreliable. Some of the hadith (traditions of the Prophet) regarding Ayesha’s age at the time of her wedding with prophet are problematic. I present the following evidences against the acceptance of the fictitious story by Hisham ibn ‘Urwah and to clear the name of my Prophet </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">as an irresponsible old man preying on an innocent little girl</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (T.O. Shanavas, </span><a href="http://www.ilaam.net/Articles/Ayesha.html"><i><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Was Ayesha A Six-Year-Old Bride? The Ancient Myth Exposed</span></i></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is rather intriguing that those who reject the claims of the hadith that Muhammad married Aisha at nine have no problem admitting that such marriages with premature girls were not the norm or morally acceptable. On the other hand, those who accept these narrations as genuine are forced to argue that these marriages were normal during that time and therefore morally unobjectionable, in order to justify what Muhammad did!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Unfortunately for Amjad and Shanavas, Muhamamd’s marriage to a 9-year-old minor is one of the best-attested “facts” in their prophet’s life since it is found in their earliest and most “reliable” sources. Therefore, these men have no choice but to accept that according to their very own apologetic, Muhammad did something that was deemed to be inappropriate behavior for a grown man to engage even by the cultural standards of that day.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here are a few articles that provide a rigorous and thorough refutation of all the arguments set forth by Amjad, Shanavas and others like them who seek to undermine the veracity of the Islamic reports, which attest to the fact of Aisha being a young 9-year-old girl when Muhammad slept with her:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="https://www.abc.se/home/m9783/ir/d/aam1_e.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Ā’isha’sAge at the Time of Her Marriage</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="https://www.abc.se/home/m9783/ir/d/aam2_e.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">More on ‘Ā’isha’s </span></u><b><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Age</span></b><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> at the Time of Her Marriage</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="https://islamistruth.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/the-age-of-aishah_s-marriage-between-historians-and-hadith-scholars.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The </span></u><b><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Age</span></b><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> of Aishah’s </span></u><b><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Marriage</span></b><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Between Historians and Hadith Scholars</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="http://islamqa.info/en/124483"><b><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Age</span></b><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> of the Mother of the Believers ‘Aa’ishah when the Prophet married her</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="http://islamqa.info/en/122534"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Refutation of the lie that the Prophet married ‘Aa’ishah when she was 18 years old</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And Muslims still want to call this man a mercy for humanity?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Moreover, the Quran condemned anyone who would even think of marrying Muhammad’s women after his death:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… And it is not (right) for you that you should annoy Allah’s Messenger, nor that you should ever marry his wives after him (his death). Verily! With Allah that shall be an enormity.” S. 33:53 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This means that all of Muhammad’s wives were forced to become widows for the rest of their lives, especially Aisha who was widowed at the young age of 18. Thus, Aisha was robbed of the joy of having children or having a husband to love and care for her all the days that she lived. Where, then, is the mercy in all this?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now does Brown truly want us to think that Muhammad’s marriages were a display of his great mercy and compassion when wives such as Aisha ended up becoming widowed in their late teens or, in some cases, early twenties, and who were then forced to remain unmarried for so many years afterwards? Is this what Brown really believes in his heart? We truly hope not and pray that, by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, this learned professor will come to see all of this for what it actually is.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Brown’s problems are still not over as we are about to see in the fourth part of our discussion.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-3/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-3/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-85283165416406751272024-02-23T18:40:00.005+01:002024-02-23T18:40:40.704+01:00Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 2<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We proceed with our response to Brown’s assertions.</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is what Brown further wrote in an attempt to defend Muhammad’s marriage to a minor:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The reason that no pre-modern critics paid attention to the Prophet’s marriage to a ten-year-old was because marrying girls considered underage today was commonplace in the pre-modern world. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Under Roman law, the earliest permitted age for marriage WAS TWELVE</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. In the heyday of the Roman Empire (2nd century CE), </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">BY FOURTEEN</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> a girl was considered an adult whose primary purpose was marriage. In many pre-modern law codes, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">such as Hebrew biblical law </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and Salic Frankish law, marriage was not a question at all. It was assumed that </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">when a girl REACHED PUBERTY</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and was able to bear children, she was ready for marriage.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“As a result, we find that average marriage ages in the pre-modern world were remarkably young. Surviving evidence from several centuries of imperial Roman history suggests that as many as 8% of women married at ten or eleven. In Italy in the 1300s and 1400s, the average age for women was sixteen to seventeen. Even in an 1861 census in England, over 350 women married under the age of fifteen in just two countries that year. According to both Christian and Muslim teachings, the Virgin Mary was not the mature maternal figure seen in artwork about the Bible. She was at most in her MID-TEENS, having only just begun menstruating, and is reported to have been as young as ten years old.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Muhammad’s decision to consummate his marriage to a ten-year-old would have been based </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ON THE SAME CRITERIA AS MOST PRE-MODERN SOCIETIES: AISHA’S SEXUAL MATURITY</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and readiness to bear a child. Consummation of the marriage would have occurred </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">when she had menstruated</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND STARTED PUBERTY</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. As the great Muslim historian al-Tabari (d. 923) reported, ‘At the time of her marriage contract Aisha was young and not capable of intercourse.’ Three or four years later, however, she was able. Aisha herself would later remark that a girl can menstruate as young as nine and thus, ‘become a woman’.” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, pp. 77-78; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Unfortunately for Brown, the claims he makes here are going to backfire against him.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To begin with, al-Tabari did not say or even imply that Muhammad only had sex with Aisha when she reached puberty. That is a gross misreading of al-Tabari’s words. Here is what this renowned scholar and commentator actually wrote:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Ja‘far [al-Tabari]: The Messenger of God did not marry another woman during the life of Khadijah until she passed away. When she died, the Messenger of God got married, but [opinions] differ as to whom he married first after Khadijah. Some say that it was ‘A’isha bt. Abi Bakr al-Siddiq, while others say that it was Sawdah bt. Zam‘ah b. Qays b. ‘Abd Shams b. ‘Abd Wudd b. Nasr. As for ‘A’ishah, </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">when he married her she was very young and not yet ready for consummation</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, whereas Sawdah was already married before… (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The History of al-Tabari: The Last Years of the Prophet</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated and annotated by Ismail K. Poonawala [State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany, NY 1990] Volume IX (9), p. 128; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As the readers can see for themselves, al-Tabari says absolutely nothing about Aisha attaining puberty at the age of nine, or that this was the reason why her parents waited three years before allowing her marriage to be consummated. If anything, one can argue that she was physically too young for a grown man to penetrate and so she had to wait a few more years before she would be able to handle having sex with a 54 year old man.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Furthermore, as we stated in the first part of our rebuttal the hadiths provide ample evidence that Aisha had not reached puberty when Muhammad had sex with her, since they report that she continued playing with dolls long after Muhammad had taken her to his bed:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A’isha reported that Allah’s Apostle married her when she was seven years old, </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and he was taken to his house AS A BRIDE WHEN SHE WAS NINE, AND HER DOLLS WERE WITH HER</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died she was eighteen years old. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=008&translator=2&start=0&number=3311"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 008, Number 3311</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And according to Muslim scholars such as Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, the reason why Aisha was allowed to continue playing with her dolls is because she hadn’t attained puberty yet:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated ‘Aisha: </span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I used to play with the dolls in the presence of the Prophet, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and my girl friends also used to play with me</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. When Allah’s Apostle used to enter (my dwelling place) they used to hide themselves, but the Prophet would call them to join and play with me. (The playing with the dolls and similar images is forbidden, but it was allowed for ‘Aisha at that time, as she was a little girl, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">NOT YET REACHED THE AGE OF PUBERTY</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.) (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Fateh-al-Bari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> page 143, Vol.13) (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=73&translator=1&start=0&number=151"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 8, Book 73, </span></u></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=73&translator=1&start=0&number=151"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Number 151</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In fact, the Muslim scholars were still debating whether Aisha had reached puberty at the age of 14!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Haafiz goes on to say: [43: Fath al-Baaree 10/400, Baab (91), related to Hadeeth no.5954, 5955.]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Daawood and An-Nasaa’ee have narrated with another chain (wajh aakhar) from ‘Aa’isha that she said:</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">” The Messenger of Allah returned from the battle of Tabook or Khaibar…”</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here he mentioned the Hadeeth about his tearing down the curtain which she attached to her door. She said:</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">” Then the side of the curtain which was over the dolls of ‘Aa’isha was uncovered. He said: What is this, O ‘Aa’isha? She said: My dolls. She then said: then he saw amongst them a winged horse which was tied up. He said: What is this? I said: A horse. He said: A horse with two wings? I said: Didn’t you hear that Sulaiman (Solomon) had horses with wings? Then he laughed” </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[44].</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Khattaabee said: From this Hadeeth it is understood that playing with dolls (al-banaat) is not like the amusement from other images (suwar) concerning which the threat (wa’eed) of punishment is mentioned. The only reason why permission in this was given to ‘Aa’isha </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is because SHE HAD NOT, AT THAT TIME, REACHED THE AGE OF PUBERTY</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[al-Haafiz says:] I say: To say with certainty, [that she was not yet at the age of puberty] is questionable, though it might possibly be so. </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">This, because ‘Aa’isha was a fourteen year old girl at the time of the Battle of Khaibar</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> – either exactly fourteen years old, or having just passed her fourteenth year [and entering into the fifteenth year], or approaching it (the fourteenth year).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As for her age at the time of the Battle of Tabook – she had by then definitely reached the age of puberty. </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Therefore, THE STRONGEST VIEW is that of those who said: “It was in Khaibar” [i.e. WHEN SHE WAS NOT YET AT THE AGE OF PUBERTY],</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and made reconciliation (jam’) [between the apparent contradictory rulings, of permissibility of dolls, in particular, and the prohibition of images, in general] with what al-Khattaabee said (above).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[al-Khattabee said that images are prohibited, except in the case of dolls for young girls]. This, because to reconcile (make jam’) is better than to assume the ahaadith to be in contradiction (at-ta’aarud). Here Shaykh Bin Baaz concludes his quotation from al-Haafiz, saying: The above is the essence of the words of al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Beneficial Response Concerning the Islamic Ruling of Pictures/Images</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, by Shaykh Abdul-Azeez Ibn Abdullah Ibn Baaz, rendered in English by Abu Muhammad </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/www.muslimconverts.com/e-books/image/image_disc.htm"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Abdur-Ra’uf Shakir</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pay close to attention to the fact that, according to the above reference, the strongest Islamic position is that Aisha had still not attained puberty during Muhammad’s expedition to Khaybar, an event that took place when she was already 14 years old!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hence, the foregoing Muslim scholars soundly refute and expose Brown’s deliberate misinterpretation of al-Tabari and his assertion that Aisha was already a pubescent girl when Muhammad had sex with her.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And here are some additional reports, which further confirm that Muhammad took Aisha to his bed when she was still too young:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Urwa bin Al-Musayyab, Alqama bin Waqqas and Ubaidullah bin Abdullah: About the story of ‘Aisha and their narrations were similar attesting each other, when the liars said what they invented about ‘Aisha, and the Divine Inspiration was delayed, Allah’s Apostle sent for ‘Ali and Usama to consult them in divorcing his wife (i.e. ‘Aisha). Usama said, “Keep your wife, as we know nothing about her except good.” Buraira said, “I cannot accuse her of any defect </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">except that she is still A YOUNG GIRL who sleeps</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, neglecting her family’s dough which the domestic goats come to eat (i.e. she was too simpleminded to deceive her husband).” Allah’s Apostle said, “Who can help me to take revenge over the man who has harmed me by defaming the reputation of my family? By Allah, I have not known about my family anything except good, and they mentioned (i.e. accused) a man about whom I did not know anything except good.” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=48&translator=1&start=0&number=805"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 3, Book 48, Number 805</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Buraira said, ‘No, by Allah Who has sent you with the Truth, I have never seen in her anything faulty </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">except that she is a girl of IMMATURE AGE</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, who sometimes sleeps and leaves the dough for the goats to eat.’…” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=48&translator=1&start=0&number=829"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 3, Book 48, Number 829</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… ‘A’isha said… The women in those days were light of weight and they did not wear much flesh, as they ate less food; so they did not perceive the weight of my haudaj as they placed it upon the camel </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">as I was A YOUNG GIRL at that time</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… Barira said: By Him Who sent thee with the truth, I have seen nothing objectionable in her but only this much </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that she is A YOUNG GIRL</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and she goes to sleep while kneading the flour and the lamb eats that…” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=037&translator=2&start=0&number=6673"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 037, Number 6673</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Notice how all these narrations continue to describe Aisha as a young and immature girl long after her marriage to Muhammad. Obviously, a girl who is portrayed this way is far from being ready for sexual intercourse with a grown man. Therefore, what business did a 54-year-old man have marrying a physically and emotionally immature minor?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is a summation of the evidence we have examined thus, which prove Aisha had not attained puberty when Muhammad had sex with her:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The hadiths claim that, at the time when Aisha went to live with Muhammad, she took her dolls with her and continued playing with them.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Muslim scholars explain that, though the playing of dolls is forbidden in Islam, Aisha was permitted to do so because she hadn’t attained puberty yet.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These same scholars argue that Aisha did not reach puberty until the age of 14, some five years after marrying Muhammad.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We’re not done just yet since we have more proof that Aisha hadn’t attained puberty at the time of the consummation of her marriage.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Note what the following hadith states:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Chapter 13. Marriage </span></b><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">OF MINOR GIRLS</span></u></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Arranged By Their Fathers.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1876. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated that ‘Aishah said: “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Messenger of Allah married me when I was six years old</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Then we came to Al-Madinah and settled among Banu Harith bin Khazraj. I became ill and my hair fell out, then it grew back and became abundant. My mother Umm Ruman came to me </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">while I was on an </span></u><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Urjuhah</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> with some of my friends</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and called for me. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">When I got my breath back</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, she took some water and wiped my face and head, and led me into the house</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">. </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There were some of women of the </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Ansar</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> inside the house, and they said: ‘With the blessings and good fortune (from Allah).’ (My mother) handed me over to them and they tidied me up. And suddenly I saw the Messenger of Allah in the morning. And she handed me over to him, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and I was at that time, nine years old</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Sahih</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Comments:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The marriage bond of a girl who is not yet adult (HAS NOT REACHED THE AGE OF PUBERTY) IS PERFECTLY VALID IN ISLAM.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-style: italic;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Urjuhah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> refers to both, a swing and a seesaw; it is a long piece of wood, its middle is placed at a high place and the children sit on both ends, when its one side goes down the other side goes up; it is called seesaw in English. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Sunan Ibn Majah – Compiled by Imam Muhammad Bin Yazeed Ibn Majah Al-Qazwini, From Hadith No. 1783 to 2718</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Ahadith edited and referenced by Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair ‘Ali Za’i, translated by Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Canada), final review by Abu Khaliyl (USA) [Darussalam Publications and Distributors, First Edition: June 2007], Volume 3, The Chapters on Marriage, pp. 76-77; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here again is a Muslim source candidly acknowledging that Aisha wasn’t pubescent when Muhammad slept with her. And we are once again told that Aisha was still playing with her child friends on a swing/seesaw on the very same day that Muhammad came to consummate the marriage (i.e. have sex with her)!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What would possess someone (a professor to boot!) to try and justify a 54-year-old man sleeping with a 9 old minor who was still playing with dolls and riding on swings/seesaws?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This isn’t the only time that a Muslim and/or hadith scholar used Aisha as an example of a prepubescent child being given away in marriage:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">XXXIX. A man giving his </span></b><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">YOUNG CHILDREN</span></u></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> in marriage</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">By the words of Allah,</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> “that also applies to those who have not yet menstruated”</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (65:4) and He made the </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘idda</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of a girl </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">BEFORE PUBERTY</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> three months.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">4840. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is related from ‘A’isha that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and consummated it when she was nine, and she was his wife for nine years. (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">The Sahih Collection of Al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Chapter 70. </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari35.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Book of Marriage</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is another version of the above narration:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(39) CHAPTER. Giving one’s </span></b><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">YOUNG CHILDREN</span></u></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> in marriage (is permissible).</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">By virtue of the Statement of Allah: “…and for those who have no (monthly) courses (i.e. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THEY ARE STILL IMMATURE</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) …” (v. 65:4)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And the </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Idda</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> for the girl </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">BEFORE PUBERTY</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is three months (in the above Verse).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">5133. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated ‘Aishah that the Prophet wrote the marriage contract with her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was none years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death). (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">The Translation of the Meanings of Sahih Al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan [Darussalam Publishers& Distributors, Riyadh – Saudi Arabia, July 1997], Volume 7, Ahadith 5063 to 5969, 67 – Book of </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">An-Nikah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (The Wedlock), p. 57; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Bukhari employs the example of Aisha’s marriage to Muhammad at the age of 9 to illustrate the meaning of Q. 65:4, a verse which permits grown men to marry and have sex with young prepubescent girls. Now the Aisha’s example only works here if in fact Muhammad married her before she had reached maidenhood.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thus, even though it may be true that some girls attain puberty at a younger age this is normally not the case, nor was it the case with Aisha as the preceding evidence conclusively proves. More importantly, just because a 9-year-old girl may have already reached puberty this doesn’t mean that she is physically and psychologically ready to sleep with a grown man, especially one who was 54 years old!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To make matters worse, Muhammad’s marriage to a minor set precedence for other men to follow suit, and even became enshrined in the Quran for future generations:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And if you are in doubt as to the prescribed period for such of your women as have despaired of monthly courses, then know that the prescribed period for them is three months, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and also for such AS DO NOT HAVE not have their monthly courses YET</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And as for those who are with child, their period shall be until they are delivered of their burden. And whoso fears ALLAH, HE will provide facilities for him in his affair. S. 65:4 Sher Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The surrounding context deals with the issue of the waiting period for divorcing and remarrying. Essentially, the Quran is informing Muslims to wait for a certain period of time before making the divorce final or deciding to forego it. The Islamic scripture exhorts men to wait a period of three months in the case of women who either are no longer menstruating or haven’t even started their menstrual cycles. Thus, the Islamic scripture is allowing men to marry and have sex with young minors!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is further brought out from the fact that according to Quran 33:49, there is no waiting period for a woman whose marriage hasn’t been consummated by sexual intercourse. Here, once again, is al-Bukhari:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Sahl bin Sad:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> While we were sitting in the company of the Prophet a woman came to him and presented herself (for marriage) to him. The Prophet looked at her, lowering his eyes and raising them, but did not give a reply. One of his companions said, “Marry her to me O Allah’s Apostle!” The Prophet asked (him), “Have you got anything?” He said, “I have got nothing.” The Prophet said, “Not even an iron ring?” He said, “Not even an iron ring, but I will tear my garment into two halves and give her one half and keep the other half.” The Prophet; said, “No. Do you know some of the Quran (by heart)?” He said, “Yes.” The Prophet said, “Go, I have agreed to marry her to you with what you know of the Qur’an (as her Mahr).” ‘And for those who have no courses (i.e. they are still immature). (65.4) </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND THE ‘IDDAT FOR THE GIRL BEFORE PUBERTY IS THREE MONTHS (in the above Verse).</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=62&translator=1&start=0&number=63"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Volume 7, Book 62, Number 63</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, Muhammad’s god is actually permitting men to marry and have sex with prepubescent girls, as well as giving them the right to divorce their child brides if they so desired!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now let us see how some of Islam’s greatest scholars and expositors interpreted Q. 65:4, beginning with Ibn Kathir:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… There is a third type of divorce, which is neither a Sunnah nor an innovation where one divorces </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">A YOUNG WIFE WHO HAS NOT BEGUN TO HAVE MENSES</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the wife who is beyond the age of having menses, and divorcing one’s wife before the marriage was consummated…” (</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1323&Itemid=121"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Q. 65:1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and italicized emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The `Iddah of Those in Menopause and Those Who do not have Menses</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah the Exalted clarifies the waiting period of the woman in menopause. And that is the one whose menstruation has stopped due to her older age. Her `Iddah is three months instead of the three monthly cycles for those who menstruate, which is based upon the Ayah in (Surat) Al-Baqarah. [see 2:228] </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The same for THE YOUNG, WHO HAVE NOT REACHED THE YEARS OF MENSTRUATION</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… (</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1316&Itemid=121"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Q. 65:4</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and italicized emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Finally:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Abu Ishaq al-Muqri’ informed us> Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Hamdun> Makki ibn ‘Abdan> Abu’l-Azhar> Asbat ibn Muhammad> Mutarrif> Abu ‘Uthman ‘Amr ibn Salim who said: “When the waiting period for divorced and widowed women was mentioned in Surah al-Baqarah, Ubayy ibn Ka‘b said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, some women of Medina are saying: there are other women who have not been mentioned!’ He asked him: ‘And who are they?’ He said: ‘</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THOSE WHO ARE TOO YOUNG [SUCH THAT THEY HAVE NOT STARTED MENSTRUATING YET</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">], those who are too old [whose menstruation has stopped] and those who are pregnant’. And so this verse (And for such of your women as despair of menstruation…) was revealed’.” (</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002020/http:/altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=86&tSoraNo=65&tAyahNo=4&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><i><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi</span></i></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and italicized emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Keep in mind that Brown himself stated that nearly all the people before, during and after Muhammad’s time (e.g., the pre-modern world as Brown calls it) adopted puberty as the earliest possible age when a girl could get married. As such, Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha went against the standards set by all the different cultures of his own day in respect to what they deemed to be appropriate sexual relations.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Worse still, by permitting marriages with prepubescent girls the Quran fails to live up to the very criterion adopted by virtually everyone (as Brown himself admits), despite the fact that it’s supposed to be the uncreated speech of the Creator and Sustainer of all creation who supposedly knows what is best for mankind.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We hate to break this to Brown but we are far from finished. Therefore, please proceed to the third part of our refutation.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-2/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-68014215341182681972024-02-23T18:38:00.000+01:002024-02-23T18:38:39.112+01:00Revisiting the Age of Aisha Pt. 1<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">In this rebuttal we are going to be addressing another shameful attempt to justify Muhammad’s marriage to a 9-year-old minor. The following comments and interaction are taken from the website of Muslim apologist and Georgetown professor Jonathan A. C. Brown:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">bigdumbbear 7 points 6 months ago</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Dr. Brown if you do not mind, one more question!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The age of Aisha at the time of her marriage to Prophet Muhammad.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Keep in mind that I (and many others on this board) became your biggest fan after your video response to this question. My question is as follows: The critics admit that the age of Aisha between 9 and 12 when she married the Prophet was not out of the norm at that time. However, they argue, that Prophet Muhammad is the role model of humanity and hence, him marrying Aisha at that age means that either Prophet Muhammad was not a role model in every way, but a product of his time and place and also that since marrying at 9 in this day and age is a crime in pretty much every country out there that would then mean that Prophet Muhammad’s actions do not have meaning today. Sorry if this came out as a stream of consciousness. Would you address this issue with regards to Lady Aisha’s age? Thank you kindly sir.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.blogger.com/null"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">[–]</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">DrJonathanBrown [S] 29 points 6 months ago</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Salam, the Prophet’s marrying Aisha at the age of nine was not unusual at the time. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We know this because there is no record of him being criticized for this</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, while the Quran does record criticisms of his marriage to Zainab, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">which was controversial and unusual at the time</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. The Prophet’s actions are not all normative for us; we do not have to do everything he did, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and in many cases, </span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">it would not be right to act as he did in our particular circumstances</span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">. We know that because according to a Hadith in the Sunan of Al-Nasai, the Prophet did not allow his daughter Fatima to marry Abu Bakr </span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">because of the age difference between the two</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Finally, there are some elements of the Prophet’s Sunnah that are actually prohibited for us, like continuous fasting </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and marrying more than four women</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. To say that “the Prophet being our role model” means that we have to do everything he did is to misunderstand the nature of the Sunnah’s normative quality.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.blogger.com/null"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">[–]</span></u></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.reddit.com/user/bizzish"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">bizzish</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 2 points 6 months ago</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Fatima (ra) married Abu Bakr?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Don’t you mean Ali?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.blogger.com/null"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">[–]</span></u></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.reddit.com/user/tinkthank"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tinkthank</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 3 points 6 months ago</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Re-read his comment.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Prophet did not allow his daughter Fatima to marry Abu Bakr because of the age difference between the two</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ali (ra) was married to Fatima</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.blogger.com/null"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">[–]</span></u></a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.reddit.com/user/Dirtydunn"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Dirtydunn</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 1 point 6 months ago</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">You misread. He saying that rasulallah didn’t marry Fatima to abu bakr RA for the reason of age differences. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Abu bakr is about two years younger than rasulallah and about 27 years older than Fatima</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">You could come out with the understanding that when looking for a potential spouse for your child that you look at their fitrah (nature). Some children may have no problems with a large age gap while others may have problems. (Dr. Jonathan Brown, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.reddit.com/r/islam/comments/3h1abm/this_is_dr_jonathan_brown_professor_at_georgetown/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">/r/Islam!</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We’ll have more to say about Muhammad prohibiting Abu Bakr from marrying Fatima due to the age difference a little later.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Brown makes the same point in his book on Muhammad:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“There is nothing more controversial to the modern reader than Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha, who is believed to have been between nine and ten years old when the marriage was consummated. (</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The MOST RELIABLE historical sources on this marriage are the </span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih </span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith collections of al-Bukhari and Muslim</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (see Chapter 3)). Interestingly, no critic of Muhammad, from his fiercest opponents in the Quraysh to medieval Christian clerics, objected to his marriage to so young a wife until the modern period. This is noteworthy, since there has certainly never been a shortage of detractors seeking chinks in the armour of Muhammad’s character to exploit.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“It was his marriage to Zaynab, his adopted son’s former wife, which attracted criticism even during Muhammad’s own lifetime. The fact that Zayd is one of only two contemporaries of Muhammad ever mentioned in the Quran (the other is Abu Lahab), as well as the book’s sizeable passage on the Zaynab episode, testifies to the controversy surrounding Muhammad’s marriage to her. One of the earliest Christian polemicists against Islam, John of Damascus (d. 749), accused Muhammad of ‘tailoring’ the Quranic laws on marriage and adoption to legitimize his ‘desire’ for Zaynab. This accusation has been repeated endlessly throughout Christian writings on Islam. The 13th-century English historian Matthew Paris, for example, wrote in his great chronicle that Muhammad had pronounced polygamy permissible to cover up an affair with a servant’s (presumably Zayd’s) wife.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> [Oxford University Press Inc., New York 2011], pp. 76-77; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Suffice it to say Brown’s claims are brimming with errors, as we are about to demonstrate.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To begin with, Brown is doing nothing more than to argue from silence, which is a gross logical fallacy. Just because we have no extant written record of people raising an objection to a 54-year-old Muhammad marrying a 9-year-old minor doesn’t mean that no one ever objected. The only thing this proves is that no one preserved a written record of any complaint. As such, absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This brings us to the next point. As Brown acknowledges, Muhammad objected to giving his young daughter in marriage to either Abu Bakr or Umar:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">7) Chapter: A Woman Marrying Someone </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WHO IS SIMILAR IN AGE TO HER</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated ‘Abdullah bin Buraidah: It was narrated from ‘Abdullah bin Buraidah that his father said: “Abu Bakr and ‘Umar proposed marriage to Fatimah but the Messenger of Allah said: </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘SHE IS YOUNG.’ Then ‘Ali proposed marriage to her AND HE MARRIED HER TO HIM</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Sahih</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Reference: Sunan an-Nasa’i 3221</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In-book reference: Book 26, Hadith 26</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English translation: Vol. 4, Book 26, Hadith 3223 (</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/http:/sunnah.com/nasai/26/26"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunnah.com</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Some say that Fatima was born in the year 605 AD, while others say it was 615 AD. According to the Islamic sources, Fatima married Ali in the second year of the Hirah, which would be approximately 624 AD. This places her age at the time of her marriage at either 9 or 19. Keep in mind that Abu Bakr is believed to have been born around the year 573 AD, while Umar’s birth is placed at approximately 583 AD. This means that Abu Bakr was 51 years old, while Umar was 41 years old, when they had asked for Fatima’s hand in marriage.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Either age raises problems for Muhammad’s marriage with Aisha. If Fatima was too young at 9 to marry either Abu Bakr or Umar then what does this say about Aisha’s marriage seeing that she was the exact same age when a 54 year old Muhammad took her to bed? In fact, the hadiths say that Aisha was still playing with her dolls and on swings when Muhammad took her home to have sex with her:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘A’isha reported: </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah’s Messenger married me when I was six years old,</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and I was admitted to his house at the age of nine</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She further said: We went to Medina and I had an attack of fever for a month, and my hair had come down to the earlobes. Umm Ruman (my mother) came to me </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and I was at that time on a swing along with my playmates</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She called me loudly and I went to her and I did not know what she had wanted of me. She took hold of my hand and took me to the door, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and I was saying: Ha, ha (as if I was gasping), until the agitation of my heart was over</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She took me to a house, where had gathered the women of the Ansar. They all blessed me and wished me good luck and said: May you have share in good. She (my mother) entrusted me to them. They washed my head and embellished me and nothing frightened me. Allah’s Messenger came there in the morning, </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and I was entrusted to him</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/http:/searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=008&translator=2&start=0&number=3309"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 008, Number 3309</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘A’isha reported that Allah’s Apostle married her when she was seven years old, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and she was taken to his house as a bride when she was nine, </span></b><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and her dolls were with her</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and when he (the Holy Prophet) died </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">she was eighteen years old</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 008, Number 3311)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Aisha said: The Apostle of Allah married me when I was seven years old. The narrator Sulaiman said: Or six years. </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He had intercourse with me when I was nine years old</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunan Abu Dawud</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/http:/sunnah.com/abudawud/12/76"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Book 11, Number 2116</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yunus b. Bukayr stated, from Hisham b. ‘Urwa, from his father who said, “The Messenger of God married ‘A’isha three years after (the death of) Khadija. At that time (of the contract) ‘A’isha had been a girl of six. When he married her she was nine. The Messenger of God died when ‘A’isha was a girl of eighteen.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This tradition is considered </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">gharib </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(unique in this line).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Bukhari had related, from ‘Ubayd b. Isma‘il, from Abu Usama, from Hisham b. ‘Urwa, from his father, who said, “Khadija died three years before the emigration of the Prophet. He allowed a couple of years or so to pass after that, and then he contracted marriage with ‘A’isha when she was six, thereafter consummating marriage with her when she was nine years old.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What ‘Urwah stated here is </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mursal</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, incomplete, as we mentioned above, but in its content it must be judged as </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">muttasil</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, uninterrupted.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">His statement, “He contracted marriage with ‘A’isha when she was six, thereafter consummating marriage with her when she was nine” </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IS NOT DISPUTED BY ANYONE, and is well established in the </span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">sahih </span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">collections of traditions and elsewhere</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (Ibn Kathir, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by professor Trevor Le Gassick, reviewed by Dr. Muneer Fareed [Garnet Publishing Limited, 8 Southern Court, south Street Reading RG1 4QS, UK; The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, first paperback edition, 2000], Volume II, pp. 93-94; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If instead we go with the age of 19 then what does this say of a 9 year old minor marrying a man that was old enough to be her great great grandfather? After all, if a 19-year-old girl was too young to marry a 51 or a 41 year old man, then how much more a 9-year-old girl? How could it be right for a 54-year-old man to bed someone so young in age, especially when that man is supposed to be a prophet whom God sent to be an example for all humanity? More on this last point later.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And if Fatima was too young for marriage then why did her father marry her off to his paternal first cousin Ali? After all, if she were too young for either Abu Bakr or Umar then this would also make her too young for Ali as well.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Or should we take this as another instance of Muhammad telling a boldfaced lie, especially to his two best friends, since it wasn’t that he believed she was too young, but that he didn’t want to give her in marriage to them since he intended to give her away to his first cousin? Muhammad, therefore, had to come up with some excuse for his unwillingness to wed his daughter to his two fathers-in-law.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now a Muslim may argue (as Brown himself does above) that the point of the hadith isn’t that Fatima was too young to get married. Rather, what Muhammad meant was that she was too young to marry someone as old as Abu Bakr or Umar. Yet even this explanation raises problems. After all, if a 51-year-old Abu Bakr and a 41-year-old Umar were too old to marry someone as young as Fatima then again what does this say about a 54-year-old Muhammad marrying a 9 year old minor still playing with her dolls?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Besides, what does this say about Muhammad’s consistency or lack thereof? Doesn’t this again perfectly illustrate that Muhammad failed to practice what he preached, and was therefore a hypocrite, since he imposed rules and restrictions upon others that he himself did not follow?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This isn’t the only case where a person was reprimanded for desiring to marry a young premature girl. When the Caliph Umar asked to marry Ali’s daughter, he was expressly told that she wasn’t mature enough for marriage:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The marriage of `Umar with Umm Kulthum al-Hashimiyya (6 – 49) the daughter of `Ali and Fatima took place on the year 17 of the Hijra. `Ali gave her away to `Umar upon his request although he was afraid at first that `Umar might not accept her due to her youth and because he wished her to marry one of her cousins among the sons of Ja`far ibn Abi Talib. But `Umar said, “Marry her to me for I swear I have toward her more dedication to excellent companionship than any man on the face of the earth.”…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ibn Kathir’s Tarikh states the year 16 for the marriage of `Umar with Umm Kulthum; </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">so she was between 10 and 12</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> since her date of birth is mentioned by al-Dhahabi in Siyar A`lam al-Nubala’ as around the 6th year after the Hijra. Allah knows best from where the claim that she “was 5 or 4” comes from…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Sunnis do not claim that she was 4 or 5 in the year 17 </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but 11 or 12</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What was the age for Omar at the time of the marriage?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Approximately forty-seven. </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Umm Kulthum was between 10 and 12</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When Omar died what was the age of Umm Kulthum?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Between 17 and 19. `Umar was fifty-four or five. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Marriage of `Umar ibn al-Khattab with Umm Kulthum bint ‘Ali</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, by </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104002015/https:/www.abc.se/~m9783/o/umuk_e.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">GF Haddad</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘Umar asked ‘Ali for the hand of his daughter, Umm Kulthum in marriage. ‘Ali replied that </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">she has not yet attained the age (of maturity)</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. ‘Umar replied, </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘By Allah, this is not true</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. You do not want her to marry me. </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">If she is underage</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, send her to me’. Thus ‘Ali gave his daughter Umm Kulthum a dress and asked her to go to ‘Umar and tell him that her father wants to know what this dress is for. When she came to Umar and gave him the message, </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">he grabbed her hand and forcibly pulled her towards him. ‘Umm Kulthum asked him to leave her hand</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which Umar did and said, ‘You are a very mannered lady with great morals. Go and tell your father that you are very pretty and you are not what he said of you’. With that ‘Ali married Umm Kulthum to ‘Umar.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Tarikh Khamees, Volume 2, p. 384 (‘Dhikr Umm Kalthum’) and Zakhair Al-Aqba, </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_72_XXX.docx#Umar.27s_Marriage_to_Umm_Kulthum"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">p. 168</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is the final reference:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Umar marries Umm Kulthum Daughter of ‘Ali</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 5.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 5.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">fo. 79a-b</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This and some of the following traditions have nothing to do with the Sira proper and belong in time to the caliphate. After reporting that Zayd and an unnamed girl were born of the marriage, Ibn Ishaq reports a tradition from ‘Asim ibn ‘Umar ibn Qatada to the effect that when ‘Umar asked ‘Ali for Umm Kulthum’s hand </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Ali made the excuse that she was too young</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. ‘Umar replied that that was not the real reason for his hesitation: he wanted to refuse his consent. Let him send her to him that he might see for himself. So ‘Ali gave her a robe and told her to go to the commander of the faithful and say, “My father says ‘What do you think of this dress?'” She went and said these words and ‘Umar took hold of her shift. </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">She tried to get it from him saying</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Let go</span></u></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">!”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and he let go exclaiming “A virtuous woman! Go and say to him ‘It is fine and beautiful, not at all as you said it was’.” (Alfred Guillaume, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">New Light on the Life of Muhammad </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[Manchester University Press], </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_72_XXX.docx#v=onepage&q=umar%20marriage%20to%20umm%20kulthum%20too%20young&f=false"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">p. 50</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We are again confronted with a situation where a 10-12 year old girl is said to be too young to get married, especially to a 47-year-old man.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Once again, if a 10-12 year old girl is not mature enough to marry then what do we say of a 9-year-old minor who hadn’t reached puberty yet marrying a man old enough to be her great great grandfather? After all, if the age of 47 made Umar too old for Umm Kulthum, then what does this say of a 54 year-old Muhammad marrying a prepubescent child?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">More importantly, these examples of Muhammad and Ali complaining about the young age of Fatima and Umm Kulthum expose the boldfaced lie that no one at that time had a problem with grown men marrying and having sex with prepubescent minors.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is just the beginning of Brown’s woes, as we shall see in the next part of our rebuttal.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-1/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/07/revisiting-the-age-of-aisha-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-8492312388535403562024-01-25T19:01:00.007+01:002024-01-25T19:01:54.502+01:00More Quranic Proofs for the Deity of Christ<p><b style="text-align: center;"><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Jesus as the Bearer of Divine Names and Functions</span></b></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In this article I am going to be examining some of the specific names and qualities, which Islamic theology ascribes to Allah and show how these very same characteristics are attributed to Jesus in the Quran itself. This in turn will prove that the Muslim scripture ends up contradicting itself in so far that it affirms the Deity of Christ, while claiming that he is nothing more than a servant of Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As-Subbûh, Al-Quddûs: The All-Perfect, Utterly Pure</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subbuh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is from </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subhan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which is glorification and tanzih, disconnecting and elevating Him above any others. He is All-Perfect, All-Pure, All Glorious, far removed from everything evil and imperfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means pure (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tahir, munazzah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), pure and free of any imperfection .He is far removed from every imperfection or impurity or from anything that would detract from His glory, and disconnected from every description perceived by the senses and thought, All-Holy, All-Pure, All-Perfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Some say </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subbuh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> denies imperfection and </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> affirms perfection.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“He is Allah. There is no god but Him. He is the King, the Most Pure.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (59:23)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth glorifies Allah, the King, the Most Pure, the Mighty, the Wise.” </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(62:1)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">At-Tâhir: The Pure</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pure of every bad action and any imperfection or any corporal distinction.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran claims that Jesus was perfectly pure from conception:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He said, “I am the messenger of your Lord, to grant you </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a pure son</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” S. 19:19 Khalifa</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on thee </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a faultless son</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is how some of Islam’s greatest exegetes interpreted this particular text:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Tabari</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… A child who is </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">zakiyyan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one who is pure from sins…” [10th Century AD </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=1&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=1&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Baghawi</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">{… </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">zakiyyan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">} a righteous son who is pure from sins. [12th Century AD </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=13&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=13&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ar-Razi</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… One who is </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">zakiyy</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> provides the following intentions: First, that he is pure from sins. Second, that he will grow in purity (be a testimonial)…Third, integrity and purity…” [13th Century AD </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=4&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&Page=2&Size=1&LanguageId=1"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=4&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&Page=2&Size=1&LanguageId=1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ibn Al-Jawzi</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">{… </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">zakiyyan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">} pure from sins. [13th Century AD </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=15&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=15&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Baydawi</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">{</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">zakiyyan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">} pure from sins… [14th Century AD </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=6&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=6&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Khazin</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">{… </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">zakiyyan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">} Ibn Abbas said: a righteous son who is pure from sins. [14th Century AD </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=18&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&Page=2&Size=1&LanguageId=1"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=18&tSoraNo=19&tAyahNo=19&tDisplay=yes&Page=2&Size=1&LanguageId=1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The ahadith provide further confirmation for Jesus’ being absolutely sinless and perfect:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“They will go to Musa and say, ‘O Musa, you are the Messenger of Allah. Allah preferred you with His message and His Word above all othr people. Intercede with your Lord for us. Do you not see what we are suffering?’ He will say, ‘My Lord is angry today with such anger as has never existed before nor will again. I killed a soul which I was not commanded to kill. Go to someone else. Go to ‘Isa.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“They will go to ‘Isa and say, ‘O ‘Isa! You are the Messenger of Allah </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and His Word which He cast to Maryam and a spirit from Him</span></b><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> You spoke to people while in the cradle. Intercede with your Lord on our behalf. Do you not see what we are suffering?’ ‘Isa will say, ‘My Lord is angry today with such anger as has never existed before nor will again,’ </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND HE DID NOT MENTION A SIN</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. ‘O my soul! My soul! My soul! Go to someone else. Go to Muhammad.’ (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Sahih Collection of al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Chapter 68. Book of Tafsir </span><a href="https://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari31.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari31.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Moses would say to them: Verily my Lord is angry as He had never been angry before and would never be angry afterwards. I, in fact, killed a person whom I had not been ordered to kill. I am concerned with myself, I am concerned with myself. You better go to Jesus. They would come to Jesus and would say: O Jesus, thou art the messenger of Allah and thou conversed with people in the cradle, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(thou art) His Word which He sent down upon Mary, and (thou art) the Spirit from Him</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; so intercede for us with thy Lord. Don’t you see (the trouble) in which we are? Don’t you see (the misfortune) that has overtaken us? Jesus would say: Verily, my Lord is angry today as He had never been angry before or would ever be angry afterwards. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HE MENTIONED NO SIN OF HIS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (He simply said:) I am concerned with myself, I am concerned with myself; you go to someone else: better go to Muhammad. They would come to me and say: O Mahammad, thou art the messenger of Allah and the last of the apostles. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah has pardoned thee all thy previous and later sins</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 001, Number 0378 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0378"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0378</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now this places Muslims in a bit of a dilemma since the Quran clearly teaches that there is no creature that is completely sinless in God’s sight:</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And if Allah had destroyed men for their iniquity, He would not leave on the earth a single creature, but He respites them till an appointed time; so when their doom will come they shall not be able to delay (it) an hour nor can they bring (it) on (before its time). S. 16:61</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And were Allah to punish men for what they earn, He would not leave on the back of it any creature, but He respites them till an appointed term; so when their doom shall come, then surely Allah is Seeing with respect to His servants. S. 35:45</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As such, Christ could not be essentially pure and free from all moral defects if he was/is nothing more than a mere creature. Therefore, in order for him to be absolutely perfect and flawless Christ must be truly divine, just as much divine as Allah is supposed to be.</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al- Muta’âlî: The High Exalted</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He Who is free of imperfection and none has power like His, He who is great or supremely great, above the lies of the liars, or the Most High, who is higher than every other high one, or He who has ascendancy over everything by His power or He who is exalted above the attributes of created things.</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Muta’ali</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Allah knows what every female bears and every shrinking of the womb and every swelling. Everything has its measure with Him, the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the Most Great, the High Exalted.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (13:9-10)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“May Allah be exalted above what they associate with Him!”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (27:63)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-‘Alî, Al-‘Âlî, Al-‘A’lâ: The Most High </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Above and beyond, the High above whom there is nothing higher.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-‘Ali</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Judgement belongs to Allah, the All-High, the All-Great.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (40:11)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Everything in the heavens and everything in the earth belongs to Him. He is the Most High, the Magnificent.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (42:4)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (87:1)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Only desiring the Face of their Lord Most High.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (92:20)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“That is because Allah is the Real and what you call on apart from Him is false. Allah is the All-High, the All-Great.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (22:60)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Islamic scripture proclaims that Allah took Jesus to be personally with him:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When God said, ‘O Jesus! I will make Thee die </span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and take Thee up again to me</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and will clear thee of those who misbelieve, and will make those who follow thee above those who misbelieve, at the day of judgment, then to me is your return. I will decide between you concerning that wherein ye disagree. S. 3:55 Palmer</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But Allah raised him [</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Iesa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">unto Himself</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (and he is in the heavens). And Allah is Ever All-Powerful, All-Wise. S. 4:158 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jesus is therefore physically dwelling wherever Allah is supposed to be. And since Allah is supposed to be on/over his throne, which is supposed to be over the entire creation,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">God! There is no god but He, – the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth. </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory). S. 2:255 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Indeed your Lord is Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth in Six Days, </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and then He Istawa (rose over) the Throne (really in a manner that suits His Majesty)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He brings the night as a cover over the day, seeking it rapidly, and (He created) the sun, the moon, the stars subjected to His Command. Surely, His is the Creation and Commandment. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of the </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Alamin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (mankind, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">jinns</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and all that exists)! S. 7:54 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This means that Jesus is over all creation, and is therefore just as highly exalted as Allah himself!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Bâ’ith: The Raiser</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Raiser, Resurrector. To re-create, like </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mu’id;</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> revive; also to send. The One who Quickens mankind after death. To cause something to be.</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Ba’ith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Allah will raise up all those in the graves.” (22:7)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Muhyî, Al-Mumît: The One Who Gives Life, The One who Makes Die </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Life-Giver or Quickener who makes something alive, to be a living thing; He quickenes him or endues him with life or revives him. He revives the earth with rain and endues with intelligence. Al-Mumit is the One who causes to die.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Muhyi </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Al-Mumit </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">are two of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“How can you reject Allah, when you were dead and then He gave you life, then He will make you die and then give you life again, then you will be returned to Him?” (2:27)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is where it gets rather interesting. According to the Quran, there is only one other Person who possesses the ability to create, breathe forth life, and resurrect the dead, namely, Jesus Christ!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And [he will be] a messenger to the Children of Israel, “Truly I have brought you a sign from your Lord. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I WILL CREATE for you out of clay the shape of a bird. Then I will breathe into it, and it will be a bird by God’s Leave</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And I will heal the blind and the leper </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND GIVE LIFE TO THE DEAD by God’s Leave</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And I will inform you about what you eat and what you store up in your houses. Truly in that is a sign for you, I you are believers.” S. 3:49</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Then God will say, “O Jesus son of Mary! Remember My Blessing upon thee, when I strengthened thee with the Holy Spirit, that thou mightest speak to people in the cradle and in maturity; and when I taught thee the Book, Wisdom, the Torah, and the Gospel; </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and how didst CREATE out of clay the shape of a bird, by My Leave, and thou wouldst breathe into it, and it would become a bird, by My Leave</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and thou wouldst heal the blind and the leper, by My Leave, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND THOU WOULDST BRING FORTH THE DEAD, by My Leave</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from thee, when thou didst bring them clear proofs, and those who disbelieved among them said, ‘This is naught but manifest sorcery.’” S. 5:110</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is also what makes these Quranic verses rather remarkable. The Quran has Christ creating life and raising the dead in the exact way that Allah does so:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when you slew a soul and cast the blame upon one another regarding it–and God is the discloser of what you were concealing–We said, “Strike him with part of it.” </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Thus does God give life to the dead</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and show you His signs, that haply you may understand. S. 2:72-73 The Study Quran (TSQ)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hast thou not considered him who disputeth with Abraham about his Lord because God had given him sovereignty? When Abraham said, “</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">My Lord gives life and causes death</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">,” he said, “I give life and cause death.” Abraham said, “Truly God brings the sun from the east. Bring it, then, from the west.” Thus was he who disbelieved confounded. And God guides not wrongdoing people. S. 2:258 TSQ</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Only those who hear will respond. As for the dead, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God will resurrect them</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and unto Him they shall be returned. S. 6:36 TSQ</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Your Lord said to the angels: “</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am creating a human from hardened clay of aged mud</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. So when I perfect him, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and blow of My Spirit in him</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, you shall fall prostrate to him.” S. 15:28-29 Quran: A Reformist Translation (QRT)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“For they are all enemies unto me, save the Lord of the worlds, Who created me, and guides me, and Who feeds me and gives me drink, and Who, when I am ill, heals me, and Who causes me to die, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">then gives me life</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and Who I hope will forgive me my sins on the Day of Judgment.” S. 26:77-82 TSQ</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Truly We give life to the dead</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and record that which they have sent forth and that which they left behind. And We have counted all things in a clear registry. S. 36:12 TSQ</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For your Lord said to the angels: “</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am creating a human being from clay</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. So when I have evolved him, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and breathed into him from My Spirit</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then you shall submit to him.” S. 38:71-72 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Just to get an idea of how amazing all of this is, note what the following Muslim scholars say in regards to the Quran’s assigning to Jesus specific potencies and titles normally attributed to the Islamic deity:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… His creating live birds out of clay birds, healing the blind and the leper, and raising the dead are likewise recounted in 3:49 (for blind and leper, see 3:49c). These last three miraculous powers attributed to Jesus </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">are EXTRAORDINARY in that THEY SUGGEST POWERS USUALLY RESERVED FOR GOD</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; God is the one who heals (26:8 [sic]); He is the raiser of the dead throughout the Quran: and the creation of birds from clay and bringing them to life by breathing upon them </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IS EXACTLY PARALLEL TO GOD’S CREATION OF THE HUMAN BEING</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (15:26-29; 32:7-9; 38:71-72). The verse repeatedly makes clear, however, that all these powers are done by God’s leave (by My Leave) and so are ultimately His. Jesus’ ability to heal and power to raise the dead are also found in the canonical Gospels, and a similar account of Jesus’ creating birds from clay is given in the noncanonical Infancy Gospel of Thomas.” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Seyyed Hossein Nasr (editor-in-chief) [HarperOne, 2015], p. 334; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The attempt to diminish Jesus’ ability to perform exclusively divine functions is unconvincing for the following reasons. First, the phrase “God’s Leave” need not mean that Jesus was given the power to carry out these amazing feats. Rather, this expression can simply mean that Allah or God gave Jesus the permission to exercise his intrinsic divine authority to perform these miraculous signs and wonders. Note, for instance, how the following verse employs this phrase:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Whosoever is an enemy of Gabriel: he it is who sent it down upon thy heart </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">by God’s Leave</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, confirming that which was there before, and as a guidance and glad tiding for the believers. S. 2:97 TSQ</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is clear from the context that “by God’s Leave” means here that Gabriel had to first receive permission from Allah before he could bring down portions of the Quran to Muhammad.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The second problem with the Muslim objection is that this still leaves Muslims with the problem of their god making Jesus his partner by permitting him to share in his unique qualities and abilities. In so doing, Allah basically ended up committing the very transgression that the Muslim scripture says shall never be forgiven:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Truly God forgives not that any partner be ascribed unto Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whomsoever He will, whosoever ascribes partners unto God has surely fabricated a tremendous sin. S. 4:48 TSQ – cf. Q. 4:116; 2:22; 39:65</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This now poses a major dilemma for Muslims. They must either contend with the fact that their god is guilty of shirk, seeing that he has elevated a creature to be his associate and partner in divinity. Or they must accept that Jesus is not a finite human being, but rather he is a divine being who became a man, and therefore one with Allah in his essential divine attributes.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thus, whatever the answer a Muslim chooses s/he will not be able to get around the fact that the Quran indisputably ascribes to Jesus some of the very names and abilities, which are supposed to belong to Allah alone.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">All of the names of Allah cited in this article were taken from Aisha Bewley’s article titled “The Divine Names,” which can be accessed here: </span><a href="http://bewley.virtualave.net/names.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/names.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/more-quranic-proofs-for-the-deity-of-christ/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/07/more-quranic-proofs-for-the-deity-of-christ/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-60070840339927612832024-01-25T19:00:00.002+01:002024-01-25T19:00:11.525+01:00Allah’s Names and the Deity of Christ<p><b style="text-align: center;"><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">How Islamic Theology Confirms Jesus’ Divine Claims Pt. 1</span></b></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to Islamic theology, Allah possesses specific names and qualities which cannot be ascribed to any created being, no matter how exalted that creature may be. As such, we are going to look at some of these names in order to show how Jesus applied these very same titles and functions to himself in order to prove that Christ did in fact claim to be God Almighty in the flesh. This will refute the oft repeated Muslim objection that Jesus never made divine claims for himself.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">All of the names of Allah that we will be presenting here are taken from Aisha Bewley’s list titled “Divine Names”, which can be accessed at the following url: </span><a href="https://bewley.virtualave.net/names.html"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bewley.virtualave.net/names.html</span></u></a><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Wârith: The Inheritor</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The One who inherits and continues after all others have ceased to be; thus all returns to Him. He is the true owner of all.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Warith </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He began to speak to them in parables. ‘A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the winepress, and built a tower, and rented it to vinedressers, and went to a far country… Having yet </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">his one well-beloved son</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, he sent him last to them, saying, “</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">They will revere my son</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” But those vinedressers said among themselves, “</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">This is THE HEIR</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.” So they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard.” Mark 12:1, 6-8</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, ‘I thank You, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and revealed them to infants. Yes, Father, for it was Your good pleasure. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALL THINGS have been handed over TO ME by My Father</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.’” Luke 10:21-22</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He will glorify Me, for He will receive from Me and will declare it to you. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">All that the Father has IS MINE</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Therefore I said that He will take what is Mine and will declare it to you.” John 16:14-15</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">All that are Mine are Yours, and all that are Yours ARE MINE</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And I am glorified in them.” John 17:10</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ar-Rabb: The Lord</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Lord: master, owner; chief; the Cherisher, the one who takes care of a thing. Ar-Rabb is the one who puts right, manages, compels and guards. He is the One worshipped. Some scholars say that the name is the greatest name of Allah because of the great number of those who make supplication using it. It reflects the true relationship of a person with his Lord, containing both mastery and kindness, concern, and nurture.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“While Jesus taught in the temple, He said, “How can the scribes say that Christ is the Son of David? David himself, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">speaking by the Holy Spirit</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, declared: “The Lord said to </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">my Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, ‘Sit at My right hand, until I put Your enemies under Your feet.’” </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">David himself calls Him “Lord.”</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> How then is He his Son?’ And the large crowd heard him gladly.” Mark 12:35-37</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“You call Me Teacher </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and Lord. You speak accurately, for so I am</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. If I then, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">your Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” John 13:13-14</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">An-Nûr: The Light</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The light, guide, the One who illuminates; the One who is manifest, clear.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">An-Nur</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Again, Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am the light of the world</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Whoever follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.’” John 8:12</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am the light of the world</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” John 9:4-5</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Haqq: The Truly Real</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Truth, the Real, the Really-existing, He whose existence and divinity are true, the One who creates according to the requirements of wisdom, justice, right, rightness, the Necessarily-existing by His own Essence, He whose existence is undeniable. Every reality exists from His essence and nothing has any intrinsic reality except Him.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Haqq</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE TRUTH</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” John 14:6</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As-Salâm: Perfect Peace</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Flawless, sound of every imperfection or deficiency, peace for His creatures. He is the Author of Safety, because He has rendered all His creatures safe from unsoundness and from injustice from Him, the Giver of peace.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As-Salam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Peace I leave with you. MY PEACE I give to you</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14:27</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I have told you these things </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">so that in Me you may have peace</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. In the world you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.” John 16:33</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">At-Tabîb: The True Physician</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Doctor or judge.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A man said, “I am a physician,” and the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Allah is the True Physician. Rather you are a compassionate man. Her physician is the one who created her.” (Abu Dawud)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Again, He entered the synagogue, and there was a man who had a withered hand. They watched Him to see whether He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. He said to the man who had the withered hand, ‘Stand up.’ Then He said to them, ‘Is it lawful to do good or to do evil on the Sabbath, to save life or to kill?’ But they kept silent. When He had looked around at them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, He said to the man, ‘</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Stretch your hand forward.’ He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Then the Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how to kill Him. Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great crowd followed Him from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem, and Idumea, and from beyond the Jordan. And those from Tyre and Sidon, a great crowd, when they heard what great things He did, came to Him. He told the disciples to have a small boat ready for Him because of the crowd, lest they should crush Him. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For He had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed on Him to touch Him. When unclean spirits saw Him, they fell down before Him, crying out, ‘You are the Son of God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ But He sternly ordered them not to make Him known. He went up into the mountain and called to Him those whom He desired, and they came to Him. He ordained twelve to be with Him, and to be sent out to preach, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and to have authority to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">:” Mark 3:1-15</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And when Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, entreating Him, and saying, ‘Lord, my servant is lying at home, sick with paralysis, terribly tormented.’ Jesus said to him, ‘I will come and heal him.’ The centurion answered and said, ‘Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But speak the word only, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this man, “Go,” and he goes, and to another, “Come,” and he comes, and to my servant, “Do this,” and he does it.’ When Jesus heard it, He was amazed and said to those who followed, ‘Truly I say to you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say to you that many will come from the east and west and will dine with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ Then Jesus said to the centurion, ‘Go your way. And as you have believed, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">so let it be done for you.’ And his servant was healed that very moment</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. When Jesus entered Peter’s house, He saw his wife’s mother, lying sick with a fever. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He touched her hand, and the fever left her</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And she rose and served them. When the evening came, they brought to Him many who were possessed with demons. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And He cast out the spirits with His word, and healed all who were sick</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, to fulfill what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, ‘He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.’” Matthew 8:5-17</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s station. And He said to him, ‘Follow Me.’ And he rose and followed Him. While Jesus sat at supper in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, ‘Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?’ But when Jesus heard that, He said to them, ‘Those who are well do not need </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a physician</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means, “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.” </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’” Matthew 9:9-13</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ar-Ra’ûf: The All-Gentle</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Intensive form of mercy, or it is to make a suffering stop, the Clement, the One who makes things easier for people than need be out of tenderness. It is more far-reaching than </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">rahma</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ar-Ra’uf</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Hannân: The Tender</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Having tenderness; the One who shows favour or presents a favourable aspect to the one who turns from him or shuns him, having mercy. [someone who separated from someone dear to them and yearns for them and grieves for them.)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ar-Rafîq; Ash-Shafîq: The Kind, The Compassionate</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The One who is tender and gentle; the One who is very benign.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Prophet said, “Allah is kind and He loves kindness and confers upon kindness which he does not confer upon severity and does not confer upon anything else besides it.” (Muslim)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Latîf: The All-Subtle</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The All-Gentle, sagacious, beneficient; Allah finds the way to come to end of every difficulty, His actions in the world are subtle, and imperceptible to normal mortals. Invisible; the One who knows subtle and obscure things. He gives to people beyond what they need and brings timeless happiness. He creates the embyro and protects it and brings forth milk, etc.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Latif</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and I will give you rest</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me. </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART, and you will find rest for your souls</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As-Subbûh, Al-Quddûs: The All-Perfect, Utterly Pure</span></b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subbuh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is from </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subhan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which is glorification and tanzih, disconnecting and elevating Him above any others. He is All-Perfect, All-Pure, All Glorious, far removed from everything evil and imperfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means pure (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tahir, munazzah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), pure and free of any imperfection .He is far removed from every imperfection or impurity or from anything that would detract from His glory, and disconnected from every description perceived by the senses and thought, All-Holy, All-Pure, All-Perfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Some say </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subbuh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> denies imperfection and </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> affirms perfection.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">At-Tâhir: The Pure</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pure of every bad action and any imperfection or any corporal distinction.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“In their synagogue there was a man with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, ‘Leave us alone! What do You have to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Holy One of God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’” Mark 1:23-24</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of Him who sent Him is true, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and no unrighteousness is in Him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” John 7:18</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him… </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Which of you convicts Me of sin?</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> If I speak the truth, why do you not believe Me?” John 8:29, 46</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He who is holy</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens, says these things:’” Revelation 3:7</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Malik; Al-Mâlik: The King, the Master</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Mali is the King, the Sovereign; Al-Mâlik is the Master, Owner, Malik is the governor of beings who have the consciousness of being governed, not the case with Mâlik, who owns everything.</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Malik </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mâlik al-Mulk: The Master of the Kingdom</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Owner or Possessor of the Kingdom, who grants sovereignty to whomever He will.</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Son of Man</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> shall send out </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIS angels</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and they shall gather out of </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIS KINGDOM</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> all things that offend, and those who do evil,” Matthew 13:41</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“For </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Son of Man</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> shall come with </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIS angels</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in the glory of </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIS Father</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and then He will repay every man according to his works. Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death before they see </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Son of Man coming in HIS KINGDOM</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Matthew 16:27-28</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“These will wage war with </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Lamb</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, but </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Lamb</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> will overcome them, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">for He is Lord of lords and King of kings</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Those who are with Him are called and chosen and faithful.” Revelation 17:14</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“On His robe and on His thigh He has a name written</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Revelation 19:16</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We have a lot more examples in the second part of our discussion </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/allahs-names-and-the-deity-of-christ-pt-2/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/allahs-names-and-the-deity-of-christ-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">Source: </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/allahs-names-and-the-deity-of-christ-pt-1/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/allahs-names-and-the-deity-of-christ-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-89553222209771476342024-01-25T18:57:00.004+01:002024-01-25T18:57:28.448+01:00Sujood – The Act of Worship Which Allah Shares With His Creatures<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Paul Bilal Williams shared a meme depicting a Muslim prostrating to the ground in worship of his deity. Williams’ caption for that meme says:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sujood is a position where you put the highest part of your body on the lowest part of the ground… Only for Allah! (</span><a href="https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/08/04/sujood-is-a-position-where-you-put-the-highest-part-of-your-body-on-the-lowest-part-of-the-ground-only-for-allah"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/08/04/sujood-is-a-position-where-you-put-the-highest-part-of-your-body-on-the-lowest-part-of-the-ground-only-for-allah</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Contrary to William’s assertion, the Islamic scripture does not confine this act of worship to the Muslim deity since the Quran in several places has Allah commanding all the angels to prostrate themselves to Adam, with the Muslim god then condemning Satan to hell for refusing to do so:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when We said unto the angels: </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Prostrate yourselves (osjudoo) before Adam, they fell prostrate (fa’asjadoo)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, all save Iblis. He demurred through pride, and so became a disbeliever. S. 2:30 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to create a mortal out of mire, And when I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My Spirit, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">then fall down before him prostrate (sajideena)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, The angels fell down prostrate, every one, Saving Iblis; he was scornful and became one of the disbelievers. He said: O Iblis! What hindereth thee </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">from falling prostrate (tasjuda) before that which I have created with both My hands?</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Art thou too proud or art thou of the high exalted? He said: </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am better than him. Thou createdst me of fire, whilst him Thou didst create of clay</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He said: Go forth from hence, for lo! thou art outcast, And lo! My curse is on thee till the Day of Judgment. He said: My Lord! Reprieve me till the day when they are raised. He said: Lo! thou art of those reprieved Until the day of the time appointed. He said: Then, by Thy might, I surely will beguile them every one, Save Thy single-minded slaves among them. He said: The Truth is, and the Truth I speak, That I shall fill hell with thee and with such of them as follow thee, together. S. 38:71-85 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran also mentions how Joseph’s brothers and parents were basically made to prostrate to Joseph:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Behold! Joseph said to his father: “O my father! I did see eleven stars and the sun and the moon: </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I saw them prostrate themselves (sajideena) to me!</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” Said (the father): “My (dear) little son! relate not thy vision to thy brothers, lest they concoct a plot against thee: for Satan is to man an avowed enemy! S. 12:4-5 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And he raised his parents high on the throne (of dignity), </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and they fell down in prostration (sujjadan), (all) before him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He said: “O my father! this is the fulfilment of my vision of old! God hath made it come true! He was indeed good to me when He took me out of prison and brought you (all here) out of the desert, (even) after Satan had sown enmity between me and my brothers. Verily my Lord understandeth best the mysteries of all that He planneth to do, for verily He is full of knowledge and wisdom. S. 12:100 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In all these cases, the Islamic deity commanded and even compelled his servants to give to their fellow creatures the same worship that Allah himself receives:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And the wizards </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">fell down prostrate (sajideena)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Crying: We believe in the Lord of the Worlds, The Lord of Moses and Aaron. S. 7:120-122 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O ye who believe! </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Bow down </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and prostrate yourselves (wa’osjudoo)</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">, and worship your Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and do good, that haply ye may prosper. S. 22:77 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when it is said to them: “</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Prostrate (osjudoo) to the Most Beneficent (Allah)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">! They say: “And what is the Most Beneficent? </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Shall we fall down in prostration (anasjudu)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to that which you (O Muhammad) command us?” And it increases in them only aversion. S. 25:60 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And from among His Signs are the night and the day, and the sun and the moon. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Prostrate (tasjudu) not to the sun nor to the moon, but prostrate (wa’osjudoo) to Allah Who created them</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, if you (really) worship Him. S. 41:37 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Rather prostrate yourselves (fa’osjudoo)before Allah</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and serve Him. S. 53:62 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That’s not all. According to certain narrations deemed to be authentic, Muhammad instructed a blind man to supplicate both himself and Allah together in order to have his invocation granted:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">3578. </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘U</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">th</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">man bin Hunaif narrated that a blind man came to the Prophet and said to him: “Supplicate to Allah to heal me.” He said: “If you wish, I will supplicate for you, and if you wish, you can be patient, for that is better for you.” He said: “Then supplicate to him.” He said: “So he ordered him to perform </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Wudu’</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and to make his </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Wudu’</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> complete, and to supplicate with this supplication: ‘</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">O Allah, I ask You and turn towards You by Your Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of Mercy. Indeed, I have turned to my Lord, BY MEANS OF YOU, concerning this need of mine, so that it can be resolved, So Allah so accept HIS INTERCESSION for me</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allahumma Inni As’aluka WA MUHAMMADIN Nabi-Ir-Rahmati Tawajjahtu Bika Ila Rabbi Fi Hajati Ha</span></i><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">dh</span></u></i><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ihi Lituqda Li, Allahumma FASHAFFI‘HU Fiya</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">).’” </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(</span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SAHIH</span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[He said]: This </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadi</span></i><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">th</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hasan SAHIH Gharib</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, we do not know of it except through this route, as a narration of Abu Ja‘far, and he is someone other than Al-</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kh</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">atmi, [and U</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">th</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">man bin Hunaif is the brother of Sahl bin Hunaif] (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">English Translation of Jami‘ At-Tirmidhi: Compiled by Imam Hafiz Abu ‘Eisa Mohammad Ibn ‘Eisa At-Tirmidhi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by Abu Khaliyl (USA), ahadith edited and referenced by Hafiz Tahir Zubair ‘Ali Za’i [Darussalam Publishers & Distributors, First Edition: November 2007], Volume 6, From Hadith No. 3291 to 3956, Various Narrations On The Chapters Of Supplications, Chapter 118, p. 283 – Online version </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/48/209"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/48/209</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is a different version of this same hadith:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">1385.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> It was narrated from ‘Uthman bin Hunaif that a blind man came to the Prophet and said to him: “Pray to Allah to heal me.” He said: “If you wish to store your reward for the Hereafter, that is better, or if you wish, I will supplicate for you.” He said: “Supplicate.” He said: “So he told him to perform ablution and do it well, and to pray two </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Rak’ah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and to say this supplication: “</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allahumma inni as’aluka wa atawajjahu ilaika BI-MUHAMMADIN NABIYYIR-RAHMA.YA MUHAMMADU inni qad tawajjahtu bika ila rabbi fi hajati hadhihi Lituqda. Allahumma FASHAFFI‘HU fiya</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (O Allah, I ask of You and I turn my face towards You </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">BY VIRTUE OF THE INTERCESSION OF MUHAMMAD THE PROPHET OF MERCY. O MUHAMMAD</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, I have turned to my Lord </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">BY VIRTUE OF YOUR INTERCESSION</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> concerning this need of mine, so that it may be met. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">O Allah, accept HIS INTERCESSION concerning me</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)”. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(</span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SAHIH</span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">English Translation of Sunan Ibn Majah: Compiled by Imam Muhammad Bin Yazeed Ibn Majah Al-Qazwini</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Ahadith edited and referenced by Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair ‘Ali Za’i, translated by Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Canada), final review by Abu Khaliyl (USA) [Darussalam Publications and Distributors, First Edition: June 2007], Volume 2, From Hadith no. 803 to 1782, 5. The Chapters Of Establishing The Prayer And The </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunnah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Regarding Them, Chapter 189. What Was Narrated Concerning Prayer At Times Of Need, pp. 329-330 – Online Version </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/urn/1287330"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/urn/1287330</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What makes this prayer rather troubling is that Muslims continued to employ this invocation long after Muhammad’s death:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">THE HADITH OF THE MAN IN NEED</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Moreover, Tabarani, in his “al-Mu’jam al saghir,” reports a hadith from ‘Uthman ibn Hunayf that a man repeatedly visited Uthman ibn Affan concerning something he needed, but Uthman paid no attention to him or his need. The man met Ibn Hunayf and complained to him about the matter – this being after the death (wisal) of the Prophet and after the caliphates of Abu Bakr and Umar – so Uthman ibn Hunayf, who was one of the Companions who collected hadiths and was learned in the religion of Allah, said: “Go to the place of ablution and perform ablution (wudu), then come to the mosque, perform two rak’as of prayer therein, and say:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘O Allah, I ask You and turn to You </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">through our Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of mercy; O MUHAMMAD (Ya Muhammad), I turn through you to my Lord</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, that He may fulfill my need,’ and mention your need. Then come so that I can go with you [to the caliph Uthman].” So the man left and did as he had been told, then went to the door of Uthman ibn Affan, and the doorman came, took him by the hand, brought him to Uthman ibn Affan, and seated him next to him on a cushion. ‘Uthman asked, “What do you need?” and the man mentioned what he wanted, and Uthman accomplished it for him, then he said, “I hadn’t remembered your need until just now,” adding, “Whenever you need something, just mention it.” Then, the man departed, met Uthman ibn Hunayf, and said to him, “May Allah reward you! He didn’t see to my need or pay any attention to me until you spoke with him.” Uthman ibn Hunayf replied, “By Allah, I didn’t speak to him, but I have seen a blind man come to the Messenger of Allah and complain to him of the loss of his eyesight. The Prophet said, “Can you not bear it?’ and the man replied, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I do not have anyone to lead me around, and it is a great hardship for me.’ The Prophet told him, ‘Go to the place of ablution and perform ablution (wudu), then pray two rak’as of prayer and make the supplications.'” Ibn Hunayf went on, “By Allah, we didn’t part company or speak long before the man returned to us as if nothing had ever been wrong with him.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is an explicit, unequivocal text from a prophetic Companion proving the legal validity of tawassul through the dead. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The account has been classified as rigously authenticated (SAHIH) by Baihaqi, Mundhiri, and Haythami</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (Nuh Ha Mim Keller, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tawassul: Supplicating Allah through an Intermediary</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (From Reliance of the Traveller) </span><a href="http://seekershub.org/ans-blog/2011/07/02/tawassul-supplicating-allah-through-an-intermediary/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://seekershub.org/ans-blog/2011/07/02/tawassul-supplicating-allah-through-an-intermediary/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here we have an individual at the time of the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan, over 20 twenty years after Muhammad’s death, offering up the same invocation that the blind man did, a prayer where the man had to speak directly to his deceased prophet and his god.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This means that the Muslim in question was guilty of contacting the dead,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Verily, you (O Muhammad) will die and verily, they (too) will die. S. 39:30 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">3467. It is related from ‘A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, that the Messenger of Allah died while Abu Bakr was at as-Sunh. (Isma’il says that it means at al-‘Aliyya). ‘Umar stood up saying, ‘By Allah, the Messenger of Allah has not died!'” She said, ”Umar said [later], ‘By Allah, nothing occurred to me but that.” [He said], ‘Allah will raise him and he will cut off the hands and feet of some men!’ Abu Bakr came and uncovered the Messenger of Allah and kissed him. He said, ‘May my mother and my father be sacrificed! You were good both alive and dead! By the One who has my soul in His hand, Allah will not ever make you taste two deaths. ‘ Then he went out and said, ‘O oath-taker, take it easy!’ When Abu Bakr spoke, ‘Umar sat down. Abu Bakr praised Allah and glorified Him and then said, </span><b><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Whoever worshipped Muhammad, Muhammad is dead</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Whoever worshipped Allah, Allah is alive and does not die.’ He said, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘You will die and they too will die.’</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (39:30) He said, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Muhammad is only a Messenger and he has been preceded by other Messengers. If he was to die or be killed, would you turn on your heels? Those who turn on their heels do not harm Allah in any way. Allah will recompense the thankful.’ </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(3:144) The people sobbed and wept.” (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Sahih Collection of al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Chapter 66. Book of the Virtues of the Companions </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_72_XXX.docx#companions"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari28.html#companions</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Something expressly condemned in God’s Word, the Holy Bible:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“When you enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you must not learn to practice the abominations of those nations. There must not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or who uses divination, or uses witchcraft, or an interpreter of omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts spells, or a spiritualist, or an occultist, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination to the Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and because of these abominations the Lord your God will drive them out from before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God. For these nations, which you shall possess, listened to soothsayers and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so.” Deuteronomy 18:9-14</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“When they say to you, ‘Seek after the mediums and the wizards, who whisper and mutter,’ should not a people seek after their God? </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Should they consult the dead for the living?</span></i></b><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:19-20</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That’s not the only problem facing Williams since the Islamic sources expressly teach that invocation is the very heart of worship,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">296. The excellence of supplication</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">712. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet said, “Nothing is dearer to Allah than supplication.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">713. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet said, “The noblest act of worship IS SUPPLICATION.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">714. An-Nu’man ibn Bashir reported that the Prophet said, “Supplication IS WORSHIP.” Then he recited, “Call on Me and I will answer you.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by Aisha Bewley, XXX. Supplication </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_72_XXX.docx#supplicate"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/adab4.html#supplicate</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">3828. </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated from Nu‘man bin Bashir that the Messenger of Allah said: </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Indeed the supplication IS THE WORSHIP</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Then he recited: “And your Lord said: Invoke Me, I will respond to you.”</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">[1]</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(</span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SAHIH</span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">) </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">English Translation of Sunan Ibn Majah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 5. From Hadith No. 3657 to 4341, 34. The Chapter On Supplication, Chapter 1. The Virtue of Supplication, p. 95 – cf. Online Version </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/34/2"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/34/2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">[1]</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ghafir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 40:60. (Ibid.)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And therefore must be rendered to God alone:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">You (Alone) we worship, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and You (Alone) we ask for help</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (for each and everything). S. 1:5 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Say. Surely </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">my prayer</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">for Allah</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the Lord of the worlds; S. 6:162 Shakir</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Say (O Muhammad): “</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I invoke only my Lord (Allah Alone)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and I associate none as partners along with Him.” S. 72:20 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thus, by teaching his followers to pray to him directly Muhammad turned himself into a god alongside the Muslim deity. Muhammad essentially made himself a partner with his deity by receiving the very worship, which is supposed to be for God alone. And in so doing, Muhammad is responsible for causing his followers to become idolaters and blasphemers for worshiping a creature alongside their supposed creator.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Postscript</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Williams’ woes are far from over. The Quran’s story of Allah ordering his angelic creatures to worship Adam, with Satan refusing to do so, is taken from non-canonical, uninspired Jewish and Christian sources, such as the apocryphal work known as </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Life of Adam and Eve</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And with a heavy sigh, the devil spake: ‘O Adam! all my hostility, envy, and sorrow is for thee, since it is for thee that I have been expelled from my glory, which I possessed in the heavens in the midst of the angels and for thee was I cast out in the earth.’ Adam answered, ‘What dost thou tell me? What have I done to thee or what is my fault against thee? Seeing that thou hast received no harm or injury from us, why dost thou pursue us?’ The devil replied, ‘Adam, what dost thou tell me? It is for thy sake that I have been hurled from that place. When thou wast formed. I was hurled out of the presence of God and banished from the company of the angels. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">When God blew into thee the breath of life and thy face and likeness was made in the image of God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Michael also brought thee </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and made (us) worship thee in the sight of God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and God the Lord spake: Here is Adam. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I have made thee in our image and likeness</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ And Michael went out and called all the angels saying: ‘</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Worship the image of God as the Lord God hath commanded</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ And Michael himself worshipped first; then he called me and said: ‘Worship the image of God the Lord.’ </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And I answered, ‘I have no (need) to worship Adam</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ And since Michael kept urging me to worship, I said to him, ‘Why dost thou urge me? </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I will not worship an inferior and younger being (than I)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. I am his senior in the Creation, before he was made was I already made. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">It is his duty to worship me</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ When the angels, who were under me, heard this, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">they refused to worship him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And Michael saith, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Worship the image of God, but if thou wilt not worship him, the Lord God will be wrath with thee</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ And I said, ‘If He be wrath with me, I will set my seat above the stars of heaven and will be like the Highest.’ And God the Lord was wrath with me and banished me and my angels from our glory; and on thy account were we expelled from our abodes into this world and hurled on the earth. And straightway we were overcome with grief, since we had been spoiled of so great glory. And we were grieved when we saw thee in such joy and luxury. And with guile I cheated thy wife and caused thee to be expelled through her (doing) from thy joy and luxury, as I have been driven out of my glory. