Vervolgingen van Muhammad Islam Re: 11-07-'04 e.v.

MUHAMMAD
ISLAM CONTINUED
RE: 11 juli 2004

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As his teaching increased in force
the hostility of his fellow townsmen also increased!
At last a plot was made to kill him;
but he escaped with his faithful friend and disciple, Abu Bekr,
to the friendly town of Medina which adopted his doctrine.
Hostilities followed between Mecca and Medina which ended at last in a treaty.
Mecca was to adopt the worship of the One True God and accept Muhammad as his prophet, but the adherents of the new faith were still to make the pilgrimage to Mecca , just as they had done when they were still pagans.
SO Muhammad established the One True God in Mecca without injuring its pilgrim traffic.
In 629 he returned to Mecca as its master,
a year after he had sent out these envoys {as mentioned before} of his to
Heraclius, Tai-tsung, Kavadh and
all the rulers of
the earth.

THEN
for four years more
until his death in 632,
Muhammad spread his power over the rest of Arabia.
He married a number of wives in his declining years, and his life on the whole was by modern standards unedifying.
He seems to have been a man compounded of very considerable vanity, greed, cunning, self-deception and quite sincere religious passion?
He dictated a book of injunctions and expositions, the "Holy" Koran,
which he declared was communicated to him from God.
Regarded as literature or philosophy the Koran is certainly unwothy of its alleged Divine authorship.

YET
when the manifest defects of Muhammad's life and writings have been allowed for, there remains in Islam, this faith he imposed upon the Arabs,
much power and inspiration?
ONE characteristic is its uncompromising monotheism;
its simple enthousiastic faith in the rule and fatherhood of God and its freedom from theological complications?
Another is its complete detachment from the sacrificial priest and the temple.
IT IS an entirely prophetic religion, proof against any possibility of relapse towards blood sacrifices.
In the Koran the limited and ceremonial nature of the pilgrimage to Mecca is stated beyond the possibility of dispute, and every precaution was taken by Muhammad to prevent the deification of himself after his death!
And a third element of strength lay in the insistence of Islam upon the perfect theoretical brotherhood and equality before God of all believers,
whatever their colour, origin or status.

THESE are the things
that made Islam a power in human affairs!
IT has been said that the true founder of the empire of Islam was not so much Muhammad as his friend and helper Abu Bekr.
IF Muhammad, with his shifty character, was the mind and imagination of primitive Islam, Abt Bekr was its conscience and its will!
For whenever Muhammad wavered Abu Bekr sustained him ...
AND when Muhammad died, Abu Bekr became Caliph {= successor},
and with the faith that moves mountains, he set himself simply and sanely
to organise the subjugation of the whole world to Allah - with little armies
of 3,000 or 4,000 Arabs - according to those letters the prophet had written from Medina in 628 to
all the monarchs
of the world!?

THE ENDLESS myDi-story goes on,
but I'm going to
stop
liefdesverdriet
verliefd
cool!
knipoog
engel
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