Confused

[umm Zachariah]

Bismillah


Hi John


You are viewing this from your point of view, and you are for now far from the truth of Islam. Allahu Alem. But not everyone is like you. Many do need to find the Truth out, it is a 'searching soul need' and that must be fulfilled to find inner peace. This worlds pleasures are not enough. Something is missing.


Some that revert to Islam do a lot of sacrifices on that way, giving up family members, friends, work, home and more. But then when comparing what one gain, all these matters seems unimportant. Faith is so much more worth than anything else.


Your assumption is that as quickly as uttering the Shahadah, the entering into Islam and accepting Islam, one is then ready to leave it again. It is like some kind of 'playing round'. But according to Islam, Islam is the final destination on the 'playing round'. When you come to Islam you are home and there is no other or better home to go to. It is the final destination on the search.


But one thing I agree on, and that is that one should consider carefully before taking a decision. And the best thing to do this is to raise questions, read the Qur'an, Ahadith, other Islamic related issues, AND if doing this on the net, be VERY CAREFUL where one get information from. Unfortunately there are many sites out there that are VERY deceptive and one has to be careful.


Regards

[umm Zachariah]

Bismillah


John


Just a few short comments.


I think it is not quite the same to compare what a musical group did, with a thirsty soul that is looking for the Truth, that wants to come home.


What I meant by considering carefully before entering Islam is, that one should be convinced that Islam is the religion that Allah SWT want us to follow. One has to be honest to oneself, then everything else falls in place. And truly when Allah SWT 'comes knocking on the door' (an expression by a revert - but so well put) one do surrender to His will, since the knowledge of His revelation has struck the heart and soul and then there is nothing else that can come near in comparison.


I hope you reconsider your future, these 'alternatives' are dead ends.

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


John I know i posted this question for u on another thread, but here I am again telling u do u mind me asking u a set of questions? As I said u ve been here for almost 2 years asking questions. Can i ask u some?


I know u will have to change what u r saying about me first to allow this interaction to take place [img]style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif[/img]

[radiyah]

Bismillah

I came to this forum from Wel Me 2, after i told him i was considering converting or reverting as he told me to call it. Right now i'am christian, but i haven't yet abandeded it. The things that brought me to question christianty were the bibles many contradtions and scientific <b>absurtites</b>.

Well alfredo, this is the first time i c this post, I was a bit busy the past month, so if u r the same alfredo on the thread bible corrupt, as sister Umm asked, well u came with the bible having absurties and all that stuff. and on the other thread The Holy Quran has absurdies, won't u make up your mind. If any1 is trying to turn u away from the right path alfredo, do not listen to them, be sincere in your search, and u will be guided. Unless u came already on this forum to end up saying that The Quran is full with absurtites, or u did not understand The Holy Quran as U should.


Peace

I am not sure if u r referring to Prophet Mohamed sallah Allah a`lyhee wa sallam? but Allah Did not physically reveal Himself to him neither to any other Prophet. The only Prophet who was advantaged of an extra bonus was Mussa (Moases) who spoke to Allah without an intermediate. I mean he had conversations with Allah. Other than that Allah always Sent His revelation thru Arch Angle Jebreel (Gabriel).
On a side note Intution mentioned in her post the word Tawheed, just in case I dont expect u to know that it is Monotheism). Back again to the point, so Allah Didnt reveal Himself to no Prophet He only Sent revelations to them thru Angle Jebreel for those Prophets to spread the call to Allah..

Sister Muslimah, forgive me for correcting u, but Prophet Muhammad, had the advantage of extra bonus than other prophets, he ascended to the heavens and Allah spoke to him, and if u know Altahiyat that we say in our prayers, that was the first conversation between Allah(SWT) and prophet Muhammad(PBUH) until Altashahud, then the tahiyat were said by the angels, and Allah(SWT) ordered prophet Muhammad(to say these tahiyat in the prayers. prophet Muhammad was left alone at Sedrat Al-Muntaha, not even Jibreel, went with him, it was not allowed for him, only to prophet Muhammad(PBUH), and then Allah Ascribed the 5 prayers.


Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem


1. By the star when it goes down, (or vanishes).



2. Your companion (Muhammad ) has neither gone astray nor has erred.


3. Nor does he speak of (his own) desire.


4. It is only an Inspiration that is inspired.


5. He has been taught (this Qur'ân) by one mighty in power [Jibrael (Gabriel)].


6. Dhu Mirrah (free from any defect in body and mind), Fastawa [then he (Jibrael ­ Gabriel) rose and became stable]. [Tafsir At-Tabarî].


7. While he [Jibrael (Gabriel)] was in the highest part of the horizon,


8. Then he [Jibrael (Gabriel)] approached and came closer,


9. And was at a distance of two bows' length or (even) nearer,


10. So did (Allâh) convey the Inspiration to His slave [Muhammad through Jibrael (Gabriel)].


11. The (Prophet's) heart lied not (in seeing) what he (Muhammad ) saw.


12. Will you then dispute with him (Muhammad ) about what he saw [during the Mi'râj: (Ascent of the Prophet over the seven heavens)] .


13. And indeed he (Muhammad ) saw him [Jibrael (Gabriel)] at a second descent (i.e. another time).


14. Near Sidrat-ul-Muntaha [lote-tree of the utmost boundary <b>(beyond which none can pass)],
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15. Near it is the Paradise of Abode.


16. When that covered the lote-tree which did cover it!


17. The sight (of Prophet Muhammad ) turned not aside (right or left), nor it transgressed beyond (the) limit (ordained for it).


18. Indeed he (Muhammad ) did see, of the Greatest Signs, of his Lord (Allâh).


53, Surat Al-Najm


Prophet Muhammad saw Jibreel 2 times exactly as he looked like, and the other many times Jibreel would resemble as one of the Prophets(PBUH) companions.


I did not read everything in this post, but a few things caught my attention. I thought to clear these items.


Al-salam'Alaykom

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


as salam alykom Radiyah


Of course I am aware of this, what I exactly meant to explain to Alfredo is that Allah Never Revealed Himself to any human being, and only spoke directly to Mussa while he is on earth.


I just didnt want to get alfredo into much info, sometimes u need to focus on a point and explain it not to loose the person.


and Jazaki Allah khairan for continuing the explantion by this now he has full picture Insh a Allah.


And actually we dont need to tell him not to listen to others, he can just search and see how it goes with him.

[Alfredo]

Well alfredo, this is the first time i c this post, I was a bit busy the past month, so if u r the same alfredo on the thread bible corrupt, as sister Umm asked, well u came with the bible having absurties and all that stuff. and on the other thread The Holy Quran has absurdies, won't u make up your mind. If any1 is trying to turn u away from the right path alfredo, do not listen to them, be sincere in your search, and u will be guided. Unless u came already on this forum to end up saying that The Quran is full with absurtites, or u did not understand The Holy Quran as U should.

Yep, i'am. Last month when i first posted i was confused beyond belief. I started from the begining. I know that God created the earth and the heavens. This is common fact to me. I know he would reveal himself to his creation and tell us how to live life in the correct manor. This leaves me at either A.) Christianty is the truth and i can only be saved through Christ. Or B.) I'am condemming myself in the eyes of Allah by worshipping another being. Christianty explains this through the Trinity. Then Christianty claims Christ is God incarnate. Many bible references point out to this. so that has me confused. Then, i looked at both the bibles many scientific facts and hte Qu'arns. I have yet to find one scientific error in either.


So that is my discrenpcies with Christianty.


With Islam, i would've converted many a years ago, if it is not for the lingering thought in the back of my mind just seeing Mohammed as a warlord looking to solidfy his kingdom by making it into a religon by copying many parts of the bible and torah. I beilive he has not an unlearned and illterate man, seeing as how he was a merchant and merchants must've been well aquinted with knoledge and how there was no number system back then so he would've had to written his transcripts ect. Just because some of his friends say he was illterate isn't enough from me to give up Christ. I would like to know why Muslims reject the Bible seeing as how it was written by their prophets followers (jesus) and that is the word of jesus. It contradicts alot with the Koran and the Bible. The bible aslo warns us about other gospels mascarating as the word of god when they are not.


