What the Koran Actually Says

All non-Moslems are infidels. However, there are gradations. The people of the Book (meaning the Bible, both the old and the new testaments) are the Jews, the Christians and the Moslems. According to Islam, Mohammed was the last prophet and there would be no other future prophet or prophets.

The Jews and Christians are considered as people of little faith by the followers of Islam. On the other hand, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Jains, the Sikhs, the Zoroastrians, the Taoists, in fact, all other religions are considered as the religions of the kafirs. They are the worst of all and do not have the right to exist in this world unless of course they accept Islam unconditionally.

All the infidels living in an Islamic state are supposed to pay a special tax called the 'jiziya' which signifies their acceptance of the superiority of Islam. Such people are called 'zimmis'.

At one time the kafirs did not have the right of a 'zimmi', the second class citizen. He was to be slaughtered or forcibly converted into Islam. However, the Hanafi school of thought was in support of giving the rights of 'zimmis' to the Hindus, Buddhists and Jains as well as the Sikhs and other people who did not belong to the Book. All other Islamic schools of thought were against giving any right to the kafirs.

Ziyauddin Barani wrote: "If Mahmud had gone to India once more, he would have brought under his sword all the Brahmans [1] of Hind [2] who, in that vast land, are the cause of the continuance of the laws of infidelity and of the strength of the idolaters; he would have cut off the heads of two or three hundred thousand Hindu chiefs. He would not have returned his Hindu-slaughtering sword to its scabbard until the whole of Hind had accepted Islam. For Mahmud was a Shafiite, and according to Imam Shafi the decree for Hindus is Islam or death - that is to say, they should be either put to death or accept Islam. It is not lawful to accept 'jiziya' from Hindus who have neither a prophet nor a revealed book."

However, the great number of Hindus in India made it impossible for the believers to kill them all and eventually even the Hindus had the 'good fortune' to be accepted as 'zimmis'. But to a Moslem such people have been and still are kafirs.

A Moslem jurist called Shaikh-ul-lslam had propound ed the doctrine of 'din-panahi' during the reign of a Moslem king called lltutmish. On the subject of the kafirs being treated as 'zimmis' he was of the opinion: "The kings should protect the religion of Islam with sincere faith... And the kings will not be able to perform the duty of protecting the faith unless, for the sake of Allah and the prophet's creed, they overthrow and uproot 'kufr' and 'kafiri' (infidelity), 'shirk' (setting partners to Allah) and the worship of deities. E5ut if the total uprooting of idolatry is not possible owing to the firm roots of 'kufr' and the large number of kafirs, the kings should at least strive to insult, disgrace, dishonor and defame the Hindus, who are the worst enemies of Allah and the prophet. The symptom of the kings being the protectors of Islam is this: When they see a Hindu, their eyes grow red and they wish to bury him alive; they also desire to completely uproot the Brahmans, who are the leaders of 'kufr' and owing to whom 'koir' is spread and the commandments of 'kufr' are enforced...Owing to the fear and terror of the kings of Islam, not a single enemy of Allah and the prophet can drink water that is sweet or stretch his legs on his bed and go to sleep in peace."

However, the fact is that the Moslem kings were no fools and knew better. The mullahs lived in a fool's paradise amidst leasure and luxury in towns protected by Islamic armies. They could very well issue injunctions from their ivory towers. The Moslem kings, on the other hand, had to live mostly on battlefields and could feel in their guts the power equations of a situation in which they had to wage a constant war against repeated Hindu reassertions of independence. They had discovered very

soon that the Hindus hated Islam as a system of black barbarity and would fight rather than submit to this sinister creed. Moreover, they needed the Hindus for doing work which the mullahs and the swordsmen of Islam were neither equipped nor inclined to do - agriculture, commerce, industry, scavenging and so on. No wonder the Moslem kings fell for the Hanafi school of thought as soon as it was expounded to them, not because they liked this school of thought but simply because they had no other choice. They imposed 'jiziya' and other disabilities on the Hindus, and reduced them, wherever they could, to the status of hewers of wood and drawers of water.

