Proclaiming
One Unified Religion for All the People
This is the introduction Dr. Khalifa wrote for his translation of the Quran.
It is reproduced here only for its historical and educational value.
All religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
Hinduism,Buddhism, and others - have been severely corrupted through innovations,
traditions, and the idolization of humans such as the prophets and the saints.
God's plan, as stated in the Old Testament (Malachi 3:1), the New Testament
(Luke 17:22-36 & Matthew 24:27), and this Final Testament (3:81), calls
for the sending of God's Messenger of the Covenant after all the scriptures
have been delivered. The main function of God's Messenger of the Covenant
is to purify the scriptures and unify them into one universal message to
this world from the Creator and Sustainer of this world.
This major scriptural prophecy has now been fulfilled. God's Messenger of
the Covenant has arrived, supported by overwhelming tangible proof (see Appendix
Two). The purification and unification process has begun. God's plan is supported
by God's invisible forces, and the enormous dimensions of this divine plan
is manifest in the recent exposure of false religionists, and the removal
of such anti-freedom barriers as the Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtain, and the
bamboo curtain.
Henceforth, there is only one religion acceptable to God - Submission. Anyone
who submits to God and devotes the worship to God ALONE is a "Submitter."
Thus, one may be a Jewish Submitter, a Christian Submitter, a Buddhist Submitter,
a Hindu Submitter, or a Muslim Submitter.
The only religion acceptable to God is Submission. [3:19]
Anyone who seeks other than Submission as his religion,
it will not be accepted from him and, in the Hereafter,
he will be with the losers. [3:85]
(Rashad Khalifa, November, 1989)
A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from | among
your kinsmen; to him you shall listen. (Moses in Deuteronomy 18:15)
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen,
and will put My words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command
him. If any man will not listen to My words which he speaks in My name, I
Myself will make him answer for it. (Deuteronomy 18:18-19)
I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Paraclete - |to be
with you always: THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH. (Jesus in John 14:16-17)
When THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH comes to you, he will guide you to all |truth,
and will announce to you the things to come. (Jesus on John 16:13)
God's Messenger of the Covenant
Lo, I am sending My messenger to prepare the way before Me; and suddenly
there will come to the temple the Lord whom you seek, and the messenger of
the covenant whom you desire. Yes, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
But who will endure the day of his coming? And who can stand when he appears?
For he is like the refiner's fire ... he will sit purifying .... (Malachi
3:1-3)
When God ALONE is mentioned, the hearts of those who do not believe in
the Hereafter shrink with aversion. But when others are mentioned besides
Him, they rejoice. [39:45]
On the 27th night of Ramadan, 13 B.H. (Before Hijra) (610 A.D.), the prophet
Muhammad (the soul - the real person - not the body) was summoned to the
highest possible point, millions of light years from the planet Earth, and
this Quran was placed into his heart (2:185, 17:1, 44:3, 53:1-18, 97:1).
Subsequently, the Quran was released into Muhammad's memory, with Gabriel's
mediation, over a period of 23 years, 610 to 632 A.D. (17:106). At the moment
of release, Muhammad scrupulously wrote it down with his own hand (Appendix
28). What Muhammad left was the complete Quran, written in the chronological
sequence of revelation, with detailed instructions for putting the revelations
into the sequence decreed by God.
During the re-arrangement process, the scribes who idolized the Prophet added
two verses at the end of Sura 9, the last sura revealed in Medina. This
blasphemous act resulted in a 50-year war between Ali Ibn Abi Taaleb and
his supporters on one side and the distorters of the Quran on the other side.
The war ended when Hussein ibn Ali and his family were martyred in Karbala.
It was the Umayyad ruler Marwan Ibn Al-Hakam (died in 684 AD) who destroyed
the original Quran that was written by Muhammad's hand, "fearing the eruption
of new disputes."
God's Messenger of the Covenant has presented overwhelming evidence that
9:128-129 do not belong in the Quran (Appendix 24). With the removal of these
false verses, the Quran has finally been restored. Our generation is the
first ever to receive the Quran in its purified and finalized form (see Appendix
1 and 28).
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