What People Say?Different people with different perspectives

Today, after finishing the two examinations, at last, I could rest for a while, before the next three examinations begin to affect our daily lives in two days. Many people say that since we are already college students, the former way of living our everyday life should be changed along with many of our original thoughts towards different kinds of occurrence in our life. But the fact is not quite like that, because we are still finding that we are preparing for many different tests from time to time, though it is not as frequent as in the high school.

When we at last jump from the high school into the university, we suddenly find that the condition is not as satisfying as we expected when we were still teenagers in the environment where everything should be checked either by the teachers or by our dear parents. Then suddenly, due to the entrance examination, we were put into different schools, which may be very far from our homes.

Then we find that we are changing by and by, because it seems that only changes can adapt itself to the developing world outside. We put on various kinds of clothes, whose style will be quite different from school uniform which we used to wear in the high school, and we put on UGG boots, which have high heels and would surely be rejected if we wore them when we were still high school common students.

So it can be said that we are actually experiencing a period in which we become independent on our parents by and by, though we may not realize it in our daily life when this occurs. Sometimes, we may still find that we are attached to them, because we have to ask them for advice on many problems we face in the campus. But one day, when we suddenly find that we have not called them for days or even weeks, we are given total freedom now, but our parents are becoming older and older, they are actually finding their world narrower every day. So many people also say that college is actually a place for us to experience different kinds of sufferings.

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This is the fourth article of the series:

“The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”

Few quotes from the first article of this series are given here.

In language, the foreign or the strange woman is the alien or the exotic or the outsider woman.  However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreign or the strange woman is the non-Israelite woman.

Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreign or strange women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreign.

Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.

Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version):

“…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…”

 

According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that

1. The mouth of the strange woman is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of the Lord, Jehovah, shall fall therein.  Why be captivated by a strange woman? Why embrace the bosom of a foreigner?   Your eyes will see strange women, and your heart utter perverse things; then, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast.

The commandment is a lamp and the law is light to keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman which flatters with her smooth words.  Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.  Her (the strange woman) house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.  She has cast down many wounded: many strong men have been slain by her.

 

Herein, there is an interesting remark:

Proverbs 22:14 Says that the mouth of the strange women is a deep pit. 

On the other hand, Proverbs 23:27 says that a prostitute is a deep pit…

Proverbs 23:27 (English Standard Version): For the prostitute is a deep pit…

(Read the second article of this series: The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (2)

Meaning-wise, does this indicate that the mouth of the strange women is equivalent to a prostitute?

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On the other hand, all women are equal in Islam.

Historical backgrounds:

There were some historical events that happened before the Quran puts the Law that all men and all women are equal in their duty and responsibilities regardless of their race, color, location etc.

 (1) The first event was when Thabit ibn Qays who was hard of hearing and when he came to see the Messenger of Allah, the Companions made room for him in order for him to sit next to the Prophet so that he could hear him.  He came one day when people were already seated and started stepping over people, saying: “Make room! Make room!” One man said to him: “You have found a place, so sit down!”

1. Immediately, Muhammad said: ‘Who mentioned that woman (which Thabit gave her names)?

Thabit stood up and said: ‘I did, O Messenger of Allah!’

The Messenger said to him: ‘Look at the faces of those present’.

And when he looked, he asked him: ‘What do you see?’

He said: ‘I see white, red and black people’.

The Prophet Muhammad said: ‘Well, you are not better than any of them unless it be through your good deed and faith and God- fearfulness and apprehension.

 (2) The second event; on the day Mecca was conquered, Muhammad ordered Bilal (a black Ethiopian slave) to climb on the roof of the Ka’bah and perform the call to prayer.

A man commented on this: ‘Praise be to Allah, that Allah has taken my father to Him and made that he did not see this day’.

Another man said: ‘Did Muhammad not find any other caller to prayer except this black raven?’

One person said: ‘O servants of Allah! How can this black slave be allowed to perform the call to prayer on top of the Ka’bah?’

Another man said: ‘If Allah is displeased, He will change him’.

1. Muhammad summoned them and asked them about what they said and they admitted it.  Allah then revealed this verse warning them against boasting about their lineages and abundance of wealth and against looking down on the poor, the color, the race etc.

(3) The third event; Safiyyah bint Huyayy ibn Akhtab (a Jewish wife of the Prophet Muhammad) went to Muhammad, and said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, women revile me, saying: O Jewess, daughter of Jewish parents!’

