Following the writing called, The Final Solution, we can see the Quran in a new application that to my knowledge has never been applied before. However, it has been said ‘that history teaches man that man learns nothing from history’. So, one must be objective and careful in one’s application or else risk the inevitable condemnation from the ONE GOD WHO does not appreciate false, innovative practices that go forth to mislead men.
Those who annoy ALLAH and HIS Messenger – ALLAH has cursed them in this world and in the Hereafter, and has prepared for them a humiliating Punishment. Quran (33:57)
O you that believe! Betray not the trust of ALLAH and the Messenger, nor misappropriate knowingly things entrusted to you. Quran (8:27)
You shall certainly be tried and tested in your possessions and in your personal selves; and you shall certainly hear much that will grieve you, from those who received the Book before you and from those who worship many gods. But if you persevere patiently, and guard against evil, then that will be a determining factor in all affairs. Quran (3:186)
And WE send not the Messengers except as bringers of good tidings and warners. And those who disbelieve dispute by (using) falsehood to (attempt to) invalidate thereby the truth and have taken MY verses, and that of which they are warned, in ridicule. Quran (18:56)
And don’t dispute with the People of the Book, except with means better (than mere disputation), unless it be with those of them who inflict wrong (and injury): but say, “We believe in the Revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our ALLAH {GOD} and your ALLAH {GOD} is ONE {GOD without partners}; {There is but ONE AND THE SAME GOD over us all} and it is to HIM that we bow down (in Islam).” Quran (29:46)
“With ALLAH is the argument that reaches home: if it had been HIS WILL, HE could indeed have guided all of you.” Quran (6:149)
One cannot stop the practices of the ‘spiritually deformed’ but one can always learn to appreciate the awesomeness of the creations ALLAH set forth including the power and dynamics of HIS conversations to be discussed amongst his creations – men and jinn – concerning the exalted excellence of HIS PERFECT WORD (in Arabic) known as the Quran.
In truth, we humans have no knowledge of the ‘Unseen’ and so our responsibility is not to ‘straighten a crooked stick’ if it decides to remain crooked! Truly, there is no compulsion in religion but Truth in the end will triumph over falsehood!
Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in ALLAH has grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And ALLAH Hears and Knows all things. Quran (2:256)
And this contest between truth and falsehood will be over with those who rejoice in excellence manifold versus those who will be left with nothing except to drown in their own grief during their torment and painful loss of what might have been {had they but listened to reason or used their intelligence – Quran 67:10}!
That is why the ‘believers’ appreciate the Quran’s Guidance, Comfort and Wisdom in its Perfection and being somehow heavenly guarded in its originality until the time of its being lifted up from the Earth (knowledge of this ‘lifting up event’ is found in a credible hadith and also from Ibn Taymiyyah). And lifted up it shall be because it will in no ways find a home among the ‘trash’ that shall finally inhabit this world before the Day of Judgment comes.
As to ‘timelines’ what can be said? It is just this! THE MOVER, THE ACTIVATOR, indeed THE PLANNER is ALLAH and therefore according to HIS WISDOM and PROMISE to the souls from the beginning what happens will happen and none can stop it! So, it behooves man to stop and think about what they are doing and, islamically, leave the result up to HIM!
But those who can see, can see the disintegration in this Age already taking place and before the Earth can be ruined, the entrance of the Messiah must come and with his coming there must arise that ‘kingdom of excellence’ promised him and the true Believers. So, the goal is to be in that kingdom and die and then be raised up to ‘glory and true salvation’ during the time appointed for this. A Promise from ALLAH, which is binding on HIM for HE is THE TRUTH!
All of these things can be found in correct hadiths concerning what is called the ‘End Times’ and the minor and major Signs of the Last Hour and what has been written in these writings by the admirable recorders of hadiths.