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Life of Adam and Eve</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Latin Version </span><a href="http://wesley.nnu.edu/sermons-essays-books/noncanonical-literature/noncanonical-literature-ot-pseudepigrapha/the-books-of-adam-and-eve/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://wesley.nnu.edu/sermons-essays-books/noncanonical-literature/noncanonical-literature-ot-pseudepigrapha/the-books-of-adam-and-eve/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and italicized emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Williams is fully aware of this fact since he was so greatly troubled by it that he sought out a Muslim “scholar” to explain to him why the Quran would include this fairy tale:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Wa-alaykum as-salam.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Well, I imagine that since some of the Quran’s truths appear in earlier literature, including the Bible, whose sources are in most cases lost, it is reasonable to suppose that this kind of apocryphal writing contains material that was handed down from some earlier genuinely prophetic document, which otherwise is no longer extant. Perhaps the original Torah contained it? It can be no more than speculation.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Best wishes, Abdal Hakim…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Salam I’m reading J. R. Daniel Kirk’s </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">A Man Attested by God</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and he discusses (on p. 73) the</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Life of Adam and Eve</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (a Jewish pseudepigraphical writing). It tells of how God commanded the angels to bow down and worship Adam and the devil’s resistance to this on the grounds that he is prior and superior to the human.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There are some similarities with the Quranic account in Qur’an 7:11-18 and elsewhere.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Would you have any thoughts?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">best regards</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Paul (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Life of Adam and Eve </span></i><a href="https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/03/07/the-life-of-adam-and-eve/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bloggingtheology.net/2017/03/07/the-life-of-adam-and-eve/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To say that Murad’s response is desperate would be putting it mildly.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In the first place, both the Quran and ahadith confirm that the previous Scriptures such as the Torah remain in their true, pristine form since they have never been lost or corrupted beyond restoration. The Muslim scripture further testifies that an important aspect of Muhammad’s mission was to affirm the authority, reliability and inspiration of the very sacred writings, which the Jews and Christians possessed at his time:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Children of Israel, remember My blessing wherewith I blessed you, and fulfil My covenant and I shall fulfil your covenant; and have awe of Me. And believe in that I have sent down, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming that which is WITH YOU,</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and be not the first to disbelieve in it. And sell not My signs for a little price; and fear you Me. And do not confound the truth with vanity, and do not conceal the truth wittingly. And perform the prayer, and pay the alms, and bow with those that bow. Will you bid others to piety, and forget yourselves </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">while you recite the Book?</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Do you not understand? S. 2:40-44 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when there cometh unto them a scripture from Allah, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming that IN THEIR POSSESSION</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> – though before that they were asking for a signal triumph over those who disbelieved – and when there cometh unto them that which they know (to be the truth) they disbelieve therein. The curse of Allah is on disbelievers. S. 2:89 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when they were told, ‘Believe in that God has sent down,’ they said, ‘We believe in what was sent down on us’; and they disbelieve in what is beyond that, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">yet it is the truth confirming what is WITH THEM</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Say: ‘Why then were you slaying the Prophets of God in former time, if you were believers?’ S. 2:91 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Say: ‘Whosoever is an enemy to Gabriel — he it was that brought it down upon thy heart by the leave of God, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming what was before it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and for a guidance and good tidings to the believers. S. 2:97 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when there cometh unto them a messenger from Allah, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming that which THEY POSSESS</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, a party of those who have received the Scripture fling the Scripture of Allah behind their backs as if they knew not, S. 2:101 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He has sent down upon thee the Book with the truth, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming what was before it, and He sent down the Torah and the Gospel aforetime, as guidance to the people</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and He sent down the Salvation. As for those who disbelieve in God’s signs, for them awaits a terrible chastisement; God is All-mighty, Vengeful. S. 3:3-4 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And He will teach him the Book, the Wisdom, the Torah… </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming the truth of the Torah that is before me</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and to make lawful to you certain things that before were forbidden unto you. I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so fear you God, and obey you me. S. 3:48, 50 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">You who have been given the Book, believe in what We have sent down, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming what is WITH YOU</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, before We obliterate faces, and turn them upon their backs, or curse them as We cursed the Sabbath-men, and God’s command is done. S. 4:47 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yet how will they make thee their judge </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">seeing THEY HAVE the Torah, wherein is God’s judgment</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then thereafter turn their backs? They are not believers. Surely We sent down the Torah, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wherein is guidance and light; thereby the Prophets who had surrendered themselves gave judgment for those of Jewry</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, as did the masters and the rabbis, following such portion of God’s Book as they were given to keep and were witnesses to. So fear not men, but fear you Me; and sell not My signs for a little price. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Whoso judges not according to what God has sent down – they are the unbelievers</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And therein We prescribed for them: ‘A life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds retaliation’; but whosoever forgoes it as a freewill offering, that shall be for him an expiation. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Whoso judges not according to what God has sent down — they are the evildoers</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus son of Mary, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming the Torah before him and We gave to him the Gospel, wherein is guidance and light, and confirming the Torah before it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, as a guidance and an admonition unto the godfearing. So let the People of the Gospel judge according </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">to what God has sent down therein. Whosoever judges not according to what God has sent down — they are the ungodly</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And We have sent down to thee the Book with the truth, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming the Book that was before it, and assuring it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. So judge between them according to what God has sent down, and do not follow their caprices, to forsake the truth that has come to thee. To every one of you We have appointed a right way and an open road. If God had willed, He would have made you one nation; but that He may try you in what has come to you. So be you forward in good works; unto God shall you return, all together; and He will tell you of that whereon you were at variance. S. 5:43-48 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Those who follow the messenger, the Prophet who can neither read nor write, whom they will find described </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">in the Torah and the Gospel (which are) WITH THEM</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… S. 7:157 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This Koran could not have been forged apart from God; </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but it is a confirmation of what IS before it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and a distinguishing of the Book, wherein is no doubt, from the Lord of all Being. S. 10:37 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In their history verily there is a lesson for men of understanding. It is no invented story </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but a confirmation of the existing (Scripture)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and a detailed explanation of everything, and a guidance and a mercy for folk who believe. S. 12:111 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We verily gave Moses the Scripture; </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">so be not ye in doubt of his receiving it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and We appointed it a guidance for the Children of Israel. S. 32:23 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They addressed (their nation thus): “O our nation! Verily we, we have listened to the Book, made to descend after Musa, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">being one that is a confirmation to that what is between its two hands (i.e., what had been already there as Allah’s Scripture)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It guides towards the truth and towards the permanent Path. S. 46:30 Dr. Kamal Omar</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran further sees itself as an Arabic version of the Torah for Arabic-speaking peoples who could not read the former revelations for themselves in their original languages:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And this is a blessed Scripture which We have revealed. So follow it and ward off (evil), that ye may find mercy. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Lest ye should say: The Scripture was revealed only to two sects before us, and we in sooth were unaware of what they read; Or lest ye should say: If the Scripture had been revealed unto us, we surely had been better guided than are they</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Now hath there come unto you a clear proof from your Lord, a guidance and mercy; and who doeth greater wrong than he who denieth the revelations of Allah, and turneth away from them? We award unto those who turn away from Our revelations an evil doom because of their aversion. S. 6:155-157 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Prior to this, the book of Musa was the guide and mercy. This book, (the Qur´an) is in the Arabic language </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and it confirms and validates (the book of Musa)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It warns those committing evil, and gives the good news to the righteous. S. 46:12 Dr. Munir Mushey</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad even warned that Allah would torture a person in a very sadistic and a cruel manner if s/he had the audacity to reject the scriptures given through the previous messengers:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Those who cry lies to the Book </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and that wherewith We sent Our Messengers</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> — soon they will know! When the fetters and chains are on their necks, and they dragged into the boiling water, then into the Fire they are poured; S. 40:70-72 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The above data help explain the respect that Muhammad showed to a copy of the Torah that the Jews presented to him, which he then employed to decide a matter for them:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abdullah Ibn Umar:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A group of Jews came and invited the Messenger of Allah to Quff. So he visited them in their school. They said: AbulQasim, one of our men has committed fornication with a woman; so pronounce judgment upon them. They placed a cushion for the Messenger of Allah who sat on it and said: </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Bring the Torah</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It was then brought. He then withdrew the cushion from beneath him </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and placed the Torah on it saying: I believed in thee and in Him Who revealed thee</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He then said: Bring me one who is learned among you. Then a young man was brought. The transmitter then mentioned the rest of the tradition of stoning similar to the one transmitted by Malik from Nafi'(No. 4431).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Hasan</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Al-Albani)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Reference</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: Sunan Abi Dawud 4449</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In-book reference: Book 40, Hadith 99</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English translation: Book 39, Hadith 4434 (Sunnah.com </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/abudawud/40/99"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/abudawud/40/99</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; italicized and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now does this sound like a man who believed that the Scriptures of the Jews and Christians were corrupted or that some of their contents had been lost?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This now brings me to my next point. Muhammad believed that the Torah, or the book given to Moses, is a perfect guidance that provides a clear explanation for all the things that it covers:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Again, We gave the Scripture unto Moses, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">COMPLETE for him who would do good, AN EXPLANATION OF ALL THINGS</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, a guidance and a mercy, that they might believe in the meeting with their Lord. S. 6:154-157 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He said: O Moses! I have preferred thee above mankind by My messages and by My speaking (unto thee). So hold that which I have given thee, and be among the thankful. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And We wrote for him, upon the tablets, the lesson to be drawn from all things</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND THE EXPLANATION OF ALL THINGS</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then (bade him): Hold it fast; and command thy people (saying): Take the better (course made clear) therein. I shall show thee the abode of evil-livers. S. 7:144-145 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: There was an argument between Adam and Moses (peace be upon both of them) in the presence of their Lord. Adam came the better of Moses. Moses said: Are you that Adam whom Allah created with His Hand and breathed into him His spirit, and commanded angels to fall in prostration before him and He made you live in Paradise with comfort and ease. Then you caused the people to get down to the earth because of your lapse. Adam said: Are you that Moses whom Allah selected for His Messengership and for His conversation with him </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and conferred upon you THE TABLETS, IN WHICH EVERYTHING WAS CLEARLY EXPLAINED and granted you the audience in order to have confidential talk with you. What is your opinion, how long Torah would have been written before I was created? Moses said: Forty years before. Adam said: Did you not see these words: Adam committed an error and he was enticed to (do so).</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> He (Moses) said: Yes. Whereupon, he (Adam) said: Do you then blame me for an act which Allah had ordained for me forty years before He created me? Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: This is how Adam came the better of Moses. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 033, Number 6411 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=033&translator=2&start=0&number=6411"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=033&translator=2&start=0&number=6411</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As such, we would expect to find this story of God commanding the angels to worship Adam, with Satan refusing to do so, in the Torah, specifically in Genesis, since that is where the story of Adam’s creation is found. The fact that the Torah does not mention this event confirms that this is nothing more than a fable, a fairy tale, which Muhammad “borrowed” and passed off as historical fact.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/sujood-the-act-of-worship-which-allah-shares-with-his-creatures/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/sujood-the-act-of-worship-which-allah-shares-with-his-creatures/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-1991729094904439912024-01-25T18:55:00.000+01:002024-01-25T18:55:32.044+01:00Islam Affirms Jesus’ Physical Descent from King David<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">According to the Quran, Jesus is the physical seed of Noah and Abraham even though he had no physical father:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That is Our argument, which We bestowed upon Abraham as against his people. We raise up in degrees whom We will; surely thy Lord is All-wise, All-knowing. And We gave to him Isaac and Jacob — each one We guided, And Noah We guided before; </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and of HIS seed</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> David and Solomon, Job and Joseph, Moses and Aaron — even so We recompense the good-doers — Zachariah and John, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">JESUS</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and Elias; each was of the righteous; Ishmael and Elisha, Jonah and Lot-each one We preferred above all beings; and of their fathers, and of their seed, and of their brethren; and We elected them, and We guided them to a straight path. S. 6:83-87 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This means that the Islamic scripture accepts that a person’s physical lineage can be traced through the female side. In fact, the Muslim scholars themselves readily acknowledged that Jesus was a descendant of David via his blessed mother, and hence of the tribe of Judah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For instance, noted Muslim scholar and historian Al-Tabari linked Jesus’ mother to David, going as far as to “borrow” the genealogy of Joseph found in Matthew’s Gospel to do so!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The Persians assert that sixty-five years after Alexander seized Babylonia, and fifty-one years after Arsacid rule began, Mary the daughter of ‘Imran gave birth to Jesus. But the Christians assert that Jesus was born to her 303 years after Alexander conquered Babylonia, and that John the Baptist was born six months before Jesus. They report that Mary was pregnant with Jesus when she was thirteen years old. They also report that Jesus lived thirty-two years and a few days before his ascension, and that Mary lived six more years after his ascension, altogether over fifty years. They assert that John and Jesus met in the Jordan River when Jesus was thirty years of age, and that John was slain before the ascension of Jesus. Zechariah b. Berechiah, the father of Yahya b. Zechariah, and ‘Imran b. Matthan, the father of Mary, were married to two sisters. One was married to Zechariah- she was the mother of John, the other was with ‘Imran b. Matthan, and she was the mother of Mary. ‘Imran b. Matthan died when the mother of Mary was pregnant with her. When Mary was born, Zechariah provided for her after her mother’s death, because her aunt, the sister of her mother, was with him. The name of Mary’s mother was Hanna bt. Faqud b. Qabil; the name of the sister of Mary’s mother, that is, the name of John’s mother was Elizabeth bt. Faqud. Zechariah provided for Mary, and she was engaged to </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Joseph b. Jacob b. Mathan b. Eleazar b. Eliud b. Achim b. Zadok b. Azor b. Eliakim b. Abiud b. Zerubbabel, b. Shealtiel b. Jechonia b. Josiah b. Amon b. Manasseh b. Hezekiah b. Ahaziah b. Jotham b. Uzziah b. Joram b. Jehosaphat b. Asa b. Abijah b. Rehoboam b. SOLOMON B. DAVID</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to Ibn Humayd – Salamah – Ibn Ishaq: As far as I could learn from her lineage, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary was the daughter of ‘Imran b.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Josiah b. Amon b. Manasse b. Hezekiah b. Ahaziah b. Jotham b. Azariah b. Amaziah b. Joash b. Ahaziah b. Joram b. Jehosaphat b. Asa b. Abijah b.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Rehoboam b. SOLOMON</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The History of al-Tabari Volume IV – The Ancient Kingdom</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Moshe Perlman trans. [The State University of New York Press; Albany, 1987], pp. 103-104; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Notice al-Tabari’s use of specific traditions, which affirm that both Joseph </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> were descendants of King David.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The other classical Muslim scholars also held to this view:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The Qur’an informs us that the father of Mary was named ‘Imran </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the classical Muslim scholars UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPT that she was from the line of the prophet David</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… Differences of opinion emerge, however, over the intervening genealogy, most probably due to a lack of familiarity with such foreign names and consequent error in recording them in the Arabic orthography. According to the Spanish exegete al-Qurtubi, ‘All these differences are mentioned because the Prophets and Messengers are all descendants one of the other.’ The following genealogy (taking into account orthographic variations), which is attributed to Ibn Ishaq or directly to the Prophet’s companion Ibn ‘Abbas, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is the most generally accepted:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary bint ‘Imran ibn Yashim ibn Misha ibn Hazqiya ibn Yawish (ibn Isha ibn Yahushafat) IBN SULAYMAN IBN DAWUD</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… Although the name of her mother is not supplied in the Qur’an, it is universally accepted as Hanna bint Faqudh.” (Aliah Schleifer, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary The Blessed Virgin of Islam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Fons Vitae; ISBN: 1887752021; July 1, 1998, pp. 22-23; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One such scholar was Ibn Kathir who had this to say in regards to Q. 19:16:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"><And mention in the Book, Maryam,></span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> She was Maryam bint `Imran </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">from the family lineage of Dawud</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She was from a good and wholesome family of the Children of Israel. Allah mentioned the story of her mother’s pregnancy with her in Surah Al `Imran, and that she (Maryam’s mother) dedicated her freely for the service of Allah. This meant that she dedicated the child (Maryam) to the service of the </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Masjid </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">of the Sacred House (in Jerusalem). Thus, they (Zakariyya, Maryam’s mother and Maryam) were similar in that aspect. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2687&Itemid=75"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2687&Itemid=75</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And here is what he wrote concerning Q. 3:33:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah states that He has chosen these households over the people of the earth. For instance, Allah chose Adam, created him with His Hand and blew life into him. Allah commanded the angels to prostrate before Adam, taught him the names of everything and allowed him to dwell in Paradise, but then sent him down from it out of His wisdom. Allah chose Nuh and made him the first Messenger to the people of the earth, when the people worshipped idols and associated others with Allah in worship. Allah avenged the way Nuh was treated, for he kept calling his people day and night, in public and in secret, for a very long time. However, his calling them only made them shun him more, and this is when Nuh supplicated against them. So Allah caused them to drown, and none among them was saved, except those who followed the religion that Allah sent to Nuh. Allah also chose the household of Ibrahim, including the master of all mankind, and the Final Prophet, Muhammad. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah also chose the household of `Imran, the father of Marym bint `Imran, the mother of `Isa, peace be upon them.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SO `ISA IS FROM THE OFFSPRING OF IBRAHIM, as we will mention in the Tafsir of Surat Al-An`am</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Allah willing, and our trust is in Him… (Ibid.: </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=547&Itemid=46"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=547&Itemid=46</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ironically, Ibn Kathir mentions specific Muslims that used the example of Jesus to prove that a man can trace his lineage through his mother!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Mentioning `Isa in the offspring of Ibrahim, or Nuh as we stated above, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is proof that the grandchildren from a man’s daughter’s side are included among his offspring</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. `Isa is included among Ibrahim’s progeny </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">through his mother</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, although `Isa did not have a father. Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Abu Harb bin Abi Al-Aswad said, ‘Al-Hajjaj sent to Yahya bin Ya`mar, saying, “I was told that you claim that Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein are from the offspring of the Prophet, did you find it in the Book of Allah? I read the Qur’an from beginning to end and did not find it.” Yahya said, “Do you not read in Surah Al-An`am…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(and among his progeny Dawud, Sulayman…)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> until, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(and Yahya and `Isa…)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Hajjaj said, “Yes.” Yahya said, “</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Is not `Isa from the offspring of Ibrahim, although he did not have a father!</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” Al-Hajjaj said, “You have said the truth.”’ For example, when a man leaves behind a legacy, a trust, or gift to his ‘offspring’ then the children of his daughters are included. But if a man gives something to his ‘sons’, or he leaves a trust behind for them, then that would be particular to his male children and their male children…” (Ibid., Q. 6:84-90: </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=991&Itemid=61"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=991&Itemid=61</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following Muslim scholars all concur that physical lineage can be traced through one’s mother:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And Zachariah and, his son, John, and Jesus, son of Mary — </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THIS SHOWS THAT [the term] ‘SEED’ (dhurriyya) CAN INCLUDE OFFSPRING FROM THE FEMALE [side]</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> — and Elias, the paternal nephew of Aaron, brother of Moses; all, of them, were of the righteous. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(And Zachariah and John and Jesus and Elias. Each one (of them)) We guided by bestowing upon them prophethood and Islam; </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and all of them were of the seed of Abraham</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (was of the righteous) i.e. they were messengers. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Out of these seventeen prophets identified in the cited verses, Sayyidna Nuh is the patriarch of Sayyidna Ibrahim. The rest have been called their progeny: (and, of his progeny, to Dawud and Sulayman … ). This poses two difficulties. The first could be about Sayyidna ‘Isa </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who, because of his father-less birth, is a progeny of Sayyidna Ibrahim from the daughter’s side</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, that is, not a paternal grandson, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">instead, is a grand-son from the maternal side</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If so, how would calling him his progeny would be correct? </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Most learned Muslim scholars and jurists have answered it by saying that progeny is inclusive of both paternal and maternal grandsons</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It is from here that they prove that Sayyidna Hasan and Sayyidna Husain stand included under the progeny of the Holy Prophet. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ma’ariful-Qur’an</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, by Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi’, translated by Muhammad Shamim, revised by Taqi ‘Usmani, Volume 3, p. 406: </span><a href="https://ia802707.us.archive.org/2/items/maarifulquran-english-pdf/MaarifulquranEnglishPdf-Vol3-Page399-453ByMuftiShafiUsmaniRah.pdf"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://ia802707.us.archive.org/2/items/maarifulquran-english-pdf/MaarifulquranEnglishPdf-Vol3-Page399-453ByMuftiShafiUsmaniRah.pdf</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With the foregoing in perspective, a Muslim has no grounds to call into question Jesus’ physical descent from king David when even their own sources and Muslim scholars accept that he is.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Quran Agrees: Jesus is the Chosen Seed of Abraham</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/abrahams_seed.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/abrahams_seed.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Rise and Fall of Another Taqiyyist Pt. 3 </span></b><a href="http://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/rebuttals/hussein/rise_fall3.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/rebuttals/hussein/rise_fall3.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/islam-affirms-jesus-physical-descent-from-king-david/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/islam-affirms-jesus-physical-descent-from-king-david/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-2940940730091040322023-11-24T19:14:00.002+01:002023-11-24T19:14:32.657+01:00What type of Messiah does the Quran say Jesus Happens to Be? Pt. 3<p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Exposing more of Shabir Ally’s misinformation</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We continue with our rebuttal </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-2/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Return of Christ: More Islamic Proof for Jesus’ Davidic Messiahship</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In the video, after stating that some of the Muslim scholars believed that Mary was of Levitical descent, from the priestly line of Aaron, Ally went on to say that this would be interesting,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Because in the New Testament Jesus is shown to be the Son of David, he’s of the Davidic line, which would mean that he’s of that kingly descent. And when people hail him as the Messiah they thought that that means that he is the Davidic Messiah. But a problem occurs in that if he’s the Messiah he should have ruled, and he didn’t rule; of course, Christian generally believe that when he comes back he will rule. But our Jewish friends say, ‘Well okay, in that case when he comes back we’ll believe that he’s the Messiah. But so far he hasn’t proven himself to be the Messiah. When he comes back and he rules, he will prove himself to be the Messiah and then we’ll believe he’s the Messiah. But so far it doesn’t look like he is.’”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ally went on to say that,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“In the Islamic view, on the other hand, there is no mention that he is of Davidic descent. And Margaret Barker in her book, “Christmas: The Original Story,” actually remarked on this fact that in the Quran, and neither Mary nor Jesus are shown to be of Davidic descent. And that would probably explain why Mary is called sister of Aaron, in order to show that she’s actually not of Davidic descent, but actually Levitical. And in that case Jesus would qualify still as Messiah, but as a priestly Messiah. And in that case the idea of his crucifixion does not present a problem. See, if he was to be the Davidic Messiah and then he was crucified it would mean that somehow the crucifixion disproves his claim to Messiahship. But if he was a priestly Messiah then all he has to do is be a priest, a religious teacher, and in that case the fact that they crucified him would not count against his authenticity as God’s priestly Messiah.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is a rather bizarre and strange objection coming from a Muslim whose tradition makes it obligatory for Muslims to believe that Jesus Christ will physically descend from the heavens in order to rule as a just ruler and righteous judge:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… Allah’s saying…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(And he (`Isa) shall be a known sign for (the coming of) the Hour.) </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The correct view concerning this phrase is that it refers to his descent before the Day of Resurrection, as Allah says…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(And there is none of the People of the Scripture but must believe in him before his death)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (4:159). — meaning before the death of `Isa…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(And on the Day of Resurrection, he will be a witness against them)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (4:159). This meaning has the support from an alternate recitation of the Ayat… </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(And he shall be a known sign for (the coming of) the Hour.)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means, evidence that the Hour will surely come. Mujahid said…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(And he shall be a sign for (the coming of) the Hour.)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means, sign and “One of the signs of the Hour will be the appearance of `Isa son of Maryam before the Day of Resurrection.” </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Something similar was also narrated from Abu Hurayrah, Ibn `Abbas, `Abu Al-`Aliyah, Abu Malik, `Ikrimah, Al-Hasan, Qatadah, Ad-Dahhak and others. MANY MUTAWATIR HADITHS report that the Messenger of Allah said that `Isa will descend before the Day of Resurrection as A JUST RULER AND FAIR JUDGE</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(Therefore have no doubt concerning it.)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means, do not doubt that it will surely come to pass. </span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Q. 43:61 </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2076&Itemid=99"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2076&Itemid=99</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Another Muslim source concurs and goes so far as to say that this is a multiply attested tradition (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), which means that no true Muslim can reject it:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Hadiths on Jesus Are “Tawatur”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The hadiths relating Jesus’ second coming are reliable [tawatur]. Research shows that scholars share this view. Tawatur is defined as “a tradition which has been handed down by a number of different channels of transmitters or authorities, hence supposedly ruling out the possibility of its having been forged.”</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">8</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sayyid Sharif al-Jurjani, an Islamic scholar, explains the concept of tawatur hadith as follows:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">News of mutawatir, are the news upon which so many transmitters agree; to such an extent that, according to the tradition, it is unlikely for so many transmitters to reach to a consensus on a lie. This being the situation, if statements and meanings agree with one another, then this is called mutawatir lafzi [verbal mutawatir]. If there is common meaning yet contradiction between statements [words], then it is called mutewatir-i manawi [mutawatir by meaning].</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">9</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In his </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Tasrih fi ma Tawatara fi Nuzul al-Masih</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the great hadith scholar Muhammad Anwar Shah Kashmiri writes </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that the hadiths about Jesus’ second coming are all reliable, AND QUOTES 75 HADITHS AND 25 WORKS by companions of the Prophet and their disciples (</span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tabi’un</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">)</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In the Sunni school of Islam, Imam Abu Hanifa is the greatest collector of hadiths on Jesus’ second coming. In the final part of his </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Fiqh al-Akbar</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, he states that:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The emergence of the Dajjal and of Gog and Magog is a reality; the rising of the sun in the West is a reality; the descent of Jesus, upon whom be peace, from the heavens is a reality; and all the other signs of the Day of Resurrection, as contained in authentic traditions, are also established realities.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">10</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jesus’ second coming is one of the ten great signs of the Last Day, and many Islamic scholars have dealt with the subject in great detail. When all of these views are considered together, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">it becomes apparent that there is a consensus on this event</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For instance, in his work </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Lawaqi Al-Anwar Al-Bahiyah, </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Imam al-Safarini expresses that Islamic scholars agree upon this issue:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">THE ENTIRE </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">UMMAH</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Muslim community) has agreed on the issue that Prophet Jesus, the son of Maryam, will return. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">There is NO ONE from the people who follow Muslim laws who oppose this issue</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">11</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In his commentary </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ruh al-Ma`ani</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the great Islamic scholar Sayyid Mahmud Alusi gives examples from the views of other Islamic scholars and explains </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that the Islamic community has reached to a consensus regarding Prophet Jesus’ second coming</span></u><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">12</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, that information regarding this issue is well-known to the extent of being mutawatir by meaning, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and that it is essential to believe in Prophet Jesus’ return to Earth</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Imam Kawthari also stated his views regarding Prophet Jesus’ coming as follows:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tawatur</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> in the hadiths regarding Prophet Jesus’ second coming is </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir-i manawi</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Aside from the fact that each one of the </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">sahih</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">hasan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> hadiths may indicate different meanings, they all agree upon Prophet Jesus’ second coming. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">This is actually a fact which is IMPOSSIBLE TO DENY for a person who is well acquainted with the knowledge of hadith</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… The hadiths related to the appearance of Mahdi and Dajjal and Prophet Jesus’ second coming are </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tawatur</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">it is certainly not an issue that is considered doubtful by experts on the hadith literature.</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> The reason why some who deal with </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ilm al-Kalam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (science of theology) agree that it is essential to have faith in the hadiths related to the signs of Doomsday yet have doubts about whether some of these hadiths are mutawatir or not, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is their inadequate knowledge about hadiths</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">13</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The great Islamic scholar Ibn Kathir states his views after commenting on the related verses and explaining the related hadiths:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These are narrated from the Messenger of God as </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and in these hadiths, there are explanations regarding how and where Prophet Jesus will appear…</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The authentic and </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> hadiths about Prophet Jesus’ return to Earth IN HIS NOBLE BODY is immune to any opposing interpretations</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Consequently, everyone with the smallest speck of faith and fairness </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HAS TO BELIEVE in Prophet Jesus’ second coming; only those WHO OPPOSE to God’s Book, His Messenger and Ahl al-Sunnah may deny Prophet Jesus’ second coming to Earth</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">14</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Another explanation about the hadiths’ reaching the level of </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tawatur</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is as follows:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad al-Shawkani said </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that he had collected 29 hadiths</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and, when he had recorded them all, he said: “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Our hadiths have reached the level of </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tawatur</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> (reliable), as you can see</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. With this, we reach the conclusion that the hadiths on the anticipated Mahdi, the Dajjal, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and Jesus’ second coming are </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> (genuine)</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">15</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">At-Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, al-Bazzaz, Ibn Majah, al-Hakim, al-Tabarani, and al-Musuli recorded many hadiths </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">narrated by the Companions, such as `Ali, Ibn `Abbas, Ibn `Umar, Talha, Abu Hurayra, Anas, Abu Sa`id al-Khudri, Umm Habiba, Umm Salama, `Ali al-Hilali, and `Abd Allah ibn al-Harith ibn Jaz, upon whose narrations they based their collection on</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.16 For instance, Ibn Hajr Al-Haythami in the book </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Sawa’iq Al-Muhriqa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, al-Shablanji in his book </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Nur al-Absar</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Ibn Sabbagh in his book </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Fusul Al-Muhimma</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Muhammad ibn ‘Ali al-Sabban in his book </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Is`af ar-Raghibin fi Sirat al-Mustafa wa Fada’il Ahl Baytihi at-Tahirin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and Muhammad Amin Suwaidi in his book </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Saba’ik az-Zahab</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, wrote </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that the hadiths about Jesus’ second coming are reliable</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">17</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These hadiths are recorded by the Ahl as-Sunnah scholars and hadith experts in their own works. For instance, Abu Dawud, Ibn Ahmad Hanbal, at-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, al-Hakim, an-Nasa’i, al-Tabarani, al-Rawajini, Abu Nu`aym al-Isfahani, ad-Daylami, al-Baihaqi, as-Salabi, Hamawaini, Manawi, Ibn al-Jawzi, Muhammad ibn `Ali al-Sabban, al-Mawardi, al-Khanji al-Shafi, as-Samani, al-Khwarizmi, ash-Sharani, ad-Daraqutni, Ibn Sabbagh al-Maliki, Muhibbuddin at-Tabari, Ibn Hajr al-Haythami, Shaikh Mansur `Ali Nasif, Muhammad ibn Talha, Jalaluddin as-Suyuti, al-Qurtubi, al-Baghawi and many more deal with the subject in their books.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">`Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda reveals that the hadiths about Jesus returning to Earth and killing the Dajjal have reached the degree of being </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">18</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> In his </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Nazm al-Mutanathir min al-Hadith al-Mutawatir</span></i><i><sup><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;">19</span></sup></i><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">, </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">al-Kattani stated </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that “the descent of Jesus is established by the Sunnah, and Ijma al-Ummah (concensus of the Islamic community), and the hadiths on this issue and Dajjal and the Mahdi are </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. In his commentary </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al Bahru Al-Muhit</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Ibn Atiyya al Garnati states that the Islamic community has the common belief that Prophet Jesus is alive, that he will come back at the End Times </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and that the hadiths about this issue are </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">mutawatir</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (Harun Yahya, pp. 56-65 </span><a href="http://www.harunyahya.com/en/Books/2684/the-signs-of-prophet-jesus"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.harunyahya.com/en/Books/2684/the-signs-of-prophet-jesus</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Islamic Scholars Consider Prophet Jesus’ Coming as a Matter of Aqidah (Faith)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In almost all works that dwell on the essence of faith of the followers of Sunnah, there is reference to Prophet Jesus’ coming to Earth before the Last Day, his struggle against Dajjal and his killing him, and the pervasion of the morality of true religion over the Earth. Assessing the evidence from the Qur’an and the news provided by hadiths altogether, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Islamic scholars have adopted faith in Prophet Jesus’ return AS AN IMPORTANT TENET OF FAITH</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. The related explanations are as follows:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">1. In verse 157 of the Surat an-Nisa’, God commands, “…They did not kill him and they did not crucify him but it was made to seem so to them….” This verse, together with many others, reveal that Prophet Jesus is alive in God’s sight and indicates that he will come to Earth for a second time. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Reaching to consensus on this issue, Islamic scholars state that advocating a contrary suggestion IS BY NO MEANS POSSIBLE</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. For instance in his commentary of this verse, Ibn Hazm stresses that someone who says Prophet Jesus is murdered would revert back from Islam or become a disbeliever.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">2. The fact that the hadiths pertaining to Prophet Jesus’ second coming are mutawatir, that is, so clear as to be immune to any doubts, is a great evidence for Muslims. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Furthermore, there exists NOT A SINGLE DIFFERENT HADITH that maintains otherwise – that is, any hadith that suggests that Prophet Jesus will not return</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">3. Another evidence used by Islamic scholars is the hadith narrated by Jabir Ibn Abdullah which says, “Anyone who denies Mahdi’s coming has denied what was revealed to Prophet Mohammed. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Anyone who rejects Prophet Jesus’, son of Maryam, coming HAS BECOME A DISBELIEVER</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Anyone who does not accept Dajjal’s appearance has also become a disbeliever.” There is reference to this hadith in very important Islamic resources such as, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Fasl al-Khitab by Khwaja Parsa Bukhari, Maani al-Akhbar</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by Muhammed ibn Ibrahim Kalabadhi, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Rawd Al-Unuf</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by Suhayl, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Arf-ul-wardi-fi Akhbar Mahdi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by Jalaluddin Suyuti. This aside, Sheikh Abu Bakr has explained the chain of people who narrated this hadith. It is as follows (from the last person to the first): Muhammad Ibn Hasan, Abu Abdullah al-Hussein Ibn Muhammad, Isma’il Ibn Abi Uways, Malik Ibn Abas, Muhammad Ibn Munkadir, Jabir Ibn Abdullah.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">20</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">4. The abundance of narrators who reported the hadiths related to Prophet Jesus’ coming and their trustworthiness is another issue to which Islamic scholars draw attention. Some of the narrators who reported these hadiths are: Abu’l Asas as-Sanani, Abu Rafi, Abul Aliyya, Abu Umama al-Bahili, Abu’d Darda’, Abu Hurayra, Abu Malik al-Hudri, Jabir Ibn Abdullah, Hudhayfa Ibn Adis, Safina, Abu Qatada, Uthman Ibnul ‘Aas, Nafi’ Ibn Kaysani, Al Walid Ibn Muslim, Ammar Ibn Yathir, Abdullah Ibni Abbas…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As a result of all this information, Islamic scholars have considered faith in Prophet Jesus’ return to Earth and the pervasion of the morality of the true religion as an important essence of faith. (Ibid., pp. 66-69; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Interestingly, Ally himself accepts the Islamic teaching that Christ shall return physically to the earth:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muslims also generally believe that Jesus will return to earth before the Day of Judgment. This belief is not clearly stated in the Quran although two verses (4:158 and 43:61) have been interpreted as possible references to this event. This belief is, however, stated in many sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad and found in the most authentic collections of his sayings. (Jesus Christ the Messiah [</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">sic</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">]: A Belief Shared by Muslims and Christians, April 1, 2012 </span><a href="http://islaminfo.com/jesus-christ-the-messiah-a-belief-shared-by-muslims-and-christians.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://islaminfo.com/jesus-christ-the-messiah-a-belief-shared-by-muslims-and-christians.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thus, Ally has no choice but to accept that Jesus’ return to rule as a judge makes him </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">A DAVIDIC MESSIAH</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, not a priestly one since it is the Davidic Messiah who rules and reigns, not the priestly Messiah. This, therefore, means that the same objection leveled by Jews against Christians can equally be lodged against Muslims. </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Per </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ally’s logic, the Jews have every right to tell their Muslim friends that they will only believe in Jesus once he physically returns to the earth to rule and judge. It is only then that they will accept the fact of his being their Messiah, he who was to come from the line of David in order to rule over the nations.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With that said, Ally’s claim that Islam depicts Jesus as a priestly Messiah introduces more problems for him to solve, as we shall see in the next segment of our rebuttal.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Further Reading</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Qur’an Contradiction: Mary, Sister of Aaron & Daughter of Amram </span><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/qbhc06.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.answering-islam.org/Quran/Contra/qbhc06.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Quran Contradiction: Mary, the Mother of Jesus and Sister of Aaron </span><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses/Menj/sister_of_aaron.htm"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses/Menj/sister_of_aaron.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Is Mary the Sister of Aaron? </span><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/mary.htm"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/mary.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran’s Confusion Concerning the Identity of Mary </span><a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/shamoun/rebuttals/ibnanwar/mary_aaron.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.answering-islam.org/authors/shamoun/rebuttals/ibnanwar/mary_aaron.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Source: </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-3/" style="background-color: transparent;"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-3/</span></u></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-2847283847174030352023-11-24T19:13:00.001+01:002023-11-24T19:13:12.089+01:00What type of Messiah does the Quran say Jesus Happens to Be? Pt. 2<p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Exposing more of Shabir Ally’s misinformation</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We continue from we previously left off </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-1/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary’s lineage according to Islamic Scholars</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In the clip, Ally made the assertion that some of the Muslim commentators believed Mary was from the line of Aaron, which would mean that she was of the tribe of Levi. This, in turn, would place Jesus within the priestly line, as opposed to the Davidic one. Ally further stated that “In the Islamic view, on the other hand, there is no mention that he is of Davidic descent.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This, again, is another one of Ally’s outright lies since Muslim tradition unanimously acknowledges Mary’s descent from David.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For instance, one of Islam’s greatest scholars and historians Al-Tabari links Jesus’ mother to David, and even went as far as to “borrow” the genealogy of Joseph found in Matthew’s Gospel!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The Persians assert that sixty-five years after Alexander seized Babylonia, and fifty-one years after Arsacid rule began, Mary the daughter of ‘Imran gave birth to Jesus. But the Christians assert that Jesus was born to her 303 years after Alexander conquered Babylonia, and that John the Baptist was born six months before Jesus. They report that Mary was pregnant with Jesus when she was thirteen years old. They also report that Jesus lived thirty-two years and a few days before his ascension, and that Mary lived six more years after his ascension, altogether over fifty years. They assert that John and Jesus met in the Jordan River when Jesus was thirty years of age, and that John was slain before the ascension of Jesus. Zechariah b. Berechiah, the father of Yahya b. Zechariah, and ‘Imran b. Matthan, the father of Mary, were married to two sisters. One was married to Zechariah- she was the mother of John, the other was with ‘Imran b. Matthan, and she was the mother of Mary. ‘Imran b. Matthan died when the mother of Mary was pregnant with her. When Mary was born, Zechariah provided for her after her mother’s death, because her aunt, the sister of her mother, was with him. The name of Mary’s mother was Hanna bt. Faqud b. Qabil; the name of the sister of Mary’s mother, that is, the name of John’s mother was Elizabeth bt. Faqud. Zechariah provided for Mary, and she was engaged to Joseph b. Jacob b. Mathan b. Eleazar b. Eliud b. Achim b. Zadok b. Azor b. Eliakim b. Abiud b. Zerubbabel, b. Shealtiel b. Jechonia b. Josiah b. Amon b. Manasseh b. Hezekiah b. Ahaziah b. Jotham b. Uzziah b. Joram b. Jehosaphat b. Asa b. Abijah b. Rehoboam b. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SOLOMON B. DAVID</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to Ibn Humayd – Salamah – Ibn Ishaq: As far as I could learn from her lineage, Mary was the daughter of ‘Imran b. Josiah b. Amon b. Manasse b. Hezekiah b. Ahaziah b. Jotham b. Azariah b. Amaziah b. Joash b. Ahaziah b. Joram b. Jehosaphat b. Asa b. Abijah b. Rehoboam b. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SOLOMON</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The History of al-Tabari Volume IV – The Ancient Kingdom</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Moshe Perlman trans. [The State University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany, NY 1987], pp. 103-104; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hence, al-Tabari cites traditions that affirm that both Joseph </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Mary were descendants of King David.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Another renowned scholar Ibn Kathir wrote the following in reference to Q. 19:16 </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2687&Itemid=75"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2687&Itemid=75</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(And mention in the Book, Maryam,)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> She was Maryam bint `Imran </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">from the family lineage of Dawud</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She was from a good and wholesome family of the Children of Israel. Allah mentioned the story of her mother’s pregnancy with her in Surah Al `Imran, and that she (Maryam’s mother) dedicated her freely for the service of Allah. This meant that she dedicated the child (Maryam) to the service of the Masjid of the Sacred House (in Jerusalem). Thus, they (Zakariyya, Maryam’s mother and Maryam) were similar in that aspect. (Bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And here is what he wrote concerning Q. 3:33:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah states that He has chosen these households over the people of the earth. For instance, Allah chose Adam, created him with His Hand and blew life into him. Allah commanded the angels to prostrate before Adam, taught him the names of everything and allowed him to dwell in Paradise, but then sent him down from it out of His wisdom. Allah chose Nuh and made him the first Messenger to the people of the earth, when the people worshipped idols and associated others with Allah in worship. Allah avenged the way Nuh was treated, for he kept calling his people day and night, in public and in secret, for a very long time. However, his calling them only made them shun him more, and this is when Nuh supplicated against them. So Allah caused them to drown, and none among them was saved, except those who followed the religion that Allah sent to Nuh. Allah also chose the household of Ibrahim, including the master of all mankind, and the Final Prophet, Muhammad. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah also chose the household of `Imran, the father of Marym bint `Imran, the mother of `Isa, peace be upon them.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SO `ISA IS FROM THE OFFSPRING OF IBRAHIM, as we will mention in the Tafsir of Surat Al-An`am</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Allah willing, and our trust is in Him… (Ibid.: </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=547&Itemid=46"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=547&Itemid=46</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ibn Kathir also mentions specific Muslim scholars who used the example of Jesus to prove that a man can trace his lineage through his mother:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Mentioning `Isa in the offspring of Ibrahim, or Nuh as we stated above, is proof that the grandchildren from a man’s daughter’s side are included among his offspring. `Isa is included among Ibrahim’s progeny through his mother, although `Isa did not have a father. Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Abu Harb bin Abi Al-Aswad said, ‘Al-Hajjaj sent to Yahya bin Ya`mar, saying, “I was told that you claim that Al-Hasan and Al-Hussein are from the offspring of the Prophet, did you find it in the Book of Allah? I read the Qur’an from beginning to end and did not find it.” Yahya said, “Do you not read in Surah Al-An`am…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(and among his progeny Dawud, Sulayman…)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> until, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(and Yahya and `Isa…)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Hajjaj said, “Yes.” Yahya said, “</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Is not `Isa from the offspring of Ibrahim, although he did not have a father!</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” Al-Hajjaj said, “You have said the truth.”’ For example, when a man leaves behind a legacy, a trust, or gift to his ‘offspring’ then the children of his daughters are included. But if a man gives something to his ‘sons’, or he leaves a trust behind for them, then that would be particular to his male children and their male children…” (Q. 6:84-90 </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=991&Itemid=61"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=991&Itemid=61</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following Muslim scholars all concur with Ibn kathir regarding this issue:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And Zachariah and, his son, John, and Jesus, son of Mary — </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THIS SHOWS THAT [the term] ‘SEED’ (dhurriyya) CAN INCLUDE OFFSPRING FROM THE FEMALE [side]</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> — and Elias, the paternal nephew of Aaron, brother of Moses; all, of them, were of the righteous. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(And Zachariah and John and Jesus and Elias. Each one (of them)) We guided by bestowing upon them prophethood and Islam; </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and all of them were of the seed of Abraham</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (was of the righteous) i.e. they were messengers. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><a href="http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=6&tAyahNo=85&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Out of these seventeen prophets identified in the cited verses, Sayyidna Nuh is the patriarch of Sayyidna Ibrahim. The rest have been called their progeny: (and, of his progeny, to Dawud and Sulayman … ). This poses two difficulties. The first could be about Sayyidna ‘Isa </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who, because of his father-less birth, is a progeny of Sayyidna Ibrahim from the daughter’s side</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, that is, not a paternal grandson, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">instead, is a grand-son from the maternal side</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If so, how would calling him his progeny would be correct? </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Most learned Muslim scholars and jurists have answered it by saying that progeny is inclusive of both paternal and maternal grandsons</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It is from here that they prove that Sayyidna Hasan and Sayyidna Husain stand included under the progeny of the Holy Prophet. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ma’ariful-Qur’an</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, by Maulana Mufti Muhammad Shafi’, translated by Muhammad Shamim, revised by Taqi ‘Usmani, Volume 3, p. 406: </span><a href="https://ia802707.us.archive.org/2/items/maarifulquran-english-pdf/MaarifulquranEnglishPdf-Vol3-Page399-453ByMuftiShafiUsmaniRah.pdf"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://ia802707.us.archive.org/2/items/maarifulquran-english-pdf/MaarifulquranEnglishPdf-Vol3-Page399-453ByMuftiShafiUsmaniRah.pdf</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now according to the following Muslim source, all of the classical Islamic scholars unanimously held to the view the blessed mother of our risen Lord was a descendant of king David:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The Qur’an informs us that the father of Mary was named ‘Imran </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the classical Muslim scholars UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPT that she was from the line of the prophet David</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… Differences of opinion emerge, however, over the intervening genealogy, most probably due to a lack of familiarity with such foreign names and consequent error in recording them in the Arabic orthography. According to the Spanish exegete al-Qurtubi, ‘All these differences are mentioned because the Prophets and Messengers are all descendants one of the other.’ The following genealogy (taking into account orthographic variations), which is attributed to Ibn Ishaq or directly to the Prophet’s companion Ibn ‘Abbas, is the most generally accepted: Mary bint ‘Imran ibn Yashim ibn Misha ibn Hazqiya ibn Yawish (ibn Isha ibn Yahushafat) </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IBN SULAYMAN IBN DAWUD</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… Although the name of her mother is not supplied in the Qur’an, it is universally accepted as Hanna bint Faqudh.” (Aliah Schleifer, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mary The Blessed Virgin of Islam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> [Fons Vitae; ISBN: 1887752021; July 1, 1998], pp. 22-23; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, the claim that Mary was one of the descendants of Aaron holds no weight since there is no reliable historical data to support it.</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(1)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now Ally may try to counter this fact by appealing to Luke 1:36 which identifies Elizabeth as Mary’s kinswoman or relative:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Listen, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">your cousin Elizabeth</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> has also conceived a son in her old age. And this is the sixth month with her who was declared barren.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ally may argue that, since Elizabeth is said to be a descendant of Aaron (cf. Luke 1:5), Mary must have also been from the household of Aaron.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There are two main problems with his argument. First, Luke goes out of his way to affirm Jesus’ Davidic descent,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">of the house of David</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And the virgin’s name was Mary. The angel came to her and said, ‘Greetings, you who are highly favored. The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women.’ When she saw him, she was troubled by his words, and considered in her mind what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Listen, you will conceive in your womb and bear a Son and shall call His name JESUS. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God will give Him the throne </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">of His father David</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of His kingdom there will be no end.’” Luke 1:26-33</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, who was the son of Heli, who was the son of Matthat, who was the son of Levi, who was the son of Melchi, who was the son of Jannai, who was the son of Joseph, who was the son of Mattathias, who was the son of Amos, who was the son of Nahum, who was the son of Esli, who was the son of Naggai, who was the son of Maath, who was the son of Mattathias, who was the son of Semein, who was the son of Josech, who was the son of Joda, who was the son of Joanan, who was the son of Rhesa, who was the son of Zerubbabel, who was the son of Shealtiel, who was the son of Neri, who was the son of Melchi, who was the son of Addi, who was the son of Cosam, who was the son of Elmadam, who was the son of Er, who was the son of Joshua, who was the son of Eliezer, who was the son of Jorim, who was the son of Matthat, who was the son of Levi, who was the son of Simeon, who was the son of Judah, who was the son of Joseph, who was the son of Jonan, who was the son of Eliakim, who was the son of Melea, who was the son of Menna, who was the son of Mattatha, who was the son of Nathan, who was the son </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">of David</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, who was the son of Jesse, who was the son of Obed, who was the son of Boaz, who was the son of Salmon, who was the son of Nahshon, who was the son of Amminadab, who was the son of Ram, who was the son of Hezron, who was the son of Perez, who was the son </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">of Judah</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">,” Luke 3:23-33</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Brothers, I may speak confidently to you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. But being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that of his seed according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to sit on his throne,” Acts 2:29-30</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“When He had removed him, He raised up David to be their king, of whom He testified, saying, ‘I have found </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">David</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will fulfill My entire will.’ </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">From this man’s descendants</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> God has raised a Savior for Israel, </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Jesus</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, according to His promise.” Acts 13:22-23</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As do the rest of the inspired NT writers (cf. Matthew 1:1; Mark 10:47-48; Romans 1:3; 2 Timothy 2:8; Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5; 22:16).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Secondly, the only thing that Luke 1:36 would prove is that Elizabeth had Judean blood in her, not that Mary was of the stock of Aaron. After all, the Holy Bible clearly teaches that Levitical priests were allowed to marry women from any of the twelve tribes of Israel:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He shall take a wife in her virginity. A widow, or a divorced woman, or a defiled woman, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">But he shall take for a wife a virgin of HIS OWN PEOPLE</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">,” Leviticus 21:13-14</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The prophet Ezekiel, in his vision of a restored priesthood and temple, further clarifies this point:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“But the Levites who have gone far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray away from Me after their idols, they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house and ministering to the house. They shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them… Nor shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who has been put away. </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">But they shall take maidens of the seed of THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, or a widow who had a priest before.” Ezekiel 44:10-11, 22</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Holy Bible also provides an example of a priest who had married a woman from Judea, and who was actually a descendant of king David:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“So when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose up and mounted a campaign to destroy </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">all the royal offspring of the house of Judah</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><b><sup><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But Jehoshabeath, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the daughter of the king</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from the king’s sons who were going to be put to death, and she placed him and his nurse in a bed chamber. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram </span></b><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and wife of Jehoiada the priest</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (since she was a sister of Ahaziah), hid Joash from Athaliah. And she did not put the </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">royal child</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to death.” 2 Chronicles 22:10-11</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What the foregoing shows is that it is more reasonable to assume that Elizabeth was from the line of David from her mother’s side, which would account for her being related to Mary.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As such, Luke 1:36 does very little to establish that Mary was from the line of Aaron, especially when the Biblical data points in the direction of her being a descendant of king David.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We have more to say in the third part of our rebuttal: </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-3/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-3/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Endnotes </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(1)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> It seems that Ibn Kathir wanted to have his cake and eat it too since elsewhere he claims that Mary was a descendant of Aaron, and therefore of Levitical stock:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">`Ali bin Abi Talhah and As-Suddi both said, “It was said to her…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(O sister of Harun!)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> referring to the brother of Musa, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">because she was of his descendants</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” This is similar to the saying, `O brother of Tamim,’ to one who is from the Tamimi tribe, and `O brother of Mudar,’ to one who is from the Mudari tribe. It has also been said that she was related to a righteous man among them whose name was Harun and she was comparable to him in her abstinence and worship… (Q. 19:28 </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2684&Itemid=75"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2684&Itemid=75</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ibn Kathir must have forgotten what he wrote elsewhere in affirming Jesus’ Davidic descent. Besides, it is obvious why here, in this passage, he would argue for Mary being a descendant of Aaron since he saw the problem this Quranic verse posed for his belief in the divine origin of the Islamic scripture.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, his proposed solution still leaves him with a gross error since one doesn’t refer to a person being the brother or sister of a particular individual when speaking of one’s physical ancestry. Rather, the correct phraseology is to describe someone as the son or daughter of so and so, just as we find in the following examples:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah. And his wife was </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">of the daughters of Aaron</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and her name was Elizabeth.” Luke 1:5</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He will turn many of </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the sons of Israel</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to the Lord their God.” Luke 1:16</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Then should not this woman, being </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a daughter of Abraham</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> whom Satan has bound these eighteen years, be loosed from this bondage on the Sabbath?” Luke 13:16</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“He cried out, ‘</span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Jesus, Son of David</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, have mercy on me!’ Those who went in front rebuked him, so that he would keep quiet. But he cried out much more, ‘</span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Son of David</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, have mercy on me!’” Luke 18:38-39</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a son of Abraham</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’” Luke 19:9</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, Ibn Kathir’s interpretation is mistaken and this gross Quranic blunder still remains unsolved.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-2/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-44140706212887141562023-11-24T19:11:00.004+01:002023-11-24T19:11:27.476+01:00What type of Messiah does the Quran say Jesus Happens to Be? Pt. 1<p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Exposing more of Shabir Ally’s misinformation</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In this post, I am going to tackle the assertions made by Shabir Ally in one of his shows where sought to answer a question asked by a Muslim regarding the Quran’s blunder in identifying Mary, the blessed mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, as the sister of Moses and Aaron (Q&A: Why Does the Quran Call Mary the Sister of Aaron? | Dr. Shabir Ally </span><a href="https://bloggingtheology.net/2016/12/17/qa-why-does-the-quran-call-mary-the-sister-of-aaron-dr-shabir-ally/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bloggingtheology.net/2016/12/17/qa-why-does-the-quran-call-mary-the-sister-of-aaron-dr-shabir-ally/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This short video further confirms what I have been saying about Ally’s integrity (or lack thereof). Sadly, Ally is one of the most dishonest Muhammadans I have ever encountered, one who does not hesitate to use trickery, deceit, and misinformation in order to win a debate or mislead people into embracing his religion.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is what Ally said in response to the question of the Quran confusing the two Marys:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But when the question was put to the prophet according to the hadith as to why Mary is called sister of Harun here, it is reported that he said that tell them that – tell the questioners about this – that people normally give the names of their ancestors to their children. So if we think of today’s societies we will find its very common that within the same household you can have Mary, and a Aaron, and a Moses, and a Zechariah and so on. You can have names from very different segments of past history all culminating in the same household among brothers and sisters. So as Muslims doing that now, people would have done that in the past as well, and that would explain why Mary is called sister of Aaron. Perhaps she had a brother named Harun.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is the hadith that Ally had in mind:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Mughira b. Shu’ba reported: When I came to Najran, they (the Christians of Najran) asked me: You read “O sister of Harun” (i.e. Hadrat Maryam) in the Qur’an, whereas Moses was born much before Jesus. When I came back to Allah’s Messenger I asked him about that, whereupon he said: </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 025, Number 5326 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=025&translator=2&start=0&number=5326"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=025&translator=2&start=0&number=5326</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Suffice it to say the argument set forth here is laden with problems.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To begin with, the onus is on Ally to prove that Mary had a brother named Aaron since her parents chose to name their offspring after the prophets or righteous persons that came before them. However, Ally faces a major dilemma since there is no credible historical record that he can point to, which would confirm that the blessed mother of our risen Lord actually had a brother, especially one named Aaron.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The other, more serious problem with the response given by Ally’s “prophet” is that this conveniently ignores the fact that Mary isn’t merely said to be the sister of Aaron:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Then she came up with him to her people carrying him. They said, “</span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">O Maryam, (Mary)</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> indeed you have readily come with a fabricated thing. </span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">O sister of Harun, (Aaron)</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in no way was your father a woeful person, and in no way was your mother a prostitute.” S. 19:27-28 Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali </span><a href="http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st21.htm"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/19/st21.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">She is also said to be the daughter of Imran in the Quran, with her mother being identified as the wife of Imran:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(Remember) when </span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the wife of ‘Imran</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> said: “O my Lord! I have vowed to You what (the child that) is in my womb to be dedicated for Your services (free from all worldly work; to serve Your Place of worship), so accept this, from me. Verily, You are the All-Hearer, the All-Knowing.” Then when she delivered her [child </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Maryam </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(Mary)], she said: “O my Lord! I have delivered a female child,” – and Allah knew better what she delivered, – “And the male is not like the female, </span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and I have named her Maryam (Mary)</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and I seek refuge with You (Allah) for her and for her offspring from </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Shaitan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Satan), the outcast.” S. 3:35-36 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And Maryam (Mary), the daughter of ‘Imran</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> who guarded her chastity…” S. 66:12 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">{Note – Imran is the Quranic equivalent of OT Amram, and Maryam is the Arabic cognate of Miriam (Mary’s Hebrew name).}</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now the only Mary who had a brother named Aaron and whose father’s name was Imran was none other than Moses’ older sister!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Miriam</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the prophetess, </span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the sister of Aaron</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.” Exodus 15:20</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And the name of </span><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the wife of Amram</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bore to Levi in Egypt, </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and Miriam their sister</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Numbers 26:59</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The children </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">of Amram </span></i></b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">were </span></i><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Aaron</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Moses, and </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Miriam</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” 1 Chronicles 6:3</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This explains why Moses, Aaron and Mary are grouped together as the leaders whom God raised up for Israel:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“For I have brought you up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of slaves I have redeemed you; and I sent before you </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Moses,</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Aaron, and Miriam</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Micah 6:4</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What makes this all the more troubling for Ally is that the supposedly authentic narrations attributed to Muhammad even refer to the prophet Moses as the son of Imran!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu al-‘Aliya reported: Ibn Abbas, the son of your Prophet’s uncle, told us that the Messenger of Allah had observed: On the night of my night journey </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I passed by MOSES B. ‘IMRAN</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, a man light brown in complexion, tall. well-built as if he was one of the men of the Shanu’a, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and saw Jesus son of Mary</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> as a medium-statured man with white and red complexion and crisp hair, and I was shown Malik the guardian of Fire, and Dajjal amongst the signs which were shown to me by Allah. He (the narrator) observed: Then do not doubt his (i.e. of the Holy Prophet) meeting with him (Moses). Qatada elucidated it thus: Verily the Apostle of Allah met Moses. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 001, Number 0317 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0317"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0317</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They continued travelling and the Prophet said: “O Jibril, who was this?” He replied: “</span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">This is Musa IBN `IMRAN</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”… The gate was opened. When they came in they saw Harun. Half of his beard was white and the other half was black. It almost reached his navel due to its length. Surrounding him were a company of the children of Israel listening to him as he was telling them a story. The Prophet greeted him and he returned his greeting and said: “Welcome to the righteous brother and the righteous Prophet!” Then he invoked for goodness on his behalf. The Prophet asked: “Who is this, O Jibril?” He replied: “This is the man who is beloved among his people, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Harun IBN `IMRAN</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”… As they went in the Prophet saw </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Musa IBN `IMRAN (again)</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, a tall man with brown complexion, similar to one of the </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">shanu’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> — the (Yemeni) men of pure lineage and manly virtue — with abundant hair. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Commemorating the Prophet’s Rapture and Ascension to his Lord</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Commemorating the Prophet’s Rapture and Ascension to his Lord </span><a href="http://www.sunnah.org/ibadaat/fasting/ascen3.htm"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.sunnah.org/ibadaat/fasting/ascen3.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In light of the foregoing, it is little wonder that renowned religious scholar Karen Armstrong could write in her quite popular biography on the life of Muhammad that Ally’s prophet erroneously assumed that the risen Lord’s blessed mother was the same as the sister of Moses:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Muhammad’s knowledge of scripture was still limited, however. The prophetic figures venerated by the Arabs in their own traditions were put side by side with the prophets of the Bible as though they were equal in status: indeed, as we have seen, the Qur’an sees all rightly guided religions as coming from God. Muhammad did not know the chronology in which the scriptural prophets appeared: he seems, for example, to have thought that Mariam, the mother of Jesus, was the same as Mariam, the sister of Moses in the Jewish scriptures…” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[HarperSanFrancisco, 1992], 6. The Satanic Verses, pp. 130-131)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ally must, therefore, face the music and accept the fact that his prophet made an egregious historical blunder since he made Jesus the nephew of the prophet Moses!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ally’s woes are far from over as we are about to see in the second part of our rebuttal </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-2/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Source: </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-1/" style="background-color: transparent;"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/what-type-of-messiah-does-the-quran-say-jesus-happens-to-be-pt-1/</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">IHS</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-53279215289284630002023-11-24T19:06:00.001+01:002023-11-24T19:06:33.996+01:00The Quran Testifies that the Holy Spirit is God!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">According to the Quran Allah is the holy one, or the one who is holy:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He is Allah, than Whom there is no other God, the Sovereign Lord, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Holy One (al-quddoosi)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Peace, the Keeper of Faith, the Guardian, the Majestic, the Compeller, the Superb. Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him). S. 59:23 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">All that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth glorifieth Allah, the Sovereign Lord, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Holy One (al-quddoosi)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the Mighty, the Wise. S. 62:1 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He’s also the one that the angels laud as holy:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when thy Lord said to the angels: Truly, I </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">am</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> assigning on the earth a viceregent. They said: Wilt Thou be One Who Makes on it someone who makes corruption on it and sheds blood, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">while we glorify Thy praise and sanctify Thee (wanahnu nusabbihu bihamdika </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wanuqaddisu</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">)?</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> He said: Truly, I know what you know not! S. 2:30 Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar </span><a href="https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st46.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st46.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Note how the following versions translate this passage:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… while we glorify Your praises </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and proclaim Your holiness</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">?…” The Clear Quran by Mustafa Khattab </span><a href="https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st60.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st60.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… and we glorify THEE with THY praise </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and extol THY holiness</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Sher Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“…while we already glorify You with Your true </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">praise and extol Your holiness</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Amatul Rahman Omar </span><a href="https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st9.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st9.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… when we glorify You by praising You </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and exalt Your Holiness</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">?…” Mir Aneesuddin </span><a href="https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st60.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/st60.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And when your lord said to the angels, “Surely I am placing on earth a kalefah.” [16] They said, “Will you place in it those who will vandalize in it and shed the blood, and while </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">we nusabah [17] with your praise and extol your holiness?</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” He said, “Surely I know what you do not know.” (Usama Dakdok. The Generous Qur’an: An accurate, modern English translation of the Qur’an, Islam’s holiest book [Usama Dakdok Publishing, LLC., 2009], p. 49; bold and italicized emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">16 viceroy, non-Arabic word of Berber/Syriac origin</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">17 praise, non-Arabic word of Aramaic/Hebrew/Syriac origin (Ibid., p. 108)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Moreover, Islamic theology teaches that the adjective </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> happens to be one of the names of Allah, one that cannot be ascribed to any creature, no matter how highly exalted s/he may be:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><span class="15" style="color: maroon; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As-Subbûh, Al-Quddûs: The All-Perfect, Utterly Pure</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subbuh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is from </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subhan</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which is glorification and tanzih, disconnecting and elevating Him above any others. He is All-Perfect, All-Pure, All Glorious, far removed from everything evil and imperfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means pure (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tahir, munazzah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), pure and free of any imperfection. He is far removed from every imperfection or impurity or from anything that would detract from His glory, and disconnected from every description perceived by the senses and thought,All-Holy, All-Pure, All-Perfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Some say </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Subbuh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> denies imperfection and </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> affirms perfection.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: magenta; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Quddus</span></i><span style="color: magenta; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is one of the Ninety-Nine Names.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Divine Names </span></i><a href="https://bewley.virtualave.net/names.html"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bewley.virtualave.net/names.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And here is another one of Allah’s incommunicable names:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt; text-align: center;"><b><u><span class="15" style="color: maroon; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Amîn: The Secure</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He who is secure with respect to the accidents of fortune. (Bewley)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Amin </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">refers to someone who is faithful, reliable, honest, truthful, and/or trustworthy.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now this is where it gets rather interesting, especially for Muslims. The Quran ascribes these very unique divine names to the spirit himself!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Muslim “holy” book identifies the spirit as </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-amin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Faithful Spirit (al-ruhu al-aminu)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> has descended with it,” S. 26:193 Shakir</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And We gave to Moses the Book, and after him sent succeeding Messengers; and We gave Jesus son of Mary the clear signs, and confirmed him with </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Holy Spirit (ruhi al-qudusi)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and whensoever there came to you a Messenger with that your souls had not desire for, did you become arrogant, and some cry lies to, and some slay? S. 2:87 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… And We gave Jesus son of Mary the clear signs, and confirmed him with </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Holy Spirit (ruhi al-qudusi)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” S. 2:253 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“When God said, ‘Jesus Son of Mary, remember My blessing upon thee and upon thy mother, when I confirmed thee with </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Holy Spirit (ruhi al-qudusi)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, to speak to men in the cradle, and of age…” S. 5:110 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Say, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Holy Spirit (ruhu al-qudusi)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> has brought the revelation from thy Lord in Truth, in order to strengthen those who believe, and as a Guide and Glad Tidings to Muslims. S. 16:102 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to two of Islam’s premiere commentators, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is actually the shortened form of the participle </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-muqaddasa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… and We confirmed him We strengthened him with the Holy Spirit the expression rūh al-qudus is an example of annexing in a genitive construction the noun described to the adjective qualifying it </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">in other words al-rūh al-muqaddasa</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> that is Gabriel so described on account of his Jesus’s sanctity; he would accompany him Jesus wherever he went…” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Q. 2:87 </span><a href="https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=2&tAyahNo=87&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=2&tAyahNo=87&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This simply further confirms that the Quran actually attributes to the spirit one of Allah’s very own descriptions, namely, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which only makes sense since both </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> stem from the same Arabic root:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The triliteral root </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">qāf dāl sīn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ق</span></b><span dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">د</span></b><span dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">س</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) occurs 10 times in the Quran, in five derived forms:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">· </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">once as the form II verb </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">nuqaddisu</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">نُقَدِّسُ</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">· </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">four times as the noun </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">قُدُس</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">· </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">twice as the adjective </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">quddūs</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">قُدُّوس</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">· </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">twice as the form II passive participle </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">muqaddas</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">مُقَدَّس</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">· </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">once as the form II passive participle </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">muqaddasat</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><b><span class="15" dir="RTL" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">مُقَدَّسَة</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Quran Dictionary</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=qds"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=qds</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Since </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">qudus </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is nothing more than the noun form of the adjective </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the terms are therefore synonymous in meaning. In fact, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and all of its related forms are never used for any person besides Allah and the spirit.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This explains why certain Islamic scholars took the noun </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-qudus </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(“the holy one”) as a reference to Allah himself:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Ibn Ines said, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He is the Spirit</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> which was breathed into Christ. Allah related him to himself, honouring him (Christ) and setting Him apart. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The ‘Holy’ is God</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and the saying ‘We breathed in him of our Spirit’ is indicative of this…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Ibn Jubair said, Spirit of the Holy </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is the supreme name for Allah</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and by it ‘Isa was raising the dead.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Al Qashani said, Allah purposed to cleanse the body of ‘Isa from inherent impurities and he was an incarnate spirit in an ideal and spiritual body. He (Allah) cleansed his spirit and purified him from being influenced by natural instincts and environmental characteristics, so that he could be supported by the Holy Spirit </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">in whose form he was</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Ibn Abbas said, As it was, the Spirit which was breathed into him </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the Holy One is Allah</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, so he is the spirit of Allah. (Abd Al-Fadi, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Person of Christ in the Gospel and the Qur’an </span></i><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#idp241658464"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://the-good-way.com/eng/books/4301/format-xml#idp241658464</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These scholars were of the opinion that </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ruh al-qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> literally means the spirit of the Holy One, e.g., the spirit that belongs to Allah. They apparently saw that this was a unique term, which they believed could only be employed for the Muslim deity.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This in turn provides further corroboration that </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-qudus </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is a name for Deity, thereby confirming that it has the same meaning as </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-quddus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In light of this, the only way that the spirit could be called </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-qudus </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is if he himself is God in essence. Otherwise, the author(s) and/or editor(s) of the Quran were guilty of the unpardonable sin of </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">shirk </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(cf. Q. 2:22; 4:48, 116), since they ascribed the unique names and characteristics of Allah to a finite creature. This brings me to my next point.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What makes this all the more interesting is that the Quran never states that human beings possess a spirit. Rather, the Islamic scripture consistently speaks of humans having souls. The only one said to have a spirit is Allah:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The word, `Spirit’ or its derivatives are mentioned twenty-four times in the Qur’an </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and not once in relation to man. The word that describes the inner being of a man is `soul’, not `Spirit’</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Dr Mustafa Mahmoud draws a distinction between the spirit and the soul in the Qur’an:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to the common language, we mix between the soul and the Spirit. And so we say, `his spirit departed’, or `his spirit longs for such and such’, or `his spirit is in torment’ … </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">All these are incorrect expressions and belong only to the soul, not the Spirit</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. For what departs from the body is the soul (Q 6:93), and what tastes death is the soul and not the spirit (Q 3:185) … The soul exists before birth, and during the lifetime of a person, and remains after death. The Spirit cannot be tempted (Q. 5:30, Q. 50:16), does not covet or lust (Q. 91:7&8), does not get bored (Q 9:118) and does not get tormented (Q. 9:55) … all these belong to the soul and not the Spirit.[30]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">While common language `mixes between’ soul and Spirit, using them interchangeably, the Qur’an does not treat the two words in this way, but instead uses the word `Spirit’ exclusively in relation to God. Dr Mahmoud continues:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Spirit, however, is always mentioned in the Qur’an </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">with a high degree of holiness, honour and Divine Transcendence</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It is never described as suffering pain or coveting, or lusting or longing or desiring, or being purified or defiled, or ascending or descending or being bored. There is no mention that it leaves the body or suffers death … </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">it is not associated with man, but is mentioned always in association with God</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Q. 19:17). Of the creation of Adam God says, `When I have shaped him, and breathed My Spirit in him …’ (Q. 15:29). </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God says `My Spirit’, not `the spirit of Adam’ – that is, this Spirit is from God. So our Lord related the Spirit always to Himself</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And again: `Even so We have revealed to thee a Spirit of Our bidding.’ The Spirit here is the Divine Word and the Divine command. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Thus the Spirit is always related to God</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and is in constant movement from God and to God … for this reason the Spirit is described in such high and lofty terms. For the Qur’an calls Gabriel `Spirit of Holiness’ … and `the faithful Spirit’. But the soul is related always to one’s self, its owner. `Whatever befell you from evil is from yourself [soul]’ (Q. 4:79).[31]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In contrast to the soul,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Spirit has no place in Paradise or Hell</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, but it is light from God’s light, related to God. It is from Him. It cannot be subjected to trial or judgment, or punishment or reward, but it is the highest example in the following Qur’anic verses, `God’s is the loftiest likeness; He is the All-mighty, the All-wise’ (Q. 16:60) and `His is the loftiest likeness in the Heaven and the earth’ (Q. 30:27).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is the world of the radiant likeness that derives its holiness and radiance from being `from’ God and `from’ His bidding.[32]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Spirit then is always related to God, and belongs to the Divine level</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">30. Ibrahim Al-Qatan, quoting Dr Mustafa Mahmoud, Taysir At-Tafsir, Vol. 3, p. 6.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">31. Ibid.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">32. Ibid. (M. N. Anderson, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Trinity: An Appreciation of the Oneness of God with Reference to the Son of God and the Holy Spirit for Christians and Muslims</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, The Spirit in the Quran </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#08-SpiritInQuran"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislam.net/Mna/trinity.html#08-SpiritInQuran</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That’s not all. The Muslim scripture speaks of Allah breathing forth his spirit to perform exclusively divine functions, such as creating and giving life:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Remember when thy Lord said to the Angels, “I create man of dried clay, of dark loam moulded: And when I shall have fashioned him </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and breathed of my spirit into him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then fall ye down </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and worship him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” S. 15:28-29 Rodwell</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And mention Marium in the Book when she drew aside from her family to an eastern place; So she took a veil (to screen herself) from them; then We sent to her </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Our spirit, and there appeared to her a well-made man</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She said: Surely I fly for refuge from you to the Beneficent God, if you are one guarding (against evil). He said: I am only an apostle of your Lord: </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">That I will give you a pure boy</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 19:16-19 Shakir</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And Mary, daughter of Imran, who guarded her private parts, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and we breathed therein of our spirit</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and she verified the words of her Lord and His books, and was of the devout. S. 66:12 Palmer</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This led many Muslim scholars and mystics to conclude that Allah’s spirit is not a creature:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… Further understanding of the Spirit is found in the writings of Ibn ‘Arabi, the Sufi mystic who believed that:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Gabriel is not to be identified with the angel associated with the Inspiration … But Gabriel is the Principle of Life in all that exists: he is the total Spirit – all that exists is permeated by It, irrespective of the levels of life they possess … Gabriel is the Truth Himself, manifested in this Total Spirit.[36]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So according to Ibn ‘Arabi, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Gabriel is not an angel </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">but what Gilani, (another Sufi), calls the `Holy Spirit’. Gilani wrote:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Know that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of spirits. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He is beyond and above the scope and range of the Divine creative command `be’ (kon). It cannot be said of Him that He is a creature</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, because He is a special aspect [literally, face] of the Truth [that is, of God]. By that aspect, existence came to be. He is a Spirit unlike other spirits, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">because He is the Spirit of God</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of which it was breathed into Adam, as is referred to by God’s word `and breathed My Spirit in him’. So the spirit of Adam is created </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the Spirit of God is not created. He is the Holy Spirit</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; that is, the Spirit of Holiness, which is different from the defects and shortcomings of physical existence.[37]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Gilani believed that the Holy Spirit is not a creature, as did Ibn Hanbal</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, one of the four leaders of the Islamic schools of thought, who said, `</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The claim that the Holy Spirit is a creature is a heresy</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.'[38] In his view, it is a heresy to say that the Holy Spirit is a creature, just as he believed it is a blasphemy to say that the Word of God is created.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Imam Abu al-‘Azayem, another Sufi scholar, said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Spirit [whom God breathed from in Adam] is the summation of all truths and is perfect in description. For this reason God made man His vice-regent and made the angels to worship him.[39]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">This is a clear acknowledgment that the Spirit is not a creature, but Divine</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Only if the Spirit breathed into Adam is divine is the worship by the angels of Adam permissible, for then it is not classed as the worship by one creature of another, </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but the worship by a creature of the Divine in Adam</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As stated earlier traditional Muslim scholars believe that the Qur’an portrays God as having a body, and soul. Even if the components of the body and the soul of Allah could be allegorised, the Qur’an definitely portrays Allah as having a spirit. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We have also shown that the spirit is not a creature, but is capable of imparting life</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and that which can impart life to man can’t possess less life than that of man. The life that the Spirit of God possesses implies that the Spirit can think, see, hear etc. Otherwise man the creature possesses more life than the Spirit of God who gave man life. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Therefore according to the Qur’an, God is at least a dual being</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Muslims then have the same difficulty in comprehending the nature of Allah as the Christians have in understanding the nature of God.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">36. Dr Abu al-‘Ala ‘Afifi, commenting on Fusus al-Hikam, Dar al-Kitab al-‘Arabi, Part 2, 1980, p. 180.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">37. Abd Al-Karim Al-Gilani, The Perfect Man, Al-Matba’ah Al-Azhareiah, Cairo, 1328H, Vol. 2, p. 8.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">38. Al-‘ustaz Mohammad Kamel So’aib, Megalat Al-massarah, 1966, p. 181. Quoted by Mr Hadad in Madkhal Ela Al-Hewar Al-Islami Al-masihi, Al-Maktabah Al-Boulesiah, Lebanon, 1969.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">39. Dr Mustafa Mahmoud, A-Sser Al-A’zam, Dar Al-‘Awdah, Beirut, 1986, p. 47. (Anderson, The Divinity of the Spirit </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#09-TheDivinity"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislam.net/Mna/trinity.html#09-TheDivinity</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And yet since the spirit is not a creature he must therefore be fully divine, meaning he must be God!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">To sum up our discussion concerning the Quranic depiction of the spirit of Allah, we discovered that:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The spirit is described with two of the unique names of the Muslim deity, namely </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-amin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The spirit is depicted as creating and giving life, which are also divine actions.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The spirit is said to be the breath of Allah, in that Allah breathes out the spirit from himself. This again confirms that the spirit is not a part of creation but an eternal and intrinsic aspect of the very being of Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With the foregoing in perspective, what further proof do Muslims need to convince them that Allah is not a uni-personal deity? According to their own religious book their god is a composite being composed of distinct persons, one of whom happens to be the spirit.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">POSTSCRIPT</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In some of the citations I provided, the Muslim scholars identified the spirit as the angel Gabriel. In fact, traditional Islamic theology teaches that the holy and faithful spirit are simply different names for Gabriel.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, this introduces a few problems for Muslims. First, since the spirit is described with two of the names of Allah, and creates and gives life, this means that Gabriel is now associated with the Muslim deity in the latter’s unique names, functions and abilities.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yet according to the Islamic classification known as </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tauhid al-asma wa-sifaat</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (“the unity/oneness of the names and attributes”), the names of Allah in their definite forms, i.e., </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AR-Rahman</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (“</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> merciful”), </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AL-Aziz</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (“</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE mighty/irresistible</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">”), can never be ascribed to a creature. And since the spirit is called </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AL-qudus</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AL-amin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, this proves that the spirit is truly divine. And if the spirit is really Gabriel then this means that Gabriel is a divine being.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In light of this, the Muslims are left with one of two options. Gabriel is a creature whom Allah has deified, taking him as his partner in his divine attributes and functions. If so then the Muslim god is guilty of committing </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">shirk</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, since the very essence of </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">shirk</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is to associate a creature with Allah in his unique characteristics and abilities (cf. Q. 2:22; 4:48, 116; 39:65).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">OR Gabriel is not a creature, but one of the divine persons that make up the identity of Allah himself, which is similar to the position held by the Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi who was cited above.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Secondly, there isn’t a single passage in the entire Quran that comes out and states that the spirit is Gabriel. In fact, when Muhammad was asked about the spirit his response was that the spirit’s identity is basically unknown:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They are asking thee concerning the Spirit (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-ruhi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">). Say: The Spirit (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-ruhu</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) is by command of my Lord, </span><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and of knowledge ye have been vouchsafed but little</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 17:85 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This was the perfect opportunity for Muhammad to have said that the spirit is Gabriel. Instead he basically admitted being ignorant about who and what the spirit truly is, thereby refuting the Muslim assertion that the spirit is angel Gabriel.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The fact remains that the spirit cannot be a creature according to the Quran. Rather, the Islamic scripture depicts the spirit as a divine being, who is both inseparable from and subordinate to the Muslim god.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/the-quran-testifies-that-the-holy-spirit-is-god/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/27/the-quran-testifies-that-the-holy-spirit-is-god/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-46340922497964463832023-10-24T17:31:00.001+02:002023-10-24T17:31:08.160+02:00Session on the Deification of Muhammad Pt. 2<p><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We continue with our analysis of Muhammad </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-1/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">.</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH’S PARTNER IN LOVE AND DEVOTION </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad made it mandatory for his followers to love him more than anything, even more than their own lives, loving him just as much as they do Allah:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Say, “If your fathers, your sons, your brothers, your spouses, your clan, and money which you have gathered, a trade in which you fear a decline, and homes which you enjoy; if these </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">are dearer to you</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">than God AND His messenger and striving in His cause</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then wait until God brings His decision. God does not guide the wicked people.” S. 9:24 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, “Whoever possesses the following three qualities will have the sweetness (delight) of faith: </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">1.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The one to whom Allah </span></b><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND His Apostle</span></i></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> becomes dearer than anything else</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. 2. Who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah’s sake. 3. Who hates to revert to Atheism (disbelief) as he hates to be thrown into the fire.” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 1, Book 2, Number 15 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=2&translator=1&start=0&number=15"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=2&translator=1&start=0&number=15</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Anas: Allah’s Apostle said, “Whoever possesses the (following) three qualities will have the sweetness of faith (1): </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The one to whom Allah </span></b><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND His Apostle</span></i></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> becomes dearer than anything else</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; (2) Who loves a person and he loves him only for Allah’s Sake; (3) who hates to revert to atheism (disbelief) as he hates to be thrown into the Fire.” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 9, Book 85, Number 74 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=85&translator=1&start=0&number=74"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=85&translator=1&start=0&number=74</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad is even supposed to be closer to believers than their own persons:</span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Prophet is closer to the Believers</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> than their own selves, and his wives are their mothers. Blood-relations among each other have closer personal ties, in the Decree of God. Than (the Brotherhood of) Believers and Muhajirs: nevertheless do ye what is just to your closest friends: such is the writing in the Decree (of God). S. 33:6 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH’S PARTNER IN RECEIVING PLEASURE</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They swear to you by Allah in order to please you, while </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah AND his Apostle are</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> most entitled that they should seek </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIS pleasure (yurduhu)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 9:62</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The word </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">yurduhu</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is singular and yet, as the context makes it clear, it is used in relation to a dual subject, namely Allah and Muhammad his apostle. In other words, if this is not simply yet another grammatical error, then the singular is presumably being employed in order to group Muhammad and his deity together in their pleasure, in what pleases them.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is reflected in the way some of the English versions of the Quran translate this particular text:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">while God AND His messenger IS more worthy to be pleased</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> if they were those who acknowledge.” Quran: Reformist Translation (QRT)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Notice here the use of the singular verb </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, as opposed to </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">are</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… the while it is </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God and His Apostle WHOSE pleasure</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> they should seek above all else…” Muhammad Asad</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… But it is more just that they should </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">please God and the Apostle</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” N. J. Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In fact, it is clear from other passages that Allah seems to have gone out of his way to make sure that his messenger was satisfied and happy. For instance, in order to please him Allah made sure to make Muhammad rich:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Your Lord will give you </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and you will be pleased</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Did he not find you an orphan and He sheltered you? He found you lost, and He guided you? </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He found you in need, so He gave you riches?</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> S. 93:5-8 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Did He not find you poor </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and enrich you</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">? Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah also changed the prayer direction just so that Muhammad would be happy:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We have seen thee [O Prophet] often turn thy face towards heaven [for guidance]: and now We shall indeed make thee turn in prayer in a direction </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">which will fulfil thy desire</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Turn, then, thy face towards the Inviolable House of Worship; and wherever you all may be, turn your faces towards it [in prayer]. S. 2:144 Asad</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Many a time have We seen you turn your face towards the sky. We will make you turn towards a kiblah </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that will please you</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah even allowed Muhammad to have more wives than his own followers, and permitted him to have any woman that offered herself freely without having to pay a dowry. Muhammad was also given the freedom to visit whichever wife he so desired, and even postpone seeing any one of them if he so wished:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O prophet, We have made lawful for you the wives to whom you have already given their dowry, and the one who is committed to you by oath, as granted to you by God, and the daughters of your father’s brothers, and the daughters of your father’s sisters, and the daughters of your mother’s brothers, and the daughters of your mother’s sisters, of whom they have emigrated with you. Also, the acknowledging woman who had decreed herself to the prophet, the prophet may marry her if he wishes, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">as a privilege given only to you and not to those who acknowledge</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. We have already decreed their rights in regard to their spouses and those who are still dependants. This is to spare you any hardship. God is Forgiver, Compassionate. </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">You may postpone whom you will of them, and you may receive whom you will. Whomsoever you seek of those whom you have set aside then there is no sin upon you</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Such is best that they may be comforted and not grieve, and may all be pleased with what you give them. God knows what is in your hearts. God is Knowledgeable, Compassionate. S. 33:50-51 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah’s willingness to satisfy and please Muhammad didn’t go unnoticed by his child bride:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Aisha: </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I used to look down upon those ladies who had given themselves to Allah’s Apostle</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and I used to say, “Can a lady give herself (to a man)?” But when Allah revealed: “You (O Muhammad) can postpone (the turn of) whom you will of them (your wives), and you may receive any of them whom you will; and there is no blame on you if you invite one whose turn you have set aside (temporarily).” (33.51) I said (to the Prophet), “</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I feel that your Lord hastens in fulfilling your desire and wishes</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 311 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=0&number=311"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=0&number=311</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH’S PARTNER IN DISPENSING GRACE </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If only they had been content </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">with what God AND His Apostle (Allahu WA’rasooluhu) gave them</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and had said, “Sufficient unto us is God! </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God AND His Apostle will soon GIVE us of His bounty (Allahu min fadlihi WA‘rasooluhu)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: to God do we turn our hopes!” (that would have been the right course). S. 9:59 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They swear by Allah that they did not speak, and certainly they did speak, the word of unbelief, and disbelieved after their Islam, and they had determined upon what they have not been able to effect, and they did not find fault except </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">because Allah AND His Apostle ENRICHED them out of His grace (Allahu WA’rasooluhu min fadlihi)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; therefore if they repent, it will be good for them; and if they turn back, Allah will chastise them with a painful chastisement in this world and the hereafter, and they shall not have in the land any guardian or a helper. S. 9:74 Shakir</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALLAH’S PARTNER IN HIS NAMES AND ATTRIBUTES</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A messenger has come to you from yourselves, concerned over your suffering, anxious over you, towards those who acknowledge </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">he is kind, compassionate (raoof raheemun)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 9:128</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">INDEED, there has come unto you [O mankind] an Apostle from among yourselves: heavily weighs – upon him [the thought] that you might suffer [in the life to come]; full of concern for you [is he, and] </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">full of compassion and mercy towards the believers</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The words </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">raoof raheemun </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">appear only five other times, and always in relation to the Islamic deity:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">God has pardoned the prophet and the emigrants and the supporters that followed him in the darkest moment, even though the hearts of some of them nearly deviated, but then He pardoned them. </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He is towards them Kind, Compassionate</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 9:117 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">All this is from God ‘s favor upon you and His mercy. </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God is Kind, Compassionate</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 24:20 QRT – cf. Q. 16:7, 47; 59:10</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Interestingly, there are certain Muslim sources which candidly admit that the text of Q. 9:128 explicitly testifies that Allah has given Muhammad some of his own divine characteristics:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… the objectification of Muhammad reaches its peak in Surah 9, which is indubitably one of the latest Madinan surahs. It repeatedly refers to ‘Allah and His Messenger’ (9.1, 3, 7, 16, 24, 29 etc.) and the penultimate ayah (9.128) describes the Messenger as ‘all-pitying all-merciful’, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">qualities which are elsewhere ascribed to Allah</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (Neal Robinson, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Discovering the Qur’an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, 2</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> edition, [Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. 2003], p. 244)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One of the men of knowledge, Al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl, said, “He honored him with two of His own names: the compassionate and the merciful (rauf, rahim).” The same point is made in another ayat: “</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah was kind to the believers when He sent among them a Messenger from among themselves.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” (3:164)…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jafar ibn Muhammad [as-Sadiq] said, “Allah knew that His creatures would not be capable of pure obedience to Him, so He told them this in order that they would realize that they would never be able to achieve absolute purity in serving Him. Between Himself and them He placed one of their own species, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">CLOTHING HIM IN HIS OWN ATTRIBUTES OF COMPASSION AND MERCY</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He brought him out as a truthful ambassador to creation and made it such that when someone obeys him, they are obeying Allah, and when someone agrees with him, they are agreeing with Allah.” Allah says: “</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Whoever obeys the Messenger has obeyed Allah.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” (4:80)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As-Samarqandi explains that the words a mercy to all the worlds mean for both the jinn and mankind. It is also said that it means for all creation. He is a mercy to the believers by guiding them, a mercy to the hypocrites by granting them security from being killed, and a mercy to the unbelievers by deferring their punishment. Ibn Abbas said, “He is a mercy to the believers and also to the unbelievers since they are safe from what befell the other communities who cried lies.” It is related that the Prophet said to Jibril, “Has any of this mercy touched you?” He replied, “Yes, I used to have fear about what would happen to me, but now I feel safe because of the way Allah praised me when He said, ‘Possessing power, secure with the Lord of the Throne, obeyed, then trusty.’” (81:21) (Qadi Iyad Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kitab Ash-shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), translated by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley [Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K., third reprint 1991, paperback], Part One. Allah’s great estimation of the worth of his Prophet expressed in both word and action, Chapter One. Allah’s praise of him and his great esteem for him, Section 1. Concerning praise of him and his numerous excellent qualities, pp. 4-6; capital, bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Again:</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Section 14. On Allah honouring the Prophet WITH SOME OF HIS OWN BEAUTIFUL NAMES and describing him with some of His own Sublime Qualities</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… He has preferred our Prophet Muhammad since He has adorned him with a wealth of His names in His Mighty Book and on the tongues of His Prophets…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One of His names is the Praiseworthy (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-Hamid</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">). This means the One who is praised because He praises Himself and His slaves praise him. It also means the One who praises Himself and praises acts of obedience. The Prophet is called Muhammad and Ahmad. Muhammad means praised, and that is how his name occurs in the Zabur of David. Ahmad means the greatest of those who give praise and the most sublime of those who are praised. Hassan ibn Thabit indicated this when he said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is taken for him from His own name in order to exalt him.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The One with the Throne is praised (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mahmud</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) and he is Muhammad.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Two of Allah’s names are the Compassionate, the Merciful (</span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ar-Ra’uf, ar-Rahim</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">). They are similar in meaning. He calls him by them in His Book when He says, “</span></u><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Compassionate, merciful to the believers</span></u></b><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">.” (9.128)</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Ibid., Chapter Three. On The Sound And Well-Known Traditions Related About The Immense Value Placed On Him By His Lord, His Exalted Position And His Nobility In This World And The Next, pp. 126-127; capital and bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Further Reading</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Deification of Muhammad</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="https://answeringislam.net/muhammad/deification.html"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislam.net/muhammad/deification.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-2/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-89633976054183070232023-10-24T17:29:00.007+02:002023-10-24T17:29:54.804+02:00Session on the Deification of Muhammad Pt. 1<p> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">This is the material that I compiled for the talk I did for Jonathan McLatchie’s Apologetics Academy titled, “Islam’s Deification of Muhammad,” which can be viewed here </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZ2jIfBi4U"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZ2jIfBi4U</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">MEANING OF DEIFICATION</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">By deification I mean Muhammad has been elevated to the status of a god who has become Allah’s partner in virtually all things. I do not mean that Muhammad has been transformed into Allah himself, or that he is equal to his deity in every respect. There is a sense, however, in which Muhammad has become the visible image and manifestation (so to speak) of Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARABIC CONJUNCTION </span></b><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WA</span></i></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> (“AND”)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to Muslim scholars and linguists, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is the conjunction used to denote partnership, which is why it is expressly forbidden for Muslims to employ this word in the same sentence where Allah is mentioned alongside someone else:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A Jewish man came to the Prophet and said: “Verily, you (Muslims) commit Shirk, for you say: ‘As Allah wills </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> as you will;’ and you say: ‘By the Ka’bah!’” And so the Prophet ordered whoever wanted to swear, to say: “</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">By the Lord of the Ka’bah</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” and to say: “</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As Allah wills, </span></b><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THEN</span></i></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> as you will</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (An-Nasaa’ee, it was declared saheeh by Albanee in as Saheehah # 137 and declared saheeh by Adh-Dhahabee in his checking of Al Mustadrak and declared saheeh by Ibn Hajar in Al Isaabah 4/389)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A man came to the Prophet and he said: “As Allah </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> you will,” at which the Prophet said: “</span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Would you set me up as a partner besides Allah</span></u></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">? As Allah Alone Wills</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” (An-Nasaa’ee, declared authentic (hasan) by Albanee in as Saheehah # 139)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">On the authority of At-Tufail the half brother of Aishah it is reported that he said: “I saw in a dream that I came upon a number of Jews and I said to them: ‘You are indeed a good people were it not that you claim ‘Uzair is the son of Allah.’ They replied: ‘You too are good, were it not that you say: </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As Allah wills </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> as Muhammad wills</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ Then, I came upon a number of Christians and I said to them: ‘You are indeed a good people were it not that you claim the Messiah (Jesus) is the son of Allah.’ They replied: ‘You are also good, were it not that you say: </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As Allah wills </span></u><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> as Muhammad wills</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ When I awoke I told someone about this then I went to the Prophet and repeated it to him. He asked me: ‘Have you told anyone about this?’ I said: ‘Yes.’ Then he went to the pulpit and, after praising Allah, he said: ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">At-Tufail had a dream which he has already communicated to some of you. You used to say something which I was prevented from forbidding to you until now. Henceforth do not say: </span></b><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As Allah wills </span></u></b><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></u></i></b><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> as Muhammad wills, but say: What Allah Alone Wills</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’” (Ibn Maajah, Albanee mentioned it in as Saheehah # 138, Al Haythamee said in Majma Az-Zawaaid: the men in its chain are reliable according to the conditions of Imam Muslim) (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Takhreej of Kitaab at Tawheed</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, posted by SalafiManhaj.com, 2004, Chapter 43: Saying: “As Allah Wills and You Will”, pp. 21-22; See also Kitab At-Tawheed, by Sheikh ul-Islam Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab, translated by the Compilation and Research Department Dar-us-Salam [Dar-us-Salam Publications Riyadh-Saudi Arabia, 1996], Chapter No: 44. How it is to say “What Allah may will and you may will”; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The fact that mention of the Prophet is directly connected to mention of Allah also shows that obedience to the Prophet is connected to obedience to Allah and His name to Allah’s name. Allah says, ‘Obey Allah and His Messenger’ (2:32) and ‘Believe in Allah and His Messenger.’ (4:136) Allah joins them together using the conjunction </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WA</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> WHICH IS THE CONJUNCTION OF PARTNERSHIP. IT IS NOT PERMITTED TO USE THIS CONJUNCTION IN CONNECTION WITH ALLAH IN THE CASE OF ANYONE EXCEPT THE PROPHET.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Hudhayfa said that the Prophet said, ‘None of you should say, “What Allah wills and (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) so-and-so wills.” Rather say, “What Allah wills.” Then stop and say, “So-and-so wills.”’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Al-Khattabi said, ‘The Prophet has guided you to correct behaviour in putting the will of Allah before the will of others. He chose “then” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">thumma</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) which implies sequence and deference as opposed to “and” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) WHICH IMPLIES PARTNERSHIP.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Something similar is mentioned in another </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">hadith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Someone was speaking in the presence of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, ‘Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has been rightly guided, and whoever rebels against them both (joining them together by using the dual form)…’ The Prophet said to him, ‘What a bad speaker you are! Get up! [Or he said: Get out!]’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Abu Sulayman said, ‘He disliked the two names being joined together in that way BECAUSE IT IMPLIES EQUALITY.’…” (Qadi ‘Iyad, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kitab Ash-shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), translation by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley [Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K.; third reprint 1991, paperback], Part One. Allah’s great estimation of the worth of his Prophet expressed in both word and action, Chapter One. Allah’s praise of him and his great esteem for him, Section 1. Concerning praise of him and his numerous excellent qualities, p. 8; capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE HUMAN VOICE OF ALLAH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O you who have believed, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">obey Allah AND His Messenger and do not turn from HIM (‘anhu) while you hear</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> [his order]. S. 8:20 Sahih International</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Arabic word </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">anhu </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is a 3rd person masculine singular object pronoun, even though the passage expressly mentions two objects, namely Allah and his messenger. As such, it is unclear whether the pronoun refers back to the nearest antecedent, e.g. Muhammad, or whether it is actually pointing back to Allah himself. It would have therefore been more correct to employ a dual pronoun i.e. “and turn not from </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">them</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">,” in order to avoid such ambiguity.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, it may be the case that Muhammad deliberately employed the singular pronoun in order to emphasize the fact that to obey him is the same as obeying Allah, since his commands are Allah’s commands and vice-versa. This in turn means that Muhammad is the human voice of his deity, a fact which is further confirmed by the next verse:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O you who have believed, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">respond to Allah AND to the Messenger when HE calls you (da’akum)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to that which gives you life. And know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that to Him you will be gathered. S. 8:24 Sahih International</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Arabic term </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">da’akum </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is a 3rd person masculine singular perfect verb, despite the fact that the passage is an exhortation to respond to the call of both Allah and Muhammad. Grammatically, it would have been more correct to employ a dual verb “they call you.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As it stands, the singular must be seen as another attempt by Muhammad to place himself on the level of deity by making his calling to the believers virtually the same as Allah calling out to them to hear and obey. This not only associates Muhammad with his lord, but also makes him out to be identical to Allah, e.g. Allah’s call is Muhammad’s call and Muhammad’s call is Allah’s call since they are basically one and the same.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This also explains why answering Muhammad’s call takes precedence and priority over prayer itself, just as the following tradition shows:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Said bin Al-Mu’alla: While I was praying in the Mosque, Allah’s Apostle called me but I did not respond to him. Later I said, “O Allah’s Apostle! I was praying.” </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He said, “Didn’t Allah say—‘Give your response to Allah (by obeying Him) and to His Apostle when he calls you?’” (8.24)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 1 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=0&number=1"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=0&number=1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Instead of commending the man for worshiping Allah, Muhammad actually chides his companion for not setting aside his prayers in order to beckon to his prophet’s call. Muhammad even goes as far as to cite Q. 8:24 to prove that the Quran itself testifies that immediately responding to his call is more important than praying to Allah. This provides irrefutable proof that a Muslim’s relationship to Muhammad takes priority over his relationship to Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now which Muslim would dare say that Muhammad did not understand the meaning of Q. 8:24? Which Muslim would want to claim that Muhammad misused this verse and sinned against his lord by behaving in an arrogant and blasphemous way, ascribing to himself a position that the Quran does not give to him?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In any case, this narration shows that Muhammad placed himself on the same level as his own god, if not actually even higher than the Muslim deity. At the very least, it shows that Muhammad’s calling is virtually identical with the very voice (in fact, the human voice!) of Allah himself.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thus, to beckon to the Muhammad’s summons is to obey the call of Allah since to hear the sound of Muhammad’s voice is to listen to Allah himself, just as the following verse demonstrates:</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He who obeys the Messenger (Muhammad), has indeed obeyed Allah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, but he who turns away, then we have not sent you (O Muhammad) as a watcher over them. S. 4:80 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This explains why the Quran groups the two together through the use of singular pronouns. It basically comes down to Muhammad making himself out to be the human image and representation of his deity!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE TRUE DEFINITION OF ISLAM </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But no, by thy Lord! they will not believe till they make thee the judge regarding the disagreement between them, then they shall find in themselves no impediment </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">touching THY verdict, but shall surrender in full submission</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 4:65 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But no! by your Lord! they do not believe (in reality) until they make you a judge of that which has become a matter of disagreement among them, and then do not find any straitness in their hearts </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">as to what YOU have decided and submit with entire submission</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Shakir</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here we are told clearly and plainly that a Muslim must fully surrender to Muhammad with a complete submission!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Lest Muslims accuse of us distorting the meaning of this specific citation here is how some of Islam’s renowned commentators interpreted this reference:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But no, (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">fa-la</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">la</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is extra) by your Lord! They will not believe until they make you judge over what has broken out, has become mixed up, between them and find in themselves no inhibition, [no] constraint or doubt, regarding what you decide, </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but submit, [but] comply with your ruling, in full submission, without objection</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn </span></i><a href="https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=65&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=4&tAyahNo=65&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following Sufi Muslim author writes:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When the best generation of humankind ever to walk the earth realized that the Lord of the Heaven was addressing them directly with His timeless Speech in the language which they had mastered better than any human nation ever mastered a language, they realized that not only had Allah Almighty deputized the worthiest of them as the carrier of the final Message to humanity, but He had also made belief in that most honorable, most distinguished, and most accomplished Messenger – our liege-lord Muhammad – an integral condition of belief in Allah Himself by saying repeatedly “Believe in Allah AND the Messenger.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They also heard Allah again and again command them to “Obey Allah AND the Messenger.” They also realized that Allah Almighty stressed to them that this Messenger was their paramount model of behavior and of belief in Allah and the Last Day. They also heard and understood it meant they had to follow him and love him before they could claim to follow and love Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They further understood the required levels of following the Prophet properly and truly on which one’s actual belief in Allah Most High depended: {But nay, by your Lord! they will not believe (in truth) until they make you judge of what is in dispute between them}. But to make the Prophet judge is not enough, this must be done without any mental reservation toward the Prophet and his decision: {and find within themselves no dislike of that which you decide}. </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Even this unalloyed acceptance of the Prophet’s judgment is not enough, there must be full embrace of the heart, mind and soul for the Prophet: {and submit with full submission} (4:65)!</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Gibril Fouad Haddad, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Story of Hadith – On Obeying, Following, Imitating, And Loving Prophet Muhammad </span></i><a href="https://muslimanswersfiles.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/the-story-of-hadith-on-obeying-following-imitating-and-loving-prophet-muhammad/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://muslimanswersfiles.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/the-story-of-hadith-on-obeying-following-imitating-and-loving-prophet-muhammad/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And to show what happens to any Muslim who refuses to fully submit to</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad here are the comments of renowned Sunni exegete Ibn Kathir:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">One Does not Become a Believer Unless He Refers to the Messenger for Judgment AND SUBMITS TO HIS DECISIONS</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah said…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"><But no, by your Lord, they can have no faith, until they make you judge in all disputes between them,></span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Allah swears by His Glorious, Most Honorable Self, that no one shall attain faith </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">until he refers to the Messenger for judgment IN ALL MATTERS</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Thereafter, whatever the Messenger commands, is the plain truth that must be submitted to inwardly and outwardly. Allah said…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"><and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission.></span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> meaning: they adhere to your judgment, and thus do not feel any hesitation over your decision, and they submit to it inwardly and outwardly. They submit to the Prophet’s decision with total submission without any rejection, denial or dispute. Al-Bukhari recorded that `Urwah said, “Az-Zubayr quarreled with a man about a stream which both of them used for irrigation. Allah’s Messenger said to Az-Zubayr…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><<</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">O Zubayr! Irrigate (your garden) first, and then let the water flow to your neighbor.>></span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> The Ansari became angry and said, `O Allah’s Messenger! Is it because he is your cousin?’ On that, the face of Allah’s Messenger changed color (because of anger) and said…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"><<Irrigate (your garden), O Zubayr, and then withhold the water until it reaches the walls (surrounding the palms). Then, release the water to your neighbor.>></span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> So, Allah’s Messenger gave Az-Zubayr his full right when the Ansari made him angry. Before that, Allah’s Messenger had given a generous judgment, beneficial for Az-Zubayr and the Ansari. Az-Zubayr said, `I think the following verse was revealed concerning that case…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"><But no, by your Lord, they can have no faith, until they make you (O Muhammad) judge in all disputes between them.></span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’” Another reason in his Tafsir, Al-Hafiz Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin `Abdur-Rahman bin Ibrahim bin Duhaym recorded that Damrah narrated that two men took their dispute to the Prophet, and he gave a judgment to the benefit of whoever among them had the right. The person who lost the dispute said, “I do not agree.” The other person asked him, “What do you want then?” He said, “Let us go to Abu Bakr As-Siddiq.” They went to Abu Bakr and the person who won the dispute said, “We went to the Prophet with our dispute and he issued a decision in my favor.” Abu Bakr said, “Then the decision is that which the Messenger of Allah issued.” The person who lost the dispute still rejected the decision and said, “Let us go to `Umar bin Al-Khattab.” When they went to `Umar, the person who won the dispute said, “We took our dispute to the Prophet and he decided in my favor, but this man refused to submit to the decision.” `Umar bin Al-Khattab asked the second man and he concurred. `Umar went to his house and emerged from it holding aloft his sword. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He struck the head of the man who rejected the Prophet’s decision with the sword and killed him</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Consequently, Allah revealed…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><But no, by your Lord, they can have no faith>. (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir </span></i><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=640&Itemid=59"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=640&Itemid=59</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">A companion of Muhammad is struck down in cold blood for simply refusing to fully submit to his prophet’s decision!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">NO SALVATION OUTSIDE OF MUHAMMAD</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Say, (O Muhammad, to mankind): If ye love Allah, follow me; Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. Say: Obey Allah and the messenger. But if they turn away, lo! Allah loveth not the disbelievers (in His guidance). S. 3:31-32 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O our people! respond to </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah’s SUMMONER and believe in HIM. HE will forgive you some of your sins and guard you from a painful doom</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And whoso respondeth not to </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah’s SUMMONER</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> he can nowise escape in the earth, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and he hath no protecting friends (awliyaa) instead of HIM</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Such are in error manifest. S. 46:31-32</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The pronouns all point back to Allah’s summoner, who is supposed to be Muhammad, since he is the nearest antecedent or object in the context. As such, the verse is not referring to Allah, but to Muhammad as the one who is able to save and forgive sinners!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here are a few more translations which help make this point clearer:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O our people! accept </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Divine CALLER and believe in HIM, HE will forgive you of your faults and protect you from a painful punishment</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And whoever does not accept </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Divine CALLER</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, he shall not escape in the earth and he shall not have guardians </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">besides HIM</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, these are in manifest error. Shakir</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Our people, respond </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">to the one who calls you to God</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Believe in </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIM</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HE</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">will forgive you your sins and protect you from a painful torment</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ S. 46:31 Abdel Haleem</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O our people, hearken to </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the one who invites (you) to Allah, </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and believe in</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> him</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">will forgive you your faults, and deliver you from a Penalty Grievous</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is abundantly clear that the one who is said to forgive sins and save people from a painful torment, and who is the only guardian anyone has, is supposed to be Muhammad, the so-called divine caller or summoner that Allah has sent.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The hadiths reinforce this by singling out the fact that Muhammad will actually deliver people out of hell itself:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated ‘Imran bin Husain: The Prophet said, “Some people will be taken out of the Fire </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">through the intercession of Muhammad</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> they will enter Paradise and will be called Al-Jahannamiyin (the Hell Fire people).” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 8, Book 76, Number 571 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=76&translator=1&start=0&number=571"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=76&translator=1&start=0&number=571</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“‘… So they will come to me, and I will ask my Lord’s permission to enter His House and then I will be permitted. When I see Him I will fall down in prostration before Him, and He will leave me (in prostration) as long as He will, and then He will say, “O Muhammad, lift up your head and speak, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">for you will be listened to, and intercede, for your intercession will be accepted, and ask (for anything) for it will be granted</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">”: Then I will raise my head and glorify my Lord with certain praises which He has taught me. Allah will put a limit for me (to intercede for a certain type of people). </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I WILL TAKE THEM OUT and make them enter Paradise</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“(Qatada said: I heard Anas saying that), the Prophet said, ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I will go out and take them OUT OF HELL (Fire) and let them enter Paradise</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and then I will return and ask my Lord for permission to enter His House and I will be permitted. When I will see Him I will fall down in prostration before Him and He will leave me in prostration as long as He will let me (in that state), and then He will say, “O Muhammad, raise your head and speak, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">for you will be listened to, and intercede, for your intercession will be accepted, and ask, your request will be granted</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”’ The Prophet added, ‘So I will raise my head and glorify and praise Him as He has taught me. </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Then I will intercede</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and He will put a limit for me (to intercede for a certain type of people). </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I will take them out and let them enter Paradise</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“(Qatada added: I heard Anas saying that) the Prophet said, ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I will go out and take them OUT OF HELL (Fire) and let them enter Paradise</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and I will return for the third time and will ask my Lord for permission to enter His house, and I will be allowed to enter. When I see Him, I will fall down in prostration before Him, and will remain in prostration as long as He will, and then He will say, “Raise your head, O Muhammad, and speak, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">for you will be listened to, and intercede, for your intercession will be accepted, and ask, for your request will be granted</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” So I will raise my head and praise Allah as He has taught me </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and then I will intercede</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and He will put a limit for me (to intercede for a certain type of people). </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I will take them out and let them enter Paradise</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“(Qatada said: I heard Anas saying that) the Prophet said, ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">So I will go out and take them out of Hell (Fire) and let them enter Paradise, till none will remain in the Fire</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">except those whom Quran will imprison (i.e., those who are destined for eternal life in the fire)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The narrator then recited the Verse:– ‘It may be that your Lord will raise you to a Station of Praise and Glory.’ (17.79) The narrator added: This is the Station of Praise and Glory which Allah has promised to your Prophet.” (</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 532v </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=93&translator=1&start=0&number=532v"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=93&translator=1&start=0&number=532v</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In fact, the Quran explicitly teaches that Muhammad’s intercession is an essential and necessary aspect for receiving forgiveness:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was by the mercy of Allah that thou wast lenient with them (O Muhammad), for if thou hadst been stern and fierce of heart they would have dispersed from round about thee. </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">So pardon them and ask forgiveness for them</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and consult with them upon the conduct of affairs. And when thou art resolved, then put thy trust in Allah. Lo! Allah loveth those who put their trust (in Him). S. 3:159</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We sent not an apostle, but to be obeyed, in accordance with the will of God. If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee and asked God’s forgiveness, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the Apostle had asked forgiveness for them,</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> they would have found God indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful. S. 4:64 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Take Sadaqah (alms) from their wealth in order to purify them and sanctify them with it, </span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and invoke Allah for them. Verily! Your invocations are a source of security for them</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and Allah is All-Hearer, All-Knower. S. 9:103 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They only are the true believers </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who believe in Allah and His messenger</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and, when they are with him on some common errand, go not away </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">until they have asked leave of him</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Lo! those who ask leave of thee, those are they who believe in Allah and His messenger. So, if they ask thy leave for some affair of theirs, give leave to whom thou wilt of them, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and ask for them forgiveness of Allah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. S. 24:62</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So know (O Muhammad) that there is no God save Allah, </span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and ask forgiveness for thy sin and for believing men and believing women</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Allah knoweth (both) your place of turmoil and your place of rest. S. 47:19</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We have more info in the next part of the material </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-2/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-2/.</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Source: </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-1/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/session-on-the-deification-of-muhammad-pt-1/</span></u></a></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">IHS</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-6708522801974417082023-10-24T17:28:00.000+02:002023-10-24T17:28:00.730+02:00Allah and his Messenger Fail A Scientific Test<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">According to the supposed authentic narrations attributed to Muhammad, a Jew asked him three questions to see whether he was a true prophet. The reports claim that the “angel Gabriel” came to him with the answers, which he obviously “received “from Allah:</span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Narrated Anas:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">When ‘Abdullah bin Salam heard the arrival of the Prophet at Medina, he came to him and said, “I am going to ask you about three things which nobody knows except a prophet: What is the first portent of the Hour? What will be the first meal taken by the people of Paradise? </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Why does a child resemble its father, and why does it resemble its maternal uncle?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">” Allah’s Apostle said, “</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Gabriel has just now told me of their answers.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">” ‘Abdullah said, “He (i.e. Gabriel), from amongst all the angels, is the enemy of the Jews.” Allah’s Apostle said, “The first portent of the Hour will be a fire that will bring together the people from the east to the west; the first meal of the people of Paradise will be Extra-lobe (caudate lobe) of fish-liver. </span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">As for the resemblance of the child to its parents: If a man has sexual intercourse with his wife and gets discharge first, the child will resemble the father, and if the woman gets discharge first, the child will resemble her</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">.” On that ‘Abdullah bin Salam said, “I testify that you are the Apostle of Allah.”… (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 546 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=546"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=546</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Notice carefully that according to the “angel Gabriel,” a child’s physical features are determined by which of the parents has an orgasm first!</span><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">(1)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Other narratives have Muhammad actually stating that women also have semen/sperm like men do, and even go as far as to quote him describing the color and density of their sexual fluid:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">It was narrated that Anas said: “The Messenger of Allah said: ‘The man’s water is thick and white, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">and the woman’s water is thin and yellow. Whichever of them comes first, the child will resemble (that parent)</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">.'”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: SAHIH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">English reference: Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 200</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Arabic reference: Book 1, Hadith 201 (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Sunan an-Nasa’i</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">, The Book of Purification </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/urn/1002010"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/urn/1002010</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">It was narrated from Anas that: Umm Sulaim asked the Messenger of Allah about a woman who sees in her dream something like that which a man sees. The Messenger of Allah said: “If she sees that and has a discharge, then let her perform a bath.” Umm Salamah said: “O Messenger of Allah, does that really happen?” He said: “Yes, the water of the man is thick </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">and white and the water of a woman is thin and yellow. Whichever of them comes first or predominates, the child will resemble (that parent)</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: SAHIH </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">(Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">English reference: Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 601</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Arabic reference: Book 1, Hadith 64 (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Sunan Ibn Majah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">, The Book of Ablution and Its Sunnah </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/urn/1256000"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/urn/1256000</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">There you have it folks. Even though science tells us that women do not have sperm like men do, and that a child’s physical features have nothing to do with which parent climaxes first, Allah and his messenger actually believed otherwise.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Welcome to the wonderful world of Islamic genetics and human sexuality!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Further Reading</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Islamic Genetics </span></b><a href="https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/resemblance_question.html"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/resemblance_question.html</span></u></a></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Jamal Badawi’s Misinformation and Misquotations Part 5</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><a href="https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/badawi_lies5.htm"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/badawi_lies5.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Endnotes </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">(1)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"> Apparently, this is another instance of Muhammad “borrowing” (i.e., plagiarizing) from the Jews whom he came into contact with, since these scientific blunders concerning a woman having semen, and that a child’s physical characteristics are determined by which parent is the first to climax, are found in the Babylonian Talmud:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">R. Isaac citing R. Ammi</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;">54</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"> stated: If the woman emits her semen first she bears a male child; if the man emits his semen first she bears a female child; for it is said, If a woman emits semen</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;">55 </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">and bear a man-child.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;">56</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Our Rabbis taught: At first it used to be said that ‘if the woman emits her semen first she will bear a male, and if the man emits his semen first she will bear a female’, but the Sages did not explain the reason, until R. Zadok came and explained it: These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah,</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;">57 </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Scripture thus ascribes the males to the females</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;">58 </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">and the females to the males.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: super;">59 </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">(</span><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">The Talmud – Niddah (The Menstruant)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">, Nidah 31a, pp. 145-146 </span><a href="https://www.halakhah.com/pdf/taharoth/Nidah.pdf"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.halakhah.com/pdf/taharoth/Nidah.pdf</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad obviously parroted what he had heard from the Jews in order to convince them that he too was a prophet like the true prophets sent to Israel. Little did he realize that by adopting the myths and scientific errors of the Jews, and the other groups whom he had interactions with, Muhammad would end up providing irrefutable proofs that he was nothing more than a false prophet and an antichrist.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #555555;">Source: </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/allah-and-his-messenger-fail-a-scientific-test/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/22/allah-and-his-messenger-fail-a-scientific-test/</span></u></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">IHS</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-91030659923276733872023-09-22T11:52:00.003+02:002023-09-22T11:52:16.827+02:00How Many Gods Are There in the Quran?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Another Case of Polytheism in the Muslim Scripture Due to it’s Incoherent Structure</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In a previous article (</span><a href="https://www.answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/mhd_praise3.html"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/mhd_praise3.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) I showed that, due to the unintelligible manner that the author(s) and/or editor(s) formulated the sentence, the following text,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In order that you (O people!) may believe in Allah and His Messenger and that you may </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">help and honor Him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and celebrate </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">His Praises</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> morning and evening. S. 48:9 Syed Vickar Ahamed </span><a href="https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/48/st28.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/48/st28.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">so that you² may have faith in God and His apostle and that you may </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">assist Him, honour Him, and praise Him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> morning and evening. N. J. Dawood </span><a href="https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/48/st50.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/48/st50.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Is either commanding Muslims to glorify/praise/worship Muhammad as a god, or depicting Allah as an impotent deity that needs help from his creatures.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This isn’t the only verse which, as a result of its incoherent structure, either deifies Muhammad or depicts the Islamic deity in a less than favorable manner. Note carefully this next passage:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Glorified be </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HE WHO (alathee)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> carried </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIS servant (bi’abdiHI)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by night from the Inviolable Place of Worship to the Far distant place of worship the neighbourhood whereof </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">have blessed,</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that WE might show HIM (linuriyaHU) of OUR tokens!</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Lo! </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HE (innaHU), only HE (huwa), is THE HEARER, THE SEER</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 17:1 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is another version:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Glory be to </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIM, WHO</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> carried </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HIS servant</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by night from the Holy Mosque to the Further Mosque the precincts of which </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> have blessed, that</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> WE </span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">might show</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> HIM </span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">some of</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Our signs. HE is the ALL-HEARING, the ALL-SEEING</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now either the singular masculine pronouns all refer to Allah, which means that the passage should be translated in the following way:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Glory be to </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah, who</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> carried </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah’s servant</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by night from the Holy Mosque to the Further Mosque the precincts of which We have blessed, that We might show</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Allah </span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">some of Our signs.</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Allah is the all-hearing, the all-seeing</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Or the pronouns are all about Muhammad, which would therefore give us the following rendering:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Glory be to Allah, Who carried His</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> servant Muhammad</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by night from the Holy Mosque to the Further Mosque the precincts of which We have blessed, that We might show</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Muhammad </span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">some of Our signs.