ISLAM & THE MUSLIMS

Blessing or Burden?

YOU be the Judge

By LTC Daniel Marvin USASF (ret)

PART TWELVE

Chapter Four – Women (concluded)

We will continue the revelations of the fourth chapter of the Koran with

Muhammad’s words that tell of his god’s total power: “All that is in the

Heavens and all that is on the Earth is God’s: and God encompasseth all

things!” Speaking of those who have more than one wife, he tells his

people: “...ye will not have it at all in your power to treat your wives

alike, even though you fain to do so; but yield not wholly to

disinclination, so that ye leave one of them as it were in suspense; if

ye come to an understanding, and fear God, then, verily, God is

Forgiving, Merciful...”

Muhammad, in 4:143 & 144, continues to admonish Muslims not to associate

with Jews and Christians whom he calls “infidels,” stating quite clearly,

“O believers! take not infidels for friends rather than believers. Would

you furnish God with clear right to punish you?” He goes on to tell them

that their end would have them in the lowest part of hell unless they

turn from their sin and “amend, and lay fast hold on God...” so that

they “...shall be numbered with the faithful, and God will at last bestow

on the faithful a great reward.”

Laying it on the line, Muhammad relates, “And for their [infidels]

saying, ‘Verily we have slain the messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, an

Apostle of God.’ Yet they slew him not, and they crucified him not, but

they had only his likeness.” Muhammad is stating unequivocally that

Jesus was not slain!

As if to drive home his point that Jesus was not the son of God,

Muhammad, in 4:169, tells his followers, “O ye people of the Book

[Koran]! overstep not bounds in your religion [Islam]; and of God, speak

only truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is only an apostle of God,

and his Word which he conveyed into Mary, and a Spirit proceeding from

himself. Believe therefore in God and his apostles, and say not,

‘Three:’ (there is a Trinity) – Forbear – it will be better for you. God

is only one God! Far be it from His glory that He should have a son!”

You be the judge of it all.

Edited by Jeanne Calabretta