16 Required Foods For Islam

Thoughts that Muslim Leaders Must Digest

1. Dying Dinosaur: Wise leaders must recognize the severe damage now being visited upon Islam. This damage is occurring because regressive Muslim leaders choose to keep Islam chained to a dying dinosaur. This dinosaur represents the present wrong understanding of An-Nisa 4:157 and 158.
2. Enjoying Being Chained to a Sick Dinosaur: Interpreting An-Nisa 4:156 and 157 literally, rigidly, and superficially is like enjoying being chained to a sick dinosaur. To make matters worse the sick dinosaur is moving in a direction away from ALLAH. Thus, it is leading an already regressive Islam into deeper regression.
3. Israel is Holding Its Breath: The strategic thinkers in Israel, who have a close familiarity with the teachings of the Quran, are holding their breath. They hope Islam never understands the correct teaching of An-Nisa 4:157 so that recalcitrant Muslim leaders continue to understand this verse in an unreasonable way. Because once Islam understands this verse correctly, Islam will hold Israel responsible for Israel's murder of GOD's innocent Messiah.
4. ALLAH's Spiritual Giant: Wise Muslim leaders must realize the devastating spiritual and practical damage being done to Islam by unwise Muslim leaders. These directionless leaders casually lock out of Islam ALLAH's Spiritual Giant whom the Quran eleven (11) times identifies as His Messiah.
5. Professional Treatment By an Optometrist: When will partially blind Muslim leaders receive eye treatment from professional optometrists? After this eye treatment they will see more clearly how much help and blessing for Muslim Arabs that they are rejecting while they turn their backs on the Holy Quran's now living born of a virgin man from the illegally occupied little town of Bethlehem.
6. The Now Living Man Whom ALLAH So Greatly Respects: How can thirsty unenergetic Middle East Islam choose to reject a symbolic energy drink being offered to them by ALLAH? His now Risen man, who stated that he would satisfy our deepest thirst, was greatly respected by ALLAH. Therefore, the Almighty raised him up alive from his imprisonment by the Israelis in a sealed and heavily guarded dark Jerusalem tomb.
7. The Amazing Still Alive Two Thousand Year Old Man: Why are Muslim theologians so angry with Muslims that they hide away in the sky this gift from ALLAH of this still alive spiritual resource? Why is he still hidden in the sky when Muslims need him so badly in the land that Israel is even today stealing from Palestinians?
8. Head Scarf Cannot Replace Still Living Messiah: The now deceased Ayatollah Khomeni of Iran attempted to evilly betray Muslim women. This deceitful man cruelly substituted a lifeless piece of cloth (hijab) in order to steal a place of valuable prominence in the life of each precious Muslim woman. The rigid, calloused Ayatollah did not care that that sacred prominence had been reserved by ALLAH for His own Risen Compassionate Man from West Bank Bethlehem.
9. Al-Quran's Messiah is Still Alive: Without taking into account the Injeel's considerable teaching about ALLAH's now Risen man still being alive, Al Quran 4:158 also authoritatively teaches that the same Messiah of the Injeel, is still alive and well even today.
10. Frantically Committed to The Status Quo: Islam's leaders, for their own strange reasons, nurture an aggressive strategy of frantic devotion and allegiance to the static status quo. So happy are these complacent leaders that Islam is not making progress that they do not wish to be bothered with ALLAH's Risen Messiah strongly desiring to reside among them in order to provide assistance and to have warm fellowship with them.
11. Losing Strategy For Islam: Muslim leaders have not yet realized that a regressive strategy for Islam is a losing strategy for Islam.
12. An Idol Named Regression: With no intention to be disrespectful to the great Religion of Islam but certain well-intentioned leaders steadfastly insist on remaining committed to the virtual worship of an archaic, rigid, simplistic, superficial, anachronistic understanding of two verses. But these verses are not simplistic. Rather, they are complex and extremely profound. In fact, out of all the verses in the Holy Quran, these two verses need the most concentration so that their spiritual ridicule of the impotence of Israel in failing to end forever the life and light of ALLAH's Messiah, is not missed. For these leaders rigid insistence that these two profound verses demand to be interpreted superficially is a great loss to both Islam and to the entire world community of nations.
    These leaders demand this illogical commitment to superficiality even though a more profound understanding is more logical, is even more in agreement with certain other verses in the Holy Quran and is more in agreement with the previous Scriptures, which the Quran authoritatively proclaims that it confirms. (Please see Al-Ma'idah 5:48) Yet, despite all this compelling evidence that points in the opposite direction, these leaders demand that each and every Muslim must make a devastating for Islam choice to ignore evidence and truth. By insisting on their way or the highway, they corrupt the positive concept that the community must be in agreement, to maintain their power. So in their lack of insight and lack of wisdom they have chosen to worship an Idol named Regression, which is excessively displeasing to ALLAH.
13. Ignoring ALLAH's Gracious Decision: The Quran has informed Islam in Al-Imran 3:45 that there is one man who is not only the eminent (wajih) man in this present world but who is also the eminent, wajih man in the world to come. But these leaders have decisively chosen to ignore ALLAH's decision to make this man eminent in Islam. Instead, they have mistakenly stamped him with an escaper label instead of awarding him a victor's trophy along with appropriate recognition that is befitting of his eminence.
14. A Virtual Warrior Named Resourceful Imagination Is Missing In Action: Do not Muslim leaders possess any creative imagination at all? I have not heard of one leader in all of Isam attempting to enter into a strategic dialogue with the Holy Quran's now still alive eminent (Wajih-Al-Imran 3:45) man concerning the vital future of Islam's children.
15. Ignoring Potential Strategic Dialogue With the Only Man Who Was Ever Born of A Virgin: Would it not benefit Islam enormously for at least a few wise Muslim leaders to attempt to be engaging in a strategic dialogue with an invisible resurrected person due to the Quran strongly advocating for the value of the invisible. (Please see Al Baqarah 2:3). He entered this world by a supernatural event, which should be recognized, as persuasive evidence establishing credibility for the spiritual power of ALLAH Who has been consistently present in his life from its very beginning.

