A Poem

[timur]

It was early in the morning at four,

When death knocked upon a bedroom door,

Who is there? The sleeping one cried.

I’m Malik-ul-Mawt, let me inside.

At once, the man began to shiver,

As one sweating in deadly fever,

He shouted to his sleeping wife,

Don’t let him take away my life.

Please go away, O Angel of Death!

Leave me alone; I’m not ready yet.

My family on me depends,

Give me a chance, O please prepense!

The angel knocked again and again,

Friend! I’ll take your life without a pain,

Tis your soul Allah requires,

I come not with my own desire.

Bewildered, the man began to cry,

O Angel I’m so afraid to die,

I’ll give you gold and be your slave,

Don’t send me to the unlit grave.

Let me in, O Friend! The Angel said,

Open the door; get up from your bed,

If you do not allow me in,

I will walk through it, like a Jinn.

The man held a gun in his right hand,

Ready to defy the Angel’s stand.

I’ll point my gun, towards your head,

You dare come in; I’ll shoot you dead.

By now the Angel was in the room,

Saying, O Friend! Prepare for your doom.

Foolish man, Angels never die,

Put down your gun and do not sigh.

Why are you afraid! Tell me O man,

To die according to Allah’s plan?

Come smile at me, do not be grim,

Be Happy to return to Him.

O Angel! I bow my head in shame,

I had no time to take Allah’s Name.

From morning till dusk, I made my wealth,

Not even caring for my health.

Allah’s command I never obeyed,

Nor five times a day I ever prayed.

A Ramadan came and a Ramadan went,

But no time had I to repent.

The Hajj was already FARD on me,

But I would not part with my money.

All charities I did ignore,

Taking usury more and more.

Sometimes I sipped my favourite wine,

With flirting women I sat to dine.

O Angel! I appeal to you,

Spare my life for a year or two.

The Laws of Qur’an I will obey,

I’ll begin SALAT this very day.

My Fast and Hajj, I will complete,

And keep away from self-conceit.

I will refrain from usury,

And give all my wealth to charity,

Wine and wenches I will detest,

Allah’s oneness I will attest.

We Angels do what Allah demands,

We cannot go against His commands.

Death is ordained for everyone,

Father, mother, daughter or son.

I’m afraid this moment is your last,

Now be reminded, of your past,

I do understand your fears,

But it is now too late for tears.

You lived in this world, two score and more,

Never did you, your people adore.

Your parents, you did not obey,

Hungry beggars, you turned away.

Your two ill-gotten, female offspring,

In nightclubs, for livelihood they sing.

Instead of
making more Muslims,

You made your children non-Muslims.

You ignored the Mua’dhin Adhaan,

Nor did you read the Holy Qur’an.

Breaking promises all your life,

Backbiting friends, and causing strife.

From hoarded goods, great profits you made,

And your poor workers, you underpaid.

Horses and cards were your leisure,

Moneymaking was your pleasure.

You ate vitamins and grew more fat,

With the very sick, you never sat.

A pint of blood you never gave,

Which could a little baby save?

O Human, you have done enough wrong,

You bought good properties for a song.

When the farmers appealed to you,

You did not have mercy, tis true.

Paradise for you? I cannot tell,

Undoubtedly you
will dwell in hell.

There is no time for you to repent,

I’ll take your soul for which I am sent.

The ending however, is very sad,

Eventually the man became mad

With a cry, he jumped out of bed,

And suddenly, he fell down dead.

O Reader! Take moral from here,

You never know, your end may be near

Change your living and make amends

For heaven, on your deeds depends.

 

[silverwings_88]

Wonderful poem!!

I remember posting up my poem, but no one at all read it, so kudos to you!!

Allahu akbar!

 

[exoflare]

Well I’m convinced. If he was able to make up a huge poem about Islam, then it must be the true religion!!

Actually, I think that’s what Mohammed’s companions must have been saying when he started to recite the Quran.

 

[timur]

exoflare:

Well I’m convinced. If he was able to make up a huge poem about Islam, then it must be the true religion!!

Actually, I think that’s what Mohammed’s companions must have been saying when he started to recite the Quran.

