By Jalal Abualrub (www.IslamLife.com)
Christians love to call Jesus The Prince of Peace. Indeed, Prophet `Esa, peace be upon him, is a prince of peace, an extraordinary man, a true human Prophet, the Masee’h, a patient and courageous Messenger from Allah. Prophet `Esa, peace be upon him, was and still is rejected by the majority of the Jews, especially those in his time who disbelieved in him and unsuccessfully tried to kill him. Prophet `Esa, peace be upon him, is also rejected by the Christians, who disbelieve in his being human not divine, who falsely ascribe divinity to a man who never claimed it for himself. Another aggression Christians commit against `Esa is that they call him Jesus. Jesus is not `Esa’s name. The name Jesus came as a result of a sickness many Western Christians have, they translate people’s names or change them to suit their culture. `Esa was not Greek, never spoke it and was never called ‘Jesus’ in his lifetime........... Read More
By Jalal Abualrub (www.IslamLife.com)
Christians love to call Jesus The Prince of Peace. Indeed, Prophet `Esa, peace be upon him, is a prince of peace, an extraordinary man, a true human Prophet, the Masee’h, a patient and courageous Messenger from Allah.
Prophet `Esa, peace be upon him, was and still is rejected by the majority of the Jews, especially those in his time who disbelieved in him and unsuccessfully tried to kill him. Prophet `Esa, peace be upon him, is also rejected by the Christians, who disbelieve in his being human not divine, who falsely ascribe divinity to a man who never claimed it for himself.
Another aggression Christians commit against `Esa is that they call him Jesus. Jesus is not `Esa’s name. The name Jesus came as a result of a sickness many Western Christians have, they translate people’s names or change them to suit their culture. `Esa was not Greek, never spoke it and was never called ‘Jesus’ in his lifetime.
Christians call Jesus God or Yahweh the alleged name of the Old Testament’s God. Calling Jesus Yahweh is natural Moodalism as well as confusing Modalism. Of course there are no scriptural texts supporting the outrageous claim that ascribes divinity to Jesus, and Yahweh is an unknown name that the Jews somehow introduced into their holy books to refer to Allah.
However, Christians do not care what we say because they have appointed Jesus as a god whether he likes it or not, and he surely does not like it. Thus, Christians, who insist Jesus is God, should be ready to deal with the consequences of their claims about Jesus, the Old Testament and Yahweh.
If Jesus is Yahweh, as Christians claim, then he is responsible for these horrible edicts: “The Lord said unto Joshua … to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn their chariots with fire. … And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire. And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua … smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. … And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe. As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.” (Joshua 11:6-15)
Christians say Jesus is Lord: Have you passed by the so many churches in America that hang a huge sign that reads Jesus is Lord? That’s him, the Christian Lord, the Prince of Peace, who allegedly issued these commandments to Joshua and Moses before him.
Mockerism of Allah: According to Christians, Jesus was divine then became a human so that he can die for all the drinking, adultery, violence and other sins Christians can commit; they enjoy sin and let Jesus die for it! If Jesus is Yahweh, who allegedly issued these OT commandments, then it is Jesus who actually issued them and thus deserves the title The Lord of War.
How did the Lord of War suddenly become the Prince of Peace: It must be that added quality he acquired when he created a human Jesus in his divine Jesus and then reformed himself to become more humane than when he was fully god but without the human addition or deletion that came later, i.e., depending on the Moodalism of Trinitarian Christians who are trying to explain the unexplainable.
But, this becoming reformed theory is completely struck dead once everyone notices that there is not a single statement in the New Testament where Jesus apologized for all the bloodshed he allegedly commanded in the Old Testament, or issuing a clear declaration that he changed his ways, possibly adding, “So, O, Jews, please, do not kill everyone that breathes, especially Muslim and Christian Palestinians!”
The Jews won’t listen to Jesus even if he made such a declaration. They are having such fun fulfilling the Holy War commandments they added into their own OT and ascribed them to Allah and His Prophets. As for Jesus, and to the contrary of the reformation theory, he said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil” (Mathew 5:17). So Jesus came to fulfill the OT Law; he said it.
A question to ponder: Jesus, Yahweh as Christians allege, did not annul the OT Law but in fact came to fulfill it. Since Jesus died, as Christians falsely claim, then who is left, besides the Jews of course, to carry out Yahweh’s OT commandments and continue to terrorize humanity? The answer is clear at a time when Christians occupy two Muslim countries in two extremely violent wars that led to the death of seven tenth of a million Muslim men, women, children, infants, sucklings, as well as, sheep, chickens, donkeys, horses, camels in addition to almost total material destruction.
