Ahmadinejad Throws a Fit-Fitnah

This short paper will be based on a true dream I experienced on December 18, 2007 in my apartment in Seattle, Washington. I will introduce my dream with an eight line song structured on a love song that I used to hear on the radio when I was a teenager in the late 1940's. But my current song to the Iranian controversial President is not a love song.

Here is the background for my true dream. On December 16, 2007 near Greenlake in Seattle, Washington, I was having my daily prayer walk. I was especially praying for Muslim leaders of the Mid East region to begin taking the Risen Messiah Isa/Jesus, who is positively spoken of in the Qur'an, more seriously.

As I walked and silently prayed, I began to become convinced that our Risen Messiah would be pleased if I wrote a short letter to President Ahmadinejad encouraging him to take the Risen Messiah Isa of the Qur'an and the Injeel more seriously and also to bury his destructive hostility toward the Nation of Israel.

Two nights after writing the letter to the President when I had not yet mailed it, and before my Jordanian wife had returned from her visit to Jordan, I was having some type of vague dream. Its contents were unclear. But suddenly at the end of the dream, the dream became very vivid. A short man who definitely resembled President Ahmadinejad suddenly appeared about seven meters in front of me. He was excitedly jumping up and down, frantically waving his arms like a frightened mother hen flapping her wings while trying to scare away an enemy rooster. And with each jump he would shout out a word that sounded Arabic, but I had never heard this word before. (Later this word fitnah became the name of a short documentary film in Europe that was not complimentary to Islam. But at that time I had never heard the word fitnah so that the new word had not been a part of my subconscious where dreams are known to originate. He excitedly repeated the word fitnah about seven times before the dream ended and the sound of the word faded away.

When I got up in the morning I immediately called a Saudi friend and asked him if he knew the meaning of this strange word “fitnah”. He wanted to know where I heard it and emphatically told me that it was a strong Arabic word that meant to “start a great disturbance”.

Then about a week or so later I was attending a Bible study being led by an Iranian from a Muslim background in Iran. However, he had his back seriously injured from a car accident in Iran. But his back injury had been healed when his back had been prayed for in the name of the Risen Jesus. Thus, as a direct result of his back's miraculous healing when no doctor had been able to give him any relief except for Dr. Jesus, he had become a dedicated follower of the compassionate Messiah.

At the end of the short Bible study I asked this Iranian man and his Iranian wife if they had ever heard of the foreign word “fitnah”. Immediately they both simultaneously and rather excitedly said that the word “fitnah” meant to “start a great disturbance”, using precisely the identical words as my Saudi friend had used. They further explained that it was the same word fitnah in both Arabic and in Farsi.

Then, several months later I was on a prayer walk in the hills above our summer home near Salt Jordan. There I met a woman Christian Bible teacher. I told her of my dream with the new strange word “fitnah” repeated about seven times. I explained how both an Arabic speaking friend as well as a Persian husband and wife each had told me the same meaning for my dream word which was used by the short, excited, arm waving, shouting Iranian President. She said that the Arabic word was also a word used in some Arabic versions of the Bible's Book of Acts. (It seemed to be used in some Arabic translations three times and in others only once. In Acts 34:5, it is used in speaking of a Jerusalem riot.)

But the context in the Arabic translations of fitnah's use was the same. It was some kind of great disturbance that the Rasuul/Apostle Paul caused when he preached the message of the Risen Christ to either Jews or Gentiles who strongly resisted hearing about the fact that the GOD's Messiah had been raised from death. And of course this First Century riot situation would be the same type of situation that would be disturbing to President Ahmadinejad 20 Centuries later when Tom Griffith, aka Abu Toma, would be trying to persuade Muslims and Muslim Rulers to embrace the Qur'an's Risen Isa as Isa is documented as having Risen in the Qur'an's Al-Im'ran 3:55. This is true despite how An-Nisa's 4:157 is misunderstood that he did not die and rise. And no matter how shubbiiha lahum is manipulated into becoming a CIA type identity switch so that someone else supposedly endured a prolonged public execution instead of Isa being executed. This is even though Al-Im'ran 3:55 is documented proof that this silly man made fairy tale is a lie. But all Muslims are forced and coerced to believe that Isa did not die and rise. So my persuasion that the Qur'an actually teaches that these are two accurate historical events that Al-Im'ran 3:55 does confirm and that he did die and rise could easily lead to a fitnah among Muslims.

