In the name of Allaah, the most beneficent, the most merciful.
AND THE DISTORTED CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS:
In this page:
The Mission of Jesus | The Distortion of Facts | Jesus was a man and messenger of God |
The God has no son. | The Trinity and its basis | The other basis for trinity |
Analysis of the components of the trinity |
Jesus (pbuh) upheld the laws that existed in those
days in the Torah, the book of laws given to Prophet Moses (pbuh), except for:
Jesus (pbuh) says in the Bible: (Matthew 5:17) “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy , but to fulfil.” Therefore, Jesus (pbuh) brought no
new religion.
Jesus believed in One God and preached God’s
unity. Jesus was a messenger of God and he did not claim to be anything else.
Jesus has said, addressing The Lord: (John 17:3)
“........ that they
might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.”
In other words, Jesus says to the Lord: You are the only true God and You have sent me, i.e.
I am Your messenger.
Since all the people did not believe in him,
those who did not believe in him as another prophet and messenger of God were
“disbelievers in Jesus Christ” and those who believed in him could be called
“Christians”.
Therefore, true “ Christians “ would be those,
who:
While Allaah protected Qur’aan from any change
and thus ensured that the Muslims knew and kept the pristine truths forever,
Allaah has, by His wisdom, also ensured that certain key truths are uttered by
Jesus (pbuh) in an indirect and allegorical (hidden) manner, so that, when the
time comes, Christians too would come to know of the truth through the very
same Bible, in spite of the distortions made by its custodians.
The real and deeper meaning of such utterances
were beyond the comprehension of the people who distorted the teachings.
Otherwise, they would not have let these verses remain in the Bible. But Allaah
does what He wills, even though detractors of the religion strive to suppress
His guidance.
“ And Allaah has full power and control over His
affairs; but most among mankind know it not. ” (Qur’aan 12:21)
Now, let us study the distortions one by one and
see how the Bible carries the truths enshrined in Qur’aan.
(One of the major distortions, the alleged
crucifixion of Jesus, is dealt in detail in a separate article.)
JESUS WAS A MAN, A MESSENGER OF ALLAAH.
Likewise, Qur’aan teaches us that Jesus (pbuh)
too was a slave of Allaah and His messenger. Allaah says in the Qur’aan: 43:59
about Jesus (pbuh): “ He is nothing but a slave on
whom We bestowed favour, and We made him a pattern for the Children of
Israel.”
Jesus (pbuh) indeed is a slave of Allaah. His
various utterances and actions manifest the truth. Jesus (pbuh) confirms in
John 5:30: “ I can of mine own self do nothing.”
Someone who can of his own self do nothing, is a
slave. But his special position among slaves like us is that he was a messenger
of Allaah.
I Timothy 2:5 calls Jesus “.... the man Christ Jesus.”
It is said in Bible, Luke 24:19 : “ Jesus of Nazareth ...... was
a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people.”
In spite of these clear teachings of Bible that
he was a man and a prophet, Jesus is often sought to be projected as god.
Jesus says is Matthew 15:7 & 15:9 :
7. [Ye] hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of
you, saying,
9. But in vain they do
worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.
Jesus is quoted in Qur’aan : 61:6 “ And when
Jesus said: O children of Israel! Indeed I am messenger of Allaah unto you......”
Jesus was a messenger of Allaah unto the
children of Israel.
Let us see how Bible quotes the same words of
Jesus (pbuh):
" I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of
the house of Israel. ” (Matthew 15:24). In simpler words: Jesus says that he
was sent (he is a messenger) only unto the house of Israel.
And who sent him ? I not less than 15 verses of
the Bible, Jesus says: “ the Father which hath sent me.....” He was sent by the Father, or in other words, he
is a messenger of The God. (Ref. John 5:30, 5:36, 5:37, 6:39, 6:44, 6:57, 8:16,
8:18, 8:29, 8:42, 12:49, 14:24, 17:21, 17:25, 20:21)
Jesus (pbuh) has clearly said that he was not
sent but unto the house of Israel. On the contrary, Muhammad (pbuh) and Islaam,
God’s religion in its entirety, given through him is meant for the whole of
mankind. Allaah tells Muhammad (pbuh) in Qur’aan: (34:28)
“ And We have not sent you (O Muhammad) but as a
bringer of good tidings and a warner unto all
mankind; but most of mankind know not.”
