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MAULID NABIYI (MAULIDI) BY BABA ALI MUSTAPHA



             

Maulid Nabiyi (Maulidi) is celebrated by Sunni (Ah al Sunna Wal Ja’ma) Muslims throughout the Muslim world to commemorate the birth of Prophet Mohammed every year. It is usually observed in Rabial Auwal, the third month of the Islamic Calender.
            To observe this ceremony with my fellow Sunni (Ah al Sunna Wal Ja’ma) Muslims throughout the world this year I put up this research to know more about Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)’s morals and what fair-minded impartial non Muslims thinkers tell us about the Messenger (SAW).
            In The Name of Allah, The Most Merciful, The Ever Merciful.
            All perfect praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon Muhammad Ibn Abdullah, the seal of the Prophets, the best of the First and the latter generations, Our Master and Ideal.
            He is the possessor of the Hawdh (Basin) from which the believers will drink in the day of Judgement, the banner under which the believers will gather, the station of praise and glory, the bright marks on his face, hands and feet (i.e. the traces of ablution). He is the One who was mentioned in Al-Tawraah (Torah) and Al-Injeel (Gospel), and supported by Jibreel (Gabriel).
            His Lord distinguished him with the Al-Israa’ and Al-Miraj (Night journey to Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa and Ascent to Heaven). He split the moon for him, made cure and blessing in his Saliva and sweat. With his invocation the rain was sent down. To him the tree submitted. Upon him, camels and stones sent their salutations. He was made victorious by awe, (Allah frightened his enemies at a distance of one month’s journey). He is the master of the sons of Adam, and he is not boasting.
            The evidence of his Prophethood are numerous and his noble manners and attributes are countless.
            The best of creation in his childhood, the most purified in his youth, the superior in his old age, the most righteous throughout his lifetime, the most just of judges, and the bravest in the battlefield. Allah the Almighty endowed him with every sublime moral and refined manner, purified him from every impurity, guarded him against every slip, taught him good manners and taught him well and endowed him with every noble trait. Thus, no one is like him in his perfection, nobility, truthfulness, honesty, asceticisin, bashfulness and chastity.
Such is the Messenger of Allah (SAW). All those who knew him well acknowledged his nobility, excellent nature, kind-heartedness, gentleness, wisdom, intelligent, firm determination and leniency.

What fair minded thinkers said about the bestman who ever lived (Muhammad (SAW)
No one can read about the Magnanimous manners and the noble character of the Messenger (SAW) without expressing their admiration of his character and their bedazzlement by it. Thus, it is no wander, that we see such fragrant praise fair testimonies from many of those who have not reverted to Islam and of which history recorded their quotations and in their books and heritage, to provide firm evidence and decisive proof of his sublime morals and characteristics (SAW).
Fair minded impartial non Muslim thinkers tell us about the Messenger (SAW) Muhammad (SAW) in the eyes of the Orientalist.
1. The American Orientalist, Washington Irving said, “Muhammad (SAW) was the last and greatest Prophet Allah has sent to call people to worship Him Alone” (Excerpted from Qaaloo ‘an Al-Islam (What they said about Islam) by Professor Imaad Addeen Khaleel).
2. The Spanish Orientalist, Jan Lake, in his book The Arabs said: “The life of Muhammad cannot be described using any words that are better than what Allah says; ‘And we have not sent you, (O Muhammad), except as a mercy to the world’) (Quran 21:107). Actually, Muhammad was a real mercy, and I ask for blessings upon passionately and ardently”.
3. The Italian Orientalist, Laura Veccia Vagelieri said: Muhammad, who always held on to the divine principles, was very tolerant especially with those who believe in One God. He knew how to have much patience with pagans, ever showing deliberation” ‘Apologia dell’ Islamismo (translated into English as: An interpretation of Islam by Laura Veccia Vaglieri).
4. The French Orientalist, Gustave Lee Bon, said: “Muhammad met all the harm and torture with much patience and endurance. Muhammad treated the people of Quraysh, who were his enemies for twenty years, with kindness and forbearance”. (La Civilization des Arabes, (The civilization of Arabs) by Gustave Le Bon).