So the reality is that this one unique man was born of the Virgin Maryam/Mary in what was then the little town of Bethlehem. Yet, regrettably, the very town of his birthplace is even today being violated by heavily weaponized Israeli soldiers illegally occupying that once sacred town. So justice for the Arab Muslims and the Arab Christians now living in that town is not considered an option by the current illegal Israeli leadership. And that leadership would even consider assassinating the U.S. President because he is attempting to slow down the illegal land grab of Israel while he seeks something close to justice for the Palestinians. Thus, he is enraging many in Israel who are frantically trying to figure out how to make him permanently disappear.

So the now Risen Messiah is observing all of these evil doings and sincerely yearns for more justice for both the Arab Muslims and the Arab Christians whose land is presently occupied by the land worshipping Israelis. But even though the Living Messiah could be along side both Muslims and Christians in their present losing struggle against what has been the virtual Israel-U.S. coalition, the deceived Muslims continue to disbelieve that the Messiah possesses any resurrection power because they mistakenly reject his resurrection. So they refuse to recognize him as a spiritual resource because of their refusal to understand that he actually rose from death. So this confused, complicated struggle between Arab Muslim unbelievers in ALLAH's Risen Messiah and Jewish unbelievers in His Risen Messiah should not be trivialized because both sides choose to muddy their own waters with a ferocious commitment to unbelief in the Messiah's resurrection. But the Israelis add even more fuel to the fire by having an additional ferocious commitment to both injustice and to a greed for land, which the Palestinians do not seem to be so infected with.

So for the negotiators in the peace process not to realize that ALLAH'S Risen Messiah has a vital interest in its outcome, just because he is invisible and silent, seems especially judgmental, presumptuous arrogant and naive.

Do all of these participants in the peace process assume that when ALLAH raised his obedient Messiah from death two thousand years ago, it was just to make a theological point and to help the sale of eggs and chocolate bunny rabbits during Easter weekend? Was not a main purpose of his resurrection to have him be accessible and to be involved in justice issues when and if the main figures would welcome his participation in the peace process. To think otherwise is to assume that the Risen Messiah operates without a moral compass and that ALLAH Himself is overwhelmed by all of the negative circumstances.