Many of the scientific facts in the Koran were previously known and could've easily have been obtained by mohammed.


Rereading this post, i'am really starting to beilve in christiainty again. It is like a great warmth has returned to me. I think i have found the truth. Or...

[Alfredo]

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[radiyah]

Bismillah


Jazaky mithluh sister Muslimah [img]style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img]

With Islam, i would've converted many a years ago, if it is not for the lingering thought in the back of my mind just seeing Mohammed as a warlord looking to solidfy his kingdom by making it into a religon by copying many parts of the bible and torah. I beilive he has not an unlearned and illterate man, seeing as how he was a merchant and merchants must've been well aquinted with knoledge and how there was no number system back then so he would've had to written his transcripts ect. Just because some of his friends say he was illterate isn't enough from me to give up Christ.

He was illiterate alfredo, not just because his companions said, because it is a fact and known threw out history. And not him only most arabs were illiterate at that time, those who were literate were a few at that time between the arabic tribes, and also he was raised with the bedwins, were there were no teachings of anything, they were only sheperds and he was a shepard just like all other prophets, and he was not a merchant alfredo, I don't know from where u got that Idea, he did not own any money and he was poor, except that later because he was known to be honest and trust worthy, the meccans used to trust him, leave their money with him, or send him for their trades if they cant go. Read about Islam from the right sources Alfredo, and u will find the truth. And prophet Muhammad did not take his writings from the Bible or Torah, it was revealed by Allah to him. Just keep asking all those questions u have and we will keep answering u, there is much more to explain, but as i told u in a previous post, we are not hasty in answering because we are not scholars, just ask Allah for guidance and He will show u the way. if u want to read more about prophet Muhammad and proof that he is a prophet read the thread below, it is not finished we have a lot to add, but we are building it up slowly and steadily by will of Allah. If u decided after all your questions are answered and u r not convinced, well it is up to u alfredo, but that does not mean we will not keep accepting u here. my best regards, and may Allah guide u to what he loves and pleases.


http://www.islamsms.com/bb//index.php?showtopic=1842


also u can read this where others were confused as u were and they found their way:


http://www.islamsms.com/bb//index.php?...e+back+to+islam


and we are still here to answer your questions. but right now, have to run, I am at work [img]style_emoticons/default/smile.gif[/img] . c u soon.


Peace.

[Alfredo]

If you guys can explain this, i will buy my plane ticket to mecca tommorow:

IS GOD A MATHEMATICIAN?
By Keith Newman.


The authenticity of the Holy Bible has been attacked at regular intervals by athiests and theologians alike but none have explained away the mathematical seal beneath its surface.


It would seem the divine hand has moved to prevent counterfeiting in the pages of the Bible in a similar manner to the line that runs through paper money. Bible numerics appears to be God's watermark of authenticity.


Vital research on this numeric seal was completed by a native of the world's most renowned atheistic nation, Russia. Dr Ivan Panin was born in Russia on Dec 12, 1855. As a young man he was an active nihilist and participated in plots against the Czar and his government. He was a mathematical genius who died a Harvard scholar and a citizen of the United States in 1942.


Panin was exiled from Russia. After spending a number of years studying in Germany he went to the United States where he became an outstanding lecturer on literary criticism.


Panin was known as a firm agnostic - so well known that when he discarded his agnosticism and accepted the Christian faith, the newspapers carried headlines telling of his conversion.


It was in 1890 that Dr Panin made the discovery of the mathematical structure underlining the vocabulary of the Greek New Testament. He was casually reading the first verse of the gospel of John in the Greek: "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with the God and the Word was God...".


Dr Panin was curious as to why the Greek word for "the"' preceeded the word "God"' in one case and not the other. In examining the text he became aware of a number relationship. This was the first of the discoveries that led to his conversion and uncovered the extensive numeric code.


Oldest manuscripts


Dr Panin found his proof in the some of the oldest and most accurate manuscripts - the Received Hebrew Text and the Westcott and Hort Text.


