Challenge of Islam (Pt1): What is Islam-Session 1

Subject: "The Foundations of Islam"

To the Western mind, the faith and practice of Islam are often a profound mystery. In recent years, this religion has emerged as a prominent -- yet misunderstood -- belief system. Listen as Sam Shamoun, an Arab-Christian, unveils some of the mystique surrounding this religion first preached by Muhammad and today practiced by more than one billion people worldwide.

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Education

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• Christian
• Islam

[IsraelGudsAugestein]

Abraham and Ishmael were never in Saudi Arabia and Mecca. God made a covenant with Abraham and Isaac. Not with Ishmael. The Arabs are not descendants of Ishmael. It is historically impossible that Abraham and Ishmael wandered to Saudi Arabia and Mecca. The Biblical Abraham worshiped never the Islamic god.

[Nakdimon316]

I bet I know more about islam than you do my friend. And we do NOT share prophets. The prophets that went before Muhammad preached nothing like muhammad preached. Muhammad is the ONLY prophet of Islam, since Islam didnt exist. PROOF it for once! Muslims always claim things, but they never prove what they say. the bible is corrupted: NO PROOF! Jesus was a Muslim: NO PROOF! Abraham built the Ka'aba: NO PROOF! Arabs descent from Ishmael: NO PROOF! And the list goes on.

[KoranLeaks]

mohmet is anti christ ... read first epistle of saint John . 

[SmartGuy4today]

It is also why Jews address their entity of worship as G-d and not as God or Allah. G-d is an intentional mispelling of the word god that indicate their lack of worship over a deity. They are atheists and always were atheists. And guess what, so was Muhammad. Muhammad is the descendent of Elijah, he was an atheist. He sought to remove Idol Worship. In truth, those who do not worship Idols are atheists, because God and Idol are synonymous. One is the physical representation and the other, form.

[SmartGuy4today]

By the way, if the Kaaba is not Allah's idol, then why do your pray towards it?

The Jews pray towards an empty lot of land and space that had once existed. Virtually they pray towards nothing, which makes a Jew no different than an atheist, because an Atheist doesn't pray towards anything, which is exactly the same thing.

Your people pray towards stone from space that has before Muhammad's time been a deity it self. If your people were so adamant of removing idol worshiping, why not the Kaaba?

[SmartGuy4today]

The point I am making is that no Jewish Prophet ever was a Muslim, because in order to be a Muslim you must profess the first pillar. That "The God" is the one and only God and that Muhammad was his prophet.

Jesus, Abraham, Isaac, Elijah (Who is Muhammad's ancestor, not Ishmael), Jeremiah, Moses, David, and Solomon never believed there would be a man named Muhammad who would become a prophet, nor did any of them believed in "THE GOD," they believed in "'HE' Who shall not be named."

[SmartGuy4today]

And thus not a god.

Allah derives from Allah Kaaba, the God of the Kaaba and that is why your people pray towards the Kaaba. The Kaaba isn't the location of El or Yahweh. The Reason why the Jews pray towards Jerusalem is because that is the location the sacred mount where Elohim or Yahweh had spoken to Abraham. Thus it is considered BEYOND sacred.

Any reason why they would allow your people to build a mosque over that as a shrine to your prophet's death as though he was a deity is beyond me.

[SmartGuy4today]

WRONG!

The Prophets never believed in a god and were purely atheistic. The names used for the identity of the supreme being were Elohim and YHWH, which both mean the same thing, "He who shall not be named" or "He who is without a name" or "I am what I am" and not "The God."

Elohim or Yahweh was not a GOD and not even the one true god, because there are no gods. Gods are nothing more than the form address in the physical manifestation of an Idol. Without the idol, the god cannot exist.

[SmartGuy4today]

The biggest Question is if Muhammad and his tribe descended from Jews. What happened to have made Mecca such a Pagan city? Well, similar situation to what happened during Elijah and Jeremiah's time in which their respect lands were being taken by Idol Worship. Based on the accounts of Abraham, Elijah, and Jeremiah who were more about removing Idol Worship amongst their own people, it could best display how Muhammad thought he was a prophet and since he is Jewish hold connection via his heritage.

[SmartGuy4today]

Actually even better. Muhammad isn't even a descendent of Ishmael anyways, he is a descendent of Isaac. Muhammad is a member of the Quraysh Tribe, which came from Banu Kinanah, which came from Elijah.

IGA, you gotta understand that most things that date beyond a thousand years are purely mythology. So there is no point arguing what happened and what did not. It is impossible for over 200,000 Jews during Moses's time to have came from the same paternal and maternal ancestor 500 to 700 years ago.

[SmartGuy4today]

Even if they did descend from Ishmael. Muhammad descended from Isaac, thus he is not an Arab, but a Jew.

Muhammad wasn't a prophet of Islam. He was a Jew who got killed and had his sayings altered to what the Ummayad's wanted. That is what created Islam.

Muhammad prayed towards Jerusalem. After Muhammad, they prayed towards the Kaaba. The Kaaba and its god Allah Kaaba were sacred to Muhammad's enemies, the Ummayads. Thus Muhammad never prayed towards Alllah, but the Ummayads wrote the Quran.