Copyright 2015 by Paul Baumgartner

 

MUSLIMS DON'T BELIEVE GOD

"What?" You might ask me. How could you say that when they keep saying, "There is only one God?" I did Not say, "Muslims don't believe in a God." I said, "Muslims don't believe God." There is a big difference. Obviously they believe in a God. They believe in a God that has certain attributes that are spoken about in their Quran.  What I am saying is that they do not believe what God said they should believe and do.  Although they are supposed to believe in all prophets, they do not.  Muslims have to believe in all the prophets and messengers of God, equally, without distinction, wherever they may have appeared. In the Holy Quran (2:136, 285, and 3:84 etc.) it is stated clearly: "We make no distinction between them".  However, they do not believe the messages of all of these prophets, and thus, they do not believe God.  

Muslims believe that God sent the following prophets: Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammed.  Now, if they believe that God sent all these prophets, then they would also believe in all the messages that God sent through ALL these prophets.  None of these prophets will contradict with each other if they are all from God.  Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven."  Let's examine what these prophets said and gave us from God and compare that with what Muslims believe.  

First, what is the message from Noah?  The message of Noah was that although Noah was a righteous man, the rest of the human race was corrupt and full of violence. Genesis 6:9 "Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[c] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out." So the lesson here is don't be full of violence because God could wipe out the human race because of violence. Let's see what the Muslims believe about violence. The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule.  Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding.  Muslims who do not join the fight are called 'hypocrites' and warned that Allah will send them to Hell if they do not join the slaughter. So Muslims do not believe in Non-Violence, which is the message of God through Noah.

Second. Let's see what message Abraham gave us from God. The central message of Abraham can be found in Genesis 18:18 "Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him."  So All nations will be blessed through Abraham.  Let's see what Muslims believe about all nations being blessed through Abraham.  Muslims believe that this pertains to the descendancy of Ishmael to Muhammed (who's name means 'blessing'), and through whom all people on earth will be converted to Islam, resulting in one worldwide nation of Islam. By the way, they also believe that the nation of the Jews were to be fought. "Fight against such of those [Jews and Christians] ... until they pay for the tribute readily, being brought low.[Surah IX, v. 29] "Allah fighteth against them [the Jews]. How perverse they are![Surah IX, v. 30]"  Now if they were to fight against the Jews, how does this bless the Jewish nation?  The Jews are descendents of Abraham, and are certainly part of the promise as God will bless all nations through Abraham, and also that he would make many nations from Abraham.  So if what the Muslims want comes true, then they make this promise untrue and do in contrast to what God said by making only one nation of Abraham, the nation of Ishmael.  If they are to fight against the Christians, how does that to bless the Christian nations?  It seems that when you take everything into consideration, that Muslims don't really believe that ALL nations will be blessed.  Also, if the whole world were to become one nation, there would not be nation(s) to be blessed.  For the prophecy of Abraham to be true, all nations would have to keep their own identities to be blessed.  Thus, Muslims do not believe God's message that was given through the prophet Abraham.  

Third, let us consider Moses.  
The law of Moses forbade camel meat. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you."’" Leviticus 11:1-4

The Law of Moses defined unclean animals for eating as ones that either do not have a cleft hoof or do not chew the cud.

 

Leviticus 11:3-5 "You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud. “‘There are some that only chew the cud or only have a divided hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you. The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

 

The reason for the restriction to not eat unclean animals because they were carrying diseases at that time.

 

A true update to that is when Peter had a vision of unclean animals and God said, "Kill and eat."

 

Acts 10:9-16 "About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.""

 

So, now they could eat these animals because they were made clean. There is no discrepancy about what is clean and unlean, just the fact that all the unclean animals have now been made clean.

 

What Muhammad did was claim that they had to abstain from eating unclean animals as Moses instructed & that the camel was a clean animal as defined by the Scriptures.

 

"The sacrificial camels we have made for you as among the signs from Allah: in them is (much) good for you: then pronounce the name of Allah over them as they line up (for sacrifice): when they are down on their sides (after slaughter), eat ye thereof, and feed such as (beg not but) live in contentment, and such as beg with due humility: thus have We made animals subject to you, that ye may be grateful." S. 22:36

 

The camel has a cleft hoof, but does not chew the cud. So, the camel does not qualify as a clean animal according the the Old Testament. Obviously, Muhammad is not getting his information from the same source.

 

Once again, Muhammad was called to a Jewish gathering to decide for the Jews in a case of a young man and a young woman caught in fornication. Muhammad sat down, opened the scriptures in front of him and said, "Your scriptures say that those that fornicate should be stoned."

