God chose Adam and Noah and the House of Abraham and the House of Imran above the people;(33)
they were offspring of one another; and God is Hearing, Knowing.(34)
When Imran's wife said, `my Lord, I vow to Thee in dedication what is in my womb, so accept from me; Thou art the Hearing, the Knowing.'(35)
And when she gave birth to her, she said, `my Lord, I have given birth to a female'; ___ and God knew better what she had given birth to ___ `and the male is not as the female, and I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the accursed Devil.'(36)
So her Lord accepted her with a handsome acceptance and made her to grow handsomely, and made Zachariah her guardian. Whenever Zachariah went to her in the Chamber, he found some provision with her; he said, `O Mary, how comes this to thee?' `From God', she said, `God provides whom He will without reckoning.'(37)
There Zachariah prayed to his Lord; he said, `my Lord, grant me from Thyself a goodly offspring; surely Thou hearest the prayer.'(38)
And the angels called to him, while he stood praying in the Chamber, `God gives thee good news of John, who will confirm a Word from God, and be a chief and chaste and a Prophet among the good-doers.'(39)
He said, `my Lord, how shall I have a son when old age has come upon me, and my wife is barren?' He said, `even so God does what He will.'(40)
He said,' my Lord, appoint for me a sign.' He said, `thy sign is that thou shalt not speak to men for three days except by tokens; and mention thy Lord much, and glorify Him at evening and dawn.'(41)
And when the angels said, `O Mary, God has chosen thee and made thee pure, and chosen thee above the women of the world.(42)
O Mary, be obedient to thy Lord, prostrate thyself, and bow with those who bow.'(43)
This is of the news of the unseen that We reveal to thee; and thou wast not with them when they were casting their pens, as to which of them should have charge of Mary, and thou wast not with them when they were contending.(44)
When the angels said, `O Mary, God gives thee good news of a Word from Him, whose name shall be Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, and who shall be high-honoured in this world and the Hereafter, and of those near-stationed (to God);(45)
and he shall speak to men in the cradle and of age, and shall be among the righteous.'(46)
She said, `my Lord, how shall I have a son when no mortal has touched me?' He said,' even so God creates what He will; when He decrees a thing, He only says to it, `be', and it is.(47)
And He will teach him the Book and the Wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel;(48)
and he shall be a Messenger to the Children of Israel' (to say) `I have come to you with a Sign from your Lord; I will make for you, out of clay, as the likeness of a bird, then breathe into it, and it will be a bird, by the leave of God; and I will heal the blind and the leper, and I will bring to life the dead, by the leave of God; and I will tell you what you eat and what you store up in your houses; in this is surely a sign for you, if you are believers;(49)
and I confirm what is before me out of the Torah, and I will make lawful to you some of the things that were forbidden to you; and I have come to you with a Sign from your Lord; so fear God and obey me.(50)
Surely God is my Lord and your Lord, so serve Him; this is a straight path.'(51)
Then, when Jesus perceived unbelief in them, he said, `who will be my helpers unto God?' The disciples said, `we are the helpers of God; we have believed in God, and be thou a witness that we have submitted.'___ (52)
'Our Lord, we have believed in that Thou hast sent down, and we have followed the Messenger; so write us down with the witnesses.'(53)
And they (people) devised and God devised; and God is the best of devisers.(54)
When God said, `Jesus, I am ending thy term and raising thee to Me and purifying thee of the unbelievers, and making those who follow thee above the unbelievers till the Day of Resurrection. Then unto Me shall you return, and I will decide between you wherein you differed.(55)
And, as for the unbelievers, I will punish them with a terrible punishment in this world and the Hereafter, and they shall have no helpers.(56)
And as for those who believe and do righteous deeds, God will pay them their wages in full; and God does not love the wrong-doers.'(57)
This We recite to thee of the Signs and the Wise Remembrance. (58)
The likeness of Jesus in God's sight is as the likeness of Adam; He created him of dust, then said, `be `, and he was.(59)
The truth is from thy Lord, so be not among the doubters.(60)
Yet if any disputes with thee about it, after the knowledge that has come to thee, say, `come, let us call our sons and your sons, our women and your women, our people and your people, then humbly pray and lay God's curse on the liars.'(61)
This is the true story, and there is no god but God; and surely God __ He is the Mighty, the Wise.(62)
Yet if they turn away, God knows the workers of disorder.(63)
SOME MORE ABT JESUS CHRIST FROM HOLY QUR'AAN
In the name of Allah, The Merciful, The All-merciful
Kaf Ha Ya Ain Sad (K.H.Y.A.S.);(1)
the mention of thy Lord's mercy to His servant Zachariah;(2)
when he called upon his Lord in low tones.(3)
He said, `my Lord, my bones are enfeebled, and my head is aflame with age, yet in calling on Thee, my Lord, I have never been unlucky.(4)
And I fear my kinsmen after I am gone, and my wife is barren, so grant me from Thee a heir,(5)
who shall inherit me and inherit the House of Jacob; and, my Lord, make him pleasing.'(6)
`O Zachariah, We give thee good news of a boy whose name shall be John. We have not made any worthy of his name before.'(7)
He said, `my Lord, how shall I have a son when my wife is barren, and I have reached extreme of old age.'(8)
