Ministry to Muslims

NEW CREATION BOOK FOR MUSLIMS

In my heart there is a Masjid, a small prayer room. Small but commodious, stretching

out like Ibrahim’s Tent into eternity. There I meditate day and night.

I invite you to look around this Masjid of my soul.

You will see first a raised platform, a Minbar, and that Minbar is where

the free prayer is made lying face down, under the holy light shining.

One day in this Masjid of the heart, I heard a soft rapping at the door.

I looked at the door and saw that sacrificial blood had been

struck against the uprights.

I looked at the latch. What would happen if I opened it? I had been meditating

on the door standing open in heaven. I was thinking about heaven and the Masih

coming to the Ancient of Days on the clouds of heaven. I wanted

the Spirit to lift me up and take me in visions of the Holy One far above my dark racing

thoughts which are vain. My eyes examined the Blood on the lintel.

I seemed to know that my dark vain thoughts must be constantly expiated by the

Blood of the lintel, lest the Evil one defile my innermost Masjid,

On the table of that Masjid is a candle which

is a lamp unto my feet and an Injil Scroll which is a light unto my path, that

the Holy One might be with me and that my thoughts might be acceptable in

His sight.

Again, I heard a soft rapping at the door. I knew whoever knocked was standing

behind the wall. And I looked, and, behold, the glory cloud filled the Masjid.

The door was locked. But I sensed my soul under scrutiny.

Again I heard the soft rapping at the door.

In my heart there is a Masjid, a small prayer room. Small but commodious, stretching

out like Ibrahim’s Tent into eternity.

From that vantage point there is another Comforter, the Holy Ruach.

And also the Masih and the Ancient of Days. Three.

In the Torat, Ibrahim looked out the entrance of his Tent and saw Three.

Yet His Name is One.

But when the door opened, there was only a Lamb. The Lamb was standing. It had the appearance of

having been slaughtered. Its throat was cut and the bloody mortal wound was a sign

that the desolating plague had skipped or passed over my door.

Then I heard the Voice.

“If anyone will invite me to come in, I will come in.”

In the darkness of my soul, I reached for the Light of the World that was shining.

His glance fell on the Injil Scroll like a laser beam, lighting every Letter and every firey place which speaks of him in every Word.

As far as this Masjid is concerned and also my dark thoughts,

things are rising brighter now since Isa al-Masih entered the Masjid of my heart.

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by Phil Goble and Salim Munayer

Contents

1. Soiltesting

2. The Straight Path of the New Creation

3. The Prayer Life of a New Creation Muslim

4. The New Creation Confession

5. The New Creation Pilgrimage

6. How to Start a House Masjid and a Messianic

Madrasa for New Creation Muslims

Glossary

Notes

?OK 1?bsp; SOILTESTING

HOW WELCOME IS THE TRUTH IN YOUR HOUSE?

Are you like our father Ibrahim (Abraham)?

When three men came to his dwelling,

Ibrahim could see who they really were

--angels in disguise.

So even though his wife laughed like a kafir (dis-believer), our

father Ibrahim

opened his heart

to their message (1) [SEE END NOTE 1].

Ibrahim not only recognized the truth

but he also fearlessly welcomed it.

THE FARMER AND THE FOUR KINDS OF SOIL

Different people react in different ways to the truth,

just as, when a farmer plants his seed,

various kinds of soil react variously.

THE PARABLE (MATHAL) GIVEN

Imagine a farmer going out to plant seed.

As the farmer planted the seed,

some fell on the edge of the path,

and the birds came and ate those seeds up.

Others fell on rocky soil

where they sprang up quickly;

but as soon as the sun came up,

those that were rootless and shallow plantings

soon withered away.

Other seeds fell among thorns

which grew up and choked them.

Finally, there were seeds that fell on rich soil

and these seeds multiplied themselves

in the fruit they produced--

some a hundred times over,

some sixty times over,

some thirty.

THE PARABLE (MATHAL) EXPLAINED

The truth comes like seed from a farmer's hand.

The ears that hear the truth

are like different kinds of soil

receiving the farmer's seed.

Ears without understanding hear the truth

but Shaitan (Satan) comes

like the birds along the path

and carries the truth away

as soon as it is planted in the hearer's heart.