‘Abdullah b. ‘Umar reported: I went to ALLAH’s Messenger (pbh) in the morning and he heard the voice of two persons who had an argumentation with each other about a verse. ALLAH’s Apostle (pbh) came to us (and) the (signs) of anger could be seen on his face. He said: Verily, the (peoples) before you were ruined because of their disputation {not discussion, for they went forth and broke up into various sects} in the Book. (Muslim)
Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported ALLAH’s Messenger (pbh) as saying: “You would tread the same path as was trodden by those before you inch by inch and step by step so much so that if they had entered into the hole of the lizard, you would follow them in this also.” We said: “ALLAH’s Messenger, do you mean Jews and Christians (by your words) those before you”? He said: “Who else” (than those two religious groups)? (Muslim)
Abdullah reported ALLAH’s Messenger (pbh) as saying: Ruined were those who indulged in hair-splitting. He (the Holy Prophet) repeated this thrice. (Muslim)
Abu Wa’il reported: I was sitting with ‘Abdullah and Abu Musa that they reported ALLAH’s Messenger (pbh) having said: Prior to the Last Hour, there would be a time when knowledge would be taken away, and ignorance would take its place and there would be bloodshed on a large scale. (Muslim)
Abu Huraira reported ALLAH’s Messenger (pbh) as saying: (When) the time would draw close to the Last Hour, knowledge would be snatched away, turmoil would be rampant, miserliness would be put (in the hearts of the people) and there would be much bloodshed (al-harj). They said: What is al-harj? Thereupon he said: It is bloodshed. (Muslim)
‘Abdullah b. ‘Amr b. al-‘As reported ALLAH’s Messenger (pbh) as saying: Verily, ALLAH does not take away knowledge by snatching it from the people but HE takes away knowledge by taking away the scholars, so that when HE leaves no learned person, people turn to ignorant (ones) as their leaders; then they are asked to deliver religious verdicts and they deliver them without knowledge, (hence) they go astray, and lead others astray. (Muslim)
Abu Huraira reported ALLAH’s Messenger (pbh) as saying: He who called (people) to righteousness, there would be a reward (assured) for him like the rewards of those who adhered to it, without their rewards being diminished in any respect. And he who called (people) to error, he shall have to carry (the burden) of its sin, like those who committed it, without their sins {of the people who followed that error} being diminished in any respect. (Muslim)
Umar ibn al-Khattab reported: The Messenger of ALLAH (pbh) said, “Verily, deeds are only with intentions and every person will have only what they intended. Whoever emigrated to ALLAH and HIS Messenger, his emigration is for ALLAH and HIS Messenger. Whoever emigrated to get something in the world or to marry a woman, his emigration is for that to which he emigrated.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
After digesting my four books on the subject of Comparative Religion or a part of it anyway, the topic can turn to what I call the Greatest Miracle on Earth and that is the Quran. There are so many ways to approach this subject but the one I fancy is that this is a Book that reflects a magnitude of depth of the CREATOR LORD in a multifaceted way.
Not that we can totally unravel these things but that we can appreciate their simple complexity and with justification. As long as one realizes that we can only approach this topic with the upmost trepidation and respect and that only that which can be seen can be shown. That means that the Unseen cannot be broached.
The similitude for this is that if I bought a candy bar for a friend, without ever having it for myself, I could not for the life of me explain to him how that candy bar tastes, looks like or what it exactly contains. For example, if it is made of chocolate, then what kind of chocolate does it contain as to its properties like color. What percentage of insect body parts (1 per billionth weight) does it have? What are the exact percentages of listed ingredients is this bar made of? Will my friend like this ‘treat’ by a lot or only by a little or not at all?
The above and more like those properties are the Unknown or Unseen, if you will. The SEEN part of the equation is the outside wrapper, the weight of the treat and the list of ingredients by maximum to minimum amounts. Then there is the difference between the Unknown and that which can’t be known which is the REAL UNSEEN.
One can know if one’s friend likes the candy bar after the fact, if he is honest about it. That Unseen eventually becomes the known whereas the REAL UNSEEN is above the knowledge of man. The example of that which can become known is the going to the Moon and landing on the Moon by rocket ship. Before that time there could be arguments that due to the Moon’s accumulation of dust on its surface, any craft would sink and maybe disappear if one landed on the Moon. Now we know differently.