In the original languages of the Bible, mostly Hebrew and Greek, there are no separate symbols for numbers, letters of the alphabet are also used to indicate numbers.


The numeric value of a word is the sum total of all its letters. It was curiosity that first caused Dr Panin to begin toying with the numbers behind the texts. Sequences and patterns began to emerge. These created such a stirring in the heart of the Russian that he dedicated 50 years of his life to painstakingly comb the pages of the Bible.


<b>This complex system of numbering visibly and invisibly saturates every book of the scriptures emphasising certain passages and illustrating deeper or further meaning in types and shadows. The 66 books of the Bible 39 in the Old and 27 in the New were written by 33 different people. </b>


Those authors were scattered throughout various countries of the world and from widely different backgrounds. Many of them had little or no schooling. The whole Bible was written over a period of 1500 years with a 400 year silence apart from the Apocrypha between the two testaments. Despite the handicaps the biblical books are found to be a harmonious record, each in accord with the other.


Dr Panin says the laws of probability are exceeded into the billions when we try and rationalise the authorship of the Bible as the work of man. He once said: "If human logic is worth anything at all we are simply driven to the conclusion that if my facts I have presented are true, man could never have done this.


Inspiration from on high


"We must assume that a Power higher than man guided the writers in such a way, whether they knew it or not, they did it and the Great God inspired them to do it''.


The Bible itself states clearly that it is the literal God-breathed'' living word of the Creator. The words "Thus saith the Lord"' and "God said"' occur more than 2500 times throughout scripture.


In 2 Timothy 3:16 it states "All scripture is given by inspiration of God". Then in 2 Peter 9:20-21 it plainly states: "No prophecy of the scriptures is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost".


Let's take the number seven as an illustration of the way the patterns work. Seven is the most prolific of the mathematical series which binds scripture together. The very first verse of the Bible "In the begining God created the heaven and the earth" (Gen 1:1), contains over 30 different combinations of seven.


This verse has seven Hebrew words having a total of 28 letters 4 x 7. The numeric value of the three nouns "God", "heaven" and "earth" totals 777. Any number in triplicate expresses complete, ultimate or total meaning.


Also tightly sealed up with sevens are the genealogy of Jesus, the account of the virgin birth and the resurrection. Seven occurs as a number 187 times in the Bible (41 x 7), the phrase "seven-fold" occurs seven times and "seventy" occurs 56 times (7 x 8).


In the Book of Revelation seven positively shines out: there are seven golden candlesticks, seven letters to seven churches, a book sealed with seven seals, seven angels standing before the Lord with seven trumpets, seven thunders and seven last plagues. In fact there are over 50 occurrences of the number seven in Revelation alone.


Divisible by seven


There are 21 Old Testament writers whose names appear in the Bible (3 x 7). The numeric value of their names is divisible by seven. Of these 21, seven are named in the New Testament: Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Hosea and Joel. The numeric values of these names is 1554 (222 x 7). David's name is found 1134 times (162 x 7).


God's seal also pervades creation as though it were woven into the very fabric of nature.


The Bible has declared man's years to be three score and ten (70). The development of the human embryo is in exact periods of sevens or 28 days (4 x 7). Medical science tells us the human body is renewed cell for cell every seven years.


We're told the pulse beats slower every seven days as if it were in accord with the seventh day of rest proclaimed in the Genesis creation week. And God formed man of the dust of the ground (Gen 2:7); science confirms the human body is made of the same 14 elements (2 x 7) found in your average handful of dust.


The light of the sun is made up of seven distinct colours as shown in the rainbow. In music there are seven distinct notes which climax in a chord or octave at the beginning of a new seven.


In almost all animals the incubation or pregnancy period is divisible by seven. Seven is often referred to as "God's seal" or the number of spiritual perfection.


Number of resurrection


Eight is the number of new life or "resurrection". It is the personal number of Jesus. When we add together the letter values of the name Jesus in the Greek we get 888. Jesus was called The Christ, the numeric value of this title is 1480 (185 x 8). He was Saviour which has the value 1408 (2 x 8 x 88).


