Islam, also True Faith

·       Islam

In addition…	There are concepts that are different in some nations
Person	It consists of our freedom and made decisions. Our way of being ("be" with small letters).
Love	Referred always love as a feeling As the feeling of a mother for her child that protects him over his own life.
Holy Spirit	For the Christian, it's not St. Gabriel as it is for Muslims. It is God (Allah) in some intensity, the One who makes you feel great inside and helps you to carry calmly the sufferings of the world.
Sin	Action of unlove. Not necessarily those established 'legally'.

As I have written several times, Islam is a path guided by mercy that reaches God (Allah). And yes, the prophet Mohamed is the one sent by God to that nation, for God speaks to us according to our capacity and even according to the hardness of our hearts as we saw in the Old Testament. Thus, the prophet Mohamed has a direct and clear way of expressing himself. That is why his way of showing the danger of turning away from the Muslim way for the people of that nation is so forceful. In 237 pages of the Holy Qur'an, I have read, 506 times the words: infidel, impious and associator (which do not designate the same), generally indicating how bad they will be when they will be judged by God (Allah). These warnings occur in all religions, in all the ways set by God; the ways, as I have already explained, are designed by the Lord for the 7 different types (sizes) of souls that have fallen to earth. God is just and will not ask anything of us that we cannot fulfil.
The problem is that by hearing so many warnings about the infidels and the associators, one can come to despise them to the point of hating them and that is not good for any Muslim, because Allah is merciful and that is what we are all called to, mercy.
These terms on the other hand are sometimes confused.

The infidel.

The infidel, also called a hypocrite, is usually one who has known the Word of the Messenger, but then does not act upon it. In this sense they are equal to the impious. There are many Suras which speak of the infidels as knowing the Qur'an: 4:82-90, 9:73-74, 47:32:

Sura 13:43. The infidels say: ‘Thou hast not been sent!’ Say: ‘God suffices as a witness between me and you, and those who have the knowledge of the Scripture.’

It is true that there are other times when the term infidel seems more general, although after learning that in the time of the Prophet Mohammed there were only minor skirmishes against Christians with whom, however, in different places they got on well, and that jihad or holy war, in the context of his life, was primarily concerned with fighting pre-Islamic Arab cults in defence of the Muslim community, not a generalised war against Christians (although I thought otherwise), most of these ‘infidel’ references may well refer to these pre-Islamic cults.

 

The associator.

The associators are not the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), for in many verses a clear distinction is made (Sura 22:17, 98:1, ...). They belong to pre-Islamic cults with such barbaric customs as killing their children to avoid poverty (Sura 6:137, 6:151, 17:31, 61:12), which also does not coincide with the people of Scripture. He says that they associate other smaller gods with God, which may refer for example to the Egyptian gods, in which there is a hierarchy (Num, Ra...), however, although the Prophet Mohamed makes a clear distinction, as I say, between people of the Scripture and associators, someone after him said that the associators are the Christians because they associate a son with God. Well, I want to clarify this because this error is part of the hatred that is driving many Muslims to hell. Mohamed already speaks ill of Christians for saying that God has a son and yet he makes this clear differentiation separating the associators and the Christians (and people of the Scripture), although you insist on equating them.
For if one says:
Constant a = 1;
a + 2 = 3
And you change the constant ‘a’ by a variable and equal it to 2, the rest will no longer be fulfilled:
a = 2;
a + 2 ≠ 3

It is you who make the Holy Qur'an contradict itself, and not because of what the Prophet Mohamed wrote, but because you then changed the meaning of his words.

Sura 2.62: The believers, the Jews, the Christians, the Sabeans, those who believe in God and the Last Day and do good, they have their reward with their Lord. They need not fear and they will not be sad.

Thus he is very clear when he speaks, but even if he is clear, one has to be aware of the environment in which he was speaking, so as not to confuse us. These pre-Islamic cults had not converted to Christianity even though by then (around 600 AD) Christianity had spread over much of Europe. They were hard of hearing (not deaf like the Eves, there would be everything there) and so God sent them the Prophet Mohamed. Does this mean that Islam was second fiddle, since they did not convert to Christianity? No. They did not convert to Christianity because they were not called to be Christians, they were to walk the path designed by God for them, Islam, a source of flow suitable for their size of soul. But in that environment, among people who are hard of hearing, even capable of killing their children, for the sake of survival or I don't know why, God sends someone who shouts, for this is the way to speak to the hard of hearing, by shouting.
Thus the Holy Qur'an, though a book guided by mercy, is written in the tone of war (Surah 9:111 and many more) and in an imperative manner, but even in the harshest Suras I have read directed against the associators, who are the worst of the worst in Islam, we discern something more than punishment:

Sura 9:5 When the sacred months are expired, kill the associators wherever you find them: capture them! seize them! siege them! ambush them everywhere! But if they repent, do the azalah and give the azaak, then let them be in peace! God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

What would be the wish of the Prophet Mohamed when he taught you this: that the Muslims of that time would kill the associators or that they would convert? Of course the latter, because, in fact, one who has nothing to fight for, does not fight. If you put a knife to one's neck to ask for his bag of coins and he has it empty, he will not fight for it, he will give it to you without thinking. For these are the pre-Islamic cults that Mohammed fought against, cults empty of God. This is probably the reason why there were so many infidels or hypocrites, and why they were named so much in the Holy Qur'an, because of all those who, at the risk of death, falsely converted to Islam.
Many of you are like those who stood in a square in the sun in the summer and were told: ‘Protect yourselves from the heat, for you may die of heat stroke!’ and then at night in the freezing cold they uncovered themselves in bed to protect themselves from the heat. You are even worse because in this example, the word ‘heat’ is the same, only the circumstances change, you have even changed the meaning of words that the Prophet used. And yes, the circumstances are important because today nobody attacks Islam as a religion, but it is even more important for you, I suspect, to change the meaning of ‘associator’ or even to confuse sometimes who the infidel is. And since you understand the Holy Qur'an only in the environment of war in which it was written, so you do not detach yourselves from that war that you carry in your hearts towards those who are not like you, which influences your real environment, which is often surrounded by hostilities with neighbouring nations. How can we stop waging war if the Holy Koran is written in the tone of war? Well, someone has to be the enemy, now the associators will be the Christians! -said that one. You do not realise that God sent the Prophet Mohamed to give you a clear path to Him. It is not easy, however, to follow Him faithfully with the temptations of the real enemy, the devil; but you, besides this danger, you lose yourselves in the things of the world, because it only belongs to the world to make an enemy of another nation or another religion; God will judge after the last day. It is enough for everyone to follow the rules of his religion, including the application of the mercy needed at any given moment, to go around hating others because of their culture, their faith or their nation. Paradoxically, the devil tempts you by using the environment of war in which the Quran was written to transfer it to your hearts and thus make you sick with hatred. For just as water is necessary to forge cement, so war was necessary to convert those hard-of-hearing child-killers to Islam. Many of you are like the fool who pours water on a solid block of cement and tries to twist it around with a stick to mix it. All you will achieve is to break your stick, your own soul; Islam is already firmly set.
Why can't you come to the thought that the Prophet came to? The believers, the Jews, the Christians, the Sabeans, those who believe in God and the Last Day and do good, they have their reward with their Lord. They need not fear and they will not be sad.

