THE CHOICE

• Eight irrefutable arguments
• Further Proofs
• New Testament Also Affirms

For centuries people have been claiming that their way was the way to salvation,nirvana,bliss, and eternal life. The following text was written by Ahmed Deedat, a Muslim, who studied the Bible. He wrote a book called The Choice. What follows are excerpts from this book.

EIGHT IRREFUTABLE ARGUMENTS

A dominee Van Heerdan agreed to meet me at his home on the Saturday Afternoon that I was to leave for the Transvaal.

He received me on his verandah with a friendly welcome. He said if I did not mind, he would like his father-in-law from the free state to join us in the discussion. I didn't mind. The three of us seattled down in the dominee's library.

I posed the question: "What does the Bible say about Mohammed?" Without hesistation he answered, "Nothing!" I asked: "Why nothing? According to your interpretation the Bible has so many things to say about the rise of Soviet Russia and about the Last Days and even about the Pope of the Roman Catholics"? He said, "Yes, but there was nothing about Mohammed"! I asked again, "Why nothing? Surely this man Mohammed who had been responsible(with the permission of Allah) for the bringing into being a world-wide community of millions of Believers who, on his authority, believe in the miraculous birth of Jesus,that Jesus is the Messiah, that he gave life to the dead by God's permission, and that he healed those born blind and the lepers by God's permission.

Surely this book(the Bible) must have something to say about this great Leader of men who spoke so well of Jesus and his mother Mary"?(Peace be on them both)

The old man from the free state replied,"My son, I've been reading the Bible for the past 50 years, and if there was any mention of him, I would have have known it."

I enquired: "According to you, are there not hundreds of prophecies regarding the coming of Jesus in the Old Testament". The dominee interjected: "Not hundreds, but thousands"! I said, "I am not going to dispute the 'thousand and one'prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the coming of Jesus Christ, because the whole Muslim-world has already accepted him without the testimony of any Biblical prophecy. We Muslims have accepted the de facto Jesus on the authority of Mohammed alone. Out of the 'thousands' of prophecies referred to, can you please give me just one single prophecy where Jesus is mentioned by name? The term 'Messiah', translated as 'Christ' is not a name but a title. Is there a single prophecy where it says that the name of the 'Messiah' will be Jesus, and that his mother's name will be Mary, that his supposed father will be Jospeh the Carpenter; that he will be born in the reign of Herod the King,etc. etc? No! There are no such details! Then how can you conclude that those 'thousand' prophecies refer to Jesus"?

The dominee replied: "You see, prophecies are word-pictures of something that is going to happen in the future. When that thing actually comes to pass, we see vividly in these prophecies the fulfillment of what had been predicted in the past". I said: "What you actually do is that you deduce, you reason, you put two and two together". He replied "Yes." I said "If this is what you have to do with a 'thousand' prophecies to justify your claim with regards to the genuineness of Jesus, why should we not adopt the very same system for Mohammed"? The dominee agreed that it was a fair proposition, a reasonable way of dealing with the problem.

I asked him to open up Deuteronomy, Chapter 18, verse 18(the fifth Book of the Christian and Jewish Bibles), which he did. I read from memory.

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethern,

like unto thee,

and I will put my words in his mouth;

and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

I enquired,"To whom does this prophecy refer? Without the slightest hesistation he answered: "JESUS" I asked: "Why Jesus - his name is not mentioned here"? The dominee replied: "since prophecies are word-pictures of something that is going to happen in the future, we find that the wordings of this verse adequately describe him. You see the most important woreds of this prophecy describe him. You see the most important words of this prophecy areLIKE UNTO THEE-LIKE YOU- like Moses, and Jesus is like Moses. I questioned: "In which way is Jesus like Moses?" The answer was: "In the first place Moses was a jewand Jesus was also a Jew; secondly, Moses was a Prophet and Jesus was also aProphet-therefore Jesus is like Moses and that is exactly what God had foretold Moses. "Can you think of any other similarities between Moses and Jesus?" I asked. The dominee said that he could not think of any. I replied: "If these are the only two criteria for discovering a candidate for this prophecy of Deuteronomy 18:18, then in that case this criteria could fit any one of the following Biblical personages after Moses:-Solomon, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel,Hosea, Joel, Malachi, John the Baptist,etc., because they were also all "Jews" as well as "Prophets". Why should we not apply this prophecy to any of of these prophets, and why only to Jesus? Why should we make fish of one and fowl of another?" The dominee had no reply. I continued: "You see, my conclusions are that Jesus is most unlike Moses, and if I am wrong I would like you to correct me".

