Here are some words taken from a Muslim, Mr Ahmed Deedat, who though an unbeliever, still found the time to research and find some truths. Though his style is somewhat satirical (funny) and although I am grateful for what he has revealed, I am somewhat worried about Mr Deedats irreverent comments and while I hope he comes to recant them in time, it is not for me to judge for Yahuwah El Shaddai (Almighty Mighty One) will deal with Mr Deedat as and when He sees fit. In the realm of the spirit, no nation has had as much opportunities as the children of Israel. And despite repeated warnings to the effect that: THY GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD, HE SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GOD BEFORE HIM, NOT EVEN OF THE LIKENESS OF THE THINGS ON EARTH, OR IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE, OR IN THE WATERS BENEATH THE SEA ... (Exodus 20:3-5), they took the golden calf for worship, and again and again reverted into idolatry. Nor is the bulk of Christendom any freer from this taint. Visit St. Pauls Cathedral in London, or St. Peters Cathedral in Rome and you will have very little to distinguish them from the Temple of Somnath in India. It is a question of Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.3 You do not really have to go to England or Italy to verify my statement. Why not an inspection in loco to an Anglican or a Roman Catholic Cathedral in your own home town! The Israelites not only shared the word EL with the original people of Palestine, but borrowed the name of their chief deity - ADO and turned it into ADONAI, and everywhere the four-letter word YHWH occurred in their Holy Scriptures, they read Adonai instead of Yahuwa. You will not fail to notice the resemblance between the Jewish Adonai and the heathen Adonis. ADONIS was a beautiful godling loved by Venus in the Greek pantheon. CHAPTER THREE: WHO IS JEHOVAH? Astonishing as it may sound, it is an admitted fact that prior to the sixteenth century, the word Jehovah, was unheard of. Whenever the origin of this word appeared in its true Hebrew form in Jewish Scriptures (read from right to left as in Arabic) Yet, Huh, Wav, Huh; or Y.H.W.H. these four letters were preceded by a substitute word Adonai, to warn the reader that the following word was not to be articulated. The Jews took meticulous care in repeating this exercise in their Book of God six thousand, eight hundred and twenty-three times - interpolating the words Adonai or Elohim. They sincerely believed that this awesome name of God was never to be pronounced. This prohibition was no ordinary affair: it called for a penalty of death on one who dared to utter it, and this taboo has been more successful than all the DOs and DONTs of the Ten Commandments put together. If Jehovah is the name of God Almighty, and if the 27 Books of the New Testament were inspired by Him, then it is an anomaly of the highest order, that He (Jehovah) signally failed to have His Own Name recorded in His Word (N.T.) the Christian addition to the Jewish Bible. The Christians claim that they have in their possession over twenty-four thousand so-called originals of their Holy Writ in the Greek language, and yet not a single parchment has Jehovah written in it. Curiously this name of God (?) has been sacrilegiously replaced by the Greek words kyri.os and the.os, which mean Lord and God. VIRILE SECT The Jehovahs Witnesses, have made the most phenomenal progress of all the religious sects of the past hundred years, on a percentage basis. The Bahaies are moving at a snails-pace in comparison, actually receding in ratio with the other Christian off-shoots. These Witnesses are the fittest in their fight against the other Christians as well as against the Muslims. Simply because they program themselves five times a week in their Kingdom Halls, and what they learn they implement during the week-ends. We Muslims are supposed to be programmed five times a day in our daily Salaat, but we have lost the true purpose of this Pillar of Islam. Our Salaat is for earning Sawaab (spiritual blessings) only. They have made the word JEHOVAH famous. They knock at peoples doors, asking the question - What is His Name? The orthodox Christian replies - God. They say, God is not a name, it is an object of worship. Whats His Name? Father, says the orthodox as a second try. Is your father God? Of course not! So what is His Name? JEHOVAH! is His Name, says the Witness to both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. He has become a professor of this one word. He has made it into a religion. THE TETRAGRAMMATON Why not for a change ask him, a question or two. Ask him where he got the word Jehovah from? He will surely reply - From the Holy Bible. What does it say? Does it spell out the word J-e-h-o-v-a-h? No, he will reply. There is a tetragrammaton in the Bible from which the word Jehovah is derived. What is a tetragrammaton? No one seems to have heard this highly mystical term. In the University of Illinois in the U.S.A. I asked a gathering of students and lecturers whether any one had heard this jaw-breaker! Not one of them knew its meaning! But every Jehovahs Witness seems to know, even the commonest of them. They have really specialized - ours is a world of specialization. They are Professors of the one word - Jehovah. What then is a tetragrammaton! The Jehovahs Witness replies, Y H W H! No! What I want to know from you is, what does the word tetragrammaton mean? You will find him most reluctant in explaining. Either he does not really know, or he is feeling embarrassed in replying. Tetra, in Greek means FOUR, and grammaton, means LETTERS. It simply means a four letter word. Can you read into Y H W H the word Jehovah? I cannot. No!, says the Jehovahs Witness, we ought to add vowels to these four consonants to produce the sound. Originally, both Hebrew and Arabic were written without the vowel signs The native of each language was able to read if even without those vowels. Not so the outsider, for whose benefit the vowels were invented. THE J SICKNESS Let us add the vowels as the Witness suggests. YHWH becomes YeHoWaH. Juggle as you like but you can never materialize Jehovah! Ask him, from which hat he drew his J. He will tell you that this is the popular pronunciation from the 16th century. The exact sound of the four letters YHWH is known neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles, yet he is ramming JEHOVAH down everyones throats. The European Christians have developed a fondness (sickness) for the letter J They add Js where there are no Jays. Look! Yoel he converts to Joel Yahuda to Juda Yahushua to Joshua Yusuf to Joseph Yunus to Jonah Yahuwah to Jehovah There is no end to the Westerners infatuation for the letter J. Now in the busy streets of South Africa, he charges people who carelessly cross them for jay-walking, but nobody charges him for converting Jewish (Yahudi) names into Gentile names. The letters Y H W H occur in the Hebrew (Jewish) Scriptures 6,823 times, boasts the Jehovahs Witness, and it occurs in combination with the word Elohim; 156 times in the booklet called Genesis alone. This combination YHWH/ELOHIM has been consistently translated in the English Bible as Lord God, Lord God, Lord God, ad infinitum. (islamawareness.net/Allah/wihn.html) This is as much truth as Mr Deedat can muster in his entire article and I wholly disagree with the rest of it since I find it irreverent. Why? If most or all Muslims hold his views then I am surprised they worship at all since to believe in an all powerful being is to believe that being can be anything and do anything at anytime. Since, as evidenced from his writings and his video, he believes that El Shaddai must behave according to his expectations then he is delusional, to say the least, and has no idea of the true power of the AlmightyEl whom he is trying to limit to mans puny standards. I must also admit that I took the liberty of correcting within his caption The J Sickness the Hebrew spellings of Yoel, Yahuda, Yahushua, Yahuwah and Yahudi. The word Yesus was deleted from the list since there is no Hebrew word Yesus only a Greek coined word of HeSus, He (hail/praise) and Seous (shortened to Sus and means Zeus, the Greek god popular at that time). Thank you for your patience and may the knowlege of The Only Truth who is Yahuwshuwa Messiah be upon us all. Shalom..
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 03:18:58 +0000
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