Antichrist Rashad Khalifa Declared Usury Permissible

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

والصلاة والسلام على من لا رسول بعده

The antichrist and pretender Dr. Rashad Khalifa, who proclaimed that he was a new ‘Messenger of God’, wrote in a footnote to the passage in the Quran (2:275-278):

“Normal interest - less than 20% - where no one is victimized and everyone is satisfied, is not usury.” (Quran: The Final Testament, p.28):

The sign of a false prophet or self-proclaimed apostle of God is that he violates the Shari’a and permits others to do so. The most holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم is reported to have said:

‌دِرْهَمٌ ‌رِبًا ‌يَأْكُلُهُ ‌الرَّجُلُ ‌وَهُوَ ‌يَعْلَمُ ‌أَشَدُّ ‌مِنْ ‌سِتَّةٍ ‌وَثَلَاثِينَ ‌زَنْيَةً

For a man to knowingly consume a single dirham of riba [usury] is worse than committing fornication thirty-six times

(Musnad Ahmad)

Divine Command to Grow the Beard

 بِسۡمِ اللّٰہِ الرَّحۡمٰنِ الرَّحِیۡمِ

وَسَلٰمٌ عَلَی الۡمُرۡسَلِیۡنَ

وَالۡحَمۡدُ لِلّٰہِ رَبِّ الۡعٰلَمِیۡنَ

The fitnah of Ghamidi is spreading like a virus in the body of the Muslims. Among his perversions is the idea that growing a beard for a man is not a religious commandment but a discretionary matter. To refute such nonsense I shall quote a Hadith of the most holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم which explicitly states that for a man to trim his mustache and grow a beard is a divine command of the Lord Himself:

أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَجِيدِ بن سهل عن عبيد الله ابن عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ جَاءَ مَجُوسِيٌّ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَدْ أَعْفَى شَارِبَهُ وَأَحْفَى لِحْيَتَهُ فَقَالَ مَنْ أَمَرَكَ بِهَذَا قَالَ رَبِّي قَالَ ‌لَكِنَّ ‌رَبِّي ‌أَمَرَنِي ‌أَنْ ‌أُحْفِيَ ‌شَارِبِي وَأُعْفِيَ لِحْيَتِي

Ubaid Allah bin Abd Allah narrates: A Magian came to the Messenger of Allah [sall Allahu alaihi wasallam], his moustache left untrimmed and his beard shaven, so the Messenger of Allah asked, “Who ordered you with this?” He said, “My lord [Chosroes, the Persian emperor]”, the Messenger of Allah said, “But my Lord [Allah] ordered me to trim closely my moustache and leave my beard” (Tabaqat al-Kubra, v.1, p.347):

ودخلا على رسول الله ص وَقَدْ حَلَقَا لِحَاهُمَا وَأَعْفَيَا شَوَارِبَهُمَا فَكَرِهَ النَّظَرَ إليهما ثم أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِمَا فَقَالَ وَيْلَكُمَا مَنْ أَمَرَكُمَا بِهَذَا قَالا أَمَرَنَا بِهَذَا رَبُّنَا يَعْنِيَانِ كِسْرَى فَقَالَ رسول الله لَكِنَّ رَبِّي قَدْ أَمَرَنِي بِإِعْفَاءِ لِحْيَتِي وَقَصِّ شَارِبِي

Yazid bin Abi Habib narrates that two Magians entered upon the Messenger of Allah, their beards were shaved while their moustaches were left [untrimmed]. So the Messenger of Allah disliked looking at them, then he turned to them and said “Woe unto you! Who ordered you to do this?” They said, “Our lord ordered with this” meaning Chosroes. So the Messenger of Allah said, “Rather my Lord has ordered me to leave my beard and shorten my moustache” (Sahih Tarikh at-Tabari, v.2, p.235):

Both of these routes for the transmission of the Hadith are mursal. However, the muhaddith al-Albani declared this narration hasan (Fiqh us-Sirah of Muhammad al-Ghazali, p.389) due to the corroborating Hadith narrated by sayyidina Abi Hurairah رضى الله عنه

أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ الْأَبْزَارِيُّ بِالْكُوفَةِ قَالَ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ الْأُبَيْسِيُّ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ ثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى ثنا عِصْمَةُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيِّبِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ دَخَلَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَجُوسِيُّ قَدْ حَلَقَ لِحْيَتَهُ وَأَعْفَى شَارِبَهُ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَيْحَكَ مَنْ أَمَرَكَ بِهَذَا قَالَ ‌أَمَرَنِي بِهِ كِسْرَى فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَكِنِّي ‌أَمَرَنِي رَبِّي عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ أُعْفِيَ لِحْيَتِي وَأَنْ أُحْفِيَ شَارِبِي

A Magian entered upon the Messenger of Allah [sall Allahu alaihi wasallam] with his beard shaved and his moustache left untrimmed. So the Messenger of Allah [sall Allahu alaihi wasallam] said: “Woe unto you! Who ordered you with this?” He said, “Chosroes ordered me with this” so the Messenger of Allah said, “But my Lord [Allah], Mighty and Majestic, ordered me to leave my beard and trim closely my moustache” (al-Amali li-Ibni Bushran, p.73):

Noah Eldest of the Prophets is Proof Jesus is Deceased

 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

اللهم صلى على محمد وعلى آل محمد

Allahعز وجل says regarding his great messenger Noah:

وَلَقَدۡ اَرۡسَلۡنَا نُوۡحًا اِلٰی قَوۡمِہٖ فَلَبِثَ فِیۡہِمۡ اَلۡفَ سَنَۃٍ اِلَّا خَمۡسِیۡنَ عَامًا

And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he dwelt among them a thousand years save fifty years

(Surah 29:14)

The Bible confirms that Noah lived for a total of 950 years (Genesis 9:29).

Sayyidina Anas bin Malik رضى الله عنه narrates that the holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said:

يُؤْتَى آدَمُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةَ فَيُقَالُ لَهُ اشْفَعْ فَيَقُولُ لَسْتُ بِصَاحِبِ ذَلِكَ عَلَيْكُمْ بِنُوحٍ ‌فَإِنَّهُ ‌أَوَّلُ ‌الأَنْبِيَاءِ ‌وَأَكْبَرُهُمْ

Adam shall be brought forth on the Day of Resurrection and it will be said to him, “Intercede” but he will say, “I am not worthy of that, but upon you is Noah, for indeed he is the first of the Prophets and the eldest of them” (Musnad al-Bazar, v.12, pp.341-342, #6223; at-Tawhid li-Ibni Khuzaymah, p.719, #459):

This Hadith confirms the fact that Noah is the eldest of the Prophets of God, having lived at least 950 years. This incidentally negates the popular but erroneous belief among Muslims that Jesus is alive in Heaven with his earthly body though some 2000 years have transpired since he came into this world. And if it is argued that after having physically ascended into Heaven the aging process for Jesus has been suspended then that would imply he did not ascend in his earthly body, which is a body that not only requires food for sustenance (Surah 21:8) but experiences the natural process of aging too (Surah 36:68).

Apparently this Hadith states that Noah and not Adam was the first Prophet. However, other narrations clarify that what is intended is that Noah was the first Prophet and Messenger of God sent to the people of Earth:

فَيَقُولُونَ يَا نُوحُ ‌أَنْتَ ‌أَوَّلُ ‌الرُّسُلِ ‌إِلَى ‌أَهْلِ ‌الأَرْضِ

They will say, “O Noah, you are the first of the Apostles to the people of Earth” (Sahih al-Bukhari)