Ears with fickle attention hear the truth

and welcome it at first with joy;

but such a hearer has no unwavering root in himself

and he does not last;

when a crisis or a persecution comes

on account of the truth,

such a hearer falls away at once.

Ears with divided desires hear the word,

but the worries of this world,

and the lure of riches,

and the pleasures of life,

are like thorns that choke the truth

which produces in such a hearer absolutely nothing.

However, ears with understanding hear the word

like rich soil receiving seed.

Such a hearer yields a great harvest,

since a hundred or sixty or thirty times

as many hearers may receive the truth through him.

He who has ears to hear the truth

of the following mathal (parable), let him hear!

THE IBN DALL (SON OF ERROR)

There was once a hanif (one who desires true religion)

who had two sons.

The younger said to his father,

"Father, according to the wasiya (will),

let me have the fara'id (fixed share)

of the mirath (inheritance)

that is coming to me."

And the father divided his means and his property

between the younger and the elder son.

Now the elder son was a devout believer who prayed

regularly five times a day

and had made the Hajj (Pilgrimage) as many times.

No one was respected more among the townspeople

for his religious devotion than this elder son.

He was a man who performed his prayers

in the mosque with absolute perfection

and could read the Qur'an so well

that he would hold the audience spellbound.

THE YOUNGER SON GOES ASTRAY

It wasn't long, however, until the younger son

got everything he owned together,

and left for a far country.

There he squandered his money

in a dissolute life of fisq (sinfulness)

and moral depravity.

And when he had spent his entire inheritance,

and had not one thing left to remind him of his wonderful father,

there arose a terrible famine in that land;

and the younger son began to feel his loss.

So he hired himself out to a harbi (2)

who put him on his farm to feed the pigs.

The younger son would willingly have filled his belly

with the husks the pigs were eating

but he was treated worse than the swine,

for no one offered him even pigs' food to eat.

THE YOUNGER SON FORSAKES ALL PRIDE AND

SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

He finally came to himself

and started thinking like an 'aqli (rational) being,

like a true son having the disposition of his father.

He said, "How many hired servants of my father's household abound

in food and I perish with hunger!

I will arise and stop straying from fasaqa (the right course) and

go to my father,

and I will say to him,

"Father, I have sinned against heaven

and in the presence of you.

And I no longer think I am worthy to be called your son:

make me not like my elder brother who thinks himself worthy but

make me like one of your hired servants."

Then he arose and came to his father.

THE FATHER WHOSE LOVE MAKES THE UNRIGHTEOUS TO

BE RIGHTEOUS

Now it was the tenth day

of the month of Hajj (Pilgrimage),

but the elder son, having a self-satisfied heart,

had some time before decided to forego the trip.

But when the younger son was yet along way off,

his father saw him.

And greatly moved with love and compassion,

his father ran to the younger son

and clasped him in his arms

and kissed him with tenderness.

And the younger son said to him,

"Father, I have sinned against heaven

and in your sight,

and I am no longer worthy to be called your son."

But the father said to his hired servants,

"Bring forth the best robe

and put it on him;

and put a ring on his hand

and shoes on his feet;

and bring the calf we have been fattening and kill it;

we are going to have

a Qurban (Sacrifice) as on 'Id al-Adha (3)

such as has not been since the time Ibrahim

celebrated the redemption of his son.

Because this son of mine was dead

and has come back to life;

he was lost

and now he has been found."

And the great feast began.

THE ELDER SON REFUSES TO FORSAKE A

SELF-RIGHTEOUS AND PROUD RELIGIOUS SPIRT

Now the elder brother

had just returned from the mosque,

and, on his way back, as he drew near the house,

he could hear the sounds of the wisal (communion)

of the father and his younger son.

Calling one of the hired servants,

the elder brother asked what all this was about.

And the hired servant said to the elder son,

"Your brother has returned safe and salim (sound)

and your father has personally sent word

for the Qurban (sacrifice) and the festivities to begin."

Now the elder brother was furious

and refused to go in.

He would have nothing

to do with this sort of din (religious practice).

Would God act like his father? (4)

Would Allah bestow a matwaba (reward) on a son

with an innate qariha (disposition)

that was asin (rebellious)?

And not only that, one who had no tawab (merit)

because he had done absolutely no good deeds

or ihsan (right conduct)

--would Allah act like this sort of father?

