Christian Churches of God
No. Q1A
The Five Pillars of Islam or the
Pillars of the Faith?
(Edition 1.0 20141128-20141128)
The Five Pillars of Islam are used to determine an upright Muslim but how do they really
accord with the Scriptures and the Qur’an? What are the Pillars of the Faith?
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The Five Pillars of Islam or the Pillars of the Faith?
The Five Pillars of Islam or the Pillars of the Faith?
What are the Five Pillars of Islam and what
is their purpose?
Their purpose was to list requirements to
become a Muslim in good standing.
The Pillars actually ignore the laws of Allah’
or Eloah in the biblical Hebrew.
Do they achieve that purpose of identifying
upright Muslims? The answer seems to be
no, in that they ignore the laws of God
completely and denigrate the law and the
prophets.
The so-called pillars are generally recognised
as:
1. Shahadah: declaring there is no god except
God, and Muhammad is God's Messenger.
2. Salat: ritual prayer five times a day.
3. Zakat: giving 2.5% of one’s savings to the
poor and needy.
4. Sawm: fasting and self-control during the
holy month of Ramadan.
5. Hajj: the Pilgrimage to Mecca at least
once in a lifetime, if one is able.
Let us deal with them. We will see that they
are blatant frauds against the laws of God
and the testimony of Christ and the apostles
and the prophets.
As stated earlier the first so-called pillar
ignores the vast majority of God's prophets
and the words they brought from Him.
Shahadah: The claim is that there is no God
but God and Muhammad is the prophet of
God.
The end section of this pillar is a Tsherk or
fraudulent addition against the true faith. The
Qur’an (Koran) says that all prophets are
equal. The name of the prophet to the Arabs
was Qasim and not Muhammad. He was just
the same as any other prophet sent by God
and no more and no less. This is because the
prophets speak for the One True God and
thus this addition is an offence against God
and the prophets.
The end result of Shahadah is that it takes
precedence over the Qur’an. Surah IV 162 171 lists the veracity of the prophets from
Moses to whom God spoke and also
mentions the Messiah Jesus Christ and his
prophethood. Also the Qur’an says here in
verse 172 that the Messiah would never
disdain from being a servant of God. Thus
we deduce that Christ is the Messiah within
Islam also. In Surah 6:82-92 the Qur’an lists
the prophets from Noah to Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, Job, Joseph,
David and Solomon, Elijah, Zechariah, John,
Jesus, as well as Ismail, Elisha, Jonah and
Lot. They were all righteous and
distinguished above all people. They were
given the Scripture, Wisdom and
Prophethood. Anyone who disbelieves will
have others substituted in their place. The
Qur’an states that the Scriptures brought by
Moses in the Torah and all Scripture was
revealed by God. Surah 6, Livestock, is a
confirmatory Scripture regarding all that was
produced before it in the Bible.
Surah 6:93 condemns those who fabricate
lies and attribute them to God. Thus the
Hadith that seeks to corrupt the Qur’an is
condemned by God. The Imams that use the
Hadith that claim that the Scriptures have
been lost are refuted by the Qur’an itself and
we have the evidence that they have not been
lost. God is Almigthy, omnipotent and
omniscient.
The Second Pillar, Salat, allegedly requires
ritual prayer five times a day. Such a
requirement is vain repetition as done by the
pagans and contrary to the Scriptures
including the Qur’an. One should pray at
least three times a day as did Daniel and in
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his room. Five times is ideal but in private
and not by rote as the pagans do and not in
public.
Lord; they have nothing to fear, nor will
they grieve.
[Quran 2:62, 5:69] *
The Third Pillar, Zakat, is a complete
perversion of the tithe laws and is derived
only from the Terumah Levy in Ezekiel 45. It
ignores all other financial responsibility
under the Torah and the NT and the Qur’an.
That is what 2:62 says but 2:63 says: We
(God) made a covenant with you as we
raised Mount Sinai above you. You shall
uphold what we have given you strongly and
remember its contents.
The Fourth Pillar, Sawm, corrupts Ramadan
which is now a floating month that rotates
through the year. They have corrupted the
month of the Passover which is the fasting
month and they have corrupted the faith.
