Trust Not Militarized U.S. – But Trust Qur'an's Risen Messiah

It is not insignificant that one of the five Pillars of Islam is for Muslims to compassionately look out for the needs of the poor and suffering. Truly, the needs of those who have less is continuously of great concern to the Merciful ALLAH. Therefore, it will be no surprise that the subject of the last Parable of the Messiah who now has become the Qur'an's Risen Messiah, was our responsibility given to us by ALLAH to consistently show compassion for those in need.

In fact, so great is ALLAH's concern for those in need that He directed His Messiah to communicate the following message to his disciples. That the final destiny of all men and women everywhere is directly linked to how each of us does or does not provide for the needs of the hungry, the thirsty, the lonely strangers, those needing clothes, the sick and also to visit those in prison.

In this, his last parable it is important to realize that the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah was not being presumptive when in this Parable he presents himself in the role of a King who is sitting in judgment on those who have hardened their hearts against those in need. For ALLAH has appointed Him who is now the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an and who is soon to be the welcomed Risen Messiah of Islam, to be his representative in Judging all the world's people, whether they are Muslim, Christian or whatever designation they have chosen. Each person is ultimately responsible to the only True ALLAH who is ONE. So the Messiah is revealing in this one easily understood story that he has received authority from ALLAH to be responsible to evaluate the compassion or lack of compassion that we have either shown to others or have withheld from those in need.

As we approach this very relevant last parable told by the now Risen Messiah, there is an awesome reality that is difficult for our finite minds to comprehend.

Thus, this awesome reality is both wonderful and frightening.

For the entire parable is based on the assumption that the King (who represents Risen Messiah) has been empowered by the all Knowing ALLAH to have a first hand knowledge of each and every act of compassion that every person throughout history has shown to persons in need. But also he has been empowered by the All-Knowing, All-Powerful ALLAH to be aware of each time that each of us has callously chosen not to be compassionate when that opportunity was actually our personal responsibility.

Our finite, limited minds tell us that such knowledge is beyond the ability of ALLAH to give to even the Qur'an's Messiah such wondrous and awesome knowledge. However, when we reach that limiting conclusion we reveal that our minds have placed a limit on the unlimited Might and the unlimited Wisdom of the Almighty and All-Wise ALLAH. For He not only created the Universe but He also, according to what is twice documented in the Qur'an, uniquely empowered the Qur'an's Messiah to give sight to those born blind, to heal lepers, and to even give new life to persons who had died.

Our minds are unable to grasp this virtually unbelievable reality that the Almighty ALLAH is also able to empower His Risen Messiah to have such awesome knowledge about what each of us has or has not done to show ALLAH's compassion to those in need. Yet, because the Messiah has been empowered by ALLAH to have that marvelous knowledge, according to his story, each of our eternal destines will be determined by whether we practice compassion or callously withhold compassion from those in need.

It is not surprising that in his last story we will observe a direct parallel with Islam's, Thikrah. The responsibility to show compassion is not only a Pillar or Islam. But our responsibility to be compassionate and to give to those in need is our ALLAH given responsibility to care for others which permeates the pages of the entire Qur'an. So it is not surprising that one encouraging statement in the Messiah's parable reveals that from the very foundation of the world his kingdom has been prepared to be the destiny of those who show compassion to those in need. So it is my great privilege to share with you this story thoughtfully designed by our Messiah in order to remind us of our eternal accountability to ALLAH regarding the absolute necessity of our showing compassion to even the least important of His Messiah's brothers and sisters. His teaching reveals that when we do show ALLAH's compassion to the least of the least and the lowest of the lowest, it is as though we are personally showing compassion to ALLAH Himself through His Messiah. For ALLAH equally love's the lowest. Conversely, those of us who do not show compassion, it is as we are callously withholding compassion from ALLAH Himself by withholding compassion from His own beloved Messiah who equally loves the lowest. And by our withholding that compassion, the wrong choice is being made by us to withhold compassion from the very least important of our brothers and sisters. This may seem like an insignificant wrong choice. But according to the Qur'an's Messiah, it is a wrong choice with the very serious eternal consequences of our either enjoying ALLAH's presence for eternity or of our being without His presence for eternity. For to meet the needs of others in need, in the sight of ALLAH, is not a trivial. Rather, it is our ALLAH given sacred responsibility.

The Final Judgment – Matthew 25:31-46

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, (please observe the similarity of his coming with angels to Judge to his also coming with Angels to Judge in the Qur'an's Al-Fajr 89:22) he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. And the people of all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left."

"Then the King will say to those on his right, come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

"The righteous will answer him, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, and thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?"

"The King will reply, I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

"Then he will say to those on his left, depart from me you who are cursed into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angles. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me."

"They also will answer, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison and did not help you?"

