Course Islam for Christians

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Proof that these texts have been implemented faithfully is plentiful in the historic record. Islam the religion of fear and compulsion spread by the sword. Which in itself is diametrically opposed to the Bible (even in the Old Testament) in which Zechariah stated: Zec_4:6 Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

The Islamic faith is at in total disharmony with the Bible. God (YHWH) being the author of the Bible simply could therefore not be the god of Islam. To show the inherent need for compulsion being applied to everyone that is not a true Muslim I would like to show the definition of Jihad given in the Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam174: DJIHAD, holy war. The spread of Islam by arms is a religious duty upon Muslims in general. It narrowly escaped being a sixth "rukn", or fundamental duty, and is indeed still so regarded by the descendants of the Kharidjis. The position was reached gradually but quickly. In the Meccan Suras of the Kur’an patience under attack is taught; no other attitude was possible. But at Madina the right to repel attack appears, and gradually it became a prescribed duty to fight against and subdue the hostile Meccans. Whether Muhammad himself recognized that his position implied steady and unprovoked war against the unbelieving world until it was subdued to Islam may be in doubt. Traditions are explicit on the point; but the Kuranic passages speak always of the unbelievers who are to be subdued as dangerous or faithless. Still, the story of his writing to the powers around him shows that such a universal position was implicit in his mind, and it certainly developed immediately after his death, when the Muslim armies advanced out of Arabia. It is now a "fard ‘ala ‘lkifaya, a duty in general on all male, free, adult Muslims, sane in mind and body and having means enough to reach the Muslim army, yet not a duty necessarily incumbent on every individual but sufficiently performed when done by a certain number. So it must continue to be done until the whole world is under the rule of Islam."

Should you as a Muslims believer have questions about an explanation of a Surah? Don’t ask any more questions! Surah 5: 101: “O you who believe! do not put questions about things which if declared to you may trouble you..” Reason: Surah 5:102: A people before you indeed asked such questions, and then became disbelievers on account of them.

Choose therefore blind submission to the teaching of Allah and leave your mind at the doorstep is in fact what is being said. Muhammad goes even as far as to twist Genesis to resemble his own twisted nature. He made Adam to be a proto Muhammad (if you will). Links with Muhammad are highlighted. “He built for himself cities and castles and populated them and made them prosperous. He also assembled weapons and established a cavalry. At the end of his life, he became a tyrant. He took the name of Adam and said, ‘If someone calls me by any other name, I shall cut off his hand.’ He married thirty women and they gave him many offspring. He liked them and promoted them so that later kings were their offspring. His realm expanded greatly.”175 "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them." (Qur'an 8:12)

All in all these facts, in my opinion, provide conclusive evidence for compulsion and fear in the religion of Islam.

14. Clothed as an angel of light (two faces) Early and later revelations to Muhammad show clearly the two faces of Islam. The Mecca revelations were milder than the later Medina revelations. See also “Relative truths instead of absolute truths”. Muhammad Hassanein Heikal in his book Autumn of Fury distincted the spread of Islam in two separate and quite different stages. Heikal referred to state one as being a “state of weakness” and 174 175

Shorter Encyclopaedia of Islam, page 89 Tabari I:318


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