Abisafyan

Islam its Antiquity & Integrity
There are some serious surmises having been saved in ‘hard discs of minds’ by most of people and some of our intelligentsia even, which needs to be ordered accurately.
The most critical among them is the misbelief being proliferated far and wide dishonestly that Judaism and Hinduism and sometimes Christianity are also counted therewith, are the ancient most religions. And as a consequence thereof Jews, Hindus and Christians are being misconstrued as the ancient most nations respectively. But this is a serious misperception utterly. As a matter of fact it is Islam alone, which is not only the ancient most religion (which hems-in a complete code of life) - but at the same time it is the latest most religion as well. And as such Muslim Nation is the only ancient most and original most nation the world over.
Islam is the ancient most, for Islam alone is a God Given Gift among the rest of the religions and ergo is the Divine Religion, which encompasses a complete code of life and that’s why it is not simply a religion rather ‘the religion’ (viz Ad-Din). This was bestowed upon the first Man viz Father of the humanity, the Adam (PBUH) - when the latter was ordained of dwelling in the earth. Allah (SWT) says: “We said: "get ye down all from here; and if, as is sure, there comes to you guidance from Me, whosoever follows My guidance, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve”. (2-38). And thus its antiquity goes beyond the humanity itself, for the there was no other religion at that time. And ergo Islam is second to none in antiquity as well as integrity.
Now so far its modernity is concerned, Islam is the only latest and up-to-date religion, for it was concluded, consolidated, accomplished and made functional by Allah Almighty through His Last Prophet, Mohammad (PBUH) himself in all aspects. All the Prophets were given the task to preach and establish Islam and that’s why, we the Muslims alone believe in all the Prophets (PBUT). Because all of the Prophets, right from the first Prophet, Adam (PBUH) to the last Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) were Muslims and were preaching Islam. And none in the world other than the Muslims believes in any Prophet in the proper and true sense of the word, for none of the Prophets were preaching any of other religion but Islam. And given that all the Holy Prophets (PBUT) have been Muslims. All other nations therefore, the Jews and Christians in particular have concocted very outlandish and ridiculous stories against the Holy Prophets (PBUT). And that’s why Christians believes in crucifixion of the Christ (viz Eesa Ibni Maryam PBUH). The question is; had the then Jews or Christians been His believers or followers, would have they preferred Him (PBUH) to be crucified by themselves, even if their myth about the crucifixion is presumed? Likewise the erstwhile Jews had killed brutally most of the erstwhile Prophets, because the Jews were not only disbelieving them but were also defying them. And none would be able to contradict these conclusive proofs, what I want to convey.
Allah Almighty says in Holy Qur’an: “mankind were one community, and Allah sent (unto them) prophets as bearers of good tidings and as warners, and revealed therewith the scriptures with the truth that it might judge between mankind concerning that wherein they differed concerning it, after clear proofs had come unto them, through hatred one of another. And Allah by his will guided those who believe unto the truth of that concerning which they differed; Allah guideth whom he will unto a straight path. (Surah al-Baqarah: 2-213). Allah (swt) says: “we have honoured the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favours, above a great part of our creation”.
Similarly Allah Almighty says in another place, “He hath ordained for you that religion which he commanded unto Noah - and that which we inspire in thee (Mohammad) - and that which we commanded unto Ibrahim, Moses, and Messiah, saying: establish the religion, and be not divided therein: dreadful for idolaters is that unto which thou callest them. Allah chooses for himself those whom He pleases, and guides to himself those who turn (towards him)”. (Surah Ash-Shura: 42-13).
God (SWT) says: “Allah did choose Adam and Noah, the family of Ibrahim, and the family of 'Imran above all people” (3.33).
Noah (PBUH) said; "… my reward is only due from Allah, and I have been commanded to be one from Muslims”. (Yunus: 10-72).
Allah says about Ibrahim (PBUH) and his Sons (PBUT): “when his Lord said to him, be a Muslim, he said: I became Muslim (viz i bow my will) to the Lord and Cherisher of the universe.” (2-131). “and this was the legacy that prophet Ibrahim left to his sons, and so did Yaqub (viz Jacob); "oh my sons! Allah hath chosen the faith (viz Islam) for you; therefore die not unless you are Muslims”. (Surah: Al-Baqarah: 2-32).
Allah (SWT) reveals about Prophet Yaqub (PBUH): “nay! Were you witness when death visited Yaqub, when he said to his sons: what will you worship after me? They said: ‘we will worship your Allah and the Allah of your fathers; Ibrahim and Ismael and Ishaq, one (true) Allah only, and onto him we are Muslims.” (Al-Baqarah: 2-133).
Allah says about prayers of Prophet Ibrahim (PBUH) & Prophet Ismael (PBUH): "our lord! Make of us Muslims, (viz bowing to thy will), and of our progeny an Ummah of Muslim (viz bowing to thy will).”
Allah says in respect of prophet, Lot (PBUH) and His people: “… We found there but one house of Muslim. (Surah: Adh-Dhariyat 51-36).
