#Share Ahmed Deedat Book - The Choice, Islam & Christiany Volume One
Page 28-29
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 THEY TURN BACK, SAY "BEAR WITNESS THAT WE (AT LEAST) ARE MUSLIMS (BOWING TO GOD`S WILL)
(SURA AL-I-`IMRAN) Holy Quran 3:64
"People of the book" is the respectful title given to the jews and the Christians in the holy Qur`an. The Muslims is here commanded to invite - "O People of the Book!" - O Learned People! O People who claimed to be the recipients of Divine Revelations, of a Holy Scripture; let us gather together onto a common platform- "that we worship none but Gode", because none but God is worthy of worship. not because "THE LORD THY GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD VISITING THE INQUITY OF FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT HATE ME.) (Exodus 20:5), but because He is our Lord and Cheriser, our Sustainer and Envolver, 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 Quran`ic verse. In practice they fail. Apart from doctrinal lapses from the unity of the One True God, (ALLAH subhanahu wa ta-ala), 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, Isma`il, 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)."
(SURA BAQARA) 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 Qur`an 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 renounced guidance.
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 THEY TURN BACK, SAY "BEAR WITNESS THAT WE (AT LEAST) ARE MUSLIMS (BOWING TO GOD`S WILL)
(SURA AL-I-`IMRAN) Holy Quran 3:64
"People of the book" is the respectful title given to the jews and the Christians in the holy Qur`an. The Muslims is here commanded to invite - "O People of the Book!" - O Learned People! O People who claimed to be the recipients of Divine Revelations, of a Holy Scripture; let us gather together onto a common platform- "that we worship none but Gode", because none but God is worthy of worship. not because "THE LORD THY GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD VISITING THE INQUITY OF FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT HATE ME.) (Exodus 20:5), but because He is our Lord and Cheriser, our Sustainer and Envolver, 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 Quran`ic verse. In practice they fail. Apart from doctrinal lapses from the unity of the One True God, (ALLAH subhanahu wa ta-ala), 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, Isma`il, 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)."
(SURA BAQARA) 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 Qur`an 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 renounced guidance.
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