Greetings my friends,
In answer to one, I am currently residing in Murphreesborro Tennessee but am helping brothers looking for property in Florence for our church,
In answer to another on supposed contradictions of the perfect words of Gabriel as passed on and inscribed by the prophet Mohammed, numerous are the instances in Bible where tribal names are used to mention descendants. For example, Lot is called Abraham’s brother though he was in fact Abraham's nephew. Similarly Abraham spoke to Lot saying: "We men are brothers". But Abraham was actually was the uncle of Lot! So it is no surprise that some say there a contradictions but you will only hear that from biblical enemies of the faith. There are many who have not seen the light of the truth of our faith. Honestly, we do not bother ourselves too much at my level. The bombs from my brothers in other parts of the world? Our religion is under attack. We have a right to defend our faith just as much as you do yours. Paradise awaits those martyrs who give of themselves in defense of Islam. Hell awaits everyone else. While Islam is a religion of peace, we reserve the right to attack those who attack us. There are no innocents in this battle. There are those who accept the Truth and those who reject it. They are the enemies.
We defend just as you people defned your faith from the nonbelievers and apostates on this forum in the fight against the nonbeleivers, I stand beside my brothers in faith in God. I beleive there is enough middle ground where we beliefers can unite against these enemies of god. I can employ people who can help fight them in more effective ways if necessary.
So join me, fellow believers, while there is still time. The Judgement of merciful Allah awaits.
In His Name.
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As we say in the deep south, Mo, that "answer" does not cut the mustard.
One of the links I posted earlier poses the issue very squarely. I have posted the pertinent part below, with my own emphasis in bold print.:
"Notice that the Qur'an refers to Mary (the mother of Jesus) as the "sister of Aaron" (i.e. Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron). Even Christians during the time of Muhammad recognized this error, and Muhammad had a chance to respond.
Sahih Muslim 5326--"Mughira b. Shuba reported: When I came to Najran, they (the Christians of Najran) asked me: You read 'O sister of Harun ["Aaron"]' (i.e. Hadrat Maryam) in the Qur'an, whereas Moses was born much before Jesus. When I came back to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) I asked him about that, whereupon he said: The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them."
So Muhammad's response is that people in the time of Mary would refer to a pious young woman as the "sister of X," where X might be a prophet from 1400 years earlier. The problem is that we have no record of such a practice in first century Israel, and we don't even find it used elsewhere in the Qur'an. The obvious conclusion, then, is that Muhammad simply made a mistake, and that he tried to correct it by making something up."
Mohammed flunked out on that one, Mo. Can you do better? I doubt it.