How to Become A Muslim
YhauWa
Islam is submission to God. Historically, Islam is the first and the
last revealed religion with a Book. With Islam, God completed His
religion, perfected His bounty over his creatures and was satisfied
with Islam to be the only religion accepted by Him for all His
creatures.
Who Is God?
God is Allah, a concept we perceive in our hearts and minds. Human
faculties are limited within two thresholds of capacities, a lower and
a higher. Our minds' capacity of perception is like a glass of water,
everything that is poured into it beyond its capacity to hold water
overflows. This does not mean that there should be nothing beyond our
minds' capacity to perceive or to understand. God in this respect lies
beyond our minds' capacity to define. He is the Unlimited, the
Omniscient and the Omnipotent. All that one can think of, as to be The
God, God is beyond it. God is not present in His creatures, nor in
what is created. Everything that is created is limited and limited,
but God is the Infinite and the Unlimited. God is the absolute
Abstraction.
How Did Man Know God?
God sent his Messengers through revelation to selected persons of His
human creatures to be His Prophets or messengers to acknowledge His
human creatures of His presence, and to teach them His Way i.e, His
religion which is, was and must always be only one, that is Islam, or
Submission to God-The Creator who is the Beneficent and the Merciful.
The Way to God is His religion with which all His creatures are bound,
from the First couple, Adam and Eve, to the last Prophet Muhammad, and
the last created man on earth. All human creatures are alike in their
voluntary bondage to their Creator. They must be submissive to Him
willy-nilly. Their life and existence are a trust bestowed to them by
God. God had displayed His Trust i.e, life, to all His creatures
permitting them to choose to be or not to be, but no one dared to bear
such responsibility other than Man, who through his ignorance and
destitution ventured and accepted it. Man is born responsible for his
free choice. He is to be questioned at the Day of Judgment about what
he had done during his first existence to be either rewarded or
punished.
What Are The Revealed Books of God?
The revealed Books are basically mere editions of the Mother Book i.e
God's Book. Each issued Book was kept sound and unchanged as long as
its prophet was alive, but when the prophet died, his followers or his
clergymen tried to claim to themselves his role and the distortion
ensued. This was what has happened to Moses' Book The Torah, which
after two thousand years of his death, the Jewish rabbis started to
rewrite it from their own, including in it all their grudge and hatred
upon all other peoples on earth. They monopolized and specified their
own God Yahweh in a henotheistic way, and claimed to themselves being
his chosen people after his becoming disappointed and unable to make
other people keep his religion.
Some of the revealed Books, like their peoples, became extinct. Other
Books, like the Torah of the Jews, and the Injeel-(Evangel) of the
Christians, have lost their original texts and all what we have left
about them we can see in the Holy Qur'an, the Last Edition of God's
Book containing The Mother Book, which was revealed to the Prophet
Muhammad in Arabic and God has taken the responsibility of Its
preservation to the Day of Judgment.
In the Holy Qur'an, we are told how the Jews rebuked Moses with their
demands and how, when he left them for forty days, he returned to find
them worshipping the Golden calf. The Qur'an tells us as well, how
they mutilated the Torah and rewrote it at their wont and said, ' It
is from God ', but surely it was not.
In the Holy Qur'an, as well, we are also told, how the Christians have
taken Jesus-Christ, the Prophet, for God, and how they have
subdivided God's unity into three faction-Trinity, and all that
happened after the Christ's ascent to his Creator by the Latin clergy
Tertullian in the 2nd. Century AD, and was codified by the church in
the 4th. Century AD.
In Islam, the subject of belief is individual and only God knows who
is a true believer and who is a hypocrite. Each person shall be
questioned about what he or she had done in their First Life, and
shall also get what they deserve in Life After.
There is no clericalism in Islam, every Muslim is his own minister.
Even the Prophet Muhammad, as he told his daughter, could not mediate
to relieve her from the sins she might have committed.
The Five Principles or Pillars of Islam are:
- The belief in God, in God's Books, in God's Messengers, and
in God's destiny.
- The five daily prayers.
- The fasting a month in Ramadhan.
- Paying the alms on one's superfluous possessions.
- One Pilgrimage to Ka'ba in Mecca, if possible.
The Holy Qur'an says, " Say, we believed in God, and in what was
revealed upon us, and upon Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and the
Tribes, and in what had Moses, Jesus, and the Prophets had from Their
God. We do not discriminate between any one of them and any another
one, that we are to him all Muslims. He who wishes to adopt any
religion other than Islam, shall not be accepted from him and he will
surly be in Life After among the losers."
Frank Arthur
Why only a short time ago "Muslim With Mission" posted this:
"Salute to all Muslims online
You are honest, brave, truthful, steadfast and courageous
Muslims.....
You are holding on and fighting for the true ideals of Islam with
utmost sincerity and unshakeable integrity with your posts on this
board which most of the time has the appearance of the Muslim world
itself, i.e. under attack by hateful bigots and most ignorant rejects
of Christian, Zionist Christian, Yiddish and Hindu societies."
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charles q
Just about every culture has a name for god,but in reality there is
only one god,he just go's by many other names,but his rules do not
change to suit the culture.The rules stay the same no matter which
culture you are a part of
Moslem cartoon character mohammed was a paedophile 6th century warlord who cooked up a false religion in order to supplement brutality as a means of bringing people under subjection
mother (nikomak), molest children, wear a beekeepers outfit all the
time, never shower or bath, beat your wives, learn terrorist activities
at a maddrassa, wipe your ass with stones, sell the donkey you fucked to
a nearby village, marry a nine year-old , send your child off to an
indoctrination camp, practice thighing with little kids, ............
Practice all those and you too could become a prophet !!
Elif air ab tizak mohammad !!!!
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Frank Arthur
spread hatred using lies and deceit. Is that your God?
Here's a quote from you today- any example of your Muslim lies.
Have you no shame?
"They did , they Jews threaten to use nukes many times, and they said
they will destroy all Muslim not only Arab main cites in one go, and
they still doing it, and getting more nukes piled up , as they know
they cant live in peace in land that is not therse, and they have more
nukes than China hase, and no one can inspect it, even the US cant ask
details of Israe'l's nukes"
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Frank Arthur
"YhauWa" <lechi...@gmail.com>
Another Muslim "YhuaWa" who believes that Allah is a hate filled
tyrant.
A quote from "Yhau" today.
"Yes the are good believers in God, the killed many profits of God and
delivered Jesus to the Romans, and see what they are doing in
Palestine, and they show they pray for God, no the Jew pray for
Satan and Devils."
Moslem cartoon character mohammed was a paedophile 6th century warlord who cooked up a false religion in order to supplement brutality as a means of bringing people under subjection
who cooked up a false religion in order to supplement brutality as a
--
moslem cartoon character mohammad and his bumchum allaah were child
molesting goat fuckers and nikomaks
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Up your ass mohammad - Elif air ab tizak!!!
Yacob13@hotmail.com Effendi Yacob
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arses and say ALLAHU ARBAR.
yansimon52
If your so-called God Allah could be easily imagine by
human,.................God got to close shop......
Worst we see is.........some old folks or prophet dare to make such
claim that they were able to 'communicate' with their
God................wishful thinking and coning alot of
illiterates.....making them very confused lot of ppl that lead to
unneccessary killings......
expla...@yahoo.com
Biblically speaking, Jeremiah 3:18 prophesied that the [split]house of
Judah would walk with the [split] house of Israel to form the nation
of Israel.
The house of Judah consisted of 2 tribes namely Judah and Benjamin to
form kingdom of Judah ; and the house of Israel the rest of the 12
tribes forming the kingdom of Israel[not the Nation of Israel].
Prophecies of Jeremiah -Chapter 3 & 6 spoke of God gathering the Jews
back to Zion to form to the state of Israel:
THE creatiom of STATE OF ISRAEL WAS PROPHESIED BY MANY PROPHETS except
Mohammed-the lying prophet- of God after ww2 He gathered the Jews from
Europe to form the state of Israel.
Consequently, even the billions of Muslims going against Israel,
Israel survives all attacks because GOD shield Israel. AS SUCH,
ISRAEL HAS A DEFENCE THAT NO MUSLIM WILL BE ABLE TO BREAK THROUGH.
2] How Jews are defined:
Because of the sins of the Israelites[=Jews] disobeying God in
refusing to acknowlge the New Covenant[revealed in Jeremiah 31:3`-34],
which was instituted by the shedding of the blood of a lamb named
Jesus-the Son of God- who was sent by God[HaShem] to teach the
Israelites the New Covenant[Matthew 26:28] renewing the Old for
redemption of souls just like the shedding of a sacrificial lamb of
the passover that redeemed PHYSICALLY the Jews in the Exodus, the Jews
were punished in WW2.
