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What is Islam? For Christian Brother & Sisters:-
Quran says that closest to muslims in religion are christians.
I think many christians don’t know that muslims believe in Jesus (PBUH
eace Be Upon Him) but NOT as son of God but as a Prophet/Messenger of God. & muslims respect Jesus & all prophets of God so much that when ever they call name of any Prophet they say PBUH (Peace Be Upon Him) with it.
Here is what Muslims believe:-
God is one & only one. He does not beget nor is He begotten. He has no relative, no son , no spouse. He has no beginning & no end. Most people find it difficult to absorb this idea that how come one cannot have a beginning. This is because we are so used to seeing everything having an origin. But all these things are created by God. He made a system in which everything has an origin, but He Himself has been there since ever.
God created this universe & creatures including human beings, for whatever reason lets not go into that debate for now. He populated earth with humans. He taught humans to live their lives according to His will. But with time people started forgetting His teachings & started going astray. So He selected from humans some persons to be His Prophets/Messengers to guide people back to His way. According to one saying of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) there have been 134,000 Messengers of God in this world. Populations were scattered in olden days & there was poor communication & interaction between them, so God sent separate Messengers for every population & as many times as needed. Message was also modified according to particular circumstances of a particular population.
Prophets were given a set of miracles to prove to people that they are for real. A miracle is NOT like magic. Magic is done by magician himself BUT miracles are done by God through His angles. Though the performer is a Prophet but he himself does nothing. Like when Moses was told by God to throw his stick on ground, it became a big snake. Moses got terrified & started running away from it. God told him not to be afraid as that was a miracle from HIM. So Moses did not convert stick to snake himself.
Adam(PBUH) was given his own set of miracles. He was created from clay. Eve was created from rib of Adam. Eve(PBUH) gave birth to a pair of male & female babies in morning & one pair in the evening. Morning boy would marry evening girl & morning girl would marry evening boy. It was permitted by God at that time. So the world was populated. Some muslims believe that Adam was above 90 feet tall. There is a huge human foot-print in Srilanka. Muslims believe that is Adam’s because he landed on earth somewhere in south asian region.
Moses(PBUH) was given his own set of miracles. His stick would become a snake. His hand would start glowing with light when he would put it in his arm-pit. So on.
Now we come to Jesus(PBUH). This is where muslims & christians take different paths. We muslims believe that Jesus(PBUH) was a beloved Messenger of God, NOT a son of God & a very respectful Prophet of muslims.
Jesus(PBUH) was given his own set of miracles. 1st he was born miraculously without male intervention. Mary(PBUH) was a pious woman never touched by a man. Birth without sperm intervention is no longer an unknown phenomenon now. Even scientists can make a living being without sperm, don’t you think God can also do it !!!
You know in cloning they take an ovum(egg) from female & remove its nucleus & insert in it a nucleus taken from an ordinary cell of body & then spark ovum so it starts dividing. Then Jesus(PBUH) started talking to people when he was just an infant, another miracle. He was also given miracles of curing sick people. So on.
When jews tried to crucify Jesus(PBUH), God replaced him by another person. They thought that they killed Jesus(PBUH) but they were mistaken. Jesus(PBUH) NEVER died. God lifted Jesus(PBUH) to heavens & he is still alive there & will come back in future to guide lost people back to real teachings of God. Here christians differ from muslims. Christians believe that he was crucified & then resurrected while muslims believe that he NEVER died.
Then God sent a final Prophet named Muhammad(PBUH) with final book called Quran. Mankind at time of Muhammad(PBUH) was advanced enough to receive final teachings of God. “This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.” (Surah 5:3)
We muslims believe in ALL the books given to prophets, including bible(“Injeel” in arabic). But we believe that bible available now is NOT 100% same bible that was given to Jesus(PBUH). There have been lots of omissions, additions & alterations. There would be some verses of today's Bible that are from original Bible, but not all of it is in original shape. Even the christians say it themselves.
We muslims believe that Jesus(PBUH) told people of that time “I am a Messenger of God” & people intentionally or un-intentionally translated it as if he was saying “I am son of God” ---or--- may be christians believe that God (God forbid) impregnated Mary(PBUH) that makes Jesus(PBUH) son of God. As I said even scientists have impregnated animals without sperm intervention (= Cloning). That does NOT make that scientist father of that pregnancy!!! Scientist just used his KNOWLEDGE to impregnate that animal. Similarly God used His KNOWLEDGE to impregnate Mary(PBUH) with Jesus(PBUH).
Also name ALLAH that muslims use for God was mentioned in hebrew bible (Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark12:29 & Genesis 1:1) as the word is “ALOHIM”. Here “IM” is added to for respect. Translators translated it as “God” instead of using exact pronunciation.
אלהים (read right to left) = Alohym or Alohim or Elohim
א = A
ל = L
ה = H
י = Y
ם = M
In short a muslim is a person who believes in following 5 things:-
Regards
Quran says that closest to muslims in religion are christians.