Becose you are making fun of my prophet i’ll show you what real catolics doing with their own faith or what is catolic faith doing with priests:
A history of rape and other sexual assaults against children has haunted the so-called Holy Mother Church for centuries, not years. Only recently has this foul secret achieved major headlines; and that alone is outrageous. The media have always had a hands-off policy (unlike the priests themselves) when it comes to reporting the Sins of the Fathers. It’s about time the public at large, and not just a few well-read muslims, became aware of these crimes. And crimes they are.
In the secular world (read: real world) people who sexually assault children are sentenced to prison, the length of the sentences varying from state to state and depending on “prior” convictions. In the islamic rule you would be sentencet to death. But in the Roman Catholic Church such pedophiles are quietly sent off to different diocese to prey on other young children. Why this is allowed for so long? Simple. The Roman Catholic Church (RCC) wields incredible power. One of the wealthiest institutions on earth (hey! whatever happened to vows of poverty??) they are a mighty political force, they control untold numbers of broadcasting corporations, and are the only religion ever granted the status of a “non-member state” of the United Nations, meaning they have a voice in the United Nations’ policies. Zip-codes be damned, they are not a state. They are a religion. But then money talks.
As the talking heads discuss and/or avoid discussing the key issues in this horrific Catholic pedophile scandal, they will often express, with stern conviction, the opinion that only Catholics should be addressing this problem of pedophile priests; outside opinions are not welcome, thank you very much. That makes as much sense as saying that only serial killers should discuss the problem of serial murders.
“And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” (Mark 10:13-14) What a horrible double-meaning that has now taken on
Do you maybe want to hear the STATISTIC???

 

[timur]

Let us descend into an abyss as we spy out the predatory, lascivious, unclean, perversity of the Romish priesthood. They are notoriously incontinent. They only follow the example set for them by the popes themselves… Read of Pope John XII who committed incest with his mother, sister and his father’s concubine (Popes of Rome by Ronald Cooke, p. 11). John XXIII (or XXII) was convicted of lust, murder, rape, sodomy and piracy (ibid p. 19). Ronald Cooke says–

When one looks at the lives of some of these men who claimed, and still claim, to be the Vicar of Christ on earth, he sees a ghastly array of egregrious evils both moral and spiritual which cannot be matched by any other group of men, or by any other organization, in the annals of history. Other men and organizations have committed great evils, but never on such a wide scale and never for such a long time
. The Roman Catholic Observer notes:

[a number of popes] sired bastard children, and even had some of those children made popes themselves! There was even a pope who was murdered by a jealous husband who found the “Vicar of Christ” having sex with his wife (Pope John XII). The box below lists some of the popes who sired future popes. It is enough to give one pause to think…
Popes who Sired Popes

Pope Anastasius (399-401) sired Pope Innocent I (401-417)

Pope Hormisday (514-523) sired Pope Silverius (536-537)

Pope Sergius II (904-911) sired Pope John XI (931-935)

Clerics who Sired Popes, Bishops and Priests

Pope Theodore I (642)-649) sired Bishop Damasus I (366-384)

Pope Boniface (418-422), Felix II (483)-492), Anastasius II (496-498), Agapitus (535-536), Marinus I (882-884) and John XV (985-986) were sons of Roman Catholic priests. [Lead Us Not Into Temptation; Page 179]
For information on the depravity of the popes (written by a Catholic), see The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church by Malachi Martin.
Consider also the following from a Roman Catholic priest:

"Vicars of priests and seminary administrators who have been around awhile speak among themselves of the disproportionate number of gay men that populate our seminaries and presbytereates. They know that a proportionate number of gay priests and seminarians would fall between 5 and 10 percent. An NBC report on celibacy and the clergy found that 'anywhere from 20 percent to 58 percent of Catholic clergy have a homosexual orientation. Other studies find that approximately half of American priests and seminarians are homosexually oriented. Sociologist James G. Wolf in his book Gay Priests concluded that 48.5 percent of priests and 55.1 percent of seminarians were gay. The percentage appears to be highest among priests under forty years of age. Moreover, the percentage of gay men among religious congregations of priests is believed to be even higher. [The Changing Face of the Priesthood, Fr. Donald B. Cozzens; Copyright 2000 by the Order of St. Benedict]

 

[timur]

Consider also the following from a Roman Catholic priest:

"Vicars of priests and seminary administrators who have been around awhile speak among themselves of the disproportionate number of gay men that populate our seminaries and presbytereates. They know that a proportionate number of gay priests and seminarians would fall between 5 and 10 percent. An NBC report on celibacy and the clergy found that 'anywhere from 20 percent to 58 percent of Catholic clergy have a homosexual orientation. Other studies find that approximately half of American priests and seminarians are homosexually oriented. Sociologist James G. Wolf in his book Gay Priests concluded that 48.5 percent of priests and 55.1 percent of seminarians were gay. The percentage appears to be highest among priests under forty years of age. Moreover, the percentage of gay men among religious congregations of priests is believed to be even higher. [The Changing Face of the Priesthood, Fr. Donald B. Cozzens; Copyright 2000 by the Order of St. Benedict]
“Equally disturbing is the tendency of bishops to overlook the fact that a disproportionate number of homosexuals are being recruited into seminaries. I know of one seminary where, two years ago, 60 percent of the students identified themselves as ‘gay,’ 20 percent were confused about their sexual identity, and only 20 percent considered themselves to be heterosexual. I have no objection whatsoever to welcoming homosexuals into the priesthood”. [Pastor Ignotus, What are We Advertising, The Tablet, April 24, 1999]
Why 15 foot high walls around cloistered convents? Why have cloisters? Jesus did not pray we be taken out of the world. John 17:15, “I pray NOT that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.” Yet the Romanism lures unsuspecting people into its convents and monasteries. Of course, requiring them to give all their worldly goods to “Mother Church”
The Roman Catholic Observer notes:

[a number of popes] sired bastard children, and even had some of those children made popes themselves! There was even a pope who was murdered by a jealous husband who found the “Vicar of Christ” having sex with his wife (Pope John XII). The box below lists some of the popes who sired future popes. It is enough to give one pause to think…
Popes who Sired Popes

Pope Anastasius (399-401) sired Pope Innocent I (401-417)

Pope Hormisday (514-523) sired Pope Silverius (536-537)

Pope Sergius II (904-911) sired Pope John XI (931-935)

Clerics who Sired Popes, Bishops and Priests

Pope Theodore I (642)-649) sired Bishop Damasus I (366-384)

Pope Boniface (418-422), Felix II (483)-492), Anastasius II (496-498), Agapitus (535-536), Marinus I (882-884) and John XV (985-986) were sons of Roman Catholic priests. [Lead Us Not Into Temptation; Page 179]

For information on the depravity of the popes (written by a Catholic), see The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church by Malachi Martin.

Should i continue???Are you going to take your children to make their confetion to a priest after reading this my felow Cristian friends and

 

[Tantum_ergo]

Your poem was beautiful. Your other posts are, sadly, inflammatory, unjust, hurtful and hateful. I am sorry that a voice which can see truth and beauty can so deny those things in those of us who hold and teach the Catholic faith.

 

[timur]

Tantum ergo:

Your poem was beautiful. Your other posts are, sadly, inflammatory, unjust, hurtful and hateful. I am sorry that a voice which can see truth and beauty can so deny those things in those of us who hold and teach the Catholic faith.

This my friend is the truth which we all want to find.But i know this hurt and i just posted words from your fellow cristians…you nshould be angry at them …at the priest which dont take the faith serious…on the end why they come to this kind of problems…maybe they consider God unjust or they make something which they made up…you KNOW something if all of mankind were good catolic-that mean priests there wouldnt be humans anymore,am i right…so try thinking about some other thing,becose look on us muslims ,for example my grandma had 11 childrens,ill try making many children also…and on the end look how high is birth the rate in muslim country is when are you catolics going to achive it???

 

[Zerith]

timur:

you nshould be angry at them …

There are hypocrites everywhere, everywhere there are humans. In Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism… Everywhere.

For examples within Islam, look at the extremists. The majority of Muslims are not like that, you and I know that.

But no, we shouldn’t be angry at them. That’s not what we were taught. We were taught forgiviness. Which is why I will not attack you for being angry, and retaliating against what he had said, while that was offensive to me, and just about every other Catholic, I will not get up in arms about it, as you’re only human, supseptable to the petty emotions of man.

While “revenge”, I suppose, would be more satisfying to me, forgiviness is a sacrifice which I make for God, which also betters humanity itself.

You have a lot to learn about Christianity, my friend. Not random insulting facts, but the fundimental reasons for our beliefs.

As for high birth rates, why do you not look to my country, and its emmigrants in America? Our country used to have large families, of ten, twelve, even twenty! (For example: My grandmother on my father’s side had twelve, on my mother’s side it was ten) As for our emmigrants, there are over one hundred million people with an Irish connection. There are five million people in my country (Peak at eight point two million, but due to famine and oppression by a foreign power, it dropped to two, and slowly began to rise, with a massive exodus to foreign territories in search of jobs). Back in the day, the birth rate was very high. Today, Catholics in comparison, have a higher birth rate than other Christians.
Countries which are poor, tend to have a massive birth rate, especially in stage two of the development of a country, whereby the death rate plummets, and the birth rate slowly declines, which most developing countries are on; Arabic and Islamic countries are all on stage two, three at the most, all are poor, all have high birth rates, with varying death rates.