Muhammad (SAW) in the eyes of the Philosophers:
1. The renowned British Philosopher and Playwright, Sir Bernard Shaw, said: “I have studied the life of the Messenger of Islam, very well, time after time, and I have found nothing but moral standards as they should be. I always wished that Islam would become the way of the world (Ar-Rasool, Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, fe uyoon Gharbiyyah Munsifah by Al Husaini Ma’di).
2. The English Philosopher, Thomas Carlyle, who was said to be the best British Mind after Shakespeare said: “This great, kind hearted merciful wise man had other thoughts in his mind than worldly ambitions, and other intentions than seeking authority and high status”. (Ar-Rasool , Sallallahu alayhi wasallam, fe uyoon Gharbiyyah Munsifah by Al Husaini Ma’di).

Muhammad (SAW) in the eyes of Historians.
1. The British Historian, Sir William Muir, said: Mahomet, Peace be upon Him, was characterized by his distinct and emphatic speech. His religion is uncomplicated. He did amazing actions. Actually, history has never witnessed a reformer like the Prophet of Islam who increased awareness and revived the proper meaning of noble manners and virtue in such short time.
            He added: A remarkable feature was the urbanity and consideration with which Mohamet treated even the most insignificant of his followers. Modesty and kindness, patience, self denial, and generosity, pervaded his conduct and riveted the affections of all around him. He was not known ever to refuse an invitation to the house of even of the meanest, nor to decline a proffered present however small. When seated by a friend, he did not haughtily advance his knees toward him. He possessed the rare faculty of making each the individual in a company think he was the most fevered guest. When he met anyone rejoicing, he would seize him eagerly and cordially by his hand. With the bereaved and afflicted he sympathized tenderly. He share his food, even in times of scarcity, with others; and was sedulously solicitous for the personal comfort of everyone about him”. (The Life of Mahomet by William Muir and Ar-Rasool Sallahu alaihu wasallam by Sa’eed Hawa).