The elder brother resolved to never be like such a one

and he sat down and brooded in the outer darkness.

FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THE WORD OF THE FATHER

Presently the elder brother

thought he saw another servant approaching.

But it was really his father

coming to give him a personal word (5)

in order that the elder son could start thinking

like an 'aqli(rational) being

and enter into the spirit ofthe whole jam'a'a (house).

So his father pleaded with him.

Finally the elder son answered the man:

"Look, all these years I have submitted (islam) (6)

to you as an abd (slave)

and I can boast without shame that

I have religiously obeyed all of the shari'a (laws)

of this whole jam'a'a (house).

Yet I return from the mosque

and I hear the sounds of the wisal (conununion)

between you and this mufarrit (prodigal)!

Am I now to humble myself

and enter a house with this sort of zamala (fellowship)?"

A COSTLY DEATH AND THE INHERITANCE OF

THE FATHER'S PERSONAL WORD TO HIS HEIRS

Then the father looked at him with anguished love

and said,

"You know the costly death a murith (testator)

must somehow undergo in order that his heirs

may receive all that he has.

And yet you seem to love me

more like a self-justifying slave

than a trusting and humble son."

The father put his arm around the man and said,

"Are you so far away from knowing me

that you cannot rejoice that the one

who strayed from the fasaqa (right course)

has found tajaddud (renewal)

and has been rashid (rightly guided)

to the marashid (salvation) of God?

For like you

your brother had a sajiya (natural disposition)

that was dead but now he has been jadda (restored)

to the abundant life of wisal (communion)

as an heir of his father's house." (7)

ARE YOU WILLING TO RECEIVE THE NEW CREATION HEART,

THE HEART OF A LITTLE CHILD,

THE HEART THAT RECOGNIZES THE TRUTH?

Have you not read what it says of Isa al-Masih

that he would "heal those born blind

and the lepers...and raise the dead?" (8)

Why did he do this for people?

Because it says in the Zabur (Psalms)

that God "would send his Word and heal them

and deliver them from the Pit of jahannam" (9)(hell fire). Have

you not read,

"The Messiah, Isa, Jesus son of Mary,

was the Rasul (Messenger) of God, and his Word" (10)?

God has always loved his Word

as a father loves his only son.

And his Word has always been

the sirr (secret) of the mind of Allah,

as a son is the likeness of his father.

What blasphemer would breathe the name of Mary here?

She was nothing but a loaner of flesh,

for Allah has no wife and no mother and no partner

nor did He need any human being at all

to be what He has always been,

the one and only God.

ONLY A CHILD-LIKE HEART RECOGNIZES THE TRUTH

Now the story goes that Isa who is Allah's Word

had been healing many people in Muqaddasa (the Holy Land). And

when he sat down,

each talib (seeker) also brought unto Isa

his walad (little child)

in order for him to pronounce the baraka (blessing).

And so, with tender love, Isa,

who reverberates the love of the heart of God,

picked each one up

and placed the walad (little child)

one at a time on his lap.

Just then his hawari (disciples)

impatiently interrupted him and told the parents

that they would have to leave.

But Isa loved little children who, as everyone knows,

humbly and whole-heartedly receive what is given to them.

Little children accept everything as a gift

with awestruck gratitude as if from the hand of God,

and not with any tendency

to think they deserve God's favor on the basis of merit,

since in their own small eyes

they wisely know themselves too little

to have done any good deeds.

Isa said,

"Allow the little children to come unto me

and forbid them not.

For it is to people with hearts like these

that the Malakut (Kingdom) of God belongs.

In very truth I say to you,

whosoever shall not welcome

the Malakut (Kingdom) of God

like a walad (little child)

will never enter it." (11)

THE TRUTH HAS NOT BEEN LOST IN TRANSCRIPTION SINCE

EVEN LITTLE CHILDREN CAN RECOGNIZE

THE FATHER'S PERSONAL WORD OF TRUTH

Isa had difficulty with his people,

because many suppressed the correct interpretation

of the Scriptures that spoke of his coming.

