Notis: Det följande är en reproduktion av artiklen "Submission (Islam): The Next American Religion?".

A very interesting article by Michael Wolfe called “Islam: The Next American Religion?” got my attention.

The Great Prophecy in Quran

[Quran 48:28] He is the One who sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, to make it prevail over all other religions. GOD suffices as a witness.

In the very beginning Mr. Wolfe wrote this remark “The U.S. began as a haven for Christian outcasts. But what religion fits our current zeitgeist? The answer may be Islam.”

Keeping this in mind, he wrote what he believes would be the reason for Islam (Submission in English) to be that next American religion.

Although I agree with him in the major points of his article, I disagree on a very serious issue.

The traditional Islam known around the world and is still represented by most of the Muslims in the USA is not the kind of Islam, Mr. Wolfe dreams of or is speaking about.

The kind of traditional Islam we see around the world and in most of the mosques in the USA is the wrong Islam and will die out as the new generations are more educated and well informed of the corruptions that entered the traditional Islam.

Traditional Islam as practiced today is a case of disfigurement of the beautiful and peaceful religion of Islam, it has deserted the Quran and used the man made books of Hadiths and Sunna to ruin all the major commands in the Quran, the Final Testament and word of God. I will include what Mr. Wolfe wrote in red and my comments and reply in black.

Americans tend to think of their country as, at the very least, a nominally Christian nation. Didn't the Pilgrims come here for freedom to practice their Christian religion? Don't Christian values of righteousness under God, and freedom, reinforce America's democratic, capitalist ideals? True enough. But there's a new religion on the block now, one that fits the current zeitgeist nicely. It's Islam.

With that I agree., but the Islam that will dominate this country, is not the traditional Islam that is corrupted beyond belief. It is the Islam (Submission) based on the Quran and that refuses all the corruptions derived from the man made books of Hadith and Sunna.

[Quran 45:6] These are GOD's revelations that we recite to you truthfully. In which Hadith other than GOD and His revelations do they believe?

Islam is the third-largest and fastest growing religious community in the United States. This is not just because of immigration. More than 50% of America's six million Muslims were born here. Statistics like these imply some basic agreement between core American values and the beliefs that Muslims hold. Americans who make the effort to look beyond popular stereotypes to learn the truth of Islam are surprised to find themselves on familiar ground.

This truth of Islam can be found in God’s words in the Quran, not in any other books that traditional Islam follows especially the books of Hadith and Sunna.

Is America a Muslim nation? Here are seven reasons the answer may be yes.

(1) Islam is monotheistic. Muslims worship the same God as Jews and Christians. They also revere the same prophets as Judaism and Christianity, from Abraham, the first monotheist, to Moses, the law giver and messenger of God, to Jesus--not leaving out Noah, Job, or Isaiah along the way. The concept of a Judeo-Christian tradition only came to the fore in the 1940s in America. Now, as a nation, we may be transcending it, turning to a more inclusive "Abrahamic" view.

It is true, USA is definitely an Abrahamic nation. Traditional Muslims in the worst of their corruption, and despite their denial, have made of Muhammad another idol. Their salat, Hajj, commemoration and glorification does not involve GOD ALONE anymore, as Quran teaches, but includes as much and sometimes more of Muhammad, the human being. By doing so, traditional Islam is no more a monotheistic religion. Even in the mosques of traditional Islam in the US and abroad, you see the name God (Allah in Arabic) side by side and equal in size to Muhammad.

Submission (true Islam) and Submitters (True Muslims) still uphold and honor and devote the religion to God alone as commanded in the Quran. This is the kind of monotheism Americans will be looking for. The new generations are not ready to make Muhammad another idol. They are more sharp, more sophisticated and well educated especially when they can see the three religions side by side.

(2) Islam is democratic in spirit. Islam advocates the right to vote and educate yourself and pursue a profession. The Qur'an, on which Islamic law is based, enjoins Muslims to govern themselves by discussion and consensus. In mosques, there is no particular priestly hierarchy. With Islam, each individual is responsible for the condition of her or his own soul. Everyone stands equal before God.

This is very true, but a look around the world will show that those who call themselves Muslims (traditional Muslims), are the worst in applying the democratic laws established in the Quran. 3:159 Only by following the laws of God in the Quran (Submission-True Islam) can we guarantee the democracy we enjoy in the USA.

The future generation will definitely reject the traditional Islam with its oppression, lack of all kinds of freedom, lack of freedom to worship, freedom of expression, freedom of commerce, freedom to travel…etc.