Allaah says in Qur'aan, Sura Maryam, verses 88
to 93:
“ And they say: The Beneficent has taken unto
Himself a son;
Assuredly you utter a disastrous thing,
whereby almost the heavens are torn,
and the earth is split asunder and the mountains
fall in ruins,
that you ascribe unto The Beneficent a son,
when it is not suitable for (The Majesty of) The
Beneficent
that He should choose a son.
There is none in the heavens and the earth but
comes
unto The Beneficent as a slave.”
The above verses signify the enormity of
falsehood the lie invented by them carries.
Allaah also says in another verse of Qur’aan:
(2:116)
“ And they say: Allaah has taken unto Himself a
son. Be He glorified ! Nay, but whatsoever is in the heavens and the earth is
His. All are subservient unto Him. ”
From the above verse, we can deduce that the
most desirable thing one would like to see in a son is obedience. Everybody
would dislike his son who is not obedient. Since everything in the heavens and
the earth belongs to Allaah and everything is obedient unto Him, what does
having a son adds to His pleasure.
In the New Testament, the words “My Father” is
widely used (while quoting Jesus (pbuh)) to denote God. This gives an
impression that The God is Jesus’ father, which, in turn, projects Jesus as
God’s son. All this misquoting comes to a naught, when in John 20:17 Jesus is
quoted as having said: “I ascend unto my Father, and YOUR Father, and to MY GOD, and your God.”
In at least five verses of Qur’aan (3:51, 5:72,
5:117, 19:36, 43:64) Jesus is quoted as having referred to Allaah as MY LORD
and YOUR LORD. The translation of verse No. 43:64 :
“Indeed Allaah, He
is my Lord and your Lord, therefore, worship Him. This is right path.”
The verse of John 10:30, quoting Jesus: “I and [
my ] Father are one ” is often misused to reinforce the concept that Jesus is
equal with The Lord. That is not the meaning of the verse.
A believer cannot say that I believe in The Lord
(and what He says), but I do not believe in His messenger/s (and what they say)
or vice versa. The messengers propagate what The Lord bids them to. Therefore,
they cannot be differentiated for the purpose of belief. This is explained in
verse 4:150 and 151 of Qur’aan:
“ Indeed those who disbelieve in Allaah and His
messengers and seek to make distinction between Allaah and His messengers, and
say: We believe in some and disbelieve in others, and seek to choose a way in
between; Such are disbelievers in truth; and for disbelievers We prepare a
shameful doom. ”
So far, no one has been able to satisfactorily
explain what this theory is. But we can be sure that Jesus (pbuh) NEVER spoke
of trinity. Nor the verses of the Bible on which this theory is presumably
based, 1John 5:7 & 1 John 5:8 , are attributable to Jesus.
Moreover, we shall also see how the different
versions of the Bible variedly quote these verses:
1. King James Version: (KJV) 1 John:
5:7 For there are three that bear record in
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and
the blood: and these three agree in one.
2. Young’s Literal Translation: (YLT) 1John :
5:7 because three are who are testifying [in the
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these—the three—are one;
5:8 and three are who are testifying in the earth], the Spirit, and the water,
and the blood, and the three are into the one.
3. American Standard Version: (ASV) 1 John :
5:7 And it is the Spirit that beareth witness,
because the Spirit is the truth. 5:8 For there are three who bear witness, the
Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.
4. New International Version: (NIV) 1 John : 5:6
(part) And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. 5:7
For there are three that testify: 5:8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and
the three are in agreement.
While the first two versions referred above, KJV
and YLT, speak of “the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost” , the last two, ASV
and NIV do not recognize these words. These three: “the father, the word and
the holy ghost” are supposed to constitute the trinity. They are also referred
as “ the father, the son, and the holy ghost ”(Matthew 28:19), representing The
God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
We will take a close look at what these verses
are talking about. The verses above give information about who bears witness in
the heaven and the earth. Regarding the witnesses in the heaven, the first two
versions (KJV and YLT) say that it is the father, the word and the holy ghost
(holy spirit). Regarding the witnesses on the earth, the verses say that it is
the spirit, the water and the blood. The other two versions (ASV & NIV)
disagree with the above and say that the spirit is true, therefore it bears
witness. Then in the later verse/s they proceed to confuse that there are three
“the spirit, the water and the blood” and they are in agreement.
In any case, the verses are telling us nothing
more than about the witnesses and variously conclude that:
Therefore, we can conclude that whatever be the
number of witnesses, finally there is no conflict or fault in their witnessing
and that they are all in agreement. Nowhere do these verses say that the
witnesses means gods or components of Godhead.