However, those who did attempt to "conceal

Allah's revelations in the Book" (12) did not succeed

as a Muslim child proved in 1947

when he discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Extremely ancient parts of every book (but one)

of the Hebrew Bible were found there in manuscript form,

greatly discrediting the skeptical scholars

who had attacked its infallible

accuracy and reliability. (13)

ARE YOU WILLING TO READ THE ANCIENT PROPHETS WITH

THE HUMBLE HEART OF A LITTLE CHILD? (14)

?OK 2?bsp; THE STRAIGHT PATH OF THE NEW CREATION

ALLAH KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE

and so do Shaitan and the evil jinn (demons).

This was proven to a man of God

in modern times.

This is a true story.

A PRAYER IS MIRACULOUSLY ANSWERED

The man of God was calling out to Allah one morning

to bring more people to the jami' (congregation).

He was on his face before Allah

and he was supplicating du'a (free-prayer) very loudly

alone in a tiny apartment.

This was the only masjid (place of prayer)

the people had for their meetings

because the godless leaders,

more sensitive to politics than to Allah,

had thrown the congregation

out of a public meeting hall.

But praise be to God who hears and answers

when we call on Him!

There is none like the Lord our God,

praise be unto Him.

He says somewhere,

"Before they call I will answer,

and while they are yet speaking I will hear."

In fact, the request of the man of God

had been answered weeks before he made his petition.

HOW GOD HAD BEEN PREPARING TO ANSWER PRAYER

Here is the true story:

A young man and his wife

had been travelling for several days

looking for the man of God.

Allah had led them on a spiritual pilgrimage,

for Allah foreknew both the prayer and its answer,

which He was now effecting.

We will call these two muridun (aspirants)

Isha and Ahmad.

They had long heard of the spiritual 'ilm (knowledge)

of the man of God,

though they had never met him personally.

And so they went out like Ibrahim (Abraham),

"who by faith obeyed

when he was called to go out to a place

which he was to receive as an inheritance;

and he went out,

not knowing where he was to go."

Like Ibrahim, the man and wife wanted to seek

the straight path,

the path of the just,

and they sought to do this under the huda (guidance)

of the man of God.

The man and woman wanted to submit their lives to Allah

and find the path of life in His Word,

as it says,

"Make me to go in the path of thy commandments,

for therein do I delight."

However, Isha and Ahmad did not know in which village

the man of God lived,

nor the street location of his dwelling.

But praise be to God

for it says,

"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet

and a light unto my path."

THE MIRACLE OCCURS

On the very night before the miracle happened,

Ahmad and Isha happened to take a room in a hotel

a very short distance from the place

where the man of God dwelt.

On the very morning

when the man of God

was petitioning Allah so earnestly to send more people,

Isha had taken her baby for a walk

and she was going down the street.

She was walking along,

and when she came to the building

where the man of God was on his face

crying out to God

(even though there was no sign on the building

nor any way in the world to know

the man of God was inside)

Isha stopped and asked a lady passer-by

if she knew of any jami' (gathering)

for du'a (free-prayer) in the area.

The lady passer-by happened to be a murid (novice believer) who

belonged to the persecuted flock of God

that met in the dwelling of the man of God.

Not only that,

the women happened,

in the providence of God,

to pass each other

right in front of this very house masjid (place of prayer)!

"The Lord orders the steps of a righteous person"

is the saying.

Many err with their doctrine

knowing neither the Scriptures nor the power of God,

nor the love of God, which passes all understanding.

What Allah foreknows He forewills

"to work together for good for those

who love Allah, who are called according to his purpose,"

who are blessed, because they "are not offended at His Word."

At this exact moment, then,

just as the man of God finished his petition

with the words, "Send us more people, Lord"

--there was a knock on the door!

The man of God had no idea who Isha was.

"Do you know where my husband and I

could find a congegation?" Isha asked.

"Yes," the man of God said, flabbergasted.

"Praise to Him," Isha said,

"because we've been seeking

to find a certain man of God,"

and then she gave his name.

"Do you know where I could find him?"

"I'm he," the man of God said.

"Oh..." Isha was shocked.

So the man of God saw his prayer

answered so suddenly and miraculously.

God had led the woman to the man of God.

Al-Hadi (The Guide) knew where he lived!

For Al-Hadi is Al-'Alim (The All-Knowing).

Right after that the congregation started to grow again,

despite the opposition of the godless.

And both Isha and her husband Ahmad

submitted to the death ghusl

of New Creation Islam in the ocean,

calling on Allah to cleanse their inner being

with "the wudu (washing) of tajaddud (regeneration)

and the renewing of the Eternal Spirit of Allah."

