As a Christian we never knew that the Muslims believed in the virgin birth of Jesus. We didn't think that they believed in Jesus at all. But if a Muslim does not believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, he or she is not a Muslim. I was also surprised to know that Muslims believe that Jesus was taken into heaven, and will come again!
Mary, the mother of Jesus, has a whole chapter in the Holy Quran named after her, yet the Muslim don't worship her or pray to her as the Catholics do!
The Catholics and Protestant Bibles have only a small paragraph devoted to her. Surah Maryam is the name of the chapter (in the Quran) called after her, the mother of Jesus (peace be upon him)."
ISLAM WAS SPREAD BY THE SWORD.
Nothing is far from the truth. It was the Islamic traders who served as excellent role models in the spread of Islam. In the book: “Islam at crossroads”, the author, on page 8, says that this belief is a myth. Look at the number of Coptic Christians in Egypt. They number 14 million. Couldn’t the Arabs have wiped them out or forcefully converted them to Islam?
Look at India. In the 1,0000 years that the Muslims ruled over this subcontinent, every one could have been forcefully converted to Islam.
How can you explain that there are 800 million Hindus and others still in India? Which Muslim army went to Indonesia and Malaysia to convert them? These people converted by seeing the good behaviors of the Muslim/Arab traders. Readers’ Digest says that between 1944 and 1984, a period of 50 years, saw more conversion to Islam in Europe and USA than to any faith. I am asking you, who went with a sword to convert these people to Islam? It is the sword of theintellect that converts people.
- Dr Zakir Naik
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - seorang ahli sejarah Inggeris, berkata mengenai al-Quran seperti berikut:
“Al-Qur’an itu adalah sebuah kitab agama, kitab kemajuan, kenegaraan, persaudaraan dan perundangan. Al-Qur’an mengandungi isi yang lengkap, daripada urusan ibadat, akidah, akhlak hingga pekerjaan sehari-hari dan daripada urusan rohani hingga jasmani seterusnya. Ia juga menerangkan segala pembalasan atas amalan manusia. Sebab itu amat besar perbezaan al-Qur’an dengan Bible. Dalam Bible, tidak ada peraturan yang berhubung keduniaan melainkan cerita untuk penyucian diri. Bible tidak boleh menandingi al-Quran kerana al-Quran bukan saja menerangkan kaitan amalan kegamaan, bahkan mengupas asas politik kenegaraan. Al-Quran menjadi sumber undang-undang dasar memutuskan semua perkara yang berhubung dengan soal kejiwaan.”
Ini adalah antara pandangan cendikiawan Barat yang mengkaji Al-Qur’an berdasarkan fahaman yang benar.
“Although Muhammad (pbuh) was a master of the Arabian Peninsula; he never thought of titles, nor attempted to invest in that; rather, he remained the same, only as a messenger of God and a servant of the Muslims; he cleaned his house himself, and fixed his shoes with his own hands. He was generous and giving as the blowing wind, not sought by the poor or the miserable except that he granted them all that he had, which was usually a little and hardly enough.”
- Zainab Cobbold @ Lady Evelyn Cobbold (Scottish Noblewoman - first British woman to perform Pilgrimage to Mecca in 1934)
In 2006 I went on the journey of a lifetime, the Hajj, it is the big pilgrimage to Mecca. It was wonderful seeing the black Kaaba surrounded by people in prayer wearing white, so serene, so holy. On Hajj the whole universe is gathered, a king prays next to a servant, a black next to a white. You realise in front of God nothing counts but what is in people’s hearts and their actions.
- Kristiane Backer : From MTV to Mecca , How Islam Inspired my Life
"It is impossible that Muhammad (peace be upon him) authored the Quran. How could a man, from being illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in the whole of Arabic literature?
How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other human-being could possibly have developed at that time, an all this without once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?"
[Dr. Maurice Bucaille - author of "The Bible, the Quran and Science" 1978, p. 125]
"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."
"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity."
"I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today."
"Renaissance atau Era Kebangkitan sebenarnya berlaku di tangan orang-orang Arab dan Islam Sepanyol, bukannya di tangan orang-orang Eropah."
(Robert Briffault dalam bukunya "The Making of Humanity)
Prof Leopold Werner von Ehrenfels, seorang psikiater dan sekaligus neurology dari Austria, menemui sesuatu yang menakjubkan terhadap wudhu. Ia mengemukakan satu fakta yang sangat mengejutkan. Bahawa pusat-pusat saraf yang paling peka dari tubuh manusia ternyata berada di sebelah dahi, tangan, dan kaki. Pusat-pusat saraf tersebut sangat sensitif terhadap air segar. Dari sini ia menemui hikmah di sebalik wudhu yang membasuh pusat-pusat saraf tersebut. Malah ia mencadangkan agar wudhu bukan hanya milik dan kebiasaan umat Islam, tetapi untuk umat manusia secara keseluruhan.
Dengan sentiasa membasuh air segar pada pusat-pusat saraf tersebut, maka bererti orang akan memelihara kesihatan dan keselarasan pusat sarafnya. Pada akhirnya Leopold memeluk agama Islam dan mengganti fakta nama menjadi Baron Omar Rolf Ehrenfels.
Michael Wolfe
Pengarang kepada buku berjudul The Hajj: An American’s Pilgrimage to Mecca, dan One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage. Beliau juga merupakan seorang Penerbit Filem. Ibunya merupakan seorang Kristian, manakala bapanya seorang Yahudi. Beliau sangat dikenali setelah menerbitkan dokumentari bertajuk “An American in Mecca”, which aired on ABC's “Nightline” , pada bulan April 18, 1997. Beliau memeluk Islam ketika berumur 40 tahun.
Pengarang kepada buku berjudul The Hajj: An American’s Pilgrimage to Mecca, dan One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage. Beliau juga merupakan seorang Penerbit Filem. Ibunya merupakan seorang Kristian, manakala bapanya seorang Yahudi. Beliau sangat dikenali setelah menerbitkan dokumentari bertajuk “An American in Mecca”, which aired on ABC's “Nightline” , pada bulan April 18, 1997. Beliau memeluk Islam ketika berumur 40 tahun.
"People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, they fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has already been dropped, it fell the day Prophet MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born".
- Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson
"Aku meyakini bahawa Islam membawa kebahgiaan untuk semua orang. Tidak membezakan warna kulit, etnik dan bangsa, semuanya sama di hadapan Allah Azza Wajalla."
- Muhammad Ali @ Casius Clay
“Terrorism has nothing to do with Muhammad, any more than the Crusades had anything to do with Jesus. There is nothing in the Islam that is more violent than Christianity. All religions have been violent, including Christianity. There was nothing in the Muslim world like antisemitism: that is an import of the modern period. They got it from us. The missionaries brought it over. And then came the state of Israel. Judaism has become violent in the modern world, thanks to the nation state.”
- KAREN ARMSTRONG
"Teks Al Quran yang ada pada hari ini adalah di dalam bentuk yang telah disusun dan diiktiraf oleh Nabi...Apa yang ada ditangan kita adalah sebuah mashaf dari (zaman) Muhammad."
- John Burton dalam bukunya "The Collection of the Quran" (Cambridge University Press,Cambridge 1977)
"It will thus be seen, from the above, that a final and complete text of the Qur'an was prepared within twenty years after the death (A.D. 632) of Muhammad, and that this has remained the same, without any changes or alteration by enthusiasts, translators or interpolators, up to the present time. It is to be regretted that the same cannot be sid of all the books of the Old and New Testaments."
- F.F. Arbuthnot - "The Construction of the Bible and the Qur'an." (London, 1885)
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