 

Bukhari :: Book 6 :: Volume 60 :: Hadith 79"The Jews brought to the Prophet a man and a woman from among them who had committed fornication. The Prophet said to them, "How do you usually punish the one amongst you who has committed fornication?" They replied, "We blacken their faces with coal and beat them," He said, "Don't you find the order of stoning in the Torah?" They replied, "We do not find anything in it." 'Abdullah bin Salam (after hearing this conversation) said to them. "You have told a lie! Bring here the Torah and recite it if you are truthful." (So the Jews brought the Torah). And the religious teacher who was teaching it to them, put his hand over the Verse of stoning and started reading what was written above and below the place hidden with his hand, but he did not read the Verse of Ar-Rajm. 'Abdullah bin Salam removed his (i.e. the teacher's) hand from the Verse of stoning and said, "What is this?" So when the Jews saw that Verse, they said, "This is the Verse of stoning." So the Prophet ordered the two adulterers to be stoned to death, and they were stoned to death near the place where biers used to be placed near the Mosque. I saw her companion (i.e. the adulterer) bowing over her so as to protect her from the stones."

 

However, that is not what the Old Testament says to do for fornication.

 

Exodus 22:16-17 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins."

 

The Old Testament says that if an unmarried man and unmarried woman are caught in fornication, that they shall marry each other. So, once again, Muhammad is getting his information from a different source. The God of Muhammad is obviously NOT the God of the Old Testament.

The law of Moses instituted the observance of the Sabbath day. God commands the Israelites to observe the Sabbath day:  "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." Exodus 20:8-11
Muhammad deliberately chose Friday over the Sabbath as a way of degrading the Jews: Narrated Abu Huraira: "I heard Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) saying, "We (Muslims) are the last (to come) but (will be) the foremost on the Day of Resurrection though the former nations were given the Holy Scriptures before us. And this was their day (Friday) the celebration of which was made compulsory for them but they differed about it. So Allah gave us the guidance for it (Friday) and all the other people are behind us in this respect: the Jews' (holy day is) tomorrow (i.e. Saturday) and the Christians' (is) the day after tomorrow (i.e. Sunday)." (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 13, Number 1, see also Number 21)

The law of Moses forbids persons from remarrying their divorcees after having married someone else: "If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance." Deuteronomy 24:1-4
Muhammad goes against Moses by allowing divorcees to remarry one another only after they have been married to someone else! "A divorce is only permissible twice: after that, the parties should either hold together on equitable terms, or separate with kindness. It is not lawful for you, (men), to take back any of your gifts (from your wives), except when both parties fear that they would be unable to keep the limits ordained by Allah. If ye (judges) do indeed fear that they would be unable to keep the limits ordained by Allah, there is no blame on either of them if she give something for her freedom. These are the limits ordained by Allah. So do not transgress them if any do transgress the limits ordained by Allah, such persons wrong (themselves as well as others). So if a husband divorces his wife (irrevocably), he cannot, after that, re- marry her until after she has married another husband and he has divorced her. In that case there is no blame on either of them if they re-unite, provided they feel that they can keep the limits ordained by Allah. Such are the limits ordained by Allah, which He makes plain to those who understand." S. 2:229-230

The law of Moses forbids the raping of captive women, and commands that if a person desires one of them then they must get married to them: "When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her AS YOUR WIFE. Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her." Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Muhammad allowed for both the raping and selling of captive women, even permitting his men to rape women who were married and whose husbands were still alive: "And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you. Lawful unto you are all beyond those mentioned, so that ye seek them with your wealth in honest wedlock, not debauchery. And those of whom ye seek content (by marrying them), give unto them their portions as a duty. And there is no sin for you in what ye do by mutual agreement after the duty (hath been done). Lo! Allah is ever Knower, Wise." S. 4:24 Pickthall
The law of Moses forbade worship idols or anything in the sky: Deuteronomy 4:19 "And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven."

Yet Muhammad didn’t apply the Mosaic injunctions consistently since he was seen kissing the black stone of the Kabah: Narrated Salim that his father said: I saw Allah’s Apostle arriving at Mecca; he kissed the Black Stone Corner first while doing Tawaf and did ramal in the first three rounds of the seven rounds (of Tawaf). (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 26, Number 673) Narrated Az-Zubair bin ‘Arabi: A man asked Ibn 'Umar about the touching of the Black Stone. Ibn ‘Umar said, "I saw Allah’s Apostle touching and kissing it." The questioner said, "But if there were a throng (much rush) round the Ka'ba and the people overpowered me, (what would I do?)" He replied angrily, "Stay in Yemen (as that man was from Yemen). I saw Allah's Apostle touching and kissing it." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 26, Number 680)

And yet (even though Muslims deny worshiping the black stone) all Muslims bow down to it when they pray. The Black Stone was held in reverence well before the preaching of Islam by Muhammad. By the time of Muhammad, it was already associated with the Kaaba, a pre-Islamic shrine, that was a sacred sanctuary and a site of pilgrimage of Nabateans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods.[9] The Semitic cultures of the Middle East had a tradition of using unusual stones to mark places of worship, a phenomenon which is reflected in the Hebrew Bible as well as the Qur'an,[10] although bowing to or kissing such sacred objects is repeatedly described in the Tenach as idolatrous[11] and was the subject of prophetic rebuke.[12] Some writers remark on the apparent similarity of the Black Stone and its frame to the external female genitalia,[13][14] and ascribe this to its earlier association with fertility rites of Arabia. Muhammad is credited with setting the Black Stone in the current place in the wall of the Kaaba.  Islamic tradition holds that it fell from the heaven as a guide for Adam and Eve to build an altar, although it has often been described as a meteorite, a hypothesis, which is now uncertain.
Thus Muslims do not believe the message given by God through Moses.

