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This is the book for you if you are serious about communicating the truth of the Gospel to Muslims.It is thorough.It is authoritative.It is written by a third-world Christian whose father was a convert from Islam.It is the contention of the author that an effective evangelistic approach to the adherents of Islam must be based upon a study of Christ as He is found in both Scripture and the Koran. Christ, then, becomes the bridge between the two faiths. Such a search is, to Abdul-Haqq, the natural means of introducing the Savior. Having seen Christ on the pages of the Bible, he moves on to a presentation of the great issues of sin, salvation, and the nature of God as the final pressing points to raise in efforts to win Muslim friends and neighbors to Jesus.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 août 1980
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441211569
Langue	English

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Copyright © 1980 Abdiyah Akbar Abdul-Haqq
Published by Bethany House Publishers 11400 Hampshire Avenue South Bloomington, Minnesota 55438 www.bethanyhouse.com
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Preface
The winds of God are blowing across the face of our planet in an unprecedented way. At the same time there is a worldwide eruption of infernal powers of spiritual confusion and moral chaos seeking to counteract the salutary ministry of the Holy Spirit to the hearts and minds of people of all sorts and conditions.
In the traditionally Christian countries of the West, despite the current born-again movement, there is a disquietingly high incidence of defection from the Church and alienation from the lordship of Jesus Christ. This phenomenon has created a perplexing home missionary situation for the churches concerned and a promising foreign mission field for religions like Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the many cults based on them. Islam, for example, has already made unexpected gains among the spiritually disaffected in the occident. This initial success has imparted a euphoria to its missionary strategists so that they are now dreaming of and planning for the Islamization of the Western hemisphere. The time is not too far away when people on the American and European continents will be confronted with the challenge of Islam in a way unknown in history.
In the so-called Third World there are indications of the beginning of a ground swell of interest in Jesus Christ on the part of the non-Christian masses in general. Despite the upsurge of religious nationalism in several countries of the area, the predominant religions have not succeeded in satisfying the spiritual hunger and messianic expectations of the thoughtful and morally sensitive. To such, in particular, the appeal of the teaching, life and Gospel of Jesus Christ is great. In this context the Muslims are an interesting case. Their scripture, the Koran, depicts Christ as a prophet unique in His preincarnate nature, miraculous birth, miracles and moral stature. This remarkable testimony to His preeminance should have kept thoughtful Muslims down the centuries excited about Him and anxious to learn more about Him from the Bible recognized and commended by the Koran. But such a logical necessity never materialized in a significant way. On the contrary, even the Christ of the Koran was veiled from the eyes of free-thinking Muslims, rather early in the history of Islam, by the use of traditions and commentaries on the Christological passages which were weighted in favor of the cult of Muhammad.
On the current religious scene, the Muslim masses are being exposed to the matchless person and claims of Jesus Christ through media evangelism like radio broadcasts, Bible correspondence courses, and literature distribution. It covers Muslim lands in the Near and Far East with their various degrees of accessibility. It has been instrumental, to a significant degree, in arousing the interest of an increasing number of erstwhile unreachable Muslims in the Gospel. Though hindered by their traditional attitude toward Christianity and notions about Christ, many of them today are possessed of a curiosity like the Hellenists of old who came to Phillip saying, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus” (John 12:21, NIV). A very small number of these find their way to Christian discipleship. But the majority of them remain on the level of inquirers highly fascinated by and drawn to Jesus Christ, yet not interested in the church or even negatively disposed toward it.
At the harvesting end there exists a bottleneck on the evangelistic front of the Third World. This is a development in the advance of the kingdom of God in our time which calls for the full attention of a Christian close to the heartbeat of the One who says, “Look on the fields, for they are already white to harvest.” Harvest season is proverbially short. Time is of the essence in harvesting and bringing in the sheaves from the fields of Islam. This task requires divinely commissioned laborers in the fields with proper tools in their hands. Sharing Your Faith with a Muslim has been written by the grace of God in order to provide one more tool, among many, for the use of all those who are called to witness to Muslims. Also, it should prove helpful for the edification of Muslims who seek after God and the experience of His salvation in Jesus Christ.
This book has grown out of a paper that the author was called upon to read during the Pan African Congress on Evangelism held in Nairobi, December 13-19, 1976. Most of the quotations from the Koran are translations by G. Sale (The Koran) and M. Pickethall (The Meaning of the Glorious Koran).
The author seeks to acknowledge gratefully the guidance and constraint of the Holy Spirit in the writing and completion of the book and to dedicate it to the glory of Him “whom to know is life eternal.” He is also indebted to his wife for her tireless encouragement and inspiration during the entire project.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Preface