This leads to another significant question: The Muslims who allegedly carry out terroristic attacks, are they applying the OT Law Jesus allegedly commanded the ancient prophets to fulfill, or the Law of the Quran and Prophet Muhammad? The Quran says, {Fight in the way of Allâh those who fight you, but transgress not the limits. Truly, Allâh likes not the transgressors} (2:190); Prophet Muhammad, salla allahu alaihi wa-sallam, explicitly forbade killing women and children (Bukhari and Muslim). These terrorists must have been reading or at least implementing the OT Holy War Law not the Quran or Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah.
The forged Old Testament, the oldest terroristic manual ever: How can anyone say otherwise, if this is what the Old Testament says, “The LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. … Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe … And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males. … And they slew the kings of Midian … And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts. And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses … Moses was wroth with the officers of the host … Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor. … Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves. … Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war … This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses … And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast … And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them … and between all the congregation: And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep … And the booty … was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep, And threescore and twelve thousand beeves, And threescore and one thousand asses, And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.” (Numbers 31)
Numbers surely knows its numbers: all those sheep and donkeys; all those virgins! Do you think the Jews, who wrote Numbers with their own hands and falsely ascribed it to the Torah, took these 32,000 virgins to teach them the Torah?
Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, His Honorable Prophet Moses, peace be upon him, and Joshua, may Allah be pleased with him, have nothing to do with this utter falsehood that claims Allah ordered the killing of men, women, children, infants, and sucklings and only keep alive girls that have not done sex, i.e., virgins, even though we are not told what test the Jews performed to determine who was a virgin and who wasn’t.
So, the next time Muslims hear a Christian or a Jew complain about all those terrorist MUZLUMS, they should print out chapter 31 in Numbers in the size of an 11 by 17 poster and hang it on a wall in their house and anywhere else allowed. Buses are a good advertizing choice to hang such posters, but I doubt bus companies will allow Muslims to hang such posters even if they double the amount usually paid to advertise on buses.
Amazing Christian justification for the terrible OT edicts the Jews falsely attributed to Allah and His Prophet Moses: I divided this amusing article into parts, which I numbered, what the Christians say is found in brown; my comments are in black:
1. Let me say upfront. I don't understand everything in the Bible (Jalal Abualrub wrote: Mankind doesn’t understand much of what’s in the Bible either) …2. Some of the early war history of Israel is also difficult to me (Jalal wrote: Why? The Jews were only carrying out Yahweh’s orders, and to you, Yahweh is Jesus is Lord is God is the Holy Ghost), but since you ask, I want to present you with a few thoughts of which I don't claim that they will answer everything, but they might be worth thinking about …
3. [Ezek. 9:5] And the Lord said, ‘Go through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have you pity. SLAY UTTERLY OLD AND YOUNG, BOTH MAIDS AND LITTLE CHILDREN, AND WOMEN (Jalal wrote: I did not capitalize anything here; he saved me the trouble).’ …
4. I grant that the other two (Jalal wrote: He means the 2 texts to come) are more difficult (Jalal wrote: We too grant that wholeheartedly) …
5. In this passage Ezekiel is seeing a VISION (see beginning of chapter 8), this is NOT happening at this very time, NOR is it a command to anybody to do so (Jalal wrote: We did read Ezekiel Chapter 9 and found that this actually happened, “Then he (Yahweh) cried … saying, Cause you them that have charge over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand … six men came … one man … clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side … Yahweh said to him, Go … through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark on the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all the abominations that are done in the midst of it. To the others he said in my hearing, Go you through the city … and strike: don't let your eye spare, neither have you pity; kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house … They went forth, and struck in the city. … The man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported … I have done as you have commanded me.”) …
6. [Num. 31:1] And the Lord said unto Moses, ‘Avenge the children of the Mid'-an'ites’ ... They warred against the Mid'-i-an'ites, as the Lord commanded Moses, and they slay all the males. And they took all women as captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods. And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire. Moses said, ‘HAVE YOU SAVED ALL THE WOMEN ALIVE? NOW KILL EVERY MALE AMONG THE LITTLE ONES, AND KILL EVERY WOMAN (Jalal wrote: I did not capitalize anything here either) that has known a man by lying with him, but all the young girls who have not known a man by lying with him keep alive for yourselves (Jalal wrote: Did the Jews keep these virgins for themselves to teach them the Torah?). Numbers 22-25 and 31 …
7. Please (as well as chapter 31) read all of chapter (22-25) … In chapter 25 we read how … Midianites seduce Israel to idolatery (worship of other gods) of the worst kind, mixed with adultery (as the means of the seduction) … after their plan to curse Israel through Baalam fails [ch. 22-24]. … God himself strikes Israel for it with a plague in which 24,000 in Israel die [25:9]. God is not partial. Sin will be punished, and will FIRST be punished in his own people (Jalal wrote: They were punished by the plague, not by intentional execution at the hands of Israelites) …
8. It is on the explicit command of the Lord to Moses (Jalal wrote: So it is GOOD that Yahweh, the Christian Jesus, orders Moses to kill infants [this is a lie of course]). …
9. The Israelites have not dreamed this up themselves. It was not their "idea" to go to war (Jalal wrote: Nor was it the idea of all the executed infants and sucklings to go to war).