So saying, I reasoned with him:

In the FIRSTplace Jesus is not like Moses, because, according to YOU -'JESUS IS A GOD', but Moses is not God, Is this true?" He said: "Yes." I said:"THEREFORE JESUS IS NOT LIKE MOSES!

"SECONDLY, according to YOU-Jesus died for the sins of the world,but Moses did not have to die for the sins of the world. Is this true?" He again said "Yes." I said: 'THEREFORE JESUS IS NOT LIKE MOSES!'

"THIRDLY, according to YOU-'Jesus went to hell for three days', but Moses did not have to go there. Is this true?" He answered meekly; "Y-E-S." I concluded: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses!"

"But dominee," I continued: "these are not hard facts, solid facts, tangible facts; they are mere matters of belief over which the little ones can stumble and fall. Let us discuss something very simple, very easy that if your little ones are called in to hear the discussion, they would have no difficulty in following it, shall we?" The dominee was quiet happy at the suggestion.

Eight Irrefutable Arguments

1. 'Moses had a father and a mother. Mohammed also had a father and a mother. But Jesus had only a mother, and no human father. Is this true?" He said, "yes." I said: 'Therefore Jesus is not Like Moses, but Mohammed is like Moses!'

3. "Moses and Mohammed married and begot children, but Jesus remained a bachelor all his life. Is this true?" The dominee said: "yes." I said: Therefore Jesus is not like Moses, But Mohammed is like Moses."

4. "Moses and Mohammed were accepted as prophets by their people in their lifetime. No doubt the Jews gave endless trouble to Moses and they murmured in the wilderness, but as a nation, as a whole, they acknowledged that Moses was a messenger of God sent to them. The Arabs too made Mohammed's life impossible. He suffered very badly at their hands. After 18 years of preaching in Mecca, he had to emigrate from the city of his birth. But before his demise, the Arab nation as a whole accepted him as a messenger of Allah. But according to the Bible - "He (Jesus) came unto his own, but his own received him not."(John 1:11). EVEN TODAY, AFTER TWO THOUSAND YEARS HIS PEOPLE(JEWS) AS A WHOLE HAVE REJECTED HIM. I said is this true?" The dominee said: "Yes" I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses, but Mohammed is like Moses."

5. "Moses and Mohammed were prophets as well as kings. By prophet I mean a man who received Divine Revelation for the Guidance of Man and this Guidance he conveys to God's creatures as received without any addition or deletion. A king is a person who has the power of life and death over his people. It is immaterial whether the person wears a crown or not, or whether he was ever addressed as king or monarch: if the man has the prerogative of inflicting capital punishment- HE IS A KING. Moses possessed such a power. Do you remember the Israelite who was found picking up firewood on the Sabbath Day, and Moses had him stone to death?(Bible's version)(Numbers 15:36) There are other crimes also mentioned in the Bible for which capital punishment was inflict on the Jews at the behest of Moses. Mohammed too, had the power of life and death.