Jesus is also Lord which again is a multiple of eight being 800 (100 x 8). Messiah has the numeric value 656 (82 x8). Jesus also called himself the Son of man. The term occurs 88 times and is valued at 2960 (370 x 8).


Jesus said "I am the truth": the numeric value of "the truth" is 64 (8 x 8). The last book in the Bible is the Revelation of Jesus Christ which has exactly 888 Greek words. Eight persons were saved in the Ark at the great Noahic flood. God made a covenant with Abraham that every male Jewish child was to be circumsised on the eighth day of his life.


There are eight individual cases of resurrection spoken of in the Bible apart from Jesus. Three occur in the Old Testament, three in the gospels and two in Acts. It was on the eighth day or the first day of the new week that Jesus rose from the dead. The Holy Spirit also came down from heaven on the eighth day.


Nine is finality or completion. The first example of its use is that infinitely sealed first verse of the Bible: "In the beginning God'' which in Hebrew is: Brayshith Elohim which has the numeric value of 999. The very next statement "created the heaven" is also sealed with 999.


Nine is finality


The number nine is endowed with a peculiar quality, it is finality in itself. Not only is it the final single number, but if you multiply it by any other number, the addition of the resulting figures will always revert back to nine (2 x 9 = 18 / 1 + 8 = 9 etc).


There are nine basic gifts available to the Christian believer through the power of God's Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:8-10). There are nine basic fruits which should be evident in the life of the believer (Gal 5:22-23). The words "my wrath" have the numeric value 999. The word Amen or verily is valued at 99 and occurs 99 times.


The work on the cross was completed at the ninth hour when Jesus said "It is finished". The shedding of his blood was final. It saw an end to the old system of animal sacrifice to atone for sin. The word "blood" in this sense occurs 99 times.


Great superstition has always surrounded the number 13 as being unlucky or dark. Perhaps there is good reason. One of the most convincing proofs of the origins of this number can be found by unraveling all the names by which Satan is known. Drakon or dragon has a value of 975 (13 x 75) and it occurs 13 times. Peirazon or tempter has a value of 1053 (13 x 81). Belial which is personification of evil has a value of 78 (13 x 6).


Anthropoktonos or "murderer" has a value of 1820 (13 x 40). Ophis or "serpent" is 780 (13 x 60). The phrase used by the Holy Spirit Ho kaloumenos diablos kai ho Satanas or "called the Devil and Satan" is valued 2197 (13 x 13 x 13).


Small neat calculations


This article is in truth an oversimplification of the work of Dr Panin and others who followed in his footsteps. Dr Panin's work initially involved some 40,000 pages of material on which he had written millions of small neat calculations. It involved volumes.


He often laboured up to 18 hours a day exploring the vast numeric structure. By and large it was a thankless task. Dr Panin said "When I first made the discovery I was of course, taken off my feet - I was in the same condition as our friend Archimedes who when he solved a great mathematical problem while in the bath, rushed in to the street naked, crying 'I have found it'. I thought people would be delighted to embrace the new discovery, but I found human nature is always the same. So I quietly withdrew and did my work all by myself".


Although it would appear that his work has been largely lost from popular reading today Dr Panin did accomplish several outstanding works. He published Structure in the Bible the Numeric Greek New Testament and the Numeric English New Testament.


<b>The works of Dr Ivan Panin have been put before the experts many times. Dr Panin once challenged nine noted rationalists and Bible critics through the medium of the New York Sun newspaper Nov 9, 1899. He dared them to publicly refute or give explanation for a few of his presented facts. Four made lame excuses. The rest were silent. </b>


Dr Panin issued a challenge throughout leading newspapers of the world asking for a natural explanation or rebuttal of the facts. Not a single person accepted.

One in a couple billion? No one has been able to explain it? Why would god put in a built in corruption detector if the bible is corrupted as islam says?


http://www.wordworx.co.nz/panin.html

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


salam alfredo


I am not here to explain the long post, I am here just to clarify something very important. If u decide to buy a plan ticket to Mecca, u r not going to do us a favor. But rather to yourself. So u dont need to give us incentives to work for u to see the truth.