3]Jeremiah Chapter 3 & 6 prophesied the punishment and gathering of
the Jews back FROM GERMANY[Jer 6:21-23 to Zion. The Jews were punished
[Jer 6:29-30] FOR FAILING TO OBEY THE NEW COVENANT[Jer 31:31-34]
GREATLY to the extent that only ONE TAKEN FROM A CITY AND 2 FROM A
FAMILY by God[Jer 3:14] from THE LAND OF THE NORTH[Europe]-Jer 3:18]
to the land[Zion]-Jer 3:14]-which God had given to the Israelites [Jer
3:18]- to form the Nation of Israel after WW2. Germany was used by God
to punish the Jews[Jer 6:21-24].
4]Descendants of Jacob[Israel] are NOW Israelites:
The Jews from the fallen kingdom of Judah were called Jews as they
were scattered around. The word "Jews" denote[D] the people of the
kingdom of Jedah.
The Israelites[=Samaritans] from the falled kngdom of Israel were also
called Jews ERRONEOUSLY as they were scattered around.
Hence Jews from the kingdom of Judah and Samaritans from the kingdom
of Israel were wrongly called as Jews by others.
God bless Israel
AMEN IN CHRIST JESUS
Muslim With Mission
Whatever you think, Whatever you Believe In There is No Harm In
Searching For The Truth And Studying Islam
Mahead the Mufti
> How to Become A Muslim
Allah and the beginning
In the beginning allah was just floating around in a vast, dark, empty
void. He would play with himself and stick his finger up his ass. He
mostly stuck his finger up his ass because he was Bi (mostly Bi). One
day he let a big fart that sounded like a Big Bang. He noticed his fart
was mostly hydrogen gas. He said I'm tired of floating around in this
vast, dark, empty void alone playing with myself and sticking my finger
up my ass, mostly sticking my finger up my ass because I'm Bi (mostly
Bi). He said, I think I will take this hydrogen gas and form some
galaxies with solar systems with stars and planets. I will make some
infidels and make them multiply until there is a whole bunch of them.
After that I will make this weird creature for my pet and I will call
him mohammad, so he did. He told mohammad to get a band of thugs and go
around raiding infidel towns and caravans. i want you to kill all the
men, women and children you don't want and kidnap the rest for your own
enjoyment. Allah said, I will get my rocks off watching you do this.
Allah told mohammad They could steal all the booty and divide it up
among the men but only after mohammad got a fifth of it. He said you can
fuck all the slave women and children you want and this won't count as
any of your four wives that I will allow each man. I am exempting you
mohammad from the four wife rule, you can have as many as you want.
Allah told mohammad he would come down to earth from time to time and
they could Butt fuck each other. Allah told mohammad that anytime he
wanted to do anything that wasn't quite right he would send him a
revelation to make it ok.
Logoss
<maheadt...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>YhauWa wrote:
>
>> How to Become A Muslim
>
>Allah and the beginning
You should explain why your almighty god need of his followers in
order to conquer the world. Is he a God???
YhauWa
Who is killing people in there land and stealing there oil and natural
resources? is it Muslims invading Europe and USA? or it is the UNITED
KINGDOM planted the Jews things in our holy land, and moved out
7000000Palestinians form there homes to camps?
is it Muslims invading Iraq and other places? is it muslims calling
for human right and forgetting all what happened in more than 60 years
of occupation of Palestine, and many years of daily killing of
civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan in the name of what humanity or
Jesus?
YhauWa
> Your "submission to God" is a lot of horseshit. You hate God. You
> spread hatred using lies and deceit. Is that your God?
>
> Here's a quote from you today- any example of your Muslim lies.
> Have you no shame?
>
> "They did , they Jews threaten to use nukes many times, and they said
> they will destroy all Muslim not only Arab main cites in one go, and
> they still doing it, and getting more nukes piled up , as they know
> they cant live in peace in land that is not therse, and they have more
> nukes than China hase, and no one can inspect it, even the US cant ask
> details of Israe'l's nukes"
>
>
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Israel hase more and they control the world ploitics and economy, they
use all bad means to do it, as they are the chosen peopel of God as
they say, but i dont see any God willpics such a people to be his
chosen ones, they used to be when they belived in him , like every
other oen with faith in God is chosen to be by God side at the end.
YhauWa
> Shiite or Sunni so they can kill each other?
> Why only a short time ago "Muslim With Mission" posted this:
>
> "Salute to all Muslims online
>
> You are honest, brave, truthful, steadfast and courageous
> Muslims.....
>
> You are holding on and fighting for the true ideals of Islam with
> utmost sincerity and unshakeable integrity with your posts on this
> board which most of the time has the appearance of the Muslim world
> itself, i.e. under attack by hateful bigots and most ignorant rejects
> of Christian, Zionist Christian, Yiddish and Hindu societies."
>
>
> - Show quoted text -
No i didnot write this, in fact some one is playing wiht my name and
using it. Allah/God can see him and he will be punished as he is not
human to chaet in these maters, and he will go to hill at the end.
YhauWa
>
> - Show quoted text -
Who is doing all killing man,? is it Muslim invading other people land
or is it the West doing it?
drahcir
> How to Become A Muslim
>
> Islam is submission to God. Historically, Islam is the first and the
> last revealed religion with a Book. With Islam, God completed His
> religion, perfected His bounty over his creatures and was satisfied
> with Islam to be the only religion accepted by Him for all His
> creatures.
>
> Who Is God?
>
> God is Allah, a concept we perceive in our hearts and minds.
Hmmm, sounds blasphemous to me. Beware of fatwas. If allah is simply a
concept, he has no power - a concept doesn't exist except in the mind
of the conceiver.
Human
> faculties are limited within two thresholds of capacities, a lower and
> a higher. Our minds' capacity of perception is like a glass of water,
> everything that is poured into it beyond its capacity to hold water
> overflows. This does not mean that there should be nothing beyond our
> minds' capacity to perceive or to understand. God in this respect lies
> beyond our minds' capacity to define.
But you defined him as a concept just above. Please make up your mind.
He is the Unlimited, the
> Omniscient and the Omnipotent. All that one can think of, as to be The
> God, God is beyond it. God is not present in His creatures, nor in
> what is created. Everything that is created is limited and limited,
I don't see how it can be limited and limited at the same time.
> but God is the Infinite and the Unlimited. God is the absolute
> Abstraction.
>
> How Did Man Know God?
>
> God sent his Messengers
You said Allah is a concept. A concept cannot send anything.
through revelation to selected persons of His
> human creatures to be His Prophets or messengers to acknowledge His
> human creatures of His presence, and to teach them His Way i.e, His
> religion which is, was and must always be only one, that is Islam, or
> Submission to God-The Creator who is the Beneficent and the Merciful.
> The Way to God is His religion with which all His creatures are bound,
> from the First couple, Adam and Eve, to the last Prophet Muhammad, and
> the last created man on earth. All human creatures are alike in their
> voluntary bondage to their Creator. They must be submissive to Him
> willy-nilly. Their life and existence are a trust bestowed to them by
> God. God had displayed His Trust i.e, life, to all His creatures
> permitting them to choose to be or not to be, but no one dared to bear
> such responsibility other than Man, who through his ignorance and
> destitution ventured and accepted it. Man is born responsible for his
> free choice. He is to be questioned at the Day of Judgment about what
> he had done during his first existence to be either rewarded or
> punished.
> What Are The Revealed Books of God?
>
> The revealed Books are basically mere editions of the Mother Book i.e
> God's Book. Each issued Book was kept sound and unchanged as long as
> its prophet was alive, but when the prophet died, his followers or his
> clergymen tried to claim to themselves his role and the distortion
> ensued.
Nice fairy tales. How do you know all of this? Someone told you? how
about if I say you're full of shit? Can you deny it?
I'm not going to bother reading the rest. There are essentially two
types of people. Those who believe in things of which there is no
evidence, and those who don't. End of story.
Moslem cartoon character mohammed was a paedophile 6th century warlord who cooked up a false religion in order to supplement brutality as a means of bringing people under subjection
who cooked up a false religion in order to supplement brutality as a
means of bringing people under subjection wrote:
--
moslem cartoon character mohammad and his bumchum allaah were child
molesting goat fuckers and nikomaks
_
/'_/)
,/_ /
/ /
/'_'/' '/'__'7,
/'/ / / /" /_\
('( ' /' ')
\ /
'\' _.7'
\ (
\ \
Up your ass mohammad - Elif air ab tizak!!!
in...@muslimmatch.com or apa...@muslimmatch.com or
politic...@googlegroups.com
yansimon52
What's happening in Iraq............shiites killing suunis...suunis
killing shiites.........showing to us that the religious belief of
Islam breed alot of confusing ppl....coming to a stage of.....muslim
bros killing fellow muslim bros...........do we see buddhist killing
buddhist?
zalek
Dear YhauWa,
Before I'll submit to Allah I want to be sure that I'll chose the
correct God. Just imagine in what shock you will be, when after your
death you will stand if front of God, you address Him - "dear Allah",
and the God's replay will be - "don't call me Allah, my name is
Yahve".