God forgive and bless you, and everyone.

 

[timur]

Zerith:

There are hypocrites everywhere, everywhere there are humans. In Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism… Everywhere.

For examples within Islam, look at the extremists. The majority of Muslims are not like that, you and I know that.

But no, we shouldn’t be angry at them. That’s not what we were taught. We were taught forgiviness. Which is why I will not attack you for being angry, and retaliating against what he had said, while that was offensive to me, and just about every other Catholic, I will not get up in arms about it, as you’re only human, supseptable to the petty emotions of man.

While “revenge”, I suppose, would be more satisfying to me, forgiviness is a sacrifice which I make for God, which also betters humanity itself.

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Every muslim is not an example of muslim faith but every priest is an example of its faith…for other parts i wouldnt argue becose its not a question which bother our belives…the question i would ask you who do you forgive and why??i rather ask God forgivness,its beter for us and if He forgives it is for the reason you dont know .
Why arent you folowing the message Quran brought to you:
“In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
Say : He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone.”
Some non-Muslims allege that God in Islam is a stern and cruel God who demands to be obeyed fully. He is not loving and kind. Nothing can be farther from truth than this allegation. It is enough to know that, with the exception of one, each of the 114 chapters of the Quran begins with the verse: “In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.” In one of the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) we are told that “God is more loving and kinder than a mother to her dear child.”
Are you sure in some concepts catolicisam calls to??
Why dont you try understend the quran without PREJUDICE>>>

 

[timur]

The concept that God rested in the seventh day of creation, that God wrestled with one of His soldiers, that God is an envious plotter against mankind, or that God is incarnate in any human being are considered blasphemy from the Islamic point of view.

The unique usage of Allah as a personal name of God is a reflection of Islam’s emphasis on the purity of the belief in God which is the essence of the message of all God’s messengers. Because of this, Islam considers associating any deity or personality with God as a deadly sin which God will never forgive, despite the fact He may forgive all other sins.

Note that what is meant above applies ONLY to those people who die in a state wherein they are associating others with God. The repentance of those who yet live is acceptable to God if He wills. -
The Creator must be of a different nature from the things created because if he is of the same nature as they are, he will be temporal and will therefore need a maker. It follows that nothing is like Him. If the maker is not temporal, then he must be eternal. But if he is eternal, he cannot be caused, and if nothing outside him causes him to continue to exist, which means that he must be self-sufficient. And if the does not depend on anything for the continuance of his own existence, then this existence can have no end. The Creator is therefore eternal and everlasting: “He is the First and the Last.”
He is Self-Sufficient or Self-Subsistent or, to use a Quranic term, Al-Qayyum. The Creator does not create only in the sense of bringing things into being, He also preserves them and takes them out of existence and is the ultimate cause of whatever happens to them.

“God is the Creator of everything. He is the guardian over everything. Unto Him belong the keys of the heavens and the earth.” (39:62, 63)
“No creature is there crawling on the earth, but its provision rests on God. He knows its lodging place and it repository.” (11:6)

 

[timur]

Just think:God doesnt want to be seen in material form becose that is the way he stated in Bible to.'Nothing is like Him 'says the Quran and nothing is equal to Him .He is above all of His creation and He knows everything .He knows every atom every kvark where is going to ,its path and its end ,just like He knows about every Human thought and deed,AND only He know the unseen and what will come,So He is the master of ALL UNIVERSE ,He hate thouse who are ignorant and those who want to make comparisment or associate Him friends and son and doughters becose thats the way people come to missunderstood the CONCEPT of ONNINESS.Only God Him self is sufficent for Him self there is no way to be another RULER or someone who will stand betwen you and His Majesty.That is His low and we must obey it.

 

[exoflare]

timur:

Every muslim is not an example of muslim faith but every priest is an example of its faith…

LOL well isn’t that convenient. Good thing the same standard doesn’t apply to all the sheiks, eh?

 

[timur]

exoflare:

LOL well isn’t that convenient. Good thing the same standard doesn’t apply to all the sheiks, eh?

