BEWEGING VAN BELGISCHE EX-
MOVEMENT OF BELGIAN FORMER MUSLIMS
STUDY OF ISLAM
The First Islam
Question: Who understands Islam better, the moderate Muslims or the “Islamists”?
Answer: Both understand it perfectly well, but one group is right, and the other wrong. In fact, there are 2 versions of Islam: 2 Qurans, 2 Prophets Muhammad, and 2 kinds of Muslims. They are both real but each excludes the other because the second Islam, the second Quran and the second prophet Muhammad have annulled the first one. That’s right, moderate Muslims are following the “annulled” version of Islam.
Explanation: In the first place, there was the Islam from the early period. When Muhammad started his prophetic mission, he lived in Mecca. Ibn Ishaq writes on p. 82 of his biography that Muhammad’s first wife Khadija heard about “his truthfulness, trustworthiness, and honorable character ...”
Bukhari writes in his collection of Hadith : “he was shier than a veiled virgin girl”. It is the sweet Muhammad that moderate Muslims know. The Quran says in 33.21:
“Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah.”
The verses revealed at that time have a relatively peaceful nature, and agree that someone who does well belongs to the winners, and whoever is bad belongs to the losers.
In Mecca Muhammad was not respected as a prophet, but seen as a madman. Since the Quran is fully compatible with the life of Muhammad, this is also reflected in the Quran. It is mentioned many times that the people of Mecca considered Muhammad as “insane” (see e.g. ayahs 7.184; 15.6; 23.25; 23.70; 34.46; 37.36; 44.14; 52.29; 68.2; 81.22). He was ridiculed, but gave the impression of being very tolerant. He took no revenge. In Christian terms: “he carried his cross with patience”. The Quran repeats to the point of boredom that Muhammad was a “Warner”. The popular and much-quoted Surah 109 “Al Kafiroon” (The Disbelievers) dates from that period. It states that everyone should believe what he wants. This clearly implies total freedom of religion.
Indeed, Allah even tells Muhammad that if he has any doubts about the messages He sends him, he should ask the Jews and the Christians (in Islamic terminology “the people of the book”):
10.94. “But if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed to you, ask those who read the Book before you; certainly the truth has come to you from your Lord, therefore you should not be of the disputers.”
Imagine! Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, has to ask the Jews and Christians to explain the messages Allah sends him! At the end of his life he will deport them all. But in Mecca, the Jews and the Christians are still the good guys, because Muhammad thinks he can persuade them to convert to Islam.
Answer: Both understand it perfectly well, but one group is right, and the other wrong. In fact, there are 2 versions of Islam: 2 Qurans, 2 Prophets Muhammad, and 2 kinds of Muslims. They are both real but each excludes the other because the second Islam, the second Quran and the second prophet Muhammad have annulled the first one. That’s right, moderate Muslims are following the “annulled” version of Islam.
Explanation: In the first place, there was the Islam from the early period. When Muhammad started his prophetic mission, he lived in Mecca. Ibn Ishaq writes on p. 82 of his biography that Muhammad’s first wife Khadija heard about “his truthfulness, trustworthiness, and honorable character ...”
Bukhari writes in his collection of Hadith : “he was shier than a veiled virgin girl”. It is the sweet Muhammad that moderate Muslims know. The Quran says in 33.21:
“Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for any one whose hope is in Allah and the Final Day, and who engages much in the Praise of Allah.”
The verses revealed at that time have a relatively peaceful nature, and agree that someone who does well belongs to the winners, and whoever is bad belongs to the losers.
In Mecca Muhammad was not respected as a prophet, but seen as a madman. Since the Quran is fully compatible with the life of Muhammad, this is also reflected in the Quran. It is mentioned many times that the people of Mecca considered Muhammad as “insane” (see e.g. ayahs 7.184; 15.6; 23.25; 23.70; 34.46; 37.36; 44.14; 52.29; 68.2; 81.22). He was ridiculed, but gave the impression of being very tolerant. He took no revenge. In Christian terms: “he carried his cross with patience”. The Quran repeats to the point of boredom that Muhammad was a “Warner”. The popular and much-
10.94. “But if you are in doubt as to what We have revealed to you, ask those who read the Book before you; certainly the truth has come to you from your Lord, therefore you should not be of the disputers.”