On the same matter of witnesses, Allaah tells us
about them in Qur’aan, clearly and without a conflict, as you will come to know
from the following study.
1. Allaah is a witness over all things and He is
sufficient as a witness.
“ And in whatever way you may be occupied; and
whatever portion you may be reciting from the Qur’aan; and whatever deed you
may be doing -We are witness thereof - when you are deeply engrossed therein.
Nor is hidden from your Lord (so much as) the weight of an atom on the earth or
in the heavens, nor what is less than that or greater than that, but it is
(written) in a clear book. ” ( Qur'aan 10:61)
" Him unto Whom belongs the sovereignty of
the heavens and the earth; And Allaah is witness to all things. " (Qur'aan
85:9)
2. Besides, angels are witnesses. " But
Allaah (Himself) bears witness concerning that which He has revealed unto you;
with His knowledge has He revealed it; and the angels bear witness: And Allaah
is sufficient witness. " (Qur'aan 4:166)
3. Man himself is a witness of what he does and
his tongue and limbs will speak out on the judgement day, as to what they used
to do. " On that (judgment) day when their tongues, their hands, and their
feet will bear witness against them, as to what they used to do." (
Qur'aan 24:24)
4. The book of records, prepared by the angels,
will be a material witness on the judgement day.
5. The messengers would be witnesses against the
people unto whom they were sent.
Qur'aan 73:15 : " Indeed We have sent unto
you a messenger as witness against you, even as We sent unto Pharaoh a
messenger. "
Matthew 28: 18 And having come near, Jesus spake
to them, saying, ‘Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth; 19
having gone, then, disciple all the nations,
(baptizing them—to the name of the Father , and of the Son , and of the Holy
Spirit, 20
teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am
with you all the days—till the full end of the age.’
The group of four verses beginning from No. 18,
form a quotation of Jesus’ words (pbuh). What does the insertion of a group of
words within parenthesis signify ?
1. First of all, it means that the words within
parenthesis are not the words of Jesus. Otherwise, where is the need to put
them within parenthesis.
2. At best, these words are the translator’s
interpretation of Jesus’ words, if not an outright interpolation of words that
are not in the source document, which the Young’s Literal Translation has
honestly emphasized with the parenthesis.
The words “disciple all the nations” can be
allowed to be interpreted as Jesus’ direction to “baptize to the name of
father, son and holy spirit ” only if this meaning is commonly found elsewhere
in the Bible. But in the only other place where this is found, (in 1-John 5:7),
again we find them placed within brackets.
Analysis of the components of the trinity:
You, I and any layman, or even a child knows
what this word ‘father’ means and how one becomes a father. Yet, Christians are
taught to use unhesitatingly, the word ‘father’ to denote The Almighty.
Prudence, propriety and common sense demands
that words are not used inappropriately and that they are used strictly in the
sense they are commonly understood and known to be used. In matters relating to
God, it is even more necessary that we use words with utmost caution, so that
we do not utter anything that is at variance with the truth or does not befit
His Majesty.
But we can see in the Bible that words were put
to use in whatever way it pleased and suited its custodians. They are not only
used inappropriately and irresponsibly, but also contradictorily and
confusingly, as we observe in the course of this study. I must add that the
contradictions in the Christian belief is not just due to an innocent misuse of
words, but because the salient features of the Christian theology itself, as
professed now and during the larger period of its existence, is not God-made
but is man-made.
The seemingly unnecessary differences and
contradictions were not introduced into an otherwise sound original theology
without a purpose: The enemies of the religion and, therefore, also the enemies
of God, who are averse to obeying the edicts of the holy books, operate in
devious ways to destroy or dilute the laws, so that they can freely follow
their own lusts, while at the same time pretending to follow the religion. As a
result of this satanic scheme, the followers of a God-given, sound religion are
divided with the tool of differences and controversies and made to fight and
waste their energies and time, not only on trivial issues, but also on
essential fundamental beliefs.
Allaah says in the Qur’aan, pointing to the
absence of any contradiction in the Qur’aan, which is the main source of
Islaamic beliefs: “ Why do they not then ponder over the Qur’aan ? And had it
been from (a source) other than Allaah, they would have surely found in it
contradictions in abundance.” (4:82).
The very first verse of the Bible, Genesis 1:1
“In the beginning God created.......... ” introduces us to the God as the creator. Anyone who has read just the first
verse of the Bible knows God as The Creator.
So, there is no need to call Him as Father, even to explain Him metaphorically,
and try in vain to compare the One Who is Incomparable.
