And what made him even more confused is that he found a full "Sura" (chapter) in
the Qur'an named "Mary" that contains a lot of respect to Mary (peace be upon her)
which is not the case even in the books written by Christians nor in their Bibles. He
did not find a chapter named after "Fatimah"(the prophet's daughter) nor "Aishah"
(the Prophet's wife), may Allah (God) be pleased with both of them. He also found
that the name of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) was mentioned in the Qur'an 25 times
while the name of "Muhammad" (Peace Be Upon Him) was mentioned only 4 times,
so he became more confused. He started reading the Qur'an more thoroughly
hoping to find a mistake but he was shocked when he read a great verse which is
verse number 82 in the chapter Al-Nisa'a (Women) that says:
“Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other than Allah,
they would surely have found therein much discrepancy”.
2)Vincent Monte
A French thinker says: the Quran clarified for me the History of Christianity, the
early Christian’s or Nazarenes didn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus, and divinity did
not come into question until 325AD when the First Council of Nicaea convened, had
this voice been ignored modern day Christians would believe much like the Muslims
believe in Jesus as a prophet.
- Leopold Weiss
It somehow disturbed me to see so real a prayer combined with almost mechanical
body movements, and one day I asked the hajji, who understood a little English:
‘Do you really believe that God expects you to show Him your respect by repeated
bowing and kneeling and prostration? Might it not be better only to look into oneself
and to pray to Him in the stillness of one’s heart? Why all these movements of your
body?’
As soon as I had uttered these words I felt remorse, for I had not intended to injure
the old man’s religious feelings. But the hajji did not appear in the least offended. He
smiled with his toothless mouth and replied:
‘How else then should we worship God? Did He not create both, soul and body,
together? And this being so, should man not pray with his body as well as with his
soul? Listen, I will tell you why we Muslims pray as we pray. We turn towards
Kaaba, God’s holy temple in Mecca, knowing that the faces of all Muslims, wherever
they may be, are turned to it in prayer, and that we are like one body, with Him as
the centre of our thoughts. First we stand upright and recite from the Holy Koran,
remembering that it is His Word, given to man that he may be upright and steadfast
in life. Then we say, “God is the Greatest,” reminding ourselves that no one deserves
to be worshipped but Him; and bow down deep because we honor Him above all,
and praise His power and glory. Thereafter we prostrate ourselves on our foreheads
because we feel that we are but dust and nothingness before Him, and that He is our
Creator and Sustainer on high. Then we lift our faces from the ground and remain