I have no doubts that Allah is THE BEST God for man who loves women -
if I knew that being shahid will bring me 72 virgins (I can compromise
even for less) - I would start saving for a truck with explosive
today.
So convince me that the story about 72 virgins is true - and Muslim
population will have another convert.
Zalek
Moslem cartoon character mohammed was a paedophile 6th century warlord who cooked up a false religion in order to supplement brutality as a means of bringing people under subjection
who cooked up a false religion in order to supplement brutality as a
means of bringing people under subjection wrote:
--
moslem cartoon character mohammad and his bumchum allaah were child
molesting goat fuckers and nikomaks
_
/'_/)
,/_ /
/ /
/'_'/' '/'__'7,
/'/ / / /" /_\
('( ' /' ')
\ /
'\' _.7'
\ (
\ \
Up your ass mohammad - Elif air ab tizak!!!
in...@muslimmatch.com or apa...@muslimmatch.com or
politic...@googlegroups.com
yansimon52
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yansimon52
You mean you want me to join the Darkside?
B. H. Cramer
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On Jul 18, 3:20 pm, YhauWa <lechina3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How to Become A Muslim
>
> Islam is submission to God. Historically, Islam is the first and the
> last revealed religion with a Book. With Islam, God completed His
> religion, perfected His bounty over his creatures and was satisfied
> with Islam to be the only religion accepted by Him for all His
> creatures.
>
> Who Is God?
>
> God is Allah, a concept we perceive in our hearts and minds.
>Hmmm, sounds blasphemous to me. Beware of fatwas. If allah is simply a
>concept, he has no power - a concept doesn't exist except in the mind
>of the conceiver.
True. True. One need look no further than the yid's Holocaust(tm) to see
that little bit of wisdom in action.
YhauWa
>
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What is his name?
Please read this http://www.islamawareness.net/Allah/wihn.html
What is His Name?
Ahmad Deedat
I
Atnatu - A Novel Concept of God
By Ahmad Deedat
This Book is also available under the title 'What is His Name?'
Say: "Call upon Allah or call upon Rahman: by whatever name ye call
upon Him (it is well): for to Him belong the Most Beautiful Names.
(Holy Quran 17:110)
CHAPTER ONE: BELIEF IN GOD UNIVERSAL
WHAT IS HIS NAME?
At the end of my public talk on the subject - "MUHAMMAD (PBUH) the
Natural Successor to CHRIST (PBUH)" at question time, a Christian
Missionary posed the question: "What is His Name?" Meaning thereby as
to the name of God. I stood up to answer. But before I opened my
mouth, he spoke into the mike, provided for questioning, that he would
answer his own question. I said, "You posed the question so the
obligation is on me to reply to your question". He said, "Yes, but I
will answer the question." (Laughter in the audience). He was actually
begging for an opportunity to be heard. Where else on earth would he
get such a large audience, and that at the Muslim's expense, to
preach. I said, "Carry on!" (Give him enough rope to hang himself).
After some rambling, he concluded that the name of God was "JESUS
CHRIST!"
It was not the time, at that meeting; nor is it expedient here to
discuss the subject fully - "IS JESUS GOD?" It is enough, for the
moment, to say that in the language of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad
(Peace be upon them all) the name of God Almighty is ALLAH! Proof will
be provided in Chapter 4.
Belief in God is ingrained in the nature of man. As long as man
existed on earth, the knowledge of God Almighty also co-existed. As
Professor Max Fuller in his Hibbert Lectures said:
"RELIGION IS NOT A NEW INVENTION. IT IS, IF NOT AS OLD AS THE WORLD,
AT LEAST AS OLD AS THE WORLD WE KNOW. THERE NEVER WAS A FALSE GOD NOR
WAS THERE EVER A FALSE RELIGION, UNLESS YOU CALL A CHILD A FALSE MAN.
ALL RELIGION, SO FAR AS I KNOW THEM, HAD THE SAME PURPOSE. ALL WERE
LINKS IN A CHAIN WHICH CONNECTS HEAVEN AND EARTH, AND WHICH HELD, AND
ALWAYS WAS HELD, BY ONE AND THE SAME HAND."
This is truly a very charitable attitude; truly Islamic. Allah subha
nahu wa ta-aala (God Almighty) tells us in the Holy Quran:
And there never was a people without a warner having lived among them
(in the past).
(Holy Quran 35: 24)
But thou art truly a warner and to every people a guide. (Holy Quran
13:7)
GOD NOT PARTIAL
If God Almighty is not partial to His creatures with regard to
material blessings like - fresh-air, rain, sun-shine etc., why should
He be partial in regard to His spiritual blessings (The Guidance of
God)? He has not been partial! There is no nation or language group on
earth who does not know God by some name. This knowledge was given by
the Creator Himself through the lips of His chosen messengers. The
names of a very few of these messengers we know, the rest have been
lost or clouded in superstition.
Though all theology (knowledge of God) originated with God, mankind
played fast and loose with those pure and holy concepts, adding frills
and adornments where no embellishments was needed - it despoiled the
language. In the words of Mrs. Ellen G. White, a "prophetess" of the
7th Day Adventist Movement, in her Bible Commentary it is said:
"LEARNED MEN HAD IN SOME INSTANCES CHANGED THE WORDS, THINKING THAT
THEY WERE MAKING IT PLAIN, WHEN IN REALITY THEY WERE MYSTIFYING THAT
WHICH WAS PLAIN."
In the Religious Annals of the world, the Jewish and Christian
Scriptures called the Holy Bible abound with graphic examples of
portraying God after man's own pattern:
IMPERFECT DESCRIPTIONS OF GOD
LIKE A MAN (Genesis 11:5)
"And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men builded."
MOSES SEES GOD'S BACK PARTS? (Exodus 33:23)
"And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but
my face shall not be seen."
WRESTLES WITH JACOB (Genesis 32:28)
"And He (God) said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but
Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and has
prevailed."
LIKE ONE DRUNK (Psalm 78:65)
"Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man
that shouteth by reason of wine."
REGRETS MAKING MAN (Genesis 6:6)
"And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart."
SMELLS SWEET FLAVOUR (Genesis 8:21)
"And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his
heart..."
A CROUCHING LION (Numbers 24:9)
"He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall
stir him up?"
DEVOURING FIRE (Exodus 24:17)
"And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the
top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel."
RESTED AND REFRESHED (Exodus 31:17)
" ... in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh
day he rested AND WAS REFRESHED."
Out of the encyclopaedia of 73 Books of the Roman Catholics and 66
Books of the Protestants called the "BIBLE", endless number of
quotations can be culled to fill a book larger than this publication
to illustrate man's various imperfect descriptions of God. The above
examples will suffice, I hope.
In the realm of the spirit, no nation has had as much opportunities as
the children of Israel. And despite repeated warnings to the effect
that: 'THY GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD, HE SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE
HIM, NOT EVEN OF THE LIKENESS OF THE THINGS ON EARTH, OR IN THE
HEAVENS ABOVE, OR IN THE WATERS BENEATH THE SEA ... (Exodus 20:3-5),
they took the golden calf for worship, and again and again reverted
into idolatry. Nor is the bulk of Christendom any freer from this
taint. Visit St. Paul's Cathedral in London, or St. Peter's Cathedral
in Rome and you will have very little to distinguish them from the
Temple of Somnath in India. It is a question of Tweedle Dum and
Tweedle Dee.3 You do not really have to go to England or Italy to
verify my statement. Why not an inspection in loco to an Anglican or a
Roman Catholic Cathedral in your own home town!
CHAPTER TWO: THE CONCEPTS
In the religious terminology of the world, we will find that every
"son of man" in his own way, in his own dialect has given some
beautiful attributive name for the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth.
THE ZULU CONCEPT
In our own country, South Africa, the Zulus, a very virile and
militant people - a nation akin to the Qureish of pre- Islamic Arabia
- have given a name to God Almighty - uMVELINQANGI. This word when
properly articulated in its own dialect, sounds identical to the
Arabic word Walla-hu-gani, meaning - "And Allah is Rich" (Bounteous).