He said, `so it will be; thy Lord says, `it is easy for Me, for I created thee before, when thou wast nothing'.(9)
He said, `my Lord, appoint for me a Sign?' He said, `thy sign is that thou, though normal, shalt not speak to men for three nights.'(10)
So he came out to his people from the chamber, and made signal to them, `extol God at dawn and at night'.(11)
`O John, take the Book with strength'. And We gave him Judgement, while yet a child,(12)
and a tenderness and purity from us; and he was godfearing(13)
and kind to his parents, and he was not arrogant or defiant.(14)
And `peace be upon him, the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day he shall be raised to life.'(15)
And mention in the Book Mary, when she withdrew from her people to an eastern place,(16)
and she took a veil apart from them; then We sent to her Our Spirit and he appeared to her a normal man.(17)
She said, ``I take refuge in the All-merciful from thee, if thou indeed art godfearing.' (18)
He said, `I am but a messenger of thy Lord that I may bestow on thee a pure boy'.(19)
She said, `how shall I have a boy when no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste'.(20)
He said, `so it shall be; thy Lord says, `it is easy for Me and that We may make him a Sign for men and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter decreed.'(21)
So she conceived him and withdrew with him to a distant place.(22)
Then the birthpangs drove her to the trunk of the palm tree. She said, `would that I had died before this, and become a thing forgotten'.(23)
And one called her from below her, `do not grieve; thy Lord has set a rivulet below thee.(24)
And shake to thee the trunk of the palm tree, and it will drop on thee fresh ripe dates.(25)
So eat and drink and cool the eyes. And if thou seest any mortal, say, `I have vowed a fast to the All-merciful, so today, I shall not speak to any man.'(26)
Then, carrying him, she brought him to her people. They said, `Mary, thou hast surely committed a monstrous thing.(27)
O sister of Aaron, thy father was not a wicked man, and thy mother was not unchaste.'(28)
So she pointed to him. They said, `how shall we speak to one who is an infant in the cradle?'(29)
He spoke, `I am God's servant; He has given me the Book and made me a Prophet,(30)
and He has made me blessed wherever I may be, and He has enjoined on me the Prayer and the Alms-giving as long as I live,(31)
and to be kind to my mother; and He has not made me arrogant and unlucky.(32)
And peace be upon me, the day I was born, the day I die and the day I shall be raised alive.'(33)
That is Jesus, son of Mary, in word of truth in which they doubt.(34)
It is not for God that He should take to Him a son __ He is Holy. When He decrees a thing, He only says to it, `be', and it is.(35)
And (he said) `God is my Lord and your Lord, so serve Him __ this is a straight path.'(36)
But the sects have differed among them; so woe to those who disbelieve for the witnessing of a Mighty Day.(37)
How well they will hear and see on the day they come to Us! But, today the wrong-doers are clearly astray.(38)
And warn them of the Day of Regret, when the matter shall be decided; but they are heedless and they do not believe.(39)
We ourselves shall inherit the earth and all those that are upon it, and to Us they shall be returned.(40)
And mention in the Book Abraham; he was surely a truthful man, a Prophet.(41)
When he said to his father, `father, why dost thou serve that which neither hears nor sees, nor avails thee anything.(42)
Father, there has come to me such knowledge as has not come to thee, so follow me and I shall guide thee to an even path.(43)
Father, do not serve the Devil; the Devil is surely a rebel to the All-merciful.(44)
Father, I fear that a punishment from the All-merciful shall afflict thee so that thou shalt become a comrade of the Devil.'(45)
He said, `art thou averse to my gods, Abraham? If thou dost not give over, I will stone thee; so leave me for some time.'(46)
He said, `peace be upon thee! I shall pray my Lord for thy forgiveness; He is surely gracious to me.(47)
And I go apart from you and what you call upon, apart from God, and I will call upon my Lord; perhaps I shall not be unlucky in calling upon my Lord.'(48)
So when he went apart from them and what they were serving, apart from God, We bestowed upon him Isaac and Jacob; and each We made a Prophet.(49)
And We bestowed upon them Our mercy, and We made for them a renowned tongue of truth.(50)
And mention in the Book Moses; he was specially chosen, and he was a Messenger, a Prophet.(51)
And We called to him from the right side of the Mount, and We drew him near in communion.(52)
And, out of Our mercy, We bestowed on him his brother Aaron, a Prophet.(53)
STILL MORE ABT JESUS CHRIST FROM HOLY QUR'AAN
When God will say,'O Jesus, son of Mary, remember My blessing upon thee and upon thy mother, when I strengthened thee with the Holy Spirit, that thou spokest to men in the cradle and of age; and when I taught thee the Book, the Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel; and when thou madest, out of clay, a form like a bird, by My leave, and breathedest into it, and it became a bird, by My leave; and thou healedest the blind and the leper by My leave; and when thou broughtest the dead forth, by My leave; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from thee, when thou broughtest to them the Clear Signs, yet the unbelievers among them said, `it is nothing but plain sorcery.'(110)
And when I revealed to the disciples to believe in Me and in My Messenger, they said, `we believe, and Thou bear witness that we have submitted.'(111)
When the disciples said, `O Jesus, son of Mary, is thy Lord able to send down on us a Table from the heaven', he said, `fear God, if you are Believers.'(112)