10. Interesting observation for later (Jalal wrote: Why later, discuss it now!): In the end among the spoils are 32,000 girls/women who have never slept with a man [i.e. have been innocent of this seduction to idolatery by offering sex (Jalal wrote: They seem to have started doing sex at age three years and one day!)]. …
11. What does that say about the number of men they fought against? 32,000 virgin women usually have brothers and fathers in military age. 50,000 might not be unrealistic [though I am speculating here (Jalal wrote: Speculation, indeed, especially by FORGETTING a small matter; These 50,000 fighting men had mothers, fathers, wives, sisters, boys of all ages, sucklings and infants included, girls at least three years and one day old, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, servants; these were all intentionally executed!)]. …
12. I don't know to say much more here. (Jalal wrote: We too are speechless here) …
13. Main point is: It is a definite command of God, it is a punishment of the LORD to the evil of the Midianites … it is "the Lord's battle (Jalal wrote: i.e., HOLY WAR)", what is especially to be seen in verse 49. It was not a "normal, human battle (Jalal wrote: It also was not humane). …
14. [Josh 6:16] Joshua said to the people of Israel, ‘The Lord has given you the city (of the Canaanites) … all silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are c consecrated unto the Lord: They shall come into the treasury of the Lord. The people utterly DESTROYED ALL THAT WAS IN THE CITY, BOTH MAN AND WOMAN, YOUNG AND OLD, AND OX AND SHEEP, AND ASS, WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD (Jalal wrote: I did not capitalize anything here either!).’ …
15. Principle: God's goodness wants to lead us to repentance. [Romans 2:4] But where people consistently resist God, judgement will come [Rom 2:5, both in the day of Judgement as well as in this world.] … God gives the command of total destruction through Moses. But Moses himself will not be part of it (Jalal wrote: Moses had nothing to do with any of this or with the forged OT; however, according to the OT, GOD allegedly ORDERED ALL THIS). …
16. These commands of complete destruction of the Canaanites are very specific commandments and NOT a general freedom to deal this way with anybody you wish (Jalal wrote: And who suspended the general implication of this law, the answering Islam team?). …
17. Israel was never commanded nor promised an expansive kingdom outside the boundaries of Canaan. Israel in THIS instance is God's tool of judgement on the evilness of the inhabitants of Canaan. This cannot and hasn't been "generalized" to other peoples (Jalal wrote: Killing Canaan’s infants and sucklings is as horrible as killing Chinese or African infants and sucklings; telling the Canaan infants and sucklings they were to be killed in specific not in general may not have made them feel better). …
18. Not even other idolaterous nations (Jalal wrote: But, it apparently applies to Monotheistic Muslim Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Egyptians, and Jordanians; even Christian Arabs suffered death and destruction at the hands of modern-day Israel). …
19. And this is GOD's judgement. NOTHING is to be taken as personal spoil. EVERYTHING has to be destroyed (Jalal wrote: Including infant males and all ‘women-girl virgins’). …
20. The soldiers fight in a battle of the LORD not for their own enrichment. No booty and spoil of war for those who fought (Jalal wrote: Are you sure? What about the 32,000 virgins, what did become of them, were they kept as ‘untouchables’? What about this, “The Lord said unto Joshua … I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land … only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves”(Joshua 8:1-2)?). …
21. They are God's "method/servants of punishment". It is God's victory and justice alone. In most of these encounters, the Israelites are vastly outnumbered or otherwise in complete disadvantage (Jalal wrote: So they were allowed to kill everyone!). …
22. They are NOT to enter peace treaties with the people of the land until the Israelites have grown stronger and have the power to overcome them (Jalal wrote: Deuteronomy 20 details the consequences of making peace with the OT Israelites). …
23. [Read Judges 6 … where they even have to downsize by God's command … it was NOT them who won the battle, but the Lord alone]. … This is alone the Lord's business, none of theirs. God uses them, he helps them, they will inherit the land HE has promised them, but no personal gain from spoils of war (Jalal wrote: Are you sure? Read Joshua 8:1-2, AGAIN). …
24. And where the Israelites do not obey (Jalal wrote: i.e., by not killing infants and sucklings) … then God punishes them severely. …
25. Do you believe in Hell (Jalal wrote: Sure we believe in Hell; do you? If so, why do you lie about the Creator like this?)? …
26. If God can punish people in hell for their sin, why would you have problems if he punishes people on this earth (Jalal wrote: Except that the Midianite infants and sucklings were not killed by an earthquake or by a plague; they were intentionally executed by people allegedly carrying out the Lord’s commandment)? …
27. All this earthly punishment is small against the hell fire (Jalal wrote: Therefore, Jews can kill infants on this earth since this is less painful than punishment in Hell!). …
28. God is the one who is the Lord of life and death and the one who ends the life of anybody (Jalal wrote: But, it is the Israeli men who did the actual executing; the Midianites did not die in a general disaster that Allah created).