I, being a Christian, am sure that the Prophet Mohamed was sent by God to establish Islam as a path in the right direction towards Him for a hardy and pragmatic nation like yours. So much so, that they would never have accepted Christianity because it was not God's (Allah's) appointed path for them. The problem, as I say, is that these pre-Islamic cults of often inhuman customs could only be united with an iron fist and conquest. Many of you every time you read the Holy Quran you settle into the war environment that the Prophet lived in and ignore the best: the rules that lead you to justice and mercy. And since you cannot ignore that environment of war during which Islam was forged, once the worst enemies, the associators (not the infidels because there will always be apostates in any religion, but less so if you do not force them to be part of that religion), were over, you changed the meaning of this word to encompass new enemies. If the Prophet Mohamed knowing what we Christians think of Jesus did not call us associators, why do you? And in doing so, are you not changing the value of all the verses in which that word is mentioned? It is like changing all the pawns in a game of chess to bishops or knights or any other figure, it will no longer work. It is no longer a question of who will win the game, but the rules of the whole game will have changed. For thus you make the Holy Quran contradict itself, when it was written without contradiction. Do you not realise that the Prophet pointed out to you the way to go while he was pushing away with his hands the branches of the forest that prevented you from seeing? Do you not realise that many of you stood and watched the Prophet pushing away those branches, but did not look up to see the way to which he pointed?
Thus, the Prophet Mohammed sometimes speaks well of the people of the Scripture (Sura 2:62; Sura 5:69), making their salvation conditional on the manner in which they act (as indeed Muslims do), not on the veracity of their faith. Moreover, he regards the Bible as words of light - how could it be otherwise? Of course, at other times he speaks ill, in order to separate those paths we walk on, for the Prophet Mohamed must at all costs prevent Muslims from walking with Christian standards, on the Christian path, for that would lead them to hell, because Muslims have a different path from ours, although parallel, directed towards Allah (God). Thus it is perfectly traced by Him (who is Omniscient), because we are different from our first death in heaven and we need different streams to fill different sizes of soul. And yes, the Holy Quran already talks about us being separated from God, and although it does not call it as first death, at that moment we ceased to be what we were. I do call it the first death:

Sura 29:57. Everyone will taste death. Then shall ye be returned to Us.

Even in this war environment the Torah, the Gospel and the Quran are quoted together. It was not the people of the Scriptures who were the enemy, not until you changed it.

Sura 9:111. God has bought from the believers their persons and their property, offering them, in return, the Garden. They fight for God: kill or be killed. It is a promise that binds Him, verily, contained in the Torah, the Gospel and the Quran. And who respects His covenant better than God? Rejoice for the bargain you have made with Him! That is the great success!

In others it seems to speak of both as valid ways (this is not the norm in the Quran).

Sura 5:46-48. And We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to succeed them, in confirmation of what was already in the Torah. And We gave him the Gospel, which contains Guidance and Light, in confirmation of what was already in the Torah, and as Guidance and Exhortation to the God-fearing. (47) Let the people of the Gospel decide according to what God has revealed therein. Those who do not decide according to what God has revealed are the perverse ones.
(48) And We have revealed to you the Scripture with the truth, in confirmation and as a guardian of what was already of the Scripture. So decide between them according to what God has revealed, and follow not their passions, which turn you away from the Truth which you have received. To each of you We have given a standard and a way. God, if He had willed, would have made of you one community, but He wished to test you in that which He gave you. Compete in good works! You will all return to God. He will inform you of what you disagree about.

In confirmation of the beginning of this Surah (47) we find this in the Bible:

2Co 4:3-4 And if as yet our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, (4) to the unbelievers, whose understanding the god of this world has blinded to prevent them from seeing the brightness of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God.

I would add that many aayahs speak of fighting the infidel, but usually they generally put some condition of self-defence (attacking those who drove you out of your homes, those who attack you Suras 2:190-193) or defence of Islam itself (tempting is more serious than killing) speaking, as it usually does, in a warlike tone and sometimes encouraging, or justifying the Muslim, to do what he does not like to do (killing in that war). In others it invites to fight with those of the Scriptures (Jews and Christians), until they pay the tribute Sura 9,29. This tribute, I believe, is part of the Shari'a (which I am completely unaware of) and seems to be also a tribute to finance this war (remember, in the Prophet's time the enemy was especially the pre-Islamic cults - notably the associators), although they are still being paid today.

Finally, for those who think they are so clever as to correct the Prophet by saying that the associators are the Christians, when for him they were not, judging from the many Suras in which he differentiates between them, I will try to determine who these associators really were. Let us see:

Sura 6:137 Thus those whom they associate have caused many associators to believe that it was right for them to kill their children...

This ‘whom they associate’ is plural, it is not Jesus associated with God. It is true that it is an interpretation of the Quran since it is an English translation, but others I have seen are along the same lines:

Sura 6:137 Likewise, there are many idolaters to whom the associates whom they ascribe, make it seem good to them to kill their own children....

So, it occurs to me that these associates are what we Christians call idols, or gods written with lower case letters. You can make an idol out of almost anything: power, sex, money, affections, anything you put before God. Paradoxically, you can even make an idol out of your religion when you do not understand it well and fanatically do what God does not want you to do under the pretext of that religion. In the Prophet's environment, it occurs to me that there were people who associated God with a worldly benefit that He was supposed to bring to His followers. It is true that God provides, but He is not going to make us rich in money by following Him. Neither is there a god of war that makes you stronger fighting, or a god of fertility... But all this is just a curiosity, the important thing is to know that the Prophet did not refer to the people of the Scripture when he spoke of the associators (the root associad- comes out 98 times in the Quran) so whoever refers to Christians as associators, taking the Quran itself as a pretext, is twisting and obscuring the Holy Quran 98 times. And worse still he who deceives others by so teaching, for he teaches the message of God to your nation with contradictions when it has none.

