ANGEL and MAN
ISLAM IS THE FINAL RELIGION
 
ISLAM IS THE FINAL RELIGION
....Allah Almighty says:
...."Surely the (true) religion with Allah is Islam."
(Aal-e-Imran, 19)
....The true religion with Allah is Islam because the previous religions were distorted time after time and they, therefore, were abrogated.
....The fundamental principle of Islam, which is the ultimate divine religion, is the Oneness of God. Allah is One and He is the only deity.
....It is Allah who designs, supervises, and stabilizes the Earth and the Heavens. It is Allah whose hand is the Kingdom, and He has power over all things. No one, neither a prophet nor an angel, can be equal or a partner to Him. ..Allah Almighty says:
...."Say: I am only a mortal like you; it is revealed to me that your god is one God, therefore whoever hopes to meet his Lord, he should do good deeds, and not join any one in the service of his Lord." (Kahf, 110)
....Islam acknowledges that Prophet Muhammad is only a human being, a servant of Allah. Yet, he is different in that he has been given the mission of conveying the revelations of Allah to other humans.
....And Muslims are supposed to worship Allah alone, and Muslims should only seek the approval of Allah.
....Muslims should learn from one another, or ask each other for advice, but no one has the right to mediate between humans and Allah.
....No group or class can be declared as a privileged one in Islam. Muslims are all equal.
....No one, including the Prophet, has the right to grant forgiveness the sins of another.
....Temples, namely mosques, are not such places for confession, or baptism.
....As for those who seek a religion other than Islam, namely a heterodox one.
....Allah Almighty says in this regard:
...."Is it then other than Allah's religion that they seek (to follow), and to Him submits whoever is in the Heavens and the Earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be returned." (Aal-e-Imran, 83)
....As the atoms on the Earth, the gas in the atmosphere, the stars in the sky, and the galaxies in space have no other choice but to abide by the rules that Allah has established,

so too do humans have no other choice but to accept the final and the ultimate religion, namely Islam.
....But is it not legitimate to abide by the rules that still exist in the Old and the New Testaments, or in other earlier books?
....No, this is not legitimate! Because Allah says in the Qur'an:
...."And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he shall be one of the losers." (Aal-e-Imran, 85)
....It is a matter of clear logic that if one is obedient to rules that are no longer in force that this cannot be regarded as a legitimate act according to the current law.
....So, one's obedience to previous books whose rules are no longer in force cannot be an acceptable act by Allah Almighty, and it is, moreover, a sin.
....Can one, for example, claim that marrying one's sibling is legitimate as this was established in the suhufs given to Prophet Adam?
....Let us take a look at other, non-Muslim societies.
....Allah Almighty says:
...."Certainly you will find the most violent of people in enmity for those who believe (to be) the Jews and those who are polytheists, and you will certainly find the nearest in friendship to those who believe (to be) those who say: We are Christians." (Maida, 82)
....Allah Almighty clarifies that among non-Muslim societies the Jews and the idol-worshippers are the most violent enemies of Islam, and that Christians are more modest

than the Jews and the idol-worshippers in this regard.
....Now we should examine these three groups in detail:
....1- Jews
....The Jews regard themselves as the supreme race and regard others as creatures granted for their use. They see others as being no different from plants or animals.
....They knew that Prophet Muhammad would be sent by Allah Almighty as the seal of the prophets, because their own book, the Talmud, and Prophet Moses acknowledged this fact. Yet, they did not accept the prophecy of Muhammad, as he was not of their race.
....They could not comprehend the reality that Prophet Muhammad was of Arab origin, not of Jewish blood. They, therefore, started a movement against the Muslims.
....The Jews today are still as hostile towards Muslims as they were in the past. In the past they kept a low profile and yielded to the Muslims when they were not strong. Yet,when they had gathered strength, they enthusiastically and ferociously attacked the Muslims, regarding this act as mitzvah (an approved act by God).
....Jews are known for their racism, and they distorted the religion of Moses, originally a true religion. Not only do they accept a new religion, they accept no one else into their religion, namely Judaism.
....Their racism instills enmity towards Islam; this is so deeply rooted in their nature that they will no doubt continue to be a brutal enemy towards Islam in the future. And the promised lands in pursuit of which they have always struggled