Muhammad said to her: ‘could you not have said to them in reply: my father is Aaron, my uncle is Moses and my husband is Muhammad’.

 

In response to such events, Allah revealed Verse 49:11 and 13 of the Quran.

 

The meaning of Verse 49:11

1. Evil is the name, mentioned out of mockery, derision and mutual reviling, of immorality after faith!

And whoever does not repent, of such immorality, those, they are the evildoers.

In other words, do not defame one another nor backbite against each other, nor insult one another by nicknames that he or she dislikes to hear.  Bad is the name of lewdness after having accepted faith.  And whoso turned not in repentance from doing that after having accepted faith, such are those who are evil-doers and they harm themselves with punishment in the Hereafter.

 

The meaning of Verse 49:13

O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female from Adam and Eve, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. Lo! The noblest of you in the Hereafter, in the sight of Allah on the Day of Judgment, is the best in conduct in the life of the world Lo! Allah is Knower of your status and lineage; He is Aware of your works and standing in His sight.

In other words, the verse says:

O mankind! We have indeed created you from a male and a female, from Adam and Eve, and made you nations and tribes that you may come to know one another that you may acquire knowledge of the customs of one another and not to boast to one another of whose is the more noble lineage, for pride lies only in the extent to which you have fear of God.  Truly the noblest of you in the sight of God is the most God-fearing among you.  Beyond doubt, God is Knower of you; He is Aware of your inner thoughts.

 

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The Bible (King James Version)

Proverbs 5:20

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

 

Proverbs 6:23-24

23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

 

Proverbs 7:4-5 and 25-27

4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

 

Proverbs 23:33-35

33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Proverbs 22:14

14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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The Quran (Yusuf Ali Translation):

 

Verse 49:11 and 13

11) O ye who believe! let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that the (latter are better than the (former): nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: and those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong.

13) O mankind! we created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. and Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things).

 

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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars honest when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil,
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Head (ex-) of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit, Ain-Shams University. Cairo, Egypt
President of the Egyptian Society of Inventors, Honorary President of SPIC-Egypt (The Society of Practitioners of Infection Control – Egypt), Co-Chief Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Lab. Medicine
Member of the Egyptian union of Writers, Published 5 Books and some 60 Medical Articles, Supervisors for 79 PhD theses and111 Master Degree theses.

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The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (3)

 

This is the third article of the series: “The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran”. 

Few quotes from the first article of this series are given here.

In language, the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is the alien woman or the exotic woman or the outsider woman. However, as determined by the Bible (e.g. 1 Kings 11:1), the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is the non-Israelite woman.

Subsequently, all non-Israelite women are foreigner or stranger women.

This indicates that the women in the Bible are but one of two categories; they are either Legitimate or Foreigner.

 

Moreover, the Bible (Ezra 10:2) states that you break faith with God if you marry foreign women.

Ezra 10:2 (English Standard Version)…We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land…

 

According to the inspired word of God (1 Kings 11:1-11), the Bible says that

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites. They were from nations about which the Lord God had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, because they will surely turn your hearts after their gods.” Nevertheless, Solomon held fast to them in love. He had 700 wives of royal birth and 300 concubines, and his wives led him astray.  As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the Lord his God, He followed the goddess of the Sidonians, and the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord God; he did not follow the Lord completely, as David his father had done.

King Solomon built a high place for the detestable god of Moab, and for the detestable god of the Ammonites. He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

The Lord God became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the Lord who had appeared to him twice. Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the Lord’s command. So the Lord God said to Solomon, “Since this is your attitude and you have not kept my covenant and my decrees, which I commanded you, I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you and give it to one of your subordinates.

Herein, there are some questions:

1) How come that King Solomon had 1000 women. In an old interpretation, it is said that he used to sleep with all of them every night!

2) How come that the Prophet Wise King Solomon did evil, did not follow his Lord, built high places for other gods so that God became angry with him?

 

On the other hand, the Quran (Verse 38:30) says that Allah bestowed on David, Solomon, his son. What an excellent servant! That is, Solomon. Truly he was a penitent soul, always returning [to Allah] with glorification and remembrance at all times. He was ever turning in repentance (towards Allah) he is ever betaking himself to Allah and engaged in His obedience.

Herein there are two important ethical issues.

1) If the Quran is Anti-Israelite, and since King Solomon is an Israelite king, then the Quran would have exaggerated all the negative attributes of him and would say, this is the behavior of the Israelite kings! But, the truth is the truth.