Chapter 1 The Christian Neighborhood of Early Islam
Chapter 2 The Bible and Early Islam
Chapter 3 Authenticity of the Bible
Chapter 4 Authenticity of the Bible (continued)
Chapter 5 The Evangel Incarnate and the Evangelical Record
Chapter 6 Jesus Christ, the Word of God
Chapter 7 The Son of Mary
Chapter 8 The Messiah and the Prophet
Chapter 9 Messiah, the Servant
Chapter 10 The Servant Role
Chapter 11 The Suffering Servant
Chapter 12 Redemptive Death of Jesus, the Messiah
Chapter 13 Sin and Salvation Islamic Perspective
Chapter 14 Emmanuel The Saviour of the World

About the Author
World Religions and Cults Resources
Chapter 1
The Christian Neighborhood of Early Islam
On the basis of their scripture and tradition, Muslims entertain definite opinions about Christianity. These, however, often exhibit a gross misunderstanding of the true Christian faith and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This has led many Christian scholars to the unwarranted conclusion that Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, never came into contact with the mainline churches and that all his ideas about Christ and Christianity were derived from some obscure heretical sects. In the light of modern scholarship, however, such a position is no longer tenable. From the beginning Christians have been neighbors of Muslims. Christian life and thought have influenced Islam from its very inception and on through the early formative centuries. In summarizing available evidence in this area of research R. Bell observed:
Islam did not arise in a backwater from some obscure Judaic-Christian sect, but arose in the full stream of religious life in Asia. ( Origins of Islam in Christian Environment. London: Macmillan & Co., 1926, p. 9)
Tore Andre considered the Nestorian church to be a major source of Christian influence on Islam. S. Zwemmer writes:
Professor Tore Andre, of the University of Upsala, has shown in his recent study of Christian origins of Islam . . . that the opinion hitherto current, of sundry heretical sects to which Muhammad was indebted for his Christian ideas, is a mistaken one. He directs attention to the great church of Asia, the Nestorian Church, as the prime source of Christian thought and life in pre-Islamic Arabia. There are many points of similarity between Muslim teaching and Nestorian christianity, but the circle of ideas most prominent and characteristic, according to Tore Andre, is eschatology with its extraordinary stress on the Day of Judgment. (Zwemmer: Foreword to Nestorian Missionary Enterprise by J. Stewart, T. & T. Clark, 1928, p. 8)
The religious and political influence of Christianity on Arabia came from various directions. In the south, Yemen had seen Abyssinian rule under the governorship of Abraha, on the eve of Islam. The church in that territory flourished under the leadership of Saint Gregentius, bishop of Taphar. Abraha himself was a zealous Christian ruler. He has been praised by Greek, Syrian, and Muslim writers alike. He built a magnificent church in the capital city of Sana. It was considered to be one of the seven wonders of the age. In the year A.D. 567, on the night before its dedication, the church was defiled by pagan Arabs from the north, alleged to be members of the tribe of Quresh in Mecca. They, perhaps, were afraid of the church becoming a rival in popularity to their own temple in Käaba. This act of sacrilege led to the well-known expedition of Abraha against Mecca and its pagan sanctuary. He led his troops, riding on an elephant something of a novelty to the Arabs. He had to abandon his march toward victory, however, because an epidemic broke out in his camp. The year of his unsuccessful attack on Mecca is known as the year of the Elephant.
During the same year the prophet of Islam was born. The Arabs were in touch with Abyssinia modern Ethiopia throughout the Christian centuries preceding the rise of Islam. Even after the attack of Abraha on Mecca, this relationship between the Arabs and Ethiopians continued on, including the lifetime of the prophet Muhammad. Ethiopic, the ancient language of Abyssinia, is closely related to Arab