>From: "Anon Anon" <jcla_123@hotmail.com>

>To: noor@islam-message.com

>Subject: Fw: Response to the Who is Allah? leaflet.

>Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 19:52:24 +0000

>

To whom it may concern. 

               Please forgive me for not reading the whole of the Who is Allah? booklet before I made this response. I am sorry if this is the wrong e mail address to respond to. It seemed important to comment on several of the statements which are made in the first few pages of the booklet. I have italisised quotes from the booklet.

My first comment: The quote from Al-Ankabut:46 "And say (To them): "We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you; our Ilah (God) and your Ilah (God) is One (i.e. Allah), and to Him we have submitted (as Muslims)."

   The God which Muslims worship and the God whom Christians and Jews worship appear to have profoundly different characteristics. The former God, by your own admission, allows warfare and murder. It is my understanding that the Quoran calls for the death of any Muslim who converts to a different religion, and it is an evident fact that Muslim men can take more than one wife. Neither the Jewish or Christian God (who I believe is the same God - called Yaweh- and who is different from Allah) allows either of these acts. Every version of the Bible contains verses in both the New and old Testements which say that when a man has had intercourse with a woman then she is his wife and he cannot take another while they are both alive. This is further evidence that Allah and Yaweh are different Gods.

My second comment: “ some of you said that the Prophet of Islam ordered us to respect the Bible, which is true, but.. Which Bible? The book our Prophet ordered us to dignify is that the bible of Jesus. So, where is the Bible of Jesus? The present Bible, or more accurately the present Bibles, is not one of them of Jesus!.. The Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings be upon him, commanded us to revere what Allah’s revelation to Jesus, Not the bible of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John.

   The Bible is issued in many versions because English is a changing language. The English which is spoken now, in 2004 is a different language to the English spoken in the 1600s when the first English interpretation of the Bible was made. The Enlgish lexicon of my parents is different to mine. My children will speak slightly different English than I do. The use of English is not uniform throughout the English speaking world.

 Different versions of the Bible are compiled by learned men and women who understand the different uses of English (and other languages, which I am sure change as much as English) and who can ensure that the meaning of the words does not change from one version to the other. Christians also rely on the help of God who lives in us through the Holy Spirit to make sure that they are reading His Word as He intended it to be read.