It also sounds like "Allegany" of the Red Indians of North America
(Remember their ALLEGANY mountain). The origin or real meaning of the
word "Allegany," is not commonly known to the American people. But ask
any Zulu as to who or what this uMvelinqangi is and he will surely
explain to you in Zulu:
HAWU UMNIMZANI! UYENA, UMOYA OINGCWELE. AKAZALI YENA, FUTHI
AKAZALWANGA; FUTHI, AKUKHO LUTMO OLU FANA NAYE."
Believe me, this is almost a word for word translation of Sura Ikhlas,
Chapter 112 of the Holy Quran:
Say: He is Allah the One and Only; Allah the Eternal Absolute; He
begetteth not nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him.
(Holy Quran 112: 1-4)
ALMOST ISLAMIC
Now, compare the above verses with my free translation of what the
Zulu actually said:
"Oh Sir! He is a pure and Holy Spirit, He does not beget and He is not
begotten, and further there is nothing like Him."
Every African tribe, South of the Zambesi River, that is, in Southern
Africa, have given different names to the Almighty - Tixo, Modimo,
uNkulunkulu, etc., and each and every African language group will take
pains to explain the same pure and holy concept as the Zulu. It is to
the glory of the African nations that though they had no written
languages, and hence no written records, therefore not being able to
recount the names of their respective prophets, yet not a single one
of the tribes ever stooped down to worshipping idols or images of
either of men or animals, until the White man first introduced his
religion and gave the African his anthropomorphic concept of God the
Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, and brought the African
down to bowing before the statues of Jesus, Mary, St. Joseph, St.
Christopher and so on.
Out of the dozens of African tribes inhabiting this part of the world,
not a single one of them ever made "umfanegisos" (images) of their
God. Yet they were capable of carving out of wood, elephants and
lions, and reproducing men and women also, in clay. Besides, the Zulus
also had some knowledge of metallurgy. When questioned an old Zulu as
to the reason, why the Africans did not make umfanegisos of their
Gods, he replied, "How could we make images of Him (God Almighty) when
we know that He is not like a man, He is not like a monkey, or an
elephant or a snake: He is not like anything we can think of or
imagine. He is a pure and Holy Spirit."
LIKE THE ARABS
This term, uMVELINQANGI, though well known to the Zulus, was not
commonly used. Again they were like the pagan Qureish of Pre-Islamic
Arabia who knew the name Allah, but passed Him by, because they felt
that He was too High, too Pure, too Holy to be approached, so they
went for their substitutary and imaginary gods - their Al-Lats, AI-
Uzzas and Al-Manats and a hundred besides. The Zulus too would not
call upon uMvelinqangi directly, but he was better than the Arab of
the Ayyam-ul-jahiliyya (days of ignorance), because he did not go
after false gods; he only invoked the spirits of his ancestors to
intercede with uMvelinqangi on his behalf, exactly as the Catholics do
in invoking the Virgin Mary and the Saints.
The more common term used by the Zulus for their God is uNKULUNKULU
which literally means - the Greatest of the Great or the Mightiest of
the Mighty (Almighty). More colloquially when taking oath, they would
exclaim "iNkosi phe-Zulu" meaning - the Lord Above (knows), or the God
in Heaven (knows), or Heaven knows, that I am speaking the truth. The
word "zulu" in the language of the Zulu literally means High Heaven,
and they consider themselves to be superior to the numerous other
tribes of Southern Africa, being in this respect like the Qureish
among the dwellers of the desert before Islam.
CONCEPT FROM THE EAST
The Hindi word for God Almighty is PRAMATMA. In Sanskrit, the language
of ancient India, "Atma" meant the soul, and "Pram-atma" meant the
Great and Holy Soul, or the Holy Spirit, which is really a beautiful
description of the "Father" in Heaven. The Bible says, "God is Spirit:
and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth" (John
4:24). Not in form, shape or size, but in SPIRIT.
Despite his pantheistic interpretation of the Divinity, the name the
Hindu gives the Supreme Being, in his classical language, is OM (Aum),
which means Guardian or Protector. A very suitable attribute about
which the Muslim can have no misgivings.
CONCEPT FROM THE WEST
The Anglo/Saxon and the Teuton in their own and other allied European
languages call their object of worship "GOD" or words of similar sound
and import, i.e.
God in English;
Got in Afrikaans (the language of the descendants of the Hollandse
people in South Africa);
Gott in German; and
Gudd in Danish, Swedish and Norwegian languages.
The ancient Phoenicians called their God - ALLON - (not far from Allah
if we could only hear it articulated), and the Canaanites ADO. The
Israelites not only shared the word EL with the original people of
Palestine, but borrowed the name of their chief deity - ADO and turned
it into ADONAI, and everywhere the four-letter word YHWH occurred in
their Holy Scriptures, they read "Adonai" instead of "Yahuwa." You
will not fail to notice the resemblance between the Jewish Adonai and
the heathen Adonis. ADONIS was a "beautiful godling loved by Venus" in
the Greek pantheon.
THE LATIN CONCEPT
In the Latin-dominated languages of Western Europe, where Latin had
remained dominant in learning and diplomacy for centuries, the chief
term used for God is DEUS:
Deus in Portuguese;
Dieu in French;
Dio in Italian;
Dies in Spanish;
Dia in Scotch and Irish; and
Duw in Welsh.
Surprisingly in all the languages above, Deus and all the similar
sounding words mean heaven.
Moulana Vidyarthi, in his monumental work - "Muhammad in World
Scriptures," devotes a hundred pages to the names of God in the
different languages. And out of a list of 155 attributive names, over
40 of them use the word "Heaven" or the "Above," in their language in
describing God. Though the Muslim chants the Asma-ul-husna (the most
beautiful names), 99 as derived from the Holy Quran with the crowning
name, ALLAH; "Heaven" is not one of those ninety-nine attributes.
Symbolically, heaven may be described as the abode of God, and in the
words of Wordsworth in Tintern Abbey:
WHOSE DWELLING IS THE LIGHT OF SETTING SUNS, AND THE ROUND OCEAN AND
THE LIVING AIR, AND IN THE BLUE SKY, AND IN THE MIND OF MAN: A MOTION
AND A SPIRIT THAT IMPELS ALL THINKING THINGS, ALL OBJECTS OF ALL
THOUGHTS, AND ROLLS THROUGH ALL THINGS.
CONCEPT FROM BEYOND THE FAR EAST
Among all the 155 tantalizing names of God in the various tongues, the
one that tickled me most was - "A-T-N-A-T-U!" - and this I have
adopted as a title of my book, instead of the original title promised
- "What is His Name!" for this present publication.
WHAT IS SO FUNNY OR SO NOVEL ABOUT ATNATU?
The aborigine of South Australia calls his God "Atnatu" because some
philosopher, poet or prophet had programmed him, that the Father in
Heaven is absolutely free from all needs; He is independent; He needs
no food nor drink. This quality, in his primitive, un-inhibited
language, he conversely named ATNATU, which literally meant "the One
without an anus - the One without any flaw" - i.e. the One from Whom
no impurity flows or emanates. When I started sharing this novel idea
with Hindu, Muslim and Christian friends, without exception, their
immediate reaction was one of mirth, they giggled and laughed. Most of
them not realizing that the joke was on them. The boot was on the
other foot. Though the word "anus" is a very small word, only four
letters in English, most people have not heard it. One is forced to
use the colloquial substitute which I hesitate to reproduce here, nor
will I use the same in public meetings because of people's
hypersensitivity - because in the words of Abdullah Yusuf All, people
"HAD PERVERTED THEIR LANGUAGE ONCE BEAUTIFUL, INTO JARGONS OF EMPTY
ELEGANCE AND UNMEANING FUTILITY."
Therefore to ease the situation, in a round-about-way let us say that
where you have an "input," you must allow for an "output." The one who
eats, must have the call of nature - the toilet or the bush - and our
primitive friend smelt the need, which he could never attribute to his
Creator. Therefore, he called his God - ATNATU! 'The one without the
excretory system or its tail end'.
GOD EATS NOT!
This novel concept of God by primitive man, is not really altogether
novel. God Almighty conveys the same truth to mankind, as in His Last
and Final Revelation - The Holy Quran - but in a language so noble, so
sublime, as befitting its Author. But because of its very finesse, and
refined manner of expression we have overlooked the Message. We are
commanded to say to all those who wish to wean us from the worship of
the One True God -
Say: "Shall I take for my protector any other than Allah the Maker of
the heavens and the earth? And He is that feedeth but is not fed."
In other words, we are made to declare that - "WE WILL NOT TAKE ANYONE
AS OUR LORD AND PROTECTOR, OTHER THAN ALLAH, WHO IS THE WONDERFUL
ORIGINATOR OF THE UNIVERSE." And if any have misgivings about his so
called "man-gods" or "god-men," then bring him down to earth, for our
God is the One who feeds but is not fed. He is not, in need of food.
