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In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Do we deserve the Quran ?!
"The Most Gracious, teacher of the Quran"
55:1-2
The believers know that God is the teacher of the Quran, as per 55:1-2. The believers also know that God does not come to our door, knock, and tell us, "It is Me, God, coming to teach you the Quran." But rather, God will teach us the Quran by one or more of many ways.
"We granted Solomon, the correct understanding..."
21:79
He may grant you the correct understanding, as He did for His prophet, Solomon, or teach you by using another human being, a believer, or a non-believer. This believer can be by a messenger or not. God may use an incident, a dream, a TV show, a movie, a newspaper article, a dog, a pig or an ant to teach you what He wants from the Quran.
" NO human being can communicate with God EXCEPT through inspiration, or from behind a barrier, or by His SENDING OF A MESSENGER, through whom He reveals what He wills. He is the Most High, Most Wise." 42:51
Of the many ways God chooses to communicate to us His message, God emphasized that He communicates with us by sending a messenger through whom He reveals what He wills. God communicates to His human messengers through His angle messenger and He communicates with the human beings through His human messengers.
Those who do not see the Quran, or have a barrier around their heart do not see that. God did communicate with us through a messenger, a human messenger. That messenger did not speak a heavenly language or behaved like an angel. He did not advertise ahead of time that he would be communicating to us what God wanted us to know. Whatever God wanted him to teach us would have come in any form. The secret here was that : whenever and whatever the messenger spoke for the message, we were able to find it in the Quran. We were blessed by a messenger who always pointed to the Quran for every thought, idea or correction that he came up with.
God sent His scripture, the Quran, 1400 years ago but the scholars misguided the people and distorted Islam. For the last 1400 years, Islam has been practiced from their books and not from the Quran. It was God’s choice and mercy to send a messenger after this period of time to correct the path, clarify what the scholars corrupted and take us back to the Quran.
"O people of the scripture, our messenger has come to you, to recite to you (to clarify for you) (make things clear unto you), after a period of time without messengers, lest you say, "We did not receive any preacher or warner." A preacher and warner has now come to you. God is omnipotent." 5:19
He did not send with him a new Quran but sent with him clear proofs of the divine origin of the Quran and the proof of his messengership. Both were already in the Quran, but were destined to our generation. He clarified to us from the Quran and by the Quran what we have been reading for years in the Quran without guidance.
This was God’s communication with us through His messenger. We have the complete freedom to accept this communication, reject it, make fun of it, ridicule it, call it idol-worship, replace it with our opinion or dump it in the trash after the messenger has gone.
"Surely those who SLIDE BACK, after the guidance has been manifested to them, the devil has enticed them, and has misled them." 47:25
As God told us in the Quran and as pointed to us by the messenger of the covenant, all the rituals of Islam were given to Abraham and passed down to us generation after generation. 22:78 Our Shahada, Salat, Zakat, Fasting and Hajj were given to Abraham, corrupted after Muhammed by the Scholars then corrected again to us by the messenger of the covenant. To do such a correction after 1400 years, the messenger was supported by an overwhelming miracle, the mathematical Miracle of the Quran. Better still, every correction he made was explained to us from the Quran.
Are they just tales from the past ?!!
Throughout the Quran, God gives us, sometimes in details, the stories of previous generations and how they believed or disbelieved, and how they were guided or misguided. God also repeatedly informs us about the reason behind telling us these stories.
"…God thus cites the example for the people, that they may take heed." (14:25)
"We cite these examples for the people, that they may reflect." (59:21)
If we do not learn from the Quran we DO NOT DESERVE IT.
Who misleads the people ?! Who corrupts the message?!
[57:9]
"He is the One who sends down to His servant clear
revelations, in order to lead you out of the darkness
into the light. GOD is Compassionate towards you, Most
Merciful."