∎ The Qur'an's corrections to the Gospel.

God revealed to Prophet Mohamed truths that even Christians do not know, but He also showed him realities as differences; it does not mean that Prophet Mohamed was wrong, it was as Allah (God) showed him to keep the two ways separate, for they had to be kept separate in order to be suitable for both nations.

∎ Jesus Christ was created.

Indeed, this was revealed to the Prophet Mohamed: Jesus Christ was created directly by God (Allah), and so it was in heaven (Sura 29:57 ... you will be returned to Us) and on earth. Christians do not understand this because they do not understand the mystery that for them is the Holy Trinity: One God in three persons. They seem to place Jesus Christ at an infinite point in time next to the Father, when this is not so. The Father and His Essence, the Holy Spirit, live outside of time, forever. And yes, it is His Essence, the Holy Spirit in some intensity, that indwells us when we are in His Grace. It is not infinite God because we would burst. Even everyone can be more or less full of God (Allah), this can be confirmed by those Muslims who have felt Allah within themselves. Not everyone can feel it, neither can all Christians. And this is the principle of the Holy Trinity, that God can dwell in your person and in the person of others and still be One God. It has not been revealed to Muslims that when God dwells in you, you are begotten in Him as His child. Carrying God within you, the Holy Spirit, is not like carrying a box of bananas, it is carrying God who becomes one with you to make you feel great inside, happy in the face of sickness and the hardships of life (I have already spoken about this in a previous commentary). I do not say this to convince any Muslim, for they must follow the path that Allah (God) has provided for them through the Prophet Mohamed. I say this so that you will see that we are going in the same direction and so that many of you will stop hating, for it will lead you to hell. If I were like these haters, I would look at you with haughty eyes and a face of disgust, saying, ‘Now, you will see how many of you will be surprised when you receive flames from hell, instead of the expected garden grass...’ and then I would leave you in quietness. I would refer to proving God as I have already done, irrefutably making Christianity the only true religion, but I know that God also set Islam as the true faith for your nation, so, although it would be easier for me, all the fools whom the devil deceives into hating others would fall on my conscience. It is my duty to denounce your sin, what you do once you know it is up to you.
I was saying that God has willed to reflect Himself in the nature that surrounds us, and has made our own nature similar to how we were in heaven. That is why we say that a son of ours carries our blood, and so, similarly, when someone holds within him the Holy Spirit (Allah in some intensity), he is considered a son of God, he is begotten in God even after he is born, say the Gospels. For the angels and we were originally created to hold that Life, to hold the Holy Spirit (God, Allah), but we separated ourselves from Him and fell dead inwardly to the world by our betrayal. There, to heaven, we will have to return, but full of Allah (God). Thus, for us Christians, Jesus Christ was the first created one who pleased God and by whom the angels and other powers in heaven were created. Although all angels and any man who holds the Holy Spirit within him is a son of God (Allah), we call Jesus the Only-begotten, because being the first-born, he is the only one who holds the Essence of God in the highest intensity, in that of God, because he is at the very source, next to the Father. But for Christians there is also only One God.
So indeed, Jesus Christ was created directly by God, in heaven and on earth. The prophet Mohamed dismisses the mystery of the Trinity and proclaims the same result: that there is only One God.

 

∎ The differences:

The Holy Quran says that Jesus was a prophet, but states that he was not born of man, nor did he die making him different from any prophet of any time.
The Holy Quran says that Jesus did not die on the cross, but that it appeared that he was crucified.

Sura 4:157. and for having said: ‘We have put to death the Anointed One, Jesus, son of Mary, the Messenger of God’, being that they neither killed him nor crucified him, but it seemed so to them. Those who disagree about him doubt. They have no knowledge of him, they follow only conjecture. But they certainly did not kill him, (158) but God raised him to Himself. God is mighty, wise.

That is to say, it does not question that they believed they saw him; they were not lying when they said so, because they believed they saw him (it seemed that way to them), so it is like saying that for the world he was crucified. If there were bad intentions on the part of the Gospel with the objective of glorifying Jesus it would have been better to have said: ‘Jesus did not die on the cross, but we saw how God took Him for Himself’, making Him different from any other man. If we had all seen how God took him to Himself, why talk about a resurrection? There have already been other resurrections not only in miracles of Jesus Christ but also of the prophet Elijah (Old Testament). But Allah (God) made Prophet Mohamed see it this way, why? Because that is how it should be to keep our ways separate.
However, it is curious how Allah (God) revealed to him something that the Christians did not understand: they believe (I exclude myself here), that Jesus Christ was crucified in order to obey and thus counteract the disobedience of ‘Adam’. When Jesus Christ was crucified in order to, by dying in forgiveness, i.e. by loving infinitely, make man's nature valid as worthy to receive the Holy Spirit. Had He not loved to the end, Jesus would have died as what He is, able to maintain the Holy Spirit in maximum intensity. But He did not die as such, so it seemed to those led by the demons that haunted Him (‘heal thyself’). What does this sound like to us? Because Jesus did not die as such, all men can keep God (the Holy Spirit) within us. He validated the human nature as He validated the heavenly nature (angels) at the beginning of time to receive God (for He was the first created and as such pleased God).
Anyway, as I say, Muslims do not have to be Christians because with a very high probability they would fall into hell, as the Christian way is not for them (and it is the same for us Christians with Islam), but understanding Christians can make many whose hearts are at war and full of hatred towards non-Muslims to be saved and not fall into Satan's flames of hatred. Let us remember: as Allah is merciful, so the father of hatred is Satan and those who hate are his property.

