General Islamic Theology
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- Adam
- Angels
- Death
- Hell
- Jinn
- The Kaaba and Qiblah
- Paradise
- Prayer
- Resurrection
- Salvation
- Muslims are saved by works
- Jews and Christians are also saved
- No ransom
- Ransomed from hell by Jews and Christians
- The Quran will come and intercede
- Muhammad can save
- Muhammad can NOT save
- The black stone will intercede
- Muhammad will intercede for those dying in Medina
- Invading India or being Christian ensures salvation
- Memorising the 99 names of Allah ensures salvation
- Being sick or injured cleanses from sins
- Sin
Adam
Adam was 60 cubits tall
…their form would be alike as one single person after the form of their father (Adam) sixty cubits tall.
1 Arabic cubit was traditionally 64 cm long, which means Adam would be 38.4 meters tall.
Angels
Angels are afraid of dogs and pictures
Allah’s Messenger said. “Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or a picture”
Death
Grieving tortures the deceased
Sahih al-Bukhari 1286, 1287, 1288
Allah’s Messenger has said, ‘The dead person is tortured by the crying of his relatives?”
Hell
Murder victims go to hell
When two Muslims fight (meet) each other with their swords, both the murderer as well as the murdered will go to the Hell-fire.
All people go to hell
Surah 19:71
There is not one of you but shall pass by Hell. This is a decree which your Lord will fulfil.
So apparently all people, including all Muslims, will go to hell. It’s up to the iffy and contradictory means of salvation that anyone would get out of there.
The Prophet said, “The deceased is tortured in his grave for bewailing over him.”
Jinn
Jinn can be Muslims
In Medina a group of Jinn have embraced Islam
Surah 46:29-31
˹Remember, O Prophet,˺ when We sent a group of jinn your way to listen to the Quran. Then, upon hearing it, they said ˹to one another˺, “Listen quietly!” Then when it was over, they returned to their fellow jinn as warners. They declared, “O our fellow jinn! We have truly heard a scripture revealed after Moses, confirming what came before it. It guides to the truth and the Straight Way. O our fellow jinn! Respond to the caller of Allah and believe in him, He will forgive your sins and protect you from a painful punishment.
If demons wants you to follow Islam, that should be enough for you to understand that it’s false.
The Kaaba and Qiblah
The Kaaba is a black cubic temple in Mecca towards which Muslims turn to pray. It used to be a pagan temple with 360 idols in it, until Muhammad conquered Mecca in 630AD and emptied it. In one of the corners of the building sits a big black stone (or actually the fragments of a stone glued together) which Muslims reverently touch and kiss thinking that it erases their sins. This is of course blatant idolatry.
The Muslims used to pray toward Jerusalem
“We prayed toward Bait Al-Maqdis (Jerusalem) with the Messenger of Allah for sixteen or seventeen months - Safwan was not sure - then it was changed to the Qiblah.”
The Prophet prayed facing Bait-ulMaqdis (i.e. Jerusalem) for sixteen or seventeen months but he wished that his Qibla would be the Kaaba (at Mecca). So Allah Revealed (2.144) and he offered Asr prayers(in his Mosque facing Kaaba at Mecca) and some people prayed with him.
The direction changed only because he wished that his Qibla would be toward the Kaaba and Allah, being the servant of Muhammad, obliged and changed it.
At first Muhammad told them to pray toward Jerusalem because he wanted to have credibility as an Abrahamic religion alongside Christianity and Judaism. But in 624 A.D. after being rejected by the Jews and Christians in Medina, instead changed the prayer direction toward the pagan temple in Mecca to compromise with the pagan worshipers of Arabia.
Notice that since the prayer direction changed in 624, but he didn’t clear out the idols in the Kaaba until 630 A.D., it means that all Muslims were praying towards a pagan temple filled with 360 pagan idols for 6 years!
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Peeing towards the Qiblah
[Muhammad peed facing the Qiblah]{#peeing-qiblah}
Pooping toward the Qiblah
[Muhammad pooped facing the Qiblah]{#pooping-qiblah}
The Black stone
The black stone absorbs sins
“The black stone descended from paradise whiter than milk, but the sins of the descendants of Adam made it black.”
