Guiding The Lost Sheeps Of Israel

Behind the mirage of wealthiness, pomp and display of the modern Western civilization, how exactly are the realities of the Western civilization today? Indeed, there has been a religion (Christian) bankruptcy in the West. The most prominent sign is the disappearance of the doctrines of faith. Multidimensional crisis that are happening in the churches in the West are caused by many elements, which among others are:

• The certainty of faith (aqeedah) in the present-day is not the authentic wahyu (divine revelation).

• The anguish of the church leaders caused by the compulsion that they should not be married leads to a chaotic lineage due to free sex, the presence of homosexuality and lesbianism, outbreak of the AIDS disease, etc.

• The crisis of the obedience to the pope, by doubting the honesty of the pope and his infallibility from sin.

• The rejection of the concept of the church unity. This has happened quite a while, giving rise to the Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox sects. Protestants still split into hundreds of sects around the world.

• The rejection of the way of the confession of sins, holy Communion, weekly Mass in Latin. This is generally done in the Protestant sects.

• The rejection of the baptism. Performed by small sects from among the Protestants.

This phenomenon of bankruptcy is from one side only. In general, the Western civilization is seen gasping for breath in pursuit of the mirage of the material progress, fever of change and renewal. And then they compare with the civilization of the East which is denoted as a backward civilization.

A string of words from a French thinker, Rene Guenon, he honestly said, "The Western civilization is the only civilization that develops toward pure materialism. The most bizarre in this issue is the presence of a necessitation that this abnormal civilization is claimed to be the mode of the latest civilization, and a recognition of it as a model of an ideal civilization. Even worse, it is seen as the only civilization in the world, instead of other civilizations, which is entitled to carry the title 'an ideal civilization'". (Orientet Occident).

The West is not honest in explaining how its existence began. And then the amputation and falsification of history was done. Jesus who was clearly an Israeli Jew was sabotaged by the West and defined as being a Latin Greek .

The existence of the Greek-Roman civilization that could not be separated from the success of the ancient Egyptian civilization was as if covered. The religious roots from the Egyptian to the Greek-Roman civilization was simply ignored. The fact that, "the establishment of the Western civilization today is an extension of the ancient Egyptian civilization and thanks to the lights of the Islamic civilization:'" (Dr. Zainab Abdul Aziz – The Christianization of the World), is being covered up. The Western civilization instead endeavor to denigrate the image of the Islamic civilization to divert the attention from the shortcomings that they have.

Rene Guenon further said, "The West forgets that it has not had an existence of a history, whereas the Eastern civilization has reached the peak of its progress. Due to that, in the view of the Eastern society the West is like a baby who is proud as a result of its success that has so rapidly gained a bit of primitive information. The West reckons as if they already have the complete knowledge and wants to teach it to older people who are already full of wisdom and experience."

When we see the three great religions i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam very objectively, we can say: The Jewish religion contained in The Ten Commandement is a religion of Tawheed and a religion of law (Shari'at). When its followers defected, Jesus then came perfecting the Jewish religion and not at all reducing the content of the Torah.

Jesus, as he says about himself, "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Matius 15:24). After that, with the passage of time after the death of Jesus, some of his people falsified the teachings that he had brought to become the Christianity that we know today. After that came the religion of Islam, equally bringing the teachings of Tawheed and the laws of Allah, acknowledging the two previous religions and exposing the falsehoods that happened in the two religions.

Islam comes with a promise and guarantee from Allah that it will always be preserved. Islam is the only monotheistic religion that gets the legitimacy of authenticity and preservation of the Qur'anic scripture, Surah al-Hijr (15):9.

There are still many unrevealed secrets behind the Veritatis Splendor. This must be uncovered, no matter how far or how long they have played the game. Hence, instead of allying with the Zionists to spark off the Crusade openly, or even covertly, it is better to reopen the mound of the secret archives of the Vatican and continue the mission of Jesus, "guiding the lost sheeps of Israel" towards monotheistic faith in Allah. In other words, back to the task of realigning all the falsehoods that exist in the Jewish and Christian religions, rather than distancing oneself from the truth to attack Islam.

Original article in Indonesian by: Hj Irena Handono*

*Irena Handono is an expert in Christology. She is a former nun who had converted to Islam and now heads the Irena Center institute, as well as being active as a female dai'e.