In a recent article, the Ayatollah, wrote some peaceful sounding words you may not have expected to come from someone with his reputation. He states,
"I don’t insist that you accept my reading or any other reading of Islam. What I want to say is: Don’t allow this dynamic and effective reality in today’s world to be introduced to you through resentments and prejudices. Don’t allow them to hypocritically introduce their own recruited terrorists as representatives of Islam.
Receive knowledge of Islam from its primary and original sources. Gain information about Islam through the Qur’an and the life of its great Prophet. I would like to ask you whether you have directly read the Qur’an of the Muslims. Have you studied the teachings of the Prophet of Islam and his humane, ethical doctrines? Have you ever received the message of Islam from any sources other than the media?"
I thought I would use this opportunity to share with you a bit from what I have learned that the Qur'an states about The Bible, that doesn't get a lot of press in your average Christian Apologetics course.
Muhammad commanded his followers to know the Bible and to follow what it says:.
The Messenger believeth in what hath been revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believeth in Allah, His angels, His books, and His apostles. “We make no distinction (they say) between one and another of His apostles.” And they say: “We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys. (Sura 2:285, Yusif Ali, emphasis added)
Say: “We believe in Allah, and in what has been revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham, Isma’il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in (the Books) given to Moses, Jesus, and the prophets, from their Lord: We make no distinction between one and another among them, and to Allah do we bow our will (in Islam) [i.e. in Submission]. (Sura 3:84, Yusif Ali, emphasis added)
Say: “O People of the Book! ye have no ground to stand upon unless ye stand fast by the Law, the Gospel, and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord.” It is the revelation that cometh to thee from thy Lord, that increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. But sorrow thou not over (these) people without Faith. Those who believe (in the Qur’an), those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Sabians and the Christians,- [Essentially. . .] any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness,-on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve. (Sura 5:68-69, Yusif Ali, emphasis added)
Muhammad greatly respected Christians who studied the Bible and obeyed it, referring to these as “friends.” (Sura 5:82) The Qur’an reads:
Not all of them are alike: Of the People of the Book are a portion that stand (For the right): They rehearse the Signs of Allah all night long, and they prostrate themselves in adoration. They believe in Allah and the Last Day; they enjoin what is right, and forbid what is wrong; and they hasten (in emulation) in (all) good works: They are in the ranks of the righteous. (Sura 3:113-114, Yusif Ali)
What is true religion? The following sounds quite a bit like the Sermon on the Mount and James word on True Religion:
"It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces to the East and the West; but righteous is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day and the angels and the Scripture and the Prophets; and giveth his wealth, for love of Him, to kinsfolk and to orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and to those who ask, and to set slaves free; and observeth proper worship and payeth the poor due. And those who keep their treaty when they make one, and the patient in tribulation and adversity and time of stress. Such are they who are sincere. Such are the God fearing.” (Sura 2:177 Pikthall, emphasis added)
Now there is something you don't hear every day. Go out and embrace a Muslim in friendship today and defy the animosity that Radical Islam wants to foster.
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