Does your man-god eat? Or doesn't he? If he does, then he MUST submit
to the call of nature - OUR GOD EATS NOT! How simple the logic, yet
how stupendous the argument. Alas! We need primitive man to remind us
of the potency of our weapons. We have lost the art or the knack of
propagation, because for a good many centuries we have stopped
preaching Islam to those around us.
The Christians are knocking at our doors. Only the spiritually blind
and the "ostriches" in our midst cannot see. Kuwait had just one Arab
Christian family about fifty years ago. Today there are 35 Churches in
that little country. The Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian sect which
originated in the U.S.A. a hundred years ago, are claiming that the
2nd largest group of Jehovah's Witnesses outside their country of
origin, is the Muslim country of Nigeria.
In Indonesia, the largest Muslim populated country in the world, there
are over 6000 full-time Christian missionaries (Muballighs), not
priests, parsons or ministers attached to their respective Churches,
but propagators (Crusaders) of their Faith to the non-Christians -
harassing "the heathen," as they call them. These Christians
missionaries have more private air-strips of their own than the
Indonesian Government has. They have mission ships that anchor off the
islands, because Indonesia is a country of over 2000 islands, which
have no harbor or docking facilities. They invite the native for
refreshment and entertainment on board the ship and subtly initiate
them into their blasphemy. In their operation code named "over-kill,"
they are aiming to make Indonesia a Christian Nation by the turn of
the century. Of the over 60,000 missionaries raising dust throughout
the world, more than half of them occupied in Africa. Africa the only
Muslim continent today, is now being assailed by these modern day
Crusaders who aim at making it a Christian continent, this again, by
the turn of the century. Our armor, sword and shield in this battle of
Faiths are in the Quran, we have been chanting it for centuries to
accumulate sawab (spiritual blessings) only; but now we must bring
them forth into the battle field.
DID JESUS EAT FOOD?
Christ the son of Mary was no more than an Apostle; many were the
Apostles that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth.
They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth makes His
Signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from
the truth! (Holy Quran 5:75)
The House of Islam acknowledges that Jesus Christ, the son of Mary was
one of the mightiest of Messengers of God. It acknowledges that he was
born miraculously, without any male intervention; that he was the
Messiah; that he gave life to the dead, by God's permission; and that
he healed the blind and the lepers, by God's permission - BUT DID HE
NOT EAT FOOD?
"And they gave him (Jesus) a piece of broiled fish, and of an
honeycomb. And he (Jesus) took it, and did eat before them." - (Luke
24:42-43)
Further, the mother of Jesus was a woman of truth, a pious and saintly
woman - BUT DID SHE NOT EAT FOOD? Can't you see the implications? Do
we need an Australoid (the aborigine of South Africa) to remind us?
Indeed, we do! In this battle for the hearts and minds of people, we
need his "Atnatu." In his simple rustic language, in his childish
puerile way, he is telling the world that his God eats not. That the
one who eats can never be his God, because he would not be ATNATU. Our
primitive brother had no inhibitions. He called a spade a spade.
THE "MOHAMMEDANS"?
The Westerner is an adept at concocting names. When he invented the
incandescent lamp, he called his light-bulbs or globes, "MAZDA LAMPS".
Mazda happens to be the "god of light" of the Zoroastrians. In South
Africa today, the European is making a great success with the sale of
his "RAMA" Margarine. Rama happens to be the "man-god" of a
substantial number of our population here. The white man calls
himself, Christian, because he is a worshipper of Christ. He calls the
worshipper of Buddha a Buddhist, and with the same logic he calls the
Muslim a "Mohammedan" presuming that he is a worshipper of Muhammad.
But the fact of the matter is, there is no such creature among the
thousand million Muslims of the world.
Let us assume that there were such a lunatic, a worshipper of Muhammad
(May the Blessings of Allah be upon him) who would in his misguided
zeal be called a "Mohammedan." Now if this so-called "Mohammedan," in
his zeal, went among the primitives of South Australia and with all
fan-fare preached his "Mohammedenism," urging this poor, backward
nation, and asked them to accept Muhammad as their god. You could then
well imagine this child of nature asking our deluded brother, "Was
Muhammad 'Atnatu'?" The answer will of course be, "No!;" even from our
lunatic. What about the heroes and heroines of the world who are
worshipped today by the millions of civilized men and women in our own
day?
Present your candidates one by one to the native - Why don't you try
with your real or imagined "man-gods" or "goddesses" - and he will hit
you for a "sixer" (over the boundary, as in cricket) every time with
his "boomerang," with his "ATNATU!" Is he not higher in his concept of
God than the millions in Europe and America, and in Asia and Africa?
PROGRESS IN REGRESSION!
Just picture the American who lands on the moon, and his tribe who sit
at home monitoring happenings on the lunar surface and also in the
world by means of their satellites, like "gods" with a finger on every
pulse. Marvelous, isn't it? Remember the Bay of Bengal Tragedy? The
Americans warned Pakistan about the impending tidal wave. Remember the
Ramadaan War in 1973? The Americans warned Israel that the Arabs were
on the move. But neither heeded the warning. These same Americans,
despite all their depravity wield a power greater than all the "man-
gods" put together. Yet this mighty nation and their counterparts in
Europe and the world, are worshipping men and monkeys - Nay! The very
devil himself! ("The Satan Cult") How is, this possible?
But Satan made (to the wicked) their own acts seem alluring: he is
also their patron today.
(Holy Quran 16:63)
Hero and Hero-worshipping is ingrained in man. If he will not worship
God, then he will worship something else. But worship he must. What
can be better than a handsome man or a beautiful woman, who is one of
his own kind? Anthropomorphism, a system in which man conceives of God
after his own likeness is traditional. It is modern as well as
ancient. Mankind thinks of God as one like himself, in his own image.
Does not the Christian Bible say, in the very first chapter of the
very first Book?
"And God said, Let us make man in our own image..." - (Genesis 1:26)
As to the word "image," God is not talking about a physical, human
likeness, which is not far from a certain family of apes. Little
wonder that Darwin claimed that the monkeys are our ancestors! No! We
are made in the spiritual image of the Beneficent. We are one with Him
in attributes. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said, 'IMBUE THYSELF
WITH DIVINE ATTRIBUTES." As Allah is Holy, we must be holy. As He is
just, justice being his attribute, we must imbibe justice. As He is
Merciful, we must portray mercy, and so on with each of the 99
attributes of God from the Book of Allah - The Holy Quran. None can be
one with God physically, because He is not a physical Being.
THE THREE HYPOSTASES OF THE TRINITY
The poor benighted Christians misunderstood the word "image" as well
as the word "us" in the preceding quotation at the very beginning of
the Bible. Christians interpret the word "us" to imply the existence
of a combination of "Father, Son and Holy Ghost" of their Holy
Trinity. They fail to realize that in Hebrew as well as in Arabic
there are two types of plurals. There is a plural of numbers as well
as that of respect and honor. Here is a plural of honor which you
might not have noticed: - the quotation from the Holy Quran about
Jesus and his mother, observe the words - "SEE! HOW CLEAR WE MAKE FOR
THEM OUR MESSAGES." No Muslim ever understood by these plurals, a
plurality in the Godhead, neither did any Christian Arab or Jew. Ask
any Jew who knows Hebrew as to the number of gods in his Hebrew "US"
from the first chapter of his Torah, and he will confirm without any
hesitation what I am telling you.
THE GODS OF APARTHEID
The deluded souls among mankind not only imagined God in their own
likeness physically, but they also gave him a racial bias and racial
characteristics:
"ETHIOP GODS HAVE ETHIOP LIPS BRONZE CHEEKS AND WOOLLY HAIR; THE
GRECIAN GODS ARE LIKE THE GREEKS AS KEEN-EYED, OLD AND FAIR." -
(Anonymous)
The Greeks and the Romans jettisoned their Minervas, Appolos and
Hercules' and opted for the newest of "man-gods" two thousand years
ago, namely, Jesus Christ. These Romans became the pioneers of their
mythology couched in a fresh garb to the nations of Western Europe who
were tiring of their Thors and Wodenses and so took on the new creed
with alacrity.
In turn the Europeans inflicted their tri-theology on their colonies.
They gave a man-god, more handsome than the "gods" of the natives. And
look how they have transformed him in pictures, sculptures and in the
movies. He has blond hair, blue eyes, handsome angular features like
those of Jeffrey Hunter in the film "King of Kings." But no! He does
not look anything like the Jew with his proverbial polly-nose. The new
"god" is more English/German/Scandinavian, in his bone structure. A
white, "man-god," as against a blue "man-god." (Rama and Krishna are
usually painted blue in Hindu religious pictures). Compare the
portraittures and you will pity the subjected people for falling "out
of the frying pan into the fire."