Allaah condemns man for such behaviour, in
Qur’aan (36:78):
“ And he makes comparisons for Us, and forgets
his own creation....” .
(The Bible): Malachi 2:10 " Have we not all
one father? hath not one God created us? " The above verse of the Bible is
possibly the explanation for the unwarranted use of the word ‘father’ in the
Bible to denote The Almighty’s function, attribute or power as The Sole
Creator.
In the whole universe, He is the only Creator
and everything else is His creature. In the book of Genesis, the Bible gives
details of how the heavens, the earth, the light, the animals, the man, etc.
were made by Allaah. Everything came into being by His command.
“ For he spake, and it was done; He commanded,
and it stood fast.” (Pslams 33:9)
In Qur’aan, similar details of His creative
powers are given, where it is mentioned that whenever He decrees a work (to be
done) or wills a thing (to be created), He says to it, " Be ! ", and it becomes. (2:117, 3:47, 3:59,
16:40, 19:35, 36:82, 40:68). In this manner, Allaah has chosen to create
everything. In the very same manner, Allaah created Jesus (pbuh) too.
Qur’aan recounts the astonishment of Mary
(pbuh), when she was informed that she is about to be blessed with a son,
Jesus.
3:45 : When the angels said: “O Mary ! Allaah
gives you glad tidings of a word from Him: his
name will be The Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, held in honour in this world and
the hereafter and of those nearest (to Allaah).
3:46 : He shall speak unto the people in his
cradle and in his maturity and he shall be of the righteous.”
3:47 She said: " My Lord ! How can I have a
child when no man has touched me." He said: “ Even so: Allaah creates what
He wills: When He has decreed a plan, He says to it, ' Be
! 'and it is ! ”
In verse 3:45 above, Allaah gives Mary the glad
tidings of a word from Him, a child whose name shall be Christ Jesus and He
accomplished His will by commanding “ Be ! ”.
Thus created Allaah the heavens and the earth
and everything that He created:
(Qur'aan 2:117) : “The Originator of the heavens
and the earth ! When He decrees a thing, He says unto it : Be ! and it is. ”
(Qur'aan 16:40) : “And Our word unto a thing,
when We intend it, is only that We say unto it : Be ! and it is. ”
The Bible says: “ By
the word of Jehovah were the heavens made.” (Psalms 33:6)
Touching the subject of Jesus’
creation, the Bible says: “And the Word
became flesh ” (John 1:14)
The ‘word’, referred in the above verses,
therefore, is the word of Allaah, which is His speech or command. It is neither
an independent thing or being nor ‘god’ as the Christians are being
indoctrinated. The word is subordinate to the will
or intention of Allaah, as can be seen from the following verses:
Bible: Reve 4:11 (ASV) “ Worthy art Thou, our
Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for Thou didst create all things, and because of Thy will
they were, and were created.”
Qur’aan: 36:82 “But His command, when He intends a thing, is only that he says to
it, Be ! and it is.”
Bible: John 1:13 “
which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God. 1:14 And the word was made flesh,”
The word becoming flesh, by Allaah’s will, as
told in the above verse of Bible, is only half the story. For Jesus, or any
other soul, to become a living being and not to remain just flesh, it needs to
be infused with spirit.
Qur’aan: 15:29 “And when I have made him (Adam,
the first man) and have breathed into him of My
spirit.....”
Qur’aan: 32:9 “ Then He fashioned him and breathed into him of His spirit; ”
Bible: Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD God formed man
[of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Bible: Job 32:8 “But [there
is] a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them
understanding.”
So, Jesus (pbuh) after being conceived in Mary’s
womb (pbuh), i.e., after he became flesh, is also infused with spirit, for him
to become a living being. Qur’aan: 21:91 “And her (Mary) who guarded her
chastity: We breathed into her of Our spirit, and We made her and her son a
sign for all peoples.”
As distinct from the spirit that dwells within
all people, the holy spirit, (or the holy ghost, as the Christians call it), is
archangel Gabriel, about whom the Qur’aan gives, inter alia, the following
information:
1. Allaah strengthened Jesus (pbuh) with holy
spirit (2:87, 2:253), which helped him speak from the cradle and in maturity.
(5:110)
2. Allaah revealed the Qur’aan to Muhammad
(pbuh) through holy spirit. (16:102) The three verses quoted above (2:87,
2:253, 5:110) mention holy spirit in relation to matters connected with Jesus.
Some other verses carry reference to “the spirit” or “our spirit” or “spirit
from Us” that relate to matters other than Jesus.
