Major
Canadian Christian Missionary Converts To Islam: Personal
Story
Islamic Rulings -
Living Shariah Verdicts
Islamic Questions & AnswersBy
Dr Garry Miller
A very important Christian missionary converted to
Islam and became a major herald for Islam, he was a
very active missionary and was very knowledgeable
about the Bible...
This man likes mathematics so much, that's why he
likes logic. One day, he decided to read the Quran to
try to find any mistakes that he might take advantage
of while inviting Muslims to convert to
Christianity.... He ex-pected the Koran to be an old
book written 14 centuries ago, a book that talks about
the desert and so on...He was amazed from what he
found. He discovered that this Book had what no other
book in the world has.... He expected to find some
stories about the hard time that the Prophet Moham-mad
(Peace Be Upon Him) had, like the death of his wife
Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her) or the death
of his sons and daugh-ters...however, he did not find
anything like that... and what made him even more
confused is that he found a full "sura"(chapter) in
the Koran named "Mary" that contains a lot of respect
to Mary(peace be upon her) which is not the case even
in the books written by Christians nor in their
bibles.
He did not find a Sura named after "Fatimah"(the
prophet's daughter) nor "Aa'ishah"(the Prophet's
wife), may Allah(God) be pleased with both of them. He
also found that the name of Jesus(Peace Be Upon Him)
was mentioned in the Koran 25 times while the name of
"Mohammed"(Peace Be Upon Him) was mentioned only 4
times, so he became more confused. He started reading
the Koran more thoroughly hoping to find a mistake but
he was shocked when he read a great verse which is
verse number 82 in Surat Al-Nisa'(Women) that says:
"Do they not consider the Koran (with care)? Had it
been from other than Allah, they would surely have
found therein much discrepancy".
Dr Miller says about this verse: " One of the well
known scientific princi-ples is the principle of
finding mistakes or looking for mistakes in a theory
until it's proved to be right (Falsification
Test)…what's amazing is that the Holy Quran asks
Muslims and non-muslims to try to find mistakes in
this book and it tells them that they will never find
any". He also says about this verse: no writer in the
world has the courage to write a book and say that
it's empty of mistakes, but the Quran, on the
contrary, tells you that it has no mistakes and asks
you to try to find one and you won't find any.
Another verse that Dr Miller reflected on for a long
time is the verse num-ber 30 in Surat "Al-Anbiya'"(The
Prophets): " Do not the Unbelievers see that the
heavens and the earth were joined together (as one
unit of Crea-tion), before We clove them asunder? We
made from water every living thing. Will they not then
believe?"
He says: " This verse is exactly the subject of the
scientific research that won the Noble prize in 1973
and was about the theory of the "Great Ex-plosion".
According to this theory, the universe was the result
of a great explosion that leads to the formation of
the universe with its skies and planets".
Dr Miller says: " Now we come to what's amazing about
the Prophet Mo-hammed (PBUH) and what's pretended
about the devils helping him, God says: "No evil ones
have brought down this (Revelation), it would neither
suit them nor would they be able (to produce it).
Indeed they have been removed far from even (a chance
of) hearing it" (26:210-212). "When thou do read the
Quran, seek Allah's protection from Satan the Rejected
One" (16:98).
You see? can this be the devil's way to write a book?
how can he write a book then tells you to ask God for
protection from this devil before read-ing that book?
those are miraculous verses in this miraculous book!
and has a logical answer to those who pretend that
it's from the devil". And among the stories that
amazed Dr Miller is the story of the Prophet (PBUH)
with Abu-Lahab… Dr Miller says: " This man (Abu Lahab)
used to hate Islam so much that he would go after the
Prophet wherever he goes to humiliate him. If he saw
the prophet talking to strangers, he used to wait till
he finishes and then ask them: what did Mohammed tell
you? If he said it's white then it's in reality black
and if he said it's night then it's day. He meant to
falsify all what the prophet says and to make people
suspicious about it. And 10 years before the death of
Abu Lahab, a sura was inspired to the prophet, named
"Al-Masad". This sura tells that Abu Lahab will go to
hell, in other words, it says that Abu Lahab will not
convert to Islam. During 10 years, Abu Lahab could
have said: "Mohammed is saying that I will not become
a Muslim and that I will go to the hell fire, but I'm
telling you now that I want to convert to Islam and
become a Muslim. What do you think about Mohammed now?
Is he saying the truth or no? Does his inspiration
come from God?"
