to Forrest

Submitted by Gandhung (Indonesia), Jun 12, 2007 at 21:52

Forrest,

There are so many scholars, both from Islam and Christians, have been involved in a debate of many topics, including Jihad. What I was suggested to you truly did happen during prophet Muhamad with a delegation of Christian scholars from Najran. After long debate the Christians could not accept the prophesy of Muhamad and then the prophet received a surah from God asking the prophet to ask the Christian to have a "mubahalah", but then the Christians had no courage to do that. I believe all Imams in every Islamic centres know this very well and they will be very happy to do that with anyone in doubt of Islam. The surah are very clear :

Ali-'Imraan

059. The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: "Be". And he was.

060. The Truth (comes) from Allah alone; so be not of those who doubt.

061. And whoso disputeth with thee concerning him, after the knowledge which hath come unto thee, say (unto him): Come! We will summon our sons and your sons, and our women and your women, and ourselves and yourselves, then we will pray humbly (to our Lord) and (solemnly) invoke the curse of Allah upon those who lie

062. This is the true account: There is no god except Allah; and Allah-He is indeed the Exalted in Power, the Wise.

Note: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the authors alone and not necessarily those of Daniel Pipes. Original writing only, please. Comments are screened and in some cases edited before posting. Reasoned disagreement is welcome but not comments that are scurrilous, off-topic, commercial, disparaging religions, or otherwise inappropriate. For complete regulations, see the "Guidelines for Reader Comments".