</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Muhammad is the all-hearing, the all-seeing</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If the former then this means Allah is not the only god nor is he the supreme being, since there are other deities that can actually show Allah miraculous signs.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This wouldn’t be the only place where Allah is depicted as a plurality of divine beings, or as one god among many:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Clear proofs have come to you from your Lord. Whoso sees clearly, it is to his own gain, and whoso is blind, it is to his own loss; </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> not a watcher over you. So </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> turn about the signs</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, that they may say, ‘Thou hast studied’; and that </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> may make it clear</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to a people having knowledge. Follow thou what has been revealed to thee from </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">thy Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; there is no god </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but He</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and turn thou away from the idolaters. Had </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> willed, they were not idolaters; </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> have not appointed thee a watcher over them</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, neither art thou their guardian. Abuse not those to whom they pray, apart from </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, or they will abuse </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in revenge without knowledge. So </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> have decked out fair to every nation their deeds; then to </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">their Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> they shall return, and </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> will tell them what they have been doing. They have sworn </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">by God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the most earnest oaths if a sign comes to them they will believe in it. Say: ‘Signs are only with God.’ What will make you realize that, when it comes, they will not believe? </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> shall turn about their hearts and their eyes</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, even as they believed not in it the first time; </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> shall leave them</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in their insolence wandering blindly. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Though </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> had sent down the angels to them</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and the dead had spoken with them, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">had </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> mustered against them</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> every thing, face to face, yet they would not have been the ones to believe, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">unless God willed</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; but most of them are ignorant. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">So </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> have appointed to every Prophet an enemy</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> — Satans of men and jinn, revealing tawdry speech to each other, all as a delusion; yet, had </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">thy Lord willed</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, they would never have done it. So leave them to their forging, and that the hearts of those who believe not in the world to come may incline to it, and that they may be well-pleased with it, and that they may gain what they are gaining. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">What, shall </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I seek</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> after any judge but God?</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> For it is </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He who</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> sent down to you the Book well-distinguished; and those whom </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> have given the Book</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> know it is sent down from </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">thy Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> with the truth; so be not thou of the doubters. S. 6:104-114 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And heaven — </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE built</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> it </span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">with might, and </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE extend</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> wide. And the earth — </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE spread</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">forth; O excellent </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Smoothers</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">!</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> And of everything </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">created WE</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> two kinds; haply you will remember. Therefore flee unto God! </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I AM</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> a clear warner from Him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to you. And set not up with God another god; </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I AM</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> a clear warner from Him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to you. S. 51:47-51 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The context makes it crystal clear that all of the first person singular and plural pronouns are spoken by one and the same entity which, in context, is supposed to be Allah since the speaker(s) does/do things that only the Muslim god is said to do. And yet the speaker(s) say(s) that he/they are a clear warner(s) from Allah, whose only judge is Allah, and who is not sent to be anyone’s watcher(s)/guardian(s).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We even find texts where the supposed divine speaker(s) worship Allah as his/their lord and claim that he/they can only come down with the revelations at the command of Muhammad’s lord:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is not for God to take a son unto Him. Glory be to Him! When He decrees a thing, He but says to it ‘Be,’ and it is. Surely God </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">MY</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and your Lord; So serve you Him. This is a straight path. S. 19:35-36</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WE</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> come not down, save at the commandment of thy Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. To </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> belongs all that is </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">before </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">US</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and all that is </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">behind </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">US</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and all between that. S. 19:64</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If so then this means that Allah either exists as a plurality of divine beings, with some of these gods being subordinate to the others. Or the Muslim scripture is acknowledging the existence of a hierarchy of distinct gods, with Allah being subject to at least one of them whom he worships as his lord and superior.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, if Q. 17:1 is actually talking about Muhammad then this means that he is the one described as being both omniscient and omnipresent. This in turn makes Muhammad a man-god, either because he was a human being that became a god or a divine one that became a man!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hence, as a result of this passage’s incoherence, Muslims either end up with Allah existing as a hierarchy of divine beings, or as a lesser god subordinate to a greater deity than himself. Or they must accept the fact that Muhammad is portrayed as an omniscient, omnipresent being, and is therefore another </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ilah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> or divinity alongside the Muslim god.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We will let the Muslims sort out this mess caused by a so-called revelation that is supposed to be the peak of Arabic grammar and eloquence.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/how-many-gods-are-there-in-the-quran/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/how-many-gods-are-there-in-the-quran/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-91416147758729393212023-09-22T11:49:00.007+02:002023-09-22T11:49:56.038+02:00Mohammed Hijab Proves Muslims are Muhammadans who Worship a False Prophet!<p><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">In a previous rebuttal (</span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/dawagandist-mohammed-hijab-admits-that-his-god-allah-worships-like-muslims-do/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/dawagandist-mohammed-hijab-admits-that-his-god-allah-worships-like-muslims-do/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">), I quoted Muhammadan Mohammed Hijab’s admission that the Arabic word used in the Quran to describe Allah praying, namely, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">, actually means </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And the word actually </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. This is the root word.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Trinity or Tawhid?</span></i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNMc0VTDUA&t=37s"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNMc0VTDUA&t=37s</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I then cited specific narrations where his prophet reportedly stated that </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is the very essence of Islamic of worship:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">296. The excellence of supplication</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">712. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Nothing is dearer to Allah than supplication</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">713. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The noblest ACT OF WORSHIP is supplication</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">714. An-Nu’man ibn Bashir reported that the Prophet said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Supplication IS WORSHIP</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Then he recited, “Call on Me and I will answer you.” (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, XXX. Supplication </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#supplicate"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/adab4.html#supplicate</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">3372. An-Nu‘man bin Bashir narrated that the Prophet said: “The supplication, IS WORSHIP.” Then he recited: And Your Lord said: “Call upon me, I will respond to you. Verily, those who scorn My worship, they will surely enter Hell humiliated.” (</span><b><i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SAHIH</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[Abu ‘Eisa said:] This </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hasan Sahih</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Mansur and Al-‘A‘mash narrated it from Dharr, and we do not know it except from the narration of Dharr. [He is Dharr ‘Abdullah Al-Hamdani, trustworthy, the father of ‘Umar bin Dharr.]</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Comments:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Supplication IS WORSHIP IN ITSELF</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and for proof the Prophet recited the Verse of </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Surat Ghafir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, “Call upon Me, I will respond to you. Verily, those who scorn My worship, they will surely enter Hell humiliated.” This Verse shows that not begging His favors is a sign of scorn. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As supplication IS THE ESSENCE OF WORSHIP</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and without its essence, the supplication is nothing but lifeless utterances. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">English Translation of Jami‘ At-Tirmidhi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Compiled by Imam Hafiz Abu ‘Eisa Mohammad Ibn ‘Eisa At-Tirmidhi, From Hadith no. 3291 to 3956, translated by Abu Khaliyl (USA), Ahadith edited & referenced by Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair ‘Ali Za’i [Darussalam Publishers & Distributors, First Edition: November 2007], Volume 6, 45. The Book Of Supplications From The Messenger Of Allah, pp. 102-103 </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/48/3"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/48/3</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This is where Hijab’s woes begin. In the debate, David Wood had stated that Muslims actually pray to Muhammad every time they perform their daily prayers, since the latter commanded his followers to perform what is typically referred to as </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tashahhud</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ibn ‘Abbas reported: The Messenger of Allah used to teach us tashahhud just as he used to teach us a Sura of the Qur’an, and he would say: All services rendered by words, acts of worship, and all good things are due to Allah. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Peace be upon YOU, O Prophet, and Allah’s mercy and blessings</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Peace be upon us and upon Allah’s upright servants. I testify that there is no god but Allah, and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. In the narration of Ibn Rumb (the words are): “As he would teach us the Qur’an.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 004,Number 0798 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=004&translator=2&start=0&number=0788"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=004&translator=2&start=0&number=0788</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Urwa ibn az-Zubayr from Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qari that he heard Umar ibn al-Khattab say, while he was teaching people the tashahhud from the mimbar, “Say, Greetings belong to Allah. Pure actions belong to Allah. Good words and prayers belong to Allah. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Peace on YOU, Prophet, and the mercy of Allah and His blessings</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Peace be upon us and on the slaves of Allah who are salihun. I testify that there is no god except Allah. And I testify that Muhammad is His slave and His messenger.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘At-tahiyatu lillah, az-zakiyatu lillah, at-tayibatu wa’s-salawatu lillah. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As-salamu ALAYKA ayyuha’nnabiyyu</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> wa rahmatu’llahi wa barakatuhu. As-salamu alayna wa ala ibadi’llahi s-salihin. Ash-hadu an la ilaha illa ‘llah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan abduhu wa rasuluh.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Malik’s Muwatta</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 3, Number 3.14.56 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=3&translator=4&start=0&number=3.14.56"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=3&translator=4&start=0&number=3.14.56</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is what Hijab said in response in their first rebuttal period:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“There is a hadith in Bukhari which said that whenever one person does </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salla</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> on the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">nabi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which means blessings and praise on the prophet–blessings on the prophet–the angel will carry that and give it to him! It doesn’t mean that he’s hearing it everywhere! The angel is moving it around! This is from the will of Allah, and if you didn’t know that, now you do.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Suffice it to say, this doesn’t answer the actual objection but merely compounds the problem for this dawagandist.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In the first place, this doesn’t address the issue of why Muslims are praying to a dead man in their </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salat</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> when this is supposed to be the heart of Islamic worship.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In fact, Muhammad went as far as to exhort his companions to continue praying for him even after his death, since he claimed that Allah would enable him to see and hear their supplications. Muhammad further promised to personally greet that person and invoke Allah on his behalf.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following narrations are all taken from </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Riyad as-Salihin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, The Book of Supplicating Allah to Exalt the Mention of Allah’s Messenger (</span><a href="https://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/15"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/15</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">). All capital, italicized, and/or underline emphasis shall be mine:</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Aus bin Aus reported:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Messenger of Allah said, “Among the best of your days is Friday; so supplicate Allah more often for me in it, </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">for your SUPPLICATIONS will be DISPLAYED to me</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” He was asked: “O Messenger of Allah! How will our blessings be DISPLAYED to you when your decayed body will have mixed with the earth?” He replied, “</span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah has prohibited the earth from consuming the bodies of the Prophets</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">[Abu Dawud]</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunnah.com reference: Book 15, Hadith 3</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic/English book reference: Book 15, Hadith 1399</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Abu Hurairah reported:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Messenger of Allah said, “Do not make my grave a place of festivity, and supplicate Allah for me, </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">for your SUPPLICATION reaches me wherever you are</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">[Abu Dawud]</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunnah.com reference: Book 15, Hadith 5</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic/English book reference: Book 15, Hadith 1401</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Hurairah reported:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Messenger of Allah said, “Whenever someone greets me, </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah returns the soul to my body (in the grave) and I return his greeting</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">[Abu Dawud]</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunnah.com reference: Book 15, Hadith 6</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic/English book reference: Book 15, Hadith 1402</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Hurayra said that the Messenger of Allah said, “Whenever anyone greets me with peace, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allah will return my soul to me so that I can return the greeting</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shayba mentions that Abu Hurayra said that the Messenger of Allah said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I WILL HEAR</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> whoever blesses me at my grave. If someone is far away and blesses me, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that is also conveyed to me</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ibn ‘Umar said, “Do a lot of prayer on your Prophet every </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Jumu’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It is brought to him from you every </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Jumu’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” One version has, “None of you blesses me but </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THAT HIS PRAYER IS SHOWN TO ME</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> when he finishes it.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali said that the Prophet said, “Bless me wherever you are. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">YOUR PRAYER will reach me</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One of them mentioned that the name of someone who blesses the Prophet </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IS SHOWN to the Prophet when he does it</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Hasan ibn ‘Ali said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">When you enter the mosque, greet the Prophet</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. The Messenger of Allah said, ‘Do not make my house a place of </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Id</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and do not make your houses graves. Bless me wherever you are. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">YOUR PRAYER will reach me wherever you are</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.'”…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sulayman ibn Suhyam said that he saw the Prophet in a dream and asked him, “Messenger of Allah, do you recognise the greeting of those who come to you?” </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He replied, “YES, AND I ANSWER THEM</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (Qadi ‘Iyad Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kitab Ash-shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa (Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley English [Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K., third reprint 1991, paperback), pp. 262-263; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Pay careful attention to the words of Muhammad that the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">supplications</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">prayers</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of his followers are shown to him, since this confirms that Muslims aren’t merely greeting a dead man (which is bad enough), but are in fact praying directly to him!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That’s not all. Islamic scholars argued on the basis of Q. 4:64 that Muslims can even visit Muhammad’s grave in order to personally ask him for his intercession! And according to some reports, this is exactly what some Muslims did:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is just as necessary to have esteem and respect for the Prophet after his death as it were when he was alive. This means to show it whenever the Prophet, his </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">hadith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> or </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">sunna</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> are mentioned, when anyone hears his name or anything about his life or how his family and relatives behaved. It includes respect for the People of his House (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ah al-bayt</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) and his Companions…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Humayd said, “Abu Ja’far, the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Amir al-Mu’minin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, had a dispute with Malik in the Prophet’s mosque. Malik said to him, ‘</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Amir al-Mu’minin</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, do not raise your voice in this mosque. Allah taught the people how to behave by saying, ‘</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Do not raise your voices above the Prophet’</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (49:2) He praises people with the words, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Those who lower their voices in the presence of the Messenger of Allah.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (49:3) He censures people, saying, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Those who call you…”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Respect for him when he is dead is the same as respect for him when he was alive.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Abu Ja’far was humbled by this. He asked Malik, ‘Abu Abdullah, do you face </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">qibla </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">when you supplicate or do you face the Messenger of Allah?’ He replied, ‘Why would you turn your face from him </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">when he is YOUR MEANS and the means of your father, Adam, to Allah on the Day of Rising? I face him and ASK HIM to intercede and Allah will grant his intercession</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Allah says, </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“If, when you wronged yourselves, they had come to you</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘” (4:64) (Qadi ‘Iyad, pp. 237-238; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Although, this verse (64) was revealed in the background of a particular incident relating to hypocrites, yet its words yield a general ruling which stipulates that anyone who presents himself before the Holy Prophet and he prays for his forgiveness, he will be definitely forgiven. And ‘the presence before the Prophet,’ as it would have been during his blessed life in this mortal world, HOLDS THE SAME EFFECT EVEN TODAY as the visit to the sacred precincts of the Mosque of the Prophet and the act of ‘presenting’ oneself BEFORE THE BLESSED RESIDENT OF THE SANCTIFIED MAUSOLEUM FALLS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THIS RULE.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sayyidna ‘Ali has said: “Three days after we all had finished with the burial of the Messenger of Allah a villager came and fell down close to the blessed grave. Weeping bitterly, he referred to this particular verse of the Qur’an AND ADDRESSING HIMSELF TO THE BLESSED GRAVE, he said: ‘Allah Almighty has promised in this verse that a sinner, if he presented himself before the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Rasul</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of Allah, and the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Rasul</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> elects to pray for his forgiveness, then he will forgive him. Therefore, here I am, presenting myself BEFORE YOU so that I may be blessed with YOUR prayer for my forgiveness.’ People personally present there at that time say that, in response to the pleading of the villager, a voice coming out from the sanctified mausoleum rang around with the words… You have been forgiven.” (al-Bahr al-Muhit) (Mufti Shafi Usmani, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Maariful Quran</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 2, p. 486 file:///Users/samshamoun/Downloads/English-MaarifulQuran-MuftiShafiUsmaniRA-Vol-2-Page-451-505%20(1).pdf; capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Finally:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Allah is instructing the sinners when they commit a sin to come to the messenger of Allah and ask forgiveness in his presence and then they ask him to request forgiveness. And certainly if they did that, Allah would relent towards them and have mercy on them, and for that reason He said “they would have found Allah Oft-Returning, Merciful.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And Shaykh Mansur as-Sabbagh recollected in his book “The Perfections” (ash-Shama’il) the well-known (famous) transmission from ‘Utbi:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I was sitting by the grave of the Prophet and a Bedouin came and said: ‘Peace be upon you O Prophet of Allah. I heard Allah say: “And if they had come to thee when they had wronged their souls, and asked forgiveness of Allah, and if the Messenger had also asked forgiveness for them, they would have surely found Allah Oft-Returning with compassion and Merciful.” And I came to you asking forgiveness for my sin, taking you as intercessor to my Lord.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Then he started reciting verses: ‘O You best of those whose bones are buried in al-Qa’a from the sweet scents of those bones the whole area of al-Qa’a and Akamu became perfumed. My self I sacrifice to the grave that you live in it is purity and in it is incredible generosity.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Then the Bedouin departed and sleep overcame me. And I saw the Prophet in my sleep and he said: ‘Ya ‘Utbi, follow the Bedouin and give him the glad tidings that Allah has forgiven him.’” (Ibn Kathir, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir of Qur’an al-Adheem</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> [Dar al-Fikr, Beirut, 1992/1412], Volume 1, p. 643)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hence, Muslims not only pray to a dead man but they also pray to that dead man at his grave!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, seeing that the five daily prayers are the very heart of Islamic worship, and since invocation is supposed to be the very essence of prayer, this means that Muslims are in fact worshiping Muhammad when they speak to him in their </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salat</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and whenever they personally invoke his intercession. This is especially true when they visit Muhammad’s grave to speak to a man that has been dead for approximately fourteen hundred years!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now what about Hijab’s response that it is an angel that carries the Muslims’ prayers to Muhammad while he is in his grave?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following narration seems to corroborate Hijab’s claim:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">13 The Book of Forgetfulness (In Prayer)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(46) Chapter: Sending </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salams</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> upon the Prophet</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated that Abdullah said: “The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Allah has angels who travel around on Earth conveying to me the Salams of my Ummah.'”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: SAHIH </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Reference</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: Sunan an-Nasa’i 1282</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In-book reference: Book 13, Hadith 104</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English translation: Vol. 2, Book 13, Hadith 1283 (sunnah.com </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/nasai/13/104"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/nasai/13/104</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There are a few problems with this canard. First, as the narrations cited above plainly state, Muhammad both sees and hears all the prayers that are directed to him. Therefore, in order for the angels to enable Muhammad to both </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HEAR </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SEE</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the people that are praying to him, they must be omniscient and omnipresent. Otherwise, how could they display these prayers to Muhammad?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thus, instead of solving the problem Hijab has only managed to confuse matters even worse, since he has essentially ascribed (albeit unwittingly) exclusively divine attributes to spirit creatures and is therefore guilty of the unpardonable sin, namely </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">shirk</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">! (cf. 2:22; 4:48, 116)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This brings me to my next point. How could Muhammad be able to see and hear all these prayers at the same time, if he himself weren’t omniscient and omnipresent? After all, Allah must still endow him with the divine capacity to see and hear every individual prayer, which the angels present to him.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hence, David Wood’s initial argument still stands. Since Muhammad is personally observing and hearing over one billion Muslims the world over praying to Allah and to himself, this means that the Islamic prophet has all of a sudden become omniscient and omnipresent.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hijab has to now contend with the fact that his own supposed authentic sources leave him with the problem of finite creatures, such as Muhammad and the angels, possessing unique divine attributes that are supposed to belong only to Allah, in clear violation of his pet Salafi doctrine of </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tauhid al-asma wa-sifaat</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Finally, Hijab is still left with the dilemma of worship being given to a dead man. Keep in mind that prayer (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) is worship, and that </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (invocation/supplication) is supposed to be the essence of prayer/worship. Therefore, whenever Muslims like Hijab pray to and/or invoke their dead prophet, they are rendering to him the very heart of Islamic worship!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I’ll break this down for Hijab and his cronies so they finally get the point that Wood was trying to communicate to them:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Praying (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) is worship that is to be given to Allah alone.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Invocation/Supplication (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) is the heart of Muslim worship, which is why only Allah is to be invoked/supplicated.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Over one billion Muslims pray to Muhammad in their five daily prayers, speaking directly to a man who has been dead for roughly fourteen hundred years.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muslims also invoke Muhammad, and even visit his grave in Medina till this very day, to personally seek his intercession.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">5. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, Muslims are offering a dead man the exclusive worship, which is to be given to their god alone.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">6. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As such, Muslims have turned Muhammad into a demigod, another </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">ilah </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(deity) alongside the Muslim god.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is clear that this debate has become a major embarrassment for this Muhammadan, since his claims and objections are backfiring against him. His agreement to debate David Wood has turned out be a career ending decision, one of the worst mistakes of his short dawagandist life.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Further Reading</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Prophet of Chaos and Idolatry Pt. 1 </span></b><a href="https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/chaos_idolatry1.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/chaos_idolatry1.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/mohammed-hijab-proves-muslims-are-muhammadans-who-worship-a-false-prophet/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/mohammed-hijab-proves-muslims-are-muhammadans-who-worship-a-false-prophet/</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">IHS</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-43859262539219980782023-09-22T11:45:00.006+02:002023-09-22T11:45:59.499+02:00Original Forgiveness – Did Original Sin Really End with Adam? Pt. 2<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Refuting Another Muslim Lie </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We resume our analysis of the issue of the Islamic position concerning Adam’s sin and its effects upon mankind </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-1/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE AHADITH</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Recall that in the first of our reply we had cited the following quotation from renowned Muslim expositor Ibn Kathir:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ayah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> mentions the great honor that Allah granted Adam, and Allah reminded Adam’s offspring of this fact. Allah commanded the angels to prostrate before Adam, as this </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ayah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and many </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadiths</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> testify, such as the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> about the intercession that we discussed. There is a </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> about the supplication of Musa, “O my Lord! </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Show me Adam who caused us and himself to be thrown out of Paradise</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” When Musa met Adam, he said to him, “Are you Adam whom Allah created with His Own Hands, blew life into and commanded the angels to prostrate before?” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged) (Surat Al-Fatihah to Verse 252 of Surat Al-Baqarah)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, abridged by a group of scholars under the supervision of Shaykh Safiur-Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri [Darussalam Publishers & Distributors, Riyadh, Houston, New York, Lahore; First Edition: January 2000], Parts 1 and 2, Volume 1, p. 193; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This narration of Adam and Moses confronting each other over Adam’s responsibility in causing all of his offspring to be expelled from Paradise is found in all the major works of hadith, just as the following examples show.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AL-BUKHARI</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Huraira:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah’s Apostle said, “Adam and Moses met, and Moses said to Adam “</span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">You are the one who made people MISERABLE and turned them out of Paradise</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Adam said to him, “You are the one whom Allah selected for His message and whom He selected for Himself and upon whom He revealed the Torah.” Moses said, ‘Yes.’ Adam said, “</span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Did you find that written in my fate before my creation?</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘ Moses said, ‘Yes.’ So Adam overcame Moses with this argument.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 260: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=0&number=260"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=60&translator=1&start=0&number=260</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Huraira:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Prophet said, “Moses argued with Adam and said to him (Adam), ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">You are the one who got the people out of Paradise </span></b><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">BY YOUR SIN, AND THUS MADE THEM MISERABLE</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ Adam replied, ‘O Moses! You are the one whom Allah selected for His Message and for His direct talk. </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Yet you blame me for a thing which Allah had ordained for me before He created me?</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’” Allah’s Apostle further said, “So Adam overcame Moses by this Argument.” (Volume 6, Book 60, Number 262; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">MUSLIM</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: There was argument between Adam and Moses. Moses said to Adam: You are our father. </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">YOU DID US HARM AND CAUSED US to get out of Paradise</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Adam said to him: You are Moses. Allah selected you (for direct conversation with you) and wrote with His own Hand the Book (Torah) for you. </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Despite this you blame me for an act which Allah had ordained for me forty years before He created me</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Allah’s Apostle said: This is how Adam came the better of Moses and Adam came the better of Moses. (Book 033, Number 6409: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=033&translator=2&start=0&number=6409"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=033&translator=2&start=0&number=6409</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: There was argument between Adam and Moses, and Adam came the better of Moses. Moses said to him: </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">You are the same Adam WHO MISLED PEOPLE, and caused them to get out of Paradise</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Adam said: You are the same (Moses) whom Allah endowed the knowledge of everything and selected him amongst the people as His Messenger. He said: Yes. Adam then again said: </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Even then you blame me for an affair which had been ordained for me before I was created</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (Book 033, Number 6410; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: There was an argument between Adam and Moses in the presence of their Lord. Adam came the better of Moses. Moses said: Are you that Adam whom Allah created with His Hand and breathed into him His sprit, and commanded angels to fall in prostration before him and He made you live in Paradise with comfort and ease. </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Then YOU CAUSED the people to get down to the earth because of YOUR LAPSE</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Adam said: Are you that Moses whom Allah selected for His Messengership and for His conversation with him and conferred upon you the tablets, in which everything was clearly explained and granted you the audience in order to have confidential talk with you. What is your opinion, how long Torah would haye been written before I was created? Moses said: Forty years before. Adam said: </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Did you not see these words: Adam committed an error AND HE WAS ENTICED TO (do so)</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He (Moses) said: Yes. Whereupon, he (Adam) said: </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Do you then blame me for an act which Allah had ordained for me forty years before He created me?</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Allah’s Messenger said: This is how Adam came the better of Moses. (Book 033, Number 6411; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is another narration from Muslim which makes the same point as the above:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira and Hudhaifa that the Messenger of Allah said: Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, would gather people. The believers would stand till the Paradise would be brought near them. They would come to Adam and say: O our father, open for us the Paradise. He would say: </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">What turned you out from the Paradise WAS THE SIN OF YOUR FATHER ADAM</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. I am not in a position to do that…” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 001, Number 0380: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0380"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0380</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">MALIK’S MUWATTA</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu’z-Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah said, “Adam and Musa argued and Adam got the better of Musa. Musa rebuked Adam, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘You are Adam WHO LED PEOPLE ASTRAY and brought them out of the Garden</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ Adam said to him, ‘You are Musa to whom Allah gave knowledge of everything and whom he chose above people with His message.’ He said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘Do you then censure me for a matter </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WHICH WAS DECREED FOR ME BEFORE I WAS CREATED?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Malik’s Muwatta</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 46, Number 46.1.1: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=46&translator=4&start=0&number=46.1.1"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=46&translator=4&start=0&number=46.1.1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ABU DAWUD</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunan Abi Dawud</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">42 Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah as saying:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Adam and Moses held a disputation. Moses said: Adam you are our father. </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">YOU DEPRIVED US and CAUSED US to come out from Paradise</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Adam said: You are Moses Allah chose you for his speech and wrote the Torah for you with his hand. Do you blame me for doing a deed </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">which Allah had decreed THAT I SHOULD DO forty year before he created me</span></u></i><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">?</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> So Adam got the better of Moses in argument.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ahmad b. Salih said from ‘Amr from Tawus who heard Abu Hurairah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Hasan (Al-Albani)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Reference:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Sunan Abi Dawud 4701</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In-book reference: Book 42, Hadith 106</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English translation: Book 41, Hadith 4684 (Sunnah.com: </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/106"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/106</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunan Abi Dawud</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">42 Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(1693) Chapter: Belief In Divine Decree</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘Umar b. al-Khattab reported the Messenger of Allah as saying: Moses said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">My lord, show us Adam who caused us and himself to come out from Paradise. So Allah showed him Adam. He asked: Are you our father, Adam? Adam said to him: Yes. He said: Are you the one into whom Allah breathed of his spirit, taught you all the names, and commanded angels (to prostrate) and they prostrated to you? He replied: Yes. He asked: Then what moved you to cause us and yourself to come out from paradise? Adam asked him: And who are you? He said: Yes. He asked: Did you not find that was decreed in the book (records) of Allah before I was created? He replied: Yes. He asked: Then why do you blame me about a thing for which Divine decree had already passed before me? The Messenger of Allah said: So Adam got the better of Moses in argument.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Hasan (Al-Albani)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Reference:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Sunan Abi Dawud 4702</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In-book reference: Book 42, Hadith 107</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English translation: Book 41, Hadith 4685 (Sunnah.com: </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/107"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/107</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AT-TIRMIDHI</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jami` at-Tirmidhi</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Chapters On Al-Qadar</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Adam and Musa argued, Musa said: ‘O Adam! You are the one that Allah created with His Hand, and blew into you of His Spirit, </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and YOU MISLED the people and CAUSED THEM to be expelled from Paradise</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ So Adam said: ‘You are Musa, the one Allah selected with His Speech! Are you blaming me for something I did which Allah had decreed for me, before creating the heavens and the earth?'” He said:’ So Adam confuted Musa.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Sahih</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 4, Book 6, Hadith 2134</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 32, Hadith 2281 (Sunnah.com: </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/674370"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/674370</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IBN MAJAH </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunan Ibn Majah</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Book of the Sunnah</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated that ‘Amr bin Dinar heard Tawus say:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“I heard Abu Hurairah narrating that the Prophet said: ‘Adam and Musa debated, and Musa said to him: ‘O Adam, you are our father </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but have DEPRIVED US and CAUSED US to be expelled from Paradise BECAUSE OF YOUR SIN</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ Adam said to him: ‘O Musa, Allah chose you to speak with, and he wrote the Tawrah for you with His own Hand. </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Are you blaming me for something which Allah decreed for me forty years before He created me?</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’ Thus Adam won the argument with Musa, thus Adam won the argument with Musa.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Sahih</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 80</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 1, Hadith 84 (Sunnah.com: </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/1250800"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/1250800</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">MISHKAT AL-MASABIH </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira reported that God’s messenger told of Adam and Moses holding a disputation in their Lord’s presence and of Adam getting the better of Moses in argument. Moses said, “You are Adam whom God created with His hand, into whom He breathed of His spirit, to whom He made the angels do obeisance, and whom He caused to dwell in his garden; </span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">then BECAUSE OF YOUR SIN caused MANKIND to come down to the earth</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Adam replied, “And you are Moses whom God chose to deliver His messages and to address, to whom He gave the tablets on which everything was explained, and whom He brought near as a confidant. How long before I was created did you find that God has written the Torah? Moses said, “Forty years.” Adam asked, “Did you find in it, ‘And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred’?” On being told that he did, he said, “</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Do you then blame me for doing a deed </span></b><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WHICH GOD HAD DECREED THAT I SHOULD DO</span></u></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> forty years before He created me?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” God’s messenger said, “So Adam got the better of Moses n the argument.” Muslim transmitted it. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mishkat Al-Masabih English Translation With Explanatory Notes</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> by Dr. James Robson, Volume I [Sh. Muhammad Ahsraf Publishers, Booksellers & Exporters, Lahore-Pakistan, Reprint 1990], p. 23; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The foregoing should make it abundantly clear that Muhammad actually believed that Adam’s sin is the reason why mankind is not dwelling in Paradise, and why human beings are so miserable and sinful. Yet Muhammad took it a step further by claiming that it was Allah who basically forced Adam to disobey him, which is why he has Adam rebuking Moses for holding him responsible for committing a sin which he had no choice but to commit, since Allah had decreed that he would do so forty years before his creation!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This fact is not only brought out even further by the following narrations,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Khalid al-Hadhdha said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I said to al-Hasan: Abu Sa’id, tell me about Adam. Was he created for the heaven or the earth? He said: </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">No, for the earth</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. I said: It was unavoidable for him. I said: Tell me about the following verse of the Quran: ”can lead (any) into temptation concerning Allah, except such as are (themselves) going to blazing fire.” He said: </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The devils do not lead anyone astray by their temptation EXCEPT THE ONE WHOM ALLAH HAS DESTINED TO GO TO HELL</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunan Abi Dawud</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Model Behavior of the Prophet (Kitab Al-Sunnah): </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/19"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/19</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated from Ibn ‘Umar that Umm Salamah said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“O Messenger of Allah, every year you are still suffering pain because of the poisoned meat that you ate.” He said: “</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Nothing that happens to me, but it was decreed for me when Adam was still at the stage of being clay</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sunan Ibn Majah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, The Chapters on Medicine: </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/1275910"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/1275910</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is also confirmed by the very plain and explicit teaching of the Quran that it is Allah who deceives and misleads whomever he so desires, with none being able to guide the one that Allah is pleased to lead astray:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Then what is the matter with you that you are divided into two parties about the hypocrites? Allah has cast them back (to disbelief) because of what they have earned. Do you want to guide him </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">whom Allah has made to go astray? And he whom Allah has made to go astray, you will never find for him any way (of guidance)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 4:88 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Verily, the hypocrites seek to deceive Allah, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but it is He Who deceives them</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And when they stand up for </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As-Salat</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (the prayer), they stand with laziness and to be seen of men, and they do not remember Allah but little. S. 4:142 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Those who say our signs are lies – deafness, dumbness, in the dark! </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">whom He pleases does God lead astray</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and whom He pleases He places on the right way S. 6:39 Palmer</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And whomsoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his breast to Islam, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and whomsoever He wills to send astray, He makes his breast closed and constricted</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, as if he is climbing up to the sky. Thus Allah puts the wrath on those who believe not. S. 6:125 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Whomsoever Allah guides, he is the guided one, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and whomsoever He sends astray, those! They are the losers. And surely, We have created many of the jinns and mankind for Hell</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. They have hearts wherewith they understand not, they have eyes wherewith they see not, and they have ears wherewith they hear not (the truth). They are like cattle, nay even more astray; those! They are the heedless ones. S. 7:178-179 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And if your Lord had so willed, He could surely have made mankind one </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ummah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> [nation or community (following one religion only i.e. Islam)], but they will not cease to disagree,- Except him on whom your Lord has bestowed His Mercy (the follower of truth – Islamic Monotheism) </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and for that did He create them. And the Word of your Lord has been fulfilled (i.e. His Saying): “Surely, I shall fill Hell with jinns and men all together</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” S. 11:118-119 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And We never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make (the message) clear for them. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Then Allah sendeth whom He will astray</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and guideth whom He will. He is the Mighty, the Wise. S. 14:4 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And to every people have we sent an apostle saying: – Worship God and turn away from Taghout. Some of them there were whom God guided, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and there were others decreed to err</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. But go through the land and see what hath been the end of those who treated my apostles as liars! If thou art anxious for their guidance, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">know that God will not guide him whom He would lead astray</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, neither shall they have any helpers. S. 16:36-37 Rodwell</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And thou mightest have seen the sun when it rose move away from their cave to the right, and when it set go past them on the left, and they were in the cleft thereof. That was (one) of the portents of Allah. He whom Allah guideth, he indeed is led aright, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and he whom He sendeth astray, for him thou wilt not find a guiding friend</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 18:17 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IF</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> We had so willed, We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance: </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">BUT the Word from Me will come true, “I will fill Hell with Jinns and men all together</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” S. 32:13 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Is not Allah Sufficient for His slave? Yet they try to frighten you with those (whom they worship) besides Him! </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And whom Allah sends astray, for him there will be no guide</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And whomsoever Allah guides, for him there will be no misleader. Is not Allah All-Mighty, Possessor of Retribution? S. 39:36-37 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This hyper-fatalistic view is quite troubling to Christians in general, including both Calvinists and Arminians, since it grossly distorts the biblical doctrine of God’s sovereignty and human responsibility, and how these two truths relate to one another.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">What About Eve?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad not only acknowledged Eve’s sin, but also held her personally responsible for women betraying their husbands:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Huraira:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Prophet said, “Were it not for Bani Israel, meat would not decay; </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and were it not FOR EVE, no woman would ever betray her husband.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 611: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=611"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=611</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Had it not been FOR EVE, woman would have never acted unfaithfully towards her husband.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 008, Number 3471: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=008&translator=2&start=0&number=3471"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=008&translator=2&start=0&number=3471</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad wasn’t alone since Islam’s greatest scholars and historians followed suit and also condemned Eve. This next citation regarding the fall comes from renowned Muslim historian al-Tabari, and fully agrees with the preceding traditions that Eve’s sin affected all women:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to Yunus- Ibn Wahb- Ibn Zayd (commenting on God’s word: “And he whispered”): Satan whispered to Eve about the tree and succeeded in taking her to it; then he made it seem good to Adam. He continued. When Adam felt a need for her and called her, she said: No! unless you go there. When he went, she said again: No! unless you eat from this tree. He continued. They both ate from it, and their secret parts became apparent to them. He continued. Adam then went about in Paradise in flight. His Lord called out to him: Adam, is it from Me that you are fleeing? Adam replied: No, my Lord, but I feel shame before You. When God asked what had caused his trouble, he replied: Eve, my Lord. Whereupon God said: Now it is My obligation to make her bleed once every month, as she made this tree bleed. </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I ALSO MAKE HER STUPID, although I had created her intelligent (</span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">halimah</span></i></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and must make her suffer pregnancy and birth with difficulty, although I made it easy for her to be pregnant and give birth. Ibn Zayd said: Were it not for the affliction that affected Eve, the women of this world would not menstruate, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND THEY WOULD BE INTELLIGENT</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and, when pregnant, give birth easily. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The History of Al-Tabari: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by Franz Rosenthal [State University of New York Press, Albany], Volume 1, pp. 280-281; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to this reference Eve was not only made to bleed for her sin but she was also made stupid with the result being that all women now bleed and are basically stupid!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Nor is this an isolated opinion from some obscure, unknown Muslim historian since Muhammad himself taught that women were morally and intellectually deficient in comparison to men, which is why the majority of the people burning in hell are women!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Once Allah’s Apostle went out to the Musalla (to offer the prayer) on ‘Id-al-Adha or Al-Fitr prayer. Then he passed by the women and said, “O women! Give alms, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">as I have seen that THE MAJORITY of the dwellers of Hell-fire were you (women)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” They asked, “Why is it so, O Allah’s Apostle?” He replied, “You curse frequently and are ungrateful to your husbands. </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I have not seen anyone more deficient in intelligence and religion THAN YOU. A cautious sensible man could be led astray by some of you</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” The women asked, “O Allah’s Apostle! What is deficient in our intelligence and religion?” </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He said, “Is not THE EVIDENCE OF TWO WOMEN EQUAL TO THE WITNESS OF ONE MAN?”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> They replied in the affirmative. </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He said, “This is the deficiency in her intelligence</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Isn’t it true that a woman can neither pray nor fast during her menses?” The women replied in the affirmative. He said, “This is the deficiency in her religion.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 1, Book 6, </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=6&translator=1&start=0&number=301"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Number 301</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=6&translator=1&start=0&number=301"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=6&translator=1&start=0&number=301</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; see also Volume 2, Book 24, Number 541)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: The Prophet said, “Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?” The women said, “Yes.” He said, “</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE DEFICIENCY OF A WOMAN’S MIND</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 3, Book 48, Number 826: </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=48&translator=1&start=0&number=826"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=48&translator=1&start=0&number=826</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Unlike Islam, nowhere will one find the Holy Bible saying that women have become stupid as a result of the Fall, or that they are the majority of those who end up in hell.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With the foregoing in perspective, it is quite evident that Muhammad did not believe in “Original Forgiveness,” but rather held to the fact that Adam’s sin brought great misery and evil to humanity, since his disobedience resulted in the loss of paradise for all of mankind. And yet Muhammad took this a step further by claiming that, in reality, it is Allah who has brought such untold pain, suffering and destruction to human beings, since he was responsible for predestining and purposing that Adam would end up inevitably sinning against him, in order to bring about the expulsion of all human beings from the garden.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So much for the boldfaced lie propagated by Muhammadans that Islam teaches that “Original Sin” ended with Adam since it affirms “Original Forgiveness.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">All Scriptural citations taken from the Modern English Version (MEV) of the Holy Bible.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-2/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-2/</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-34206931909128013532023-09-22T11:44:00.002+02:002023-09-22T11:44:49.390+02:00Original Forgiveness – Did Original Sin Really End with Adam? Pt. 1<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Refuting Another Muslim Lie </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is typical for Muslim polemicists to argue that Islam doesn’t believe in “Original Sin,” but in “Original Forgiveness.” By that they mean that Allah supposedly forgave Adam and Eve for their sins, as opposed to the biblical teaching which states that God punished them for their disobedience by handing both of them, along with their offspring, over to the influence and dominion of sin and Satan:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, so death has spread to all men, because all have sinned</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. For until the law, sin was in the world. But sin is not counted when there is no law.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam’s sin, who was a type of Him who was to come. But the free gift is not like the trespass. </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For if through the trespass of one man many died</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then how much more has the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The gift is not like the result </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that came through the one who sinned. For the judgment from one sin led to condemnation</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, but the free gift, which came after many trespasses, leads to justification.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For if by one man’s trespass death reigned through him</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then how much more will those who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Therefore just as through the trespass of one man came condemnation for all men</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, so through the righteous act of One came justification of life for all men.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For just as through one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, so by the obedience of One the many will be made righteous.” Romans 5:12-19</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For since death came by man</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">For as in Adam all die</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward, those who are Christ’s at His coming.” 1 Corinthians 15:20-23</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“We know that the law is spiritual, </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but I am carnal, sold under sin</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For what I am doing, I do not understand, for I do not practice what I will to do, but I do the very thing I hate.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But if I practice what I do not will to do, I agree with the law that it is good.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">So now it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing, for the will to do what is right is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For the good I desire to do, I do not do, but the evil I do not want is what I do.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who does it, but sin that lives in me. I find then a law that when I desire to do good, evil is present with me.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For I delight in the law of God according to the inner man,</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body of this death?</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.So then, with my mind, I serve the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.” Romans 7:14-25</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“But avoid foolish and unlearned debates, knowing that they create strife. The servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be gentle toward all people, able to teach, patient,</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">in gentleness instructing those in opposition. Perhaps God will grant them repentance to know the truth, </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and they may escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” 2 Timothy 2:23-26</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“So then, as the children share in flesh and blood, He likewise took part in these, so that through death He might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and deliver those </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who through fear of death were throughout their lives subject to bondage</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Hebrews 2:14-15</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These polemicists will often cite the following Quranic text to prove their assertion:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Then Adam received from his Lord Words . And his Lord pardoned him (accepted his repentance). Verily, He is the One Who forgives (accepts repentance), the Most Merciful. S. 2:37 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following blog posts are illustrative of the way that these Muhammadans argue:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Original Forgiveness” (</span><a href="http://bloggingtheology.net/2015/11/06/original-forgiveness/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bloggingtheology.net:80/2015/11/06/original-forgiveness/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Original sin ended with Adam” (</span><a href="http://bloggingtheology.net/2015/11/08/3755/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bloggingtheology.net/2015/11/08/3755/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We have chosen to respond to this rather blatant misrepresentation and distortion of what Islam actually teaches concerning this issue, since the facts will show that Muhammad </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">DID INDEED </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">believe in “Original Sin,” e.g., that Adam’s sin plunged humanity into despair and misery, yet with one added caveat. Muhammad also proclaimed that Adam was predestined to cause all mankind to be expelled from the garden since he was basically forced into sinning against Allah by Allah himself!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THE QURAN</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran is emphatically clear concerning the role that Adam and Eve played in bringing about all of the sinfulness and misery that mankind has been plunged into. Pay carefully attention to the following passage which uses the Arabic plural, which refers to more than two, to describe the fall of the first human couple:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But the Satan made them both fall from it, and caused them to depart from that (state) in which they were; and We said: </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">GET DOWN,</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ALL OF YOU</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ihbitoo</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), with enmity between </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">YOURSELVES (ba’dukum), and there is for YOU (wa lakum)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in the earth an abode and a provision for a time. Then Adam received from his Lord words (of revelation), and He relented toward him. Lo! He is the relenting, the Merciful. We said: </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">GO DOWN, ALL OF YOU (ihbitoo jami’an)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, from hence; but verily there </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">cometh unto YOU (yatiyannakum)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> from Me a guidance; and whoso followeth My guidance, there shall no fear come </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">upon</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THEM (alayhim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">neither SHALL THEY GRIEVE (hum yahzanoona)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 2:36-38</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following verse also uses the plural:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">God said, ‘</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">GO FORTH (ihbitoo), SOME OF YOU (ba’dukum)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> will be enemies of others</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">. And for YOU (wa lakum)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> there is an abode on the earth and a provision for a time.’ S. 7:24</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The words that we have capitalized and italicized are all in the plural, not in the dual. This shows that Adam’s sin had a negative impact on all future generations of mankind.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is another version which actually uses both the dual and the plural together!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We had already, beforehand, taken the covenant of Adam, but he forgot: and We found on his part no firm resolve. When We said to the angels, “Prostrate yourselves to Adam”, they prostrated themselves, but not Iblis: he refused. Then We said: “O Adam! verily, this is an enemy to thee and thy wife: so let him not get you both out of the Garden, so that thou art landed in misery. There is therein (enough provision) for thee not to go hungry nor to go naked, Nor to suffer from thirst, nor from the sun’s heat.” But Satan whispered evil to him: he said, “O Adam! shall I lead thee to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that never decays?” In the result, they both ate of the tree, and so their nakedness appeared to them: they began to sew together, for their covering, leaves from the Garden: thus did Adam disobey his Lord, and allow himself to be seduced. But his Lord chose him (for His Grace): He turned to him, and gave him Guidance. He said: “</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">GET YE DOWN, BOTH OF YOU (ihbita), – all together (jami’an)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, from the Garden, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">with enmity ONE TO ANOTHER (ba‘dukum liba‘din)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: but if, as is sure, there comes to you Guidance from Me, whosoever follows My Guidance, will not lose his way, nor fall into misery. S. 20:115-123 Y. Ali</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The word </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ihbita</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is a 2</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> person masculine dual imperative verb whereas </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ba‘dukum</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is a 2</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">nd</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">person masculine plural possessive pronoun.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The context makes it certain that Satan cannot be included in the use of the plural since he had already been expelled from paradise and stands condemned to hell. He will, therefore, not follow the guidance which will come from Allah to those who have fallen from his favor. In light of this fact, the plural must be referring to the entire human race, to all of Adam’s offspring, thereby implying that Adam stood in the place of all mankind as their father and representative.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In other words, according to the Quran when Adam sinned his unborn offspring also sinned. And when he was expelled from the garden they were expelled as well.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In fact, this is precisely how some of the expositors explained the use of the plural in these passages. For instance, here is the commentary of Ibn Kathir regarding Q. 2:38-39:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah informs of His warning to Adam, his wife and Satan, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THEIR OFFSPRING</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, when he ordered </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">THEM</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to descend from Paradise. He says he will send messengers with Scriptures, signs and proofs… (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Part 1, Surah Al-Fatiah Surah Al-Baqarah, ayat 1 to 141</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Abridged by Sheikh Nasib Ar-Rafa‘i [Al-Firdous Ltd., London: Second Edition 1998], pp. 109-110; capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The late Abdullah Yusuf Ali said something similar in reference to Q. 2:36:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Note the transition in Arabic from the singular number in ii. 33, to the dual in ii. 35,</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the plural here [2:36]</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which I have indicated in English by ‘All ye people.’</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Evidently Adam is the type of all mankind, and the sexes go together in all spiritual matters</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Moreover, the expulsion applied to Adam, Eve, and Satan, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the Arabic plural is appropriate for any number greater than two</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (SOURCE: </span><a href="http://www.quran4u.com/Tafsiraya/002%20Baqarah.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.quran4u.com:80/Tafsiraya/002%20Baqarah.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; Bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And here is what Ibn Kathir wrote concerning Q. 2:34:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ayah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> mentions the great honor that Allah granted Adam, and Allah reminded Adam’s offspring of this fact. Allah commanded the angels to prostrate before Adam, as this </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ayah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and many </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadiths</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> testify, such as the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> about the intercession that we discussed. There is a </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> about the supplication of Musa, “O my Lord! </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Show me Adam who caused us and himself to be thrown out of Paradise</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” When Musa met Adam, he said to him, “Are you Adam whom Allah created with His Own Hands, blew life into and commanded the angels to prostrate before?” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged) (Surat Al-Fatihah to Verse 252 of Surat Al-Baqarah)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, abridged by a group of scholars under the supervision of Shaykh Safiur-Rahman Al-Mubarakpuri [Darussalam Publishers & Distributors, Riyadh, Houston, New York, Lahore; First Edition: January 2000], Parts 1 and 2, Volume 1, p. 193; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We will have more to say about this alleged confrontation between Adam and Moses in the next part of our rebuttal.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These scholars weren’t the only ones to interpret the plural in relation to Adam, Eve, and their offspring:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Then Satan, Iblīs, caused them to slip, he caused them to be removed (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">fa-azallahumā</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: a variant reading has </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">fa-azālahumā</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: he caused them to be away from it) therefrom, that is, from the Garden, when he said to them, ‘Shall I point you to the tree of eternity’ [cf. Q. 20:120], and swore to them by God that he was only giving good advice to them, and so they ate of it; and brought them out of what they were in, of bliss; and We said, ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Go down, to earth, both of you AND ALL THOSE COMPRISED BY YOUR SEED; some of you, of your progeny, an enemy to the other</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, through your wronging one another; and in the earth a dwelling, a place of settlement, shall be yours, and enjoyment, of whatever of its vegetation you may enjoy, for a while’, [until] the time your terms [of life] are concluded. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Q. 2:36 </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=2&tAyahNo=36&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com:80/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=2&tAyahNo=36&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Said He, ‘Go down, that is, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Adam and Eve,</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WITH ALL THOSE YOU COMPRISE BY YOUR SEED, each of you, each seed, an enemy to the other</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, on account of the wrong each does to the another. There will be for you on earth an abode, a place of settlement, and enjoyment for a while’, [until] your terms [of life] are fulfilled. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Q. 7:24 </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=7&tAyahNo=24&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com:80/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=7&tAyahNo=24&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Moreover, note what Ibn Kathir wrote,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Commenting on this </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ayah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (7:172), At-Tirmidhi recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">((… </span></i><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">So Adam denied that and HIS OFFSPRING FOLLOWED SUIT (denying Allah’s covenant), Adam forgot and HIS OFFSPRING FORGOT, Adam made a mistake and HIS OFFSPRING MADE MISTAKES</span></i></b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">.))</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">At-Tirmidhi said, “This </span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith</span></i></b><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> is </span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hasan Sahih</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and it was reported from various chains of narration through Abu Hurayrah from the Prophet. Al-Hakim also recorded it in his Mustadrak, and said; Sahih according to the criteria of Muslim, and they did not record it.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These and similar </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadiths</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> testify that Allah, the Exalted and Most Honored, brought forth Adam’s offspring from his loins and separated between the inhabitants of Paradise and those of the Fire…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged) (Surat Al-A‘raf to the end of Surah Yunus)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, First Edition: May 2000, Volume 4, pp. 201-203 </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1038&Itemid=62"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1038&Itemid=62</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Concerning this verse,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And (remember) when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed (or from Adam’s loin his offspring) and made them testify as to themselves (saying): “Am I not your Lord?” They said: “Yes! We testify,” lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection: “Verily, we have been unaware of this.” S. 7:172 Hilali-Khan</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Adam’s offspring are forced to suffer from forgetting, making mistakes and denying their oaths solely because of Adam’s own forgetfulness, mistakes and denials! Thus, whether a Muslim likes it or not this narration clearly affirms that Adam’s offspring share in the guilt and responsibility of Adam’s transgressions.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As such, this should sufficiently put to rest the oft-repeated lie that the Quran teaches “Original Forgiveness.” After all, if Allah truly did forgive Adam then why didn’t he allow him to stay in, or at least bring him back to, Paradise? Why did he still go ahead and expel him and his offspring to the earth? Is it truly an act of forgiveness when someone, who has thrown his/her child out of the house as punishment for some kind of disobedience, tells his/her offspring that they have been forgiven if the parent never allows the child to stay or return back home?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Muslim woes are far from over, as we shall see in the next part of our rebuttal </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-2/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-1/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/original-forgiveness-did-original-sin-really-end-with-adam-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-50274961515473895212023-06-30T18:25:00.002+02:002023-06-30T18:25:14.115+02:00Dawagandist Mohammed Hijab Admits that his god Allah Worships like Muslims do!<p> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">In the second rebuttal period of his debate with David Wood, Mohammed Hijab admitted that the Arabic word used in the Quran to describe Allah praying, namely, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">, actually means </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And the word actually </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. This is the root word.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Trinity or Tawhid?</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNMc0VTDUA&t=37s"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrNMc0VTDUA&t=37s</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Herein lies the problem for this dawagandist. </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is simply the word used for invocation or supplication. And according to certain allegedly sound reports attributed to Muhammad, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is the very heart of Muslim worship:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">17 The Book of DU’A (SUPPLICATIONS)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">An-Nu’man bin Bashir reported: The Prophet said, “DU’A (SUPPLICATION) IS WORSHIP.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[Abu Dawud].</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunnah.com reference: Book 17, Hadith 1</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic/English book reference: Book 17, Hadith 1465 (sunnah.com </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/17/1"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/17/1</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">296.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The excellence of supplication</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">712. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Nothing is dearer to Allah than supplication</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">713. Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The noblest ACT OF WORSHIP is supplication</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">714. An-Nu’man ibn Bashir reported that the Prophet said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Supplication IS WORSHIP</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Then he recited, “Call on Me and I will answer you.” (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, XXX. Supplication </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#supplicate"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/adab4.html#supplicate</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Again:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 3828. It was narrated from Nu‘man bin Bashir that the Messenger of Allah said: “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Indeed the supplication IS THE WORSHIP</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Then he recited: “And your Lord said: Invoke Me, I will respond to you.”</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">[1]</span></sup><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(</span></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SAHIH</span></i></b><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">) </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">English Translation of Sunan Ibn Majah – Compiled by Imam Muhammad Bin Yazeed Ibn Majah Al-Qazwini, From Hadith No. 3657 to 4341</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Ahadith edited and referenced by Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair ‘Ali Za’i, translated by Nasiruddin al-Khattab (Canada), final review by Abu Khaliyl (USA) [Darussalam Publications and Distributors, First Edition: June 2007], Volume 5, 34. The Chapter On Supplication, Chapter 1. The Virtue of Supplication, p. 95 </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/34/2"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/34/2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">[1]</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ghafir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> 40:60. (Ibid.)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Finally:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">3372. An-Nu‘man bin Bashir narrated that the Prophet said: “The supplication, IS WORSHIP.” Then he recited: And Your Lord said: “Call upon me, I will respond to you. Verily, those who scorn My worship, they will surely enter Hell humiliated.” (</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SAHIH</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">[Abu ‘Eisa said:] This </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hadith </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">is </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Hasan Sahih</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Mansur and Al-‘A‘mash narrated it from Dharr, and we do not know it except from the narration of Dharr. [He is Dharr ‘Abdullah Al-Hamdani, trustworthy, the father of ‘Umar bin Dharr.]</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Comments:</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Supplication IS WORSHIP IN ITSELF</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and for proof the Prophet recited the Verse of </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Surat Ghafir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, “Call upon Me, I will respond to you. Verily, those who scorn My worship, they will surely enter Hell humiliated.” This Verse shows that not begging His favors is a sign of scorn. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">As supplication IS THE ESSENCE OF WORSHIP</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and without its essence, the supplication is nothing but lifeless utterances. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">English Translation of Jami‘ At-Tirmidhi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Compiled by Imam Hafiz Abu ‘Eisa Mohammad Ibn ‘Eisa At-Tirmidhi, From Hadith no. 3291 to 3956, translated by Abu Khaliyl (USA), Ahadith edited & referenced by Hafiz Abu Tahir Zubair ‘Ali Za’i [Darussalam Publishers & Distributors, First Edition: November 2007], Volume 6, 45. The Book Of Supplications From The Messenger Of Allah, pp. 102-103 </span><a href="https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/48/3"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://sunnah.com/tirmidhi/48/3</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These are just some of the many ahadith which have been used by Muslim scholars to prove that making </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> or supplication to anyone other than Allah is major sin, since it is the very essence of worship. As such, this is an action that can only be offered to the Muslim deity.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, since Mohammed Hijab admitted that his god does pray since he does perform </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and since he claimed that </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> or invocation/supplication, then he has basically conceded that his god does in fact worship just like Muslims do!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I’m going to breaks this down for Hijab and his cronies so that he and/or they don’t miss the actual point of the argument:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-style: italic;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> or prayer is </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, i.e. invocation and supplication.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-style: italic;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">Du’a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is the very essence of Islamic worship.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran and ahadith confirm that Allah performs and engages in </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah is, therefore, engaging in an act of worship much like the Muslims that also perform </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni";">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">So the question that Mohammed Hijab and his cohorts must answer is, who does their god Allah worship, invoke, supplicate etc., whenever he prays or performs </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">salah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">FOR</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Muhammad and the other so-called believers?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He it is who prays (yusallee) for you</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and His angels too, to bring you forth out of the darkness into the light, for He is merciful to the believers. S. 33:43 Palmer</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Verily, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God and His angels pray (yusalloona) for the prophet</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. O ye who believe! </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">pray (salloo) for him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and salute him with a salutation! S. 33:56 Palmer</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And since I want to make sure that Hijab will actually answer the objection, instead of attacking straw man in order to tap dance around the question that David Wood posed to him, I’m going to therefore repeat the challenge in large font so he and the other dawagandists have no excuse for failing to respond correctly this time around:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="background: rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">SINCE </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SALAH</span></i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> MEANS </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">DU’A</span></i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, AND SINCE </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">DU’A</span></i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> IS THE HEART OF MUSLIM WORSHIP, TO WHOM DOES ALLAH PRAY TO AND WORSHIP WHENEVER HE PERFORMS </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">SALAH</span></i><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> FOR MUHAMMAD AND THE REST OF THE MUSLIM BELIEVERS?</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Further Reading</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Mohammed Hijab Proves Muslims are Muhammadans who Worship a False Prophet!</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/mohammed-hijab-proves-muslims-are-muhammadans-who-worship-a-false-prophet/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/mohammed-hijab-proves-muslims-are-muhammadans-who-worship-a-false-prophet/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/dawagandist-mohammed-hijab-admits-that-his-god-allah-worships-like-muslims-do/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/16/dawagandist-mohammed-hijab-admits-that-his-god-allah-worships-like-muslims-do/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">IHS</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-88432022277503252282023-06-30T18:22:00.005+02:002023-06-30T18:22:51.727+02:00How Muhammad Turned Allah and Jesus into two Lords<p> <span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad didn’t simply elevate Jesus and his blessed mother to divine status (</span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-again-pt-1/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-again-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">), thereby turning them into two separate gods besides Allah. He also associated Christ with Allah in the following reference:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They have taken their rabbis and their monks (as) Lords </span><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">besides Allah AND the Messiah, son (of) Maryam</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And not they were commanded except that they worship One God. (There) is no god except Him. Glory be to Him from what they associate (with Him). Literal (Word for Word) </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#31"><u><span class="15" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://islamawakened.com/quran/9/st61.htm#31</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is the transliteration of the underlying Arabic text:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ittakhathoo ahbarahum waruhbanahum arbaban </span></i><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">min dooni Allahi WAalmaseeha ibna maryama</span></u></i></b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> wama omiroo illa liyaAAbudoo ilahan wahidan la ilaha illa huwa subhanahu Aaamma mushrikoona</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Because of the grammatical structure of the Arabic, the above passage is actually claiming that Jews and Christians (including Muslims) were commanded to only take Jesus as their Lord along with Allah. Basically, the verse is saying that the believers are to only serve Allah and Jesus as their Lord, not their rabbis or monks.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Putting it another way, the Quran is essentially stating that it is wrong for people to take Jewish rabbis and Christian priests as lords when their Lord is supposed to be Allah and Jesus. This means that the Quran’s author(s) ended up confessing that both Allah and Jesus are the one Lord whom all believers are to serve!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Check out how the following versions of the Quran translate the verse:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“They take their doctors and their monks for lords rather than </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God, AND the Messiah the son of Mary</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Palmer</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“They take their priests and their monks for [their] lords, besides </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God, AND Christ the son of Mary</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Sale</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“They took their scholars and priests to be lords besides </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God, AND the Messiah son of Mary</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Quran: A Reformist Translation</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Notice how the above translators inserted a comma after God, even though it is clear from the original Arabic text that there is no justification for doing so. The Arabic makes it evident that both God/Allah and the Messiah are being joined together as the one Lord whom Muslims are to believe in and serve.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This leads us into a discussion of the Arabic conjunction </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (“and”), and the significance it has on how we are to understand this specific text.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">While commenting on the importance that this particular conjunction has on the Muslim confession of faith (i.e., “there is no god but Allah </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Muhammad is his messenger”), renowned Muslim scholar Qadi ‘Iyad Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi noted that:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The fact that mention of the Prophet is directly connected to mention of Allah also shows that obedience to the Prophet is connected to obedience to Allah and his name to Allah’s name. Allah says, “Obey Allah and His Messenger” (2:32) and “Believe in Allah and His Messenger.” (4:136) Allah joins them together using the conjunction </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">WA</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> WHICH IS THE CONJUNCTION OF PARTNERSHIP. IT IS NOT PERMITTED TO USE THIS CONJUNCTION IN CONNECTION WITH ALLAH IN THE CASE OF ANYONE EXCEPT THE PROPHET.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Hudhayfa said that the Prophet said, “None of you should say, ‘What Allah wills and (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) so-and-so wills.’ Rather say, ‘What Allah wills.’ Then stop and say, ‘So-and-so wills.’”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Khattabi said, “The Prophet has guided you to correct behaviour in putting the will of Allah before the will of others. He chose ‘then’ (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">thumma</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) which implies sequence and deference as opposed to ‘and’ (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) WHICH IMPLIES PARTNERSHIP.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Something similar is mentioned in another </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">hadith</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Someone was speaking in the presence of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, “Whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger has been rightly guided, and whoever rebels against them both (joining them together by using the dual form)…” The Prophet said to him, “What a bad speaker you are! Get up! [Or he said: Get out!]”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Sulayman said, “He disliked the two names being joined together in that way BECAUSE IT IMPLIES EQUALITY.”… (Qadi ‘Iyad, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kitab Ash-shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), translation by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley [Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K.; third reprint 1991, paperback], p. 8; capital emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, since the Quranic author(s) linked Jesus with Allah by using the very same conjunction which implies partnership, this simply further confirms that they ended up making Christ and Allah co-equal partners, a fact that is brought out more clearly in this next passage:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When God said, ‘Jesus Son of Mary, remember My blessing upon thee and upon thy mother, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">when I confirmed thee with the Holy Spirit</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, to speak to men in the cradle, and of age; and when I taught thee the Book, the Wisdom, the Torah, the Gospel; </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and when thou createst out of clay, by My leave, as the likeness of a bird, and thou breathest into it, and it is a bird, by My leave</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and thou healest the blind and the leper by My leave, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and thou bringest the dead forth by My leave</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and when restrained from thee the Children of Israel when thou camest unto them with the clear signs, and the unbelievers among them said, “This is nothing but sorcery manifest.” And when I inspired the Apostles: “</span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Believe in Me AND My Messenger (an aminoo bee WAbirasoolee)”</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; they said, “We believe; witness Thou our submission.”‘ S. 5:110-111 Palmer – cf. Q. 2:87, 253; 3:49-52</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here we have Allah making Christ a partner and sharer in his exclusive divine attributes and functions, e.g., Allah permitted Jesus to create birds from clay and breathe life into them, raise the dead back to life, and give sight to the blind.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What makes this rather astonishing is that Christ creates and gives life in the exact same way that Allah does,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Your Lord said to the angels: “</span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am creating a human from hardened clay of aged mud</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. So when I perfect him, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and blow of My Spirit in him</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, you shall fall prostrate to him.” S. 15:28-29 </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Quran: A Reformist Translation</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (QRT)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For your Lord said to the angels: “</span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I am creating a human being from clay</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. So when I have evolved him, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and breathed into him from My Spirit</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, then you shall submit to him.” S. 38:71-72 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jesus even performs the very functions which Muhammad himself could not do, and was not allowed to do according to the Quran:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">You cannot make the dead hear, nor can you make the deaf hear the call</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> when they turn their backs and flee. </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Nor can you guide the blind from their misguidance</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. You can only make those who acknowledge Our signs hear you, for they have peacefully surrendered. S. 27:80-81 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">You cannot make the dead listen, nor can you make the deaf hear the call</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> when they have turned their backs. </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Nor can you enlighten the blind from their straying</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; but you can only make those who acknowledge Our signs listen, for they have peacefully surrendered. S. 30:52-53 QRT</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The authors and/or editors also utilized the conjunction </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">to enjoin belief in both Allah and Christ, thereby showing that a person cannot believe in one without also believing in the other.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran therefore depicts Jesus as a divine being made flesh who is capable of doing whatever Allah does, and who also shares in the sole, unique Lordship or sovereignty of the Islamic deity.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now some may take exception with our exegesis of Q. 9:31 and assert that the Arabic text clearly places Jesus alongside the rabbis and monks who were wrongly taken as Lords besides Allah. They may argue that the conjunction (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) before </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Maseeha</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and the short vowel fatha (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), at the end of the word indicate that </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Maseeha</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> is in the accusative, so it is another object (together with the first two, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">ahbarahum waruhbanahum</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, e.g., “their rabbis and their monks”) of the verb “have taken.” The sentence should therefore actually read this way:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">They have taken their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah Mary’s son as lords apart from God, and they were commanded to serve but One God; there is no god but He; glory be to Him, above that they associate.</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If the </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> was a conjunction conjoining </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Maseeh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to Allah, i.e., binding Allah and the Messiah together, then it would need to be in the genitive just like </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Allahi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, e.g., </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al-Maseehi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In response, we must consider two important considerations when assessing the soundness or weakness of this assertion. To begin with, this argument presupposes that the markings distinguishing the different cases in Arabic, i.e. nominative, accusative etc., were always there, were always part of the original text. The reality, however, is quite different since the original Arabic Quran had no markings to help differentiate between the different nuances of a word.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is how the text would look like in transliteration minus the critical points:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">min doon allah w almaseeh bn maryam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As one can see, there is no short </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">fatha</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> at the end of the words </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">almaseeh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">bn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> or </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">maryam</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which means that the original Arabic text did indeed conjoin Jesus along with Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This leads us to our second point. The conjunction </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">wa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, as we saw earlier, is viewed by Muslims to be the conjunction of partnership. Since the Arabic text had no markings this would mean that someone reading it would have clearly seen that Jesus was being joined alongside Allah as the one Lord whom others had to believe in, as opposed to their rabbis and priests.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In light of the foregoing, it is rather obvious that the scribes who came later and added these markings realized the difficulty this text posed and decided to add the very specific points which made the word an accusative in order to avoid associating Jesus with God. This means that the scribes actually improved on the grammar of the Quran in order to avoid these theological “mistakes” and “slips”!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now the author(s) and/or editor(s) of the Quran could have simply avoided all these problems by writing the verse in the following manner:</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ittakhathoo ahbarahum waruhbanahum </span></i><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">waalmaseeha ibna maryama</span></u></i></b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> arbaban min dooni Allahi</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Or, if we omit the vowel markings, s/he/they could have formulated it this way:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ittakhatho ahbarahum w ruhbanahum </span></i><b><i><u><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">w almaseeh bn maryam</span></u></i></b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> arbab min doon Allah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Which would give us:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">They have taken their rabbis and their monks and the Messiah son of Mary as Lords besides Allah.</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Thirdly, as we already demonstrated above the Quran ascribes titles and characteristics to Jesus that clearly prove that he is a fully divine Being, as opposed to being merely human. As the following authors note:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“It is no easy task, however, to describe the Qur’an’s evaluation of Christianity, for the precise historical context of the Qur’an’s origins is far from clear, despite the elaborate biographies of the Prophet Muhammad written during the ‘Abaasid period (132/750-656/1258). Meanwhile, Qur’anic language, essentially homiletic and referential, is often sparing with details. It can therefore be elusive to readers removed from its original context.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The problem might be presented in regard to terminology. The Qur’an repeatedly (eleven times in all) refers to Jesus as the Christ (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">al-masih</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">). However, it seems to use the term simply as a proper name (much as Christians began to use the term in the patristic period). Yet the Qur’an also refers to Jesus as the Word of God (Q 3:45; 4:171; cf. 3:59) and the Spirit of God (4:171), who was created from a divine breath (21:91; 66:12). </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">These are typical formulae used by Christians to express the divinity of Christ, as is the Qur’an reference to Christ creating a bird from clay and bringing it to life with his breath</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (3:49; 5:110; cf. God’s creation of Adam: 15:29; 32:9; 38:72) and the Qur’an’s close association of Jesus and the Holy Spirit (2:87, 253; 5:110).</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“However, the Qur’an also repeatedly has Jesus announce that he was sent by God to confirm the law (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tawrat</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">) to the Israelites (3:50; 5:46; 61:6), to insist on God’s transcendence (3:51; 5:72), to reject worship of him (and his mother) as gods (5:116-117), and, in one place, to announce a Messenger to come after him (61:6). Hence it seems that the Qur’an is rejecting Christian claims about Jesus, and indeed the Qur’an implies that the “People of the Book” (here presumably Christians are intended) belittle God with their statements about Christ (4:171). Elsewhere (9:30) Christians are reprimanded for calling Christ the Son of God. </span><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And yet in the very next verse (9:31) the Qur’an seems to imply that Christians and Jews err in considering monks and rabbis as Lords instead of God and Christ</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;">2</span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Abd al-Jabbar – Critique of Christian Origins: A Parallel English-Arabic Text</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, edited, translated, and annotated by Gabriel Said Reynolds & Samir Khalil Samir [Brigham Young University Press, Provo, Utah 2010], pp. xxi-xxii; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">2. Note, however, that the text is vocalized today with Christ in the accusative so that Christ is grouped with monks and rabbis in this verse. (Ibid., p. xxii)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Finally, the Quran provides further confirmation for the fact of Jesus sharing in the unique exalted status of Allah as the sovereign Lord of creation. According to the following verses,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Lo! God said: “O Jesus! </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Verily, I shall cause thee to die, and shall exalt thee unto Me</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and cleanse thee of [the presence of] those who are bent on denying the truth; and I shall place those who follow thee [far] above those who are bent on denying the truth, unto the Day of Resurrection. In the end, unto Me you all must return, and I shall judge between you with regard to all on which you were wont to differ. S. 3:55 Muhammad Asad</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and their boast, “Behold, we have slain the Christ Jesus, son of Mary, [who claimed to be] an apostle of God!” However, they did not slay him, and neither did they crucify him, but it only seemed to them [as if it had been] so; and, verily, those who hold conflicting views thereon are indeed confused, having no [real] knowledge thereof, and following mere conjecture. For, of a certainty, they did not slay him: </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">nay, God exalted him unto Himself</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> – and God is indeed almighty, wise. S. 4:157-158 Asad</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah raised Jesus to himself, to dwell in his very own presence.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Since Islamic theology claims that Allah governs all creatures from his throne, which is supposed to be above the seven heavens and therefore above the entire creation, this means that Jesus is residing over all creation alongside Allah!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is apparent that this is simply another occasion where Muhammad decided to incorporate certain Christian beliefs as part of his scripture without realizing the great embarrassment that this would cause him due to his express denial that Jesus is the eternal, divine Son of God who became flesh for our salvation.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555;">Source: </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-once-again/"><u><span class="15" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-once-again/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-40928522750677870282023-06-30T18:20:00.002+02:002023-06-30T18:20:51.964+02:00The Prophet of Shirk Strikes Once Again!<h1 style="margin-bottom: 14.0000pt; margin-top: 14.0000pt;"><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Prophet of Shirk Strikes Again Pt. 1</span></b><b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><h2 style="background: rgb(255,255,255);"><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; font-weight: normal; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">How Muhammad Turned Jesus and Mary Into 2 Gods besides Allah</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: '等线 Light'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad, in the Quran, falsely accused Christians of his day of believing that Allah was Jesus, and further censured them for taking Christ and his blessed mother as two gods in the place of Allah:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They indeed have disbelieved who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. Say: Who then can do aught against Allah, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">if He had willed to destroy the Messiah son of Mary, and his mother </span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and everyone on earth? Allah’s is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them. He createth what He will. And Allah is Able to do all things. S. 5:17 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They surely disbelieve who say: </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Lo! Allah is the third of three</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; when there is no God save the One God. If they desist not from so saying a painful doom will fall on those of them who disbelieve. Will they not rather turn unto Allah and seek forgiveness of Him? For Allah is Forgiving, Merciful. The Messiah, son of Mary, was no other than a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) had passed away before him. And his mother was a saintly woman. </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And they both used to eat (earthly) food. See how We make the revelations clear for them</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and see how they are turned away! S. 5:73-75 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In stating that Allah could have destroyed Jesus and Mary, or that they both had to eat food, it is obvious that Muhammad thought that Christians believed that Allah was the third of three gods consisting of himself, Christ and his beloved mother. This fact is made rather explicit in the following quotation:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Didst thou say unto mankind: Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> he saith: Be glorified! It was not mine to utter that to which I had no right. If I used to say it, then Thou knewest it. Thou knowest what is in my mind, and I know not what is in Thy Mind. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Knower of Things Hidden? I spake unto them only that which Thou commandedst me, (saying): Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. I was a witness of them while I dwelt among them, and when Thou tookest me Thou wast the Watcher over them. Thou art Witness over all things. S. 5:116-117 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran further warns Christians to stop saying three, since God is one:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">People of the Book, do not transgress the bounds of your religion. Speak nothing but the truth about God. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was no more than God’s apostle and His Word which He cast to Mary: a spirit from Him. So believe in God and His Apostles and do not say: ‘Three.’ Forbear, and it shall be better for you. God is but one God. God forbid that He should have a son! His is all that the heavens and the earth contain. God is the all-sufficient protector. S. 4:171 N. J. Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">What makes this rather remarkable is that it was Muhammad who ended up turning Jesus and Mary into two gods besides Allah, not Christians, just as we are about to see.