Imagine! Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, has to ask the Jews and Christians to explain the messages Allah sends him! At the end of his life he will deport them all. But in Mecca, the Jews and the Christians are still the good guys, because Muhammad thinks he can persuade them to convert to Islam.
The verses in Mecca also include threats and curses directed at his opponents. Surah 111 is very short, and is totally devoted to the curse of Abu Lahab and his wife.
The question is, why is there a curse against a specific person in a book that purports to be a guide for all human beings in all places and for all times?
The unbelievers are threatened over 100 times with hell and heavy penalties.
The pagan Meccans were accustomed to people with original thoughts, and to people who believed in everything and anything.
There were 360 pagan images in the black temple of Mecca, the Ka'aba. Each group or clan had its own pagan image. There were statues of Abraham and his son Ismail, and even a painting of Mary and the child Jesus.
People of all religions came to Mecca on pilgrimage and circled around the Ka'aba. There was total freedom of religion at that time; but by the end of Muhammad’s life there was nothing left of this freedom.
Ibn Ishaq writes on p. 552: “The Apostle (Muhammad) came to Mecca on the day of the conquest and there were 360 idols, strengthened with lead by Iblis. The Apostle stood beside them with a stick in his hand and said: "The truth has come and lies have disappeared”. Then he pointed at them with his stick and they fell at their backs one by one.”
(The above episode took place 8 years after Muhammad’s flight to Medina.)
Back to the Meccan period: Muhammad began insulting the people of Mecca, their gods and their religions.
On p 118 Ibn Ishaq writes:
“When the Apostle started to perform Islam the way Allah instructed him, the people of Mecca did not turn against him until he started talking about their gods in a degrading manner”.
Finally, when Muhammad told his family that his deceased uncle Abu Taleb, who had always protected him, was burning in the fires of hell because he had not wanted to convert to Islam (reported by Muslim 1.36) he lost the protection of his family and fled to Medina.
This was the end of the first Islam, the first Muhammad and the first Quran (in every Quran it is stated which verses are from the period of Mecca and which are from Medina). This is the Islam that moderate Muslims in Belgium follow. It is the Islam of Muslims with little power, who largely accept what their environment requires. It is the Islam that says Jihad is a spiritual struggle, everyone is free in his belief, and apostates and hypocrites should not be killed.
It is the Islam with an ideal image of Muhammad as a soft sweet man, the best man who ever existed.
The question is, why is there a curse against a specific person in a book that purports to be a guide for all human beings in all places and for all times?
The unbelievers are threatened over 100 times with hell and heavy penalties.
The pagan Meccans were accustomed to people with original thoughts, and to people who believed in everything and anything.
There were 360 pagan images in the black temple of Mecca, the Ka'aba. Each group or clan had its own pagan image. There were statues of Abraham and his son Ismail, and even a painting of Mary and the child Jesus.
People of all religions came to Mecca on pilgrimage and circled around the Ka'aba. There was total freedom of religion at that time; but by the end of Muhammad’s life there was nothing left of this freedom.
Ibn Ishaq writes on p. 552: “The Apostle (Muhammad) came to Mecca on the day of the conquest and there were 360 idols, strengthened with lead by Iblis. The Apostle stood beside them with a stick in his hand and said: "The truth has come and lies have disappeared”. Then he pointed at them with his stick and they fell at their backs one by one.”
(The above episode took place 8 years after Muhammad’s flight to Medina.)
Back to the Meccan period: Muhammad began insulting the people of Mecca, their gods and their religions.
On p 118 Ibn Ishaq writes:
“When the Apostle started to perform Islam the way Allah instructed him, the people of Mecca did not turn against him until he started talking about their gods in a degrading manner”.
Finally, when Muhammad told his family that his deceased uncle Abu Taleb, who had always protected him, was burning in the fires of hell because he had not wanted to convert to Islam (reported by Muslim 1.36) he lost the protection of his family and fled to Medina.
This was the end of the first Islam, the first Muhammad and the first Quran (in every Quran it is stated which verses are from the period of Mecca and which are from Medina). This is the Islam that moderate Muslims in Belgium follow. It is the Islam of Muslims with little power, who largely accept what their environment requires. It is the Islam that says Jihad is a spiritual struggle, everyone is free in his belief, and apostates and hypocrites should not be killed.
It is the Islam with an ideal image of Muhammad as a soft sweet man, the best man who ever existed.