ALLAH IS GREAT
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ImWithStupid said:In effect, you didn't answer my question nor did you explain yourself.
ok, I'm very honest about what I have knowledge about. I don't know eveything about cristianity, Judaism and ofcourse Islam itself. They are very broad religions and it takes many years to even comprehend knowing everything about them. But when I answer questions about them, I make sure I know what i'm talking about. I wouldn't just babble anything.
But I'm gonna try but it is important for you to be open hearted and open minded because if i turned a glass upside down and poured water on it, i'd never get a glass of water. It has to be right side up. Facts alone to not lead to understanding, but rather a combination of tolerance, ambition and the ability to appreciate and accept the truth when you hear it.
The word Islam means surrender, submission and obedience to the Law of All-Mighty God. You can say Allah, you can say The Creator, you can say The Supreme God, The Supreme Force, The All-Wise. All of those are His names. We say Allah, because in arabic, there's no other expression. This expression Allah cannot be applied to any created thing. Other words that we use for All-mighty, people apply to created things,''The all-mighty dollar'', ''Oh, I love my wife, she is top'' or ''he is the greatest''. But the word Allah can only be applied to the One that has created all of this. So from this point I'm going to use the word Allah and you know Whom I'm talking about.
The word Islam is derived from the root Salama. It means to be at peace or to have security. Therefore, a muslim is a person that surrenders, submits and obeys to the Law of All-Mighty God and through this submission obtains peace and security for themselves. We can immediately see that by such a definition, the arabic word, Islam, decribes the same manner and behaviour of all the well-known and respected Prophets and Messengers of All-Mighty God. All of them, from Adam(as) to Muhammad (saw). All of these men, these Prophets and Messengers came from the same All-Mighty God, with the same message, with the same chain of transmission and they said ONE THING, 'Obey God, Worship All-Mighty God and fulfil the purpose of life and do good actions and you will be rewarded with another life'. That's all they said. Don't make it more than that, THAT'S ALL THEY SAID, regardless of what language, what time, whom they came to.That's all they said. If you read the scriptures carefully, without your own interpretation or somebody else's addition or fabrication, you'll find that this was the simple message of all those Prophets who confirmed one another. Not one of those Prophets ever said, 'Iam God, Worship Me'. You don't have to think, because you won't find it in any book that you have. Not the Bible,not the Torah, not the old and new Testiment, not the Psalms of David. You will not find it in any book. You will not find it from the speech of any Prophet. Palm through all the pages of your Bible and I guarantee you, you will not find it once, anywhere. So where did this come from. That's something else you have to investigate.
We can immediately see that by such a definition, the arabic word describes what all the Prophets did. They all came and submitted themselves to God, surrendered themselves to God, called the people to God and asked the people, insisted upon the people to do deeds of rightousness. The Ten Commandments of Moses(as), what was that? The Speech of Abraham(as), what was that? The Psalms of David, what was that? The Proverbs of Solomon, what did he say? The Gospel of Jesus Christ(as), what did he say? What did Isaac(as) and Ishmael say? What did Muhammad(saw) say? NOTHING MORE THAN THAT!
''And they were commanded not, but that they should worship Allah, and worship none but Him, and perform As-salat(prayer) and give Zakat(charity), and that is the right religion'' Qur'an 98:5
This was the original message. By the same token, it would also be appropriate to concider those Prophets as Muslims, because Muslims is right. Don't think about the arabic terminology, don't think about how we address, don't think about Makka or Saudi Arabia. No, think about the word muslim means he who surrenders himself to All-Mighty God and obeys the Laws of All-Mighty God and that case whether naturally or a dialectical manner everything that surrenders to the law of the All-Mighty God is a MUSLIM. So when a child comes out of the womb of its mother at the time that God has ordered, what is it? It's a Muslim. When the sun goes around in its orbit, what is it? It's a Muslim. When the moon goes round the sun, what is it? It's a Muslim. The Law of Gravity, what is it? It's a Muslim. Anything that submits itself to the Law of God is a Muslim. Therefore, when we willfuly obey the All-Mighty God,we are Muslims. Jesus Christ(as) was a Muslim. His blessed mother was a Muslim.Abraham(as) was a Muslim. Moses(as) was a Muslim. All the Prophets were Muslims, but they came to their people and they spoke different languages. The Prophet Muhammad(saw) spoke the language of arabic and so in the arabic language submit and surrender is Muslim. We've established the original message of all the Prophets. If we examine the message of each well known Prophet, we can easily conclude this fact, where there is a conflict, it is a result of false assertions, fabrications, exaggerations, personalised interpretations of alleged writers, historians, scholars and individuals. For instance, let me point out something that maybe you haven't looked at. How come throughout the old testiment , God is always referred to as ONE , the Master and Lord and King of the Universe and that in the first commandment given to Moses(as), He did not allow anyone to worship any graven images or to bow down to anything in the heaven, the earth and the sea below. He never allowed that. All the Prophets said that He was One, the All-Mighty God.Throughout the old testiment, this is repeated in every place. THEN all of a sudden, we got FOUR testimonies. The four gospels called Mathew, Mark..... to be continued below