There are instances in the Bible of persons who were given gift of prophecy only, they were not in a position to implement their directives. Some of these holy men of God who were helpless in the face of stubborn rejection of their message were the prophets Lot, Jonah, Daniel, Ezra and John the Baptist. They could only deliver the message, but could not enforce the Law. The Holy Prophet Jesus unfortunately also belonged to this category. The (Bible version and not the Holy Qur'an version) Gospel clearly confirms this: when Jesus was dragged before the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, charged for sedition, Jesus made a convincing point in his defence to refute the false charge: "Jesus answered, 'My Kingdom is not of this world: If my Kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now is my Kingdom not from hence."(John 18:36). This convinced Pilate(A Pagan). Jesus did not strike him as being a danger to his rule. Jesus claimed a spiritual kingdom only: in other words he only claimed to be a prophet, Is this true?" The dominee answered: "Yes,' I said "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Mohammed is Like Moses."

6. "Moses and Mohammed brought new laws and new regulations for their people. Moses not only gave the Ten Commandments to the Israelites, but a very comprehensive ceremonial law for the guidance of his people. Mohammed comes to people steeped in barbarism and ignorance. They married their stepmothers, they buried their daughters alive; drunkennes, adultry, idolatry and gambling where the order of the day. Gibbon describes the the Arabs before Islam in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, "THE HUMAN BRUTE, ALMOST WITHOUT SENSE, ISPOORLY DISTINGUISHED FROM THE REST OF THE ANIMAL CREATION." There was hardly anything to distinguish between the 'man' and the 'animal' of the time; they were animals in human form.

From ths abject barbarism, Mohammed elevated them, in the words of Thomas Carlysl, 'into torch bearers of light and learning,''TO THE ARAB NATION IT WAS AS A BIRTH FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT. ARABIA FIRST BECAME ALIVE BY MEANS OF IT. A POOR SHEPHERD PEOPLE, ROAMING UNNOTICED IN ITS DESERTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, SEE, THE UNNOTICED BECOMES WORLD NOTABLE, THE SMALL HAS GROWN WORLD-GREAT. WITHIN ONE CENTURY AFTERWARDS ARABIA WAS AT GRANADA ON ONE HAND AND AT DELPHI ON THE OTHER. GLANCING IN VALOUR AND SPLENDOUR, AND THE LIGHT OF GENIUS, ARABIA SHINES OVER A GREAT SECTION OF THE WORLD...' The fact is that Mohammed gave his people a Law and Order they never had before.

As regards Jesus, when the Jews felt suspicous of him that he might be an imposter with designs to pervert their teachings, Jesus took pains to assure them that he had not come with a new religion-no new laws and no new regulations. I quote his own words: "THINK NOT THAT I AM COME TO DESTROY THE LAW, OR THE PROPHETS: I AM NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL. FOR VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS, ONE JOT OR ONE TITTLE SHALL IN NO WISE PASS FROM THE LAW. TILL ALL BE FULFILLED.'(Matthew 5:17-18).

In other words he had not come with any new laws or regulations; he came only to fulfil the old law. This is what he gave the Jews to understand- unless he was speaking with(God Forbid) the tongue in his cheeck trying to bluff the Jews into accepting him as a man of God and by subterfuge trying to ram a new religion down their throats. No! This messenger of God would never resort to such foul means to subvert the Religion of God. He himself fulfilled the laws. He observed the commandments of Moses, and he respected the Sabbath. At no time did a single Jew point a finger at him to say "why don't you fast" or "why don't you wash you hands before you break bread,'which charges they always levied against his disciples, but never against Jesus. This is because he honoured the laws of the prophets who preceded him. In short, he had created no new religion and had brought no new law like Moses and Mohammed. Is this true?" I asked the dominee, and he answered: "Yes." I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Mohammed is like Moses."

7."Both Moses and Mohammed died natural deaths, but according to Christianity, Jesus was violently killed on the cross. Is this true?" The dominee said: "Yes." I averred: "Therefore Jesus is not Like Moses but Mohammed is like Moses."

8. "Moses and Mohammed both lie buried in earth, but according to you, Jesus rests in heaven. Is this true? The dominee agreed. I said: "Therefore Jesus is not like Moses but Mohammed is like Moses."