ALLAH's Unique Still Alive Messiah

Because in my writing I choose to treat this now Living man as a real living entity whose being alive now makes a practical difference, I open myself to being stereotyped as an unrealistic religious fanatic whose ideas are not reality based. But I am operating based on an assumption that is rooted in Scriptures, which assume the reality of the unseen and invisible (please think fax machines, e-mail, radio and T.V. signals, etc., etc., etc.) Additionally, the Holy Quran in Al-Baqrah 2:3 also urges belief in the unseen or the invisible. Consequently, just because I am perhaps the only person who is applying the role of the unseen in the tangible way that I am, does not mean that I am less correct or more inappropriate than those who do not apply these principles of the unseen in these relevant ways. For did not our Messiah tell us that we would all ultimately be held accountable for every word that we speak. So either that was just rhetoric on his part that has no basis in reality or there truly exists some unseen, eternal spiritual recording devices in operation that are far, far beyond our ability to comprehend that far, far exceed the scope of the Bush/Cheney surveillance system. So according to Al-Baqarah 2:3, I am actually applying the teaching of the Holy Quran in a spiritually responsible way.

So when I take the Living, invisible presence of the now unseen Risen Messiah in a super-serious manner, I am not near as far from reality as people including many Muslims would like to think that I am. So I submit, that on the basis of my own assumptions about the prevalence of the unseen, it is others who are making a serious omission if they do not take ALLAH's living presence quite seriously. Therefore, with the presupposition that an unseen spiritual reality truly does exist and that the Holy Quran encourages and even urges each of us to believe in that unseen reality, we will soon examine just a few of the credentials that this now invisible man established throughout the Biblical land two thousand years ago when he was very visible in that region.

And we will readily see through the brief practical resume that I present, whether or not many leaders in Islam will want to rethink what they think is the importance of the Risen Messiah on the basis of some of these notes that I have made about him in this extremely brief resume. By thinking about some of these other issues that are not related to son of GOD issues, I think Muslims can get a much better idea about whom they are choosing to either make a vital part of both their lives and their community, or whom they are trying to exclude from Islam.

To make my point about how important other aspects of the Messiah are in addition to the Son of God issue, lets listen in on this brief exchange between a Muslim and his final judge at the Last Judgment who happens to be the Risen Messiah according to Matthew 25, Acts 10, Acts 17, and Al Fajr 89:22.

Muslim: "What are you doing judging me. I already am convinced that you are not the Son of GOD. So you have absolutely no right to be my Judge."

Risen Messiah: "Where did you get the idea that I could not be your Judge if I was or was not the Son of God?"

Muslim: "I don't know. I just assumed that if you were not the Son of GOD, you were not important. So I didn't expect you to be my judge."

Risen Messiah: "Have you heard of the one man who denied me three times when I was arrested by the temple police?"

Muslim: "Yes, I remember him. You mean that guy who cursed so much, Peter?

Risen Messiah: "Yes, you're right, Peter. Do you know what he answered to a Roman a couple of years after I rose from the dead when the Roman officer asked Peter what I had commanded him to preach?"

Muslim: "What did he tell the Roman that you had commanded him to preach?"

Risen Messiah: "He told him: He commanded me to preach and to testify that he is the one who GOD ordained to be the judge of the living and the dead. And that everyone who believes in me receives forgiveness through my name. So you see that he did not mention even one thing about him preaching any thing about me being the Son of GOD."

Muslim: "Wow, I wished someone had told me that being our judge is so important. "Therefore, whether or not you are GOD's son or not is not what I should have been focusing on. Because you being my judge here and now is a very big deal for not only me but for everyone else. Wow! Wow!"

