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The Islamic Bulletin
The Purpose Of Life
bit - what is it? It’s a Muslim! When the Moon goes
around the Sun - what is it? It’s a Muslim! The law of
gravity - what is it? It’s a Muslim law! Everything that
submits to the Almighty God is a Muslim! Therefore,
when we willfully obey Almighty God we are Muslims!
Jesus Christ was a Muslim. His blessed mother was a
Muslim. Abraham was a Muslim. Moses was a Mus-
lim. All the prophets were Muslims! But they came
to their people and they spoke different languages.
The prophet Muhammad (SAW) spoke the Arabic
language. And so, in the Arabic language the one who
submits and surrenders is Muslim. Every prophet and
messenger of Almighty God brought the very same
and fundamental message-- ‘Worship Almighty God
and be sincere towards Him.’ As we examine the mes-
sage of each of the well-known prophets, we could
easily conclude this fact.
Where there is a conflict, it is a result of false
assertions, fabrications, exaggerations, personalized
interpretations of alleged writers, historians, scholars,
and individuals. For instance, let me point something
out to you that you may have already looked at. As a
Christian I’ve looked at it before I became a Muslim
and… I didn’t understand it. How come throughout
the Old Testament God is always referred to as One-
-the Master and Lord and King of the Universe. And
that in the first commandment given to Moses, He
did not allow anybody to worship any graven images;
Or to bow down to anything in the Heavens, or the
Earth, or the sea below - He’d never allow that. All the
prophets said that there is only One God. Through-
out the Old Testament this is repeated over and over
again. And then, all of a sudden we get four testimo-
nies - four Gospels called Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. Matthew who? Mark Who? Luke who? John
who? Four different Gospels that were written for-
ty-eight years apart. And none of these men, who did
not collaborate with each other, none of them, wrote
their last name. If I gave you a check for your pay this
month and I wrote my first name on the check and
told you to take it to the bank - would you accept that
check? No, you wouldn’t… If the policeman stopped
you and asked for your identification or passport and
you only had your first name, would that be accept-
able to him? Could you get a passport with your first
name? Did your mother and father only give you one
name? Where in the history of men is one name ac-
cepted as a documentation, where? Nowhere! Except
in the New Testament.
And how can you base your faith upon four Gospels
that are written by four men that didn’t seem to know
their last names? Then, after those four Gospels, there
are fifteen more books written by a man who was an
apostate who killed Christians, tortured Christians,
and then said that he in a vision saw Jesus. And he
was commissioned as an Apostle of Jesus. If I told you
that Hitler, after he killed all the Jews, then he him-
self decided that he wanted to be saved. And he met
Christ or Moses on the path and he became a Jew.
And he wrote fifteen books and added them to the
Torah - would this be acceptable to the Jews? No, you
wouldn’t accept that. So how can four books written
by men without a last name, and fifteen other books
written by another man--and this is the first time that
God is called a man, and the first time that God is
called three, and the first time God was given a son-
- how is this acceptable to Christians? How? Think
about it! We won’t argue that point. I’ll just give you
something to think about.
The advent of Prophet Muhammad (SAW)
did not bring a new religion or a way of life as some
people ominously claim. On the contrary, the proph-
et (SAW) confirmed the life and message of all the
previous prophets and messengers. Both through his
personal conduct and through divine revelations he
received from the Almighty. The sacred scripture that
Muhammad (SAW) brought is called the Quran. It
means ‘that which is recited.’ Because Muhammad
(SAW) did not write the Quran. He did not author the
Quran. Nobody came and helped him write the Qu-
ran. And nobody collaborated with him on this. The
Angel Gabriel recited the words to him! And Almighty
God made his heart a receptacle of that. The Prophet
Muhammad’s (SAW) heart was a receptacle of revela-
tion and we have this Quran that has been preserved
for years without any change. Is there any other book
in the world that you know of that has been preserved
as it was revealed without any change? No book…
Only the Quran.
Don’t take my word for it! Go to the library
and read what the Encyclopedia Britannica, or the
World Encyclopedia, or the Americana’s Encyclope-
dia, or any other universal encyclopedia of the world
that was not written by Muslims. Read what it says
about Islam, the Quran, and Muhammad (SAW). Read
what non-Muslims say about the Quran, Islam, and
Muhammad (SAW). Then you will accept that what
I’m saying is universally documented and clear! That
Muhammad (SAW) is the most profound individual in
the history of humanity. Read what they say. That the
Quran is the most incredible, the most profound piece
of literature in the annals of history! Read what they
say. That the Islamic way of life is categorized and so
precise and dynamic! ...It has never changed.
The sacred scripture that Muhammad (SAW)
received is called ‘The Quran.’ And each of the
prophets and messengers also received the scripture.
In the Quran, these prophets, their scriptures, their
stories, and the principle of their mission is mentioned
with profound detail. Did Muhammad (SAW) meet
them, talk with them, eat with them, and collaborate
with them to write their biographies? No, of course he
didn’t. In the Quran, Muhammad (SAW) is referred to
as the messenger of Almighty God and the seal of the
previous prophets-- which is the limit of his role as a
human being.