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Absence of Punishments in the Bible is Not Forgiveness

١ أبريل ٢٠١٤
Absence of Punishments in the Bible is Not Forgiveness

Absence of punishments in the corrupted Bible is not forgiveness, but encouragement for crime! Do not boast to us about it! The Munassiron (those who call themselves missionaries) boast to us that their book (corrupted of course) is all about love and peace, while Islam contains much fear of Hell and punishment. Let us go beyond the point of whether the corrupted Gospel is all about love and peace or not and ask the following question: Is it a good thing to be devoid of punishments and fear? Or has it led to psychological and behavioral disorders? When you see Christians in Central Africa burning, stabbing, and cutting Muslims, even though their relationship was good and there were no old grudges, and when you see similar behavior in Bosnia by the Serbs and Croats, in Nigeria, in Indonesia, and other countries... ask yourself: Is there anything in their religion that prevents them from these practices? Is there a prescribed punishment for harming others? In reality, the corrupted Bible does not have clear punishments for those who attack and oppress others. There is no Heaven and Hell with specific descriptions as in the Quran and Sunnah. The doctrine of reward and punishment is vague and contradictory, just like their corrupted religion as a whole. There is talk of punishment in the lake of sulfur and worms, but who deserves this punishment? It is not clear. Then, the distortions of Paul and others made Christ, peace be upon him, bear the burdens of those who believed that God incarnated in Christ who was crucified on the cross! Exalted is Allah above what they say, greatly exalted. Then, their texts, opinions, and schools of thought contradicted regarding the sins that are atoned for by the alleged crucifixion of the Lord: Is it Adam's first sin? Or what was before baptism? Or all sins? And should faith in the resurrection of Christ be included? Then, the sins that were not atoned for, some of their sects dropped them with letters of indulgence that the church man grants to the girl who sits between his hands in seclusion, explaining in detail how she committed adultery! Or for the money that the rich can pay, unlike the poor. Ask the Munassir who boasts to you with "mercy" and "love" and the absence of punishment and severity in their corrupted religion... ask him: O the merciful and compassionate one, if you torture, kill, and cut me, what is the prescribed punishment for me in your religion? The question is not about the repulsive texts about injustice in general, but about specifying the punishment. While in our religion, you find the Prophet, peace be upon him, saying: "Whoever kills a covenant-maker will not smell the fragrance of Paradise, and its fragrance can be found from a distance of forty years" (narrated by Bukhari). And he said: "Whoever oppresses a covenant-maker, deprives him of his right, burdens him beyond his capacity, or takes something from him without right, I will be his opponent on the Day of Resurrection" (authenticated by Ibn Hajar). Of course, there will be many objections to this speech: - Many Christians do not even read their books. This aggressive behavior is not solely due to the absence of prescribed punishments in their religion or the claim that Christ bore their sins. - There are Christians who do not harm or oppress. - There are Muslims who oppress and harm, and yet we do not attribute the disorder to the religion itself. I understand all of that. Therefore, I do not limit the explanation of aggressive phenomena to the absence of punishments and the doctrine of Christ bearing sins, but what I want to say is that their absence is not a good thing to boast about, but it is one of the causes of aggression and injustice. While the texts of fear and punishment in Islam are, in reality, a mercy to humanity and contribute to forming the Islamic personality that does not oppress or harm.