I believe that only a monster (in the full sense of the word) can kill women and children, and indeed anyone without motive of self-defence. Many, too many, who expect to see green garden grass, after death, will be very surprised to suffer the flames of Satan's hatred. We Christians are told that if you do not warn your brother that he is sinning when you see him sinning, you bear his sin too. I don't know if there is anything similar in Islam, but I do know that correcting your brother who is about to fall straight into the abyss is merciful and that is what we are all called to do, for God (Allah) is merciful.
The devil uses any means, including misinterpreting the holy scriptures, to take as many people as he can to hell. Thus, Muslims have a very serious problem, because in addition to the Eves, present in all the ways of God, who do not listen even though they may appear otherwise in Muslim communities (not in Christian ones, for among us one can freely declare oneself deaf or a lost idiot), many of their ‘Adams’ are filled with hatred towards the non-Muslim, making them incompatible with Allah (God) the merciful, for if the prophet Mohamed reasoned that statement in Sura 2. 62: "The believers, the Jews, the Christians, the Sabeans, those who believe in God and the Last Day and do good, they have their reward with their Lord. They have no need to fear and they will not be sad", why does the average Muslim not reason the same? As I say, for the Adams to be lost is, if anything, more painful for God, for it is these, the Adams, who have their ears open to Him, whom the Lord is most interested in saving, for they did not betray out of greed but out of love in heaven. And this hatred is not only seen in those psychopaths who confuse the meaning of jihad and who have already earned hell, but in the general Islamic culture that isolates itself from non-Muslims in the conviction, not only that the Muslim is the only chosen one, but also that the others are condemned and more or less deserve death for not being Muslims. Genesis already said this about the Ishmaelites (and I have commented on it elsewhere):
Gen 16:12 He shall be a human onager. His hand shall be against all, and the hand of all against him, and he shall pitch his tent against all his brethren. [onager = wild donkey].
“In front of all their brothers” (i.e. they will live in isolation from their brothers, not among them). And this Word of the Bible was written 3000 years ago or more, see if the Lord is Omniscient and how He had a way planned for them. Well, it is a very different culture to the Christian one, and it is not about being friends; that is as difficult as an older brother being friends with a younger brother (regardless of which one is older), because the older brother has his own friends, his own way of being and the younger brother has his own, however, the bonds of brotherhood should be much stronger because we share so much, and if the blood ties are strong how much more to share the Holy Spirit among all (One God in all people in His Grace). It is a matter of returning as many of us as possible to God (Allah), to Allah (God), because He loves us all equally.

So, many are the words of the Gospel that for Muslims have been corrected. Why? To keep our ways separate and also to simplify or make their faith more understandable. They of course have no headaches with the mystery of the Holy Trinity and come straight to the same place as Christians: there is One God. As a note I add that Christ never says ‘my Father’ but ‘the Father’, which also refers to our affiliation as children of God when we are in His Grace.

Gospel of John 8:28
So Jesus said: When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am He and that I do nothing of my own accord. What I say is what the Father has taught me;
Gospel of John 10:30
The Father and I are one.
Gospel of John 10:34-38
Jesus answered: Is it not written in your Law: I said, you are gods?
So it uses the word 'gods' of those people to whom the word of God was addressed -- and scripture cannot be set aside.
Yet to someone whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world you say, 'You are blaspheming' because I said, 'I am Son of God.'
If I am not doing my Father's work, there is no need to believe me;
but if I am doing it, then even if you refuse to believe in me, at least believe in the work I do; then you will know for certain that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
Gospel of John 11:25-27
Jesus said: I am the resurrection. Anyone who believes in me, even though that person dies, will live,
and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?  'Yes, Lord,' she said, 'I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into this world.'
Gospel of John 14:10
Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? What I say to you I do not speak of my own accord: it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his works.
Gospel of John 17:5
Now, Father, glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world existed.
Gospel of John 20:28-29
Thomas replied, 'My Lord and my God!'
Jesus said to him: You believe because you can see me. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.

There is also foreshadowing of Jesus Christ in the Torah where he is spoken of as the savior of men. Some of these are described in the section:  Judaism. Foreshadowing of Christ in the Torah p. 89.

∎ What is important.

The important thing is, of course, to believe that there is One God. The next thing is to be merciful as Allah, God, is merciful. But, in addition, to observe the rules and observances of your religion. For faith is lived in deeds; someone who does not believe will not take restrictions on his life, on the contrary, he will live all the idols of the world, all the pleasures he can, without thinking about the last day or where he will end up afterwards. However, he who strives has his reward. And this also works for the people of the world: the more exercise a gymnast does, the more self-realised he feels at the end, perhaps this is a sign for everyone to understand. The Holy Spirit (God within us) is likewise quantified: the more mercy shown the more of Him that dwells within you. As we all have a size of soul, these are grouped into nations, or religions rather, because we all have a minimum amount to fill in order for our soul, once released from the body, to ascend towards God (Allah), or if you like, to remain in God after life on Earth. And we also have a maximum limit (this is the limit that the angels who revealed themselves in heaven wanted to break), that is why we need different streams to fill ourselves with the One God (Allah), because, although brothers, we are of different sizes. And yes, the efforts to come closer to Allah (God), even if they do not seem to be produced by mercy, like going to the mosque or church and keeping the fasts, making those pilgrimages..., will also be changed by the Holy Spirit within us; we may not feel it on earth, but it will also come after the judgement of the last day. This is the reason for the different paths set by Allah, God, to fill us with Him. Parallel paths in the good direction guided by His mercy, and towards mercy. Guided towards Him. Remember: God will never ask anything of us that we cannot fulfil, live, accomplish. He is just and merciful.
And just as it is more difficult to exercise mercy with an enemy than to exercise mercy towards a neighbour, so it is much more difficult to exercise mercy with a heart at war than when you have it at peace, for mercy is to be kind, just, to the miserable, to the one who is not like you, to the one who is not in your condition. And he who is not merciful is unlikely to find mercy, for all that we do in the world will be repaid in one way or another after the last day.

In short, God's will has been to keep us separate, to safeguard our freedom with the Babel imbroglio. He has given 7 nations 7 parallel directions to the same place, but separated from each other. The rails that channel us remain, but bind us, because in the end it is love and mercy that saves. Those lanes have been the perfect platform set by God for us to find that love, and now the time has come to know it, perhaps because the road ends and with it the lanes. Now we must find the entrance to Eden and it is urgent, now is when we must all come together at the point of confluence, in Love. In God. Of course by complying with those rules we have been given, but by recognising each other.