MUSLIMS' DUTY
We Muslims really have done nothing for the benighted millions of the
world. We should rescue them from their shirk, or else they will take
us down with them to perdition, here as well as in the hereafter.
There are many millions more worshiping man-gods today on Allah's good
earth, than those worshipping the one true God - Allah subha-nahu-wa-
ta aala. The miseries in the Muslim world exist because of our utter
neglect in sharing the Din-ul-lah (The Religion of God) with the
nations of the world. Propagation of the Faith is the Awwal (the
first) Fard (obligation) of the Muslim. Discount this Pillar of Islam
at your own peril. You know that Allah's whip makes no noise. How can
you play your part! Simply by memorizing a single verse of the Holy
Quran. The one from page 15 of this booklet. Write it down on a piece
of cardboard, together with its meaning, and memorize the words of
Allah with the meaning - phrase by phrase - as you see it, and do not
let the card go out of your pocket or your handbag until you have
transferred it into your God-given computer, the brain. With just this
one verse, and with the aborigine's boomerang (his "Atnatu") you are
set to rout every breed of anthropomorphism inflicting Allah's
creatures. This is your privilege and the destiny of Islam. Allah
says:
...That He may make It (ISLAM) prevail over all (FALSE) religion,
however hateful this may be to those who ascribe divinity to other
than Allah. (Holy Quran 61:9)
Do you really believe Allah's promise?
...THE PROMISE OF ALLAH IS TRUE... (Holy Quran 4:122)
CHAPTER THREE: WHO IS JEHOVAH?
Astonishing as it may sound, it is an admitted fact that prior to the
sixteenth century, the word "Jehovah," was unheard of. Whenever the
origin of this word appeared in its true Hebrew form in Jewish
Scriptures (read from right to left as in Arabic) Yet, Huh, Wav, Huh;
or Y.H.W.H. these four letters were preceded by a substitute word
"Adonai," to warn the reader that the following word was not to be
articulated. The Jews took meticulous care in repeating this exercise
in their "Book of God" six thousand, eight hundred and twenty-three
times - interpolating the words "Adonai" or "Elohim." They sincerely
believed that this awesome name of God was never to be pronounced.
This prohibition was no ordinary affair: it called for a penalty of
death on one who dared to utter it, and this taboo has been more
successful than all the "DO's" and "DON'T's" of the Ten Commandments
put together.
If Jehovah is the name of God Almighty, and if the 27 Books of the New
Testament were inspired by Him, then it is an anomaly of the highest
order, that He (Jehovah) signally failed to have His Own Name recorded
in "His Word" (N.T.) the Christian addition to the Jewish Bible. The
Christians claim that they have in their possession over twenty-four
thousand so-called "originals" of their Holy Writ in the Greek
language, and yet not a single parchment has "Jehovah" written in it.
Curiously this "name of God" (?) has been sacrilegiously replaced by
the Greek words ky'ri.os and the.os', which mean 'Lord' and 'God.'
Yet, miracle of miracles - Alleluya! - no devil or saint has been able
to eliminate the word "ALLAH" from the so-called New Testament of the
Christians.
NEW FANGLED DOCTRINES
A hundred years ago, all of a sudden, more than a hundred new cults
and denominations of Christendom mushroomed in the United States of
America. The Seventh Day Adventists, the Christian Scientists, the
Mennonites, the Christiadelphins, The Jehovah's Witnesses and the
like. The founder of the last named cult, a Judge Rutherford, about
whom the orthodox Christians say that he was no "Judge." This Judge
was a voracious book-worm and a prolific writer. He stumbled across
the word "Jehovah" which tickled him immensely, and he made a religion
out of it.
Judge Rutherford, followed by Charles T. Russell created a new
"church," which in its system of organization and administration is
second to none in the world. There is very much we Muslims can learn
from their enthusiasm and methodology. Read, "Thirty Years a
Watchtower Slave" by Schelin. It is not their theology I am enamoured
with but their modus operandi (the way they operate). Read, how this
incorrigible sect came very close to conquering Germany before Hitler.
Read, about their second come-back in West Germany. Think, why they
are making a most concerted effort in Nigeria. Will the system or
religion that prevails in Nigeria, be ultimately the norm of the rest
of Africa! This giant is the hero of the majority of the African
people south of the Sahara. Muslims must reflect.
VIRILE SECT
The "Jehovah's Witnesses," have made the most phenomenal progress of
all the religious sects of the past hundred years, on a percentage
basis. The Bahaies are moving at a snails-pace in comparison, actually
receding in ratio with the other Christian off-shoots. These
"Witnesses" are the fittest in their fight against the other
Christians as well as against the Muslims. Simply because they program
themselves five times a week in their "Kingdom Halls," and what they
learn they implement during the week-ends. We Muslims are supposed to
be "programmed" five times a day in our daily Salaat, but we have lost
the true purpose of this Pillar of Islam. Our Salaat is for earning
Sawaab (spiritual blessings) only.
They have made the word JEHOVAH famous. They knock at people's doors,
asking the question - "What is His Name?" The orthodox Christian
replies - "God." They say, "God is not a name, it is an object of
worship. What's His Name?" "Father," says the orthodox as a second
try. "Is your father God?" Of course not! So what is His Name?
"JEHOVAH! is His Name," says the "Witness" to both Muslims and non-
Muslims alike. He has become a professor of this one word. He has made
it into a religion.
THE "TETRAGRAMMATON"
Why not for a change ask him, a question or two. Ask him where he got
the word Jehovah from? He will surely reply - "From the Holy Bible."
What does it say? Does it spell out the word J-e-h-o-v-a-h? "No," he
will reply. "There is a 'tetragrammaton' in the Bible from which the
word Jehovah is derived." What is a tetragrammaton? No one seems to
have heard this highly mystical term. In the University of Illinois in
the U.S.A. I asked a gathering of students and lecturers whether any
one had heard this jaw-breaker! Not one of them knew its meaning! But
every Jehovah's Witness seems to know, even the commonest of them.
They have really specialized - ours is a world of specialization. They
are Professors of the one word - Jehovah.
What then is a "tetragrammaton!" The Jehovah's Witness replies, "Y H W
H!"
"No!" "What I want to know from you is, what does the word
tetragrammaton mean?" You will find him most reluctant in explaining.
Either he does not really know, or he is feeling embarrassed in
replying. "Tetra," in Greek means FOUR, and "grammaton," means
LETTERS. It simply means "a four letter word."
Can you read into Y H W H the word Jehovah? I cannot. "No!", says the
Jehovah's Witness, "we ought to add vowels to these four consonants to
produce the sound. Originally, both Hebrew and Arabic were written
without the vowel signs The native of each language was able to read
if even without those vowels. Not so the outsider, for whose benefit
the vowels were invented.
THE "J" SICKNESS
Let us add the vowels as the "Witness" suggests. YHWH becomes YeHoWaH.
Juggle as you like but you can never materialize Jehovah! Ask him,
from which hat he drew his "J". He will tell you that "this is the
'popular' pronunciation from the 16th century." The exact sound of the
four letters YHWH is known neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles,
yet he is ramming JEHOVAH down everyone's throats. The European
Christians have developed a fondness (sickness) for the letter "J"
They add J's where there are no Jays. Look!
Yael he converts to Joel
Yehuda to Juda
Yeheshua to Joshua
Yusuf to Joseph
Yunus to Jonah
Yesus to Jesus
Yehowa to Jehovah
There is no end to the Westerner's infatuation for the letter "J." Now
in the busy streets of South Africa, he charges people who carelessly
cross them for "jay-walking," but nobody charges him for converting
Jewish (Yehudi) names into Gentile names.
The letters Y H W H occur in the Hebrew (Jewish) Scriptures 6,823
times, boasts the Jehovah's Witness, and it occurs in combination with
the word "Elohim;" 156 times in the booklet called Genesis alone. This
combination YHWH/ELOHIM has been consistently translated in the
English Bible as "Lord God," "Lord God," Lord God," ad infinitum.
COMMON ORIGIN
What is YHWH; and what is ELOHIM? Since the Jews did not articulate
the word YHWH for centuries, and since even the Chief Rabbis would not
allow the ineffable to be heard, they have forfeited the right to
claim dogmatically how the word is to be sounded. We have to seek the
aid of the Arab to revive Hebrew, a language which had once died out.
In every linguistic difficulty recourse has to be made to Arabic, a
sister language, which has remained alive and viable. Racially and
linguistically, the Arabs and the Jews have a common origin, going
back to Father Abraham.
Note the startling resemblance between the languages, very often the
same sounding words carry identical meaning in both.
