CAIRO REVIEW: What does it mean that you’re a Muslim and not a Christian?
SHEIKH HAMZA YUSUF: Everything that I loved about Christianity I got to bring into Islam. I didn’t see Islam as an abandonment of my Christian upbringing. I saw it as a fulfillment of it. I really didn’t have any conflict there. The Ten Commandments, I got. Jesus is a prophet as opposed to an incarnation of the divine, but one of the highest honored prophets. Mary is still a virgin in the Islamic tradition. The love of Jesus is in the Quran, but also the justice of Moses. So the Quran, although it appeals to the better angels of ourselves and asks us to be more Jesuit in our attitude towards the neighbor, it also allows for the redressing of wrongs. Muslims get that choice between the Mosaic justice and the turn-the-other-cheek of Christianity. I really felt that Islam was a fulfillment of that Abrahamic trinity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Final Testament.
Full interview here
Categories: Christianity, Islam
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Islam is the teachings of a man who wasn’t even sure what kind of creature he had encountered in a dark cave, a man who seemed ignorant of some significant basic facts of jewish and christian belief, and who had no idea that dunking a fly in your tea wasn’t good medical practice.
On the good side, he did fly to the moon and so was the world’s first astronaut – maybe this Yusuf guy is on to something.
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