Muhammad (SAW) in the eyes of Poets and Linguists:
1. The famous French Poet, Alphonse de Lamartine said: “I have studied the life of Muhammad well and realized the greatness of it”. (Voyage en Orient (Travelling to the Orient).
2. The well known German Poet and Writer, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, said: “I have searched the history of humanity for a role model for man and found it in the Arab Prophet Muhammad” (Allahs Sonne Uber dem Abendland (Allah’s sun over the occident) by Sigrid Hunke).
3. The French Writer, Edward Montet, Professor of Oriented Languages at the University of Geneva said in his book Muhammad and the Quran: “Muhammad, Peace be upon him, had magnanimous manners, sublime morality, sweet speech and soundness of judgement, truthfulness of words and a firm belief in what he did and said”.
            These are testimonies of some European Orientalist, Philosophers, historians and poets about the noble character of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW), the seal of the Prophet Muhammad. We aim to prove that the Western people acknowledge the Prophethood of Muhammad (SAW), his noble traits and his favor that will last until the day of judgement over mankind in all part of the world.
            Although Christians European fanaticism is always partial and make no attempt to be objective, there are still fair-minded thinkers who affirmed the truth unequivocally. However, the dominant western cultural trends that are filled with fanaticism, stubbornness and self centeredness explored every possible avenue to hide and suppress these obvious facts, so that European lay person would not know these facts that his fellow countrymen had proved true about Islam, its Prophet and his universal everlasting message. All such things are done only to realize two aims:
            First, to keep the Christians of Europe away from Islam whose effectiveness in attacking the human personality was evidently proved. In fact, the people in the West are afraid of Islam because of the steady decline in the number of those converting to Christianity in the world inspite of the enormous amounts of money and time they spend to make people Christians.
            The well known evangelist, Lawrence Brown said, “ we have found that the real danger for us is Islam and its ability to expand and to submit people to its teachings and its remarkable vitality”. He added: “the real universal danger in this age is Muslims. So we have to unify our powers, mobilize armies and be aware of it.
            …..the cause of Islam is totally different from the Jewish One. The religion of Muslims differs from that of the Jews. It calls all people to embrace it. It is spreading among the Christians themselves and among non-christians. As a matter of fact, Muslims engaged in a long struggle in Europe. Muslims, as the Evangelist view, have never been a trodden-upon minority….Therefore, we see evangelist supporting the Jews against Muslims in Palestine. We used to fear the Jews, the yellow danger (Japan when it defeated China), and the Bolsherik danger, however, none of those dangers have been realized as we expected. We have found that the Jews are our friends and thus, whoever oppresses them will be our sworn enemy. Furthermore, we have discovered that the Bolsheriks are our allies. As for the yellow people, there are big democratic states resisting them. Indeed, the real danger lie in the system of Islam” (At Tabsheer wal-isti-maar (Evangelization and occupation) by Dr. Mustafa Al-Khaalidy and Dr. Amr Farrookh, excerpted from Al-Bayaan Magazine, Issue no. 174 p.92 and Ar-Rasol fi uyoon Gharbiyya Munsifah (The Messenger (PBUH) in fair minded Western eyes).
            Second, guaranteeing the continuation of the conflict between the West and Islam, and their disagreement for the interest of Zionism and free masonry that believe they are the first party to be harmed by any agreement or serious dialogue between Islam and the West.
            Finally, just last two weeks, Mr. Donald Trump, the President of U.S.A. breaking all the international laws and United Nation Resolutions, recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. It is the biggest mistake, the government of U.S.A. ever did. The only option for the Muslim countries is not violent, but for the organization of Islamic Countries (O.I.C) with strong members about 63 countries and headquarters at Jidda Saudi Arabia to call emergency meeting of its foreign affairs ministers and inform them to recall their ambassadors from Washington (U.S.A.) and sent packing the ambassadors of U.S.A and Israel from their soil. In addition all the member countries of organization of Islamic Countries (O.I.C) should refuse to recognize New York as headquarters of United Nation. UN either moved its headquarters to either London or Berlin (Germany) the neutral ground or they quit the organization (UN) and set up a parallel organization for the Muslims. That is the only solution.
            Baba Ali Mustapha is with the department of Planning and Research in the Ministry of Environment, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.
Reference:
For further knowledge look for the book Muhammad (SAW) The Best Man who ever lived by Abu Abdurahaman, Hishaam Muhammad-Sa’eed Barghash, published by Muslim World League, The Global Centre for introducing the Messenger. Kingdom Saudi Arabia, P.O. BOX, 361199 Riyadh, 11311. www.mercyprophet.com , info@mercyprophet.com