The mullahs howled at this 'sacrilege'. They mourn ed: "Should the king consider the payment of a few coins by way of 'jiziya' as sufficient justification for allowing all possible freedom to the infidels to observe and demon strate all orders and details of infidelity, to read the misleading literature of their faith and to propagate their teachings, how could the true religion get the upper hand over other regligions and how could the emblems of Islam be held high? How will the true faith prevail if rulers allow the infidels to keep their temples, adorn their deities and to make merry during their festivals with beating of drums, singing and dancing?"

Prophet Mohammed permitted the Jews and the Christians living in Islamic countries in those days, the right to survive as 'zimmis', if they refused to accept Islam. On that basis, one can separate the two kinds of infidels as follows:

'Zimmi': 'Nasranis' or Christians (this includes Catholics and Protestants of all de nominations); and Jews.

Kafirs: Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Shintos, Taoists and Animists.

It is true that the 'Ahmediyyas' or 'Qadianis' of Pakistan and the 'Shias' of Iran are sometimes called 'non Moslems' by the 'Sunni' Moslems but that is a subject beyond the purview of this book.

The following are only a few of the important sayings from the Koran, dealing with kafirs or infidels. There are many more similar sayings throughout Islam's holy book. The message is the same. The numbers of chapters and verses are indicated in Roman and Hindu (or Arabic) numerals on the left. The injunctions are clearly spelled out so that there is no misunderstanding in the minds of simple believers.

VIII/12: When thy Lord inspired the angels, (saying:) I am with you. So make those who believe stand firm. I will throw fear into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Then smite the necks and smite of them each finger [1].

VIII/36: Lo! those who disbelieve spend their wealth in order that they may debar (men) from the way of Allah. They will spend it, then it will become an anguish for them, then they will be conquered. And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto hell.

IX/5: Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

IX/28: O ye who believe! The idolaters only are unclean. So let them not come near the Inviolable Place of Worship after this their year. If ye fear poverty (from the loss of their merchandise) Allah shall preserve you of His bounty if He will. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise. IX/73: Oh Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with them. Their ultimate abode is hell, a hapless journey's-end.

XCVIII/6: Lo! those who disbelieve, among the People of the Scripture and the idolaters, will abide in fire of hell. They are the worst of created beings.

X/5: Unto Him is the return of all of you; it is a promise of Allah in truth. Lo! He produceth creation, then reproduceth it, that He may reward those who believe and do good works with equity; while, as for those who disbelieve, theirs will be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved.

LXIX/30-37: (It will be said): Take him and fetter him And then expose him to hell-fire And then insert him in a chain whereof the length is seventy cubits. Lo! he used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous, And urged not on the feeding of the wretched, Therefore hath he no lover here this day, Nor any food save filth Which none but sinners eat.

LXVIII/14-16: It is because he is possessed of wealth and children That, when Our revelations are recited unto him, he saith: Mere fables of the men of old. We shall brand him on the nose.

LXVII/6: And for those who disbelieve in their Lord there is the doom of hell, a hapless journey's end!

XLVII/12: Lo! Allah will cause those who believe and do good works to enter Gardens underneath which rivers flow; while those who disbelieve take their comfort in this life and eat even as the cattle eat, and the Fire is their habitation.

XLIV/43-50: Lo! the tree of Zaqqum [2], The food of the sinner! Like molten brass, it seetheth in their bellies As the seething of boiling water. (And it will be said): Take him and drag him to the midst of hell, Then pour upon his head the torment of boiling water. (Saying): Taste! Lo! thou west forsooth the mighty, the noble! Lo! this is that whereof ye used to doubt.

XXXVII/67-68: And afterward, lo! thereupon they have a drink of boiling water And afterward, lo! their return is surely unto hell.

V/33-34: The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom; Save those who repent before ye overpower them. For know that Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

V/72-73: They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah (himself) said: O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Lo! whoso ascribeth partners unto Allah, for him Allah bath forbidden Paradise. His abode is the Fire. For evil-doers there will be no helpers. They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the third of three; when there is no God save the One God. If they desist not from so saying a painful doom will fall on those of them who disbelieve.

