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Christians and Muslims - Get to know Islam to understand Muslims better
God has created all men with a free will and given them the freedom to spend their life on earth, according to their own will. You are exempt from God to answer only one question:
“Will you, man, live with God and before His face for eternity or not?”
As for God all people are created freely, equally and endowed with the same rights, as we can read in
Matthew 5:45
for he maketh his sun to rise upon good and bad, and raineth upon just and unjust.
it is self-evident that we as believers also accept and perceive the self-chosen way of life of all people, including Muslims. The Muslims are our neighbors whom we love and cherish, like ourselves.
To achieve this, it is necessary to get into contact to them and to build up a good relationship.
Building a good relationship is only possible if you have dealt with their backgrounds and know them. Several areas must be considered:
Islam as a religion, the tradition of the countries Muslims come from and their form of faith resulting from these two points, that is, the mentality of Muslims, furthermore the Western civilization and cultural values in which they are now living here in the United States of America, Canada, Great Britain, Australia or New Zealand, also have a strong influence on them.
Only by taking all these items into consideration and correctly assessing them it will be possible to better understand Muslims.
In this book, Islam is seen as a world wide recognized religion. The Quran is accepted as the holy book of the Muslims. In no way are the contents of Quran or the Quran itself or the Islamic faith being judged.
What is reported and commented are the strongly rooted and deep thoughts of a Muslim from the point of view of a former Muslim. For these remarks, I recalled my thoughts about Jesus and Christianity in those days, so as not to pass on theories and feelings of the Muslims to us theoretically but practically.
There are currently more than 1.8 billion Muslims on earth who, according to the Bible, are our neighbors, whom we love and to whom we should preach the Gospel, which means a happy message.
This can be done better if we know about their beliefs, knowledge and judgments about Jesus and Christianity.
This book will help you to get to know the Islam in order to better understand Muslims.
This book is available as Print and E-book through this website, Amazon and in bookstores: ISBN 978-3-935593-0-52
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
1. Basic Information
1.1 Religions and Life on the Arabic Peninsula at the Time of Muhammad
1.1.1 Idolatry
1.1.2 Judaism
1.1.3 Christianity
1.2 The Life of Muhammad
1.3 Some Information about the Quran
CHAPTER 2
2. Comparison Between Statements of the Bible and the Quran
2.1 Genesis – The History of Creation
2.2 The Prophets of the Old Testament
2.2.1 Adam
2.2.2 Noah, نوح, Nuh
2.2.3 Abraham, إبراهيم, Ibrahim
2.2.4 Jacob, Yaqub, إِسْرَآءِیْل, Isra’il
2.2.5 Joseph, يوسف, Yusuf
2.2.6 Moses, ٰمُوسَى, Musa
2.2.7 Jonah, يونس, Yunus, يونان, or Yunan
2.2.8 Job, أيّوب, Ayyub
2.2.9 David, داوود, Dawud
2.2.10 Solomon, سليمان, Sulaiman
2.3 John the Baptist, يوحنا المعمدان, Yahya
2.4 Jesus Christ, عيسى بن مريم, Isa, Son of Mary
CHAPTER 3
3. The Islam after Muhammad
3.1 The Caliphs after Muhammad
3.1.1 Abu Bakr (أبو بكر)
3.1.2 Umar/Omar (عمر)
3.1.3 Uthman/Osman (عثمان بن عفان,)
3.1.4 Ali (علي)
3.1.5 Further Successors of Muhammad
3.2 Important Groups within the Islam
3.2.1 Sunnites (Sunni Islam)
3.2.2 Shiites
3.2.2.1 The Imam
3.3 The Faith Cleavage of Islam
CHAPTER 4
4. Features of the Islam
4.1 The Prophet Ahmad
4.2 The Holy Spirit
4.3 The Jihad – The Holy War
4.4 The Original Sin
4.5 About the Acceptance of Holy Books
4.6 Islam as Finisher of God´s Religions
4.7 Dealing with People of Other Faiths
4.8 The Trinity
4.9 Salvation and Damnation
4.10 The Paradise
4.11 The Hell
CHAPTER 5
5. How Muslims and Christians See Each Other
5.1 How Muslims See Christians
5.2 How We Should See Muslims
CHAPTER 6
6. Answers to Muslims about Jesus
6.1 Jesus Christ – Son of God
6.2 Jesus Christ – God
6.3 Father, Son and Holy Spirit
6.4 The Cross
6.5 The Meaning of the Blood of Jesus
CHAPTER 7
7. Answers to Muslims about Christianity
7.1 What is Faith?
7.2 Body – Spirit – Soul
7.3 What is Paradise?
7.4 Man as a Sinner
7.5 Baptism
7.5.1 Baptism in Water
7.5.2 Baptism in the Holy Spirit
7.6 Rebirth
7.7 Life in the Holy Spirit
7.8 Death and Resurrection of the Believers
7.9 The Saved Human
CHAPTER 8
8. A Brief Introduction of how Muslims Live Nowadays
8.1 How Sharia Law is Exercised
8.1.1 Natural Abilities
8.1.2 About Personality
8.1.3 The Personally Modified Faith
8.2 How Do Muslims Behave According to the Sharia?
8.2.1 The Individual Religion of a Muslim
8.2.2 A Comparison Between Two Muslims in Practicing Islam
8.3 Execution of Islam by Governments
8.4 Execution of Islam by Organizations and Groups
8.5 Engagement of Muslims in Different Islamic Countries
8.6 Behavior of Muslim Emigrants