after will be a graveyard for them, and the world will be saved from something called Zionism.
....2- Idol-Worshippers
....Even animals, bereft of intellect, physically worship and deify Allah at certain times, in answer to their instincts, but some humans, creatures with intellect and conscience, deify figures that are as weak as themselves.
....Such people who are called idol-worshippers; they embrace the views and ideologies of those they idolize. Moreover, they blame those who do not disapprove of their backwardness.
....Idol-worshipping, which has no place in the contemporary world, either in religious or scientific terms, is still favored by some who have vested interests, and is kept alive sometimes by oppression and sometimes with a "life-support system."
....Idol-worshippers, though they regard Islam as the greatest obstacle standing in their way and therefore act as a determined enemy of Islam, may, at any time, revert to Islam and become a distinguished Muslim, as in the example of Omar, the second caliph. Such a transformation is possible because they do not have the same innate enmity towards Islam as the Jews have.
....3- Christians
....Christians are believed to be the pioneers of science in modern times. They have managed to dismantle atomic nucleus, but they have not made the same fervent attempt

to examine their religion without prejudice. If they were to do so, they would see how their religion has been distorted and has lost connection with its original position.
....They would see how serious the distortion has become; the common point among the divine religions was the Oneness of God.
....Allah Almighty established such an impeccable harmony in the universe that not even a single article in this balanced system could take up a position to be a partner or rival to Allah Almighty.
....Divine religions have also two more fundamental principles, apart from Oneness of God:
....(a) A prophet whose appointment by Allah is made clear by some miracles.
....(b) A divine book revealed to a prophet by Allah.
....When we analyze the prophethood in Christianity we can see that the Christians do not believe in the prophecy of Jesus; rather they believe that he was a divine incarnation. They, at the same time, see Jesus as the Son of God and deify him as God.
....How can a prophet be a divine being? Or, how can a divine being become a prophet?
....Allah Almighty says:
...."The Messiah, son of Mary is but an apostle; apostles before him have indeed passed away; and his mother was a truthful woman; they both used to eat food." (Maeda, 75)
....Allah Almighty said to those who deify Jesus:
...."Jesus was just a prophet. And many prophets have

passed before him. And each prophet before him introduced different miracles, and Jesus was born without having a father as a divine miracle. And his mother, Mary, was a truthful woman. They both used to eat food because they both were humans."
....So, how can one, who is dependant for life on the conditions of the Earth, as are all living beings, who needs to breathe, drink, eat, and empty their bowels, become a divine being, or son of God?
....How can one who is born of a human womb be a divine being, or son of God?
....Can a reasonable mind accept such a belief? Can common sense accept such a belief?
....When we examine what the Qur'an about Jesus being born without a father, we can see that Allah Almighty says:
...."Surely the likeness of Jesus is with Allah as the likeness of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him, Be, and he was." (Aal-e-Imran, 59)
....Allah gives the example of Adam, who was created from dust, to those who deified and regarded Jesus as the son of God merely because he was born without a father.
....Allah created Adam's body from dust and then He gave him a soul saying, Be, and he was.
....It is true that all creation has to abide by the rules of semination set by Allah Almighty.
....Yet, Allah Almighty Himself does not have to abide by such a rule!
....He can create some beings in any way He wishes.
....He created Jesus in a different way, having him be born with no father. Yet, He created Adam in a different way as well, with no father or mother.

....No one has ever regarded Adam as a deity, or the son of God. So, those who deify and worship Jesus, logically, must be in the wrong.
....Allah Almighty says:
...."Certainly they disbelieve who say: Surely Allah is the third (person) of the three; and there is no god but the one God." (Maeda, 73)
....So, it is very clear that those who deify and worship such a great prophet and a great angel (the holy spirit, the angel Gabriel) are seen as disbelievers in the Qur'an.
....As for the holy book of Christianity!
....Jesus became a prophet of Allah when he was 30 and he was raised to Heaven by Allah Almighty when he was 33. There were not many people who believed in what he was saying during his mission of three years.
....After he was raised to Heaven, his apostles spread out in an attempt to spread Christianity in secret, due to oppression by the Jews and the Romans. Christianity at that time was a true religion.
....The apostles who invited people to Christianity used to read passages from the Bible and interpret them, as well as giving examples from the life and words of Jesus. They used to preach as well.
....Some of those who joined Christianity through the works of the apostles started writing the stories they had heard from the apostles and turned those stories into books that came to be known as the Bible.
....This practice was so common that there are hundreds of different and contradictory bibles, containing a series of myths and superstitions.