XXII/19-22: These twain (the believers and the disbelievers) are two opponents who contend concerning their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads. Whereby that which is in their bellies, and their skins too, will be melted; And for them are hooked rods of iron. Whenever, in their anguish, they would go forth from thence they are driven back therein and (it is said unto them): Taste the doom of burning.

LXXVI/4: Lo! We have prepared for disbelievers manacles and carcans and a raging fire.

1. N.J. Dawood translates in his 'The Koran': 'Strike off their heads, maim them in every limb!' 2. Zaqqum tree: a tree that grows in the heart of hell bearing fruit like devils' heads.

LXXVI/13-22: Reclining therein upon couches, they will find there neither (heat of) a sun nor bitter cold. The shade thereof is close upon them and the clustered fruits thereof bow down.

(Bright as) glass but (made) of silver, which they (themselves) have measured to the measure (of their deeds).

There serve them youths of everlasting youth, whom, when thou seest, thou wouldst take for scattered pearls.

Their raiment will be fine green silk and gold embroidery. Bracelets of silver will they wear. Their Lord will slake their thirst with a pure drink.

(And it will be said unto them): Lo! this is a reward for you. Your endeavor (upon earth) bath found acceptance.

LV/46-59: But for him who feareth the standing before his Lord there are two gardens.

Reclining upon couches lined with silk brocade, the fruit of both gardens near to hand.

Therein are those of modest gaze [1], whom neither man nor jinni will have touched before them,

LVI/11-24: Those are they who will be brought nigh In gardens of delight; A multitude of those of old And a few of those of later time, On lined couches, Reclining therein face to face. There wait on them immortal youths With bowls and ewers and a cup from a pure spring Wherefrom they get no aching of the head nor any madness, And fruit that they prefer And flesh of fowls that they desire. And (there are) fair ones with wide, lovely eyes, Like unto hidden pearls, Reward for what they used to do.

1. .. those of modest gaze is translated as 'bashful virgins' by Dr N.J. Dawood in the Holy Koran translated by him.

The Koran advises the believers on the subject of infidels in their neighborhoods and circles of friends.

IX/123: O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him).

IV/144: O ye who believe! Choose not disbelievers for (your) friends in place of believers. Would you give Allah a clear warrant against you?

V/51: O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.

III/118: O ye who believe! Take not for intimates others than your own folk, who would spare no pains to ruin you; they love to hamper you. Hatred is revealed by (the utterance of) their mouths, but that which their breasts hide is greater. We have made plain for you the revelations if ye will understand.

IX/122: And the believers should not all go out to fight. Of every troop of them, a party only should go forth, that they (who are left behind) may gain sound knowledge in religion, and that they may warn their folk when they return to them, so that they may beware.

IV/160-161: Because of the wrongdoing of the Jews We forbade them good things which were (before) made lawful unto them, and because of their much hindering from Allah's way, And of their taking usury when they were forbidden it and of their devouring people's wealth by false pretenses. We have prepared for those of them who disbelieve a painful doom.

VI/147: Unto those who are Jews We forbade every animal with claws. And of the oxen and the sheep forbade We unto them the fat thereof save that upon the backs or the entrails, or that which is mixed with the bone. That We awarded them for their rebellion. And lo! We verily are Truthful.

V/57: O ye who believe! Choose not for friends such of those who received the Scripture before you, and of the disbelievers, as make a jest and sport of your religion. But keep your duty to Allah if ye are true believers.

IV/101: And when ye go forth in the land, it is no sin for you to curtail (your) worship if ye fear that those who disbelieve may attack you. In truth the disbelievers are an open enemy to you.

IV/102: And when thou (O Muhammad) art among them and arranges" (their) worship for them, let only a party of them stand with thee (to worship) and let them take their arms. Then when they have performed their prostrations let them fall to the rear and let another party come that bath not worshipped and let them worship with thee, and let them take their precaution and their arms. Those who disbelieve long for you to neglect your arms and your baggage that they may attack you once for all. It is no sin for you to lay aside your arms, if rain impedeth you or ye are sick. But take your precaution. Lo! Allah prepareth for the disbelievers shameful punishment.