Then, months later I had one more relevant encounter with the word fitnah as used in the Qur'an which could have intimidated me to avoid being obedient to ALLAH through serving Him through my writing about the Messiah's Resurrection. But instead of being intimidated, when I saw the sentence “Al-Fitnah is worse than killing” written in Al-Baqarah 2:191 of the Qur'an, this both encouraged me and motivated me all the more to want to bring the truth of the Qur'an's Messiah's Resurrection to the hearts and minds of all Muslims. But especially was I desirous to communicate to all Muslim Kings, Muslim Emirs, Muslim Presidents, and other Muslim Rulers whose denial of him appears to bring so much unnecessary harm and suffering to especially women Muslims who are so greatly harmed by being robbed of having a compassionate, Risen Messiah/Advocate who will be able to so greatly encourage them.

But the bottom line is this. Even though you, Mr. Ahmadinejad, may not be aware that Al-Baqarah 2:191 states that Al-Fitnah is worse than killing, you must also know that by Kings, Emirs, Presidents, and Rulers like you and the Syrian killer, President Assad, and the Yemen killer, President Saleh, and the Bahrain killer King, and the killer of Libya, Colonel Ghadafi, that each of you merciless Rulers have already murdered many multitudes of innocents because each of you have refused to submit to the authority of the Qur'an's Zabur chapter 2. Because Zabur 2:2 tells you that you must acknowledge the authority of ALLAH's anointed or experience sudden destruction by GOD's wrath as this Zabur 2:2 warns you will ultimately happen.

For those 4 Rulers; the evil President of Syria who slaughter's multitudes of Syrian protestors while being proud of claiming ALLAH did not raise His Messiah from death as the Qur'an's Al-Im'ran 3:55 documents that ALLAH did raise him; the wicked President of Yemen who is so proud of breaking his promise to step down from power so that he caused multitudes from both sides to be slaughtered. Yet, all Muslim Rulers, Kings, Presidents, and Emirs are proud of him that he does not trust Al-Im'ran's Risen Messiah who could help him be more honorable instead of enjoying so much bloodshed caused by his again and again breaking his promises; or the murderous Colonel Ghadafy who all Muslim Arab Kings and Muslim Emirs are proud of for wrongly believing that the Messiah did not die and rise from death as ALLAH promised him in the Qur'an's Al-Im'ran 3:55 that he would empower him to do. But what ALLAH would not empower Ghadafy to do is to order his soldiers to ruthlessly rape and murder many innocent Muslim women as a supposed harmless atrocity of war. For if the virtually self worshipping Ghadafi would courageously break with the solidarity of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah rejecters and were to himself spiritually embrace ALLAH's compassionate, Risen, Living, Accessible, Anointed Messiah, then the Messiah would undoubtedly strongly interfere with him ordering his lustful soldiers to brutally rape vulnerable Muslim women. And the Messiah would also influence him not to shamefully bribe the Rulers of poor Arab nations with his own people's oil money so that the African leaders would call him the totally undeserved title of King of Kings and Lord of LORD's. Furthermore, the Kings and Emirs would not tolerate being in union with the rotten, immoral King of Bahrain. This wicked King totally rejects ALLAH's own Risen King. Yet, he immorally arrests and persecutes multitudes of compassionate Doctors, Nurses, and other dedicated medical personnel for their faithfully fulfilling their professional and humanitarian obligation to medically treat seriously wounded protestors of their island nation's autocratic rule.

Yes, Muslim Rulers, Muslim Kings, Muslim Emirs, and Muslim Presidents are proud of these wicked, corrupt bloodthirsty Muslim autocrats whom they each tolerate despite their fierce rejection of ALLAH Anointed Risen Messiah. Nevertheless, the righteous Almighty will burn these corrupt, hypocritical, calloused leaders like they are burnt toast for their crime against humanity when they appear before Him at the final Judgment. This severe Judgment will occur for them even though they will be heavily approved by their brother Muslim Rulers for holding firm in rejecting the clear teaching of the Qur'an's Al-Im'ran 3:55 about the Qur'an's Messiah's Resurrection. The other Rulers will be proud of them for not becoming contaminated with the compassionate ethics of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah.

