Soaking in the Word of Allah!

The Following are verses from the Quran that have stood out to me so far this Ramadan. Enjoy!

Ramadan Day 1
2:13-Naysayers see believers belief as foolery
2:2-7: whom the Book is for
2:23-Challenge to the doubters
re-read 2:24
2:28-He is the resurrector
2:29-Seven Heavens
2:40-Covenant with the Children of Israel
2:44- Problem of Self-Neglection
2:45-Seek assistance through patience and Prayer
2:46-We WILL MEET our LORD
2:51-Moses amongst them 40 years

2:53-Moses AND THE DISCRIMINATION



2:61-ALL who believe have their reward regardless of Label
2:86- Some BUY the life of this world for the hereafter
2:90-Disbelievers reject message out of ENVY
2:91-92-Blog, Slef-Accusing Spirit
2:98-Angels, Michael and Jabril, mentioned
2:106-Abrogation
2:128- Abraham prays for his seed.


Ramadan Day 2
2:148-Everyone has a goal. Vie in righteous competition
2:151-Messenger from AMONG you teaches book and Wisdom
2:155-What we will be tried with
*Footnote 158-Hagar’s Mountains
2:164-Go reexamine these signs
2:165-Believers belief in Allah is stronger than disbelievers belief in idols
2:170-Disbelievers follow their fathers who had no sense
*footnote 171a
2:174-Eating the Right Foods
2:177-Definition of Righteousness
2:178-Retaliation is Prescribed
2:183-Fasting is a prescription
2:191-Slay them wherever you find them
2:197-Conduct during Pilgrimage
2:216-Fighting is enjoined upon you
2:217-Will be fought until the hereafter comes


2:251-David slew Goliath


Ramadan Day 4
3:92-Attaining righteousness requires spending out of what we love
3:118-Love your OWN people
3:124,125-Allah sends us angels as help
3:144-Will you turn back on your heels if Muhammad is killed?
3:154-War Purges the hearts
3:160-If Allah be for you there is none that can overcome you
3:164-The Messenger is Allah’s favor to the believers
3:195-
3:199
4:1-Allah created man and Woman from a Single Essence
4:3-Rules on # of wives
4:18- Repentance not for those who continue doing evil deeds


Ramadan Day 5
4:28-Man is Created Weak
4:34-Mean are the maintainers of Women
4:40-Allah to multiplies good deeds
4:45-Allah is sufficient as a frined/helper
4:54-Abraham’s Children
4:59-Quarrels should be referred to the Messenger
4:61-Lookup Aversion
4:69-Obedience to the Messenger places one in good company
4:74-77-Fighting in the way of Allah
4:77-Hypocrites dislike fighting
4:78-Hypocristes do not seek understanding
4:86-Give better greeting in return
4:88-Cannot guide the hypocrites-Allah has left them in error
4:89-Hypocrites desire that you disbelive. Slay them wherever you find them!
4:95-Allah hasgranted a greater reward to the strivers (as compared to the holders back).
4:105-Shortening of Prayer permissible while amongst disbelievers that may be a problem
4:114-There is NO good in mot of their secret counsels.
4:116-Setting up partners with Allah is unforgivable
4:135-Following low desires leads to deviation
4:137-Those who alternate in belief/disbelief Allah does not forgive nor guide.
4:139-On taking dsbelievers for friends
4:140-Do not be amongst those who mock Allah’s religion. The hypocrites and disbelievers BOTH shall be given the fire
4:144-Take not disbelievers for friends
4:145-Hypocrites are in the lowest depths of the fire