ISAAC NEWTON (The Greatest Scientist Ever Lived) By Baba Ali Mustapha


                This research is the concluding part of the research work that was posted on the internet on Friday 10th November 2017, under the title 'MUHAMMAD (PBUH) THE GREATEST, where Michael H. Hart chose Muhammed to lead the list of the world's most influential persons in history in his book, but what surprise many is that he listed ISAAC NEWTON second, in series below Muhammad, but above even his Prophet Jesus Christ who is third in the series and Moses who is in No. 16 in his book. So who is that Isaac Newton.
                I here by privileged to present to you the entire chapter of Isaac Newton, from the second Michael Hart's book THE 100 A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON IN HISTORY. After that i will list the remaining 98 names of most influential people in history.
2. ISAAC NEWTON 1642-1727
                Isaac Newton, the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived, was born in Woolsthope, England, on Christmas day, 1642, the same year that Galilio died, like Muhammad he was born after the death of his father. As a child, he showed considerable mechanical aptitude, and was very clever with his hands. although, a bright child, he was inattentive in school and did not attract much attention. When he was a teenager, his mother took him out of school, hoping that he would become a successful farmer fortunately she was persuaded that his principal talents lay elsewhere, and at eighteen, he entered Cambridge University. There he rapidly absorbed what was then known of Science and Mathematic, and soon move on his independent research. Between his twenty-first and twenty-seventh years, he laid the foundations for the scientific theories that sequently revolutionized the world.
                The middle of the seventeenth century was a period of great scientific ferment. The invention of the telescope near the beginning of the century had revolutionized the entire study of astronomy. The English Francis Bacon and the French Philosopher Rene Descartes had both urged scientists throughout Europe to cease relying on the authority of Aristotle and to experiment and observe for themselves. What Bacon and Descartes had preached, the great Galilio had practiced. His astronomical observations, using the newly invented telescope, had revolutionized the study of astronomy and his mechanical experiments had established what is known as Newton's First Law of motion.
                Other great scientists, such as William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood, and Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws describing the motions of the planets around the sun, were bringing new basic information to the scientific community. Still, pure science was largely a play thing of intellectual’s and as yet there was no proof that when applied to technology, science could revolutionize the whole mode of human life, as Francis a Bacon has predicted.
                Although Copernicus and Galileo had swept aside some of the misconceptions of ancient science and contributed to a greater understanding of the universe, no set of Principles had been formulated that could turn this collection of seemingly unrelated fact into a unified theory with which to make scientific predictions. It was Isaac Newton who supplied that unified theory and set Modern science on the course which it has followed ever since.
                Newton was always reluctant to publish his results, and although he had formulated the basic ideas behind most of his work by 1669, many of his theories were not made public until much later. The first of his discoveries to be published was his ground breaking work on the nature of light. In a series of careful experiments, Newton had discovered that ordinary white light is a mixture of all the colors of the rainbow. He had also made a careful analysis of the consequences of the laws of the reflection and refraction of light. Using these laws, he had in 1668 designed and actually built the first reflection telescope, the type of telescope that is used in most major astronomical observations today. These discoveries together with the results of many other optical experiments which he performed, were presented by Newton before the British Royal Society when he was twenty-nine years old.
                Newton's achievements in the optics alone would probably entitle him to a place on this list; however, they considerably less important than his accomplishments in pure mathematics and mechanics. His major mathematical contribution was his invention of integral calculus, which he probably devised when he was twenty-three or twenty four years old. That modern mathematics, is not merely the seed out of which of modern mathematical theory has grown, it is also the essential tool without which most of the subsequent progress in modern science would have been impossible. Had Newton done nothing else, the invention of integral calculus by itself would have entitled him to a fairly high place on this list.
                Newton's most important discoveries however, were in the field of mechanics, the science of how material object move. Galileo had discovered the first law of motion, which describes the motion of objects if they are not subjected to any exterior forces. In practice, of course, all objects are subjected to exterior forces, and the most in important question in mechanics is how subject move under such circumstances. This problem was solved by Newton in his famous second law of motion, which may rightly be considered the most fundamental law of classical physics. The second law (described mathematically by the equation F=Ma) states that the acceleration of an object (i.e. the rate at which its velocity changes (is equal to the net force on the object divided by the object mass. To these first two laws, Newton added his famous third law of motion (which states that for each action-i.e, physical force-there is an equal and opposite reaction), and the most famous of his scientific laws, the law of universal gravitation. This set of four laws, taken conjointly, from a unified system by means of which virtually all macroscopic mechanical systems, form the swinging of a pendulum to the motion of the planets in the orbit  around the sun, may be investigated and their behaviour-predicted. Newton did not merely state these laws of mechanics; have himself using the Mathematical tools of the calculus, showed how these fundamental laws could be applied to the solution of actual problems.
