Story of Abraham
As Narrated By Jesus
(In the Gospel of Barnabas)
First,
God makes man; then
man
starts making gods and
sells
them for money! Then man
kills
god and then starts killing his
fellow
men in the name of God!
What
a man!
(M.
Javed Naseem)
Today,
man doesn’t even like to hear the word ‘God’ (or religion) in
his daily affairs. Using the silly excuse of separating the Church
from the State, he has dumped religion and with that God too. For
him, it is very old fashioned and annoying to talk of God and
applying His laws on his life. He does not like to admit that to God
belongs everything in the heaven and on earth.
The
Bible says
"Behold,
to the Lord your God belong heaven and
the
highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it.”
(Deuteronomy
10:14)
The
Quran says:
سَبِّحِ
ٱسْمَ رَبِّكَ ٱلأَعْلَىٰ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَ
فَسَوَّىٰ
وَٱلَّذِى
قَدَّرَ فَهَدَىٰ
“Glorify
the name of your Guardian-Lord the
Most
High, Who has created, and further, given
order
and proportion; Who has ordained laws;
and
granted guidance.”
(al-Quran
87:1-3)
The
Bible says:
"Woe
to the one who quarrels with his Maker – An
earthenware
vessel among the vessels of earth!
Will
the clay say to the potter, 'What are you doing?'
Or
the thing you are making say, 'He has no hands'?”
(Isaiah
45:9)
When
God created Man, He gave him a lot of freedom, a lot of liberty and a
lot of choices; and also warned him of the bounds and limits
prescribed for him. But man, being so ungrateful, hasty and
Devil-friendly, abused that liberty and freedom of choice to the
fullest extent. So much so that he became disobedient and rebellious
to God – the Almighty Who created him in the first place. He
ignored all warnings (he still does that) and kept doing what he
‘liked’ to do while bending and twisting the laws/rules
prescribed by God to cover or justify his evil deeds. But the Lord
God is watching!
The
Quran says:
رَّبُّ
ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلأَرْضِ وَمَا
بَيْنَهُمَا فَٱعْبُدْهُ
وَٱصْطَبِرْ
لِعِبَادَتِهِ هَلْ تَعْلَمُ لَهُ
سَمِيّاً
"
Lord
of the heavens and of the earth, and
of
all that is between them; so worship Him,
and
be constant and patient in His worship!
Know
you of any who is worthy of the
same
Name as He?"
(al-Quran
19:65)
The
Bible says:
"The
God who made the world and all things in it,
since
He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not
dwell
in temples made with hands.”
(Acts
17:24)
We
have abandoned God and the result is obvious. We are living in chaos,
misery, hypocrisy, sin, lawlessness and civil wars. Ironically, all
that chaos, misery, death and destruction is created and promoted by
the followers of Abraham (Ibrahim, a.s.) who was the father of all
three major Semitic religions of the world – Judaism, Christianity
and Islam – which were hijacked by the racist Zionists who strive
for the hegemony of the world. They are pitting one against the other
in a divide-and-rule campaign to achieve the New World Order; and
eliminate the opposition at the same time.
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In
the old, gods were made of wood too but
it
was not sinful to burn wood! Today, in
digital
India, the racist extremist Hindus are
killing
Muslims & Christians because they eat
beef.
And beef comes from the Holy Cow (or
Holy
Bull?). At the same time, ironically, India
is
the biggest exporter of beef to the Muslim
Middle
East. What a freaking hypocrisy!
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In
Chapters 26, 27 and 28 of the Gospel of Barnabas, Jesus Christ
narrates the story of Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim, a.s.). We know the
story of Abraham from the Holy Quran. The Quran says that Ibrahim’s
father was called Azar, while the Bible says he was called Terah. But
the name is not important; the dialogue is. Here is how the Gospel of
Barnabas narrates it:
‘Then
Jesus said: “There was a man on a journey who, as he was walking,
discovered a treasure in a field that was to be sold for five pieces
of money. Straightway the man, when he knew this, sold his cloak to
buy that field. Is that credible?”
The
disciples answered: “He who would not believe this is mad.”
Thereupon
Jesus said: “You will be mad if you do not give your senses to God
to buy your soul in which resides the treasure of love; for love is
an incomparable treasure. For he that loves God has God for his own;
and whoever has God has everything.”
Peter
answered: “O master, how can one love God with true love? Tell us.”
Jesus
replied: “Truly I say to you that he who shall not hate his father
and his mother, and his own life, and children and wife for love of
God, such is not worthy to be loved of God.”
Peter
answered: “O master, it is written in the Law of God in the Book of
Moses: Honour your father, that you may live long upon the earth. And
further he says: Cursed be the son that obeys not his father and his
mother.” God commanded that such a disobedient son should be stoned
by the wrath of the people before the gate of the city. (Why) do you
bid us to hate father and mother?”
