Dr. W. Graham Scroggie of Moody Bible Institute (Chicago), one of the most prestigious Evangelical Mission in the world, answering the question: "Yes, the Bible is human, though some, out of zeal which is not according to knowledge, have denied this. Those books have passed through the minds of men, are written in the language of men, were penned by the hands of men, and bear in their style the characteristics of men."


Another erudite Christian scholar, Kenneth Cragg, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, says in his book, "The Call of the Minaret":


"Not so the New Testament . . . There is condensation and editing; there is choice, reproduction and witness. The Gospels have come through the mind of the Church behind the authors. They represent experience and history."


If words have any meaning, do I need to add another word of comment to prove my case? No! But the professional propagandists, after letting the cat out of the bag, still have the face to try to make their readers believe that they have proved beyond the shadow of any doubt that the Bible is the "irrefragable Word of God."


Their semantic gymnastics — equivocating, and playing with words is amazing!


Both these Christian scholars confirm in the clearest language humanly possible that the Bible is the handiwork of man, all the while pretending that the are proving to the contrary. An old Arab saying goes: "If such are the priests, God bless the congregation!”


"... seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." (Matthew 13:13)


Al-Qur'an, the Holy Book of God, also condemns this mulish mentality:


DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND. THEY WILL RETURN TO THE PATH.

Bismillah




as salam alykom




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May Allah reward you!

No one blamed Christianity when Hitler incinerated 300,000 Jews. And no one blamed the Christian West when it planted the seeds of hatred in the Middle East with the creation of the Zionist State in the midst of peace-loving Jews, Christians and Muslims.


The man who called Sharon “a man of peace” was elected for the second term by a majority of Christian and Jew Fundamentalists - Yet no one blames either Judaism or Christianity.


Now, I am asking, why does the Western world blame Islam for the actions of a few angry people? What has Islam got to do with these people's reactions to Zionist and American tyranny and invasions?


You talk about individuals who strap bombs around their bodies, but have you ever taken the trouble to find out what exactly it means to be a slave under the foot of a cruel foreign occupier?


You talk of Palestinian suicide bombers but have you ever wondered about the fate of one American young woman whose only fault was that she took upon herself to put herself in the shoes of a Palestinian? I ask you did Rachel live to tell her tale of horror as her hands flailed to stop the menacing bulldozer?


You talk of Palestinian suicide bombers but have you ever wondered about the fate of the 1000 Palestinians made homeless in just 2 days by these same American-made bulldozers?


Bush and his Zionist-controlled government lied about Iraq. It supports Israel in its injustices against the Palestinian people. US mass-media lies to US public about Palestine, it will keep distorting facts on the ground to keep them in a state of ignorance, and it will keep lying to them about Islam and Muslims if they don’t open their eyes and see things for themselves. Rachel took matters into her own hands, she headed straight for Palestine and we all know where that had landed her, under the wheels of a Zionist driven America-made bulldozer.

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“How can man, alienated from himself, bewitched by money, power, the machine, shirk, illusion, class, race, tyranny, the institutions governing life – how can man, turned into a wolf or fox, a mouse or a sheep, alienated from this world and the next, man who has ceased being man in every respect, who has become a stranger to himself – how can he rediscover himself, how can he return to his primordial and essential being, and become himself once again?


My answer is simple: by means of tawhid. But Tawhid understood as a concept of infinite scope, heavily laden with meanings and wonders, a word as weighty, rich and substantial as the entirety of existence. Mere words are, in fact, incapable of sustaining the weight of Tawhid, and the tongue is too lowly to express it without rendering it deficient, superficial and poor.


It may be precisely for this reason that the tongue of revelation, being obliged to use human vocabulary, has preferred to express Tawhid by means of a series of movements, not by means of words – Tawhid with all of its basic concepts, each one of which has in turn hundreds of different manifestations, Tawhid the rays of which shine on every feeling and sensation. Each of those movements is a symbol, a symbol that has far greater capacity than mere speech for conveying meaning and emotion, and for giving inspiration to man’s senses and perception.