                Newton's laws can be and have been applied to an extremely broad range of scientific and engineering problems. During his lifetime, the most dramatic application of his laws was made in the field of astronomy. In this area, too Newton led the way. In 1687, he published his greatest work, the mathematical principle of natural philosophy (usually referred to simple, as Principles) , in which he presented his law of gravitation and laws of motion. Newton showed how these laws could be used to predict precisely the motions of the planets around the sun. The principal problem of dynamical astronomy that is, the problem of predicting exactly the positions and motion s of the stars and planets was thereby completely solved by Newton in one magnificent sweep. For this reason, Newton often considered the greatest of all astronomers.
                What then is our assessment Newton scientific importance? if one look at the index of encyclopedia of science, one will find more references(perhaps two or three times as many) to Newton and to Vis law and discoveries than any other individual scientist. Furthermore, one should consider what other great scientists have said about Newton. Leibniz, no friend of Sir Isaac's, and a man with whom he engaged in bitter dispute wrote " Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he has done is much better part. Te great French scientist Uplale wrote: The principia is pre-eminent above any other production of human genius", Lagrange frequently stated that Newton was the greatest genius who ever lived while Ernst Mach, writing in 1901 said, "All that has been accomplished in mathematics since Vies day Vas been a deductive, formal and mathematical development of mechanics on the basis of Newton’s laws", this perhaps is the crux of Newton's great accomplishment; he found science a Vadgepodge of isolated facts, and laws, capable of describing some phenomenal but of predicting only a few, he left us, a unified system of laws, which were capable of application to an enormous range of physical phenomena and which could be used to make exact predictions.
                In a brief summary like this, it is not possible to detail all of Newton's discoveries, consequently, many of the lesser one have been omitted, although they were important achievements in their own right. Newton made significant contributions to thermodynamic (the study of heat) and to acoustic (the study of sound); he enunciated the extremely important physical principles of conservation of angular momentums; he discovered the binomial theorem on mathematics and he gave the first cogent explanation of the origin of the stars.
                Now, one might grant that Newton  was by far the greatest most influential scientist who ever lived but still ask why he should be ranked higher than such major political figure as Alexander the great or George Washington, and ahead of such major religious figures as Jesus and Gautama Buddha. My own view is that even the political changes are of significance, it is fair to say that most people in the world were living the same way 500 years after Alexander's death as their forebears had lived five centuries, before his time. Similarly, in most of their daily activities, the majority of human beings were living the same way in 1500 A.D. as human beings shad been living in 1500 B.C. In the last five centuries however with the rise of modern science, the everyday life of most human being has been completely revolutionized. We dress differently, eat completely different food, work at different jobs and spend our leisure time a great deal differently than people did in 1500 A.D. Scientific discoveries have not only revolutionized technology and economic, they have also completely changed politics, religious thinking, art and philosophy. Few aspect of human activity have remained unchanged by this scientific revolution, and it is for this reason that so many scientists and inventors are to be found on this list, Newton was not only the brilliant of all scientists, he was also the most influential figure in the development of scientific theory, and therefore well merits a position at or near the top of any list of world's most influential persons.
                Newton died in 1727, and was buried in Westminster Abbey, the first scientist to be accorded that honor.
                This is tve end of the chapter on Isaac Newton from the book "THE 100 A RANKING OF MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY by Michael H. Hart in which he ranked Isaac Newton as the second most influential person in the history, above both Jesus Christ and Moses.
                HERE IS COMPLETE LIST OF NAMES OF MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY by Michael H. Hart; serially:
1. Muhammad
2. Isaac Newton
3. Jesus Christ
4. Buddha
5. Confucius
6. St. Paul
7. Ts'ai Lun
8. Johann Gutenberg
9. Christopher Columbus
10. Albert Einstein
11. Karl Max
12. Lois Pasteur
13. Galileo Galilei
14. Aristotle
15. Lenin
16. Moses
17. Charles Darwin
18. Shih Huang Ti
19. Augustus Caesar
24. Niclous Copernicus
25. James Watt
26. Constantine The Great
27. George Washington
28. Michael Faraday
29. James Clerk Maxwell
30. Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
31. Antione Laurent Laveisier
32. Sigmund Frend
33. Alexander The Great
34. Napoleon Banaparte
35. Adolf Hitler
36. William Shakespeare
37. Adam Smith
38. Thomas Edison
39. Anthony Van Leeuwenheak
40. Plato
41. Guglielmo Marconi
42. Ludwig Van Beethoven
43. Werner Heisenberg
44. Alexander Fleing
45. Alexander Grahambell
46. Simon Boliver
47. Oliver Cromwell
48. John Locke
49. Michelangelo
50. Pope Urben II
51. Umar Ibn al Khattab
52. Asoka
53. St. Augustine
54. Max Planck
55. John Caluin
56. William T.G. Morton
57. William Harvey
58. Antoine Henri Beequerel
59. Gregor Mendel
60. Joseph Lister
61. Nikolaus sAugust Otto
62. Louis Daguerre
63. Joseph Stalin
64. Rene Descartes
65. Julius Caesar
66. Francisco Pizarro
67. Hernando Cartes
68. Queen Isabella I
69. William The Conqueror
70. Thomas Jefferson
71. Jean Jacques Rousseau
72. Edward Jenner
73. Wihelm Conrad Rontgen
74. Johann Sebastian Bach
75. Lao Tzu
76. Enrico Fermi
77. Thomas Malthus
78. Francis Bacon
79. Voltaire
80. John F. Kennedy
81. Gregory Pincus
82. Sus Wen Ti
83. Mani
84. Vasco da Gama
85. Charlemagne
86. Cyrus The Great
87. Leohard Euler
88. Niccolo Machiarelli
89. Zoroaster
90. Menes
91. Peter The Great
92. Mencius
93. John Dalton
94. Homer
95. Queen Elizabeth
96. Justinian I
97. Johannes Kepler
98. Pablo Picasso
99. Mahavira
100. Niels Bohr
                Baba Ali Mustapha is of Ngranam Ward, Bolori II, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.
Reference:
1. For the chapter on each of these personalities, you look for the book " THE 100 A RANKING OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY by Michael H. Hart published in United State of America (USA).
2. Locally in Nigeria Sarumedi @08039090800 has published a book with the same title containing most of the notable personalities with chapters.


