For the sense of direction and unity. You do not have any center of worship. Muslims do not worship Ka’abah. You see hundreds of thousands of Mosques in the world. They needed some direction.
Any idol in any religion - Hinduism, Christianity etc. serves the same purpose- it serves as a point of concentration of thought while praying. No Hindu or Christian believes that a picture, or a photograph, or statue is GOD.
But a Hindu or Christian can pray facing any direction because their God is omni-present - meaning everywhere, and not sitting in the middle of a desert in Saudi Arabia.
Moreover, which direction will a muslim bow while praying on a location on earth diametrically opposite Mecca? Even Allah will not know that.
But I shall tell you the answer. The muslims can lie on their back, and pray facing the moon, because Allah is none other than the pagan moon god Arabs worshipped before Mohamet was born.
Do you think that Muhammad got down to reading the books of plato and Galen…?? Like Jesus took lessons in Jewish theology from his masters in the temples (synagogues).
**He probably had not taken any lessons, because he would not have understood them anyway. But if you look at the various things mentioned in the koran, you can easily see that they are inaccurate copies of teachings plagiarised from Jewish and Zoarastrian holy books, which Mohamet may have picked up when he travelled to Israel and Persia for selling camels and visiting compromising widows and under-aged children **
frantony, we have the original book with us. You do not have any original book. You only have the translations. That is your problem.
**The original books of Hindus and Christians were written over thousands of years by learned people of those ages. They are time perfected, and those who followed their teachings became constructive, and peace loving people and nations, and are the reason why man still exists on earth today. But for such books, man would have killed and suicide bombed each other to extinction a long time ago.
God at different ages had sent leaders, learned men, and Prophets to teach men lessons appropriate for the conditions at that time, just as a father would give different instructions to his son at different ages. The same father who instructed his two year old son not to touch an electric wall-socket may later ask him to plug an electric kettle, and boil some water, when he is older.
God is still in the process of making a perfect MAN. He started with mathematical rules which led to rules of physics, which led to rules of chemistry, bio-chemistry, biology, zoology, ten commandments, in that order, and finally the rule of LOVE- taught by JESUS who was GOD Himself.
This order and these stages can be seen in any authentic holy texts of any civilizations. Even the Hindu scripture, if you analyse, you can see the same things, may be in a different language, but having similar sounding names and meanings of titles. All these scriptures from various civilisations converge on one point, where God Himself comes at the opportune time, to seed the messy and orderless manure on earth with His own WORD from which would grow the in-corruptible Perfect Man.
After reaching this stage comes a false prophet, who wants to destroy the order set up to that time, and wants to bring back dis-harmony - with child marriages, polygamy, incest, chopping of heads, and limbs etc - (of olden times when men were un-civilised )- and newer techniques for destruction like suicide bombings, hijacking of planes, etc.- with promises of pleasure from 70 whores in heaven if men killed others and committed suicides. You Muslims do indeed have the original book of this false prophet…
Christians have Bibles which are translated to every language on earth- which is read, researched and understood by people more than any other book in the world.
That is indeed a problem Christians have to face, unlike most of the Muslims who can read their koran and even can recite verses from it without knowing the meaning of even one word.
The coming of Such a false Prophet is necessary for the fulfilment of God’s plan , and is prophesied in all the genuine Holy books of the world. Only then will there be destruction and chaos and suicide bombings in the end times as described in the genuine holy books of all genuine religions. But the genuine followers of genuine religions have nothing to fear, because God would have reaped his fruits by then. Only the weeds and garbage will be burnt. **
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Okay, do you want that I should deny the birth of Jesus without the agency of Joseph the carpentar?? Do you want that?? It will help you?? Quran ( and Hadith) do not specifically say that the birth was immaculate. It is only a derived meaning.
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It is not your opinion or mine that matters. What we are after should be TRUTH, and not winning an argument. **
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