Further Proofs

Since the dominee was helplessly agreeing with everypoint, I said, "Dominee, so far what I have done is to prove only one point out of the whole prophecy-that is proving the phrase 'like unto thee' -'like you'-'like Moses'. The prophecy is much more than this single phrase which reads as follows: "I WILL RAISE THEM UP A PROPHET FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN LIKE UNTO THEE..." The emphasis is on the words- "from among their brethren.' Moses and his people, the Jews, are here addressed as a racial entity, and as such their 'brethren' undoubtedly be the Arabs. You see, the Holy Bible speaks of Abraham as the "Friend of God". Abraham had two wives-sarah and Hagar. Hagar bore Abraham a son -HIS FIRST BORN-'...And Abram called His Son's name which Hagar bare, Ishmael,' (Genesis 16:15)'And Abraham took Ishmael His Son..."(Genesis 17:23). 'And Ishmael His Son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin,'(Geneiss 17:25). Up to the age of THIRTEEN Ishmael was the ONLY son and seed of Abraham, when the covenant was ratified between God and Abraham. God grants Abraham another son through Sarah, named Isaac, who was very much the junior to his brother Ishmael.

If Ishmael and Isaac are the sons of the same father Abraham, then they are brothers. And so the children of the one are the BRETHREN of the children of the other. The children of Isaac are the Jews and the children of Ishmael are the Arabs- so they are BRETHREN to one another. The Bible affirms, 'AND HE(ISHMAEL)SHALL DWELL IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN.'(Genesis 16:12). 'AND HE (ISHMAEL)DIED IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN' (Genesis 25:18) The children of Isaac are the brethren of the Ishmaelites. In like manner Mohammed is from among the brethren of the Israelites because he was a descendant of Ishamel the son of Abrahm. This is exactly as the prophecy has it -'FROM AMONG THEIR BRETHREN'.(Deuteronomy 18:18). There the prophecy distinctly mentions that the coming prophet who would be like Moses, must arise NOT from the 'children of Israel' or from 'among themselves', but from among their brethren. Mohammed therefore was from AMONG THEIR BRETHREN!!

The prophecy proceeds further:'...AND I WILL PUT MY WORDS INTO HIS MOUTH...' What does it mean when it is said'I will put my words in your mouth? You see, when I asked you (the dominee) to open Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18, at the beginning, and if I had asked you to read, and if you had read: would I be putting my words into your mouth? The dominee answered: "No." But, I continued: "If I were to teach you a language like Arabic about which you have no knowledge, and If I asked you to read or repeat after me what I utter, i.e.

SAY: HE IS ALLAH THE ONE AND ONLY;

ALLAH, THE ETERNAL, ABSOLUTE;

HE BEGETTETH NOT, NOR IS HE BEGOTTEN:

AND THERE IS NONE LIKE UNTO HIM

(Sura Ikhlas)

History tells us that Mohammed was forty years of age. He was in a cave some three miles north of the city of Mecca. It was the 27th night of the Muslim month of Ramadaan. In the cave the Archangel Gabriel commands him (Was stated in Arabic)Read! or Proclaim! or Recite! Mohammed is terrified and in his bewilderment replies:(In Arabic)'I AM NOT LEARNED! The Angel commands him a second time with the same result. For the third time the Angel continues:

READ! IN THE NAME OF THY LORD AND CHERISHER, WHO CREATED-

CREATED MAN, FROM A (MERE) CLOT OF CONGEALED BLOOD:

READ! AND THY LORD IS MOST BOUNTIFUL,-

HE WHO TAUGHT (THE USE OF) THE PEN

TAUGHT MAN THAT WHICH HE KNEW NOT."(sura Alaq) Holy Qur'an 96:1-5

(All the Qur'anic texts are presented in English. My apologies for not printing the Arabic text along with the English.)

These are the first five verses which were revealed to Mohammed which now occupy the beginning of the 96th chapter of the Holy Qur'an.