HEBREW ; ARABIC ; ENGLISH
Elah ; Ilah ; god
Ikhud ; Ahud ; one
Yaum ; Yaum ; day
Shaloam ; Salaam ; peace
Yahuwa ; Ya Huwa ; oh he
YHWH or Yehova or Yahuwa all mean the very same thing. "Ya" is a
vocative and an exclamatory particle in both Hebrew and Arabic,
meaning Oh! And "Huwa" or "Hu" means He, again in both Hebrew and
Arabic. Together they mean Oh He! So instead of YHWH ELOHIM, we now
have Oh He! ELOHIM.
CHAPTER FOUR : ALLAH IN THE BIBLE
The suffix "IM" of the word "ELOHIM" is a plural of respect in
Hebrew.
(Remember that in Arabic and Hebrew there are two types of plurals.
One of numbers and the other of honor as in Royal proclamations. Since
the plural of honor is uncommon in the language of the European, he
has confused these plurals to connote a plurality in the "godhead,"
hence his justification for his Doctrine of the Holy Trinity - the
Father, Son and Holy Ghost).
Hence ELOHIM = ELOH + IM. Now I want you to perform an exercise. Do
you see the words: YA-HUWA ELOH-IM? Place your left hand index finger
on the first two letters "YA" meaning oh! and the other index finger
on the "IM" a plural of respect. What you now have remaining in Huwa
Eloh or Huwa Elah. El in Hebrew means god, and Elah or Eloh also
stands for the same name - god. Therefore, "Huwa el Elah" or HUWA 'L
LAH, which is identical to the Quranic expression - Huwal lah hu
(meaning: HE IS ALLAH) of the verse QUL HUWAL LAH HU AHUD
Say: He is Allah the One and Only; (Holy Quran 112:1)
The above exercise proves that El, Elah and Elohim are not three
distinctly different words. They all represent the single Arabic word
Allah. This is not my wishful thinking. Please see below. It is a
photostatic reproduction of a page from the English Bible, edited by
Rev. C. I. Scofield,D.D., with his Bible Commentary· This Doctor of
Divinity is well respected among the Bible Scholars of the Christian
world. He is backed in his "NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION" of this
translation by a galaxy of eight other D.D.'s:
Rev. Henry G. Weston, D.D., LL.D., President Crozer Theological
jeminary.
Rev. W. G. Moorehead, D.D., President Xenia (U.I,) Theological
Seminary.
Rev. lames M. Gray, D.D., President Moody Bible Institute.
Rev. Elmore Harris, D.D., President Toronto Bible Institute.
Rev. William !. Erdman, D.D., Author "The Gospel of John," etc.
Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D., Author, Editor, Teacher, etc.
Rev. William L. Pettingill, D.D., Author, Editor, Teacher.
Arno C. Gaebelein, Author "Harmoney of Prophetic Word," etc.
I have not listed the above luminaries to awe you. They have been
unanimous in supporting Rev. Scofield in his "New and Improved"
commentary.
Please note that in their comment No. 1 below left, they concur that -
"Elohim, (sometimes El or Elah meaning God)" and alternatively spelled
"Alah" (line three, third word). All the eight D.D.'s above could not
have been blind in dittoing the spelling "Alah" for God. How far were
they from the Arabic word spelled - ALLAH - in English, I ask you dear
reader? This is Allah's handiwork, but the Devil (I must give him a
capital "D," he deserves it) was not slow in making a quick come-back
through his agents. He succeeded in firing all the D.D.'s responsible
for that debacle, and had them replaced by nine others with more
impressive degrees than the previous lot. You will find them in the
recent reproduction of "The New Scofield Reference Bible." You will
not be able to lay your hands anymore on the Bible with "Alah" in it.
The Devil has seen to that.
MY ONLY PLEA
I had made some public statements regarding my discovery of the word
"Alah" as alternatively spelled from the usual Christian spelling
"Elah." My plea to the Christians was this that spell the word as you
like, with an "A" or an "E", with a single "L" or double "LL's", but
for goodness sake pronounce the word correctly, as we Muslims do.
Because even with its proper Anglicized spelling - A L L A H: "IT IS
SO FAR FROM ITS ARABIC ORIGINAL, WHEN PRONOUNCED WITH A THIN ENGLISH
CONSONANT AND FEEBLE VOWELS, THAT MANY AN ARAB MUSLIM WOULD FIND IT
UNRECOGNIZABLE." Says Rev. Kenneth Cragg, the Anglican Bishop of
Jerusalem in his book, "The Call of the Minaret," page 36.
As much as the Englishman has the right to dictate to us as to how his
language is to be sounded, surely we Muslims have as much right to
demand a common courtesy when taking the name of God. We do not wish
the word Allah to go into limbo like the "Yahuwa" of the Jews. More
than 6000 times the formula "YAHUWA ELAH," or ya"HUWA ALAH," or
"HUWALLAH," (He is Allah!) occur in the Hebrew manuscripts of the
Jewish Bible, commonly called the "Old Testament," by the Christians.
If this fact is openly acknowledged by the learned men of Christianity
and broadcasted as Rev. Scofield had done then the day for Muslims and
Christians to worship God together would not be far distant. But the
Devil will not have it. Vested interests are involved. Instead of
pronouncing the word ALAH correctly, they would rather have the whole
word omitted.
QUICK ABROGATION
"Now You See It" - "Now You Don't" is an old, old gimmick in the West.
Compare the above and see how cleverly, how deftly the new band of
missionaries expunged the word "Alah" from the "Authorized King James
Version" of the Scofield translation of the Bible.
As a guide to one of the largest Mosques in the Southern Hemisphere,
the JUMA MUSJID, Durban, my companions and I are often asked by the
tourists, "Why Allah?" "Is He another God?" The answer of course is
"NO!" There is not another god. The Muslim creed, the Kalima is:
"There is no god except Allah!" makes this explicit; every Muslim must
utter this unequivocal statement. And the second half of the Kalima:
"Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah," excludes even Muhammad (PBUH)
from being associated with Allah in His Divinity. We are made to say,
so to say - NOT EVEN MUHAMMAD is god, or object of worship. It is
Allah, and Allah alone who is the Only Tue God.
UNIQUE NAME FOR UNIQUE GOD
"We Muslims prefer the Arabic word Allah to the English word God,
because this English word God is often misused or misapplied," I
explain to my non-Muslim visitors to the mosque, on their so-called
"Oriental Tour" as arranged by the Durban Publicity Bureau, I
continue, "On your last port of call, you will be ending off at a
Hindu house of Prayer, called a Temple, and there, you might
rightfully point out to your children the idols and the images found,
as 'the gods of the Hindus', and if a Hindu overhears you; he will not
mind, he will not be offended, because what you said to your child is
actually what he believes. Then, again, we speak of the gods of
ancient Greece; of gods and goddesses, who ate and drank, who wrangled
and plotted; carried away the wives of other gods.
"Further, in English, if some gentleman was to look after somebody's
child as a guardian, we would say that he is a "godfather" to the
child, and the woman - a "god- mother" to the child. And if one tried
to be a bit too funny, a bit too clever, one would say -'What do you
think of yourself, are you a tin god!' We spell god with a capital
"G" (God), and we spell god with a small "g" (god), which creates in
your minds grades and grades of divinities."
This Arabic word, Allah, is never used in any other sense. There is no
such thing as an "Allah-father" or an "Allah-mother" or a "Tin-Allah."
ALLAH is a unique word for the only God. Arabic, like every other
language, also has its rules of grammar, but in Arabic you cannot make
a plural form for Allah, nor can you make a feminine of Allah. All
this is very unlike the English word, God. If you want to make a
plural, just add an "s" (Gods); You can make God feminine by adding
"dess" (goddess); and you can make God diminutive by adding
"ling" (godling). Look at the sheer mockery the Westerner has made of
the word "GOD," and how his fertile imagination has run riot and havoc
in denigrating the Glory and Majesty of the Incomparable Creator,
sustainer and Cherisher of all the worlds as recorded in the Oxford
Dictionary:
You have a variety of choices in the list above. Take your pick like
that old woman who lit one candle to St. Michael and another to the
Devil. So that whether she went to Heaven or to Hell she would have a
friend.
Jupiter the god of Heaven
Pluto the god of Hell
Mars the god of War
Neptune the god of the Sea and
Zeus the god-father of them all
with his many wives and many children. His Hercules, his Appolo, his
Horus, his Isis and Osiris. Sheer mythology and rank blasphemy, but to
a people who believed in mythology, mythology was no mythology; it was
empirical truths. And this terminology of the West blended itself well
to paganistic theology, with their "gods" and "goddesses." BUT ALLAH
IS FREE FROM ALL CORRUPTIONS. YOU CAN DO NOTHING WITH THIS WORD IN THE
LANGUAGE OF THE ARAB. YOU CANNOT MANIPULATE IT IN ANY WAY!