Thus it is that Tawhid becomes objectively manifest, on a single great natural stage, provided by mountains, valleys, and plains, in the most simple and majestic form, by means of orderly, coherent movements that are bound up with time itself. It manifests itself in all four of its dimensions – worldview, history, sociology, anthropology – as ideological superstructure and ultimate goal of existence and purpose of man’s being. In order to understand tawhid, the pupil must experience it with all of his spirit and body, he must feel it in his thoughts and his feelings, his skin and his flesh.


Where does this take place? On the Hajj!”


(From: "The Hajj", by Dr. Ali Shari'ati)

Contradictions, improbabilities and incompatibilities one finds in the Old and New Testament with modern scientific data may be easily prove that these two books cannot be the Divine message. Jews and Christians are nevertheless very surprised when they realize this, so great have been the continuous and far-reaching efforts made until now by many official commentators to camouflage the very obvious results of modern studies, under cunning dialectical acrobatics orchestrated by apologetic lyricism. A case in point are the genealogies of Jesus given in Matthew and Luke, which were contradictory and scientifically unacceptable. John's Gospel has very important differences between it and the other three Gospels, especially with regard to the fact that his Gospel does not describe the institution of the Eucharist: this is not generally known.


The Qur'anic Revelation has a history which is fundamentally different from the other two. It spanned a period of some twenty years and, as soon as it was transmitted to Muhammad by Archangel Gabriel, Believers learned it by heart. It. was also written down during Muhammad's life. The last recensions of the Qur'an were effected under Caliph Uthman starting some twelve years after the Prophet's death and finishing twenty-four years after it. They had the advantage of being checked by people who already knew the text by heart, for they had learned it at the time of the Revelation itself and had subsequently recited it constantly. Since then, we know that the text has been scrupulously preserved. It does not give rise to any problems of authenticity.


The Qur'an follows on from the two Revelations that preceded it and is not only free from contradictions in its narrations, the sign of the various human manipulations to be found in the Gospels, but provides a quality all of its own for those who examine it objectively and in the light of science i.e. its complete agreement with modern scientific data. What is more, statements are to be found in it (as has been shown) that are connected with science: and yet it is unthinkable that a man of Muhammad's time could have been the author of them. Modern scientific knowledge therefore allows us to understand certain verses of the Qur'an which, until now, it has been impossible to interpret.


The comparison of several Biblical and Qur'anic narrations of the same subject shows the existence of fundamental differences between statements in the former, which are scientifically unacceptable, and declarations in the latter which are in perfect agreement with modern data: this was the case of the Creation and the Flood, for example. An extremely important complement to the Bible was found in the text of the Qur'an on the subject of the history of the Exodus, where the two texts were very much in agreement with archaeological findings, in the dating of the time of Moses. Besides, there are major differences between the Qur'an and the Bible on the other subjects: they serve to disprove all that has been maintained-without a scrap of evidence-concerning the allegation that Muhammad is supposed to have copied the Bible to produce the text of the Qur'an.


In view of the level of knowledge in Muhammad's day, it is inconceivable that many of the statements In the Qur'an which are connected with science could have been the work of a man. It is, moreover, perfectly legitimate, not only to regard the Qur'an as the expression of a Revelation, but also to award it a very special place, on account of the guarantee of authenticity it provides and the presence in it of scientific statements which, when studied today, appear as a challenge to explanation in human terms.

Late December, within a few hours over 150,000 lives were lost. Natives from 11 different African and Asian countries died. They were Muslims (mostly), Hindus, Buddhists and Christians alike. In addition Jewish, Agnostic, Atheists and Christian tourists from the West, also died. Infants died. The fits and youthful died. The old and the infirm died. The water took, males, females, black, white and brown skinned people alike. The disaster affected millions of people and was indiscriminate in its violence.


“Five of the Believers are regarded as martyrs; they’re those who die because of plague, abdominal disease, drowning or falling building etc. – and the martyrs in Allah’s cause” – Al-Bukhari.


