Transmission Of The Qur'anic Revelation

[laian]

Assalamu alaikum,


first, to Anya... lol, great post. I think u r right, there must be some difference between US and UK culture that is causing some misunderstandings... I really didn't think I was being offensive at all. As for Ronni, ya maybe I'm wrong, but the way I see it when she gets "sarcastic" as you call it, it just seems like shes getting on the defensive side, and rightly so, because there's so much information from Islam and against Christianity being thrown at her. And several of her posts I read seemed like she was wanting to learn, but maybe that was earlier. Anyway, sorry for all that.


To Muslimah.... ummm... I'm not sure exactly what God you think the Christians believe in, but let me assure you it is the same God that the Muslims believe in. They just happen to attribute a son to him. Read the Qur'an -- it talks about it countless times, how they have wrongly attributed a son to Allah. If they don't even believe in Allah, how can they attribute anything to him? As for the prophets, ya that's what I said, they believe in all the prophets except Mohammed, peace upon them all. Jews the same, except they leave out Jesus and Mohammed, peace upon them. But Allah was the God of Moses and Allah was the God of Jesus. I never said there was no problem with Christianity, Islam is the correct religion of course. But as far as the God they believe in, it is the same. As a Christian I believed God had a son. Now I believe He didn't. I didn't "switch" Gods or anything... I hope that makes the distinction clear.


Any other Christian reverts with a view on this?


Also, just about every muslim I've ever talked to about Islam, both before and after I took shahada, agreed that it is part of faith to show respect to the people of the book, namely the Jews and Christians. Doesn't mean you have to agree with them. Just be respectful.


(Oh ya, to Anya, I never said they would enter Jannah.. glad we agree on something )


Last point, Muslimah, about the website. Are you talking about the one I replied to from Ronni, or the other one she posted? Because as far as I can tell, she posted 2 different websites. The one I looked at was sunnah.org, kinda weird that they would promote sufism with that title. Also, Umm Z has posted the entire text of their article in this thread, so there's not much point to take the link down now. Anyway, I only briefly looked at the site and it seemed legitimate to me, but if it does promote sufism then I will take the links out myself. Thanks for keeping an eye on that