Jesus
replied: “Every word of mine is true, because it is not mine, but
God’s, who has sent me to the House of Israel. Therefore I say to
you that all that which you possess God has bestowed it upon you; and
so, what is more precious, the gift or the giver? When your father
and your mother with every other thing is a stumbling block to you in
the service of God, abandon them as enemies. Did not God say to
Abraham: Go forth from the house of your father and of your kindred,
and come to dwell in the land which I will give to you and to your
seed? Why did God say this, except that the father of Abraham was an
image-maker, who made and worshiped false gods? (For this reason)
there was enmity between them,
such that the father wished to burn his son.”
Peter
answered: “Your words are true. I pray you tell us how Abraham
mocked his father.”
Jesus
replied: “Abraham was seven years old when he began to seek God. So
one day he said to his father: ‘Father, what made man?’
The
foolish father answered: “Man (made man); for I made you, and my
father made me.”
Abraham
answered: ‘Father, it is not so; for I have heard an old man
weeping and saying: ‘O my God, why have you not given me children?’
His
father replied: “It is true, my son, that God helps man to make
man, but he does not put his hands to (the task); it is only
necessary that man come to pray to his God and to give him lambs and
sheep, and his God will help him.”
Abraham
answered: ‘How many gods are there, father?’
The
old man replied: ‘They are infinite in number, my son.’
Then
Abraham said: ‘O father, what shall I do if I serve one god and
another (god) wishes me evil because I do not serve him? In any case
discord will come between them, and so war will arise among the gods.
And if, perhaps, the god that wills me evil shall slay my own god,
what shall I do? It is certain that he will slay me also.’
The
old man, laughing, answered: “O son, have no fear, for no god makes
war upon another god; no, in the great temple there are a thousand
gods with the great god Baal; and I am now near seventy years old,
and yet never have I seen that one god has smitten another god. And
assuredly all men do not serve one god, but one man one, and
another.”
Abraham
answered: “So, then, they have peace among themselves?”
His
father said: “They have.”
Then
said Abraham: “O father, what be the gods like?”
The
old man answered: “Fool, every day I made a god, which I sell to
others to buy bread, and you know not what the gods are like!” And
then at that moment he was making an idol.
“This,”
said he, “is of palm wood, that one is of olive, that little one is
of ivory; see how fine it is! Does it not seem as though it were
alive? Assuredly, it lacks but breath!”
Abraham
answered: “And so, father, the gods are without breath? Then how do
they give breath? And being without life, how give they life? It is
certain, father, that these are not God.”
The
old man was wroth at these words, say: “If you were of age to
understand, I would break your head with this axe. but hold your
peace, because you have not understanding!”
Abraham
answered: “Father, if the gods help to make man, how can it be that
man should make the gods? And if the gods are made of wood, it is a
great sin to burn wood. But tell me, father, how is it that, when you
have made so many gods, the gods have not helped you to make so many
other children that you should become the most powerful man in the
world?”
The
father was beside himself, hearing his son speak so; the son went on:
“Father, was the world for some time without men?”
“Yes”,
answered the old man, “and why?”
“Because,”
said Abraham, “I should like to know who made the first God.”
“Now
go out of my house!” said the old man, “and leave me to make this
god quickly, and speak no words to me; for, when you are hungry you
desire bread and not words.” Abraham said: “A fine god, truly,
that you cut him as you will, and he defends not himself!”
Then
the old man was angry, and said: “All the world says that it is a
god, and you, mad fellow, say that it is not. By my gods, if you were
a man I could kill you!” And having said this, he gave blows and
kicks to Abraham, and chased him from the house.’
Very
interesting story indeed! Now, a question comes to mind. Abraham was
only seven years of age and he was talking intelligently and
reasonably about God. What were you and me talking about at the age
of seven? We have graduated from the most modern universities of the
world while Abraham probably didn’t even go to school!
The
first man – Adam – and his entire family knew that there was only
One God. They never made any images of God nor worshiped any idols.
Then somewhere along the line, something went wrong – terribly
wrong – and we couldn’t fix it till today. We are fighting over
fake sovereignty, i.e., our hegemony of the world. Unless and until
we fight for God’s sovereignty, we would never be able to live in
peace and happiness.
هُوَ
ٱللَّهُ ٱلْخَالِقُ ٱلْبَارِئُ ٱلْمُصَوِّرُ
لَهُ ٱلأَسْمَآءُ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ
يُسَبِّحُ
لَهُ مَا فِى ٱلسَّمَاوَاتِ وَٱلأَرْضِ
وَهُوَ ٱلْعَزِيزُ ٱلْحَكِيمُ
“
He
is Allah, the Creator, the Evolver, the
Bestower
of forms (or colors)! To Him
belong
the most beautiful names. Whatever
is
in the heavens and on earth, does declare
His
praises and glory. And He is the Exalted
in
Might, the Wise.”
(al-Quran
59:24)
The
Bible says:
"Yours,
O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory
and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the
earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head
over all.” - (1-Chronicles
29:11)
Unless
we believe in the Divine and understand that everything in the
heavens and on earth belongs to God, and we are the guardians of it
on earth, we would never be able to fix this world. This world is for
everybody – people of all colors, all races and all religions –
and everybody is responsible for its maintenance, peace and progress.
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