"He will reply, I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me."

"Then they will go to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

So What about the U.S. Government?

I ask you O Muslims; please seriously consider this.

To be lost is what the Qur'an's Risen Messiah emphatically proclaims to all of us is our eternal condition if we choose to not show compassion to the least important of these our brothers and sisters. Yes, this is the decisive message of his last parable that is readily available to be read by every literate citizens of the U.S. including all of the literate U.S. government officials. To go to eternal punishment, whatever and whenever that may be, is the destiny for those whose one main crime is to consistently exhibit a calloused pattern of denying compassion to those in obvious need.

But I seriously ask: Is denying compassion on an equal level of wickedness as the mass murder of innocent civilians in a sovereign state that has not committed an overt crime against the aggressive invading nation? No! It is not. Since a man who was born of a virgin and was sufficiently in favor with ALLAH to be empowered to give sight to those born blind, heal lepers and raise the dead and later be raised from death himself, taught that withholding compassion brought horrible eternal consequences, it is ominous to think what he could tell us about the even worse eternal judgment that will happen to mass government murderers. These mass murderers have recently held high office in the U.S. government and are broadly smiling as they tell audiences about their significant accomplishments. But rather than smiling, they should be weeping, tearing their clothes, publicly confessing their wickedness and humbly pleading with the Almighty for His forgiveness.

Would he not tell us that a much more severe eternal punishment is due for those U.S. government officials who have unnecessarily but intentionally chosen to murder well over a million Vietnamese, and multitudes of Laotians and Cambodians as well as tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and countless others. For deliberate murder and withholding compassion are virtually incomparable in magnitude of wickedness. Yet, the compassionate, now Risen Messiah greatly emphasized the wickedness of even withholding compassion from the least of his brothers.

(Please read Revelation 6:15-17 for an idea of what will only initially happen to leaders who willingly initiate inhumane barbarity.)

My point is this. Self appointed U.S. analysts have since the end of the U.S.- Soviet Cold War, in their scholarly articles in Journals and in their expensive books, have debated whether our post Soviet Union world is unipolar (dominated by the U.S.) or multipolar. From my perspective I would rephrase the question and ask: Is our world only dominated militarily by one self appointed gangster, (unipolar) who according to the teachings of the Qur'an's now Risen Messiah, has chosen for itself a destiny of eternal punishment for militarily crushing those who resist U.S. domination? Or, is our world today more multipolar where other less militarized nations, less aggressive nations, less self righteous nations, and less under GOD's imminent judgment nations, who attempt to balance the dominance of the mighty, but too often calloused, too aggressive and too uncompassionate U.S.?

From ALLAH's perspective, and His perspective is the only perspective that ultimately eternally counts, our world today is not U.S. Centric but is Risen Messiah Centric. All nations may be shouting to one another the words of Revelations 13:4, "Who is like the beast? Who can make war against him?" And the answer to those two questions is that no nation or group of nations up to this point, can make war against the beast or have a successful war against the U.S. (I am making an assumption that the current U.S. is the Beast of Revelations 13, because the book of Daniel establishes that Scripture uses the term Beast to refer to a dominating empire and the U.S. is the only dominating power in our world today.)

But because of ALLAH's total disgust with how this U.S. beast often chooses to excessively abuse other nations and their precious people, ALLAH will allow this self centered, arrogant beast to virtually make war against himself. So this military beast will not fall because of wounds inflicted by other nations. But this aggressive beast will fall due to self inflicted economic wounds. And this is what the world is observing today about the U.S. Just because ALLAH may seem to be silent when one mighty nation such as the U.S. arrogantly and callously abuses other weaker nations such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Iraq, that is not the end of the matter as far as ALLAH is concerned. ALLAH is only being silent because He takes time to observe and allow the evil that has been sown to produce its own poisonous fruit. Since the nation punishes itself, there is no way that He can be accused of being abusive like the abuse he detests.

So know this! ALLAH's seeming silence in light of our great national wickedness is only temporary silence. For what the democratically elected leaders of a powerful, abusive nation sow for that nation, the voters in that aggressive, abusive nation will eventually reap.

