Subjects to Meditate on
Muhammad Ismail Batrash
1. What Is Life?
Life, in Islam, is a Trust from the Creator to Man. This Trust was man's free choice. It was displayed to the heavens, the earths, and the mighty mountains to bear its responsibilities, but they refused it. Only Man accepted it, and in that, he was surely a self-deceit and an ignorant.
2. Is Man Free to Choose Or Predestined?
When created, man was free to choose to be or not to be, but
when he has chosen being, he must bear the responsibility of his choice. God
did not create people in vain. Every creature must return in the end to God to
be asked how he did spend his First Life, and he is to be classified as a Goodman or an Evil
one, and for every class of people, there is a destiny, either eternal life in
the
3. Who is the God?
God in Islam is The only One, The Creator, The Beneficent and The Merciful. He is beyond our capacity to figure out, and all that may come into our minds as being The God, God really is not that. God is the Absolute Abstraction, the Unlimited , The Omnipotent and The Omniscient. God is beyond place and space and Time. He is the First without a beginning and the Last without an end.
4. How Do We Know God?
Man's faculties are within two limits, a higher threshold and a minor one. Our perception is not final or complete, therefore, we cannot deny the existence of what may lie beyond our capacities to think of. God is beyond our capacity to figure out. Belief is of two kinds. We believe in what we really see. In this man and animals are alike, but man was superior to other creatures in his ability to believe in what he does not really see. This kind of belief is called the metaphysical one. Our eyes do not see the ultraviolet and the infra-red waves of light, but ultraviolet and infra-red do actually exist. We perceive their existence through their effects. We perceive God through His creatures and in our hearts. Belief and disbelief are also of Man's Destiny. God only, knows who is the true believer and who is the hypocrite. Men's hearts are within two fingers of God, He diverts them as He wishes and He is the Omniscient and the Omnipotent.
5. What Are the Religions, the Prophets, and the Books?
Religion is the way to God. To acknowledge Himself to His creatures, God Chose some men of His people and entitled them to guide His creatures to His Way. God would not speak directly to any one of His creatures. He would speak to them either through elevation or from behind a diaphragm. Gabriel was the God's messenger to His Prophets. He delivered them God's Copies of His Mother Book. As long as the Prophet survived, his people kept His Book, but when the Prophet died, His people for some reason or other forsook His Religion and lost their Book. This led to God's sending successive Prophets to reestablish His forsaken religion.
6. What Is Islam and Why Was Muhammad the Last Prophet?
Islam is submission to God. Islam is the religion which God had chosen to be the only way to Him, and he who might have taken any other religion shall not be accepted and he will be a loser in the Day After. Since God is one, the way to him must be one, that is Islam. With Islam all the Prophets preached their peoples and by Islam, they will be treated and judged. All God's Books are of one source, the Mother of the Book, but the people of the Books previous to the Holy Qur'an had lost their original Books. The Jews did not keep the original Moses' Torah nor did the Christians keep the original Jesus' Evangel. The copies of the Old Testament and of the New Testaments are either Rabbinic or disciples' make. In the present ascribed Torah, we find Moses tell when he did die and where he was buried, and the four Gospels tell us stories about Christ and not what was revealed to Christ from his Creator. If we depict History, we find how the idea of Trinity replaced the original monotheism which Jesus, like all the other prophets, taught. The concept of Trinity was introduced into Christianity after one century of Christ's Ascent, and was codified by the church after some four centuries later. The true copies of both Torah and the Evangel can be found in the Last Book of God, in the Qur'an which includes the Mother Book complete, and which was promised to be kept by God Himself to the Day of Judgment.
To prove this, let us refer to Verses of "Ali Imran" Chapter of the Holy Qur'an. " Say, We believed in God and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Issac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and in what had Moses, Jesus, and the Prophets had from their God. We do not discriminate among any one of them and any other one of them, and we are all, to God, Submissive Muslims. And he who wishes to adopt any religion other than Islam shall not be accepted from him, and he will be of the losers in the Day After."
This is Islam, Our Religion, and The
True Religion of Theirs.
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