But what is a spirit ? Allaah says in the
Qur’aan: 17:85:
“ They ask you (O Muhammad) concerning the
spirit; Say: The spirit is by command of my Lord, and of knowledge you have
been given but little.”
Excepting the information that the spirit is by
the command of Allaah, little else has been conveyed to us about it. The way
the above verse is constructed, it also means that man has been given very
little of the knowledge, in general.
From the above detailed study, we have come to
know that the word is the speech and command of Allaah and that the spirit is
by the command of Allaah.
From the following verse of Qur’aan, 4:171, we
can observe that Jesus is a word of Allaah,
(by which he is first conceived in Mary’s womb as flesh - an embryo - ), and a spirit from Allaah, breathed into her, (which
makes him a live foetus).
“ O people of the
Scripture!
Do not exaggerate in
your religion nor utter anything concerning Allaah
The Messiah Jesus, son
of Mary, was only a messenger of Allaah ,
So believe in Allaah
and His messengers,
Allaah is only One
God.
Far is it removed from
His transcendent majesty that He should have a son.
His is all that is in
the heavens and the earth.
And Allaah is
sufficient as Defender. ”
Thus, in the above verse, Allaah explains and
nullifies the aberration called trinity and asks the People of Scripture not to
make god out of His messenger and His words or creations; There is only One God
who owns the heavens and the earth and it does not befit His majesty to have a
son.
Let us hear the word, Jesus, speak to
his Creator:
“ And this is life eternal, that they should
know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ. ”
(John 17:3)
The above verse of the Bible demolishes the
trinity theory with Jesus’ own words and conclusively proves that there is no
god except The One God and that Jesus is His messenger.
The verses that want to prove Jesus as son of
God are themselves based on heresy: a belief opposed to what other verses of
the Bible say. 16 verses, from Luke 3:23 to 3:38 give the genealogy of 76
persons from Adam to Jesus. The first verse 3:23 states Jesus as the son of Joseph (the carpenter) adding the words “as was supposed” and the last verse calls Adam the
son of God. Thus the first parentage is based on a
supposition, (from where, naturally, it cannot proceed further) and
the last link in the chain is Adam, whom we all know as created from dust and
breathed with spirit from the Lord (Genesis 2:7).
Joseph the carpenter himself is told by an angel
in his dream about Mary that “that which is conceived in her is of the Holy
Spirit.” (Matthew 1:20). Thus, they have built a long bridge of 76 spans to
prove Jesus’ lineage from God, but the first and the last spans of the bridge
are made up of spiders’ web.
In another case of classic deception, Matthew
1:16 states “and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of
Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.” The above verse
makes you hazard a guess whether Jesus was the son of Joseph. If that was not
the intention, to call Jesus as son of Joseph, then what is the purpose of
stating the genealogy of Joseph through 15 long verses on the very first page
of the gospel. Why not call Jesus as son of Mary,
as the Qur’aan invariably calls him, a total number of 12 times.
Dear Reader,
If you are a Christian or about to become one,
isn’t it time that you reconsider your links with an establishment that puts
your salvation in danger with its contrived teachings. Should you not prepare
yourself to embrace the unaltered religion of God, Islaam, which would not let
you play with the words ‘father’ and ‘son’ or even let you call an adopted son
as son.
Read Qur’aan:
33:4 “........nor has He made your adopted sons,
your sons. Such is (only) your speech by your mouths. But Allaah tells (you)
the truth, and He shows you the right way.
33:5 Call them by (the names of) their fathers.
That will be more equitable in the sight of Allaah. ......”
Or, read this verse: (24:23)
“Indeed as for those who slander virtuous,
unaware, believing women; cursed are they in the world and the hereafter.
Theirs will be awful doom.”
Islaam will not let you slander any virtuous
woman, not to mention Mary (pbuh), the mother of an honoured messenger of
Allaah; Mary, who is chosen above the women of all nations and who is protected
from the schemes of satan. Only a woman who has been unjustly slandered would
know the mental agony she has to undergo. Untruths such as the one implied
towards Mary are aplenty in the Bible, in respect of certain other messengers
of God. You would have certainly come across such insinuations while reading
the Bible previously. But you may not have given serious thought to it or would
not have known what to do about it. But now that you have been informed of the
seriousness of the matter and also shown the only clean alternative, it is high
time you look for more information on Islaam, the religion brought by Muhammad
(pbuh), who has been foretold both in the Old Testament and the New Testament,
as the prophet who is to be expected to bring the full and final guidance from
the Lord.
Read the prophecy about Muhammad in the New Testament.