The helpful perspective for especially the exploited Muslims nations of the Middle East is this. Know for certain that though there will be times when amoral, unscrupulous, virtually blood thirsty leaders such as the partners in the manslaughter team of W. Bush and High Priest (Aaron/Arun) Cheney, force and manipulate their own nation to worship their chosen bloody idol of death for innocents. Muslims must never themselves sin against ALLAH by following these two men's despicable path. For these two leaders, despite the heroes they appear to be while they conduct their shameful money making speaking tours, will apparently eventually reap their eternal rewards of separation from the blessed ALLAH and from His own Messiah whom ALLAH in the Qur'an sacredly promised to raise from death. (Please see Qur'an's own Al-Imran 3:55)

Therefore, though it may have been one of the leaders of the U.S. who arrogantly boasted of rolling over today's other nations, their advisors in bloodshed such as Henry Kissinger, Paul Wolfowitz and Carl Rove never once proved that they had the credentials of being qualified to advise by receiving empowerment and insight from ALLAH by raising the dead, giving sight to those burn blind, or by healing the leapers. These three men's shallow insight is totally limited to man's limited perspective. But in ugly contrast to the integrity, compassion and insight of the Qur'an's own Risen Messiah whom you will soon choose to follow, (Al-Imran 3:55) each of these U.S.models or advisors have been exceptionally proficient in laying the groundwork for bloody massacres of the innocent while deceitfully convincing themselves and much of the watching world that such wicked activity has received a stamp of approval by the compassionate Risen Messiah of the Injeel. Of course U.S. leaders remain totally unaware that the Muslims they are murdering in Iraq follow the Qur'an that reveals to them its Risen Messiah who is now their Messiah. But he is also the New Testament's Messiah. Of course their Risen Messiah has been absolutely disgusted and grieved with the bloodshed of innocent women and children he has observed in Iraq. My own gut feeling is that when the Qur'an's Risen Messiah saw the broad smile on W. Bush's face while the blood of innocent women and children was still flowing in the streets of Iraq, he had a similar disgust to the deep disgust as that motivated the shoe thrower to risk imprisonment, torture and possible death if he threw the shoe. But he thought it would be worth it to stop that smile. So he courageously threw his shoe at the insolent smile. And I would not be surprised if in heaven he does not receive a special show thrower award designed by an angel who was there cheering when he threw it.

Though most Christians of the West are far too complacent and conditioned not to scream in protest and show moral outrage at such blatant wickedness, there will not be a similar reluctance among more deep feeling Muslims when once millions of Muslims realize that it is also the same Risen Messiah of the Noble Qur'an whom certain U.S. leaders blaspheme. Yes, they severely mock the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an when these White House leaders imply that he actually approves and even urges them to participate in the wickedness of bloody massacres of tens of thousands of innocent Muslims and Christians in Iraq. But when Muslims finally discover their own Risen Messiah in the clearly printed pages of their own Qur'an, ALLAH will at last have a multitude of dedicated servants who have not been seduced, conditioned and brainwashed to be satisfied with the U.S. government's bloody policies against innocent Iraqi Muslims. But in the name of ALLAH and in the name of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah, Muslims will protest blasphemous slaughter that presents itself as being both ALLAH's and His Messiah's will.

In case there will be Muslims who in protest suggest that since the Apostle Peter founded the Catholic Church, it should be the authorities in the Catholic Church who must raise their voices in united protest against the unholy massacres committed by the massive U.S. Military Industrial Complex. Though the Pope has made some weak statements about the injustice perpetrated against the Arab Muslims people, his statements have been exceptionally weak in comparison to what the immoral massacres demand. In addition, due to the vast amounts of money that is required for the Roman Catholic Church to pay off the thousands of law suits against many of its sexual predator priests, it does not dare offending for the sake of truth and justice, those who financially support the Roman Catholic Church. To believe the Church's pervasive propaganda that the former fisherman Peter founded today's Roman Church is like believing W. Bush's fraternity brothers had a major role in building the White House. The Roman Catholic System was not founded by Peter no matter how many brightly dressed Catholic Church authorities claim that it was.

When you realize there are numerous recent articles in publications about Italy leading Europe in corruption, you will see how ineffective the Rome centered world-wide Catholic Church is in influencing secular leaders in its home base in Italy. Furthermore, in the November 22 edition of Newsweek, there is a full two page article about how the current playboy Prime Minister of Italy is promoting women as sexual objects and bikini clad play things for men. The Newsweek article stated:

"At a recent rally he (The Prime Minister) said there was one sure way for women to insure their future happiness and financial security."Look for a wealthy boyfriend", he told a shocked crowd." Also, this Prime Minister's being under constant investigation for corruption does not leave the Roman Catholic Church headquarters in Rome with much of a moral base from which to speak out against the murderous U.S Bloodshed steam roller in devastated Iraq.

So when all issues are considered, it appears that ALLAH has chosen this time for it to be the Muslim Umma who will rise to the occasion and partner with their own Qur'an's spiritual but now invisible Risen Messiah. For ALLAH's own anointed Messiah has been empowered by ALLAH to be much more powerful than a dozen or a dozen, dozen steam rolling American immoral alliances.