The Koran spells out stern warnings to nations of disbelievers. The threats and warnings are a reminder that Allah is all-powerful.

L/36: And how many a generation We destroyed before them, who were mightier than these in prowess so that they overran the lands! Had they any place of refuge (when the judgement came)?

VII/97-99: Are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep?

Or are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them in the daytime while they play?

Are they then secure from Allah's scheme? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's scheme save folk that perish.

XXII/45: How many a township have We destroyed while it was sinful, so that it lieth (to this day) in ruins, and (how many) a deserted well and lofty tower!

XXII/48: And how many a township did I suffer long though it was sinful! Then I grasped it. Unto Me is the return.

VI/6: See they not how many a generation We destroyed before them, whom We had established in the earth more firmly than We have established you, and We shed on them abundant showers from the sky, and made the rivers flow beneath them. Yet We destroyed them for their sins, and created after them another generation.

The Koran's injunctions on looted property which includes women and children and those men that for some reason or other were not killed in raids and were taken as captives. Such men, women and children were classed as slaves. The slaves were merchandise that could be sold, maltreated or killed without compunction with or without valid reason, by the believer.

LIX/5-6: Whatsoever palm-trees ye cut down or left standing on their roots, it was by Allah's leave, in order that He night confound the evil-livers. And that which Allah gave as spoil unto His messenger from them, ye urged not any horse or riding-camel for the sake thereof, but Allah giveth His messenger lordship over whom He will. Allah is Able to do all things.

XLIX/20-21: Allah promiseth you much booty that ye will capture, and bath given you this in advance, and bath withheld men's hands from you, that it may be a taken for the believers, and that He may guide you on a right path. And other (gain), which ye have not been able to achieve, Allah will compass it. Allah is Able to do all things.

VIII/41: And know that whatever ye take as spoils of war, lo! a fifth thereof is for Allah, and for the messenger and for the kinsman (who bath need) and orphans and the needy and the wayfarer, if ye believe in Allah and that which We revealed unto Our slave on the Day of Discrimination, the day when the two armies met. And Allah is Able to do all things.

VIII/65: O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there be of you twenty stedfast they shall overcome two hundred, and if there be of you a hundred stedfast they shall overcome a thousand of those who disbelieve, because they (the disbelievers) are a folk without intelligence.

VIII/67-69: It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he bath made slaughter in the land. Ye desire the lure of this world and Allah desireth (for you) the Hereafter, and Allah is Mighty, Wise. Had it not been for an ordinance of Allah which had gone before, an awful doom had come upon you on account of what ye took. Now enjoy what ye have won, as lawful and good, and keep your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

VIII/73: And those who disbelieve are protectors one of another. - If ye do not so, there will be confusion in the land, and great corruption.

1. vv. 67-69 were revealed when the Prophet had decided to spare the lives of the prisoners taken at Badr and hold them to ranson, against the wish of Umar, who would have executed them for their past crimes. The Prophet took the verses as a reproof, and they are generally understood to mean that no quarter ought to have been given in that first battle.

II/223: Your women are a filth for you (to cultivate) so go to your filth as ye will, and send (good deeds) before you for your souls, and fear Allah, and know that ye will tone day) meet Him. Give glad tidings to believers, O Muhammad).

IV/23: Forbidden unto you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your father's sisters, and your mother's sisters, and your brother's daughters and your sister's daughters, and your foster-mothers, and your foster-sisters, and your mothersin-law, and your step-daughters who are under your protection (born) of your women unto whom ye have gone in- but if ye have not gone in unto them, then it is no sin for you (to marry their daughters)- and the wives of your sons who (spring) from your own loins. And (it is forbidden unto you) that ye should have two sisters together, except what bath already happened (of that nature) in the past. Lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful.

IV/15: As for those of your women who are guilty of lewdness, call to witness four of you against them. And if they testify (to the truth of the allegation) then confine them to the houses until death take them or (until) Allah appoint for them a way (through new legislation).

