Assalaamu alaikum G-L
Alhamdullilah,(Praise be to Allah)
Don`t use your DELETE botton please, open your heart and minds for the sake
of God...PLEASE!!!

COME LET US REASON TOGETHER!

SAY: "O PEOPLE OF THE BOOK!
COME TO COMMON TERMS AS BETWEEN US AND YOU:
THAT WE WORSHIP NONE BUT GOD;
THAT WE ASSOCIATE NO PARTNERS WITH HIM;
THAT WE ERECT NOT, FROM AMONG OURSELVES,
LORDS AND PATRONS OTHER THAN GOD."
IF THEN THEY TURN BACK,
SAY: "BEAR WITNESS THAT WE (AT LEAST)
ARE MUSLIMS (BOWING TO GOD`S WILL)."
                          Holy Qur`an (Surah 3, verse 64)

"PEOPLE OF THE BOOK" is the respectful title given to the Jews and
Christians in the Holy Qur`an.
The Muslim is here commanded to invite - "O People of the Book!"- O Learned
People! O People who claim to be the recipients of Divine Revelation, of a
Holy Scripture; let us gather together onto a common
platform - "that we worship none but God", because none but God worthy of
worship, not because
"The LORD THY GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON
THE CHILDREN UNTO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT HATE ME.
"(Exodus 20:5).But because He is our Lord and Cherisher, our Sustainer and
Evolver, worthy of all praise, prayer and devotion.

In the abstract the Jews and the Christians would agree to all the three
propositions contained in this Qur`anic verse. In practice they fail. Apart
from doctrinal lapses from the unity of the One True God,
(Allah subhanahu wa ta-ala) God the AlMighty! there is the question of a
consecrated Priesthood (among the Jews it was hereditary also), as if a mere
human being - Cohen, or Pope, or Priest, or Brahman, - could claim
superiority apart from his learning and the purity of his life, or could
stand between man and God in some special sense. ISLAM DOES NOT RECOGNISE
PRIESTHOOD!

The Creed of Islam is given to us here in a nutshell:

Say ye: "We believe in Allah,
And the revelation given to us,
And to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac,
Jacob,and the Tribes,
And that given to Moses and Jesus
And that given to (all)
Prophets from their Lord:
We make no difference
Between one and another of them:
And we bow to Allah (in Islam)."
                                      (Holy Qur`an 2:136)

The Muslim position is clear. The Muslim does not claim to have a religion
peculiar to himself.
Islam is not a sect or an ethnic religion. In its view all Religion is ONE,
for the Truth is ONE.
IT WAS THE SAME RELIGION PREACHED BY ALL THE EARLIER PROPHETS. (Holy Quràn
42:13).
It was the truth taught by all the inspired Books.
In essence it amounts to a consciousness of the Will and Plan of God and a
joyful submission to that will and Plan.
IF ANYONE WANTS A RELIGION OTHER THAN THAT, HE IS FALSE TO HIS OWN NATURE,
AS HE IS FALSE TO GOD`S WILL AND PLAN. Such a one cannot expect guidance,
for he has deliberately renounce guidance.

Allah Said: to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Say:"DO YOU SEE? WHETHER THIS MESSAGE BE FROM ALLAH (God Almighty), AND YET
YOU REJECT IT, AND A WITNESS FROM AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BORE WITNESS
OF ONE LIKE HIM....." (Holy Qur`an 46:10)

"Lo! Allah and His angels shower blessing on the Prophet, O ye who believe!
Ask blessing on him and salute him with a worthy Salutation."

Allahumma salli alaa saidina Muhammadin wa alaa alli Muhammadin.

( don`t give me any credit give it to Ahmed Deedat)

Samba Goddard
(Pulo)

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