So O Muslims, choose this day who you will serve. Will you serve deceptive, clever, sometimes Republican led, sometimes Bush-Cheney led, sometimes Muslims hating, Neo-Con led, sometimes potentially militaristic, Sarah Palin led, or a now mighty U.S. which has the future potential to be much less mighty and even to be bankrupt and to be virtually owned and controlled by Communist China? Or, instead of being committed to and serving the ever untrustworthy U.S. where you can never be certain what the U.S. actually stands for or by whom it will be guided, will you choose to be in Union with the steady, trustworthy, ALLAH empowered, Risen Messiah of the Qur'an? For he has power from ALLAH Himself and remains full of both compassion and integrity. Yes, he also is the man of whom the Qur'an states will not only be eminent/wajeh in this world, but also eminent in the next world. Yet, he remains humble. So will you now choose ALLAH's and the trustworthy Qur'an's Risen cornerstone of truth and integrity?

He is the Messiah whom Israel rejected 2000 years ago and continues to reject today. He is the Risen Messiah whom U.S. leaders claim to embrace but openly mock by following bloody U.S. policies. So I am definitely not suggesting that you choose to embrace the caricature of a Risen Messiah who has now been commercialized, militarized and packaged to be for sale by much of Western Christianity.

Rather, I am pleading for you to embrace the now Risen Isa who is only partially but not wrongly portrayed in the pages of the Qur'an. But now we will see the kind of personal Messiah that the Qur'an's Messiah is as he is more fully portrayed in John, chapter eleven. There he raises a beloved brother from the dead, as the Qur'an tell us that he sometimes did without providing details about whom he raised from death.

Two sisters named Maryam and Martha lived with their brother Lazarus whose income they depended upon. Isa often visited their home and he truly loved the three of them. When Lazarus died, Isa did not arrive until he had been in the tomb for four days. So when he arrived near their modest home, he was overwhelmed with grief. He compassionately asked the sisters: "Where have you laid him?" They answered, "Come and see." Then we read the shortest, but possibly the most powerful, compassionate verse in the entire Bible. John 11:35

"Isa Wept."

In these two words we are allowed by ALLAH to see into the mind and heart of His Messiah. In a way that we cannot comprehend, the Risen Messiah not only wept when he was with those two sisters who had lost their only brother. But we also see something much more profound and expansive in the two words, Isa wept.

These two words tell us that in a way that is beyond our imaginations to understood, Isa today weeps over bloody U.S. policies. Isa weeps over every Iraqi, Afghani, Lebanese, Hezballah, Hamas member, Irani, American, Brit, Al-Qaeda, Talabani, Israeli, etc, etc., who have died or suffers because of man's stupidity, selfishness, and blindness to think that war, weapons and vengeance solve anything. With every mother or father or sister or child or relative who has lost a loved one, our Messiah weeps.

I am pleading with you O Muslims, as tears toll down my face. Please understand that the two words, "Isa Wept," tell us that this is the heart and the emotions of the Qur'an's Risen Messiah. He weeps. When the Qur'an twice states, "he raised the dead, he gave sight to those born blind, he healed the lepers," the Qur'an is not only telling us that ALLAH had given Isa the amazing gift of healing and the power to give new life. The Qur'an is also telling us that sickness, blindness and death truly hurt the Messiah's heart and he yearns to heal and to give new life.

So I am saying that I am deeply saddened when I see that much of U.S. Christianity does not weep and weep, and weep over the suffering and deep, deep misery that our U.S. policies and our awful, ugly killer weapons have brought and may continue to bring to the precious Muslims, Christians and Jews of the Middle East. Because even with the highly militarized Jews, there will be much less awful death and suffering if America did not worship the ugly concept of solving problems with weapons and if our own economy was not so dependent on our lucrative weapons industry. Furthermore, we must no longer attempt to try to solve our unemployment problem by providing so many employment opportunities in the U.S. military.

So please O Muslims, please do not allow much of American's calloused, warped, false version of the Qur'an's and the Injeel's compassionate Isa drive you away from him. Because the two words "He wept" means that in the verb's present tense, "He weeps." He weeps not only because of death and suffering. But he also weeps because he yearns to be Islam's close friend. And he weeps because he has been advertised by President W. Bush as the Jesus who encourages U.S. officials to initiate policies that are so focused on killing Osama Bin Laden that we don't care if we murder two Sovereign nations in our bloody ugly process of trying to kill him and to destroy his Al-Qaeda net work.

But you, O Muslims, are wise enough to know that the Risen Messiah as advertised by W. Bush and Dick Cheney, is not the Risen Messiah of the Qur'an and the Injeel. But rather, the true Messiah is the Messiah, that right now if you stop and turn off the volume on the T.V. and listen very carefully, you will hear him knocking at the Gate of Islam. He is patiently waiting for someone to open the gate and to greet him with the welcoming words;

Ahalan Wa Sahlan, and to give him a warm hug and to invite him in for tea.