I think many christians don’t know that muslims believe in Jesus (PBUH
eace Be Upon Him) but NOT as son of God but as a Prophet/Messenger of God. & muslims respect Jesus & all prophets of God so much that when ever they call name of any Prophet they say PBUH (Peace Be Upon Him) with it.Here is what Muslims believe:-
God is one & only one. He does not beget nor is He begotten. He has no relative, no son , no spouse. He has no beginning & no end. Most people find it difficult to absorb this idea that how come one cannot have a beginning. This is because we are so used to seeing everything having an origin. But all these things are created by God. He made a system in which everything has an origin, but He Himself has been there since ever.
God created this universe & creatures including human beings, for whatever reason lets not go into that debate for now. He populated earth with humans. He taught humans to live their lives according to His will. But with time people started forgetting His teachings & started going astray. So He selected from humans some persons to be His Prophets/Messengers to guide people back to His way. According to one saying of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) there have been 134,000 Messengers of God in this world. Populations were scattered in olden days & there was poor communication & interaction between them, so God sent separate Messengers for every population & as many times as needed. Message was also modified according to particular circumstances of a particular population.
Prophets were given a set of miracles to prove to people that they are for real. A miracle is NOT like magic. Magic is done by magician himself BUT miracles are done by God through His angles. Though the performer is a Prophet but he himself does nothing. Like when Moses was told by God to throw his stick on ground, it became a big snake. Moses got terrified & started running away from it. God told him not to be afraid as that was a miracle from HIM. So Moses did not convert stick to snake himself.
Adam(PBUH) was given his own set of miracles. He was created from clay. Eve was created from rib of Adam. Eve(PBUH) gave birth to a pair of male & female babies in morning & one pair in the evening. Morning boy would marry evening girl & morning girl would marry evening boy. It was permitted by God at that time. So the world was populated. Some muslims believe that Adam was above 90 feet tall. There is a huge human foot-print in Srilanka. Muslims believe that is Adam’s because he landed on earth somewhere in south asian region.
Moses(PBUH) was given his own set of miracles. His stick would become a snake. His hand would start glowing with light when he would put it in his arm-pit. So on.
Now we come to Jesus(PBUH). This is where muslims & christians take different paths. We muslims believe that Jesus(PBUH) was a beloved Messenger of God, NOT a son of God & a very respectful Prophet of muslims.
Jesus(PBUH) was given his own set of miracles. 1st he was born miraculously without male intervention. Mary(PBUH) was a pious woman never touched by a man. Birth without sperm intervention is no longer an unknown phenomenon now. Even scientists can make a living being without sperm, don’t you think God can also do it !!!
You know in cloning they take an ovum(egg) from female & remove its nucleus & insert in it a nucleus taken from an ordinary cell of body & then spark ovum so it starts dividing. Then Jesus(PBUH) started talking to people when he was just an infant, another miracle. He was also given miracles of curing sick people. So on.
When jews tried to crucify Jesus(PBUH), God replaced him by another person. They thought that they killed Jesus(PBUH) but they were mistaken. Jesus(PBUH) NEVER died. God lifted Jesus(PBUH) to heavens & he is still alive there & will come back in future to guide lost people back to real teachings of God. Here christians differ from muslims. Christians believe that he was crucified & then resurrected while muslims believe that he NEVER died.
Then God sent a final Prophet named Muhammad(PBUH) with final book called Quran. Mankind at time of Muhammad(PBUH) was advanced enough to receive final teachings of God. “This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.” (Surah 5:3)
We muslims believe in ALL the books given to prophets, including bible(“Injeel” in arabic). But we believe that bible available now is NOT 100% same bible that was given to Jesus(PBUH). There have been lots of omissions, additions & alterations. There would be some verses of today's Bible that are from original Bible, but not all of it is in original shape. Even the christians say it themselves.
We muslims believe that Jesus(PBUH) told people of that time “I am a Messenger of God” & people intentionally or un-intentionally translated it as if he was saying “I am son of God” ---or--- may be christians believe that God (God forbid) impregnated Mary(PBUH) that makes Jesus(PBUH) son of God. As I said even scientists have impregnated animals without sperm intervention (= Cloning). That does NOT make that scientist father of that pregnancy!!! Scientist just used his KNOWLEDGE to impregnate that animal. Similarly God used His KNOWLEDGE to impregnate Mary(PBUH) with Jesus(PBUH).
Also name ALLAH that muslims use for God was mentioned in hebrew bible (Deuteronomy 6:4, Mark12:29 & Genesis 1:1) as the word is “ALOHIM”. Here “IM” is added to for respect. Translators translated it as “God” instead of using exact pronunciation.
אלהים (read right to left) = Alohym or Alohim or Elohim
א = A
ל = L
ה = H
י = Y
ם = M
In short a muslim is a person who believes in following 5 things:-
- One GOD who neither begets nor is begotten.
- ALL prophets sent by God.
- Holy Books given to prophets.
- Angels.
- Day of judgement.
Regards
