07-23-2003, 04:17 PM
Peace be with you Malik,
We Muslims believe in all the messengers peace be upon them, and the books of Allah. If we deny only one of them we will not be Muslims. But one thing you should know, We do believe in the Bible that was revealed from God to Prophet Jesus peace be upon him. But the Bible has been distorted. Now we could find many different copies of the Bible written by different persons adding and deleting whatever they want. So it is not the authentic Bible that was revealed by God to Jesus. The Holy Qur'an, however, wherever you search in the whole world you will find only and only one same copy unchanged and unable to be changed. It is impossible to be changed because Allah preserves it and will preserve it forever since it is the last Holy Book revealed by Allah to the seal of Prophets Mohammad peace be upon him in order to save the whole humanity and call them to Islam, the last religion on this earth (The religion of total submission to one God, Allah, our dear Creator).
As my sisters, Muslimah and Jennifer clarified to you, we are not ordered to fight the others. We fight the others only when they fight us, and this is very logical. Is it supposed that we, Muslims, must cross our hands and sit watching while the others are killing us and fighting us? Is that logical? Our Religion Islam is a religion of peace and it is the first thing we do think of. Whereas war is the last thing we do think of.
Please Malik feel free to ask any other questions. We are all here to help each other and cooperate together to come up with the truth.
Peace
Ahlam