It is not difficult to think why God puts different ways of salvation, let's imagine a slightly extreme but valid case:
A farmer with different kinds of animals, who is going to take them all at once from the bottom of a valley to his farm, at the top, where there he will eat them and they will be part of his belly (it is just an example); so it is in his interest that they have meat. There are horses, cows, calves, ..., turtles (maybe these cannot be eaten by Muslims, but it is an example) and even lions. Won't there be different roads or ways to get there for one and for the other (and many separate ones)? The horse would almost not need a road, the cow, flatter... But they can all get there because they have strength in the flesh, in fact, if they had no flesh they would not get there, nor would they be of interest to the farmer to eat them. Let us also consider that animals can get in each other's way (a lion cannot go with a cow, nor can a university student learn in a kindergarten class, nor the other way round).
Well, God provides what is necessary for our salvation; the path is important because on another path that “animal” might not be able to climb to the top. But even more important is to have love and mercy because without “flesh” the animal will not be able to climb any of the paths, not even the one that the farmer (God) has provided for that animal. Because love, like the “flesh” of cattle, is what gives strength to reach the top and is pleasing to God. If someone is skin and bones, they will have no strength and will not want to start climbing, and they will remain in the valley of death. Others may have started climbing one of the paths, but they are so emaciated that they remain at the beginning. Those who get further are luckier because, even if they have to wait for the farmer to collect everyone, he may then come down a little to get their meagre flesh. In this example, Christ would be the vaccine full of knowledge (Being) of the farmer that cures the farmer's allergy to meat, for before he only took calories without meat, and also cures the animals in the valley of their diseases (it is a vaccine for heaven and earth). This is true for all religions, even if it is ignored, because Christ makes Man fit to receive the Holy Spirit; this was essential and is independent of the path that God has set for each nation. The devil would be the disease that rots the meat (in the valley) and caused the farmer's initial allergy (in his house).

Perhaps we do not want to admit that religion is a good guide, but not a guarantee of arrival; that by itself, by its rules, but without love, we cannot arrive on our own. And we actually see this around us in some who call themselves Christians, who go to Mass on Sundays and then are selfish and mean to their neighbours. The same is true of Muslims who go to pray at the mosque on Fridays and then are unable to show the mercy that Allah has shown them. No matter how many rules we follow, there is one teaching that underlies our scriptures, and that is love and mercy. Jesus Christ and the apostles already warned us about this: without love, you may be burned by God, which is of no use to you, or you may give all your possessions to the poor, which is of no use either.
Insofar as the Holy Quran gives us rules for renouncing the world and accepting and being faithful to God, it speaks to us of mercy, hospitality, etc.; and thanks to the fact that Jesus Christ has redeemed all of Nature Man, and that it is the practice of Love that saves us; Islam, practised from a place of mercy (just as Christianity must be practised from a place of mercy), is another valid religion for reaching God. But you must be careful not to misinterpret the messages that God, Allah, put in the Quran, his Holy Book, for the purpose of safeguarding our freedom and keeping us separate at least until the prophesied moment of our union. And you must simply ask yourselves where mercy comes from, from Love or from Hate. God is Love, the devil is the father of hate. Love is a way of life that one “gives off”. One does not choose whom to give it to. It is given in the family, at work and even to enemies.
So, having said all this, I will not deny the prophet whom God sent to you, for he was indeed sent by Him, and as His messenger he fulfilled His commands well. I do come to warn you that there is only one God. Since you are so inclined to expand the meaning of the word ‘associator’, be careful not to fall into your own trap without realising it, by associating, in your terms, others with God, for Muhammad himself was, as he rightly said, a mortal and a messenger.

I will not deny that there is only one God and that Jesus Christ was created, but only in his person, not in the Essence that flows through him. If you have felt God within you, you will know what I am talking about, about being yourselves with your ‘person’ and yet living ecstatically happy. The “Sakina” or tranquillity, as you call it, is to have God within you, within yourself and perhaps within your neighbour, and there is still only one God, but in your different persons. The difference is that the intensity of God in the person of Christ is absolute. He speaks from the source; for those of us who are fortunate, the Spirit of God passes through us and remains in us until we sin and become opaque (we fall out of love). But we are not at the source but very far from it, and the ‘waves’ reach us weakly (our nature can no longer contain it except in this way, far inferior to that of the angels and infinitely inferior to that of Christ).
I will not deny the five pillars. For I recognise that there is only one God and that Muhammad was sent by Him. I do not deny the necessity of salat (prayer) or zakat (almsgiving for Christians, although we also donate to the church) or what fasting means as a way of bringing us closer to God. Nor do I deny pilgrimages for the sake of God, as these involve detachment from the world in His name and a choice in themselves.
I will not deny the resurrection or eternal life, nor Gehenna or the fire that does not consume or kill, but which hurts and burns like the fire here.
I propose the following example:
Several battalions of your beloved army have been trapped in different potholes on a route they were travelling on when they followed their non-commissioned officers who disobeyed the general's orders. These battalions do not know each other, as they were given secret identities, nor do they know the general, as they receive orders from the chain of command. Now your battalion is surrounded by demonic enemies at night, and you cannot return to the main column of your army. In turn, the army cannot reach you, as it would fall into the sinkhole. So they send you an envoy with ladders and tools to get out of the hole. It is not normal for you to use ladders, but rather to walk, however, the general has sent you these ladders to help you get out.
The general also has plans for you. These will be given to you when you leave the sinkhole. He knows all the plans and is in charge of sending envoys to rescue the other battalions that have fallen into sinkholes. He will send these envoys with whatever the battalion in question needs, which will depend on the training of the battalion itself and the characteristics of the sinkhole they are stuck in. And since the General knows all the plans, his envoys only have to bring the right size ladder. The envoys will only be given what their battalion needs to get out of the hole. The envoy is not the general, he does not have to know all the plans, except those that concern the salvation of his battalion.
And will the general send a single ladder for seven battalions? No. Because the holes are different and the time is the same for all, it is predetermined. What's more, he will tell each of his envoys specific characteristics that differentiate each battalion, lest they become confused and take care of those they should not, leaving the others without an envoy or without salvation. Thus, the envoys do not know each other deeply, in order to safeguard that secret identity and for the salvation of their community.
Well, the general would be God. Your envoy Muhammad. The stairs are the way God has given you what saves you:
Humility, almsgiving, faith, prayer, mercy, turning away in some way from the world or the pit we are in.
These rules, or stairs, have been made for you, adapted to your understanding, your culture and customs, but underlying them is a message common to all: God's mercy and love.
That mercy that we are called to make our own towards others.

For this I say to you:
God loves you, just as you are. And He wants you to be saved, He wants you to be filled with His Spirit, and for that you must love, because He is Love and we were made by Him (our soul) in His image and likeness, but we fell out of love, we disobeyed, and the Spirit left us because He cannot not be, He cannot not love. We freely expelled ourselves from Eden. Indeed, we were made a first time (in the beginning), together with God; in our freedom we fell, and now He recreates us a second time in a nature that holds us for a time to recover the happiness of our first being, filled with the Spirit. This is the reason why God apparently hides Himself: to respect our freedom, for without it, we would cease to be as He created us. This being so, hell, or Gehenna, is real, for those who do not manage to fill themselves with God (with love, with the Holy Spirit), when their bodies die, will fall alongside those who hated God up there and who lost their freedom to do nothing but hate. That is the eternal and painful hell warned to all the ‘battalions,’ to all the straight paths that go in the right direction, parallel to each other. Indeed, there will be a third recreation, for those who have been filled with the Spirit, and even so, we will be the same person we were in the first creation.

