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This video reveals that Christian tradition is based on pagan Babylonian religion and not the Bible.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_X-XrqgNUAendofvid
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The jews are surrounded by Muslim countries and so vulnerable to attacks. Hence, they must create chaos in the Middle East and against the religion of Islam so that these countries unable to unite.
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We do not know the exact age at the time of her marriage due to lack of reliable records. Based on the evidences presented above, the marriage of fifty-two-year-old Prophet (pbuh) with Ayesha (ra) at nine year of age is only a proverbial myth. On the contrary, Ayesha (ra) was an intellectually and physically mature Bikr (virgin = adult unmarried woman with no sexual experience) when she married Prophet (pbuh). [Continue Reading]
Comparison
Bible on marriage of young girls
As it is Christian evangelists and other believers in the Bible who have been bitterly reviling the Holy Prophet Muhammad on account of his marriage with Aisha, we put to them the practices of the great patriarchs and prophets that are recorded in the Bible itself in this connection. The main accusations regarding the marriage of Aisha are that she was too young in age while the Holy Prophet was a much older man, being fifty years of age, and that consent to marriage was either not obtained from her or she was not capable of giving it.
Abraham
In the book of Genesis in the Bible it is recorded about Abraham:
“Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar; so she said to Abram, ‘The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her.’ Abram agreed to what Sarai said. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. He slept with Hagar, and she conceived. … So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.” (Genesis, chapter 16, verses 1–4, and 15–16, New
International Version. Bolding is mine.)
Firstly, it is evident that as Abraham (who then had the name Abram) was 86 years old, Hagar must have been some fifty years younger than him, and probably even younger, to bear a child. Secondly, the Bible speaks of Sarai giving her maidservant Hagar to Abraham. So Hagar’s consent was not obtained but rather she was commanded by Sarai to go and become Abraham’s wife.
David
The first book of Kings in the Bible begins as follows:
“When King David was old and well advanced in years, he could not keep warm even when they put covers over him. So his servants said to him, ‘Let us look for a young virgin to attend the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.’ Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl and found Abishag, a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. The girl was very beautiful; she took care of the king and waited on him, but the king had no intimate relations with her.” (1 Kings, chapter 1, verses 1–4, New International Version.(Catholic Encyclopaedia on line) Bolding is mine.)
So there seems nothing wrong, according to the Bible, in procuring a young virgin, again apparently without her consent, whose duties include lying with the elderly king in bed. The intention was certainly for sexual enjoyment, otherwise there was no necessity of looking for a young, beautiful virgin. A much older woman, perhaps a widow, could have performed all these duties, including lying with the king to keep him warm.
Mary and Joseph
The most famous marriage in Christianity is no doubt that of Mary, Jesus’ mother, with Joseph. While the following details are not in the canonical Gospels in the Bible, it appears from other early Christian writings (known as apocryphal writings) that Mary was twelve years old when the temple elders decided to find a husband for her. They selected the husband by drawing lots, and Joseph whom they chose was an elderly man, being according to some accounts ninety years old. The husband was selected and Mary was handed over to him, and she played no part in his selection.
These accounts are summed up in the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 edition, which is available online, as follows (bolding below is mine):
1. “It will not be without interest to recall here, unreliable though they are, the lengthy stories concerning St. Joseph’s marriage contained in the apocryphal writings. When forty years of age, Joseph married a woman called Melcha or Escha by some, Salome by others; they lived forty-nine years together and had six children … A year after his wife’s death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age, Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old, went up to Jerusalem among the candidates; a miracle manifested the choice God had made of Joseph …” (In article St. Joseph, under letter J. Link: www.newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm).
Although these apocryphal accounts are not now accepted by many Christians, and the Catholic Encyclopedia says that they “are void of authority”, yet it also speaks of their influence as follows:
“they nevertheless acquired in the course of ages
some popularity; in them some ecclesiastical
writers sought the answer to the well-known difficulty arising from the mention in the Gospel of the Lord’s brothers; from them also popular credulity has, contrary to all probability, as well as to the tradition witnessed by old works of art, retained the belief that St. Joseph was an old man at the time of marriage with the Mother of God.”
However, these accounts are accepted by the Eastern churches. The Ukrainian Orthodoxy speaks of Joseph as follows:
“Early sources, which include apocryphal writings as well as those of early Christian fathers, say he was a widower with four sons as well as daughters when he undertook to be betrothed to the young orphan maid Mary,…Joseph did so with a great deal of misgiving because of his age…” (See this link: www.ukrainianorthodoxy.org/saints/beauty/stjoseph.html)
We give below, as Appendix, a quotation from one of these apocryphal books, The Infancy Gospel of James, describing how Mary’s husband was selected.
While the Western Christian churches may not accept these accounts as authentic, the Eastern churches in Europe do accept that Mary was 12 years old and Joseph a widower 90 years old when they married. Moreover, there is nothing in the Gospels of the New Testament to contradict these accounts, and the Gospel stories are not at all inconsistent with these ages for Mary and Joseph.
The Infancy Gospel of James
(Chapter 8 verse 2 to Chapter 9 verse 11)
“When she [Mary] turned twelve, a group of priests took counsel together, saying, ‘Look, Mary has been in the temple of the Lord twelve years. What should we do about her now, so that she does not defile the sanctuary of the Lord our God?’ And they said to the high priest, ‘You have stood at the altar of the Lord. Go in and pray about her. And if the Lord God reveals anything to you, we will do it.’ And the priest went in taking the vestment with twelve bells into the holy of holies and prayed about her. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord stood before him, saying, ‘Zachariah, Zachariah, depart from here and gather the widowers of the people and let each one carry a staff. And the one whom the Lord God points out with a sign, she will be his wife.’ So the heralds went out to the whole surrounding area of Judea and the trumpet of the Lord rang out and all the men rushed in.