O President Ahmadinejad, I am convinced that when the Qur'an warns that committing a fitnah is being worse than killing, the Qur'an is in no way condemning any person similar to myself who sincerely attempts to motivate certain wicked murderous Rulers to immediately stop using their denial of truth about the Qur'an's Al-Im'ran 3:55 raising of the Messiah as a convenient excuse to murder more innocent citizens in their own nations. Furthermore, I am totally convinced that the embracing of ALLAH's Risen Messiah of Al-Im'ran 3:55 by Muslim Rulers, Muslim Presidents, Muslim Kings, and Muslim Emirs will bring progress in preventing more and more despicable murders of innocent protestors by autocratic, self-righteous Risen Messiah rejecters.

In the simple eight line song that opened this paper about you O President Ahmadinejad having dreams and also about this writer having a dream, the identity of the three mostly cruel dreams that you still havefor yourself to accomplish are more than obvious. You dream night and day about destroying your enemy, the Nation of Israel, which you have mentioned publicly that this should occur. And you also dream of making Iran a mighty nuclear nation, both to dominate the Persian Gulf region of nations, but also to counter-balance Israel's Nuclear weapons and to use your own nuclear capability to potentially destroy Israel. But also, though it is never publicly mentioned, the word “fitnah” that you repeatedly shouted in my dream of you while you jumped up and down wildly waving your arms, was intended to reveal your rabid dream of opposing ALLAH's Risen Anointed Messiah who is so prominently featured as Anointed Risen Messiah when the teaching of Al-Im'ran 3:55 is combined with so many other wonderful verses about him in the Qur'an such as how he will be eminent both in this world as well as eminent in the next world. Then, when that teaching is combined with the Qur'an's Zabur, chapter 2, which reveals ALLAH's Anointed's own authority as is documented by the Qur'an in Al-Anbiya 21:105. As your repeated use in my dream of the powerful word fitnah appears to indicate, I am apparently ahead of my time in presenting my own futuristic vision of what will be GOD's Will to soon occur as an indirect result of what has become publicly known as the Arab Spring which has been the overthrow of Muslim autocrats. For I have become convinced that by the way that the powerful word fitnah was repeatedly stated in my dream about you indicates that you will be emphatically upset with a new paradigm that will soon develop in Middle Eastern Arab Islam when ALLAH makes a new unexpected use of His vast world-wide infrastructure of Muslim Mosques to open them to the gur'an's Risen Messiah. These He has developed and nurtured throughout the entire world and not only in the Arab Muslim Middle East.

For with the effective assistance of the ubiquitous internet, which makes public so much previously unknown vital information and perspective which is now becoming revealed to wise Muslim Rulers and leaders as well as to the youth of Islam. And those unwise Rulers who refuse to recognize what wise Rulers, Kings, Presidents, and Emirs are observing, will soon be viewed as anachronistic, irrelevant and out of date, That is, if they do not soon acknowledge these two obvious realities regarding the teaching of their own Qur'an about the Messiah's death and Resurrection. For all of these Rulers to continue to interpret An-Nisa 4:157 in a way of negative denial is to demand that all Muslims continue to insist that the Qur'an's Messiah did not die at all, even temporarily, is totally ridiculous in the light of the overwhelming contrary, compelling evidence in both the Qur'an and in the confirmed Injeel. Consequently, it is well past time for there to be mandatory open dialogue among well represented groups of all Muslims at all levels of how the overwhelming evidence from the Qur'an with the Qur'an confirmed Injeel and Zabur as resources. This is powerfully revealing the new refreshing directions Islam must go in light of all the convincing evidence emerging of the new contemporary role of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah of Al-Im'ran 3:55 since he is now accessible to the Muslim people.