See also: Jami` at-Tirmidhi 877
Muhammad touched the black stone
“The Messenger of Allah did not touch the corners of the Ka’bah apart from the Black Corner (i.e., the corner where the Black Stone is) and the one that is next to it facing the houses of Banu Jumah (i.e., the Yemenite Corner).”
Kissing the stone is idolatry
Umar came near the Black Stone and kissed it and said “No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither benefit anyone nor harm anyone. Had I not seen Allah’s Messenger kissing you I would not have kissed you.”
Even Umar recognized that kissing the black stone was a pointless act of idolatry, but he only did so because Muhammad did so.
Paradise
The Islamic paradise is a very physical place where people will have sex, and eat food. But the food all tastes the same, and they will not poop, but belch out the excrement as musk.
All fruit looks the same in paradise
And give glad tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens under which rivers flow. Every time they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, “This is what we were provided with before,” for they will be given fruit that resemble one another. They will have purified spouses, and they will abide therein forever.
Paradise dwellers don’t poop but belch and sweat musk
I heard Allah’s Apostle as saying that the inmates of Paradise would eat and drink but would neither spit, nor pass water, nor void excrement, nor suffer catarrah. It was said: Then, what would happen with food? Thereupon he said: They would belch and sweat (and it would be over with their food), and their sweat would be that of musk and they would glorify and praise Allah as easily as you breathe.
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Paradise dwellers will have large-eyed houris
…their wives will be large-eyed maidens…
Paradise dwellers will be about 30 years old
The people of Paradise shall enter Paradise without body hair, Murd, with Kuhl on their eyes, thirty years of age or thirty-three years.
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Paradise dwellers will be 38 meters tall
…their form would be alike as one single person after the form of their father (Adam) sixty cubits tall.
60 Arabic cubits á 64cm each equals 38.4 meters.
Huge tree
The Prophet said “There is a tree in Paradise (which is so big and huge that) a rider could travel in its shade for a hundred years.
There are 7 heavens
Surah 2:29
It is He Who created for you all that is in the earth, then He turned towards the heaven and made them seven heavens…
Prayer
Looking up while praying makes you go blind
The Prophet said, “What is wrong with those people who look towards the sky during the prayer?” His talk grew stern while delivering this speech and he said, “They should stop (looking towards the sky during the prayer); otherwise their eyesight would be taken away.”
However Muhammed looked up to heaven while praying.
When the Messenger of Allah prayed towards Baitul-Maqdis, he would often lift his face towards the heavens.
Raising your head before the Imam while praying turns it into a donkey head
The Prophet said, “Isn’t he who raises his head before the Imam afraid that Allah may transform his head into that of a donkey or his figure into that of a donkey?”
Prayer is nullified by donkeys, black dogs and women
If he does not have something as high as the back of a camel saddle in front of him, then his prayer is nullified by a woman, a donkey or a black dog.”
Narrated Aisha: The things which annul the prayers were mentioned before me. They said, “Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).”
Muslims pray to Muhammad
This is not part of the Quran or Hadiths but it is worth mentioning since this is part of the Tashahhud, a section of the prayer that all faithful Muslims recite five times every day. In that prayer is a section that goes:
> ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا ٱلنَّبِيُّ وَرَحْمَةُ ٱللَّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ.
as-salāmu ʿalayka ʿayyuhā n-nabīyu wa-raḥmatu -llāhi wa-barakātuhu,
“Peace be upon you, O Prophet, as well as God’s mercy and His blessings.
Notice that this is not talking about Muhammad, but to Muhammad. Muhammad is dead and gone, yet billions of times a day, people are addressing him as if he was alive and able to hear them. In other words this is a prayer directed toward Muhammad. Muslims are praying to Muhammad.
Resurrection
The hour of resurrection
Surah 22:6-7
That is because Allâh: He is the Truth, and it is He Who gives life to the dead, and it is He Who is Able to do all things. And surely, the Hour is coming, there is no doubt about it; and certainly, Allâh will resurrect those who are in the graves.
The one who is called the truth, and who will raise people to life at the hour of resurrection is God. Let’s see what the Bible says.
John 5:25,28,29
“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live….28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
The one who is called the truth, and who will raise people to life at the hour of resurrection is Jesus. So the Quran admits that Jesus is God.