They said, `we desire that we should eat of it, and our hearts may be at rest, and we may know that thou hast spoken truth to us, and we may be among its witnesses.'(113)
Jesus, son of Mary, said, `O God, our Lord, send down on us a Table from the heaven, that may be a festival for us, for the first of us and the last of us, and provide for us, and Thou art the best of providers.'(114)
God said, `I am sending it down on you; but if any of you disbelieves afterwards, I shall punish him with a punishment that I punish none in the whole world.'(115)
And when God will say, `Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, `take me and my mother as gods, apart from God?' He will say, `Holy be Thou, it is not mine to say what I have no right to ; if I had said it, Thou wouldst have known it; Thou knowest what is in my mind, but I do not know what is in Thy mind; Thou art surely the All-knowing of the unseen things.(116)
I did not say to them except what Thou didst command me: __ `serve God, my Lord and your Lord,' and I was a witness over them, so long as I remained among them; but when Thou didst take me, Thou Thyself wast the watcher over them; and Thou art a witness over all things. (117)
If Thou punishest them, they are Thy servants, and if Thou forgivest them, Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.'(118)
God will say, `this is a day when their truth will profit the truthful;for them shall be gardens underneath which rivers flow, dwelling therein forever and ever; God is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him; that is the great triumph.'(119)
To God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and earth and whatever is in them; and He is powerful over everything.(120)
GREAT ARTICLES FROM GREAT ISLAMIC SITES
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Man's Best Kept Secret: Revealed |
By: Aaron Greenwich, 17, e-mail address unknown
I'm real mad. Because ever since March 3rd 1998, I've been searching for a point in my life. That day in March, I went to this party..you know, one of those parties with high power music rockin the house, plenty of booze and endless variations of drugs, and plenty of (well, to put it mildly) shameless girls and drunk boys equals? So I guess I smoked too many joints, and I ended up in the hospital for three weeks. That gave me time to think over life.
Okay, we are born, grow older, wiser, and each of us develops our own personalities for better or worse. We all try to reach the top of the world and either we do or we spend our lives trying to. Basically we live to have more, always. Don't u see? You wake up, get dressed make yourself look good, go to school come back do your homework, have some fun and to sleep. And it never changes. All right, then u graduate and go to work or raise some kids.
But it keeps repeating. U know that saying, "History repeats itself?" It does, but then we die. Now for some reason humans spend so much time pondering over every single atom on earth except death.
I know it scares them. Why wouldn't it? It happens to everyone and no one knows why. Well, MOST people don't know why. But I do. You think all those d*** cruel people who lived on this earth (I can name millions) will get away with everything they did? And those few good will go un-rewarded?
So anyway we die. We leave behind everything. EVERYTHING. You think that the Porsche u spent your whole life trying to get is going with u? The only things that're going with u are your burial clothes and coffin, if that even. And there is one other thing, but it's unseen. Your deeds. ALLLL the things u did in this life, good and bad, go with you. And so we're in the grave. What happens to you in the grave is another story but basically your body rots. I mean your "this life" body. The body that we had for (if we are lucky) 80 years is gone and with it our doings!
Alright so you're out of the picture. Gone. Then, fellow Americans, if we are not here to live life like a party....whats the point? WHY DO WE LIVE?
Why do so many people commit suicide? Because they never had the answer to the above question. Some people know. Some. And its man's best kept secret.
I know what your thinking. "Oh god he's gonna preach us on religion." Not exactly ;)
It's a WAY OF LIFE, and what if I told u its called ISLAM? I'm Christian. But Christianty is a RELIGION not a WAY OF LIFE. 80% of Americans are "Christians", but sad to say, look at them. Homosexuality, suicide, drugs, adultery, even among their own preachers is common. I should know.
The old pastor at my church got kicked out for molesting a child. I'm not attacking anyone. I'm saying the facts. Besides that, it doesn't make sense. Neither do the other million "religions" found on this earth. They all claim to be simple religions, usually claiming belief in one god.
But they are lacking in on truth, the facts.
Alright, Aaron get on to your point. Sure. What was my 1st sentence? I'm real mad. Why? Cause everyone knows about Islam. And they ignore it, hide it. Why did I learn everything in school except Islam? From Greek God sh** to Buddha.
If u read one verse of Islam's book you will believe me. Guaranteed. Because it is the Truth. And its man's best-kept secret. They hide it because it reminds them of the TRUE PURE REAL point of life....They want us to be just like them, monsters in disgiuse, filthy, do every sin under the sun and call it a "life". I will not fall again into that trap most of us fell into. I have a life. I have Islam.
I'm sorry Jean, Dad and mostly Gramps, a pious Christian who tried to change my views. Im stepping down from my old way of life AND my old religion. I started this letter as a Christian but I end it as a Muslim.
" I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship except Allah and Muhammad is the last messenger.
Always,
Aaron
taken from www.themodernreligion.com
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