Throwing down his axe, Joseph went out to meet them. And after they had gathered together with their rods, they went to the high priest. After receiving everyone’s rod, the high priest went into the temple and prayed. When he was finished with the prayer, he took the rods and went out and gave them to each man, but there was no sign among them. Finally, Joseph took his rod. Suddenly, a dove came out of the rod and stood on Joseph’s head. And the high priest said, ‘Joseph! Joseph! You have been chosen by lot to take the virgin into your own keeping.’ And Joseph replied, saying, ‘I have sons and am old, while she is young. I will not be ridiculed among the children of Israel.’ And the high priest said, ‘Joseph, fear the Lord your God and remember what God did to Dathan and Abiron and Kore, how the earth split open and swallowed them because of their rebellion. Now fear God, Joseph, so that these things do not happen in your house.’ Fearing God, Joseph took her into his own possession.”
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After being brainwashed as a child by her Atheist parents into believing that there is no God Maryam Noor tells her story of how she came to know the truth and her journey to Islam.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBi4qcnPmMYendofvid
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A European scientist Embraced Islam after his knowledge of some scientific facts in the Quran which were only discovered in the twentieth century. This scientist hadn't believed in God and even any religion but he later realized that Islam is the true religion so he embraced it and now he's asking Allah to make him abide by Islam until his death.
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Atheist and muslim debate. Dr Lars Gule vs Hamza Tzortzis.
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Fain would they extinguish Allah's light with their mouths but Allah will not allow but that His light should be perfected even though the unbelievers may detest (it)
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Tony Blairs sister-in-law revert to Islam
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This girl says that life was meaningless before she accpeted Islam...
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God (Allah) informs us that the authenticity of the holy Quran will be proven by the number 19 in surah Al-Muddath-thir[74:31,35], revealed through Prophet Muhammad (s.a.a.w.). This proof divine origin of Quran.
Discover more truth about 19!
* The Quran consists of 114 chapters, which is 19 x 6.
* The total number of verses in the Quran is 6346, or 19 x 334. Note that 6 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 19.
* The word "God" (Allah) occurs in the Quran 2698 times, and this number equals 19 x 142.
* The total sum of verse numbers for all verses containing the word "God" is 118123, also a multiple of 19 (118123 = 19x6217).
* "The Quran" is mentioned in the Quran 57 times, 19 x 3.
* The first verse, known as "Basmalah," consists of 19 letters.
* The word "proof" is written throughout the entire Quran 19 times.
* The famous first revelation (96:1-5) consists of 19 words.
* This 19-worded first revelation consists of 76 letters, or 19 x 4.
* The first chapter revealed (Sura 96) consists of 19 verses.
* This first chapter revealed is placed atop the last 19 chapters.
* This chapter also consists of 304 letters, or 19 x 16.
* The last revelation (Sura 110) consists of 19 words. * The first verse of the last revelation (110:1) consists of 19 letters. * The Quran mentions 30 different numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 99, 100, 200, 300, 1000, 2000, 3000, 5000, 50,000, & 100,000. The sum of these numbers is 162146, which equals 19x8534.
"...and if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant (Quran), then produce a Sura like thereunto; and call your witnessess or helpers besides Allah, if your are true. But if ye cannot, and surety ye cannot, then fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones, which is prepared for those who reject Faith..." (Quran 2:23-24)
The Challenge Of The Qur'an: The Qur'an in many places challenges the people to produce a surah like it. It appears that the Christian missionaries who call the challenge irrelevent or an utterly subjective criterion are pretty much unaware of how the Arabic poetry and prose compares with the Qur'an.
You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers (to be) the Jews and those who associate others with Allah ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, "We are Christians." That is because among them are priests and monks (i.e. persons entirely devoted to the service of God, as are the muslims) and because they are not arrogant (Quran 5:82)
They have certainly disbelieved who say, " Allah is the third of three (in a Trinity)." And there is no god except one God (Quran 5:73)
Say, "He is Allah , [who is] One, Allah , the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, Nor is there to Him any equivalent." (Quran: Al-Ikhlas)
To whom will ye like Me, and make Me equal, and compare Me, that we may be like? Ye that lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, ye that hire a goldsmith, that he make it a god, to fall down thereto, yea, to worship. He is borne upon shoulder, he is carried, and set in his place, and he standeth, from his place he doth not remove; yea, through one cry unto him, he cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble. Remember this, and stand fast; bring it to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old; that I am God, and there is none else, I am God, and there is none like Me; (Isaiah 46:5-9)
Thus saith the LORD, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts, I am the first, and I am the last, and beside me there is no God (Isaiah 44:6)
Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one (Isaiah 45:4)
No one's eyes had ever, nor can anyone ever see Allah
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him (John 1:18)
Nor can we imagine or conceptualize Allah
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven (Mathew 23:9)
“...Why don’t they research the Qur’an? Don’t they realize that if it was from someone other than Allah, they would find many discrepancies in it...” (Quran 4:82)
"...He (Jesus) was no more than a servant: We granted Our favour to him, and We made him an example to the Children of Israel..." (Quran 43:59)
"...Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say: "This is from God", to traffic with it for a miserable price! - Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby..." (Quran 2:79)
"...and if ye are in doubt as to what We have revealed from time to time to Our servant (Quran), then produce a Sura like thereunto; and call your witnessess or helpers besides Allah, if your are true. But if ye cannot, and surety ye cannot, then fear the fire whose fuel is men and stones, which is prepared for those who reject Faith..." (Quran 2:23-24)