808Catholic - As you have the right to do
God is Just and it does take somewhat of an effort on our part to play a roll in Salvation, this effort would explain why all have not excepted Christianity. God tests are for our benefit and it is our free will to change the direction of our heart.
If Muhammad and the Koran are indeed from God, then one would have to consider this quite deeply, would you agree?
I have found this Prayer by the Bab and interesting Meditation on this aspect of Faith, note the end of the Prayer, I have put in Bold a couple of thoughts from this prayer;
"Vouchsafe unto me, O my God, the full measure of Thy love and Thy good-pleasure, and through the attractions of Thy resplendent light enrapture our hearts, O Thou Who art the Supreme Evidence and the All-Glorified. Send down upon me, as a token of Thy grace, Thy vitalizing breezes, throughout the daytime and in the night season, O Lord of bounty. No deed have I done, O my God, to merit beholding Thy face, and I know of a certainty that were I to live as long as the world lasts
I would fail to accomplish any deed such as to deserve this favor, inasmuch as the station of a servant shall ever fall short of access to Thy holy precincts,** unless Thy bounty should reach me and Thy tender mercy pervade me and Thy loving-kindness encompass me**.
All praise be unto Thee, O Thou besides Whom there is none other God. Graciously enable me to ascend unto Thee, to be granted the honor of dwelling in Thy nearness and to have communion with Thee alone. No God is there but Thee.
Indeed shouldst Thou desire to confer blessing upon a servant Thou wouldst blot out from the realm of his heart every mention or disposition except Thine Own mention; and shouldst Thou ordain evil for a servant by reason of that which his hands have unjustly wrought before Thy face,
Thou wouldst test him with the benefits of this world and of the next that he might become preoccupied therewith and forget Thy remembrance.
To me this shows errors of the past, that God tests our waywardness, this is free will after all.
Bible passage - Matthew 19:24"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Koran Passage - “Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while such [trial] has not yet come to you as came to those who passed on before you? They were touched by poverty and hardship and were shaken until [even their] messenger and those who believed with him said, ‘When is the help of Allah?’ Unquestionably, the help of Allah is near.” [Qur’an, 2:214]
and
“And of the people is he who worships Allah on an edge. If he is touched by good, he is reassured by it; but if he is struck by trial, he turns on his face [to the other direction]. He has lost [this] world and the Hereafter. That is what is the manifest loss.” [Qur’an, 22:11]
From Baha’u’llah - “O SON OF BEING! Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants”.
Regards Tony