MUHAMMED (PHUH) THE GREATEST BY BABA ALI MUSTAPHA



To every Muslim on this planet earth irrespective of cultural, geographical and political differences, Muhammed (PBUH) is Allah's greatest creation and was sent as a mercy for all mankind. A thousand million Muslims however, do not require any surveys, list or research to arrive at this conclusion. It is a non-negotiable article of faith that Muhammed (PBUH) is the greatest

FACTS ABOUT CHRISTIANITY/JUDAISM FOR AN AVERAGE MUSLIM SURPOSE TO KNOW BY BABA ALI MUSTAPHA

 

         Today’s Christians also believe in all past prophets, yet since they do not believe in the fact that Muhammad (alaihi-salam) is the Prophet for all mankind, they remain in disbelief and diverge from the truth. As for Jews since they do not believe in Isa (alaihi-salam) either, they remain twice as far from Islam.
         Since Jews and Christians believe that their present interpolated books are the same today as they were when they were sent down from heaven, they are called ahlah-kitab (disbelievers with heavenly books). It is permissible (but Makruh) to eat the animals they slaughter (if they mention the name of Allahu ta’ala as they slaughter them) and to marry their daughters with nikah. Polytheists (mushriks) and apostates (murtads) who do not believe in any prophet or book are called ‘disbelievers without a heavenly book’. Mulhids, too, are said to be in the same group. It is not permissible to marry their daughters or to eat the animals they slaughter.
         Isa (alaihi-salam) chose twelve of his companions to disseminate his religion after him; each of them was called a hawari (apostle, le Aporte, Apostel). They were Sham’um (Simon), Peter (Petros), Johanna (Jonannes), the elder Yaqub, Andreas (Andrew Peter’s brother), Philippus, Thomas, Bartholomew (Bartholomaus), Matiyya (Mathew), the younger Yaqub, Barnabas, Yahuda (Judas) and Thaddaeus (Kakobi). Yahuda became an apostate and Matya (Mathias) took his place. Petros was the chief of the apostles. These twelve believers, after Isa (alaihi-salam) had ascended to heaven at the age of thirty-three, propagated his religion. Yet the true teaching of the religion sent by Allah ta’ala could hold on only for eighty years. Later, Paul’s fibbed doctrines spread out everywhere. Paul was a Jew and did not believe in Isa (alaihi-salam). Yet, pretending to be a believer of Isa (alaihi-salam) and introducing himself as a religious scholar, he said that Isa (alahi-salam) was the son of Allah. He fibbed some other things and said that wine and pork were halat. He turned Nasara’s Qibla from the Ka’aba to the East where the sun rises. He said that Allahu ta’ala person (Dhat) was one and His Attributes were three.  These attributes were called Uqnum (hypostases). The words of this Jewish hypocrite were inserted into the earliest four books of the bible (the Gospels) especially into Luke’s book, and the Nasara parted into Groups. Seventy-two conflicting sects and books appeared. In the course of time, most of these sects were forgotten now they have only three major sects left.
         (Abdullah Ibn Abdullah at-Tarjuman, who had been a priest on Majora, one of the Spanish Balearic Islands and who changed his name after embracing Islam in Tunisia, writes:)
         ‘the four gospels were written by Mathew, Luke, Mark and John (Johanna). They were the first books to defile the Injil, Mathew a Palestinian had seen Isa (alaihi-salam) only in the year of his ascent to heaven. Eight years later he wrote the first gospel in which he narrated (the extraordinary event witnessed in Palestine when Isa (alaihi-salam) was born and how his mother Hadrat Mariam took him to Egypt when the Jewish King Herod wanted to kill her child. Hadrat Mariam passed away six years after her son had ascended to heaven and was buried in Jerusalem. Luke, who was from Antioch (Antakya), never saw Isa (alaihi-salam). He was converted to the religion of Isa (alaihi-salam) by the hypocrite Paul long after Isa (alaihi-salam) ascent to heaven. After been imbued with the poisonous idea of Paul, he wrote his gospel, changing Allahu ta’ala’s book (the injil) altogether, Mark too accepted the religion of Isa (alaihi-salam) after the ascension and wrote in Rome what he had heard from Petros under the name of the Injil. John was the son of Isa (alaihi-salam) aunt. He had seen Isa (alaihi-salam) several times. In those four gospels there are many incongruous passages.
