Because the true battle with Islam is in the spiritual realm, Safa believes the West's reliance upon military might will ultimately fail. "... showing the strength of the arm doesn't stop them - it increases their resolve," he says. I have stated from day one, if we killed Sadaam and Osama, there would be a thousand more right behind them. Frankly, if we REALLY wanted to defeat the Islamic spirit, we would bombard theirr children with the gospel through coloring books Nike Vapormax Flyknit Scontate , candy wrapped in tracts, puppet shows, movies and videos.
At the heart of Islam is works-based righteousness. "They work so hard to please God," Safa says. "The pinnacle of that law is martyrdom." In Islam, Martyrdom is the only way to assure one's salvation.
In "Inside Islam," Safa tells of the Ayatollah Khomeini's televised appeal for ten thousand volunteers to fight against Iraq. Young boys who volunteered became known as the basiji, meaning Nike Vapormax Nere Scontate , "the mobilized."
"The next day all the boys on the street who had volunteered had a piece of red tape on their foreheads. The basijis volunteered to clear the minefields with their bodies, and they did it. Military leaders would send out as many as five thousand boys at once to run through the fields and trip the mines," Safa writes.
"Many of the boys were only 12 or 13 years old," he adds. "To them, Khomeini gave the promise of behesht ("paradise"). To symbolize this false promise, he gave them a key which they hung around their neck-a key with which they could open the gate of heaven."
The suicide bombers of 9-11 are just another case in point. "These people are already dead before they attack us," Safa says.
THE GOOD NEWS?
As Islamic terrorism grips the nations Nike Vapormax Bianche Scontate , a confident, peaceful Church will be given the Divine opportunity to tell the world about our source of peace amidst the Islamic storm. This is exactly how Reza Safa, an ex-radical Muslim from Iran was saved: through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We can tell them about what it is we've found through the intimacy of our personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
You DO have that type of relationship with Him, don't you?
Reza Safa's quotes from Monday, January 28, 2002 report by ASSIST News Service as well as his book, Inside Islam.
CLOSING QUESTIONS & COMMENTS
To my thinking Muslim friends Nike Vapormax Scontate Saldi , I have these six brief questions to ask regarding Jesus, followed by a few comments...
1) Does the Qur'an say that Jesus was sinless? Was He a perfect man?
2) Does the Qur'an tell Muhammad to repent?
3) The Qur'an says many times that Jesus is the Messiah? Agree?
4) Was Mohammad the Messiah?
5) Where's the body of Jesus?
6) The body of Muhammad is buried in Medina, as you may know. Why did God take Jesus but NOT Muhammad?
Strangely, Muslim teachers today allege that Jesus' message was given to the Jews only, yet the Qur'an mentions Jesus as being "a sign for all peoples [beings]" (Surat 21:91). While Muslims call Jesus 'Nabi Isa' (literally Jesus the Messenger), the actual message he brought is not recorded in the Qur'an; it is found in the Gospel.
The Qur'an teaches: "We believe in Allah, and the revelation given to us Nike Vapormax Scontate Uomo , and to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob ... to Moses and Jesus and that given to all prophets from their Lord. We make no differences between one and another of them" (Surat 2:136).
To justify such contradiction to the Qur'an, Muslim teachers declare that the Bible, which originally recorded the messages of "Abraham ... Moses and Jesus", is no more the Word of God Scarpe Nike Vapormax Scontate , but has been changed and corrupted.
That again is not what the Qur'an teaches, when it says: "People of the Book! [commonly accepted as referring to the Jews and the Christians] ... stand fast by the Law, the Gospel and all the revelation that has come to you from your Lord" (Surat 5:68). These words were written in the seventh century. Many old Bible manuscripts still in existence today are considerably older than that, yet they do not differ from today's Bibles. One would expect Muslim teachers to state when the Bible was supposedly changed, by whom, and for what purposes, but they do not.
The Qur'an actually challenges Muslims: "If you were in doubt as to what we have revealed unto thee Nike Vapormax Scontate , then ask those who have been reading the Book from before thee," (Surat 10:94). Which Book? The Book given before the Qur'an, of course! No man can honestly claim, on the basis of the Qur'an, that the Bible has been corrupted. It actually orders: "Ask those who possess the message," (Surat 21:7). Those were the Jews and Christians, the People of the Book.
As we already noticed Air Vapormax Plus Scontate , the Qur'an explicitly states that the Gospel is the Word of God. And it also states categorically that "no man can change the Words of Allah" (Surat 10:64 and 6:34).
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