Immediately the Angel had departed, MOhammed rushed to his home. Terrified and sweating all over he asked his beloved wife Khadija to 'cover him up!' He lay down, she watched by him. When he had regained his composure, he explained to her what he had seen and heard. She assured him of her faith in him and that Allah would not allow such a terrible thing to happen to him. Are these the confessions of an imposter? Would imposters confess that when an angel of the Lord confronts them with a message from on High, they get fear-stricken, terrified, and sweating all over, run home to their homes to their wives? Any critic can see that his reactions and confessions are that of an honest, sincere man, the man of Truth -Al Amin'-The Honest, the Upright, and Truthful.

During the next twenty-three years of his prophetic life, words were 'put into his mouth', and he uttered them. They made an indelible impression on his heart and mind: and as the volume of the Sacred Scripture (Holy Qur'an) grew, they were recorded on palm-leaf fibre, on skins and on the shoulder-blades of animals; and in the hearts of his devoted disciples. Before his demise these words were arranged in the order in which we find them today in the Holy Qur'an.

The words(Revelation) were actually put into his mouth, exactly as foretold in the prophecy under discussion: 'AND I WILL PUT MY WORDS IN HIS MOUTH.'(Holy Bible) Deut.18:18.

Mohammed's experience in the cave of Hira, later to be known as Jabal-un-Noor, (the Mountain of Light), and his response to the first Revelation is the exact fulfillment of another Biblical prophecy. In the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 29, verse 12, we read: "AND THE BOOK"(Al-Kitaab, Al-Qur'an-the 'Reading', the Recitation')"IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED, SAYING READ THIS I PRAY THEE":( the words I pray thee, are not in the Hebrew manuscripts, compare with the Roman Catholics' "Douay Version" and also with the Revised Standard Versions") "AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED."(I am not learned." is like what the Prophet Mohammed said, twice to Gabriel, when he was commanded twice to Read!

Let me quote the verse in full without a break as found in the "King James Version", or the authorized Version" as it is more popularly known: "AND THE BOOK IS DELIVERED TO HIM THAT IS NOT LEARNED, SAYING, READ THIS, I PRAY THEE; AND HE SAITH, I AM NOT LEARNED."(Isaiah 29:12)

It may be noted that there were no Arabic Bibles in existence in the 6th Century of the Christian Era when Mohammed lived and preached! Besides, he was absolutely unlettered and unlearned. NO human had ever taught him a word. His teacher was his Creator-

"HE DOES NOT SPEAK(AUGHT), OF (HIS OWN) DESIRE

IT IS NO LESS THAN INSPIRATION SENT DOWN TO HIM:

HE WAS TAUGHT BY ONE MIGHT IN POWER," (sura Najm) 53:3-5

"See! I told the dominee, "how the prophecies fit Mohammed like a glove. We do not have to stretch prophecies to justify their fulfillment in Mohammed."

The dominee replied, "All your expositions sound very well, but they are of no real consequence, because we Christians have Jesus Christ the "incarnate" God, who has redeemed us from the Bondage of Sin!"

I asked, "Not important?" God didn't think so! (He thought his records were important enough to have them recorded- this passage in paranthesis was added by the transcriber, and not part of Deedat's conversation) "God new that there would be people like you who will flippantly, lightheartedly discount his words, so he followed up Deut. 18:18 with a dire warning: the very next verse, "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS," (it is going to happen) "THAT WHOSOEVER WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO MY WORDS WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME, I WILL REQUIRE IT OF HIM."(in the Catholic Bible the ending words are -"I will be the revenger. I will take vengeance from him-I will take revenge!)"Does not this terrify you? God Almighty is threatening revenge! We shake in our pants if some hoodlums threaten us, yet you have no fear of God's warning?"

"Miracle of miracles! in the verse 19 of Deuteronomy chapter 18, we have further fulfillment of the prophecy in Mohammed! Not the words- '...MY WORDS WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN IN MY NAME," In whose name is Mohammed speaking? I opened the Holy Qur'an Yusuf Ali's translation, at chapter 114- Sura Nas, or 'Mankind'-the last chapter, and showed him the formula at the head of the Chapter:

"IN THE NAME OF GOD, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL".

