Re: Muslims are jews? basically...
Sharabi- please explain how jewish concept is anthropomorphic ? but please differentiate between figure of speech and litereral meaning while keeping in mind that there is no concept of (literal) body part of God, as mentioned in quran (figuratively ) :)
Captain1- As you have said, most probably these are man made changes to accomodate their own interests, It will be only fair to compare man with man. So your request is anythign, but fair !
As it is a common practice among muslims to hide behind scriptures and shy away saying Look Islam is best but its followers are worst, it hardly helps the cause ...
Just because there are thousands of fualts with muslims, so it is better to be humble rather proclaiming ourselves best of the best ...
Better focus on similarities... they heavily outnumber dissimilarities. So better to cherish what is common First
AQ Do you think Jews do not submit to Allah ? Do they worship other God(s) ? If basic beleif are the same than what is the problem. If it is the rituals then we all know that there is so much variation in different islamic sect about rituals and Fig'ha
I know one thing according to Quran, Allah says that there is no salvation for people who worship anyone besides him, other than that there is chance for everyone who believe in him.
Regarding prophet Muhammad, Jews knew him as Prophet from the day one. Learned jews knew him like they knew their parents and family, The righeous ones accepted him after some varifications .... Jewish traditions are overflowing with prophesis about him and every minute details...
Thats why Allah said in Quran
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*"Those unto whom We gave the Scripture recognise him Muhammad as they recognise their sons. But verily, a party of them conceal the truth while they know it" *
(Qur'an, Al-Baqarah 2:146)
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