         In the two books Diya alqulub and Shams al haqiqa by Tshak Efendi of Harput, who died in 1309 (1892AD). In the Arabic book As Sirat and Mustaqim by Hayderi-Zada Ibrahim Fasih, who died in 1299; in the Persian book Mizan al mawzin, by Najaf Ali Tabrizi, which was printed in Istanbul in 1288 and in the Arabic book Arradd al Jamil by al Imam al Ghazali, which was printed in Beirut in 1959, it is proven that the present copies of the Bible have been interpolated.
         A Gospel written by Barnabas, who wrote precisely what he saw and heard from Isa (alaihi-salam) was found and published in English in Pakistan in 1973. It was written in Qamus al alam, Barnabas was one of earliest apostles. He was a son of Mark’s uncle. He was Cypriot. He believed in Isa (alaihi-salam) soon after Paul came forward, with whom he travelled to Anatolia and Greece. He was martyred in Cyprus in year 63. He wrote a gospel and some other booklets. He is memorialized on the eleventh of June by Christians.
         Christians religious officials are called Clergymen. The highest ranking Orthodox clergyman is the Patriarch. Clergymen of an intermediate grade are called pastors. Those who read the Bible are called Qissis (Gospellers). Above the Qissis are Uskufs (Presbyters), who act as Muftis. Uskufs of higher grade are bishops, above whom are archbishops or metropolitans, who act as Qadis (Judges). Those who conduct the ritual prayer in church are called Jaselik (Cleric), below whom are the cures or the sham as (deacons) and those who serve in church are called eremites (hermits) or shamamisa (coenobites), who act as Muezzins. Those who have devoted themselves to worship are called Monks. Head of Catholic is the Pope (Father of Fathers) in Rome. His advisory prelate are called Cardinals.
         All these men of religious authorities of the past forgot the Oneness of Allah ta’ala. They invented the Trinity. After sometime, in the era of the Roman Emperor Claudius II (215-271), Vunus Shammas, the Patriarch of Antioch, declared the Oneness of Allahu ta’ala. He brought many people around to the right course. Yet later priest succeeding him relapsed to worshipping three gods. Constantine the Great (274-337) introduced idolatry into the religion of Isa (alaihi-salam). In 325, he convened 318 priests in a spiritual council in Nicea (Iznik) and made up a new Christian religion. In this council a Presbyter named Arius said that Allahu ta’ala is One and Isa (alaihi-salam) is His creature. Yet, Alexandius, chief of the council and the then Patriarch of Alexandria dismissed him from the church. Constantine the Great declared that Arius was a disbeliever and established the principles of Malakaiyya (Melchite) sect, this fact is written in the book Al-Milal wa n-nihal and in a history book by Jirjis Ibn al-Amid, a Byzantine Greek historian who lived through 601-671 AH (1205-1273, Damascus). In 381, second council was held in Constantinople (Istanbul), and Makdonius was accused of blasphemy because he had that Isa (alaihi-salam) is not the Rud al-quds (the Holy Ghost) but he is a creature. In 395, the then ROMAN Empire split into two. In 421, a third council was held in Constantinople, to scrutinize a book by Nestorius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who said ‘Isa was a man. He cannot be worshipped. There exist only Uqnums. Allah is One. Of His attributes Existence, Life and Knowledge, the attribute life is the Ruhal-quds, the attribute knowledge penetrated into Isa and he became god. Mariam was not