The new American generations will appreciate the laws of democracy in the Quran as represented by the new Submitters (Muslims in Arabic) who insist upon upholding the Quran ALONE as commanded by God.

The new American generations will never accept the corruptions of governments as seen in those called “Islamic Governments”.

We have a duty to teach them that this corruption in the traditional Muslim country is NOT Islam but man made corruptions, found mostly in books of Hadiths and Sunna, not in the Quran.

Americans, who mostly associate Islamic government with a handful of tyrants, may find this independent spirit surprising, supposing that Muslims are somehow predisposed to passive submission. Nothing could be further from the truth. The dictators reigning today in the Middle East are not the result of Islamic principles. They are more a result of global economics and the aftermath of European colonialism.

Meanwhile, like everyone else, average Muslims the world over want a larger say in what goes on in the countries where they live. Those in America may actually succeed in it. In this way, America is closer in spirit to Islam than many Arab countries

We do agree that USA is closer to Islam in spirit than almost all the so called “Islamic Countries” see our article at;

http://www.submission.org/islam/usa.html
(or http://www.vasterasmoske.com/perspektiv/nation/usa.html)

http://www.submission.org/islam/free-usa.html
(or http://www.vasterasmoske.com/perspektiv/nation/free_usa.html)

(3) Islam contains an attractive mystical tradition. Mysticism is grounded in the individual search for God.

Where better to do that than in America, land of individualists and spiritual seekers? And who might better benefit than Americans from the centuries-long tradition of teachers and students that characterize Islam.

Surprising as it may seem, America's best-selling poet du jour is a Muslim mystic named Rumi, the 800-year-old Persian bard and founder of the Mevlevi Path, known in the West as the Whirling Dervishes…….. This is a concrete poetry of ecstasy, where physical reality and the longing for God are joined by flashes of metaphor and insight that continue to speak across the centuries.

Even this mystical tradition is just that a tradition, and has been corrupted over the centuries and do not represent the true Islam (Submission) any more. God gave us ONE book, the Quran and asked us straight forward not to follow any other source.

(4) Islam is egalitarian. From New York to California, the only houses of worship that are routinely integrated today are the approximately 4,000 Muslim mosques. That is because Islam is predicated on a level playing field, especially when it comes to standing before God. The Pledge of Allegiance (one nation, "under God") and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (all people are "created equal") express themes that are also basic to Islam.

The American constitution is based on principles already found in the Quran over 1200 years before the constitution was written. See our article at;

http://www.submission.org/islam/free-usa.html
(or http://www.vasterasmoske.com/perspektiv/nation/free_usa.html)

Islam is often viewed as an aggressive faith because of the concept of jihad, but this is actually a misunderstood term.

Because Muslims believe that God wants a just world, they tend to be activists, and they emphasize that people are equal before God.

These are two reasons why African Americans have been drawn in such large numbers to Islam. They now comprise about one-third of all Muslims in America.

I agree

Meanwhile, this egalitarian streak also plays itself out in relations between the sexes.

Muhammad, Islam's prophet, actually was a reformer in his day. Following the Qur'an, he limited the number of wives a man could have and strongly recommended against polygamy.

The Qur'an laid out a set of marriage laws that guarantees married women their family names, their own possessions and capital, the right to agree upon whom they will marry, and the right to initiate divorce.

In Islam's early period, women were professionals and property owners, as increasingly they are today.

None of this may seem obvious to most Americans because of cultural overlays that at times make Islam appear to be a repressive faith toward women--but if you look more closely, you can see the egalitarian streak preserved in the Qur'an finding expression in contemporary terms.

In today's Iran, for example, more women than men attend university, and in recent local elections there, 5,000 women ran for public office.

As Mr Wolfe himself writes, it is the Quran ALONE that guarantees all these rights for women and the equality of sexes and races.

This will totally disappear once you see what the traditional Muslims follow outside the Quran in their man-made books.

Future generations in the USA will be holding to the Quran ALONE (Submission-True Islam) for what it offers and they will reject the way traditional Islam and Muslims practice.

This kind of traditional Islam is going to the grave and the true Islam, upholding the Quran alone will be the future of this country.

Warning to the Arabs

[Quran 47:38] ……….. If you turn away, He will substitute other people in your place, and they WILL NOT BE LIKE YOU.

*47:38 The Quran was given to the Arabs, in their language, for 1400 years, but they clearly rejected it and refused to believe that it is complete; they fabricated Hadith and Sunna.

(5) Islam shares America's new interest in food purity and diet.

Muslims conduct a monthlong fast during the holy month of Ramadan, a practice that many Americans admire and even seek to emulate. ………..