Ramadan Day 6

5:2-Let not those who anger you cause you transgress
5:3-This day have I perfected your religion
5:6-Ablution
5:8-Be just to people. It is nearer to duty.
5:12-Cvenant with Children of Israel
5:16-Allah guides out of darkness into light (by way of a book)
5:19-Messenger comes after a cessation of Messengers
5:25-Moses ask to be sperated from Children of Israel
5:26-Allah grants Moses’ request and leaves Israelits wandering for 40 years
5:31-Allah makes Cain regret through a Crow
5:32-Whoever saves a life it is as if he has saved all man
5:38-Cut off hands of man/woman addicted ot theft
5:41-Allah tells messenger not to let hypocrites grieve him
5:45-Passing up the opportunity to go an eye for an eye earns the expiation of sins
5:46-PROPHET Jesus given torah and Gospel
5:51-Take not Jews or Christians for Friends; they are friends of each other
5:53-Beleivers recognize hypocrites
5:55-who our friends are
5:57-take not for friends those who mock your religion
5:60-Allah makes somebody into apes???
5:64-65
5:67-Messenger told to deliver message
5:75-Messiah only a messenger
5:82-Jews most violent; Christians, nearest in friendship to believers


Ramadan Day 7

5:88-Eat of the lawful AND good things
5:96-Land animals prohibited while on pilgrimage


5:99-Messengers duty just clear delivery
5:100-Bad and Good are not equal
6:10-Messenger ridiculed
6:21-Who is more unjust than he who forges a lie against Allah?
6:36-Only those who listen accept
6:57- manifest truth called a lie
6:60-takes your souls by night
6:65-methods of chastisement
6:67- every prophecy has a term
6:73-Allah created heavens and Earth with truth
6:83-Exaltation doe in degrees
6:92-mesenger told to warn the mother town
6:103-go back and re understand. Went back. Reference Ahmad Ibn Hanbal’s creed in regards to this passage.

Ramadan Day 8
6:122-The resurrected are a light
6:159-Allah has no concern for they who split up their religion in sects
7:12-Iblis doesn’t submit to Adam
7:14-Iblis ask for respite
7:22
7:31-Allah loves not the prodigals
7:34-Every Nation has a term
7:46-See footnote 46a
7:63-Naoh’s people disbelieved that a man from amongst them would be sent
7:65-TO Ad, We sent Hud
7:69- Hud’s people disbelieved that a Messenger would be sent from among them
7:72- We cut off roots of those who rejected Our Messages
7-77-78: Chiefs Challenge Salih…Then Destruction comes
7:80-81-Lot sent to Homosexual people

Ramadan Day 9

7:64-People seized with Distress and Affliction
7:114-Pharoah promises nearness to himself to enchanters
7:116-Enchanters cast deceive the peoples eyes
7:117-Moses swallows up their lies
7:127-Moses to slay male children
7:132-no sign will make them believe
7:142-Moses appointed 40 nights and Aaron to take his place among the people
7:164-Preaching helps to guard against evil.
8:7-Allah desires to cut off the root of disbelievers
8:16-Turning back from disbelievers in time(as in running away from) of war incur Allah’s wrath
8:17-It was not you who slew them;it was Allah who slew them
8:28-Your wealth and Children are a temptation
8:35-So-called guardians of the house not truly guardians. Footnote say they used the house for gossiping. The true guardians are those who keep their duty



Ramadan Day 10
8:49-Peace Established by Stregnth
8:65-Urge the Believers to fight
9:31-Jews take scholars as lords
9:32-They seek to put out Allah’s light
9:23-Love Allah more than family
9:42-had it been a near gain and a short journey…
9:47-Best that they hypocrites fall off
9:67-The Hypocrites are all alike
9:71-the believers are friends of one another
9:73-Be hard against disbelievers and hypocrites


Ramadan Day 11
9:100-Allah is well pleased with the foremost
9:105-Work that Allah will see your work
9:107-those who build Mosque to cause Disunity
9:111-Allah has bought from the believers their persons
10:2-it is a wonder that Allah would raise a man from amongst them
10:12-Some Call on Allah when under affliction and forget him otherwise
10:34-Allah produces the first creation, then reproduces it
10:41-If they reject thee, continue in your work
10:44-Allah wrongs not men; Men wrong themselves
10:47-For every nation there is a messenger
10:49-Every Nation has a term
10:51-Some don’t believe it until the chastisement is present.
10:57-Admonition, healing, and guidance coming from Allah
10:61-Not an atoms weight is hidden from Allah. It is all in a clear book
10:64-Friends of Allah have good news in this world AND the Hereafter
10:71-Noah challenges Naysayers to act against him
10:73-Noah and those with him made rulers
10:78-Could this be a hint toward envy?
10:81-Allah to establish truth by his WORDS.
10:87-Revelation to Moses AND Aaron. Believers must take to their houses as places of worship
10:88-Mose prays that Pharaohs wealth be destroyed
10:90-Pharoah Bears Witness that the God of the Children of Israel IS GOD
10:92-Pharoah made a sign

