ISLAM & THE MUSLIMS
Blessing or Burden?
YOU be the Judge
Part 52
Sura 30 “THE GREEKS” Verses 28-60
By
John W. Bailey


Muhammad continues, in Sura 30, to share that Islam is the only true faith. Sura 30: 29 “Set though thy face then, as a true convert [from Judaism and Christianity], towards the Faith which God hath made, and for which He hath made man. No change is there in the creation of God. This is the right Faith [Islam], but the greater part of men know it not.”

Continuing to admonish that there should be no others [Jesus Christ] united with God, Muhammad shares in verses 30-34: “And be ye turned to Him, and fear Him, and observe prayer, and be not of those who unite gods [Jesus Christ] with God: Of those who have split up their religion, and have become sects, where every party rejoices in what is their own. When some evil toucheth men, they turn to their Lord and call upon him: then when he hath made them taste his mercy, lo, a part of them join other gods with their Lord, ungrateful for our favors! Enjoy yourselves then. But in the end ye shall know your folly. Have we sent down to them any mandate which speaketh in favour of what they join with God?”

Muhammad points out in later verses that God bestows on people what He pleases and that it will be beneficial to the people to give to their family and to the poor. Sura 30:36-37 “See they not that God bestoweth full supplies on whom He pleaseth and giveth sparingly to whom He pleaseth? Signs truly are there herein to those who believe. To him who is of kin to thee give his due, and to the poor and to the wayfarer: this will be best for those who seek the face of God; and with them it shall be well.”

In verse 42-44 Muhammad gives insight to the Islam perspective of the day of judgment. “Set they face then towards the right faith [Islam], ere (before) the day come which none can hinder God from bringing on. On that day shall they be parted in twain (two): Unbelievers on whom shall be their unbelief; and they who have wrought righteousness, and prepared for themselves couches of repose: That of his bounty He may reward those who have believed and wrought righteousness; for the unbelievers [Jews and Christians] He loveth not.”

You be the judge of it all.