Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jan 13, 2014 at 14:56
Dr. Pipes
Sheikh Ra wrote
Surah 10: 47-49 declared that a Prophet shall be raised from and sent to all Nations as the Americas was not to be except.
This is nonsense or the Sheikh and I are reading different Qur'ans
Dr. Pipes this is what it says in Q10:47 and this is really the most important part of the three ayaat and it says
ولكل امة رسول
Or and for each nation/people a messenger
Which means that the above statment is incorrect and here is the correction: Allah sends a MESSENGER (not a prophet and Muslims make big deals about the difference between a Nabi and a Rasul so the good ole Sheikh does not even get what the Qur'an is really saying in Arabic) to EACH nation/people (not to all nations as the good ole Sheikh is saying) or an Arab messenger for the Arabs and an African Messneger for Africans etc... and this indeed can be confirmed if we read Q14:4 where it says
وما ارسلنا من رسول الا بلسان قومه
Or and we only send a messenger unless he speaks the language of his own people
Now we know why Allah sends a messenger to each nation this also exposes the ethno-centric nature of Islam and that it is really the religion of the Hijazi Arabs only so what religion does the good ole Sheikh belongs too? And to quote Muslims: Only Allahu A3lam but it ain't Islam because he indeed seems to be admitting that Islam is the religion of the arabs only and he discovered his rasul! Mash'allah
What a disaster
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