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Chapter 22 The Truth About Religions (Part 3) Islam
In the center of Mecca lies the Grand Mosque
the largest and holiest place of worship for Muslims
and at the heart of the Grand Mosque is the Kaaba
A cube shape granite structure
measuring 43 feet high by 36 feet wide
According to Islamic tradition
the Kaaba was build approximately in 2000 BC by Abraham
A figure who serves as patriarch to both Muslims and Jews
The main ritual preformed at the Kaaba
is for pilgrims to enter into the enclosure where the Kaaba is
that cubical structure and circumnavigate
the Kaaba "7" times in a counterclockwise direction
In one part of that building there is a Black stone
that is embedded in the side of the building
and nobody knows exactly where it came from
But the legend is, that it came down from the sky
was brought down by an "angel"...
and found it's way into this particular location
there is another tradition that suggests that this rock
had been worshiped long before Mohammed's time
and that is in fact an ancient meteorite
which for ancient people would have been a sign from a god or gods
The ancients possessed the ability to look toward the heavens
in order to get their "divine guidance"
this could very well be another one of those cases
According to researchers
the position of the Kaaba is precisely aligned
with the rising of the star Canopus
the cycles of the moon
and the summer and winter solstices
By the end of the 18th-century the majority of people
at least of educated people were convinced
That all throughout the solar system there was intelligent life
on Jupiter, on Mars, on Saturn all of them had extraterrestrials
very possibly the moon would have intelligent beings on it...
Cholula Mexico is home to the largest be pyramid in the world
more than 3000 years old
it is estimated that it took approximately 400 years to complete
If you look at the Aztec cosmology
you will see that these "giant beings"
were identified with different celestial objects
The one in particular that it said to have built the Cholula pyramid
is identified with the planet Venus...
The cycle of Venus rotating around the sun
happen over an eight year period
during which Venus "hits five points" in the heavens
which form the outline of a "pentagram"
Steele of Ur-Nammu of Ur Crescent Of the Moon and the "Star"
India - Crescent Of the Moon god
Egypt - Crescent Of the Moon god Knonsu 2nd Century AD
Persia-Crescent Of the Moon god Knonsu 4th Century BC
Babylon - Crescent Of the Moon god Sin and "Star"
Islamic illuminati Shriners
This is the insignia of the Shrine
You have to be a 32 degree Mason
or Knight Templar
to be eligible, to be a member of the shrine
Here you go again, the crescent moon and the "star" Venus
with the image of the Sphinx above it
The meaning of the pagan Islamic shriner symbol
of the crescent and the "star"
The crescent represents the moon
the "star" represents Venus
Is there any question that the "star" represents Venus
See for yourself...
Look at the alignment of the planet Venus and the crescent moment lined up
I have illustration for you on the top
so now the "star" represents Venus
that the Muslims are praying 5 times a day
"5 points" in a day
for the "5 points" on a star
The 1st prayer or point in a day of prayer
is "Fajr"
right before the sun is rising
Venus appears as a bright and morning Star
so the muslims are making "Fajr"
the 2nd prayer is "Dhuhr"
this is right before, the sun reach it's zenith at midday
the 3rd prayer is "Asr"
when the sun is declining
The 4th prayer or point is "Mghrib"
this is when the sun is setting in the west
the "star" Venus appears again, as the evening star
because not only is Venus the bright and morning Star
she is also the evening star
The 5th prayer is "Isha"
So the 5 prayers, or the 5 points
which the Muslims are praying towards the Mecca, the Kaaba
are for the 5 points of the star
In 1972 during the restoration
of the great Mosque of Sana'a in Yemen
workers discovered a mash of old parchments
in a loft between the inner and outer rooms
The entire load was staffed into some of 20 potato sacks
where it might have remained were not for the arrival 7 years later
of Dr. Gerd-R Puin a German scholar and Koranic expert
Because of its drawings because of the art historical context
you can date this Koran very precisely
This is the reign between 705 and 715 AD
The oldest dateable Koran in the world
created some 70 years after the death of the prophet
From the potato sacks Puin identified
fragments from nearly a thousand different Koran's
Comparisons between them and the standard Cairo text in use to day
are startling
These early texts, are written in a kind of shorthand
with no vowels markings or distinguishing dots
which means that individual words can have up to 30 different meanings
the sheer existence of so many different possible readings
would suggest that this text wasn't paste down word for word
The Koran is broken down, into 2 sections
One is called "Meccia" which means
what was inspired to Muhammad the Prophet of Islam in Mecca
and one is called "Medinia"
what was inspired to the Prophet of Islam in Medina
in Mecca you find much of the peaceful verses
Well it all changes with the establishment
of Mohammed's theocratic state in the city of Medina
He becomes a warlord, he becomes the head of a totalitarian state
He becomes very rich, very powerful and very intolerant
and then many of these early verses, in fact get abrogated
Whatever a verse (revelation) do we abrogate or cause to be forgotten
We bring a better one or similar to it
Know you not that at Allah is able to do all things?