And what did the prophecy demand "...WHICH HE SHALL SPEAK IN MY NAME,' and in whose name does Mohammed speak? "IN THE NAME OF GOD, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL". This prophecy is being fulfilled to the letter!"

The Muslim begins his every lawful act with the Holy formula of "IN THE NAME OF GOD, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL." But the Christian begins : "In the name of the Father, son and holy ghost."

Concerning Deuteronomy chapter 18. I have given more than 15 reasons as to how this prophecy refers to Mohammed and NOT to Jesus.

New Testament Also Confirms

In New Testament times, we find that the Jews were still expecting the fulfillment of the prophecy of 'ONE LIKE MOSES'; refer John 1:19-25. When Jesus claimed to be the Messiah of the Jews, the Jews began to enquire as to where was Elias? The Jews had a parallel prophecy that before the coming of the Messiah, Elias must come first in his second coming, Jesus confirms this Jewish belief:

"...ELIAS TRULY SHALL FIRST COME, AND RESTORE ALL THINGS. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT ELIAS IS COME ALREADY, AND THEY KNEW HIM NOT,...THEN THE DISCIPLES UNDERSTOOD THAT HE SPAKE UNTO THEM OF JOHN THE BAPTIST." (Holy Bible) Matthew 17:11-13.

According to the New Testament the Jews were not the ones to swallow the words of any would-be Messiah. In their investigations they underwent intense difficulties in order to find their true Messiah. An this the Gospel of John confirms: "AND THIS IS THE RECORD OF JOHN," (the Baptist) "WHEN THE JEWS SENT THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES FROM JERUSALEM TO ASK HIM WHO ART THOU? AND HE CONFESSED AND DENIED NOT; BUT CONFESSED, I AM NOT THE CHRIST."(This was only natural because there can't be two Messiahs at the same time. If Jesus was the Christ then John couldn't be the Christ!) Jesus says that John is "Elias" and John denies that he is what Jesus ascribes him to be. On the testimony of Jesus himself, John the Baptist was the greatest of the Israelite prophets: "VERY I SAY UNTO YOU, AMONG THEM THAT ARE BORN OF WOMEN THERE HAS NOT RISEN A GREATER THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST:..." Matthew 11:11.

We Muslims know John the Baptist as Hazrut Yahya Alai-his-salaam(peace be on him). We revere him as true prophet of Allah. The Holy Prophet Jesus known to us as Hazrut Isaa ,alai-his-salaam(peace be on him), is also esteemed as one of the mightiest messengers of the Almighty. How can we Muslims impute lies to either of them? We leave this problem between Jesus and John for the Christians to solve, for their “sacred scriptures” abound in discrepencies which they have been glossing over as the “Dark sayings of Jesus”. We Muslims are really interested in the last question posed to John the Baptist by the Jewish elite –ART THOU THAT THAT PROPHET? AND HE ANSWERED, NO.” (Holy Bible) John 1:21.

Please note that three different and distinct questions were posed to John the Baptist and to which he gave three emphatic ”No’s” as answers. To recapitulate:

(1) Art thou the Christ?

(2) Art thou Elias?

(3) Art thou that Prophet?

But the learned men of Christendom somehow only see two questions implied here. To make doubly clear that the Jews definitely had T-H-R-E-E separate prophecies in their minds when they were interrogating John the Baptist, let us read the remonstrance of the Jews in the verses following -

“AND THEY ASKED HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHY BAPTIZEST THOU THEN,IF THOU BE,

(a). NOT THAT CHRIST,

(b). NOR ELIAS,

(c) NEITHER THAT PROPHET? (Holy Bible) John 1:25

If we look up any Bible which has a concordance or cross-references, then we will find in the marginal note where the words “the prophet”, or “that prophet” occur in John 1:25, that these words refer to the prophecy of Deuteronomy 18:15, and 18. And that “that prophet”- “that prophet like Moses” –“LIKE UNTO THEE”, we have proved through overwhelming evidence that he was MOHAMMED and Not Jesus!

