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amlhabibi
CANADA
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 Topic initiated on Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 6:19 PM 
Your opinion of this
Jesus said, Be as I am.
There for I believe he meant we are all Prophets & Messiah in other word God/Allah can speak through each of us given time and an excellent education, prayer and cosultation.
We are the Messiah, the Prophets, the Buddha, the Manifestations of God, the People of Spirit a living Messiah in the multitudes not one of Us but all of Us. We are all Messengers of God. We are are equally responsible for the well being of each other and the World.
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I look forward to hearing an Islamic perspective on the site and ideas.
Sincerely
Sister Anne Marie Elderkin Habibi |
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nadya
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Posted - Monday, September 27, 2004 - 2:42 AM 
Asalamu Alaykum
(peace be upon you)
Prophets have been sent through time by God to convey His message to mankind. The mission of the Prophets was to call people towards this message and inform them about the consequences of accepting and rejecting it. The revealed Divine law was also personified in the personalities of all prophets as a living example for mankind to take heed and follow.
What Jesus means by saying "Be like me" meant to follow his example in fulfilling the commandments of God like he did. Similar is a verse of the Quran which talks about the Prophet Muhammad:
Verily in the messenger of Allah ye have a good example for him who look unto Allah and the Last Day, and remember Allah much. (33:21)
This likewise means that to be successful in the sight of God we should follow the ways of the Prophet, for in Prophets we find the best examples by learning from the way they executed the Will of God.
I agree with you that we all hold responsibility to the welfare of our follow human beings and that we shall be answerable before God if we withhold our duties and responsibilities.
Regarding Prophethood Quran tells us that it can only be bestowed by God Almighty, it is not something that can be attained. God chooses who He wills as His prophet according to His own Divine plan and Wisdom. As far as I know even the Bible talks about God Himself appointing and raising prophets (Jeremiah 1:5, Deuteronomy 18:18) and also warns of false prophets to whom God had not revealed yet they prophesied (Jeremiah 23:1-32).
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ajmal
OMAN
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Posted - Sunday, October 3, 2004 - 3:00 PM
Subject: Rasool (S.A.W.) in Bible
More Biblical Prophecies on the
Advent of Muhammad (S.A.W.)
The Prophet, The Paraclete, Is Muhammad (S.A.W.):
Up to the time of Jesus (peace be upon him), the Jews were still
awaiting for the prophet like Moses prophesied in Deuteronomy
18:18. When John the Baptist came, they asked him if he was Christ
and he said, I am not the Christ. They asked him if he was
Elijah, and he said, I am not. Then, in apparent reference to
Deuteronomy 18:18, they asked him, Are you the Prophet? He
answered, No. (John 1:19-21).
In the Gospel according to John (Chapters 14, 15, 16 KJV), Jesus
spoke of the Paraclete or comforter who will come after him, who
will be sent by God, who will teach new things which the
contemporaries of Jesus could not bear. While the Paraclete is
described as the spirit of truth, (the meaning of which resembles
Muhammad s famous title al-amin, the trustworthy), he is identified
in one verse as the Holy Ghost (John 14:26 KJV). Such a designation
is however inconsistent with the profile of that Paraclete. In the
words of the Dictionary of the Bible (Ed. J. Mackenzie), These
items, it must be admitted do not give an entirely coherent picture.
Indeed history tells us that many early Christians understood the
Paraclete to be a man and not a spirit. This might explain the
followers who responded to some who claimed, without meeting the
criteria stipulated by Jesus, to be the awaited Paraclete.
It was the Prophet Muhammad who was the Paraclete, Comforter,
helper, and admonisher sent by God after Jesus. He testified of
Jesus, taught new things which could not be borne at Jesus time, he
spoke what he heard (the Holy Quran), he dwells with the believers
(through his well-preserved teachings). Such teachings will remain
forever because he was the last messenger of God, the only Universal
Messenger to unite the whole of humanity under God, upon the path of
preserved truth. He told of many things to come which came to pass
in the minutest detail, meeting the criterion given by Moses to
distinguish between the true prophet and the false prophets
(Deuteronomy 18:22 KJV). He did convict the world of guilt in
regard to sin and righteousness and judgment. (John 16:8).
