Why Islam Does Not Claim Love for Its System of Religion - It has No Replacement

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), May 16, 2022 at 21:36

Reader Prashant posits:
"How and why Islam subtracted 'love' from the religious discourse."
Answering that is not merely a religious observation: Islam does not have an answer for a question it does not seek an answer for. With the singular exception of the Judeo-Christian persuasion of the Hebrew Scriptures mandating that the first rule is to love God, what ihas been mandkind's immediate answer: rebellion. Islam is no different.
How does the LORD of the Judeo-Christian persuasion of faith answer mankind's faithlessness; the LORD provided Yeshua as a sin substitute, that when He died on the cross north of the Temple Mount (yes, the place is still there) in Jerusalem, His resurrection that is being celebrated even as this is written became the answer of Christianity for providing the love of God that Islam refuses to celebrate. It is why the Temple Mount is the place of contention that it is today since the Roman destruction nearly two thousand years ago.
Islam's atteempted replacement of that message of love was to attempt to finish what the Romans attempted (and empires and reichs since), eliminate that message, even and up to today. Love remains the power.
That love is resident in every believer and it remains as powerful to save now as it ever did: belief is the key and prayer for salvation is its release, in the Name above all names; calling upon Him is what Islam fights.
Release the rebellion behind and claim Yeshua, Jesus, the Savior in prayer (that's what the Name means), believing His promises will release the love when that time comes; and even Israel will be released to His love, just as it was when Abraham was shown the future site of the Temple Mount, all those thousands of years ago.

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