This I say to you:
There are some who cannot hear the word of God no matter how hard they try; scattered among all nations and religions. This is because there were some who fell out of love with God, or emptied themselves of Him, deceived by the love they felt for others. But there were those who fell deceived by longing for more of God's Essence, and still others who hated because they could not possess more of that Essence and are no longer free. This is the original differentiation between all of us. Nevertheless, those who are deaf with freedom will be able to hear by seeing us live mercy to the believers of these religions.
It is true that time is predetermined because God knows it, and afterwards there will be judgement, but this will already have been decided by our actions in the life of the body. Afterwards, we will no longer be able to do anything, because we will no longer be free to choose God. There will be no doubt that He is there and that He is Love; there will be no choice.
But just as what we do for others is actually for our own benefit, it is our actions that judge us. God is not vengeful, but He cannot not be; lovelessness cannot coexist with Him, which is why He has made this world a test, because it is in need that one can be filled with love. There is little love in the rich man who gives a small alms out of obligation, and much love in someone who gives a small alms from the little he has, out of empathy for the one to whom he gives it, putting himself in his shoes and doing for him what he would want for himself.
And this too:
The Qur'an, even though written in times of war against pre-Islamic cults, Bedouins, polytheists, etc., almost always cites self-defence or the defence of Islam as the reason for that war, and always gives them the opportunity to convert, so its purpose is not to kill, or war, but the conversion of these peoples. In all the verses against ‘the infidel’ I have read that justice will come at the appointed time, from the hands of God. Today there are no holy wars, for almost everywhere there is freedom of religion. And in any case, if there are battles in the world, they do not attack a particular religion or race (although there are those in your nation who, deceived, attack others on the grounds of religion). Be careful, then, for Iblis is tampering with the verses of the messenger to make you misunderstand what he wrote. Justice belongs to God, not to us. If He wanted, those you call infidels would disappear with just a blink of His eye, but His patience, love and mercy are infinite. If this were not so, I assure you that no one on earth, including you, would have lived for a moment.
And this too:
In this book there is proof that God exists and is as I say. It is not only proof for believers, such as the Bible or the clear verses of the Quran, but also proof for scientists, for the blind and the deaf. This being so (read the full essay to verify it), the time has come when God will reveal what He wanted to keep hidden until a predetermined time. The time has come when the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, and therefore the end must be near. It is the moment when the wolf will dwell with the lamb, when the paths of good direction will unite under the love and mercy of God. It is the moment to know our true identity. We will see the general, it will be daybreak, and we will know that we are all fighting on the same side against the demons.
God revealed to the Prophet Muhammad what you needed to be saved, and through him many attained salvation. What was revealed was what you were prepared to understand, and what God wished to keep hidden was concealed from you; He also concealed from all men other things that are described in this essay. The prophet was revealed the person of Jesus Christ, the man. But there is a part of us when we are in Grace that is God in us. Muhammad always spoke of the person of Jesus Christ as created by God, and, as I have already told you, he spoke the truth. In Christ, as in us, dwells the Holy Spirit, God (Allah), when we are in His Grace; the difference is that in Jesus, the Holy Spirit dwells in the utmost intensity, that of God. And yet there is still only one God. Thanks to that person capable of containing absolute Love, you and we and all men can feel the “Sakina”, we can harbour the Holy Spirit, for He has made us fit. Thus, Jesus Christ is not the son of God in the sense that you give him, he is the Son of God because his person was created by Him and contains Him fully, being capable of harbouring infinite Love = God. Know that the angels and we in the first creation or beginning were created in the same way, so we were also sons, but we never fully contained God, but rather adapted Him to our person (Whenever I say “adapted”, I mean diminished in intensity; just as water vapour is still water, the Holy Spirit cannot change in what He is). Here in the restraining nature of ‘man,’ we will only become ‘adopted’ children of God (those who manage to harbour the Spirit), and when the predetermined time passes, those who have His Spirit will return to God, while those who do not will continue to fall into Gehenna. It is the Spirit that is drawn to Him; and there is still only one God!
It would be very easy for me to keep this quiet, but I cannot fail my Lord, I cannot fail your Lord, the only God. I know that some of you are deceived by Iblis, the father of hatred, but I have offered my life to God and I submit to His will. Know, as I have already said, that those who are deceived will follow the deceiver to Gehenna, for hatred will never reach Eden, home of Love and Mercy, home of God. Iblis clouds the vision of those who are deceived when they read the Holy Qur'an, and confuses them about faithfulness and mercy with hatred. It is urgent to help them. Especially sad for Allah must be the case of today's (misnamed) Jihadists because, although they could be the best, capable of giving their lives for Him, they are deceived in a despicable way by Satan, who fills them with hatred. They are unaware that hatred is incompatible with Allah, that hatred is ‘non-being’, that it is the opposite of mercy. This is how Satan acts; he shows us evil as good, and good as evil.
Finally, I would like to say to all of you, even those who have been deceived, that you should be overflowing with happiness, for I bring you wonderful news: God loves us. He is not a vengeful god, but one who wants to save us and has already done so because of what we did up there. Now our freedom must accept to live in Him, to live in Love. As long as we maintain our freedom and have life in our bodies, we can return to Him, because He does not deny Himself; He is Love, and Love forgives everything. But since Love cannot enslave us, He respects our freedom; wherever our direction points when our body dies, that is where we will invariably go. Do not continue with your heart at war; fight against the devil who tempts you to stray from your religion, but the war against pre-Islamic cults and polytheists is over. A heart at war is a great burden on the soul.

