Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Evidence from the Qur'an that I am greater than Allah



Quran, Surah 3, Ayah 32 reads, as you can see in the graphic, "Say, "Obey Allah and the Messenger."  But if they turn away - then indeed, Allah does not like the disbelievers." 

As you can see in the image above, however, the Arabic word "eyu-HAYB-bu" means "love," not "like."  Three witnesses for this:

1: the Hebrew word "ahvah" means "love," and sounds very much like the Arabic word (once you realize that the Hebrew letter "bet" can make a B or a V sound, and Arabic does not have a V, so Arabic speakers would pronounce the Hebrew word as "Ahabah").

2:  The website at Quran.com itself, when you mouse over the word (as I did in the graphic) translates it as "love."

3:  A very large number of other English translations of the Qur'an translate this passage using the English word "love," including (but by no means limited to) the following translations:

Muhammad Asad, M. M. Pickthall, Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985), Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938), Shakir, Wahiduddin Khan, Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar, T.B.Irving, Safi Kaskas, The Study Quran

There can be no doubt, then, that a proper translation of the passage above would be "Allah does not love the unbelievers." 

Now, let me state plainly:  I do not believe in Allah.  I do not believe that Muhammad was a prophet.  I do not believe that the religion of Islam is true in any sense. 

I am an unbeliever, with regard to Islam. 

Allah does not love me, according to the Qur'an.

But let's suppose that one night I am listening to Yahya Snow or Zakir Naik or Yusuf Estes and something one of them says convinces me.  Let's say that I finally see the truth of Islam and bend my knee to the Ka'a'bah and recite the Shahaddah.  I do so with full intent to become a Muslim, and immediately after that I begin attending services at a mosque, I enjoin in the 5 prayers a day, I do everything that is required of me to be a Muslim.  And let's say, for this example, that I truly come to believe that there is no god but Allah.

Now that I am a believer, Allah loves me. 

Do not miss this.  I have changed.  I have gone from a state of disbelief to a state of belief.  I have gone from being an unbeliever to a believer. 

I have changed Allah's heart.  He used to not love me, and now he does love me. 

If I have the power to change Allah, then I am greater than he is. 

A.J. Akbar.

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