II/230: And if he bath divorced her (the third time), then she is not lawful unto him thereafter until she bath wedded another husband. Then if he (the other husband) divorce her it is no sin for both of them that they come together again if they consider that they are able to observe the limits of Allah. These are the limits of Allah. He manifesteth them for people who have knowledge.

II/221: Wed not idolatresses till they believe; for lo! a believeing bondwoman is better than an idolatress though she please you; and give not your daughters in marriage to idolaters till they believe, for lo! a believing slave is better than an idolater though he please you. These invite unto the Fire, and Allah inviteth unto the Garden, and unto forgiveness by His grace, and expoundeth thus His revelations to mankind that haply they may remember.

IV/34: Men are in charge of women, because Allah bath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah bath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge [1] them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High Exalted, Great.

XXIII/1-11: Successful indeed are the believers Who are humble in their prayers, And who shun vain conversation, And who are payers of the poor-due; And who guard their modesty Save from their wives or the (slaves) that their right [2] hands possess, for then they are not blameworthy,

But whoso craveth beyond that, such are transgressors And who are shepherds of their pledge and their covenant, And who pay heed to their prayers. These are the heirs Who will inherit Paradise. There they will abide.

XXIV/6-7: As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing) by Allah that he is of those who speak the truth;

XXIV/60: As for women past child-bearing, who have no hope of marriage, it is no sin for them if they discard their (outer) clothing in such a way as not to show adornment but to refrain is better for them. Allah is Hearer, Knower.

LX/10: O ye who believe! When believing women come unto you as fugitives, examine them. Allah is best aware of their faith. Then, if ye know them for true believers, send them not back unto the disbelievers. They are not lawful for the disbelievers, nor are the disbelievers lawful for them. And give the disbelivers that which they have spent (upon them). And it is no sin for you to marry such women when ye have given them their dues. And hold not to the ties of disbelieving women; and ask for (the return of) that which ye have spent; and let the disbelievers ask for that which they have spent. That is the judgement of Allah. He judgeth between you. Allah is Knower, Wise.

Note: Ghazzali, the renowned Islamic thinker had summed the eighteen pains that had been visited on Moslem women as a punishment of Eve's transgression in Paradise. The list eloquently shows the position of women in Islam and how the social customs were backed up by the prophet's religion.

They are: menstruation, childbirth, separation from parents to get married to a stranger, pregnancy, not having control over her own person, smaller share in inheritance, liability to get divorced and inability to divorce herself, having only one husband at a time while the husband can have four wives at the same time not counting the concubines, having to keep her head covered within the four walls, having to stay secluded within the four walls, her testimony having only half the strength of a man's testimony, not being able to go out alone but only when accompanied by a near relative, not being able to take part in Friday and festive day prayers and at funerals, not being able to serve as a judge or ruler, having to wait four months and ten days after the death of a husband before remarrying [3] , having to wait three months after getting divorced by a husband before remarrying, having very little merit when compared to men and having half the sentence of punishment for profligacy [4] when compared to that of a man.

1. N.J. Dawood's Koran tanslates 'scourge' es 'beet'. 2. 'right hand' signifies 'won in battle by force of arms'. 3. the waiting period is to ensure that the woman does not carry the child of the dead husband or the husband that divorced her. 4. this punishment is really a relief instead of a 'pain'.

Hebrews 1:1 ¶God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the *prophets*,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his *Son*, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

4 ¶Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

6 And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Islam is an antichrist religion. It denies who Christ is.

1 John 2:18 ¶Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

1 John 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

2 John 1:7 ¶For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Who is/was the last prophet?

There's good doctrinal evidence that John might qualify. A prophet is simply a messenger or one who speaks for God. Plenty of doctrinal evidence that prophecy after John's Revelation is considered extrabiblical.

It might be noted that upon receiving Christ, accepting Him by faith, one is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Accordingly, some arguments might be made that His work in us might still qualify in the category of prophecy.

Scripture also states, and especially in the Prophetic books, that there would be many false prophets in the end times. Discernment is in order and without first accepting Christ, in order to receive the Holy Spirit, discernment in spiritual things isn't possible, because one is dead in the spirit.

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