The Majestic Quran cannot rollout a specific story frame by frame with every event covered in the minutest detail, under every nanosecond observed. That would render the Quran so heavy that it would literally sink into the earth’s surface. But what the Quran does is akin to providing an echo which can be taken as echo upon echo with each having a flavor of its own but a unique similarity to the collective whole in a cyclic-type of fashion.
Talk about the impossible becoming POSSIBLE! What would one (a sane person) expect since this is GOD’s Holy, Protected Book! That being the case, the following verse can expand as ALLAH WILLS it to expand – for HIS REASONS not ours.
The similitude of Jesus before ALLAH is as that of Adam; HE created him from dust, then said to him: “Be”. And he was. Quran (3:59).
Even the verses before that and after that do have some connections but the main shout-out is the verse in 3:59. That verse gives us only one sentence from a whole complete set of novels. But it is an important one! So, for example, one can say that this verse discusses the human being as being a created creature from the ONE GOD.
This is just an idea of how the Quran can expand beyond the capabilities of man’s mental grasp. Yet an understanding can be had in a general sort of way provided that the appropriate evidence is brought forth.
A table does not stand unless it has legs and the legs for Quranic understanding must come from proof provided by the sacrosanct evidence. That is, the only most meaningful evidence acceptable will come from Holy Scripture and hadith materials rather than wild, flights of fancy or imagination.
So, in building any case, one must maintain a clear line of evidence based on a multi-faceted, highly connected piece of logic. Failure to do this results in the ‘meism’ of religious thinking and that becomes a poisonous brew which pollutes the soul as well as any other talking points.
Those who oppose this ideology may try and partake of a safety net but they had better not abuse its meaning. That safety net is as follows:
Let there be no compulsion in religion: Truth stands out clear from Error: whoever rejects evil and believes in ALLAH has grasped the most trustworthy hand-hold that never breaks. And ALLAH hears and knows all things. Quran (2:256)
In other words, a RECORD, CLEAR AND CONCISE is being built concerning one’s soul. And it is a guarantee that the ONE GOD will not be mocked!
How does a person become literally trapped in their little delusional world? They become trapped (or blinded to reality) simply by having their own feelings become their reality. Take those who believe in a flat Earth or those who believe in a Trinity-god system. They are like a toy train set that runs on the tracks provided for it.
If ALLAH stops the light of true Faith from reaching the heart, there will be no embracing the truth. Rather what happens is that that person is caught in his/her own net of weaving and follows a course guaranteed to lead it to ruin. A ruin approved by the ONE GOD not out of spite but out of purpose as that faithless soul turned against HIM and demanded his own selfish ways.
But it {THIS HORRIBLE THING} is happened to them {the unfortunate ones} according to the {truth} true proverb, the dog is turned to his own vomit AGAIN; and the sow that was washed {clean, RETURNS} to her wallowing in the {filthy} mire {AGAIN}. 2Peter (2:22)
Bear in mind that our lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote {to} you with the {type of} wisdom that GOD {for HIS OWN REASONS} gave him.
He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these {complex} matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they {have done with} the other Scriptures {that were given to them in the past}, {leading} to their own {self-inflicted} destruction.
Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned {about this matter}, be on your guard so that you may NOT be carried away by the error of the lawless {those who create self-delusional fantasies} and fall from your {own} secure position {on the pathway of true salvation}. 2Peter (3:15-17)}
As Jesus declared and as it turns out this is exactly what happened: “Do not think that I came to bring peace {harmony/unity} on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a Sword {causing strife}.” Matthew (10:34)
Then shall it be said to them {those reprobates}: “Where are the (deities/objects of worship including money) to which you gave part-worship,
“In derogation {what you deemed of as being of little worth in thought} of ALLAH?” They will reply: “They have left us in the lurch: Nay, we invoked not, of old, anything (that had {any}real existence).” Therefore, ALLAH leaves the Unbelievers to stray {further from the Truth}.