But Abu Lahab did not do that at all although he was
disobeying the prophet in all matters, but not in this
one. In other words, it was as if the prophet (PBUH)
was giving Abu Lahab a chance to prove him wrong! But
he did not do that during 10 whole years! he did not
convert to Islam and did not even pretend to be a
Muslim!! Throughout 10 years, he had the chance to
destroy Islam in 1 minute! But this did not happen
because those are not the words of Mohammed (PBUH) but
the words of God Who knows what's hidden and knows
that Abu Lahab will not become a Mus-lim.
How can the prophet (PBUH) know that Abu Lahab will
prove what is said in that Sura if this was not
inspiration from Allah? How can he be sure throughout
10 whole years that what he has (the Quran) is true if
he did not know that it's inspiration from Allah?? For
a person to take such a risky challenge, this has only
one meaning: that this is inspiration from God.
"Perish the hands of the Father of Flame (Abu Lahab)!
perish he! No profit to him from all his wealth, and
all his gains! Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of
blazing Flame! His wife shall carry the (crackling)
wood; As fuel! A twisted rope of palm-leaf fibre round
her (own) neck!" (surat Al-Masad).
Dr Miller says about a verse that amazed him: one of
the miracles in the Quran is challenging the future
with things that humans cannot predict and to which
the "Falsification Test" applies, this test consists
of looking for mistakes until the thing that is being
tested is proved to be right. For ex-ample, let's see
what the Quran said about the relation between Muslims
and Jews. Quran says that Jews are the major enemies
for Muslims and this is true until now as the main
enemy for Muslims are the Jews.
Dr Miller continues: this is considered a great
challenge since the Jews have the chance to ruin Islam
simply by treating Muslims in a friendly way for few
years and then say: here we are treating you as
friends and the Quran says that we are your enemies,
the Quran must be wrong then! But this did not happen
during 1400 years!! and it will never happen because
those are the words of The One who knows the unseen
(God) and not the words of humans.
Dr Miller continues: can you see how the verse that
talks about the enmity between Muslims and Jews
constitutes a challenge to the human mind? "Strongest
among men in enmity to the Believers wilt thou find
the Jews and Pagans; and nearest among them in love to
the Believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are
Christians": because amongst these are men de-voted to
learning and men who have renounced the world, and
they are not arrogant. And when they listen to the
revelation received by the Messen-ger, thou wilt see
their eyes overflowing with tears, for they recognize
the truth: they pray: "Our Lord! We believe; write us
down among the wit-nesses" (5: 82-84)
This verse applies to Dr Miller as he was a Christian
but when he knew the truth, he believed and converted
to Islam and became a herald. May Allah support him.
Dr Miller says about the unique style of the Quran
that he finds wonderful: no doubt there is something
unique and amazing in Quran that is not pre-sent
anywhere else, as the Quran gives you specific
information and tells you that you did not know this
before. For example: "This is part of the tidings of
the things unseen, which We reveal unto thee (O
Prophet!) by inspiration: thou was not with them when
they cast lots with arrows, as to which of them should
be charged with the care of Maryam: nor was thou with
them when they disputed (the point)" (3: 44).
"Such are some of the stories of the Unseen, which We
have revealed unto thee: before this, neither thou nor
thy People knew them. So persevere patiently: for the
End is for those who are righteous" (11: 49). "Such is
one of the stories of what happened unseen, which We
reveal by inspiration unto thee: nor was thou
(present) with them when they concerted their plans
together in the process of weaving their plots" (12:
102)
Dr Miller continues: " No other holy book uses this
style, all the other books consist of information that
tells you where this information came from. For
example, when the (distorted) holy bible talks about
the stories of the ancient nations, it tells you that
a this king lived in a this place and a that leader
fought in that battle, and that a certain person had a
number of kids and their names are…. But this book
(distorted Bible) always tells you that if you want to
know more, you can read a certain book since that
information came from that book".
Dr Garry Miller continues: "this is in contrary to the
Quran which gives you the information and tells you
that it's new!! And what's amazing is that the people
of Mecca at that time -time of inspiration of those
verses- used to hear those verses and the challenge
that the information in those verses was new and was
not known by Mohammed (PBUH) nor by his people at that
time, and despite that, they never said: we know this
and it is not new, and they did not say: we know where
Mohammed came from with those verses. This never
happened, but what happened is that nobody dared to
say that he was lying to them because those was really
new in-formation, not coming from the human mind but
from Allah who knows the unseen in the past, the
present and the future".
May Allah reward Dr Miller for this nice reflection on
the Book of Allah
©
EsinIslam.Com
Add Comments