Prophet Yusuf (Joseph) (PBUH) prays to Allah:
“Make me to die Muslim and join me to the righteous.” (Surah Yusuf 12- 101)
Prophet Moses (PBUH) says to his people: “O my people! If ye have believed in Allah then put trust in him, if ye are indeed Muslim. Surah: (Yunus – Jonah: 10-84)
God says that all Israel Prophets’ religion was Islam:
“Lo! We did reveal the Torah (to Moses) - wherein was guidance and a light by which the prophets judged, who were Muslims who then turned Jews”. (Surah: Al-Maeda: 5-44)
Allah Says about Prophet Eesa Messiah (PBUH) disciples:
“And when I inspired the disciples (saying): believe in me and in my messenger, they said; we believe, bear witness that we are Muslim.” (Surah: Al-Maedah 5-111).
God discloses about Pharaoh:
“When the fact of drowning overtook him (pharaoh) he exclaimed; I believe that there is no god save Him (God) in whom the children of Israel believe and I am from Muslims. (Yunus- Jonah: 10-90).
About the Queen Saba God says:
“She (Saba) said my Lord! Lo! I become Muslim with Solomon to the Lord of the Worlds.” (Surah: An-Naml 27-44)
Likewise Allah Almighty says in Surah Al-Nahl: “and verily we have risen in every nation a messenger (proclaiming) serve Allah and shun false gods…” - (16-36). All other religions are manmade and splinters simply, given the defilement that was made with passage of time by the defying non-believers of Islam - ergo I can say with authority that all other religions are the corruption (viz altered form) of Islam and all other nations are corruption of Muslim Nation. And that’s why that all the basic notions of Islam can be viewed easily in all other religions - though in a much distorted forms. In all other manmade religions the concept of God, Prophets, Angels, Divine Scriptures and Day of Judgment virtues, vices subsist in one way or the other. And we must not forget that Adam (PBUH) was the first human being who was told about all these Sacred Realities in the first instance. So the question is whether peoples other than Muslims could have acquainted with in the first instance about all those Sacred Realities, without duplicating them from Islam? But since the followers of all other religions in the first instant were those who were defying Islam as well as the Muslims - therefore they were trying to craft different versions of Islam, satisfying their own choices, some of them by design and some of them by default - hence they did it in the shapes of all manmade prevailing creeds. In the current present even so many outfits have splintered from Islam and they are lying at different distances from Islam - some of them lie within, some lie at distance and some of them have skipped the circle of Islam. But surely in every domain one and only one currency alone has the genuine legitimacy - and in the presence thereof none of the counterfeit currency has any worth to work, similar has been the case of realm (viz the entire cosmos) of Almighty Allah.
Prophet Moses (PBUH) was also as the best Muslim as all other Prophets (PBUT) had been and hence He was also preaching Islam and only Islam - and he had nothing to do with Judaism. Hence Prophet Moses (PBUH) said, “O pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the world, incumbent in that I should not speak regarding God anything except the truth. I have brought to you a clear proof from your Lord, so send forth with me the children of Israel”. (Surah Al-Aa’raf 7-104,105). About the Jews as will as Nasara (i.e. Christians), Almighty Allah says: “the Jews call Uzair a son of Allah and the Nasara call Messiah the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the truth!” (Surah At-Taubah: 9-30) In addition to that Almighty Allah says: “they taken as Lords besides Allah their rabbis and their monks, Messiah the son of Mary when they were bidden to worship only God there is no god save Him. Be He glorified from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)”! (Surah At-Taubah 9:31). Judaism was the brainchild of the Jewish rabbis, which was crafted as a regular creed, centuries after the lifetime of the Moses (PBUH) - (about 1270 years after the sad demise of the Prophet Moses, AS) by them during 4 & 5 BC. And that’s why Allah Almighty has addressed Jews in this way: “say (o Mohammad): o ye who become Jews! If ye claim that ye are favored of Allah apart from (all) mankind, then long for death if ye are truthful”. (Surah Al-Jumu’ah 62-6). After passing away of the Prophet Suleiman (viz Solomon, PBUH) his Kingdom bisected in two parts; ‘Yehudia’ (viz Yehuda, Judah or Judea) and Samaria. Yehudia (viz Yehuda, Judah or Judea) got its name from Judea or Judah (after the name of Prophet Jacob’s (PBUH) fourth son, Judah) - subsequently also applied to one of the tribes of Jews. According to Jews history Prophet Moses (PBUH) passed away in 1272 BC that means round about 19 centuries before when Muhammad (PBUH) was chosen to be sent as the Last Prophet (PBUH).
