"Allah the greatest deceiver of them all"

Submitted by Lactantius Jr (United Kingdom), Jan 3, 2011 at 16:10

To Jaladhi

Thank you for commenting in the way you have, you're right in saying we're facing a very hard fight in exposing the truths about Islam to Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Duplicity and mendacity, ie. plain ole lying is at the heart of Islam, with Allah/Muhammad claiming that Allah put a "look-alike" on the Cross in Jesus' place, attempting denial of that on which Christianity absolutely stakes its claim to validity, that is, following His death by crucifixion, Jesus Christ was resurrected to eternal life, the New Testament recording that, "If Christ has not been raised from the dead, all my preaching is useless and so is your trust in God." 1 Corinthians 15:14

Here is how the Qur'an attempts the denial,

"And because of their saying (in boast), "We killed Messiah 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), the Messenger of Allah," - but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but the resemblance of 'Iesa (Jesus) was put over another man (and they killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no (certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they killed him not [i.e. 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)]: " Surah 4:157 (Hilali-Khan)

James White challenges the use of the forty Arabic words of Surah 4:157 in the Qur'an, as a completely insufficient and inadequate basis for the overthrow of the entirety of the historical and biblical witness to the crucifixion.

http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?itemid=2365

saying of these 40 Arabic words written in a book that can be dated no earlier than 625 years after the ministry of Jesus. "These 40 words were written in a different culture, 765 miles away from Jerusalem, over half a millennium removed, without any direct or firsthand connection historically, to the events in Jerusalem. Indeed, these 40 words find no literary connection to the first century at all, for they were written by a man who had no firsthand knowledge of the New Testament, for it had not yet been translated into the Arabic language. I refer, of course, to Surah 4:157 of the Qur'an,"

http://www.aomin.org/aoblog/index.php?blogid=1&archive=2007-10

Exposing the truths about Islam and its true nature, involves us in countering the misinformation propagated by the media, by schools and academicians, various religious and "community" leaders, "experts," and politicians, who appear wilfully ignorant about the Islam of Muhammad, the Islam preached and practiced by him, but to do so, we have to become objectively informed about the Islam of Muhammad, by reading and knowing what Muhammad himself and its source documents say about it, rather than listening to what the various "authorities" say about it, and we are then able to counter in the public square, the assertions of the aforementioned pundits, by presenting what Islam says about the Islam of Muhammad, using every available opportunity given us.

Going deeper than the misinformation of the pundits, and going to what the Islamic sources themselves say about its deception, we are very well served by many Internet resources, especially those provided by Sam Shamoun ("The Assyrian Encyclopaedia"), and as he does so very well, Sam very comprehensively documents Allah's deception in,

Allah – The Greatest Deceiver of them All

http://www.answering-islam.org/Shamoun/allah_best_deceiver.htm

and from which I here quote extensively,

"The Qur'an describes Allah as the best deceiver there is………………. for example, the Qur'an calls Allah a makr, in the fact the best makr there is:

But they (the Jews) were deceptive, and Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers (Wamakaroo wamakara Allahu waAllahu khayru al-makireena)! Surah 3:54; cf. 8:30

Other texts that identify Allah as a makr include:

Are they then secure from Allah's deception (makra Allahi)? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's scheme (makra Allahi) save folk that perish. Surah 7:99 Pickthall

So they schemed a scheme: and We schemed a scheme (Wamakaroo makran wamakarna makran), while they perceived not. Surah 27:50

The word for deception/deceiver/scheme is makr. The lexical sources define the term as:

Miim-Kaf-Ra = To practice deceit or guile or circumvention, practice evasion or elusion, to plot, to exercise art or craft or cunning, act with policy, practice stratagem.

makara vb. (1)
perf. act. 3:54, 3:54, 7:123, 13:42, 14:46, 16:26, 16:45, 27:50, 40:45, 71:22
impf. act. 6:123, 6:123, 6:124, 8:30, 8:30, 8:30, 10:21, 12:102, 16:127, 27:70, 35:10
n.vb. 7:99, 7:99, 7:123, 10:21, 10:21, 12:31, 13:33, 13:42, 14:46, 14:46, 14:46, 27:50, 27:50, 27:51, 34:33, 35:10, 35:43, 35:43, 71:22
pcple. act. 3:54, 8:30

LL, V7, p: 256 (Source)

And:

He practised DECEIT, GUILE, or CIRCUMVENTION, desiring to do another a foul, an abominable, or an evil action, clandestinely or without his knowing whence it proceeded. (Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon; source)