The student of the Quran will find out that, Quran is telling us that the messengers of God will lead the people from the darkness into the light and that nowhere in the Quran does God tell us a story of a community misled by its messenger or given the wrong teachings by him. On the contrary, it is the people who came after the departure of every messenger who mislead and misguided the people. They did it in the name of new knowledge and/or new understanding. The religious leaders, the scholars and the self-proclaimed scholars are on the top of the list of this corruption.
" They have set us their religious leaders and scholars as idols, instead of God…" 9:31
The difference between now and then is that the scholars of today do not have to be graduates of Scholars school, but they could be students or graduates of Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, USC, UA...etc. . They could be anyone who has an opinion specially the one who honors his opinion too much, as in (I, me and my).
Follow the messenger or follow the knowledgeable people ?!
The student of the Quran will also notice that, nowhere in the Quran does God tell us of a person, knowledgeable or not, correcting the message of His messengers. Quran does tell us of the wise man teaching Moses good lessons in his life, but not teaching him his message or preaching his message for him. We are ordered in the Quran to follow the messengers for their message and we were never ordered to follow other people, knowledgeable or not for their knowledge or intelligence.
When God chose His messengers, He did not specifically choose the most knowledgeable or the most intelligent, but he chose the most honest to deliver the message. The messenger’s own knowledge or intelligent were irrelevant.
There is no mention in the Quran of any messenger of God, correcting mistakes made by a previous messenger.
It is also significant to notice that there is no mention in the Quran of any messenger of God, correcting mistakes made by a previous messenger. Messengers of Satan will claim that they are sent to correct the previous messengers of God in their quest to mislead and misguide the people. They do this in the name of new knowledge and/or new understanding. Those who will use the Quran as their guide will realize that any new messenger of God will ONLY confirm what the previous messengers had brought. Even if they add new information, it should not contradict the previous message. God’s message does not change by the change of messengers. God’s message has always been the same.
History will repeat itself.
If we believe the Quran we should know by now that history will repeat itself. Some people after the departure of the messenger of the covenant will distort the message that he corrected from the Quran by the Quran. They will claim new knowledge and/or new understanding. They do not see their own shortcoming and misguidance. They are the descendants of the same people who distorted the messages of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammed. They will push the people to believe like them or call them idol-worshipers. Those who are weak at heart and the doubters will fall victims to their claim while the strong believers who hold to the Quran as their guide and reference will stand strong, confident and guided despite these claims. They will not be tempted by the sweetness or the eloquence of these people talk. God reminded us of their example in the Quran.
"When you see them, you may be impressed by their looks.
And when they speak, you may listen to their eloquence.
They are like standing logs. They think that every call
is intended against them. These are the real enemies;
beware of them. GOD condemns them; they have deviated." (63:4)
Should we believe the Quran ?! Should we learn from the Quran ?! We better.
"This has been consistently the case with all the messengers that we sent before you, and you will find that our system never changes." (17:77)
Since the departure of the messenger of the covenant and specially for the last several months, we have heard all kinds of claims and distortions of the clear message we have. Satan has been so upset that the submitters are so confident in their belief and their hold to the Quran. He worked his agents day and night to come up with all kinds of claims from messengership to new understanding theories.
If we do not learn from the Quran we DO NOT DESERVE IT.
Only the ignorant will not see the pattern of the past being repeated. Only the ignorant will not learn from the Quranic examples.
After the messenger corrected the corrupted religion for us, we are now being called upon to go back to the way we were.
The only reason we accepted the message was the fact that it was shown to us from the Quran.
For 1400 years Islam has been around. Many of us were already Muslims, when they heard about the message for the first time. Most, if not all of us, were impressed by the message first, not by the messenger. Many of us accepted the message before accepting the messenger. The only reason we accepted the message was the fact that it was shown to us from the Quran, and not because of the great persuasive power or the charm of the man behind it.
