Qur’an
Children of Israel, remember My favor which I have shown you, and fulfill My agreement! I shall fulfill your covenant. I am the One you should revere! Believe in what I have sent down to confirm what you already have, and do not be the first to disbelieve in it. Do not sell My signs for paltry price. I am the One you should heed! Do not cloak Truth with falsehood nor hide the Truth while you realize it.
Keep up prayer, pay the welfare tax, and worship along with those who bow their heads. Are you ordering people to be virtuous while forgetting it yourselves, even as you recite the Book? Will you not use you reason?
Koran
Allah calls all People of the Book, that is, the Jews and the Christians to believe in the Koran and follow the commands sent by God unto Muhammad, peace on him, to guide mankind to the Kingdom of Heaven. The Qur’an came as a book of guidance for all children of Adam. But, the People of the Book are especially invited for the reason that this book of God given unto Muhammad confirms the message that has already reached them by means of other prophets of Allah. Moreover, this is the only book of Allah that no human being has ever been able to change. It came with a promise of protection from Allah.
This is a proclamation for mankind;
let them feel they are warned through it
and know that He is God Alone.
May prudent persons bear it in mind! (Qur’an)
Allah states that His curses lie on those among the People of the Book who would refuse to believe in this message:
We gave Moses the Book and followed him up with messengers later on. We gave Jesus the son of Mary evidence and assisted him with the Holy Spirit. Yet every time some messenger comes to you with what you yourselves do not fancy, why do you act so overbearing? One group you have rejected while another group you would [like to] kill.
They said: “Our hearts are covered over.” Rather God has cursed them because of their disbelief; little do they believe. Whenever a Book has come to them from God to confirm what they already have–whereas previously they had been seeking victory over those who disbelieve–so whenever something they can recognize is brought to them, they disbelieve in it. God’s curse lies on disbelievers! How wretchedly have they sold their own souls by disbelieving in what God has sent down to them, begrudging that God should send down some of His bounty on any of His servants He may wish. They have brought an exchange of anger for anger on themselves; disbelievers will have shameful torment. Whenever someone tells them: “Believe in what God has sent down;” they say: “We believe [only] in what has been sent down to us,” while they disbelieve in what has come after that, even though it is the Truth confirming what they already have. (Qur’an)
There’s a video at the end of this post revealing that both Moses and Jesus Christ, peace on them, prayed exactly the way Muslims pray today, albeit in a different language. In fact, all prophets and messengers of Allah bowed their heads before God in prayer. The Jews hadn’t been commanded by Moses through Allah to shake their heads before a wall for worship; and the Christians hadn’t been commanded to worship the statues of Jesus Christ and his mother. Rather, the message of Allah has always been the same.
Thus We set up the House as a resort for mankind and a sanctuary and [said]: “Adopt Abraham’s station as a place for prayer.” We entrusted Abraham and Ishmael with cleaning out My house for those who go around it and are secluded [praying] there, and who bow down on their knees in worship.
So Abraham said: ‘My Lord, make this countryside safe and provide any of its people who believe in God and the Last Day with fruit from it.’ He said: “Even anyone who disbelieves, I’ll let enjoy things for a while then drive him along towards the torment of Fire. How awful is goal!” (Qur’an)
So, wrongdoing disbelievers should not rejoice because they have food to eat in this lifetime. Conditions would reverse for them the moment they die.
Those who disbelieve and die while they are disbelievers will have God’s curse upon them, as well as the angels’ and all mankind’s to live for ever. Torment will not be lightened for them nor will they be allowed to wait.
Your God is God Alone
there is no deity except Him,
the Mercy-giving, the Merciful! (Qur’an)
Allah also warns those who say that Jesus Christ is the son of God.
That which We recite to you comes from the signs and the wise Reminder. Jesus’ case with God was the same as Adam’s: He created him from dust; then told him: ‘Be!” and he was. Truth comes from your Lord, so do not be a waverer. Tell anyone who argues with you concerning it, once knowledge has come to you; “Come, let us call our children and your children, our women and your women, ourselves and yourselves together; then let us plead, and place God’s curse upon the liars.”
These are true stories. There is no deity except God; while God is Powerful, Wise. However if they should turn away, God is Aware as to who are mischief makers.
SAY: “People of the Book, [let us] rally to a common formula to be binding on both us and you, that we shall worship only God [Alone] and associate nothing else with Him, nor shall any of us take on others as lords instead of God.” If they should turn away, then say: “Bear witness that we are Muslims.” (Qur’an)
Neither the Old Testament nor the Gospel asks of believers to take another god apart from the Lord of the Universe. Because the message of Allah is entirely the same, God Almighty expects believers in the Old Testament and the Gospel to also believe in the Koran.
You who have received the Book, believe in what We have sent down to you as a confirmation of what you already have, lest We dazzle your faces and set them on backwards, or curse them just as We cursed the masters of the Sabbath. God’s command must be fulfilled! (Qur’an)
God’s curses are commands.
Have you not watched those who were given a portion of the Book? They believe in witchcraft and arrogant leaders and tell those who disbelieve: “Those are better guided to a way than are the ones who believe.” Those are the ones whom God has cursed; anyone God has cursed will never find a supporter for himself Or have they any share in control? Why, they will not give a speck to anybody!
Or do they envy people because of what God has given them out of His bounty? We already gave Abraham’s family the Book and wisdom, and We gave them splendid control. Some of them believed in it while others of them blocked it out. Hell will suffice as a blaze! Those who disbelieve in Our signs We will roast in a Fire: each time their hides are toasted, We shall exchange them for some other skins so they may taste the torment [again]. God is Powerful, Wise. We will show those who believe and perform honorable actions into gardens through which rivers flow, to live there for ever; they will have clean-living spouses there, and We will show them into shady nooks. (Qur’an)
Of course, there are arrogant leaders, for example, George W. Bush commanding people to turn away from the Koran. But people who don’t have well-developed intellects may also refuse to peruse the Holy Qur’an because of their attachment to their ignorant forefathers’ ways. It’s only for free people to change their belief systems once truth has arrived at their doorsteps. They must remember that they would be facing God individually on the Last Day. If they were followers of corrupt leaders, their entire criminal gangs would suffer the wrath of Allah.
Anyone who kills a believer deliberately will receive as his reward [a sentence] to live in Hell for ever. God will be Angry with him and curse him, and prepare dreadful torment for him. (Qur’an)
Then there are arrogant leaders such as Osama bin Laden who take innocent lives while calling themselves Muslims or believers. In fact, worshippers are being killed in mosques to boot. Only Allah knows who is actually doing it. Russians? Americans? Zionists? — Allah knows best.
SAY: “People of the Book, do you persecute us just because we believe in God and what has been sent down to us, and what was sent down previously? Most of you are perverse!”
SAY: “Shall I announce to you something worse than this as a recompense from God?”‘ Those whom God has cursed and become angry at, and made them into monkeys and swine, and who serve the arrogant ones, are in a worse plight and even further astray from the Level Path. When they come to you, they say: “We believe,” while they have entered with disbelief and they leave with it. God is quite Aware as to what they have been hiding. You will see many of them plunging into vice and hostility, and living off graft. What they have been doing is so wretched! If their rabbis and scholars had only forbidden them from speaking sinfully and living off graft! How wretched is what they have been producing. (Qur’an)