The disaster could be a reminder to the Atheists and Agnostics – as this incident in the past relates to. Imam J’afar Al-Sadiq once addressed a staunch Atheist saying: “Have you ever traveled on the sea?”


“Yes,” he replied.


“Have you experienced its terrors?” Asked Imam.


“Yes, indeed! One day while we were out at sea, a terrible hurricane blew up and smashed our ship. Several sailors perished. I clung to a rafter and the ship but soon it was snatched away. I was thrown about in the stormy sea but was eventually tossed up on the shore,” the man replied.


“When the storm broke,” the Imam commented, “perhaps you first relied on the ship and the sailors for your safety and then on the rafter which saved you for a while – but when all these went, did you resign yourself to death or did you still hope of safety?”


“I hoped for safety,” the Atheist answered.


“On whom did you hope for safety?” Asked the Imam.


The man did not respond this time. Then the Imam said: “The Creator is the one on whom you placed your hopes at that time; and He is the one who delivered you from drowning.”


After this conversation the Atheist was no longer an Atheist.

BE PATIENT


This is a true story which happened in the States.


A man came out of his home to admire his new truck.


To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck.


The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment.


When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital. Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands.


When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, " Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?"


The father went home & committed suicide.


Think about this story the next time someone steps on your feet or u wish to take revenge. Think first before u lose your patience with someone u love. Trucks can be repaired. Broken bones & hurt feelings often can't.


Too often we fail to recognise the difference between the person and the performance. We forget that forgiveness is greater than revenge.


People make mistakes. We are allowed to make mistakes. But the actions we take while in a rage will haunt us forever.


Pause and ponder. Think before you act. Be patient. Forgive & forget. Love one and all.

Assalamu aleikum,


Just some reminders...


From Bukhari


Volume 7, Book 68, Number 454:


Narrated Anas bin Malik:


The Prophet said, "Whoever slaughtered the sacrifice before the prayer, he just slaughtered it for himself, and whoever slaughtered it after the prayer, he slaughtered it at the right time and followed the tradition of the Muslims."


Volume 7, Book 68, Number 459:


Narrated Nafi':


'Abdullah (bin 'Umar) used to slaughter his sacrifice at the slaughtering place (i.e the slaughtering place of the Prophet ) . Ibn 'Umar said, "Allah's Apostle used to slaughter (camels and sheep, etc.,) as sacrifices at the Musalla."


Volume 7, Book 68, Number 465:


Narrated Anas:


The Prophet slaughtered two rams, black and white in color (as sacrifices), and I saw him putting his foot on their sides and mentioning Allah's Name and Takbir (Allahu Akbar). Then he slaughtered them with his own hands.


Volume 7, Book 68, Number 476:


Narrated Salama bin Al-Aqua':


The Prophet said, "Whoever has slaughtered a sacrifice should not keep anything of Its meat after three days." When it was the next year the people said, "O Allah's Apostle! Shall we do as we did last year?" He said, ' Eat of it and feed of it to others and store of it for in that year the people were having a hard time and I wanted you to help (the needy)."


Volume 7, Book 68, Number 478:


Narrated Abu 'Ubaid:


the freed slave of Ibn Azhar that he witnessed the Day of 'Id-al-Adha with 'Umar bin Al-Khattab. 'Umar offered the 'Id prayer before the sermon and then delivered the sermon before the people, saying, "O people! Allah's Apostle has forbidden you to fast (on the first day of) each of these two 'Ida, for one of them is the Day of breaking your fast, and the other is the one, on which you eat the meat of your sacrifices."

Did you know that humanitarian aid is normally proffered with strict requirements? For example, oftentimes a donor country will insist that up to 90% of the aid-package be provided by corporations from their own country. This means that the generosity of taxpayers is no more than a subsidy for big business.


However, this GOLDEN RULE doesn’t apply, when it comes to Zionist Israel. It receives between 6-14 billion dollars without any such ‘strings attached’. According to some independent foreign-aid experts, since 1950s, Israel has sucked over US$3 trillion from the US tax-payers – That’s not a small feat from the Israelis!


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