“YOU {careless individuals} HAVE MET THIS FATE because you rejoiced on the earth in things OTHER than the Truth, AND THEN EXULTED {Rejoiced in it and made it your standard} IN IT.” Quran (40:73-75)
As concerning the Messiah:
The Messiah concept shows throughout history a special kind of human being who is given a leadership role over the believers at the end and who has a kingdom specially given to him. Notice that Islamic hadiths declare that he returns as a king and not a prophetic character due to the fact that the last prophet (Muhammad) has been given to this Earth. That cycle has become closed!
So this concept is akin to making the Messiah a type of collector ruling by a CREED (Islam)and having a certain time-limit put on this earthly kingdom which according to the Book of Revelation is based on the soul, following in truth, the dictates put upon one’s spirit as to the use of mind, body and soul. This would be equivalent to that type of holy trinity of unity or togetherness as was originally meant. That is the development of one’s mind, body and soul in subjugation to the ONE GOD.
And the return equals ONE GOD, ONE WAY, ONE BROTHERHOOD OF PROPHETS and ONE GOAL which is SALVATION.
The Messiah has been and continues to be THAT FOCAL POINT which societies have evolved around, competed against each other, gone to war over and destroyed many lives due to the selfishness and misrepresentation of the facts.
But whoever denies me (Jesus) {my reality as to being a humble servant to my GOD}before men, I will also deny him before my FATHER in heaven. Mathew (10:33)
And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his {final earthly}death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them {those who believed not}. Quran (4:159)
“O ye assembly of Jinns and men! Did there not come unto you messengers from amongst you, setting forth unto you MY signs, and warning you of the meeting of this Day of yours?” They will say: “We bear witness against ourselves.” It was the life of this world that deceived them. So against themselves will they bear witness that they rejected Faith. Quran (6:130)
Do not assume that I {Jesus} have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace but a sword {of contention}.
For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Matthew (10:34-35)
Do you think that I {Jesus} have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division {causing strife}. Luke (12:51)
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth {the law abiding believers as to their just rewards (erasing the tears from their eyes while proclaiming their station in Paradise (from hadith after the Gog and Magog are destroyed)}: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked {kill as far as his sight reaches – hadith found in Tirmidhi}. Isaiah (11:4)
Thus begins the reign of the Messiah in that Messianic kingdom of blessedness!
Test the validity of the above statements by peering at true history of what occurred several decades after Jesus (pbh) was lifted up running through time until the modern era.
The Jewish diaspora, the mistreatment of Jews as human beings throughout history, the Christian attacks on fellow Christians (notably the Protestants versus Catholics), the bloody and senseless Crusades, the rise of Islamic radicalism leading to misplaced authoritarianism and recently the revival of born again type Christians who staunchly support the idea that Jesus (pbh) is their god.
Every one of these self-centered and self-righteous ideologies has had the backing of Satan to fan the flames of passionate smugness and self-centeredness leaving pain and at times cruelty in its wake.
And he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he {Satan} should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while {for the last kingdom by which Satan reigns amongst his followers on Earth prior to the blast of the horn leading to the Day of Judgment must occur}.
And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment {the witnesses to the truth} was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded {sacrificed} for their witness to Jesus and for the {true} Word of GOD, {and} who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ {in the Christ-kingdom on Earth for as long as this kingdom shall last}/ for a thousand years. Revelation (20:3-4)
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them {that have arisen from the dead – though their bodies remain in their graves awaiting for the regeneration from the tailbone (hadith)}! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a short time {to score recruits for his side}.” Revelation (12:11)
We can see this desperation taking place now in various societies where many people (claiming to be religious or not) are acting and continue to act in bizarre and unrealistic and totally illogical ways having a perverted sense of morals, justice and a grabbing sense of meism (egocentrism – self-centeredness).
