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Anthony Navarro
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Growing up as a Christian kid, I used to wonder why there were so many
different versions of Christianity. I thought that if we all believed in God
and Jesus, that we were just Christians, right? Wrong! There are over
39,000 different denominations of
Christianity, with their own churches, Bibles
and beliefs. Don’t believe me? Go here and
see for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chri
stian_denominations.
Did one group know something that the others didn’t? Why do they
have different Bibles and who made them different to each other? Which
one was the right one? Why couldn’t they all agree on the same things? I
couldn’t understand this “same religion, different division” concept until I
came to Islam and found the exact same thing happening here too. In
Islam you have Sunni’s, Shia’s, Tabliggi’s, Sufi’s, Salafi’s,
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Ahmadiyah’s, etc. Then within these divisions you have different schools
of thought. Not as many as Christianity, but still way more than there
should be. Only difference between
Muslim and Christian divisions is that the
Muslim holy book, the Qur’an, is the same
no matter what sect or division you follow.
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message and taught the same thing, so in reality we should all follow the
religion of the one true God. If you don’t then it is Hellfire for you and
for those who followed with you. Why will all of these divisions end up in
Hell? Because every single one of these groups think that they are right
and everyone else is wrong, so they are committing the same sin that lead
Shaytan (devil) to be banished to Hell for all of eternity…. arrogance.
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Christians and Jews and taken names under the banner of Islam other
than just Muslim? I was very confused the first time this topic came up
after just accepting Islam. I was asked what kind of a Muslim I was and I
thought that being a Muslim was it. I didn’t know that I had to pick a
“Muslim team” to run with. I had just
come from the gang life in the streets of
New York and never thought I would
have to go from the “Latin Kings” to
the “Islamic Kings” gang. It just didn’t
seem to fit with what the Prophet
Muhammad had taught us.
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Muhammad was the last of His Prophets. So why did we not like each
other and felt the need to fight each other?
It was another trick of Shaytan that I was on to, but people just seemed
to stick to their way of thinking regardless. There’s no need to post
Hadith or Qur’an on here, because this is something that should be
pretty much summed up by common sense. Divide and conquer is a war
technique that has been used
for as long as man has been at
war with other men, so why would
this be any different? We know
that Islam is the enemy of the
elite, so why wouldn’t they
infiltrate Islam to divide us? It
makes it a whole lot easier for
them to conquer all of Islam if we Muslims were too busy fighting each
other. Imagine all the Muslims in the world united together under the
banner “La ilaha il Allah (There’s no
god but Allah)”. No one would be able
to stop a force that strong, they know
this, and this is why we have divisions
and this is why we as an Ummah are so
divided amongst ourselves. So, my
advice to all my brothers and sisters
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under the one true God, if somebody asks you what kind of a Muslim you
are and you have an answer other than just Muslim…. you have already
deviated from the path that you bore witness on.
I bare witness there is no god but Allah. I bare witness that Muhammad is
the messenger of Allah and I am a Muslim and ONLY a Muslim….