My Position

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a prophet, nor do I claim to receive divine revelation from God. I'm just a believer who believe in the Bible and the Quran and try to understand the Books of God with my common sense. My views may contain errors, but I pray to God everyday to show me the right path. 

The following article is my current position regarding religion:

1. There is One True God in the universe. This One God had sent His messengers to mankind to acknowledge Him as the Lord of the Universe.

2. Some of His prophets and messengers are Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad.

3. Some of His Books are the Torah and the Quran.

4. According to the Quran, there are four communities that may enter to heaven; those are the believers (the followers of prophet Muhammad), the Jews, the Nazarenes, and the Sabians (Q 2:62 and 5:69).

5. In my view, the Sabians (or some say the Converts) were the people that once were called the God-fearers or God-fearing people or the proselytes; but now they are commonly known as the Noahides, that is the people who accept the Seven Laws of Noah.

6. The Nazarenes were the Jewish Christians, but now they are commonly known as the Messianic Judaism (or some of them who are non-trinitarian Messianic Jews).

7. The Jews, the Nazarenes, and the God-fearers are the same ummah as the muslims. We all worship the One True God, that is God of Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob.

8. There's only one kalimah shahadah, that is, There is no god but Allah; or there is no god but the God [of Abraham].

9. Don't get me wrong. Muhammad is a messenger of God, but I believe that there is no need for muslims nowadays to bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God. After all, we don't know Prophet Muhammad in person.

10. Jesus is not God. Jesus is God's servant and one of His messengers and prophets.

11. Most muslims are unaware that they unintentionally "worship" Prophet Muhammad. For example, they make mistakes in their prayer when they say, "Assalamu'alaika ayyuhannabiyyu wa rahmatullahi ..." (peace be upon you, O Prophet...). This sentence indicates that most muslims pray to Prophet Muhammad besides Allah rather than pray to God alone. The correct way to say this tahiyat is to erase the prophet as the second person, (we should call the prophet as the third person instead), so we should say something like "Assalamu alan Nabi wa rahmatullahi ..." (peace be upon the Prophet ...). The similar case also applies to John 20:28, where Thomas said, "My Lord and my God". If one believes that Thomas said this words directly to Jesus, then he/she is kafir since Jesus is not God. But if one believes that Thomas said this word indirectly to God in Heaven, as indicated in the use of nominative noun instead of the vocative, then he/she'll be fine.

12. I believe that there are only one or two person(s) in this world that have the authority to lead us all to the right path, and those are the awaited Imam Mahdi and/or the awaited Messiah(s). I'm not either of them, but I hope that my views are not far from imam Mahdi, insha Allah.