Blessings of Ishmael And Isaac:
Abraham is widely regarded as the Patriarch of monotheism and the
common father of the Jews, Christians and Muslims. Through His
second son, Isaac, came all Israelite prophets including such
towering figures as Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon and Jesus.
May peace and blessings be upon them all. The advent of these great
prophets was in partial fulfillment of God s promises to bless the
nations of earth through the descendants of Abraham (Genesis 12:2-
3). 1 Such fulfillment is wholeheartedly accepted by Muslims whose
faith considers the belief in and respect of all prophets an article
of faith.
Was the first born son of Abraham (Ishmael) and his descendants
included in God s covenant and promise? A few verses from the Bible
may help shed some light on this question:
1) Genesis 12:2-3 speaks of God s promise to Abraham and his
descendants before any child was born to him.
2) Genesis 17:4 reiterates God s promise after the birth of Ishmael
and before the birth of Isaac.
3) In Genesis, ch. 21, Isaac is specifically blessed, but Ishmael
was also specifically blessed and promised by God to become a great
nation, especially in Genesis 21:13, 18.
4) According to Deuteronomy 21:15-17, the traditional rights and
privileges of the first born son are not to be affected by the
social status of his mother (being a free woman such as Sarah, Isaac
s mother, or a maidservant as Hagar, Ishmael s mother). This is
only consistent with the moral and humanitarian principles of all
revealed faiths.
5) The full legitimacy of Ishmael as Abraham s son and offspring
and the full legitimacy of his mother, Hagar, as Abraham s wife, are
clearly stated in Genesis 21:13 and 16:3.
After Jesus, the last Israelite messenger and prophet, it was time
that God s promise to bless Ishmael and his descendants be
fulfilled. Less than 600 years after Jesus, came the last messenger
of God, Muhammad , from the progeny of Abraham through Ishmael.
God s blessings for both of the main branches of Abraham s family
tree were now fulfilled.
Was The Shift of Religious Leadership Prophesied:
Following the rejection of the last Israelite prophet, Jesus, it was
about time that God s promise to make Ishmael a great nation be
fulfilled (Genesis 21:13, 18).
Jesus said: Therefore I tell you that the Kingdom of God will be
taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its
fruit. (Matthew 21:43). Those people among Ishmael s descendants
(the rejected stone in Matthew 21:42) who were victorious against
all superpowers of their time as prophesied by Jesus: He who falls
on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will
be crushed. (Matthew 21:44).
Muhammad s Migration Prophesied in the Bible:
Indeed the incident of the migration of the Prophet and his
persecuted followers is vividly described in Isaiah 21:13-17. That
section foretold as well about the battle of Badr, in which the few
ill-armed faithful miraculously defeated the men of Kedar, who
sought to destroy Islam and intimidate their own folks who turned to
Islam.
Out of Context Coincidence:
Is it possible that the numerous prophecies cited here are,
individually and combined, all out of context misinterpretations?
Is the opposite true, that such infrequently studied verses support
each other consistently and clearly, pointing to the advent of the
man who changed the course of human history, the Prophet
Muhammad ? Is it reasonable to conclude that all of these
prophecies, appearing in different books of the Bible and spoken by
various prophets at different times, were all coincidence?
As was mentioned before, God has said about the prophet mentioned in
Deuteronomy 18, who is Muhammad : If anyone does not listen to my
words that the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will call him to
account. (Deuteronomy 18:19). 2
Footnotes:
(1) All of the verses on this page have been taken from The NIV
Study Bible, New International Version, except where noted as being
KJV which means King James Version.
(2) This article has been taken from the pamphlet entitled,
Muhammad in the Bible by Dr. Jamal Badawi, with some editing. |
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