ISLAM & THE MUSLIMS
Blessing or Burden?
YOU be the Judge
Part 68
Sura 45 “THE KNEELING”
By
John W. Bailey

Muhammad shares at the start of this Sura that believers in Islam can see the signs of Allah in a variety of things present on the earth and in the heavens. “Assuredly in the Heavens and the Earth are signs for those who believe: And in your own creation, and in the beasts which are scattered abroad are signs to the firm in faith: And in the succession of night and day, and in the supply which God sendeth down from the Heaven whereby he giveth life to the earth when dead, and in the change of the winds, are signs for a people of discernment.”

Muhammad continues to meet resistance to his revelations from Allah. “Such are the signs of Allah: with truth do we recite them to thee [unbelievers]. But in what teachings will they believe, if they reject Allah and his signs?” This is what Muhammad says about the unbelievers [Christians or anyone else who does not believe in Islam as revealed by Muhammad]: “Hell is behind them! And neither their gains nor the lords whom they have adopted beside Allah shall avail them in the least: and theirs, a great punishment! This is ‘Guidance:’ and for those who disbelieve the signs of their Lord is the punishment of an afflictive torment.”

The Koran is said by Muhammad to have “insight for mankind, and a Guidance and Mercy to a people who are firm in faith.” But if you do not believe in this insight and this book [Koran] Muhammad forecasts that their will be a day of judgment and “on that day shall the despisers [unbelievers in Islam] perish. And thou shalt see every nation KNEELING: to its own book shall every nation be summoned:-‘This day shall ye be repaid as ye have wrought. This our Book [Koran] will speak of you with truth: therein have we written down whatever ye have done.’”

Do these last statements of Muhammad indicate that any other book of faith [like the Bible] will not speak of you with truth? Islam, blessing or burden? You be the judge!