Lest Muslims accuse these lexicons of bias or distortion notice what Muslim scholar Dr. Mahmoud M. Ayoub says when he asks,

"how the word makr (scheming or plotting), which implies deceitfulness or dishonesty, could be attributed to Allah." (The Quran and Its Interpreters – The House of Imran [State University of New York Press [SUNY], Albany 1992], Volume II, p. 165; italic emphasis ours)

After listing several Muslim sources he quotes a renowned Muslim expositor named ar-Razi who wrote that,

"scheming (makr) is actually an act of deception aiming at causing evil. It is not possible to attribute deception to Allah. Thus the word is one of the muttashabihat [multivalent words of the Quran]." (Ibid., p. 166; italic emphasis ours)

Unfortunately for ar-Razi, the Quran attributes deception to Allah since it identifies him as the best makr there is.

Ayoub also sources one Muslim who actually boasted of Allah being the best conniver/deceiver/schemer etc.,

"Qurtubi observes that some scholars have considered the words 'best of schemers' to be one of Allah's beautiful names. Thus one would pray, 'O Best of Schemers, scheme for me!' Qurtubi also reports that the Prophet used to pray, 'O Allah, scheme for me, and do not scheme against me!' (Qurtubi, IV, pp. 98-99; cf. Zamakhshari, I, p. 366)." (Ibid., p. 166)

And here, also, is how one of the earliest sources on the life of Muhammad interpreted Q. 8:30:

Then he reminds the apostle of His favour towards him when the people plotted against him 'to kill him, or to wound him, or to drive him out; and they plotted and Allah plotted, and is the best of plotters.' i.e. I DECEIVED them with My firm GUILE so that I delivered you from them. (The Life of Muhammad: A Translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, with introduction and notes by Alfred Guillaume [Oxford University Press, Karachi, Tenth impression 1995], p. 323; capital emphasis ours) Thus, the Qur'an unashamedly calls Muhammad's god the best liar and deceiver of them all! I have quoted Sam Shamoun's work in the way I have, to show that the most authoritative Islamic documents show that Allah (whoever he is), is ace at lying, and ask Muslims to seriously consider what this says about their god, and quoting Sam Shamoun again,

"The Qur'an's description of Allah best fits the one whom the Lord Jesus identified as the father of all lies:"

"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44

In light of the foregoing it seems rather hard to deny that the spirit who spoke to Muhammad, the entity who is revealed in the Muslim scripture is none other than Satan, the enemy of our souls, masquerading as God in order to deceive people away from the truth of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ:

"I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough… For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve." 2 Corinthians 11:2-4, 13-15

Leaving Sam Shamoun's masterly work, I comment that I see things most clearly by comparing/contrasting them, and compare/contrast Allah (whoever he is), the ace deceiver, with the God revealed in both Old and New Testaments of the Bible as One Who cannot/doesn't lie,

Deuteronomy 32:4; Numbers 23:19; 1 Samuel 15:29; Psalms 33:11; 89:35&36; 100:5; John 17:17; Romans 3:4; Titus 1:2 & Hebrews 6:18

The Lord Jesus Christ describing Himself as the very embodiment of truth, describing Himself as "……the truth….." John 14:6

and these Scriptures can be referred to online at,

http://www.biblegateway.com/

The Satanic verses incident demonstrates that at one time, Muhammad spoke the devil's words claiming they were a revelation from "Allah," and neither Muhammad nor anyone hearing him recite the devil's words could detect any difference between them and "Allah's," words. This incident, recorded by Islam's earliest scholars, inescapably prompts the question potentially very destructive to Islam, that being, how many more of Satan's lying words remain in the Bible, bringing confusion and eternal condemnation to over a billion Muslims?

I shall continue seeking to expose the falsehood of Islam and its prophet, and present it in the public square to whoever will have it, confident that Muslims need to look to and heed a different messenger, One Who is truly trustworthy, One Who is worthy of admiration, adoration, praise, reverence and worship, the Lord Jesus Christ, the spotless Lamb of God, the sinners all-sufficient saviour, Who "came into the world to save sinners," 1 Timothy 1:15 and "Who is able to save to the uttermost (and from the guttermost!!) all those who come to God through Him" Hebrews 7:25 and I warmly commend Him to whoever will have Him, the One Who says "Whoever comes to Me I will never drive away." John 6:37

With kind regards and very best wishes

Lactantius Jr

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