2) According to the Islamic teachings (Quran and Hadith), anyone says or believes that King Solomon (or any other Prophet) did evil, did not follow his Lord, built high places for other gods etc. is categorized as disbeliever  and he or she will dwell in the Eternal Hell in the Afterlife.

For more details, you can read on the net my series of 25 articles about King Solomon in the Quran; just type on Google search: “Not in Bible But in Quran” + King Solomon + my name.

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The Bible

 

1 Kings 11:1-11 (American Standard Version)

 

1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

2 of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.

5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.

7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

9 And Jehovah was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from Jehovah, the God of Israel, who had appeared unto him twice,

10 and had commanded him concerning this thing that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which Jehovah commanded.

11 Wherefore Jehovah said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

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The Quran

 

Verse 38:30 (Pickthal Translation):

And we bestowed on David, Solomon. How excellent a slave! Lo! He was ever turning in repentance (toward Allah).

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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?

Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil,
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Head (ex-) of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit, Ain-Shams University. Cairo, Egypt
President of the Egyptian Society of Inventors, Honorary President of SPIC-Egypt (The Society of Practitioners of Infection Control – Egypt), Co-Chief Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Lab. Medicine
Member of the Egyptian union of Writers, Published 5 Books and some 60 Medical Articles, Supervisors for 79 PhD theses and111 Master Degree theses.

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Bra plays important role in women’s life?it can make women look more beautiful. But to Jessica Bruinsma it is not just a Bra?it is her “Jesus”who gives her life again.
Intrigued? Oooh, it gets weirder.

Jessica Bruinsma ?A 24-year-old American hiker was wandering around the Austrian Alps and taking in the fresh mountain air when she had fallen off a ledge. She was lying injured for 70 hours in freezing temperatures.

Yeah, well people were looking hard and fast but in the wrong area. What about all those kiddie movies with St. Bernard rescue dogs with a brandy flask who sniff you out and digs through the snow? They lie to us!

Anyway, after getting fed of waiting to be rescued, in true women’s lib style, Jessica spots a passing cable car and throws her bra onto the container. That got someone’s attention!
Workers higher up the peak realised the undies must have been thrown in as a message and sent out a search party.

“It certainly beats sending up a flare,” said one rescue worker. “She hadn’t been wearing much when she started on her walk and she ended up with even less on,” they added.
So one bra is Lassie code for “Right of cliff” and bra + panty is short for “6 degrees south of the skiing slope”? Haha.

once i heard that some interesting stories that animals saved people,such as dog and so on.now bra also can save life.very interesting.

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Some have thought that the second coming of Jesus Christ and the Mayan predictions of 2012 are one and the same.  December 21, 2012, Doomsday to some, is being pumped as the end of the world.  But is it the same as the Second Coming of Jesus?

According to the Bible, God’s Word, Jesus came to this earth 2000 years ago, the first time, as the Lamb of God, to take away our sins.  When He died on Calvary’s cross, his blood was the propitiation (full, acceptable payment) for all the sins of mankind.  But on that first visit to the Earth, the Lord Jesus did not set up his kingdom, as many of his followers thought he would.  When He comes the second time, He will not be coming as the Lamb of God, but rather, as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

After His resurrection, while talking with His disciples, Jesus told them that He would return.  The Bible actually says that, “This same Jesus” shall come in like manner as ye have seen him go.  When he left, he arose slowly from the ground.  When he returns, He will descend in the same fashion.  He arose physically, and He shall return physically.  He still has the nail scars in his hands and feet.

Every eye shall see him, it says in Revelation 1:7.  Maybe it will be televised.  Maybe it will be on the internet.  Maybe there will be some kind of galactic phenomenon that allows everyone in the world to see him at the exact same moment, but “every eye shall see him”.  Guaranteed.  Some will be happy at his coming.  Others will be sorry.  But he is coming.

December 21, 2012 could be a date on which absolutely nothing will happen.  It could, on the other hand, be quite a day of devastation.  It could be a hoax.  It could be a plan by the ruling money people of the world to bring about a new-world-order.  Who knows.  But of this one thing, we are completely sure.  Jesus is coming again.  Jesus doesn’t need all the hype and “2012 movies” to announce his coming.  He is coming, ready or not.

 

 

Dan Kgun is considered by many to be an expert on the issue of 2012 and the Second Coming of Jesus. For more information, please visit http://www.the2012warning.com

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