A Very Abbreviated Resume of the Risen Bethlehem Man

1. Even graphic details of his execution are predicted in Zabur 22 (Psalm 22) well over 1000 years previous to him being crudely executed by members of the Roman occupying force who nailed him to a cross under the orders of the Roman Governor, Pontias Pilate.
2. He was born of a virgin named Mary or Maryam, and despite what the Roman Catholic Church advocates, it is not appropriate that he should be called the "Mother of ALLAH" or the "Mother of GOD."
3. It is recorded that on a few occasions that he was empowered by ALLAH to give new life to those who were dead.
4. By ALLAH's empowerment he gave sight to many who had been born blind.
5. Sometimes he used metaphors to describe his role in our lives such as being a good shepherd, being a vine with us being the branches, describing himself as bread to satisfy our spiritual hunger, as being able to satisfy our deepest thirst, as the personified Way, the personified Truth and personified Life, being the Door through which persons could enter into GOD's Kingdom, that finding him would be like finding a pearl of great price for which people would sacrifice their other belongings in order to purchase the valuable pearl etc.
6. Many times he conveyed deep spiritual truths through telling very simple parables or stories.
7. He displayed an unusual sensitivity to women that was often in contrast to the harshness that the precious women had experienced from the insensitive religious establishment.
8. He displayed a deep love and affection for children quite similar to what I have observed being typical of many Muslim and Christian families in today's Arab Middle East.
9. It was only a few days after ALLAH had raised the Messiah from the dead that he showed his culinary skills to his fisherman followers by grilling them some fish when he prepared them a breakfast of grilled fish and bread near the lake where they had been fishing.
10. With ALLAH's empowerment, he was given the ability to tell a foreign Samaritan woman whom he had never before met, about her five husbands. He also explained that the man with whom she was then living was not her husband. (She was probably being put out by these various men because she could not give them the children they wanted). Significantly, he did not condemn her. In fact, she was so appreciative of him that she invited other town people to come and meet him in order for them to decide for themselves whether he was or was not their Messiah.
11. He was not nationalistic and consistently interacted positively with people who were not Jews and actually healed several non-Jewish persons.
12. He came quite close to being murdered by attendees of his own home synagogue. They became enraged with him because when he participated in their synagogue service by doing a public reading from the Torah, he also elaborated on two sensitive interactions in the Scriptures that they strongly preferred not to be reminded of. One concerned the ancient Prophet Elijah healing a hated Syrian military officer of the dreaded disease of leprosy when there were many Israelites with the same dreaded disease that ALLAH did not lead His Prophet to heal.
    The other concerned GOD leading the Prophet Elisha during a famine to provide food for a non-Jewish Syro-Phonecian widow. But he pointed out there were also numerous widows in Israel needing help to whom GOD did not send His Prophet. Their rage was directed at the Messiah for him daring to expose their own racist jealousies and prejudices. Consequently, in their hateful rage they pushed him out of the town and unsuccessfully attempted to push him off a cliff to his death. (Significantly, some of these murderous tendencies and tendencies toward racism are observable characteristics of too many superior feeling Israelis today).
13. He would not allow any of the men who traveled with him to try to discourage him from needing to endure suffering. He was convinced that his suffering was one of the main ways he would fulfill GOD's purposes by on this first visit to earth being a Messiah who was willing to suffer. But it would not be until his next trip that they would see the glory GOD would give him.
14. He was so deeply sympathetic to suffering by others that he openly wept when he visited the tomb of a close friend named Lazaerus who had only recently died. His tears were genuine even though he knew in his heart that GOD would hear his intercessory prayer for his friend and actually raise him up from death to new life only a few minutes after he had wept.
15. On at least two occasions ALLAH provided one or more angels to strengthen him when he was experiencing great pressure and stress.
16. On one occasion he endured forty days of fasting so that he could concentrate on prayer for those who would accompany him in his preaching, teaching and healing visits.
17. He would not tolerate especially religious leaders to be cruel, condemning and insensitive to women.
18. He stood up to the religious leaders and teachers and both condemned and unmasked their occasional extreme callousness.
19. He strongly condemned those religious merchants who exploited the sacred temple in order to try to extort worshippers and swindle them into paying exorbitant prices for temple sacrifices.
20. He did not back off offending religious authorities and harshly confronted them with their gross hypocrisy. He quoted the same type of condemnation and exposure as did the ancient Prophet Jeremiah/Yeremiah and used Jeremiah's same words in condemning his own day's hypocrites, when he called the Jerusalem temple merchants "a den of thieves."
21. He consistently healed non-Jews as well as Jews and revealed that peoples needs were more important than religious rules by driving the Jews out of their minds by healing on the non-working day, the Sabbath.
22. He greatly offended and shocked the Jewish religious establishment by backing the authority he had received from GOD to forgive people of their sin proving that GOD had given him this authority by performing miraculous acts of supernatural healing immediately after he had forgiven them.
23. He would not allow his followers to use weapons or violence in an attempt to prevent him from getting arrested in order to be violently executed.
24. He made it clear while speaking from the cross that he sincerely asked GOD to forgive his Israeli murderers.
25. He revealed that GOD had empowered him to exercise authority over aspects of nature by his turning water into wine at a Cana wedding celebration; calming a storm; walking on water; multiplying bread and fish in order to feed the hungry; and healing the sick and the blind.
26. He consistently taught positive humanitarian values such as it being more blessed to give than to receive; that those who live by weapons, die by weapons; not to practice personal violence; to forgive even your enemies; to be more critical of yourself than of others; not to be a judgmental person; and to treat others as you yourself would like to be treated.