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1. Islam before Muhammad (pbuh) was not the Kingdom
of God upon earth , but only God’s true religion

Those who believe that the true religion of Allah was

revealed only to Abraham (pbuh) and preserved by the people
of Israel alone, must be very ignorant students of the Old
Testament literature, and must have a very erroneous
notion of the nature of that religion. Abraham (pbuh) himself
offered tithes to the King and Imam [1] of Jerusalem and
was blessed by him (Gen. xiv. 18).The father-in-law of
Moses (pbuh) was also an Imam and a Prophet of Allah; Job,
Balaam, Ad, Hud (pbuh) , Loqmân, and many other prophets
were not Jews. The various tribes and nations like the
Ishmaelites, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, and others
which descended from the sons of Abraham (pbuh) and Lot,
knew God the Almighty though they too, like the Israelites,
fell into idolatry and ignorance. But the light of Islam was
never entirely extinguished or substituted by idolatry.
Idols or images, which were considered as “sacred” and
as household gods by the Jews, as well as their kindred
nationalities, and usually called “Trap him” (Gen. xxxi.)
in the Hebrew, were, in my humble opinion of the same
nature and character as the images and idols which the
Orthodox and Catholic Christians keep and worship in their
houses and temples. In those olden times of ignorance the
idols were of the kind of “identity card” or of the nature of
a passport. Is it not remarkable to find that Rachel (Rahil),
the wife of Jacob and the daughter of Laban, should steal
the “traphim” of her father? (Gen. xxxi.). Yet Laban as
well as her husband were Muslims, and on the same day
raised the stone “Mispha” and dedicated it to God!

[1] In Hebrew these old Imams are called “Kohen,” and rendered by Christians as
“Priest.” A Jewish priest can never be identified with a Christian Sacrament Arian
priest. (the author).