When there are verses that are contradictory in the Koran
The one that is revealed later chronologically
is better as Allah has promised and cancels the earlier one
Now the violence started...
now you have to choose between peaceful verses and non peaceful verses
so the edict was "the later is the best"
It is indeed a very curious concept for a non-Muslim to accept the notion
that God can change his mind about a topic
Before we start our discussion about
"Is the Quran a revelation from God"
We would like to tell you the story about
how the revelation of the Koran began
according to Al Sira Islamic books (Called Hadiths)
Sahih Al Bukhari, and Sahih Muslim
So, this will be our starting point for this discussion.
Let's watch
one night in 610 A.D,
while Mohammad was in the cave during the Ramadan,
(which was already a holy month for Arabs before Islam begun)
Muhammad said a "creature" came to him in the cave and told him "Read"
Muhammad replied "I don't know how to read"
So the creature caught him (forcefully) and pressed him so hard
that he almost suffocated Mohamed
He then released him and repeated the same thing 3 times.
On the 3rd time, the creature said:
"Read: In the name of thy Lord Who createth, man from a clot"
Then he ran from his cave to his wife Khadija trembling in fear and said:
"Cover me! Cover me!"
Muhammad was in his utmost fear.
Khadija Asked him what's the matter?
He told her everything that have happened.
He was not sure what the nature of the creature was that he saw.
Was it a demon or an angel?
He told Khadija: "I feared for my self"
But khadija had a different opinion.
She said: "Rejoice my cousin; be firm,
by the name of who owns my soul,
I hope you become the prophet of this nation"
Then she took him to her cousin
the Christian priest Waraqa Bin Noufal, who told here
"It's the law that was revealed unto Moses."
Back to you Dr. Ammari
Did the creature that Muhammad saw (in Cave Hira)
have the qualities of an "angel"?
Of course not, for many reasons:
1.An angel would never strangle someone!!
When an angel wants to reveal himself to a man or to a prophet,
he would never choke him.
We know from anthropology
that when demonic spirits
want to make someone to do something for them
They may force him to comply by violence,
and that can include "strangling"...
2. Muhammad was able to see the creature from any angle he looked.
That is a hallucination.
Since the angel would appear in one place
and you would see him in a specific place,
You can't see him "everywhere you look"...
That means that Muhammad was under hallucination spirit
coming from that creature...
What is the difference between Christianity and Islam?
It's a quite an interesting comparison
Jesus never killed anybody, Mohammed killed an estimated
3,000 people including cutting off the heads of 700 Jews in Medina
Jesus never owned slaves,
Mohammed got a 1/5 of the slaves taken in battle
Jesus never married, Mohammed had anywhere from 11 to 22 wives
he had slave wives, and concubines
Jesus never forced anybody to believe in him
one time he said something difficult
and then the disciples walk with him no more
Mohammed said whoever changes his Islamic religion kill him
Muslims believe a lot about Jesus Christ
They believe he was born of a ***, he is called the Word of God
He was sinless He preformed miracles
and even in their eschatology he's returning in the future
Yet the teachings of Jesus are different from the Quran
Whose kingdom is this world?
New Testament
Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain (Jesus),
showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
And the devil said to Him,
"All this authority I will give You, and their glory;
For this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.
Quran
And Allah’s is the kingdom, of the heavens and the earth,
and Allah has power over all things.
Is our heavenly Father deceptive?
New Testament
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie,
promised before the world began
Quran
They plot and plan, and Allah, too plans,
but the best of planners (deceivers) is Allah.
Who is the Father of Forgiveness and who is the god of revenge?
New Testament
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not:
For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Quran
If we so willed, we could have brought every soul its true guidance,
but the word from me will come true:
‘I will fill Hell with demons and men all together.’
Who send evil spirits and who cast them out?
New Testament
And when evening had come,
they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils:
And he cast out the spirits
with his Word, and healed all that were sick:
Quran
And whosoever turns away blindly
from the remembrance of the Most Gracious (Allah),
We appoint for him Satan to be a companion to him...