All Praise Be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

The whole world has been in search of a Messiah. Muslims and Christians tend to believe that he came 2,000 years ago as Jesus, son of Mary. The Jews are a more theologically accurate in their belief that Jesus of 2,000 years ago was not the Messiah.
Before I continue its appropriate to quote Islamic Scholar A. Maudidi. He states, “If one takes a biased view of something and deliberately nourishes prejudice against it in his mind, then he can neither see any virtue in it nor can hear anything in its favor no can (he) open his heart to consider it dispassionately. This is the law of nature.”

If we want to find the Messiah we must examine the prerequisites to Messiahship. We must examine the function and role of a Messiah and THEN look for the man that would fulfill such roles.

"This Mild Looking Blackman is the MOST powerful Blackman in America"-Readers Digest

One of the first mentions of this Messiah or Son of Man is found in the Book of Psalms. “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him (Psalms 8:4)?" However, in 1896, Hans Lietzmann startled the theological world by stating that this phrase could not be found in the Aramaic language, which Jesus spoke. Is there any biblical evidence of this? ABSOLUTELY! Paul writes that Jesus was a man born out of due season (1 Corinthians 15:8). This means that Jesus of 2,000 years ago was born before it was time for the Messiah to come. Thus, when he was casting out devils, they were frustrated with his timing. “And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come hither to torment us before the time (Matt 8:30)?” Even the devils that Jesus began to deal with knew that it was not time for the end that the Messiah is to bring. The bible teaches six days shall we labor and on the seventh day shall we rest (Ex 34:21) and a day is as a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8) bringing the devils rule to a total of 6,000 years. It is AFTER Satan’s rule is over that the promised Messiah is to make himself known since this Messiah is to crush the wicked.

Jesus of 2,000 years ago was a great man. But, he was not the Messiah that we’ve thought him to be. In an article entitled "Who Do Men Say that I Am?" (The Humanist Magazine May/June 1991) writes:
"Most of what we know about Jesus comes from the four gospels. Yet scholars agree that these are hardly dependable as historical sources. For one thing, they did not take shape until late in the first century, a generation or two after Jesus died...Scholars also agree that the gospels were not written by any of the 12 apostles-probably not anyone named Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, probably not by anyone who was even alive when Jesus was... "

In a publication by Dr. Wesley Muhammad titled Was Jesus of Nazereth Christ, he writes, “In 1991, an august body of 200 biblical scholars calling themselves the Jesus Seminar published their results of over 6 years of research trying to ascertain how much of the New Testament really speaks of Jesus of 2000 years ago. They concluded that only 20% of the Jesus of the Gospels goes back to the son of Mary 2,000 years ago, almost none of the Gospel of John. Robert Fortna, biblical scholar from Vassar College and member of the Seminar said ‘Most scholars, if they had worked through the sayings as we had, would tend to agree there is virtually nothing in the fourth gospel (John) goes back to Jesus.’
And the hammer hits the nail! The above evidence is clear. But, some may feel they need to see Quranic evidence as well.

The Quran makes a distinction between the prophetic Jesus and Jesus the Messiah. The Quran shows that Jesus the prophet was given one book while Jesus the Messiah would be TAUGHT numerous books. Speaking of the prophet the Quran reads, "He (Jesus) said: I am indeed a servant of Allah. He has given me the Book (the Gospel) and made me a prophet (Holy Qur'an 19:30) (Holy Quran 57:27). Moreover, Jesus of 2,000 years ago was a sign (Holy Quran 23:50). The sign is not the fulfiller. The sign points to the fulfiller. Who then is the fulfiller?