That was nearly ten years ago.

Then the man of God moved to another place.

YEARS LATER ANOTHER MIRACLE HAPPENS

Would it take a miracle

to show you the difference

between a true Islamic teacher

and a pseudo-Islamic teacher?

Very recently Ahmad called the man of God

long distance on the telephone to tell him

that Isha wanted a divorce.

They had been having marriage problems

and she had turned to a man for help,

a fraud who claimed to be a good murshid (spiritual guide) but

who was in reality

a pseudo-Islamic shaman

trafficking in the realm of spells

and charms and sorcery,

witchcraft, talismans and familiar spirits,

divining, saint worship, and demons,

fortune-telling, incantations and the evil eye.

It says somewhere,

"Acquaint now thyself with Him (God)

and be at peace;

thereby good shall come unto Thee."

But some people want to get more acquainted

with jinn or demons rather than the Word of Allah,

as it says,

"My people perish for lack of knowledge of Thy word,

for they have rejected the knowledge of thy Word."

The haram (forbidden) demon procurer

whom Isha consulted

promised her peace

and even dramatic out-of-the-body psychic experiences;

he claimed to offer her direct access

to "Spiritual Masters" who make their appearance

as "light-being entities."

Such counterfeit guides, as this man, are like

the devils with whom they commune.

They are unclean religious peddlers

disguised as servants of Allah.

There is nothing unexpected about such frauds

if, as it says,

"Shaitan himself goes disguised as an angel of light

seeking whom he may devour."

THE MAN OF GOD DECIDES TO TEACH ISHA AND AHMAD

ABOUT MARRIAGE IN TERMS OF THE KINGDOM

"Blessed be He in whose hands is the Kingdom......" (15)

And blessed indeed are the hands of Him

into whom all the power of the Kingdom

is given: the Word of Allah.

Yet the Kingdom of God

is not in word,

but in power

--not the words of dying men,

nor the might of fleeting worldly power.

Did not the living Word of Allah himself declare,

"My Kingdom is not of this world;

if my Kingdom were of this world,

then would my servants fight jihad." (16)

The Kingdom of God is in the power of His Word.

And what does His Word say?

The whole story swept through the mind of the man of God...

ALLAH HAS ACTED MIGHTILY TO BRING US TO HIS KINGDOM

From the good beginning

mankind has swerved

from the straight path

of Allah and his Word.

From the first commandment

given beneath the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil

mankind has acted shadily

toward Allah and his Glory.

And what is Allah's Glory

if not the Word of his Power?

And what is his glorious Power

if not the Word of his Presence?

One of your prophets has said rightly:

"The Messiah, Isa, Jesus son of Mary,

was the Messenger of Allah, and his Word

that he bestowed on Mary." (17)

But His Word that He bestowed on Mary

went forth from His mouth

at the creation of the world.

For in the beginning

was the Word

and the Word was with God

and the Word was God. (18)

The Power and the Presence was

Allah's Only Eternal Word;

and everything was made

by the Word,

and without the Word

was nothing made.

Then the Word

came on the scene

as a human being

who is true Man

on the straight path

to the tree of life.

And his disciples beheld his glory,

glory as of the only

personal and eternal Word of Allah,

full of grace and truth. (19)

What blasphemer would breathe the name of Mary here

as one of the "gods in derogation of God"? (20)

Are you so slow in understanding

that you think we believe Allah got married?

What blasphemy!

Who could believe that Allah would take a wife?

Do you think we mean that the Word of Allah

is His Son in that literal sense?

Not at all!

Mary was nothing but a loaner of flesh! (21)

For Allah has neither wife nor mother nor partner

nor did He ever need a human being at all

to be what He has always been--one!

God always existed with His Everlasting Word

and His Everlasting Spirit as tawhid (one).

What blasphemer would assert otherwise?

Would you be so foolish as to say

that Allah once existed without His Eternal and Living Word and

without His Everlasting Spirit?

Would you have Allah at one time mute

and unable to utter a living Word?

Would you have Him at one time Spiritless,

without His Eternal Spirit?

Such blasphemers would do to the imaginary God they worship what

they would not dream of doing to themselves

--namely, cut out all living utterance and life

to be left with a mere speechless, lifeless being.

If only these dreamers would wake up from such nonsense

and shut their