Salvation
How Muslims are saved on judgment day is confusing and contradictory.
Muslims are saved by works
Surah 13:29; 18:107; 22:50; 30:15 32:19; 98:7
And those who have believed and done righteous deeds - for them is forgiveness and noble provision.
Islam is a works-righteousness religion. And as such it can’t save, because none of our deeds are good enough to bribe God.
Jews and Christians are also saved
Surah 2:62
The [Muslim] believers, the Jews, the Christians, and the Sabians- all those who believe in God and the Last Day and do good- will have their rewards with their Lord.
No ransom
Surah 2:48
Guard yourselves against a Day when no soul will stand in place of another, no intercession will be accepted for it, nor any ransom; nor will they be helped.
So there will be no ransom for anyone. This contradicts other sources saying that Muslims can be ransomed.
Ransomed from hell by Jews and Christians
Abu Musa’ reported that Allah’s Messenger said: When it will be the Day of Resurrection Allah would deliver to every Muslim a Jew or a Christian and say: That is your rescue from Hell-Fire.
Christianity teaches that Jesus is the perfect one who does not deserve hellfire but took this punishment in stead of those who have faith in him. Some Muslims think this is unjust saying that it’s wrong that someone should take the punishment for someone else’s sin. However here, Allah will let Jews and Christians take the punishment for the sins of Muslims. Is that just, though?
Also this implies that Jews and Christians as not sinners deserving of hell, but that Muslims are sinners deserving of hell. Otherwise, if the Jews and Christians were already in hell, the exchange could not be made. And it means Allah is thoroughly unrighteous for throwing innocent people into hell so he can save guilty people.
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The Quran will come and intercede
See The Quran is alive and will intercede on judgment day. It will come as a flock of birds and convince Allah to have mercy on those who read it.
Muhammad can save
The Prophet said, “Whoever guarantees me what is between his legs and what is between his jaws, I guarantee him Paradise.”
Muhammad can NOT save
Allah’s Messenger got up and said, “O people of Quraish! Save yourselves from the Hellfire as I cannot save you from Allah’s Punishment; O Bani Abd Manaf! I cannot save you from Allah’s Punishment, O Safiya, the Aunt of Allah’s Messenger! I cannot save you from Allah’s Punishment; O Fatima bint Muhammad! Ask me anything from my wealth, but I cannot save you from Allah’s Punishment.”
The black stone will intercede
The Messenger of Allah said about the Black Stone: “By Allah! Allah will raise it on the Day of Resurrection with two eyes by which it sees and a tongue that it speaks with, testifying to whoever touched it in truth.”
So Allah does not know who have and have not touched it?
The fact that “the black stone” is broken into 8 pieces held together by glue is also a big problem since there really is no black stone. Are the 8 pieces going to join together? Or are they going to each get a set of eyes and mouth?
Muhammad will intercede for those dying in Medina
the Prophet said: “Whoever is able to die in Al-Madinah, then let him die there, for I will intercede for those who die
Invading India or being Christian ensures salvation
The Messenger of Allah said: ‘There are two groups of my Ummah whom Allah will free from the Fire: The group that invades India, and the group that will be with ‘Isa bin Maryam, peace be upon him.’”
Memorising the 99 names of Allah ensures salvation
Allah’s Messenger said, “Allah has ninety-nine Names, one-hundred less one; and he who memorized them all by heart will enter Paradise.”
Being sick or injured cleanses from sins
It is narrated by Ayeshah that the Prophet said, “when a Muslim is afflicted by an anxiety, pain or sickness then, because of that, his sins are atoned. So much, so that if a thorn pricks him or he suffers a simple, minor injury (His sins are forgiven)”.
Sin
Allah predetermines adultery
Verily Allah has fixed the very portion of adultery which a man will indulge in, and which he of necessity must commit.
A man who commits adultery is really only doing the will of Allah, and has no choice in it.
Who forgives sins?
Only Allah forgives sins
Surah 3:135
They are those who, upon committing an evil deed or wronging themselves, remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins—and who forgives sins except Allah?
But Muhammad also forgives sins
Surah 46:31
Our people, respond to the one who calls you to God. Believe in Him: He will forgive you your sins and protect you from a painful torment.’