Likewise Christians do not believe in the Prophet Eesa Ibn Maryam (viz Jesus PBUH). Because He was as the best Muslim as all other Prophets had been. So far the terms ‘Christians’ and ‘Christianity’ are concerned the same did not have any existence in the lifetime of the Messiah (PBUH). And as evident from The Holy Qur’an, the true followers of the Messiah (PBUH) were never and nowhere named as ‘Christians.’ They were named as Muslims and/or as a relative term ‘Ansar-ullah’ by The Allah Almighty - as The Holy Qur’an would reveal that “when Eesa became conscious of their disbelief, he cried who will be my helpers (viz man ansar’ee?) - in the cause of Allah (viz illallah) the disciples said; we will be Allah’s helpers (ansar-ullah) - we believe in Allah and bear thou witness that we are Muslims” (Surah Al-e-Imran: 3-52). In another place in the same Surah, Allah Almighty says; “and he (your prophet) commanded you not that ye should take the angels and the prophets for lords. Would he (your prophet) command you to disbelieve after ye had become Muslims?” (Surah Al-e-Imran: 3-80). And that’s why Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur’an; “Ibrahim was neither a Jew, nor a Nasara; but he was an upright Muslim and who was not of the idolaters” (Surah Al-e-Imran: 3-67). And being non-Muslims, the Christians therefore believe in Christianity - that was crafted mostly by St Paul (3-62 AD). And likewise both the nouns ‘Christians’ and ‘Christianity’ for the followers & the crafted creed were coined in 43/44 AD respectively, by St Paul, a Jewish convert Christian, along with others in Antakya (viz Antioch, Turkey), far after the elevation of the Messiah (PBUH) to the Heaven.
Here it is also worth mentioning that given their misnomer about ‘Nasara’, either by default or by design Christian priests misconstrued the term ‘Nasara’ from the word ‘Ansar-ullah’ and/or from the word ‘Nasra’ - viz Nazareth, a city in Israel, the birth place of the Eesa Messiah (AS) and thus were using it (namely Nasara) for the followers of their religion (viz Christianity) for a longer period. Whereas Allah Almighty has addressed the true followers of the Eesa Messiah (PBUH) in the first instance as ‘Ansar-ullah’ with reference to the context of what they had declared on the query; viz “the disciples said; we will be Allah’s helpers (ansar-ullah) - we believe in Allah and bear thou witness that we are Muslims” (Surah Al-e-Imran: 3-52). But after passage of many years when there were no true followers of Prophet Eesa Messiah any longer - and the so-called followers of Eesa Messiah (PBUH) were in fact following the coined dogma of Christianity - consequently thenceforth they were not called ‘Ansar-ullah’ - but they were called ‘Nasara’ and that too in the converted sense - and that’s why Allah gives the reference in the words: “and with those who say; we are ‘Nasara’ we made covenant but they forgot a part of that whereof they were admonished” - (first part of Holy Verse No: 14 of Surah Al Ma’idah). On the other hand the then Jews used the word ‘Galilee’ or ‘converted outfit of ‘Nasaria’ as a slang for the then Christians. Whereas the term Christian was also given to them as slang by the then polytheists of Antakya - during the preaching of the new creed by St Paul in 43/44 AD. And thus finding no other name St Paul, along with others also owned up the term ‘Christians’ and ‘Christianity’ for the followers and the creed respectively.
Islam being the natural Religion (viz Ad-Din) has also been illustrious in its name, for its name; Islam has also been God Given, right from the day one. And that’s why that in first part of Surah Al-Hajj, Allah Almighty says; “and strives for Allah with the endeavor which is his right. He has chosen you, and has not laid upon you in religion hardships; it is the faith of your father Ibrahim. It is he who has named you Muslims, both before and in this (scripture)…” (Surah Al-Hajj 22:78). Whereas the names of all other religions, being manmade, are also manmade and/or ascribed to some celebrity or region and that too in some cases centuries after the surge thereof. For instance, Jewish rabbis were the mastermind of Judaism (viz Yehudiat) - and the name of this creed was ascribed to Judea or Judah (viz Yehuda), after the name of Prophet Jacob’s (PBUH) fourth son, Judah viz Yehuda, centuries after the lifetime of the Prophet Moses (PBUH) - by the Jewish Rabbis round about during 4 & 5 BC. Likewise, St Paul (3-62 AD) had to draw upon the names of Christians & Christianity for the followers & the creed respectively in the period of his extensive three journeys during the AD 40s and 50s. Similarly Hindus had had no name or even a known founder of their so-called religion. They used to call their creed as ‘Sanatan Dharma’. Thus it were the modern orientalists who crept the word Hinduism for making reference to the religion of those who were performing rituals of Sanatan Dharma or were claiming to be the followers of the creed. A renowned Hindu scholar, Nirad C. Choudhry writes in his book, “The Continent of Circe”:
"I am surprised to find how many people even among those who are well-educated think that we are Hindus because we have a religion called Hinduism and that word is comparable to 'Christian' or 'Muslim’. It had no such association for the Hindus or for their neighbors in former times. This crept in when Modern European Orientalists began to study the religions of India. They found that the Hindus had no other name for the whole complex of their religious feelings, beliefs and practices except the phrase ‘Sanatan Dharma or the Eternal Way. They did not have even a word of their own for religion in European sense; and so the Orientalists coined the word Hinduism to describe that complex of religion. Actually we Hindus are not Hindus because we follow a religion called or understood as Hinduism; our religion has been given the very imprecise label ‘Hinduism' because it is the jumble of the creeds and rites of a people known as Hindus after their country. On this analogy the Greek religion might be called Hellenism and Graecism".
Since no other religion has neither been Divine nor could have been, hence has got no Divine name ever.