Really

Submitted by Nicko Tuck (United States), Apr 18, 2006 at 13:03

Really?
I'm one of these people you are talking to I guess. The thing is, I have read the Quran. Several times, in fact. I'm also very familiar with the Prophet Hadiths (traditions.) I'm really curious here, where do you see what you see? Because I see the exact opposite when I read them.

I think the more important question is, have you read the Quran and Hadiths, or are you just echoing what you read on the net and hear from your preachers? For when I read the Quran I see a light for all humans waiting to be touched and entered by those who has not yet experienced it. Human life is sacred. Any human life, says the Quran.

In regard to Muslims following the example of Jesus, you are very correct on that issue. After all Jesus, just like Mohammad, Moses and numerous other prophets of God held up the belief of tolerance and peace to mankind.
It is, however, interesting that you would mention Jesus of the NT and don't mention Jesus of the OT. For Jesus (one part of God) ordered Moses to slaughter innocent people, to kill all, "even the suckling." You wont find that God in the Quran. For the God of the Quran declares that such an act would be against everything that he holds. But wait, you say, that was the OT, and that I should look at to the NT and the example of Jesus in it.

Further you say, it was God who ordered Moses and Joshua to commit the slaughter, not Jesus. I see, so it's new covenant, new God? The old, ruthless, inhumane, and cruel God of the OT is pushed aside by his merciful, peaceful son who now rules with peace and love? Yet kills a man and his wife because they did not give all the money they acquired from selling their own properties on the hand of Peter?

No my friend, the God of the OT is the same as of the NT and of the Quran. He forever been and will be merciful to all. He never punishes the little innocent children by the sins of their fathers. He never orders anyone to kill innocent being. Not even to cut down a tree or take bird's chicks from their nest and leave their mother heart-broken looking for them (as we told in one of the Prophet's Hadiths.)

I say to you, do you read you own Bible? (I have, several times, btw.) Did you read the Quran? I could understand someone not believing in the message of the Quran. After all, it is all about the freedom giving to us by God to choose whatever path we want to follow. What I do have hard time understanding, is, why tell lies about something or someone you decided not to follow just so you could turn others for finding out for themselves the truth. You are not being true to Jesus' example here, friend. I suggest you start doing so.

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