All muslims are not true belivers,;-at least sheiks dont hide from the world

 

[exoflare]

timur:

All muslims are not true belivers,;-at least sheiks dont hide from the world

So priests must practice their religion perfectly, but sheiks don’t have to? Why is this?

 

[timur]

You know every good beliver could be sheikh,that title is made up,and every good catolic cant be a pries…becose you kno why…it cant be amoung us normal humans.

 

[exoflare]

timur:

You know every good beliver could be sheikh,that title is made up,and every good catolic cant be a pries…becose you kno why…it cant be amoung us normal humans.

Interesting. If any good believer can be a sheik, then where are all the female shieks?

 

[timur]

exoflare:

Interesting. If any good believer can be a sheik, then where are all the female shieks?

You dont see them becose its not allowed.only behind the veil ;and what about your women prists or women pope…i think its better in islam…ther are much more muslim womens which ruled than in catolicisam,If u want i will find examples

 

[timur]

Women’s position, role, rights, and duties in the Quran are very different from those found in the Bible. Let us take some examples. Adultery and fornication are considered sins in all religions. The Bible decrees the death sentence for both the adulterer and the adulteress (Leviticus 20:10). Islam also equally punishes both the adulterer and the adulteress (24:2). However, the Quranic definition of adultery is very different from the Biblical definition. Adultery, according to the Quran, is the involvement of a married man or a married woman in an extramarital affair. The Bible only considers the extramarital affair of a married woman as adultery (Leviticus 20:10, Deuteronomy 22:22, Proverbs 6:20-7:27). The extramarital affair of a married man isn’t per se a crime in the Bible. Why this dual moral standard? According to Encyclopedia Judaica, the wife was considered to be the husband’s possession and adultery constituted a violation the husband’s exclusive right to her; the wife as the husband’s possession had no such right to him. The New Testament echoes the same attitude in Matthew 5:31-32, where it is attributed to Jesus to have said," I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery." Why didn’t he label the man who divorces his wife and marries another woman as adulterer? To the present day in Israel, if a married man indulges in an extramarital affair with a woman, his children by that woman are considered legitimate. But, if a married woman has an affair with another man, her children by that man are not only illegitimate but are forbidden to marry any other Jews except converts and other bastards. This ban is handed down to the child’s descendants for 10 generations until the taint of adultery is presumably weakened.

The Quran, on the other hand, never considers any woman to be the possession of any man. The Quran eloquently describes the relationship between the spouses by saying," And among His signs is that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that you may dwell in tranquility with them and He has put love and mercy between your hearts: verily in that are signs for those who reflect" (30:21) This is Quranic conception of marriage: love, mercy, and tranquility, not possession and double standards.
Let’s now tackle the important question of polygamy. Polygamy is a very ancient practice found in many human societies. The Bible didn’t condemn polygamy. To the contrary, the Old Testament and Rabbinic writings frequently attest to the legality of polygamy. King Solomon is said to have had 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3) Also, king David is said to have had many wives and concubines (2 Samuel 5:13). The Old Testament does have some injunctions on how to distribute the property of a man among his sons from different wives (Deut. 22:7). The only restriction on polygamy is a ban on taking a wife’s sister as a rival wife (Leviticus 18:18). The Talmud advices a maximum of four wives. European Jews continued to practice polygamy until the sixteenth century. Oriental Jews regularly practised polygamy until they arrived in Israel where it is forbidden under civil law. However, under religious law which overrides civil law in such cases, it is permissible.

What about the New Testament? According to Father Eugene Hillman in his insightful book ‘Polygamy reconsidered’," No where in the New Testament is there any explicit commandment that marriage should be monogamous or any explicit commandment forbidding polygamy." Moreover, Jesus hasn’t spoken against polygamy though it was practiced by the Jews of his society. Father Hillman stressed the fact that the church in Rome banned polygamy in order to conform to the Greco-Roman culture (which prescribed only one legal wife while tolerating concubinage and prostitution). He cited St. Augustine, “Now indeed in our time, and in keeping with Roman custom, it is no longer allowed to take another wife” African churches and African christians often remind their European brothers that the Church’s ban on polygamy is a cultural tradition and not an authentic Christian injunction.

 

[exoflare]

timur:

You dont see them becose its not allowed.only behind the veil ;and what about your women prists or women pope…i think its better in islam…ther are much more muslim womens which ruled than in catolicisam,If u want i will find examples

Well then you shouldn’t have said any good believer could be a sheik, because of it being a “made up” title. I didn’t make the same claim about priests, so don’t try to spring this back on me.