But he {Jesus} answered and said, “Every plant which MY Heavenly FATHER has not planted {actions equivalent to sinful, lying ways} will be uprooted {and destroyed for the chaff is burnt while the wheat is collected}.
Let them alone {don’t pursue them beyond a reasonable point – Quran (16:125) and (29:46)}: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch {for both will be sent to HELL}. Matthew (15:13-14)
For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are {also} swallowed up {to their own destruction}. Isaiah (9:16)
HE {ALLAH} will say: “Enter you in the company of the peoples who passed away before you – men and jinns, – into the Fire.” Every time a new people enters, it curses its sister-people (that went before), until they follow each other, all into the Fire. Says the last about the first {group}: “Our LORD! It is these that misled us: so give them a double penalty in the Fire.” HE will say: “Doubled for {you} all”: but {at} this {time} you do not fully understand {this action}. Quran (7:38)
As to the removal of the Glorious Quran:
“Something will come and take the Quran one night and not one ayah (verse) will be left, either in the Mushaf {Book} or in the heart of any person, but it will be taken away.” (Narrated by al-Daarimi with a Sahih isnad)
Ibn Taymiyyah said, “Indeed, it {the Quran} will be taken away by night {near} at the end of time, from the written copies and {also from} the hearts. No word of it will remain in the hearts, nor any letter in the written copies {and hence, it will be forgotten/lost to the people}.” Source: Majmū’ al-Fatāwá 3/174.
The Prophet (pbh) said: “Hasten to do good deeds before tribulations come like patches of dark night, when a man will wake up as a believer and by evening he will be a Kafir, or in the evening he will be a believer and by morning he will be a Kafir, selling his religion for some worldly gains.” (Muslim).
Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of ALLAH, (pbh) said: “Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim.” (Sunan Ibn Majah)
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of ALLAH (pbh) said: “When the human being dies, his deeds end except for three: ongoing charity, beneficial knowledge, or a righteous child who prays for him.” (Muslim)
Explain in more detail about the hadith of Jesus (pbh) returning to break the cross and kill the swine!
The symbol of the cross, when misrepresented and misunderstood represents the basisfor all the false doctrine making such that all the doctrines turning Jesus (pbh) into a being more than a man revolve around the concept of his being crucified and died for our sins. Break this cross and one breaks the concept of a ‘Divine Savior’, human-god-type who is somehow related to GOD and is God’s partner in a trinity type of deal.
Therefore, breaking the cross literally leads to breaking the notion, idea, concept that some god gave of himself to absolve mankind who follow him from being ‘on their toes’ in following the Straight Path. Hence, the ‘wiggle room’ granted to mankind from this so-called sacrifice has to force man to worship what in fact is a created fellow being (Jesus). That forms an affront and an insult to the truth of the ONE GOD.
So, in ditching the cross concept as a ‘man became god theory’ is in fact breaking the ‘corrupt cross!
Killing the swine idea means that those who oppose the truth in the returned Jesus (pbh) and would desire to use him as a tool for their own purpose are not only his enemy but GOD’s enemy also. Those are they who take a ‘holy concept’ and want to cash in on the ideal by turning something sacrosanct into some type of business.
The best example of this is what happened during the lifetime of the Prophet (pbh) when many of the pagan Arab tribes got together and offered the Prophet (pbh) what amounted to a ‘cash deal’ and a fulfilment of earthly pleasures (leadership, companionship) if he would go and dilute his Divine Message to suit their crass desires. It wasn’t going to happen then and it won’t happen when Jesus (pbh) returns, point-blank-period!
Since there is no more prophethood after Muhammad (pbh) and since the Great, Last, Blessed Kingdom, heavenly promised, must come about no scum or filth will be allowed to stain this ‘area on Earth’ as long as Jesus (pbh) remains alive plus sometime thereafter in varying degrees until the Quran is lifted up.
The Quran is so great and still so giving of enlightenment that it is the Greatest of all Miracles. For example the verse below tells us in encapsulated form the effect that Saul/Paul will eventually have on the various peoples throughout history when his preaching is being dissected by the various sects and schools of thought.
