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I received an email from Fawaz AB requesting some "corrections" in this article. I
am answering his "corrections" here. Peace been upon you (As-Salam Alaykom/Shalom Alaikhem) REPLY:Your "correction" proves my point.
You listed the three most holy mosques.
REPLY: Actually, Sura 17: reads "Glory
be to Him Who made His servant to go on a night from the Sacred Mosque to
the remote mosque of which We have blessed the precincts, so that We may
show to him some of Our signs; surely He is the Hearing, the Seeing." I don't see where you get 'And that
means East' from this Sura. That is taking quite a stretch of imagination.
And it stretches out even further to say this refers to East Jerusalem. 3- "Mohammed did make a brief attempt to get people to pray
towards Jerusalem in a vain effort to convert Reply: A matter of semantics. A command
or an attempt, the fact that it happened remains the same. Fawaz AB: B- Converting Jews is not a bad deed,
All Religion followers like others to Convert to their Religion, because every
Believer thinks that his/her Religion the The Best among All. REPLY: You better sit down. I
agree with you about 'all religion followers like others to convert to their
religion'. The use of the word 'vain' in the original article means
that this effort by Mohammed failed in his attempt. Fawaz AB: C- Sura 2 Verses 142-143 Commanded
Muhammad to Revert "Qibla" Direction of Prayer to Mecca's Mosque, because
it's (In Islam) the House buile by Abraham & Ishmael. REPLY: [Sura 2.142-143] The fools among
the people will say: What has turned them from their qiblah which they had?
Say: The East and the West belong only to Allah; He guides whom He likes
to the right path. The fact remains that Mohammed did revert
the direction of prayer back to Mecca, which further substantiates this article. 4-" and in most cases actually turn their backs on Jerusalem" And if I accepted what you wrote, then every one in north of
Al-Aqsa mosque or norther in the same REPLY: I concede this point. I have recently had problems with this 'turning their backs on Jerusalem." 5- "The place of pilgrimage (haj) for Moslems, according to
the Koran, is Mecca and its sister city, REPLY: Let me quote from your first correction, "and if We excepted the two Mosques of Mecca & Madina, Al-Aqsa Mosque is Holier & More Sacred Than all The Mosques of Earth." Now in this section you are saying that
Mecca is the place for pilgrimage. JERUSALEM,SACRED TO WHOM claims that
all three mosques are claimed as sacred by Islam. What is it?
- Even the Jews and Christians in Iraq, Tunisia or any
other Arabic Spoken countries calls G-D as "Allah" - "Personal Name" is something different in Islam, Allah Has
more 99 names in Islam (i.e. Almighty, And Personal Name to Allah in Islam is different again, because
Allah is Allah not a "Personal Name", - Muslims Have what is called "The Greatest Name" (similar to the "personal") and that Name is not know to everyone, it moved from a generation to the next (like the "Mishnah") and this name is the name that Allah likes most to be asked with.
Surah 23.91] Never did Allah take to
Himself a son, and never was there with him any (other) god-- in that case
would each god have certainly taken away what he created, and some of them
would certainly have overpowered others; glory be to Allah above what they
describe! From Who is Allah? III&E Brochure
Series; No. 2 (published by The Institute of Islamic Information and
Education (III&E):"It is a known fact that every language has one
or more terms that are used in reference to God and sometimes to lesser
deities. This is not the case with Allah. Allah is the personal name of the
One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or
gender. This shows its uniqueness when compared with the word god which can
be made plural, gods, or feminine, goddess." This says that Allah is the personal
Islamic name for god. This makes us both partially right and wrong. 7- " Furthermore, when you study the history of Islam, you
discover that when Mohammed went to Mecca, 365 REPLY: 360 gods or idols were worshipped
in Mecca. (http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-moon-god-hubal.htm).
They are both false gods. From this
same page "What is quite certain
is that the Pagan Arabs in Mecca worshipped a moon god called Hubal at the
Kabah. Hubal was the Lord of the Kabah, being the highest ranking god of the
360 gods worshipped in the Kabah. Now here is the amazing thing. Allah was
also worshipped as the Lord of the Kabah. Yet, Allah was never represented
by any idol of physical nature. To suggest the polytheistic Arabs never created
an idol to represent Allah is simply unreasonable and unbelievable. We suggest
rather, that Hubal was who the Pagan Arabs addressed their prayers to Allah
through. In other words, Allah was Hubal. Muhammad came along and smashed
the idol of Hubal and now the Arabs had no idol of Allah to pray through
any more and Hubal was forgotten. There are stories in the Sira of pagan
Meccan praying to Allah while standing beside the image of Hubal. (Muhammad's
Mecca, W. Montgomery Watt, Chapter 3: Religion In Pre-Islamic Arabia, p26-45)
We suggest that Arabs stood beside Hubal and prayed to him, referring to
him as Allah". 8- " This Allah was connected with the worship of the moon,
thus the crescent seen on the top of all Fawaz AB: About the latter part, I Think I
made it clear, The 3 G-Ddesses that you wrote about: - REPLY: Visit Allah - the Moon God
This rather extensive article refutes this
argument and shows allah to be the moon god. 9- " The "new and improved" Allah of Islam is a remade G-D
of the desert. Yes, Islam is monotheistic, but the G-D worshipped is not
the G-D of the Bible - the Lord G-D of Israel" REPLY: And I also showed how the G-D
of the Bible is NOT allah. As for where did I get this remade g-d
of the desert, I got it from here "In 1255
B.C.. the Hebrew tribes had stopped for a forty-year period in Sinai and
the Nufud on their trek from Egypt to Palestine. Tradition recounts the marriage
of Moses to an Arabian woman who worshipped an austere desert-god named
Yahu, later called Jehovah. This Arabian woman instructed Moses in the ways
of her god and may have started, thereby, a chain of events that links Christianity,
Judaism and Islam."
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