Fazl Ahmad
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For a man who supposedly spent 3 years preaching, we have a grand total of just 50 days of his life recorded. What the gospels focus on, what the writers spend 1/3 to 1/2 of their time telling us about is in fact that final week culiminating in his death and resurection. By your own way of figuring, that would seem to make the message the primary message they were trying to share with us about Jesus.
Actually my point is what Jesus himself emphasized. The authors of the "gospels" obviously had their own agenda. They only focused their narrative on a certain part of Jesus' life.
Anyways, let me ask you, we as Muslims do not believe Jesus died for our sins. We don't believe that was his purpose, and we don't see any value in him dying helping us come closer to Allah. So in your perspective, are we condemned or saved? Most probably you will say condemned. We Muslims define ourselves as being devoted exclusively to Allah. We worship and invoke Him alone, which is the message of the bible. We don't believe Jesus is divine or the only begotten son of God. This is something you need to think about very carefully and reflect upon alot. Is it reasonable to believe that by rejecting Jesus having died for our sins you go to hell? Please be honest about this. Christianity says Jesus dying for your sins and accepting that is the way to get saved. Islam says that being devoted to Allah alone without any partners or idols is the way to get saved. Let us forget the New Testament for a moment and look to the Old Testament. The Old Testament is about one thing and one thing only, worshiping God alone and condemning worship of idols and false gods. This is the basis for God blessing and bestowing His favors upon the people of Israel. Now we have the Quran which completely agrees with the old testament theology, and the new testament, which is a complete surprise and completely new theology. If you think in these terms I hope you will see where we are coming from.
In the meantime I invite you to read the book Taqwiyatul Iman in English by the great martyr of Islam, Shah Ismail Delhwi (may Allah bestow mercy on him).
You can read this book on your own time, it is in PDF format. It is about 79 pages if you want to print it, or print certain sections. This book is about the beautiful subject of tawheed, the Oneness of Allah, and shows how believing in the Oneness of Allah and never compromising in that is the way to salvation. It is very simple and easy book to understand, please enjoy it.