The Jews say: “ALLAH’s hand is tied up.” Be their hands tied up and be they accursed for the (blasphemy) they utter. Nay, both HIS hands are widely outstretched: HE gives and spends (of HIS Bounty) as HE pleases. But the Revelation that comes to you from ALLAH increases in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. Amongst them WE have placed enmity and hatred till the Day of Judgment. Every time they kindle the fire of war, ALLAH does extinguish it; but they (ever) strive to do mischief on earth. And ALLAH loves not those who do mischief. Quran (5:64)
This verse is so complex that it is hard to fathom exactly what is taking place. The idea is that certain Jews believed that they had put ALLAH into a corner or over a barrel such that HE couldn’t get out of or around thus trapping GOD into a disadvantageous position.
According to certain scriptural evaluation, the Jews were guaranteed to be the ‘chosen race/religion above all others from HIS declaration found in the Old Testament. If this were not to be so or proved to be false, then ALLAH lied and is not really a dependable GOD, being full of weakness!
For you are a holy people to the LORD your GOD; the LORD your GOD has chosen you to be a people for HIMSELF, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. Deuteronomy (7:6)
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for GOD’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of HIM who called you out of darkness into HIS marvelous Light. 1Peter (2:9)
Now IF {and only IF} you will indeed obey MY voice and keep MY Covenant, you will be MY treasured possession out of all the nations–for the whole earth is MINE. Exodus (19:5)
While Islam takes the universal approach meaning the counting of peoples from ‘Father Abraham’ making this the Monotheistic appeal:
You {people who practice Monotheism} are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in ALLAH {the ONE and ONLY GOD}. If only the People of the Book had {real depth of} faith, it would be best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors {looking for ways to twist things to their advantage – which is a type of ‘homerism’ – my sect/faith is better than your sect/faith not based on truth or logic but based on birth, nationality/conditions all of which are not controlled by the human being}. Quran (3:110)
It is so very true in all fields of endeavor that if one puts lipstick on a pig, it still remains a pig – But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing {again} in the mire {dirty mud}.” 2Peter (2:22)
So, along comes Saul/Paul as planned (taking into consideration the Verse of the Throne in the Quran – {2:255}) with his type of preaching encompassing the history of so many souls that will be sorted into infinite groups and reactions amongst them that will show varying degrees of hatred, torture, enmity, killing and subjugation over the personage of Jesus of Nazareth (pbh) who came not to bring peace but contention as some verses showed earlier, notably Matthew (10:34).
The growth of Christianity from an insignificant sect as compared to pagans and Jews will, in less than 200 years after Justin Martyr, become a nation’s formal, main belief system for the Roman Empire that will haunt and torment Jews and others as people hack into trying to decipher Paul as to the manufacturing of a Savior especially as to their own broken, prideful viewpoints.
So Paul, as belonging to the Tribe of Benjamin, becomes that divisive focal point (a wolf amongst the flock or those professing to belong to the Monotheistic religions) to bring hatred into the various factions even amongst the Christians themselves (Protestant vs Catholic). As for the Jews, they are cooked and to be hounded and abused for their so-called killing of the Christian Savior/god.
The similitude for this is that of trying to blame Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler, who invented the first four wheeled, four stroke engine, for killing and destroying countless lives due to his invention of the prototype automobile.
It is true that automobiles do kill and maim many people but to blame Mr. Daimler for these deaths and injuries is just plain stupid. Basically, it is the driver, drunk or otherwise, or the faulty part of the car that creates the havoc and not Mr. Daimler.
So now we arrive back to the major premise of all true religions and that is, ‘IT IS THE WAY ONE TRANSLATES OR INTERPRETS THE RELIGIOUS REFERENCE THAT CAUSES THE UNDERSTANDING OR MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT THAT IS TRYING TO BE PRESENTED’. If the concepts are misused and misinterpreted, then that religion will be going off the rails!