PEARLS OF FAITH
Here is a passage of great sublimity, summing up in marvelous terse
verses the Asma-ul-Husna, the Most Beautiful names of Allah.
Allah is He, than whom there is no other god Who knows (all things)
both secret and open; He Most Gracious Most Merciful.
Allah is He than whom there is no other god the sovereign the Holy One
the Source of Peace (and Perfection). The Guardian of Faith the
Preserver of Safety the Exalted in Might the Irresistible the Supreme:
Glory to Allah! (high is He) above the partners they attribute to Him.
He is Allah the Creator the Evolver the Bestower of Forms (or colors).
To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names: Whatever is in the heavens and
on earth doth declare His Praises and Glory: and He is the exalted in
Might the Wise.
(Holy Quran 59: 22-24)
Where is there in the religious literature of the world anything to
compare with this!
"ALLAH" IN EVERY BIBLE AND IN EVERY LANGUAGE
There is no difficulty in our agreeing that in the languages of the
world, every nation has given a distinctive name to God. Most of these
names are attributive names, describing some aspect of God. But the
proper name for God Almighty in the Semitic languages, i.e. in the
mother-tongues of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (Peace be upon them all)
is ALLAH! This name is still extant in the Christian Bible in every
language of the world. The Christians are boasting that they have
translated their Bible into over fifteen hundred languages, more
specially the translation of the New Testament. In every Gospel that I
have scrutinized in the various languages I find the word "Allah"
preserved - English or Afrikaans, Zulu or Swahili. Why not check up in
your own dialect to prove me wrong. I would love to hear from you.
If what I claim is Gospel Truth, then how is it that the whole
Christian world of over 1,200,000,000 people have not been aware of
it. This is what effective programming or brain-washing can do. They
have been trained NOT to see the obvious. Did not Jesus bewail:
"Seeing, they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they
understand." (Matthew 13:13).
FROM THE LIPS OF JESUS
I ask my Christian visitors, "Do you remember your Gospel narrative,
that when Christ was supposed to have been on the cross, he cried out
with a loud voice:
"ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? which is, being interpreted, My God, My
God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34).
The above is a translation from the Greek manuscripts "ACCORDING TO
ST. MARK." Obviously his Hebrew has a Greek accent. Because, his so-
called originals were written in Greek. But listen to Matthew, who is
supposed to have written his Gospel originally in Hebrew, which was
aimed at the Jews. St. Jerome, an early Christian father of the 4th
and 5th centuries after Christ, testifies as follows:
"MATTHEW, WHO IS ALSO LEVI, AND WHO FROM A PUBLICAN CAME TO BE AN
APOSTLE, FIRST OF ALL THE EVANGELISTS, COMPOSED A GOSPEL OF CHRIST IN
JUDEA IN THE HEBREW LANGUAGE AND CHARACTERS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE
OF THE CIRCUMCISION WHO HAD BELIEVED."
Naturally, Matthew's accent would be more Semitic (Hebrew and Arabic)
than that of Mark. Matthew records the same scene as Mark 15:34, but
note the variation of the dialect:
Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? that
is to say, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me'? (Matthew
27:46).
Please memorize the words - "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani." (Eli -
pronounced like L and I in English) Utter the words - ELI, ELI, LAMA
SABACHTHANI; ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI, to your Christian friends and
neighbors and ask them whether these words - "Eli, Eli," sounds like
"Jehovah, Jehovah!" to them? No! is the answer if they are not deaf.
Ask further, whether "Eli, Eli," sounds like "Abba, Abba!" (meaning
father, father! in Hebrew) to them! Again the reply will be "No!" if
they are not deaf. Can't they see that the cry is to Allah? "Eli, Eli
- Elah, Elah, Allah, Allah!" Let them hear these words from your lips
and watch their reactions. No honest person can help agreeing with
you.
ALLELUYA!
Now ask your Christian friend, if he had heard the word - "ALLELUYA."
No Christian worth the name will fail to recognize it. Whenever the
Christian goes into ecstasy, he exclaims - "Alleluya! Alleluya!", just
as we Muslims might exclaim the Takbir - "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!"
Ask him, what is Alleluya? Take him to the Book of Revelation, the
last book of the New Testament, Chapter 19; we are informed there that
John the disciple of Jesus, saw a vision, in which, why hast thou
forsaken me'? (Matthew 27:46).
Please memorize the words - "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani." (Eli -
pronounced like L and I in English) Utter the words - ELI, ELI, LAMA
SABACHTHANI; ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI, to your Christian friends and
neighbors and ask them whether these words - "Eli, Eli," sounds like
"Jehovah, Jehovah!" to them? No! is the answer if they are not deaf.
Ask further, whether "Eli, Eli," sounds like "Abba, Abba!" (meaning
father, father! in Hebrew) to them! Again the reply will be "No!" if
they are not deaf. Can't they see that the cry is to Allah? "Eli, Eli
- Elah, Elah, Allah, Allah!" Let them hear these words from your lips
and watch their reactions. No honest person can help agreeing with
you.
ALLELUYA!
th the exclamatory particle or exclamation mark, e.g. Stop! Go! Fire!
Bang!
Let us repeat the above Tasbih (words of praise) as an Arab or a Jew:
ALLE-LU-YA will be YA-ALLE-LU because, as explained above, YA is
always at the beginning in both Arabic and Hebrew.
YA ALLE LU would be YA ALLA HU: Meaning, "OH ALLAH!" (You are the Only
Being Who deserves worship and Praise) "OH ALLAH!" (You are the Only
Being Who deserves worship and Praise).
Unbiased Christians will not fail to recognize Allah as none other
than his - El, Eli, Alle, Elah, Alah, Allah. Call upon Him by any
name, for His are the Most Beautiful names, as long as those names are
not contaminated and as long as they do not conjure up in our minds
the images of men or monkeys howsoever glorified they might have
been.
THE CONCEPT OF "GOD THE FATHER"
There are many beautiful attributes of God, which are common to both
the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible. A lengthy thesis can be written on
this. But a very interesting facet I have discovered in this that
among the 99 attributes of God given to us in the Holy Quran the word
"Father" is not one of them. If the Holy Prophet was the author of the
Holy Quran as his adversaries allege, then how could he have avoided
the term - Father - for God, for twenty-three years of his prophetic
life! Abb, meaning father in Arabic (Abba in Hebrew), is an easier
word than Rabb, meaning Lord and Cherisher; yet the attribute Rabb
abounds in the Last and Final Revelation of God. The reason for the
omission of the word Abb (father) for describing God Almighty is
obvious: MANKIND HAD DENIGRATED THAT BEAUTIFUL CONCEPT OF THE LOVING
Father in Heaven to being the Father of the "only begotten son" - to
being physically like a human being, because begetting is an animal
act, belonging to the lower animal functions of sex.
UNIQUE TO THE QURAN AND CONCLUSION
Say: "Shall I take for my protector any other than Allah the Maker of
the heavens and the earth? And He is that feedeth but is not
fed." (Holy Quran 6:14)
No creature who is ever in need of earthly food can be "ATNATU!" If
you can make the worshippers of the "man-gods" to apply this
touchstone to their heroes, you can retrieve millions from the
impending Hell-fire. Learn a lesson from the Australoid (give him one
last look on the frontispiece), who despite his abject primitiveness
still stands high above the millions of the civilized men and women of
both East and West who strut the world today.
GLORY BE TO ALLAH!
And Peace and Salutations upon His Messenger Muhammad for conveying
the Message of Cod to mankind. May Allah make us worthy to be his
followers, Ameen!
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> "drahcir" <sued...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
Poor ben misses me so very much. I don't think I feel like satisfying
his hunger for discourse. I may change my mind if he asks very nicely,
though.
RJ11
B. H. Cramer <Iyamh'r...@themoment.yo> wrote:
(hysterical rants given the snip)
Do calm down, "Cramer". Soon, your little brother will arrive
with the new shipment, and everything will be fine.
"my younger Brother got me absolutely stoned on magic mushrooms.
I spent three days sitting in the corner of the tent waiting to come
down." -- the neo-Nazi "Ben Cramer" reflects on his usage of
hallucinatory drugs. Source:
Message-ID: <1125123267.5e5d281ad88798917af26011bcb01dc0@teranews>
There you go. That's a good lad.
RJ.
Gary Renzetti
<the same crap he always writes - brissed>
"Oh Norman, listen! The loons are calling!"
> - Katherine Hepburn, "On Golden Pond"-