Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics

and have it more abundantly’’ (Jn 10:10). We must
earnestly desire to bring this abundant life of Christ to
Muslims and, indeed, to all who do not yet possess it.

2. In John 14:6, Jesus teaches: ‘‘I am the Way, the
   Truth, and the Life. No one come to the Father except
   through Me.’’ We must strive to present the true Way, Truth,
   and Life to Muslims so that they might come to know God
   as their loving Father.


3. Immediately before His ascension into heaven, Jesus
   gives His disciples the Great Commission to preach His
   saving Gospel to all: ‘‘Make disciples of all nations,
   baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
   and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I
   have commanded you’’ (Mt 28:19–20). This commission is
   ours as well.

[ 1 ]At the same time, however, some

Islamic traditions contain bizarre

anthropomorphic stories, such as this

strange vision of Allah’s shin in the end

times: ‘‘Then the Almighty will come to

them in a shape other than the one

which they saw the first time, and He

will say, ‘I am your Lord,’ and they will