Getting the idea wrong, for example, turning verses into dogmatic concepts like manufacturing a man who became a god or a god who became a man does nothing but distort true historical beliefs and wreaks havoc with the heart in trying to understand the principle of all things subservient to GOD and under ONE GOD.
And like the headwaters before Paul in the effect the attitudes towards Jesus (pbh) will have on peoples who establish their tenets of belief not on sound Scriptural basis but on corrupted beliefs that they carry in their hearts; Paul creates the same type of mystique to enthrall, entrap and create a mitigated disaster and a disintegration of peoples purporting to believe in the ONE GOD – if like Jesus (pbh), he becomes abused and misunderstood.
This multifaceted enterprise (Pauline Christianity) of denigrating the truth, going from minor gaffs to major ones, yielding epic disasters in its wake was well-planned out and orchestrated by the ONE GOD in exactitude and proportioned out with total equality of which the human mind cannot even begin to comprehend.
Did man think that he could storm the walls of Paradise without being tested and given chances to own up to his desires (the straight way or the crooked way) without being tested? And of these things we as humans have no way to grasp the essentials but to only believe in the correct notion that ALLAH is HE WHO CONTROLS ALL THINGS.
So Paul will be the ‘spark’ needed to create this ‘firestorm’ and variations of that storm that will consume many lives – all in the name of religion! And it is imperative for the interested believer to take to heart this verse in the New Testament showing a true prophecy and true historical actions:
According to the unknown author: He {Paul} writes this {complex} way in all his letters,speaking in them about such {problematic} matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our lord {master teacher/prophet} and savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity {on the Last Day of Judgment}. Amen. 2Peter (3:16-18)
And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his {final earthly}death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them {those who believed not}. Quran (4:159)
To clarify Hebrews (9:17) further beyond the point of just ‘Abrogation’:
For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives. Hebrews (9:17)
With the rapid expansion of Islam into new territories, and the Quran being brought together as in a book form, it took several years for Islam to be codified including the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbh). In other words, there was a lot of work to be done by the Faithful in order to put down exactly what Islam was, the correct for all times to come ORDER of the QURAN, and the various Sunnah of the Prophet (pbh) for instructional purposes especially for new converts.
So Islam is not a complete religion for all the peoples until it is CODEFIED (systematized). Therefore, Hebrews (9:17) is correct in its essential meaning. The same way for Moses (pbh) and Jesus (pbh). With Moses, it was the ‘review’ of the books (the Pentateuch) and have them set in order and in writing ONLY AFTER MOSES (pbh) died.
For Jesus (pbh) it was the gathering of the big three, James, Peter and John who set the tone for what was fruitful to follow and what was disingenuous (mendacious/fraudulent or abrogated for the ‘new times’ ‘for the ‘new believers’). And as with the so-called New Testament or more appropriately the new order of things for those who followed Jesus (pbh) as their prophet (Quran (3:50), the continual refreshing of ideas through the Holy Spirit moved them to agree but not upon an error.
As the Quran correctly points out, however, it was only after knowledge came to themthat they started to argue and bait each other which led to the splitting up into sects with each sect proudly blabbing about what it had over the others.
Therefore, the divisions and hence the petty arguments about even minor details having little effect on religious truths except to be manipulated by certain devilish individuals. Hence, the understanding of the following:
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them {that have arisen from the dead – though their bodies remain in their graves awaiting for the regeneration from the tailbone (hadith)}! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has come down to you, knowing he has only a Short Time {to score recruits for his side}.” Revelation(12:11)
The Religion before ALLAH is Islam (submission to HIS WILL): Nor did the People of the Book dissent therefrom EXCEPT through envy of each other, after knowledge had come to them. But if any deny the Signs of ALLAH, ALLAH is swift in calling to account. Quran (3:19)
About belief: Approach it wisely, live by it faithfully and ALLAH will take care of the rest! A promise binding on HIM!!!
And so it goes