We Muslims are not denying that Jesus was the “Messiah”, which word is translated as “Christ”. We are not contesting the “thousand and one prophecies” which Christians claim abound in the Old Testament foretelling the coming of the Messiah. What we say is that Deuteronomy 18:18 does Not refer to Jesus Christ but it is an explicit prophecy about the Holy Prophet MOHAMMED!

The dominee, very politely parted with me by saying that it was a very interesting discussion and he would like me very much to come one day and address his congregation on the subject.

To the lambs of Christ I say, why not apply that acid test, which the Master himself wanted you to apply to any would be claimant to Prophet- hood? He had said: ”BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. DO MEN GATHER GRAPES FROM THE THORNS, OR FIGS FROM THE THISTLES? EVERY GOOD TREE WILL BEAR GOOD FRUIT AND EVERY EVIL TREE WILL BEAR EVIL FRUIT… BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. Holy Bible (Matthew 7:16-20)

Why are you afraid to apply this test to the teachings of Mohammed? You will find in the Last Testament of God -The Holy Qur’an- the true fulfillment of the teachings of Moses and Jesus which will bring to the world the much-needed peace, and happiness. “IF A MAN LIKE MOHAMMED WERE TO ASSUME THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE MODERN WORLD, HE WOULD SUCCEED IN SOLVING IT’S PROBLEMS THAT WOULD BRING IT THE MUCH NEEDED PEACE AND HAPPINES.” (George Bernard Shaw)

The weekly News magazine “Time” dated July 15, 1974, carried a selection of opinions by various historians, writers, military men, businessmen and others on the subject: “Who were History’s Great Leaders?” Some said it was Hitler, others said Gandhi, Buddha, Lincoln and the Like. But Jules Masserman, a United States Psychoanalyst put the standards straight by giving the correct criteria wherewith to judge. He said:

(1) Provide for the well-being of the led,

(2) Provide a social organization in which people feel relatively secure, and

(3) Provide them with one set of beliefs."

“PEOPLE LIKE PASTEUR AND SALK ARE LEADERS IN THE FIRST SENSE. PEOPLE LIKE GANDHI AND CONFUCIUS, ON ONE HAND, AND ALEXANDER, CAESAR AND HITLER ON THE OTHER, ARE LEADERS IN THE SECOND AND PERHAPS THE THIRD SENSE. JESUS AND BUDDHA BELONG IN THE THIRD CATEGORY ALONE. PERHAPS THE GREATEST LEADER OF ALL TIMES WAS MOHAMMED, WHO COMBINED ALL THREE FUNCTIONS. To lesser degree, MOSES DID THE SAME.”

Reverend James L. Dow in Collins Dictionary of the Bible gives further proof, that JESUS is not like MOSES, but MOHAMMED is like MOSES: “AS A STATESMAN AND LAWGIVER MOSES IS THE CREATOR OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. HE FOUND A LOOSE CONGLOMERATION OF SEMITIC PEOPLE, NONE OF…

In conclusion, I end with a quotation of a Christian Reverend the commentator of the Bible, followed by that of his Master:

“THE UTIMATE CRITERION OF A TRUE PROPHET IS THE MORAL CHARACTER OF HIS TEACHINGS.” (Prof. Dummelow)

“BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.” (Jesus Christ)

SAY: “O PEOPLE OF THE BOOK!

COME TO COMMON TERMS AS BETWEEN US AND YOU:

THAT WE WORSHIP NONE BUT GOD;

THAT WE ASSOCIATE NO PARTNERS WITH HIM;

THAT WE ERECT NOT, FROM AMONG OURSELVES,

LORDS AND PATRONS OTHER THAN GOD.”

IF THEN THEY TURN BACK,

SAY: “BEAR WITNESS THAT WE (AT LEAST)

ARE MUSLIMS (BOWING TO GOD’S WILL).” (Sura Al-I-Imran) Holy Qur’an 3:64.

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