Christianity Compared with Islam
Join us in an exploration of Christianity and Islam side-by-side to discover the truth.
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The Qur'an misunderstands the Incarnation
The Originator of the heavens and the earth! How can He have a child, when there is for Him no consort, when He created all things and is Aware of all things?
The Qur'an mistakenly challenges the incarnation on the grounds that Allah has no wife ('partner') and doesn't need to procreate as we do. This shows a significant misunderstanding in Islam about Jesus and his incarnation. Christ is not created, nor procreated.
72 wives in Paradise for Muslim men
It was narrated from Abu Umamah that the Messenger of Allah said: “There is no one whom Allah will admit to Paradise but Allah will marry him to seventy-two wives, two from houris and seventy from his inheritance from the people of Hell, all of whom will have desirable front passages and he will have a male member that never becomes flaccid (i.e., soft and limp).’”
The 'houri' represent a harem of wives in Paradise, repeatedly promised to Muslim men in the Qur'an and hadith traditions. References objectify them as sexually desirable (they are untouched, with 'full breasts' and 'big eyes') and Muslim women are warned not to annoy their husbands, being mindful of the houri.
Sins weighed on Judgment Day
The weighing on that day is the true (weighing). As for those whose scale is heavy, they are the successful.
In Islam, it is believed that the Last Day (Judgment Day) involves a weighing of a person's sins and good deeds. If their good deeds outweigh this bad deeds, they will enter Paradise. Islam therefore puts great importance on gathering up good deeds as a means to our own 'success' at the Last Day. Good deeds are seen to 'cancel out' the bad (Bukhari 526), and punishment in the world reduces punishment after death (Bukhari 17).
Quran: Jesus didn't die on the cross
And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.
According to most Muslims, Jesus didn't die on the cross
OT speaks of Christ
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
A constant need for forgiveness
Narrated Abu Huraira: I heard Allah's Messenger saying." By Allah! I ask for forgiveness from Allah and turn to Him in repentance more than seventy times a day."
This tradition from Sahih Bukhari tells us Muhammad asked for forgiveness more than 70 times a day. By contrast, both the Bible and the Sahihs acknowledge Jesus as uniquely sinless.
'Permission to beat them'
Iyas ibn Abdullah ibn Abu Dhubab reported the Messenger of Allah as saying: Do not beat Allah's handmaidens, but when Umar came to the Messenger of Allah and said: Women have become emboldened towards their husbands, he (the Prophet) gave permission to beat them. Then many women came round the family of the Messenger of Allah complaining against their husbands. So the Messenger of Allah said: Many women have gone round...
Serpent crusher
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
The Saviour will defeat Satan (head crushed) through suffering (heal bruised)
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