Secondly, it is ludicrous to interpret the man made ridiculous myth wrongly which is based on the Arabic verb phrase shhubbiiha lahum meaning it appeared so unto them, so that it is counter productively demanded that it be understood to mean that there was a CIA type substitute who died in the place of the ALLAH aided escaped Messiah. This is also irrational, untrue, and ludicrous. Especially does this ridiculous misinterpretation bring shame on Islam and on all Muslim Kings, Muslim Emirs, Muslim Presidents, Muslim Leaders, and Muslim Rulers when this bizarre interpretation requires something absolutely bizarre to occur. Muslim leaders are actually saying that ALLAH and the Qur'an are flagrantly lying since the Qur'an clearly documents in Al-Im'ran 3:55 that ALLAH Himself was ultimately responsible for both the Messiah's death, (mutawafiik means to cause to die) and that in the same verse ALLAH additionally is recorded as giving His Messiah Isa His own sacred promise that He would raise him from death. And because ALLAH kept that promise to raise him up alive, this fact totally highlights the lie and openly exposes the absurdity of the present demand by Muslim leaders that all Muslims must continue to interpret 4:157 in a ridiculous, self defeating way that is causing extreme bloodshed and untold hardship for especially Mid East Arab Muslims and especially Muslim women.

Fantastic News for ALL Mosques

When will this new exciting transformation inevitably occur in Islam's multitude of Mosques, in order for Islam to continue to be taken seriously as a leading world religion so that current Muslim Rulers are not made to appear to be ridiculous, irrelevant clown figures like W. Bush is considered to be by so many? They will inevitably be considered to be W. Bush clown figures if they continue to totally deny compelling evidence of how they force the now respected Qur'an to totally contradict itself regarding the death and resurrection of the Qur'an's Messiah. But the new exciting Paradigm will be brought into the open by ALLAH for the benefit of all the extremely efficient infrastructure of Mosques throughout the world.

For Muslims everywhere, when in the near future, they faithfully enter their Mosques for prayer, they will soon be aware of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah's presence. He will not only be in their Mosques, but he will also be in their own hearts and in their own homes which will bring a new joy and a new accountability into their individual and corporate lives which Christianity has recklessly discarded. Christianity made a major error when it exchanged a vibrant relationship with GOD's Risen Messiah for luxury, weapons, and for arrogance. Therefore, since much of Western Christianity has lost so much of its vibrance and life, ALLAH will partially replace it by soon bringing new meaning to Islam and to multitudes of Mosques. This will be partially a result of Western Christianity so seriously disappointing ALLAH. This rejection up until now of His Risen Messiah by Muslims has left Him with a serious vacuum to fill with a revitalized and dynamic Islam that will appropriately welcome the Qur'an's Risen Messiah and will be Risen Messiah centric. And this appropriate recognition of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah will not be something that is appreciated by you, self-centered President Ahmadinejad. You will jump up and down; wave your arms and frantically cry out “fitnah!” But those who may not recognize you will correctly think that you are a clown.

But those Muslims who are now for the first time enjoying the Qur'an's Risen Messiah in their hearts, in their homes, and in their Mosques, will compassionately pray for the jumping clown from Iran, that you will finally find meaning in something that does not involve destroying others which regretfully includes your fairly effective attempt to virtually destroy the one time great nation of Iran.

A Wonderful Contrast to Evil

I believe that it is especially important for All Muslim Risen Messiah rejecters to note this relevant factor when considering the contents of this paper on President Ahmadinejad's own frantic fitnah he experienced in my dream. This word was totally foreign to me because I had never previously heard of it so it was not a part of my subconscious. Therefore, the only legitimate conclusion is that the source of this repeated again and again fitnah word in my dream was supernatural from GOD. I am personally convinced that it was given to me to write about in order to fit in with my attempt to help current Muslim Kings, Muslim Emirs, Muslim Presidents, Muslim Rulers, and their officials to realize that they are currently making a terrible error in their reasoning by not giving ALLAH's decisive statement in Al-Im'ran 3:55 the credit it is due for strongly clarifying the fact that the Qur'an's Messiah did indeed both die and rise and is therefore today accessible to all His beloved Muslims.

In contrast to President Ahmadinejad's negative dreams of destroying Israel, of Iran possessing its own nuclear weapons in order to intimidate and control Persian Gulf nations and for his dream of Iran to annihilate Muslims' enjoyment of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah, here is my own personal dream. It is the following dream which was stated in a poem my former wife and I received in the mail the day that her cancer Dr. told us that she would die in about six months from lymphoma, which proved to be an accurate medical prognosis.