....In the year 323 the Roman Emperor, Constantine, converted to Christianity and declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. This meant that the oppression of the Christians was over.
....Yet, the chaos in the bibles, and thereby the beliefs and rituals of Christianity continued. The Emperor Constantine sought a solution and in the year 325, that is 292 years after Jesus had been raised to heaven, brought together a council of priests in Iznik, ordering them to select the true bible among the many hundreds.
....The Emperor, who did not have any idea about the origin of Christianity and the common points of the true religions, pioneered a great fallacy that would continue until the end of the world by allocating himself the right to resolve an issue that belongs to the Divine Being.
....So, what did the council of priests do?
....Or, what could they have done?
....They would have been unable to identify the true bible, because they were not prophets who had received revelation from Allah; they had no information about which one was the true one!
....They did not have the true bible with which to make comparison!
....So, the priests had a difficult task. They, however, had to fulfill that task because the emperor had ordered them to do so.
....The priests had just one choice, and that was to approach the matter in an unsystematic way, choosing one of the bibles to be the true one.

....Yet, they did not agree on just one bible as the true one. At the end of the day, they agreed on four versions: Mathew, Marc, Luke, and John.
....The council of Europe that gathered together in Iznik was happy with the decision they had reached, but other priests, who had not joined the council, and Christian public opinion, were not happy with the designation of these four bibles.
....So, the chaos continued. Since Christian public opinion was not satisfied with the decision taken by the council of Iznik, other councils were organized in the year 364 and 387, the former in Laodiese and the latter in Kartaca. These councils tried to find solutions for this chaos by making some amendments to the bibles, but they failed.
....All these meant that the priests had transgressed their bounds. Even the prophets had had no right to change even one word of the divine books. Yet, the priests had given themselves that right. Thus, the books that are called bible became toys in the hands of priests.
....The councils cited above were followed by others in Istanbul, Izmir, Aydin, Efes, and Kadikoy. Amendments also were made in the councils that took place in such cities. Yet, the problem was not solved.
....We believe that this problem cannot be solved. And the wrong step that was first taken by the emperor Constantine is bound to continue until the end of the world.
....And the Christians of our time do not seem to have any intention to turn back from this fatal mistake.
....In 1947, a shepherd found a bundle of scrolls in an earthenware jar while grazing his flock in a cave not far

from the city of Jerusalem. This scroll was the true bible.
....This was great news that shook the Christian world. This news was announced to the world in the newspapers, with the headline "The True Bible has been Found!" It was in the news for some time.
....The Assembly of the World Council of Churches took action concerning these scrolls before too much time had passed, and the scrolls were ignored.
....Why did they take such an action?
....Because, the Christian world and the churches in particular would no doubt find turning back to the true Bible too difficult. The Divine orders regarding the final Prophet, contained in these scrolls, would have severely shaken them.
....They preferred the false bibles to the true one, and they did not have the courage or strength to return to the original one after such a long time.
....And the most interesting thing and the most striking point about this matter is that Christians, who still cannot solve the problem of their own holy book, and who therefore have no clear consensus concerning their book, have made attempts to transfer their faith to Muslim countries where they carry out missionary work to convert Muslims.
....This seems ridiculous, but it is true. They themselves need help to find the true path, but they, on the contrary, are trying to show others what the true path is.
....So, here is a sincere warning for Christians!
....O, Christians! Instead of publishing bibles, books in which you yourselves do not believe, and handing them

out in the Muslim world, it would be better for you to establish a committee made up of scholars with a good command of Arabic to search what the Qur'an, the final divine book, says!
....You will surely find out that the Qur'an is a divine book, you will find what you are looking for in it, you will be spiritually satisfied, and hopefully you will have faith in it.
....Do not dare to follow the way of the idol-worshippers at the time of Prophet Ibrahim who said: "It is better for us to follow the path of our fathers."
....Allah answers such a statement in the Qur'an as follows:
...."What! Even though their fathers knew nothing and did not follow the right way." (Maeda, 104)
....Yes! What if your fathers knew nothing and you adamantly remain on the wrong path?
....Was it not the bishops and the priests who excommunicated Galileo, the founder of modern physics, when he claimed that the Earth revolves around the Sun? Were not those bishops in the wrong then?
....If you look at the Qur'an, you will see that it explains how not only the Earth, but also the Moon and the Sun are in orbit, and this was over a thousand years before Galileo: "All float on in a sphere." (Ya-Seen, 40)