As for Jesus Christ, know that we were all children of God; not like him, but we were, and we ‘repudiated’ him by not loving him. Think, if you will, of the image of a family with a few small children aged two to four and an older brother aged twenty-five, responsible and the pride of his father; so much so that he contributes to the running of the house. Thus, the eldest shares the father's authority, and for the children, his authority also represents that of the father. The children do not exercise authority among themselves, although perhaps the four-year-old will have a tiny bit more than the two-year-old. I am not saying that Jesus Christ was a god capable of creating like his Father, I am saying that Jesus Christ shares the same Essence of God, there being only one God. As I have already said, this is a mysterious thing: that each of us can share God to some degree and yet there is only one God. How many millions of people in all nations and religions can feel God within them? And yet there is still only One. Well, for those of you who know what I am talking about, those of you who have felt God within yourselves, I will show you the solution; because even within yourselves you have seen that He dwells in different intensities depending on your circumstances in life (in reality, depending on your love or lack of love for others, depending on your mercy, if you are one of the Adams or if there is a gift). For there is One in whom God Essence or Holy Spirit remains fully in all His intensity. The prophet Muhammad constantly tells us that God is One and has no children, and this is true in the sense that there is not one god and another smaller god. No. There is only one God in whom all who are saved will participate to one degree or another. These are the gardens with rivers beneath them. Everything is explained to us in a way that we can understand. If you have already experienced heaven on earth, you know what I am talking about. Thus, Jesus Christ is the True Son of God the Father. Son like us in person (created), True because the Essence of God flows through Him in maximum intensity, not as in our interior, which in comparison flows weakly.

The time has come for us to unite in the knowledge of God. This does not mean that the devil will cease to act. He was given the same time as us; God is just and made us all equal in that regard. Iblis was granted this extension because God wanted to give us a favourable time for salvation, for recovery from what was our first death, but he cannot use it to his advantage; hatred only harms oneself and others, it is harmful and corrosive like cancer, incompatible with God and his mercy. This good news that I bring you does not mean that the battle is over, for until the last second granted to us, we must fight against the temptations and deceptions of the devil. God has placed us in this scenario so that we may do battle with Iblis and in it choose Love and mercy, choose God; that war which, deceived, we did not fight in heaven and which led us to our first death.

Finally, if you are Muslim and something I have said confuses you, disregard it. You can ignore everything except one thing: hatred leads you to hell. Your religion is clear and simple, very similar to Christianity, but easier to understand. And you must bear in mind that the Holy Quran was forged and written in times of war, or at least, the Prophet Muhammad lived surrounded by wars, especially against pre-Islamic cults, Bedouins, associators, renegades... Do not dwell on the circumstances in which the Qur'an was written, dwell on what is important, those rules and that mercy that will lead you to heaven (to the gardens).

I leave you with the word that tonight, after prayer, came to me by chance (or at random). The truth is that nothing happens at random, and nothing escapes God.

Jeremiah 25:15-38 
15 For Yahweh, the God of Israel, said this to me, 'Take this cup of the wine of wrath and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it;
16 they will drink and reel and lose their wits, because of the sword I am sending among them.'
17 I took the cup from Yahweh's hand and made all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me drink it
18 (Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, its kings and its chief men, to make them a ruin, an object of horror and derision and a curse, as is the case today):
19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his chief men and all his people,
20 with the whole conglomeration of peoples there (all the kings of the country of Uz); all the kings of the country of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and what is still left of Ashdod;
21 Edom, Moab and the Ammonites;
22 (all) the kings of Tyre, (all) the kings of Sidon, the kings of the island across the sea;
23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, all the people with shaven temples;
24 all the kings of Arabia (and all the kings of the conglomeration of peoples) who live in the desert
25 (all the kings of Zimri), all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
26 all the kings of the north, near and far, one after another: in short, all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. (As for the king of Sheshak, he will drink last of all.)
27 'You will say to them, "Yahweh Sabaoth, the God of Israel, says this: Drink! Get drunk! Vomit! Fall, never to rise again, before the sword that I am sending among you!"
28 If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink, you will say to them, "Yahweh Sabaoth says this: You must drink!
29 Look, for a start, I am bringing disaster on the city that bears my name, so are you likely to go unpunished? You certainly will not go unpunished, for next I shall summon a sword against all the inhabitants of the land, Yahweh declares." 30 'For your part, you are to prophesy all these words to them. Say to them: "Yahweh roars from on high, he thunders from his holy dwelling-place, loudly he roars at his own fold, shouts aloud like those who tread the grape at all the inhabitants of the land.
31 The noise resounds to the remotest parts of the earth. For Yahweh is indicting the nations, arraigning all humanity for judgement; the wicked he assigns to the sword, Yahweh declares.
32 Yahweh Sabaoth says this: Look, disaster is spreading from nation to nation, a mighty tempest is rising from the far ends of the earth.
33 "Those slaughtered by Yahweh that day will be scattered across the world from end to end. No dirge will be raised for them; no one will gather them or bury them; they will stay lying on the surface like dung.
34 "Howl, shepherds, shriek, roll on the ground, you lords of the flock, for your days have come to be slaughtered and to be scattered, and like a choice vase you will fall.
35 No refuge then for the shepherds, no escape for the lords of the flock!
36 Listen! A shriek from the shepherds, a howl from the lords of the flock! For Yahweh has laid their pasture waste, 37 the peaceful sheepfolds are reduced to silence owing to Yahweh's furious anger.
38 The lion has left his lair and their country is a wasteland now, owing to the devastating fury, owing to his furious anger." '

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Jihad

Jihad as a ‘Holy War’ is established as the ‘Defence of Islam.’ Today, as I say, no one, except a few false Muslims, attacks religious freedom. God allowed holy war to convert (not kill) so many hard-of-hearing people belonging to those pre-Islamic cults. Of course, Islam is true path, and in this environment of war, the defence of Islam is proclaimed as a path separate from the rest, but parallel to the others towards the same direction (towards the mercy of which He is Father; Sura 5:69). The real value of Jihad is our internal struggle to remain in God's grace. Our real struggle against temptations and demons that, although unseen, constantly stalk us (especially those who are closest to God). If compassion, mercy, and God's indulgence are mentioned more than 500 times in the Holy Quran, the word hatred appears only 11 times and never in the mouth of God, nor even in the mouth of the prophet. These are:

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They speak of hatred as something bad:

Surah 3,118; … Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their hearts conceal is worse…
Surah 5,2;    …And let not the hatred of people who barred you from the Sacred Mosque incite you to aggression.…
Surah 5,8;    …and let not the hatred of a certain people prevent you from acting justly. Adhere to justice, for that is nearer to piety, and fear God.
Surah 5,14;   And from those who say, “We are Christians,” We received their pledge, but they neglected some of what they were reminded of. So We provoked enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Resurrection; God will then inform them of what they used to craft.
(Surah 5,64) Resembling previous one with the Jews. It seems to say that among non-Muslims it arouses hatred among them (not towards them).