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Recall that in our previous article, we cited the Quran and ahadith to show that Muhammad taught that there is absolutely no creature that is sinless, not even himself. Note, once again, what the following verses,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If God should take men to task for their evildoing, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He would not leave on the earth ONE CREATURE that crawls</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; but He is deferring them to a term stated; and when their term is come they shall not put it back by a single hour nor put it forward. S. 16:61 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">If God should take men to task for what they have earned </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He would not leave upon the face of the earth ONE CREATURE that crawls</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; but He is deferring them to a stated term. But when their term is come — surely God sees His servants. S. 35:45 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And narrations state concerning the universal scope of sin and its affects:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunan Ibn Majah</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Chapters on Asceticism</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated from Anas that the Messenger of Allah said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">EVERY son of Adam commits sin</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and the best of those who commit sin are those who repent.’”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Hasan</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 5, Book 37, Hadith 4251</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 37, Hadith 4392 (Sunnah.com: </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/1293540"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/1293540</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jami` at-Tirmidhi</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Chapters on the description of the day of Judgement, and Ar-Riqaq, and Al-Wara’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Anas narrated that the Prophet said: “</span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">EVERY son of Adam sins</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and the best of the sinners are the repentant.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Da’if</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 4, Book 11, Hadith 2499</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 37, Hadith 2687 (Sunnah.com </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/678050"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/678050</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Also notice what the Quran says about Muhammad’s sinfulness and imperfections:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">God forgive you!</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Why did you give them leave to stay behind before you knew those who spoke the truth from those who invented false excuses? S. 9:43 Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They sought to entice you from Our revelations — they nearly did — hoping that you might invent some other scripture in Our name, and thus become their trusted friend. Indeed, had We not strengthened your faith, you might have made some compromise with them </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and thus incurred a double punishment in this life and in the next. Then you should have found none to help</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">you against Us</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 17:73-75 Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">You have been warned</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, you and those who have gone before you, that if you worship other deities besides God, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">your works will come to nothing and you will surely be among the losers</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Therefore serve God and render thanks to Him. S. 39:65 Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Know that there is no deity but God. </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Implore Him to forgive your sins and to forgive the true believers, men and women</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. God knows your busy haunts and resting-places. S. 47:19 Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Had he invented lies concerning Us, We would have seized him by the right hand and severed his heart’s vein: not one of you could have protected him! S. 69:44-47 Dawood – cf. Q. 4:106-107; 10:15, 94; 17:93; 18:110; 33:1; 40:55; 41:6; 46:9; 48:1-2; 72:20-26; 80:1-10; 110:3</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Suffice it to say, this raises some serious problems for the Muslim assertion of Mary and her glorious Son being nothing more than human creatures that Allah could wipe out of existence if he so willed.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">For example, the Quran teaches in the context of Allah having chosen Jesus’ maternal family above the entire creation, that Christ’s maternal grandmother prayed that both he and his blessed mother would be protected from the accursed Satan:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Lo! Allah preferred Adam and Noah and the Family of Abraham </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the Family of ‘Imran above (all His) creatures</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. They were descendants one of another. Allah is Hearer, Knower. (Remember) when </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the wife of ‘Imran</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> said: My Lord! I have vowed unto Thee that which is in my belly as a consecrated (offering). Accept it from me. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Hearer, the Knower! And when she was delivered she said: My Lord! Lo! I am delivered of a female – Allah knew best of what she was delivered – the male is not as the female; and lo! </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I have named her Mary</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and lo! </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I crave Thy protection for her and for her offspring from Satan the outcast</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 3:33-36 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">According to the ahadith, Allah honored this request by making Jesus and his blessed mother the only ones whom Satan was absolutely forbidden from touching at their respective births:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And when she gave birth to her, a girl, and she had been hoping for a boy, since only males were consecrated to the service of God, she said, apologetically, ‘O, Lord, I have given birth to a female’ — and God knew very well what she had given birth to: a parenthetical statement constituting God’s speech (a variant reading [for wada‘at, ‘she gave birth’, has wada‘tu, ‘I gave birth’ [making these Hanna’s words, sc. ‘and God knows very well what I have given birth to’]); the male, that she had asked for, is not as the female, that was bestowed upon her, because he is designed for the service [of God], while she would not be suitable on account of her lesser physical ability, her private parts, the effects of menstruation on her, and so on. ‘And I have named her Mary, and commend her to You with her seed, her children, to protect them from the accursed, the outcast, Satan’. </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">In a hadith [it is stated]: ‘Every new-born is touched by Satan and begins [life] by crying, EXCEPT FOR MARY AND HER SON’, as reported by the two Shaykhs [Bukhari and Muslim]</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=36&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=36&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah’s statement that Maryam’s mother said…</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(“… And I seek refuge with You for her and for her offspring from Shaytan, the outcast.”)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means, that she sought refuge with Allah from the evil of Shaytan, for her and her offspring, i.e., `Isa, peace be upon him. Allah accepted her supplication, for `Abdur-Razzaq recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"><<Every newly born baby is touched by Shaytan when it is born, and the baby starts crying because of this touch, </span></i><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">except Maryam and her son</span></u></i></b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">.>></span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Hurayrah then said, “Read if you will…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(And I seek refuge with You for her and for her offspring from Shaytan, the outcast)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Two </span></u></b><b><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahihs</span></u></i></b><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> recorded this Hadith</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=546&Itemid=46"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=546&Itemid=46</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That’s not all. The Muslim scripture affirms that Allah created Mary to be absolutely pure and even preferred her above all the rest of the women of creation:And when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah hath chosen thee </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND MADE THEE PURE, and hath preferred thee above (all) the women of creation</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. S. 3:42 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Note how the following renowned Muslim scholars and expositors interpreted this text:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(And when the angels) i.e. Gabriel (said: O Mary! Lo! Allah hath chosen thee) with Islam and worship (and made thee pure) </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">from disbelief, the association of partners with Allah AND BLEMISHES</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; it is also said this means: He has saved you from being killed, (and hath preferred you above (all) the women of creation) of your time by the birth of Jesus. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=42&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=42&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">God has elected you, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">because of your being above lust, and made you pure, from the vices of reprehensible character traits and attributes</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and He has chosen you above the women, of the concupiscent souls variegated by despicable acts and vile natures. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kashani Tafsir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=107&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=42&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=107&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=42&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is possible that this was the beginning of a message from the angels to Mary elevating her state. It is possible that she may have heard their words and seen them, or that she did not see them but heard them as a voice calling out to her, ‘Truly God has chosen you because of your having been preferred, and singled you out from your kind and peers, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and purified you from what is indecent and sinful BY A BEAUTIFUL IMMUNITY</span></u></b><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">and from having physical contact with men, and has chosen you above the women of the world of your time’. The point of repeating the mention of being chosen is firstly, He has chosen you through special gifts, position, and an exalted state; and secondly, He has chosen you to bear Jesus without a father, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and no woman can ever be compared to you UNTIL THE DAY OF RESURRECTION</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Because of that He said: above all women of the worlds. (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Al Qushairi Tafsir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=108&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=42&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=108&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=42&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Mary is further said to be a saintly woman who never deviated from the truth:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The Messiah, the son of Mary, was no more than an apostle: other apostles passed away before him. </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">His mother was a saintly woman</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” S. 5:75 Dawood</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Compare:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The Christ, son of Mary, was but an apostle: all [other] apostles had passed away before him; </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and his mother was one who never deviated from the truth</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Muhammad Asad</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">We are even told that Mary was one of only two women that was perfect,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">XLVI: The words of Allah Almighty</span></b><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">, “When the angels said, ‘Maryam, Your Lord gives you the good news of a Word from Him. His name is the Messiah, ‘Isa, son of Maryam,</span></i></b><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> – to His words –</span></b><b><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is.” </span></i></b><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(3:45-47)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Yubashshiru</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">yabshiru</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> mean the same. “</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Wajîh</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” is noble.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Ibrahim said that “</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">masih</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” is the true. Mujahid said that “</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">kahl</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” is mature. “</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Akmah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">” is the one who can see in the day, but not at night, and other said that it is the one who is born blind.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">3250. It is related from Abu Musa al-Ash’ari that the Prophet said, “The excellence of ‘A’isha over the women is like the excellence of </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">tharid</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> over other types of food. Many men have been prefect, </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">but THE ONLY PERFECT WOMEN are Asiya, the wife of Pharaoh, AND MARYAM DAUGHTER OF ‘IMRAN</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Sahih Collection of al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Chapter 64. Book of the Prophets: </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#prophets"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari26.html#prophets</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And that she was the best of all the women of this world,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">L: The marriage of the Prophet to Khadija, and her excellence</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is related that ‘Ali was heard to say, “I heard the Messenger of Allah say…”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is related from ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib that the Prophet said, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The best of the women OF THIS WORLD was Maryam</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and the best of the women of this community was Khadija.” (Ibid., Chapter 66. Book of the Virtues of the Companions </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/Kiros/Documents/ISLAM/Apo/Apolo%20for%20blo/TSP_71_XXX.docx#companions"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari28.html#companions</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And (by implication) of paradise as well:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jami` at-Tirmidhi</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Chapters on Virtues</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Umm Salamah:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">that the Messenger of Allah called Fatimah on the Day of the Conquest (of Makkah) and he spoke to her, so she cried. Then he spoke to her and she laughed. She said: “So when the Messenger of Allah died, I asked her about her crying and laughing. She said: “The Messenger of Allah told me that he will die, so I cried, then he told me that I was the master over all the women of the inhabitants of Paradise, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">EXCEPT FOR MARIAM BINT ‘IMRAN</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, so I laughed.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Hasan</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 1, Book 46, Hadith 3873</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 49, Hadith 4247 (Sunnah.com </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/637610"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/637610</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jami` at-Tirmidhi</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Chapters on Virtues</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Umm Salamah:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">that the Messenger of Allah called for Fatimah in the Year of the Conquest to him to speak to her, and she cried. Then he spoke to her and she laughed. She said: “When the Messenger of Allah died I asked her about her crying and her laughing. She said: ‘The Messenger of Allah informed me that he would (soon) die, so I cried. Then, he informed me that I was the master over all of the women among the inhabitants of Paradise, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">EXCEPT FOR MARIAM BINT ‘IMRAN</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, so I laughed.'”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Hasan</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 1, Book 46, Hadith 3893</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 49, Hadith 4267 (Sunnah.com </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/637810"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/637810</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran further proclaims that Allah caused Mary to conceive and give birth to an absolutely holy and pure son by the power of his Spirit:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And make mention of Mary in the Scripture, when she had withdrawn from her people to a chamber looking East, And had chosen seclusion from them. </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Then We sent unto her OUR SPIRIT and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She said: Lo! I seek refuge in the Beneficent One from thee, if thou art God-fearing. He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that I MAY BESTOW on thee A FAULTLESS SON</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste? He said: So (it will be). Thy Lord saith: It is easy for Me. And (it will be) </span><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that We may make of him a revelation for mankind and a mercy from Us</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and it is a thing ordained. S. 19:16-21 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This explains why in the ahadith Jesus is the only prophet/messenger who mentions never mentions any sin that he has committed, unlike the others including Muhammad:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“They will go to Musa and say, ‘O Musa, you are the Messenger of Allah. Allah preferred you with His message and His Word above all other people. Intercede with your Lord for us. Do you not see what we are suffering?’ He will say, ‘My Lord is angry today with such anger as has never existed before nor will again. I killed a soul which I was not commanded to kill. Go to someone else. Go to ‘Isa.’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“They will go to ‘Isa and say, ‘O ‘Isa! You are the Messenger of Allah </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and His Word which He cast to Maryam and a spirit from Him</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. You spoke to people while in the cradle. Intercede with your Lord on our behalf. Do you not see what we are suffering?’ ‘Isa will say, ‘My Lord is angry today with such anger as has never existed before nor will again,’ </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND HE DID NOT MENTION A SIN</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. ‘O my soul! My soul! My soul! Go to someone else. Go to Muhammad.’ (Bewley, </span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Sahih Collection of al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Chapter 68. Book of Tafsir </span><a href="https://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari31.html"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari31.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Moses would say to them: Verily my Lord is angry as He had never been angry before and would never be angry afterwards. I, in fact, killed a person whom I had not been ordered to kill. I am concerned with myself, I am concerned with myself. You better go to Jesus. They would come to Jesus and would say: O Jesus, thou art the messenger of Allah and thou conversed with people in the cradle, </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(thou art) His Word which He sent down upon Mary, and (thou art) the Spirit from Him</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; so intercede for us with thy Lord. Don’t you see (the trouble) in which we are? Don’t you see (the misfortune) that has overtaken us? Jesus would say: Verily, my Lord is angry today as He had never been angry before or would ever be angry afterwards. </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">HE MENTIONED NO SIN OF HIS</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. (He simply said:) I am concerned with myself, I am concerned with myself; you go to someone else: better go to Muhammad. They would come to me and say: O Mahammad, thou art the messenger of Allah and the last of the apostles. Allah has pardoned thee </span><b><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">all thy previous and later sins</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” (</span><i><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 001, Number 0378 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0378"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0378</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Finally:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jami` at-Tirmidhi</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Chapters on the description of the Day of Judgement, Ar-Riqaq, and Al-Wara’</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira narrated… “They will go to ‘Eisa and say: ‘O ‘Eisa ! You are the Messenger of Allah </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and His Word which He placed </span></u><i><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">INTO</span></u></i><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> Mariam, and a Spirit from Him</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and you spoke to the people in the cradle. Intercede for us with your Lord. Don’t you see what has happened to us?’ Then ‘Eisa will say: ‘Today my Lord has become angry as He has never before been angry and will never be thereafter.” </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He will not mention a sin</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, but will say: ‘Myself! Myself! Myself!’…”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Sahih</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 4, Book 11, Hadith 2433</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 37, Hadith 2621 (Sunna.com </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/677390"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/677390</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is obvious from all of these citations that Muhammad actually believed that both Mary and her righteous Son were born morally perfect, and therefore were intrinsically holy and righteous.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Herein lies the problem from Muslims. Since Muhammad proclaimed that every creature was a sinner, and that every single son/daughter of Adam sins, this means that Jesus and his blessed mother cannot simply be descendants of Adam, nor can they be mere creatures. They must both be fully divine as well.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Notice the logical implications of Muhammad’s teaching on these matters.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There is no creature that is absolutely sinless, since only the Creator is absolutely perfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Every descendant of Adam sins.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jesus and his blessed mother have never sinned, but were morally perfect.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jesus and his blessed mother were essentially pure and holy from the moment of their conceptions.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">5. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This means that Jesus and his glorious mother are not mere creatures, but are actually fully divine beings that became human.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">6. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Since Jesus and Mary are not Allah, this means that they must be two gods besides Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">7. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, this makes Allah the third of three gods.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">8. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, the Quran says that only infidels would dare say that Allah is the third of three, with Jesus and Mary being the other two deities, and warns people to desist from saying three since God is only one.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These embarrassing blunders are the result of Muhammad adapting and parroting the beliefs of Christians without understanding the ramifications of doing so.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Be that as it may, Muhammad stands condemned for transforming Mary and her majestic Son into two divine beings besides Allah, thereby making Allah the third of three gods. Muhammad should have followed his very own advice and desisted from turning his deity into one of three gods, since it would have been better for him to proclaim that God is one.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With foregoing in perspective, we are now ready to venture to the next segment in this series </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-once-again/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-once-again/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-again-pt-1/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-again-pt-1/</span></u></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">IHS</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-63950374997122543572023-05-02T17:17:00.000+02:002023-05-02T17:17:00.027+02:00Muhammad Confirms that Jesus in Revelation Claims to Be God Almighty!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Muhammad proclaimed that Allah is the first and the last, an expression which speaks to the uncreated, timeless existence of God:</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward; He has knowledge of everything. S. 57:3 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Muhammad also taught that the most vile human being in the sight of his god is the one who claims to be the king of kings, obviously because only God can make such an assertion:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="17" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">CXIV. The name which Allah most hates</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">5852. Al-A’raj related from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah said, “The most ignoble name in the sight of Allah on the Day of Rising will be </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a man who calls himself ‘the king of kings’</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">5853. Al-A’raj related from Abu Hurayra, “The most ignoble name in the sight of Allah.” Sufyan said another time, “The most ignoble of names in the sight of Allah on the Day of Rising will be </span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a man calling himself ‘the king of kings’</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Sufyan said that someone else says that it means “Shahan Shah (King of Kings in Persian).” (Aisha Bewley, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Sahih Collection of Al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Chapter 81. The Book of Adab* (Good Manners) </span><a href="https://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari41.html"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://bewley.virtualave.net/bukhari41.html</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; italicized and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is a different English rendering of the hadith:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, “The most awful (meanest) name in Allah’s sight.” Sufyan said more than once, “The most awful (meanest) name in Allah’s sight </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">is (that of) a man calling himself king of kings</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Sufyan said, “Somebody else (i.e. other than Abu Az-Zinad, a sub-narrator) says: What is meant by ‘The king of kings’ is ‘Shahan Shah.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 8, Book 73, Number 224 </span><a href="https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=73&translator=1&start=0&number=224"><u><span class="16" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=73&translator=1&start=0&number=224</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and italicized emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And yet, in the revelation that the Lord Jesus sent his angel to give to his servant John, Christ identifies himself as the First and the Last who died and came to life again:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Revelation of Jesus Christ</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, which God gave unto him, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">to shew unto his servants</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> things which must shortly come to pass; </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand… I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">What thou seest, write in a book</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And I turned to see the voice that spake with me</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; and his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And when I saw him</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">saying unto me</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Fear not; </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I AM THE FIRST AND THE LAST</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: I am he that liveth, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">AND WAS DEAD</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.” Revelation 1:1-3, 9-20</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star… For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He which testifieth these things saith</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Surely I come quickly. Amen. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Even so, come, Lord Jesus</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Revelation 22:16, 18-20</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">saith</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the first and the last, which WAS DEAD</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and is alive;” Revelation 2:8</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Risen Lord also claims to be the One who rules over all the earthly kings because of his being the King of kings, as well as the Lord of lords:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the prince of the kings of the earth</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” Revelation 1:5-6</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“These shall make war with the Lamb, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.” Revelation 17:14</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Revelation 19:11-16</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The foregoing explicitly shows that the Lord Jesus identified himself as God Almighty in the flesh by ascribing to himself the very unique names and functions, which even Muhammad taught belong to the true God alone!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">As such, Jesus is the God of all creation, and therefore the God of all Muslims, which in turn makes him the God of their false prophet Muhammad!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">All biblical citations taken from the Authorized King James Version (AV) of the Holy Bible.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/muhammad-confirms-that-jesus-in-revelation-claims-to-be-god-almighty/"><u><span class="16" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/muhammad-confirms-that-jesus-in-revelation-claims-to-be-god-almighty/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-13838544254687540602023-05-02T17:15:00.000+02:002023-05-02T17:15:05.360+02:00Islam Bears Witness: Christ is Superior to and Greater than the Baptist Pt. 2<p><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">We continue to list some of the various ways in which Jesus is depicted as being greater than John </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-1/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">2. Unlike John who was born through the normal process of sexual reproduction, Christ was born miraculously from a virgin (cf. Q. 3:47; 19:20-21).</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">3. Unlike John, Jesus and his blessed mother were protected from being touched by Satan at their respective births.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Said bin Al-Musaiyab: Abu Huraira said, “I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">‘There is NONE BORN among the off-spring of Adam, but Satan touches it</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. A child therefore, cries loudly at the time of birth because of the touch of Satan, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">except Mary and her child</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Then Abu Huraira recited: “And I seek refuge with You for her and for her offspring from the outcast Satan” (3.36) (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 641 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=641"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=641</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">NO CHILD is born BUT he is pricked by the satan</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and he begins to weep because of the pricking of the satan </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">except the son of Mary and his mother</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Abu Huraira then said: You may recite if you so like (the verse):” I seek Thy protection for her and her offspring against satan the accursed” (iii. 36). This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters (and the words are):” The newborn child is touched by the satan (when he comes in the world) and he starts crying because of the touch of satan.” In the hadith transmitted on the authority of Shu’aib there is a slight variation of wording. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 030, Number 5837 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=030&translator=2&start=0&number=5837"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=030&translator=2&start=0&number=5837</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> 4. Unlike John who was merely a prophet, Jesus is the Messiah, a King (cf. Q. 3:45).</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The following expositor was aware that the word Messiah meant that Jesus would be a King,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">((And remember) when the angels) i.e. Gabriel (said: O Mary! Allah giveth you glad tidings of a Word from Him) of a son who shall come into being by means of a Word from Allah, (whose name is the Messiah) because he travels from one country to another; </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">it is also said: the Messiah means the king</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, (Jesus, son of Mary, illustrious in the world) he has standing and position amidst people in the life of this world (and the Hereafter) he has standing and position with Allah, (and one of those brought near) unto Allah in the Garden of Eden. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=45&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=45&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Which is exactly how both the Old and New Testaments define this particular title:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Then their whole assembly rose up and brought Him before Pilate.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They began to accuse Him, saying, ‘We found this man subverting our nation, opposing payment of taxes to Caesar, </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and saying that He Himself is the Messiah, a King</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’ So Pilate asked Him, ‘Are You the King of the Jews?’ He answered him, ‘You have said it.’” Luke 23:1-3 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> 5. Unlike John, Jesus is the Creator and Life-giver who performed signs and wonders.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran fails to mention a single miracle that the Baptist did, obviously because he never performed any, just as God’s Word plainly testifies:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Then He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and He remained there.</span><sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes'; vertical-align: super;"> </span></sup><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Many came to Him and said, ‘</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">John did no sign</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. But everything that John said about this Man was true.’” John 10:40-41</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jesus, on the other hand, is depicted as performing divine works such as creating life and raising the dead, as well as speaking from the cradle:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He shall speak to men in the cradle</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and of age, and righteous he shall be… to be a Messenger to the Children of Israel saying, “I have come to you with a sign from your Lord. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I will create for you out of clay as the likeness of a bird; then I will breathe into it, and it will be a bird, by the leave of God</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. I will also heal the blind and the leper, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and bring to life the dead</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, by the leave of God. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I will inform you too of what things you eat, and what you treasure up in your houses</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. Surely in that is a sign for you, if you are believers. S. 3:46, 49 Arberry – cf. Q. 5:110</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot. Then she pointed to him. They said: </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">How can we talk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy? He spake: Lo! I am the slave of Allah</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He hath given me the Scripture and hath appointed me a Prophet, And hath made me blessed wheresoever I may be, and hath enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I remain alive, And (hath made me) dutiful toward her who bore me, and hath not made me arrogant, unblest. </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Peace on me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> S. 19:28-33 Pickthall</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">6. Unlike John who died, Jesus was taken physically, bodily into the very presence of Allah himself.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">But Allah raised him [‘Iesa (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) unto Himself</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (and he is in the heavens). And Allah is Ever All-Powerful, All-Wise. S. 4:158 Hilali-Khan – cf. Q. 3:55</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">7. Unlike John who shall remain dead till the day of resurrection, Jesus will return as a just judge to rule the earth and kill the antichrist.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Narrated Abu Huraira:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><br /></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah’s Apostle said, “By Him in Whose Hands my soul is, surely (Jesus,) the son of Mary will soon descend amongst you </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and will judge mankind justly</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(as a Just Ruler)</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; he will break the Cross and kill the pigs and there will be no Jizya (i.e. taxation taken from non Muslims). Money will be in abundance so that nobody will accept it, and a single prostration to Allah (in prayer) will be better than the whole world and whatever is in it.” Abu Huraira added “If you wish, you can recite (this verse of the Holy Book): — ‘And there is none Of the people of the Scriptures (Jews and Christians) But must believe in him (i.e. Jesus as an Apostle of Allah and a human being) Before his death. And on the Day of Judgment He will be a witness Against them.” (4.159) (See Fateh Al Bari, Page 302 Vol 7) (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih al-Bukhari</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Volume 4, Book 55, Number 657 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=657"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=55&translator=1&start=0&number=657</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr reported that a person came to him and said: What is this hadith that you narrate that the Last Hour would come at such and such time? Thereupon he said: Hallowed be Allah, there is no god but Allah (or the words to the same effect). I have decided that I would not narrate anything to anyone now. I had only said that you would see after some time an important event that the (sacred) House (Ka’ba) would be burnt and it would happen and definitely happen. He then reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Dajjal would appear in my Ummah</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and he would stay (in the world) for forty-I cannot say whether he meant forty days, forty months or forty years. </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">And Allah would then send Jesus son of Mary</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> who would resemble ‘Urwa b Mas’ud. </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He (Jesus Christ) would chase him and kill him</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">… (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Sahih Muslim</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, Book 041, Number 7023 </span><a href="http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=041&translator=2&start=0&number=7023"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=041&translator=2&start=0&number=7023</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is painfully obvious from the above examples that even Islam denies that John is anywhere near the exalted status of Christ. According to the so-called authentic sources of Islam, the Lord Jesus is vastly superior to the Baptist, being counted worthy of greater glory and honor than all the prophets combined, even Muhammad himself.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This should now put to rest the feeble and desperate attempt by some Muslims to use what the Quran says about John to undermine the explicit Islamic witness to the incomparability and transcendent majesty of the Lord Jesus over all creatures, including Muhammad.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Unless noted otherwise, all Scriptural references taken from the Modern English Version (MEV) of the Holy Bible.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;">Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-2/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">IHS</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826089456220390915.post-49191181201328942512023-05-02T17:13:00.006+02:002023-05-02T17:13:54.213+02:00Islam Bears Witness: Christ is Superior to and Greater than the Baptist Pt. 1<p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In order to undermine the unambiguous Islamic witness to the incomparability of Christ, especially in respect to his absolute and essential purity and holiness, some Muslims like to bring up the fact that the Quran also describes John the Baptist as being pure or sinless:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“and grace from us, </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and purity (wazakatan)</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; and he was pious.” S. 19:13 Palmer</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here is another rendering of this verse:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I gave him tenderness of heart </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">and saved him from any sin</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> and he responded to these blessings with righteousness. Bijan Moeinian </span><a href="http://islamawakened.com/quran/19/st11.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://islamawakened.com/quran/19/st11.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">They assume that this somehow refutes the Christian attempt of using the Islamic sources to affirm the absolute transcendence and superiority of the Lord Jesus over all the prophets, especially Muhammad.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">However, the appeal to John’s sinlessness doesn’t help the Muslims, but actually makes matters worse for them.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">In the first place, just as we saw in the case of Christ and his blessed mother,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">John’s sinless purity ends up contradicting the plain witness of the Quran and Sunna that there is no creature that is absolutely flawless:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And if Allah were to seize mankind for their wrong-doing, He would not leave on it (the earth) a single moving (living) creature, but He postpones them for an appointed term and when their term comes, neither can they delay nor can they advance it an hour (or a moment). S. 16:61 Hilali-Khan – cf. Q. 18:58; 35:45</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Sunan Ibn Majah</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Chapters on Asceticism</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It was narrated from Anas that the Messenger of Allah said:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“</span><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">EVERY son of Adam commits sin</span></u></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and the best of those who commit sin are those who repent.’”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Grade: Hasan</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (Darussalam)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">English reference: Vol. 5, Book 37, Hadith 4251</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Arabic reference: Book 37, Hadith 4392 (Sunna.com </span><a href="http://sunnah.com/urn/1293540"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://sunnah.com/urn/1293540</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; capital, italic and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This now creates a major problem for Muslims since the only that the Baptist could be sinless is if he is a divine being. Logically, there is really no way around this:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There is no creature that is absolutely sinless.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">John the Baptist is absolutely sinless.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Therefore, John is not a mere creature but one who is fully divine as well.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When we add the fact that the Islamic sources also confirm the absolute moral perfection of both Christ and his beloved mother, which therefore makes them uncreated as well,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Prophet of Shirk Strikes Again Pt. 1 </span></b><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-again-pt-1/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/the-prophet-of-shirk-strikes-again-pt-1/ </span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Then the assertion that Allah is the only god that exists falls flat on its face, since the reality is that Islam posits at least six separate divine and uncreated beings/entities:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">1. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Jesus.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">2. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Holy Spirit.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">3. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Mary.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">4. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">John</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 0.0000pt; margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">5. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The Quran</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-left: 18.0000pt; margin-top: 0.0000pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-indent: -18.0000pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt;">6. </span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The second problem which these polemicists encounter is that both the Quran and Sunna depict Christ as far surpassing the Baptism in terms of status and honor. Here is a list of those traits.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">1. John sent as Christ’s forerunner to confirm that Jesus is the Word and Spirit of/from Allah.</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When he was standing during prayer in his place of worship, the angels called him saying, “God gives you the glad news of the birth of your son, John </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who will be a confirmation of </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(Jesus)</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> the Word of God (bikalimatin mina Allahi)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. He will become a chaste, noble leader and one of the righteous Prophets. S. 3:39 Muhammad Sarwar </span><a href="http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/3/st23.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/3/st23.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Note how the following versions translate this text:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">who shall confirm Allah’s Word </span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(i.e., ‘Isa [Jesus])</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri </span><a href="http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/3/st43.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/3/st43.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“…confirming a word (B-kalimah) from Allah (</span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Jesus, the word of Allah</span></u></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the manifestation of specific forces)…” Ahmed Hulusi </span><a href="http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/3/st63.htm"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.islamawakened.com/quran/3/st63.htm</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">That these translations are correct in seeing Jesus as the Word that John was sent to bear witness to, can be seen from what this same chapter goes on to say a few verses later:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">When the angels said, ‘Mary, God gives thee good tidings </span><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">, Jesus, son of Mary (</span></i></b><b><i><u><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">bikalimatin minhu ismuhu al-Maseehu</span></u></i></b><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> ‘Isa ibnu Maryama)</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; high honoured shall he be in this world and the next, near stationed to God. S. 3:45 Arberry</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… God has given you the glad news of the coming birth of a son </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">whom He calls His Word</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, whose name will be Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary…” Sarwar</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Here we are expressly told that the name of the Word that the Baptist bore witness to is the Messiah Jesus, Son of Mary.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">This explains why the Muslim commentators were virtually unanimous in identifying the Word whom John was sent to confirm as Jesus Christ:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(believing in the Word from Allah)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> Al-`Awfi reported that Ibn `Abbas said, and also Al-Hasan, Qatadah, `Ikrimah, Mujahid, Abu Ash-Sha`tha, As-Suddi, Ar-Rabi` bin Anas, Ad-Dahhak, and several others said that the </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Ayah</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">(believing in the Word from Allah)</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> means, “</span><b><u><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Believing in `Isa, son of Maryam</span></u></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir Ibn Kathir</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=543&Itemid=46"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=543&Itemid=46</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And the angels, namely, Gabriel, called to him, standing in the sanctuary, in the temple, at worship that (anna, means bi-anna; a variant reading has inna, implying a direct speech statement) ‘God gives you good tidings (read yubashshiruka, or yubshiruka) of John, who shall confirm a Word, being, from God, </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">namely, Jesus, that he is God’s Spirit</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; he is referred to as [God’s] ‘Word’, because he was created through the word kun, ‘Be’; a lord, with a following, and one chaste, forbidden from women, and a prophet of the righteous’: it is said that he never sinned and never so intended. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tafsir al-Jalalayn</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=39&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=39&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and italic emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">(And the angels) i.e. the Angel Gabriel (called to him as he stood praying in the sanctuary) in the mosque: (Allah giveth thee glad tidings of John) a son whose name is John, ((who cometh) to confirm a Word from Allah) </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Jesus son of Mary that he will be a word from Allah</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, created without a father, (lordly) who is clement when wronged, (chaste) has no desire for women, (a Prophet of the righteous) among the messengers. (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Tanwîr al-Miqbâs min Tafsîr Ibn ‘Abbâs</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><a href="http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=39&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">http://altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=73&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=39&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">; bold and italic emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Astonishingly, some of these interpreters went as far as to say that John even bowed down in homage to Jesus while both of them were still in the wombs of their blessed mothers!</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Note, for example, what the following renowned Muslim authority wrote concerning this point:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Allah says: </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">“Confirming a word from Allah.”</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (3:39)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Yahya confirmed ‘Isa when he was three years old. </span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">He testified that he was THE WORD OF ALLAH and HIS SPIRIT</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">. It is said that he confirmed him when he was in his mother’s womb. Yahya’s mother said to Maryam, “</span><u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I feel what is in my womb BOWING TO what is in your womb to greet him</span></u><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (Qadi ‘Iyad Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Kitab Ash-shifa bi ta’rif huquq al-Mustafa</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">Healing by the recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">), translated by Aisha Abdarrahman Bewley [Madinah Press, Inverness, Scotland, U.K.; third reprint 1991, paperback], p. 51; capital and underline emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">The qadi wasn’t alone here, since this is what the Muslim exegete Al-Qurtubi wrote in regards to Elizabeth’s visiting Mary (said to be her sister) shortly after both women had conceived their sons:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“The sister visited Mary and said, ‘O Mary, do you perceive that I am with child?’ Mary answered, ‘Do you see that I am also with child?’ Her sister went on, ‘</span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I feel the child in my womb bowing down to the child in your womb</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’”</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Qurtubi further stated that:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“It is reported </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that she felt the fetus in her womb bow down with its head turned toward Mary’s womb</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” (Mahmoud M. Ayoub, </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Qur’an and Its Interpreters, Volume II, The House of ‘Imran</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> [State University of New York Press, Albany 1992], p. 108; bold and italic emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">One main problem with this story is that it was Mary who visited Elizabeth, not the other way around.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Al-Tabari, another renowned Muslim scholar and expositor, wrote:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“She [Mary] came to her sister who was then pregnant and to whom the birth of the Baptist had been announced. When the two met, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Baptist’s mother felt that her child was bowing within her in recognition of Jesus</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">…” (</span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">History of Al-Tabari:</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">The Ancient Kingdoms</span></i><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, translated by Moshe Perlmann [State University of New York Press, Albany, 1987], Volume IV, p. 114; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">And:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“… Her sister, the wife of Zechariah, came to visit her at night. When Mary opened the door for her, the sister clung to her. The wife of Zechariah said, ‘Oh Mary, do you know I am with child?’ Mary replied, ‘Do you know, that I too am with child?’ Zechariah’s wife then said, ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">I felt that the child in me was bowing to the child in you,</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’ as it is written, ‘</span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">confirming the Word of God</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’” (Ibid., p. 119; bold emphasis ours)</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">These scholars were simply regurgitating (albeit not in the most accurate manner) what is found in the Gospel of Luke:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the baby leaped in her womb</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">that the mother OF MY LORD should come to me?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, </span><b><span class="16" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the baby in my womb leaped for joy</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.’” Luke 1:41-44</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">God’s Holy Spirit, who was already filling him in the womb,</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.” Luke 1:15</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Caused the Baptist to leap in his mother’s belly in honor of Christ being his Sovereign Lord.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Now notice how Elizabeth’s proclamation to Mary, who had just conceived her glorious child, that her unborn Son was already her Lord from the womb, echoes what the angels would later announce at Christ’s birth:</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">“Today in the town of David </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">a Savior</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> has been born to you; he is Christ </span><b><i><span class="15" style="color: #555555; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">the Lord</span></i></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.” Luke 2:11</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="p" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); margin-bottom: 13.2000pt; margin-top: 12.0000pt;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">There are a lot of other ways where Islam presents Christ as outshining the Baptist, which we will highlight in the second part of our discussion </span><a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-2/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #444444; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-2/</span></u></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">.</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Times NR Ar\. Uni'; font-size: 11.0000pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0.0000pt; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>Source: <a href="https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-1/"><u><span class="17" style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;">https://answeringislamblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/islam-bears-witness-christ-is-superior-to-and-greater-than-the-baptist-pt-1/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "Times NR Ar. Uni"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p>IHS </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0