the mother of a god. She was the mother of a man. Isa was the son of Allah’. These ideas of his were accepted. The sect of Nestorius spread in oriental countries. Those who were in this sect were called Nesturis (Nestorians). In 431, a fourth council was held in Ephesus where Dioscorus’s ideas were accepted and Nestorids (d.439, Egypt) was accused of blasphemy. Twenty years later, 734 priests assembled at a fifth council in Kadikoy in 451, and the writing of Dioscorus, the Patriarch of Alexandria, were repudicted. Dioscorus ideas which were based on Isa (alaihi-salam) being a god, formed the monphysite, which was also called Yaqubiyya sect derived from the real name of Dioscorus Yaqub (Jacob) . Mercianus, the Byzantine Emperor of the time announced the decision of repudiation everywhere. Dioscorus fled and preached his beliefs in Jerusalem and Egypt. His followers worship Isa (alaihi-salam). Today’s Suryanis (Syria speaking Christians) and Maronites in Iraq. Syria and Lebanon belong to the Yaqubiyya sect.
         The sect accepted in the Kadikoy council and ratified by King Mercianus is called Malakaiya (Melchite). It is similar to the sect accepted in the first ecumenical council held in Nicea. Their chief is the Patriarch of Antich. They term the attributes knowledge and life as ‘Kalima’ (word) and ‘Ruh al-quds (The Holy Ghost), respectively, which are called ‘Uqnum’ when they unite with man, they have three gods: ‘father, the uqnum of existence, is one of them; Jesus is the son, Mary (Mariam) is a goddess. They called Isa (alaihi-salam) Jesus Christ. The seventy-two Christian sect are described in detail in the Arabic book Izhar-Ulhaqq and in the Turkish book Diya al qulub.
         All these sect were loyal to the Pope in Rome until 446 (1054AD). All of them were called Catholic. In 1054, Michael Cirolarus, Patriarch of Constantinople, broke away from the Pope and began to administer the Eastern churches independently. These churches are called Orthodox. They follow the Yaqubiyya sect. In 923 (1517AD) , the German Priest Luther revolted against the Pope in Rome and a number of churches followed him. They are called Protestants.
         As it seen most Christians are baser than Jews, because they both disbelieve Muhammad (alaihi-salam) and trespass against the subject of Uluhiyya (Divinity), they believe in the Trinity and worship Isa (alaihi-salam) and his mother Hadrat Mariam and divinize them, they also eat Maita flesh (Islam prescribes who to kill an edible animal. When it is not killed in the prescribed manner, its flesh becomes Maita, i.e. not edible). As for Jews they reject two prophets, but they know that Allahu ta’ala is One, and they do not eat Maita flesh. Nevertheless, Jews are more hostile towards Islam. Although a few Jews become Polytheist like Christian, by saying ‘Uzair (Ezra) was Allah’s son, they are all called ahal-kitab. The Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants read different versions of the Bible and claim that they follow Isa (alaihi-salam). However, each sect has many conflicting principles on creed and practice. All of them are called Nasara, Christian or ahalal-kitab. Jews think of themselves as being Musa’s (alaihi-salam) religion.
         In 1954, the population of the world was 2.444 billion. There were 322 million Muslims, 800 million Christians (128 million orthodox, 470 million catholic and 202 million protestants, 11 million Jews, and 1.311 billion Protestants and unbelievers who did not believe in any heavenly book or any prophet.
         Baba Ali Mustapha is with the Department of Planning and Research, Ministry of Environment, Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

Reference:
         For broader knowledge, consult , the book THE SUNNI PATH by Ahmed Cevdet Pasa, published by Hakikat Kitabevi Publication. Istanbul, Turkey.
                                                                                        
 

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