Muslims also observe dietary laws that restrict the kind of meat they can eat.

These laws require that the permitted, or halal, meat is prepared in a manner that emphasizes cleanliness and a humane treatment of animals.

These laws ride on the same trends that have made organic foods so popular.

I do agree with Mr. Wolfe, but he ignores the fact that traditional Muslims made their own man made laws of what is permitted (Halal) food and ignored the simple basic rules in the Quran.

Please see our article about Halal (Permitted) food, at;

http://www.submission.org/halal-meat.html
(or http://www.vasterasmoske.com/hadith_sunna/halal_meat.html)

The new generations in America will have no tolerance to the man made laws used by traditional Muslims and mosques especially after knowing the simple rules of God in the Quran.

They will be rushing in groups to uphold the TRUE ISLAM (SUBMISSION) and will reject totally the corruption in the traditional Islam and mosques in the US and outside it..

[110:1] When triumph comes from GOD, and victory.

[110:2] You will see the people embracing GOD's religion in throngs.

[110:3] You shall glorify and praise your Lord, and implore Him for forgiveness. He is the Redeemer.

(6) Islam is tolerant of other faiths. Like America, Islam has a history of respecting other religions. In Muhammad's day, Christians, Sabeans, and Jews in Muslim lands retained their own courts and enjoyed considerable autonomy.

As Islam spread east toward India and China, it came to view Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism as valid paths to salvation.

As Islam spread north and west, Judaism especially benefited. The return of the Jews to Jerusalem, after centuries as outcasts, only came about after Muslims took the city in 638.

The first thing the Muslims did there was to rescue the Temple Mount, which by then had been turned into a garbage heap.

Agree, but we cannot ignore what the traditional Muslims do in their own, so called “Islamic” countries, persecute people from other religions, prohibit freedom of religions, torture and kill others, like Bahaais, Hindus, Christians…etc.

While doing this they totally disobeying God’s rules in the Quran to respect all other religions and treat them in an amicable way.

The future American generation will definitely refuse this kind of corrupted Islam and will chose to follow the true Islam (Submission) based on the law of God in the Quran.

Traditional mosques in the USA harbor all kinds of corruptions derived from the man made books and will ultimately loose as people will become more aware of the true and real Islam (Submission) that is written allover the ONE complete book, the Quran.

Today, of course, the long discord between Israel and Palestine has acquired harsh religious overtones.

Yet the fact remains that this is a battle for real estate, not a war between two faiths.

Islam and Judaism revere the same prophetic lineage, back to Abraham, and no amount of bullets or barbed wire can change that.

Agree

(7) Islam encourages the pursuit of religious freedom. The Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock is not the world's first story of religious emigration.

Muhammad and his little band of 100 followers fled religious persecution, too, from Mecca in the year 622. They only survived by going to Madinah, an oasis a few hundred miles north, where they established a new community based on a religion they could only practice secretly back home.

No wonder then that, in our own day, many Muslims have come here as pilgrims from oppression, leaving places like Kashmir, Bosnia, and Kosovo, where being a Muslim may radically shorten your life span. When the 20th century's list of emigrant exiles is added up, it will prove to be heavy with Muslims, that's for sure.

As much as this is true about Submission (True Islam) (see our article at ), it is not true in traditional Islam which is practiced by the majority of Muslims around the world and in the USA, where hadiths books took away the freedom given by God in the Quran and placed instead of them man made laws that fight and kill those who chose to practice their religious freedom.

No American generation will ever accept this kind of corrupted Islam. The future American religion will look with admiration and will accept Submission (True Islam) because its just laws are set by God Almighty HIMSELF.

All in all, there seems to be a deep resonance between Islam and the United States.

Although one is a world religion and the other is a sovereign nation, both are traditionally very strong on individual responsibility.

Like New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die," America is wedded to individual liberty and an ethic based on right action.

For a Muslim, spiritual salvation depends on these. This is best expressed in a popular saying: Even when you think God isn't watching you, act as if he is.

[4:1] O people, observe your Lord; the One who created you from one being, and created from it its mate, then spread from the two many men and women. You shall regard GOD, by whom you swear, and regard the parents. GOD is watching over you.*

Who knows? Perhaps it won't be long now before words like salat (Muslim prayer) and Ramadan join karma and Nirvana in Webster's Dictionary, and Muslims take their place in America's mainstream.

God willing it will, but the True Islam (Submission) will be the dominant religion, for the values it has, the TRUE word of God, the Quran.

Mahmoud Wasfy