From: ahmed@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ahmed El-Habbash)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: I want to know more
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:40:30 GMT


In <721238440@lear.cs.duke.edu> exposim@hp9k.lag.itesm.mx (Simposium de Sistemas) writes:



>   Hi!

>   I am a catholic, but i am very interested in know more about other
>   religions, specially islamic, who i think it's a very interesting one.

>   How can i learn more?  where can i find info about it?

>                                                   Luis Gutierrez

>              send your answers and comments to:   lg248399@hp9k.lag.itesm.mx
>                                                    exposim@hp9k.lag.itesm.mx


Hi Luis

Peace with you.

I don't like to put my self in the position of a preast, and start
preaching to you something that may not be interesting to you, or
something that you alreay know. However, I will be happy to receive any
enquiries from you, and will be delighted to send relevant replies.

If you please send me your postal address, and the language you speak,
then I hope I will be able to send to you some literature about Islam.
However, I will just write a simple idea about Islam in the following
few paragraphs.

Allah (God and the only god), is there before us (mankind), and before
any other creation, and will be there, eternal, everlasting.
All the other creations, are following the code of God, the sun, the
planets, trees, birds, animals, substances, seas, mountains. They have no
trends or ability to change that nature, that Allah had created in
them. Man is given a degree of freedom, so that he can be a
representative of God on the earth, however, man's representation of
God, is well defined in the innate nature of man, and the message sent
from God to mankind, which are supposed to bring them back to their innate 
nature.

That message is Islam, which literally means submission to God, and
following his code. Deviating from Allah's code is the disaster for both
man kind and the rest of the other creations. Just imagin what would
happen when planets deviate from the law of God, that we discovered and
called law of gravity. Fortunately planets cannot deviate by
themselves, so life will continue according to the prescribed manner,
until the last day, when every thing has to change, announcing the
termination of the worlds, and the start of a new endless life. An
endless life, when non of the creation is given the ability to deviate.
In that life the winners will enjoy an eternal life, and the
loosers, will live the result of their deviation.

God is the only eternal, His message is eternal, and His code cannot be changed.
All the messages came to explain the code of God, form the time of Adam,
..., Abraham, Mosus, Jesus, and Mohammed, and the other prophets between
them, Peace and blessings from Allah on them all. Unfortunately man is
always inclind to deviate and follow his own code, instead of the code
of God, But Allah is always merciful, He sends the messengers, one after
another to bring mankind to the track, untill the last message, which is
sent in the final form, and preserved in the original shape, which
cannot be altered, even if all the people tried hard to do that.

The final message is there, no need to send new messengers. Your innate
nature is also there, you will discover yourself when you clean your
heart and your mind from the infections of satan, and his followers, and
come to find the code of God in his eternal message. When you consider
the greatness of God, all the other creations will become as they really
are, too little. Any thing that is created, will come to an end sooner or 
later, and the other eternal life will also come sooner or later, and every one
will stand in front of his Lord, defenceless, waiting for the final
judgement. A record of your work in this life will be present, and the
Ultimate justice will also be present. Surely the pleasure in this life
will not be but a little compared with the pleasure of the life to come.

use your mind to find God in his creation, on the earth, on
the horizons, and in your self. Dont go far in an attempt to model God,
try first to discover how a planet or a star that is situated millions
of light years far from us look like. Even the creations of God could be
beyond our perception, and conception.


The Quran is the words of Allah (the One God), it is revealed through
the Angel on Mohammad, the servant and the Messenger of God. One of the
important revelation is the following paragraph. It is called Surah.

The following Surah is a very short one ( as a text ) but has a strong
meanings about the Onness of God.


" In the name of Allah, the Beneficient the Merciful

1- Say He, Allah, is One.
2- Allah is He on whome all depend.
3- He begets not, nor is He begotten.
4- And none is like Him.                          "

This is the key to Islam

Good luck,
Peace with you.

Ahmed El-Habbash
Dept. of Computer Science,
Trinity College, D2,
Dublin,
Ireland.