Let's read that verse again : ""If anyone desires a religion other than Islam , never will it be accepted of him..." (Al Qur'an 3:85)
Allah sent all the messengers starting from Adam to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon them all) with the message of Islam (Submission to God) and none of the messengers used the name of their Religion as is used today except for Prophet Muhammad(pbuh).
For example, Jesus didn't preach Christianity - he never even used that word. So He basically preached Islam (Submission to God). However, Bahaullah preached the religion of Bahai(he gave that name) - so that(Bahai) is exclusively not accepted according to the above verse in the Qur'an. I am sorry but that is the plain and simple Truth.
Dear LoverofTruth,
It is irrelivant if the Prophets of the past did or did not preach the name of their religion. Maybe they did.
You are intepreting the verse, to mean, that whoever choose a religion which its NAME is other than Islam, then that is not accepted.
But your intepretation is not necessarily correct. Because, that command can be for the period of Islam, which is 1000 years. After that God can change His command.
I had already given the example of the Law of Sabbath, which God had asked to be kept forever:
"For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death. The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested'"(Exodus 31:15-17)."
If the Sabbath was supposed to be kept forever, why the Moslems do not observe the Sabbath?
For example, when Jesus came, He never said to people; Whoever take a relgion other than Islam, that is not accepted. But He said, whoever does not keep the commands of God, is not accepted. Which basically means, whoever does not submitte to God's commands is not accepted.
This is the Message the Quran is giving. It has nothing with a name.
None of those verses show that Islam is not the last religion. Take the verse 47:38, for example - all that means is that Muslims who don't practice Islam properly will be replaced by better Muslims, which you can see is happening right in front of our very eyes
But if you read Quran, you will see, God had told previous people, if they turn back, God replace them with another people. The way God did that, was by sending a Messenger to them and establishing a new faith.
Moreover you have ignored all other verses, such as 7:34 and 35. as well as other Hadithes, which says the period of Islam is 1000 years.
- thousands of born Muslims have no clue about Islam and thousands of dedicated people in the West are converting to Islam. That's all there is to it. So Islam is the only one accepted and nothing will replace it. Once again, you didn't fail to use your 2+2=5 logic here. Keep trying.
This has nothing with our discussion. We are discussing the verses of Quran, Bible and Hadithes.
Moreover, I can establish that the followers of the Return of Christ, would be called "Baha'i". I can do that using Bible verses and Islamic Hadithes.
I have shown you clear verses from the Qur'an as well as Sahih Hadiths showing that. But unfortunately, you with your twisted logic of 2 + 2 = 5 will never see how 2+2=4
Not really. you did not. There is no verse or Hadith that says, Quran is the final revelation. God has forbidden we add anything to the Book.
Dear LoverOfTruth, You have confused a few things:
Firstly Muhammad was talking about no prophet within the Islam period, as shown in the Hadith, that the Jews had prophets after Moses, but Islam has Khalifs.
Secondly, there is a 6000 years of revelation of God from Adam to Seal. Muhammad was the Last prophet in that Cycle of Creation of Human civilization. Quran, talks about a new Creation which was to come in 1000 years after Islam. Baha'i Faith is the beginnign of this new Cycle in which only divine Messengers appear every 1000 years.
Thirdly, I have shown you many verses that Future Messengers come, to reveal verses. I have shown the writings of God does not end, based on Quran.
Moreover, according to Hadithes, the Moslems follow inch by inch, exactly what Jews and Christians did. Which means, they would also interpret their Book, in such a way that makes them believe they are the last relgion. Like Christians say "Jesus is the only way", Jews says, they must keep the sabbath forever, but Muhammad and Jesus did not keep it. The Fact is, God, can change His command. He had told Abraham to sacrifice His son, later He said stop...
Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 9.422
Narrated Abu Sa'id al-Khudri:
The Prophet said, "You will follow the ways of those nations who were before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (i.e., inch by inch) so much so that even if they entered a hole of a mastigure (lizard), you would follow them." We said, "O Allah's Apostle! (Do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?" He said, "Whom else?"