Fourth, let's consider the teachings of Jesus.
Mark 12:30-31 Jesus said: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”
 John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
 Matthew 5:43-45 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[a] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven."
John 14:2 "Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

So Jesus taught that one should love his neighbor as himself. All others were to be put on an equal standing with self.  
Jesus taught that he loved the whole world before it believed in him.
Jesus taught that he did not come into the world to condemn the world.
Jesus taught that God loves us while we were yet sinners.
Jesus taught to love your enemies.
Jesus taught that whover keeps Jesus' commands is he who loves Jesus.

Muhammed on the other hand, taught hate and condemnation of all those that did no follow him.
2:191-193 Fight and kill unbelievers until “religion is Allah’s
“And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying. But fight them not by the Holy Mosque until they should fight you there; then, if they fight you, slay them — such is the recompense of unbelievers, but if they give over, surely Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate. Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s; then if they give over, there shall be no enmity save for evildoers.”
3:28 Don’t take unbelievers as friends and allies, unless it is for “fear of them,” i.e. deceptively for protection of oneself or of Islam
“Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends, rather than the believers — for whoso does that belongs not to Allah in anything — unless you have a fear of them. Allah warns you that You beware of Him, and unto Allah is the homecoming.”
3:110-112 Muslims are the best of people, Jews have earned Allah’s anger
“You are the best nation ever brought forth to men, bidding to honour, and forbidding dishonour, and believing in Allah. Had the People of the Book believed, it were better for them; some of them are believers, but the most of them are ungodly. They will not harm you, except a little hurt; and if they fight with you, they will turn on you their backs; then they will not be helped. Abasement shall be pitched on them, wherever they are come upon, except they be in a bond of Allah, and a bond of the people; they will be laden with the burden of Allah’s anger, and poverty shall be pitched on them; that, because they disbelieved in Allah’s signs, and slew the Prophets without right; that, for that they acted rebelliously and were transgressors.”
4:34 Beat disobedient women “Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that Allah has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for Allah’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them. If they then obey you, look not for any way against them; Allah is All-high, All-great.”
4:160 Jews do evil, turn people away from Allah “And for the evildoing of those of Jewry, We have forbidden them certain good things that were permitted to them, and for their barring from Allah’s way many…”
5:51 Don’t take Jews and Christians as friends and allies “O believers, take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Whoso of you makes them his friends is one of them. Allah guides not the people of the evildoers.”
5:72 Christians are unbelievers “They are unbelievers who say, ‘Allah is the Messiah, Mary’s son.’ For the Messiah said, ‘Children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord. Verily whoso associates with Allah anything, Allah shall prohibit him entrance to Paradise, and his refuge shall be the Fire; and wrongdoers shall have no helpers.’”
8:12 Allah will terrorize unbelievers; Muslims should behead them “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!’”
8:39 Fight unbelievers until Islam reigns supreme “Fight them, till there is no persecution and the religion is Allah’s entirely; then if they give over, surely Allah sees the things they do.”
9:29 Fight and subjugate the Jews and Christians “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practise not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled.”
9:73 Be harsh with unbelievers “O Prophet, struggle with the unbelievers and hypocrites, and be thou harsh with them; their refuge is Gehenna — an evil homecoming!”
47:4 Behead and slaughter the unbelievers; take others captive “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks, then, when you have made wide slaughter among them, tie fast the bonds; then set them free, either by grace or ransom, till the war lays down its loads. So it shall be; and if Allah had willed, He would have avenged Himself upon them; but that He may try some of you by means of others. And those who are slain in the way of Allah, He will not send their works astray.”
So Muhammed taught to make enemies of others that do not follow him, treat them harshly, killing, enslaving, mistrusting others solely because they did not follow Muhammed.  It is interesting to note that Muhammed made it clear to treat Jews and Christians this way even though Jews and Christians follow the prophets that came before Muhammed. Muhammed condemned the world before it knew of him.  Muhammed taught the opposite of what Jesus taught.

So, we can see clearly that Muhammed did not believe Noah, Abraham, Moses or Jesus.  All the prophets that came before Muhammed taught about God and bore God's message.  Muhammed did not believe them or their message. Muhammed did not believe God. Those that follow Muhammed do not believe God. Muslims do not believe God. It is the Muslims that are unbelievers.