Now in defiance of the Quran, we hear our new self-proclaimed scholars call on the people to follow them instead of the messenger. They claim that, now the messenger has gone, they found out that he got the wrong understanding of the Quran, the wrong understanding of the mathematical miracle, the wrong understanding of Salat, the contact prayers, of Zakat, the obligatory charity, of Hajj, pilgrimage, the wrong understanding of the abortion issue, the wrong understanding of the polygamy issue, of usury and interest, the wrong understanding of the messenger of the covenant issue, or believing in the messengers issue, the wrong understanding of the Friday sermon issue, the wrong understanding of the one who named us Muslims, or the son to be sacrificed by Abraham, or the way to handle disloyal wives, and so on and on and on ..etc.
The sincere student of the Quran will always remember the Quranic teachings and the Quranic examples. The student of the Quran by now knows who misguides the people and misleads them. After studying their claims using the Quran as a reference, we will see that they are misguided, confused and sick people who failed the test of their own knowledge. Like money, God gives some knowledge for some people as a test. Some use it to get closer to God. Others use it to promote their own ego and therefore God keeps them at a distance from Him. They forgot that God does mean it, when He says follow the messenger. God knows that His messengers do follow the message.
Following the messenger is to follow the Quran.
Yes, as we told all the Muslims before, following the messenger is to follow the Quran. It does not mean to follow the scholars or the self-proclaimed scholars. Had the Muslims for the last 1400 years followed the prophet Muhammed they would have followed the Quran. They would have been on the right path. But their scholars convinced them that they had the clarification and the right understanding of the Quran and told lies about the prophet Muhammed that contradicted the Quran. These Muslims ended by following the Scholars instead of following the Quran.
For someone to call on the people not to follow the messenger is but a reflection of misguidance and confusion about the Quran. These misguided self-proclaimed scholars consistently try to imply to the people that the messenger did not follow his message, the Quran, and therefore it is better to follow them instead. The same claim of those who corrupted Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the past.
Time will not allow me to go into details in responding to these many claims but we have the Quran, the ultimate reference to check them in it. We set up some articles that address some of these issues. Some of them are here and some will be available on the internet at the Submission site at : http://www.submission.org/
Signs of the hypocrites
For us, some of the clear signs of the hypocrites are : when you hear them calling on other people, not to follow the messenger, and to follow them instead. When they call on the people, do not read the footnotes and appendices in the messenger’s translation, but read ours.
They repeatedly tell the people, do not read the footnotes and appendices in the messenger’s translation, it is idol-worship. They only expose their ignorance.
Idol-worship has nothing to do with what you read but rather what you do with what you read.
God never stopped us from seeking knowledge even by reading the corrupted Bible, but these confused hypocrites want to have the people pay attention to their own books, writings or corrupted opinions at any price. If you follow them, they call you a believer, a believer in their ego, if you do not they call you an idol-worshiper.
It is very important to know that our understanding of the Quran should not be frozen in a frame of time or a personality. We should realize that our understanding of the Quran will continue to grow, because more knowledge will be available to us. This new knowledge will help us understand the wisdom behind certain Quranic teachings, that we may not be fully comprehending at this time. Or, help us understand new areas that were never known before. Good examples for us are the origin of the universe and the big bang theory or the development of the human embryo. Neither one was known to the previous generations when they read the Quran. This knowledge will not create a new religion or change a well founded Quranic rule. We should be open minded to look at all claims without fear or hesitation. We should be able to purge all the lies, fabrication and confusion created by the hypocrites by using the Quran as a reference. We should be certain and proud that we have the right religion, the right book and the right path.
IN BRIEF
1- If we do not learn from the Quran, we do not deserve it
2- God communicates with us by His sending of a messenger through whom he reveals what He wills.
3- Messengers of God do not mislead the people or misguide them.
4- All the corruption of religions were done by the people who came after the messengers and claimed new knowledge or new understanding.
5- We should be able to purge all the lies, fabrication and confusion created by the hypocrites by using the Quran as a reference. We should be certain and proud that we have the right religion, the right book and the right path.
It is time to call on all the submitters to take their Quran seriously and learn from its lessons and never be intimidated or shaken by all the noise around them. We have the best reference, we have the ultimate truth, we have the Quran.
May God bless you.
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