THE QURAN DOESN’T CALL ME
AN INFIDEL (KAFER)
WHY DO YOU?

To my dear Muslim friend and the reader of this pamphlet, Do you know that God loves you with immeasurable love and you cannot comprehend it? The reason for this: He is Love and this is His nature and not because you are good or bad. He is very happy when people trust Him and call Him our Father in heaven. You may be surprised but it is the unchangeable fact. He is available to any person who calls upon Him, but from the depth of his heart and with all his consent - then He will answer the caller.

All of us have been raised by our families who taught us our religion and we believed that it is the final revelation from God and perfect truth. I asked a lot of my friends to preach Islam to me so that I could be convinced and converted, but no one was able to tell me the basic principles. I asked, “Have you read the Quran?” Some not and some yes. Then I asked, “Did you understand it?” No one said yes to me, yet nearly all of them are willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice in order to please God and go to paradise.

A lot of people call us infidel (Kafer). So I asked a friend of mine to bring me the Quran in Arabic and English, and I went on the Internet and started to read more about Islam. I was surprised, because many verses in the Quran support the Christian faith and do not necessarily contradict it. 

We are Christians who believe in the one, true, living God who created heaven and earth, the God of Adam, Abraham, Moses and the prophets, as is written in Mark 12:32: “And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he” and definitely not three gods.

According to Muslim tradition, if anyone memorizes the 99 names of God, they can go to paradise. So I was surprised when Dr Mahmoud Abdelrazek, who is one of the top scholars in Islamic Sharia Law, proved with his research that 21 of these names were wrong and could not be attributed to God. He replaced them with 21 other names. He has been awarded a PhD in Sharia and his research has been discussed with 10 top scholars from Saudi Arabia who have approved it for printing and distribution.

So let us think carefully and logically about these traditions we have inherited, and please read this pamphlet to the end, because our eternal destiny depends on what we believe and how we behave in these few years which we live, and also so we can deal respectfully with one another.

Surah 29:46 And do not argue with the People of the Scripture except in a way that is best, except for those who commit injustice among them, and say, “We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you. And our God and your God is one; and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him.”

The Quran agrees that we worship the one true God revealed in the Bible.

Surah 3:55 [Mention] when Allah said, “O Jesus, indeed I will take you and raise you to Myself and purify you from those who disbelieve and make those who follow you superior to those who disbelieve until the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me is your return, and I will judge between you concerning that in which you used to differ”. 

The Quran agrees here that we (Christians) are above those who disbelieve (Kafer) until Resurrection Day. This means Christians are not Kafer but are destined for heaven.

Surah 2:62 Indeed, those who believed and those who were Jews or Christians or Sabeans [before Prophet Muhammad] - those [among them] who believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteousness - will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve.

The Quran confesses here that Christians are not disbelievers and they have their reward from God on the last day and they will not grieve. And the all-knowing God does not change His Word.

Surah 5:82 You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah ; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, “We are Christians.” That is because among them are priests and monks and because they are not arrogant.

The Quran here mentions four groups: Muslim believers, the Jews, those associated with another Allah, and Christians. Thus Christians are not among those associated with another Allah and are not infidels.

Surah 25:2 He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and who has not taken a son and has not had a partner in dominion and has created each thing and determined it with [precise] determination.

Surah 16:51 And Allah has said, “Do not take for yourselves two deities. He is but one God, so fear only Me”

Surah 72:3; 43:81; 39:4; 25:2; 23:91; 19:35,88,91,92; 18:4; 21:26: 17:111; 10:68; 16:51; 17:22 all say the same thing: that God has no son or partner. Christians also believe that God has not had sex with a woman to produce a son nor has He adopted a son. But He is self-existing from eternity past to eternity future. Jesus said in John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Surah 5:73 They have certainly disbelieved who say, “Allah is the third of three.” And there is no god except one God. And if they do not desist from what they are saying, there will surely afflict the disbelievers among them a painful punishment.

Christians do not believe that Christ is one of three gods but believe in one true God.

Sura 112:1-4 He is Allah, [who is] One, Allah, the Eternal Refuge. He neither begets nor is born, Nor is there to Him any equivalent.

[The exact translation means that God has not been born nor has produced a child through sexual union.]

Sura 5:17 They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary. Say, "Then who could prevent Allah at all if He had intended to destroy Christ, the son of Mary, or his mother or everyone on the earth?" And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. He creates what He wills, and Allah is over all things competent.

The Quran says that Christ is the son of Mary and therefore is human. I Timothy 2:5 says, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”, and Jesus Christ said about Himself many times that he is the son of man - and the son of man is a man?

Sura 3:45 [And mention] when the angels said, “O Mary, indeed Allah gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary – distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near [to Allah ].

Sura 4:171 O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul from Him*. So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say, “Three”; desist – it is better for you. Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.

The Quran here says that Christ is the Word of God and the Spirit of God.

*[Exact translation: Spirit of him, not soul from him.] This will be clarified in the next section.