"And He (Allah) will teach him the Book and the Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel (Holy Qur'an 3:44-48).” The fulfiller is the man that is TAUGHT by Allah these four things. This corresponds with David the Psalmist saying the Lord would visit the Son of Man (Psalms 8:4). It is in this visit or short stay that the Son of Man would be taught the above wisdom. Who can lay such claim?

God Himself taught Elijah Muhammad. Elijah Muhammad IS the Son of Man, the long-awaited Messiah. He is the one whom the world has looked for! How do we know? To know the identity of the fulfiller you have to examine the work that this man was to fulfill.

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

The Messiah is to be made a ‘messenger to the Children of Israel’, which means he must be a man like Moses (Deut 18:18). You cannot have a man like Moses unless you have a people that were in bondage to a modern Pharaoh. We, the Black People of America are the Real Children of Israel who were prophesied to be in a strange land amongst a strange people. Muhammad was made to deliver the Message of Allah to us.

According to Holy Quran (3:46-51) the Messiah is also to do the following: Heal the Blind and the leprous, raise the dead, and teach them what foods to eat and what to store. The language here is symbolic. Muhammad healed the spiritually blind Black People of America. He healed a people totally helpless and buried wholly in sin. A people in a state of ignorance so intense that it is incomparable to anything previously seen. Muhammad reformed a people that took on the identity of another man and took that oppressive man as a god. Muhammad is bringing this people back to life. Lastly, he is to teach the people about FOOD. Neither Jesus of 2,000 years ago nor Muhammad of 1400 years ago did this. Elijah Muhammad taught us HOW TO EAT TO LIVE. Muhammad is resurrecting a dead Nation.

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

Well, the last thing we must ponder is the so-called death of Elijah Muhammad. The Nation of Islam under Minister Louis Farrakhan has challenged anybody in the whole world to prove that Elijah Muhammad is dead. In fact, Minister Farrakhan has declared that we will shut our mouths if anyone can prove Elijah Muhammad to be dead. We have the dental records (the only way one can determine the identity of a carcass) and we are ready to deliver them to whoever is willing to challenge us. The KEY aspect in the life of the promised Messiah is that he must escape death! Why? The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told His Minister once ‘if Allah could not save me then there would be no hope that he could save you.’ “And for their saying: We have killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah, and they killed him not, nor did they cause his death on the cross, but he was made to appear to them as such. And certainly those who differ therein are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge about it, but only follow a conjecture, and they killed him not for certain (Holy Quran 4:157).” This is a Cardinal principle for us.

“But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith (Please Read 1 Corinthians 15).” So I say to the followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad under the guidance of HIS Minister Farrakhan, stand firm, stand strong, for the victory of the apostle is nigh!

“We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true--even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life (1 John 5:20).” “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life (1 John 5:13).”

Lastly, the word Messiah literally means ‘wiped over’ or one anointed with oil. When we Understand and connect with THE Messiah, we realize that our connection to Him makes us ALL little Messiah’s. We all become wiped over with the Spirit of God. We all become anointed and in tune with the God within. But to get there you must go through THE DOOR.

All Praise be to Allah for the Honorable Elijah Muhammad!

Aug 11, 2010-Notes

2:13-The Jokes on them!
2:2-7: whom the Book is for
2:23-Challenge to the doubters
re-read 2:24
2:28-He is the resurrector
2:29-Seven Heavens
2:40-Covenant with the Children of Israel
2:44- Problem of Self-Neglection
2:45-Seek assistance through patience and Prayer
2:46-We WILL MEET our LORD
2:51-Moses amongst them 4 years
2:53-Moses AND the Discrimination
2:61-ALL who believe have their reward regardless of Label
2:86- Some BUY the life of this world for the hereafter
2:90-Disbelievers reject message out of ENVY
2:91-92-Blog, Slef-Accusing Spirit
2:98-Angels, Michael and Jabril, mentioned
2:106-Abrogation
2:128- Abraham prays for his seed.
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.