Thus you have to keep the laws of the Torah
to qualify. Salvation is by God's Grace but
you are also required to keep the Sabbath
and those who do not keep the Sabbath will
not qualify and be apes. They will not enter
the First Resurrection and will be consigned
to the Second.
The correct Calendar of Islam is identified in
the text Hebrew and Islamic Calendar
Reconciled (No. 053).
The Fifth Pillar, Hajj, is an invention to
obviate the Feasts of God as specified in the
Torah. They do this so they have no
obligation to meet for the three seasons and
to tithe and to bring offerings to God.
Each of the so-called Five Pillars of Islam is
a fraud against the Qur'an and the Torah and
the Gospels. Yet are the Five Pillars what
determines a Muslim? No. They are what
determines exactly what is NOT a real
Muslim according to the Torah and the Injeel
and the Qur'an.
Allah' or Eloah has a different measuring
stick and they will be surprised when their
eyes are finally open. Those that set up
modern Islam use these five requirements to
define a Muslim. They follow their own
rules and ignore the laws of God as set up in
the laws and the prophets in all three
testaments.
One of the texts used to justify this
behaviour is this: Surely, those who believe,
those who are Jewish, the Christians, and the
converts; anyone who
(1) believes in GOD, and
(2) believes in the Last Day, and
(3) leads a righteous life,
will receive their recompense from their
Surah 5:69ff also requires those that espouse
the faith to be Unitarian and to obey the
prophets and the Testimony. That means all
of them.
The Rashad Khalifa translation is also used
for 3:81.
He writes: Major Prophecy
Fulfilled* God's Messenger of the Covenant
[3:81] GOD took a covenant from the
prophets, saying, "I will give you the
scripture and wisdom. Afterwards, a
messenger will come to confirm all existing
scriptures. You shall believe in him and
support him." He said, "Do you agree with
this, and pledge to fulfill this covenant?"
They said, "We agree." He said, "You have
thus borne witness, and I bear witness along
with you."
The comments in this text in 3:81 from
Rashad Khalifa both before, during and after
are added commentary. The Messenger of
the Covenant is the Holy Spirit that was sent
after the sacrifice of the Messiah and the
translators insist on making it out to be the
prophet but it is the Holy Spirit that is placed
in the Church, which is the Muhammad that
is spoken about elsewhere. The addition of
the words (Qur’an prophecy) to the text is
incorrect. The rejection of the Holy Spirit is
the unpardonable sin from the NT. You
cannot read the Qur'an independently from
Scripture and pretend it says something else.
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The Five Pillars of Islam or the Pillars of the Faith?
Pillars of the Faith
determined in the astronomical schools and
not by Imams and Karaites looking for the
pagan new moon crescent.
So what are the Pillars of the faith?
The entire faith is expressed by Christ and
Moses as the two great Commandments.
The two Great Commandments are thus the
two primary pillars of the faith as
symbolized at the Temple.
1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with thy entire
mind (Mat. 22:37).
The Second is like unto it:
2. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself.
On these two commandments hang all the
law and the prophets (Mat. 22:40). All other
pillars of the faith subtend from these two
Great Commandments as does the Bible and
the Qur’an.
3. The Third pillar of the Faith is to
keep the Calendar of God in the
Sabbaths, New Moons and Feasts of
God.
Thus Islam is based on the Calendar given to
Moses and used in the Temple. Thus it must
be determined by the Conjunctions
4,
4. The Fourth Pillar of the faith is to be
baptized into the Body as an adult.
5. The Fifth Pillar of the faith is to keep
the Lord’s Supper and to partake of
the bread and the wine which is the
body and blood of Christ and to wash
one another’s feet at the Lord’s
Supper.
6. The Sixth Pillar of the faith is to pay
your tithes to God as a sign of
Repentance and a return to God (Mal.
3:7-10). These are the First and
Second Tithes and the Terumah levy.
7. The Seventh Pillar of the Faith is to
provide for widows and orphans and
the sick and disabled.
If you do these things you will show thereby
that you love God and are worthy of the
Faith and the First Resurrection.
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