With regard to these last two, it is worth noting the Surah 5.69 already mentioned, which goes right after:

Surah 5,69: Those who believe, and the Jews, and the Sabians, and the Christians—whoever believes in God and the Last Day, and does what is right—they have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve.
Surah 5,91; Satan wants to provoke strife and hatred among you through intoxicants and gambling, and to prevent you from the remembrance of God, and from prayer.Will you not desist?
Surah 47,29; Or do those in whose hearts is a disease deem that Allah will not bring to light their (secret) hates?
Surah 47,36; The life of this word is nothing but play and pastime. But if you have faith and lead a righteous life, He will grant you your rewards, and He will not ask you for your possessions. (37) If He should ask you for it and insist, you turn stingy, and brings forth your malice.

Case apart, and only exception, is this:

Surah 60,4 You have had an excellent example in Abraham and those with him; when they said to their people, “We are quit of you, and what you worship apart from God. We denounce you. Enmity and hatred has surfaced between us and you, forever, until you believe in God alone.” Except for the words of Abraham to his father, “I will ask forgiveness for you, though I have no power from God to do anything for you.” “Our Lord, in You we trust, and to You we repent, and to You is the ultimate resort.

In this Surah, and given the context of the rest of the Quran, I understand that it praises Abraham's rejection of polytheism. It is not an "active" hatred. Abraham was not chasing his polytheistic contemporaries with a knife in his hand.

Important is not to take the Surahs out of context because we could find this too that seems to be directed at the false Jihadists:

Surah 16,61 Now if God were to take men to task for all the evil that they do, He would not leave a single living creature upon its face. However, He grants them respite until a term set but when the end of their term approaches, they can neither delay it by a single moment, nor can they hasten it.  (Asad)
                   (62) They attribute to Allah what they themselves hate. Their tongues mouth the lie that they will have a good reward. Let there be no doubt: the only thing they will have is hell, and they will be sent ahead of the others. (Malik)

This Surah seems to speak precisely to the false Muslims (misnamed Jihadists) who hate; When God is meek and merciful. We are the ones who choose to fall out of love, He patiently waits for us to return to His mercy. And is it really out of context so interpreted? Is there more impiety than that of a false jihadist who shoots men, women, and children, with no cause of self-defense (or of religion because it is under attack) and attributing his hatred to God? Perhaps others may commit similar impiety, what is certain is that as this Surah says, even if they pretend to the best, they will have the Fire and go first. And next to these, those who twisted the verses of the merciful, forgiving, meek and mild Holy Qur'an to cloud the understanding of those whom they guided. For God being merciful, forgiving and meek, how can the Qur'an not be merciful, forgiving and meek? Beware of you Imams (also false) Salafists, for your fault is worse than that of your followers and you will receive the same punishment, for there is no greater punishment. Grave are the sins of all of you:
- You supplant the justice of the Merciful One who has given, to all, a time. Many Suras also speak of the judgement to follow (otherwise He would have struck down all of us men with the blink of an eye).
- According to your thinking, you win souls for Satan, doing him a service and thus making him your lord, since you take away the opportunity for "infidels", (who have in no way attacked your religion), to turn to face God.
- You are full of hatred whose father is Iblis, and so you turn away from the Holy Qur'an, a merciful and meek book as God is (as we have seen).
- You are haughty and think yourselves to be chosen, better than others (which God does not like either, there are Suras that speak of this); you forget all your sins with which God has shown mercy, and what is worse, you forget to use the mercy you have received, with others. Hatred is not God's heritage, but the devil's, and in many parts of the world you will find it. Love and mercy do come from God and by themselves justify man of every creed and nation.
Thus, it is important, as I say, to see the context in which the Quran was written. Well,although it is unchangeable, it does change our environment. Today there are no attacks on religion except for the temptations of Iblis. The Prophet Muhammad lived (I believe) surrounded by battles against pre-Islamic cults (and some skirmishes against the people of the Scripture). At that time, countries were invaded, peoples were expelled, and cultures and religions were imposed.
In this environment (century VII) the word "combat that comes 42 times" is observed, always as a defense for the survival of the incipient Muslim expansion (it will be a coincidence but we must always fight -3.5 Times-; 42 months = 3.5 years).

Surah 9,29 Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.

It speaks of a fight for the defense of religion, not as an attack (active hatred); Otherwise it would not be appeased with a tribute, for to God money is nothing, he Holy Quran is categorical about it. He provides those who trust in Him.
Now a description of the Gehenna. Fire that does not kill, but it hurts like the one here. It speaks of hell, after the judgment of God for those who hated or for the "infidels." Some unclean beasts burn men because of this Surah; Their hatred blinds them and they ignore that they can not replenish the skin, ergo is not aimed at them, it is a direct way of describing hell. In fact, afterwards It speaks of the gardens, which would also go after the trial and likewise, it is not the man who provides these gardens:

Surah 4,55 And some among them believed in it, and some among them were averse to it. And sufficient is Hell as a blaze.   (*Hell=Gehenna)
4,56.     Indeed, those who disbelieve in Our verses - We will drive them into a Fire. Every time their skins are roasted through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted in Might and Wise.
4, 57.    But those who believe and do righteous deeds - We will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide forever. For them therein are purified spouses, and We will admit them to deepening shade.

I have already put the Suras 9.5.12.36 that speak of self-defense (p. 62).

And the latter is another clear proof that he always speaks of self-defense:

Surah 60,1;O you who believe! Do not take My enemies and your enemies for supporters,offering them affection, when they have disbelieved in what has come to you of the Truth. They have expelled the Messenger, and you, because you believed in God, your Lord. If you have mobilized to strive for My cause, seeking My approval, how can you secretly love them? I know what you conceal and what you reveal. Whoever among you does that has strayed from the right way:
Surah 60,8 Allah does not forbid you to be kind and equitable to those who had neither fought against your faith nor driven you out of your homes. In fact, Allah loves the equitable.

Fools! You are like the one who is going to see the Alhambra in Granada, who brings his nose too close to a wall of his defense and blinds his sight and does not see its wonders. Separate a little and you will see; Enter later and you will find God in love and mercy. Outside is the hatred and the one who professes it. But if you repent of heart He will forgive you, because it is pure love and mercy, and He can not deny himself. It is the man who denies Him and thus condemns Himself. You have been stuck in these few Surahs that of course were written in the will of God, but with the purpose of protecting Islam in its beginning, because He wanted to extend this way in the right direction for your nation, for your understanding and Your hearts. And even written as they are, you twist them to the extreme to misinterpret them.

[note] Any translation of Arabic is considered an “interpretation” of the Quran. I have listed the word "hate" in Quran in Spanish, but in English it sometimes changes to "malice", or other words. I think the background is the same but an Arabic speaker will know better.