29. Usually "one by one", but sometimes like here in greater numbers at once (Jalal wrote: 200,000 men, women, children, infants, is not unrealistic to report here). …
30. Are we to question him (Jalal wrote: No! Especially since He did not do it to begin with. But, we can question how dare Christians and Jews invent lies against Allah by claiming He ordered the intentional killing of infants and sucklings.)?
31. You might compare this with Muhammad and see the differences. (http://www.answering-islam.org/Q-A-panel/war.html)
We did compare all this to Muhammad, and Muhammad won the argument, decisively: Here is part of my book, Holy Wars; Crusades; Jihad, where I comment on Deuteronomy 20:10-17, “When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it (1). And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries (2) unto thee, and they shall serve thee (3). And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it (4). And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword (5). But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee (6). Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: But thou shalt utterly destroy them.”
(1) The practical guidance of Allah’s Prophet, peace be upon him, was to first announce the choices of accepting Islam [and eternal salvation], or, accepting peace terms and paying the Jizyah tax, or war; refer to the Prophet’s `Hadith … collected by Imam Muslim from the Prophet’s companion Buraidah ibn al-`Husaib. In contrast, this Biblical verse does not offer the adversaries of the Children of Israel the chance to attain eternal salvation by believing in God. It is either submission or death.
(2) i.e., subordinate (slaves).
(3) The practical guidance of the Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, is that when a town or a tribe signed a peace pact with him, they retained ownership of their lands and estates, but paid a portion of the proceeds to the Islamic State in return for the Islamic State protecting them. Refer to the Prophet’s `Hadith that supports this ruling, collected by Imam Muslim from Buraidah ibn al-`Husaib; this `Hadith states that when non-Muslim combatants agree to pay the Jizyah tax, then, ‘…withhold yourself from doing them any harm.’
(4) According to a Prophetic `Hadith collected from Buraidah ibn al-`Husaib, Allah's Prophet used to offer combatants three choices: either Islam, peace and retaining their religion, or war.
(5) The practical guidance of the Prophet of Islam, peace be upon him, was that when a city fell into his hands, he did not smite its people with the sword. The Prophet, peace be upon him, implemented the Biblical rulings mentioned here pertaining to killing combatants only in the case of the Jews of Quraidhah, who conspired with a large Arab pagan army to attack Madinah and exterminate Muslims and Islam. He also implemented it against the Arab pagan tribe of Bani al-Mustaliq, who were gathering forces to attack the Prophet and Muslims. In the rest of his battles, the Prophet, peace be upon him, did not implement the Biblical commandments mentioned here; he did not smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. He also forbade killing of non-combatants.
(6) When the Prophet, peace be upon him, took the relatives of dead combatants captive, and he did not usually do so, it was better for them, since those who used to support them were killed in battle. This occurred in the case of the Jews of Banu Quraidhah, for instance, because they conspired to exterminate Muslims and joined forces with Arab pagans who attacked Madinah. In punishment, all combatant males of the Banu Quraidhah were executed. When Muslims took captives, they treated them humanely, supported them and allowed them to work, keep their money, have families of their own and buy their freedom, if they wish.”
No matter what haters of Muhammad may say, Muhammad wins the argument every time. May Allah’s peace and blessing be on His Prophet Muhammad, the natural and true successor to Prophet `Esa, peace be upon him.
Jalal Abualrub
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