- Mass Market Paperback: 80 pages
- Publisher: Christian Focus Publications (1 July 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857929152
- ISBN-13: 978-1857929157
- Product Dimensions: 17.9 x 11.4 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,113,414 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a good companion to Patrick Sookhdeo's short Pocket Guide to Islam. It will give Christians a clearer understanding of Islamic beliefs and practices. It will also help them to understand some of the misunderstandings that Muslims have regarding Christianity. These issues include the view that because of the doctrine of the Trinity, Christians believe in three gods! There is also the perception that many Muslims have, of Christianity as a Western religion. Misunderstandings like these, as well as others are dealt with by Steer. The book finishes with a couple of chapters, which will help Christians as they seek to share their faith with Muslims in the right manner.
The author has lived and worked in an Islamic country for a number of years, and has since been involved in a ministry to Muslim people in the U.K. and Europe. He is therefore, ideally placed to write this work. It may only be a brief book, but I think it is a valuable guide for Christians to have in this day and age.
The author has lived and worked in an Islamic country for a number of years, and has since been involved in a ministry to Muslim people in the U.K. and Europe. He is therefore, ideally placed to write this work. It may only be a brief book, but I think it is a valuable guide for Christians to have in this day and age.
1 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This book was devised as an aid to Christian missionaries in their efforts to evangelise muslims. As a scientist in the medical field, I studied this book as I would a research paper (that is; in an objective and clinical manner). Overall, I found it to have no less than 67 theological errors, all stemming from three very repetitive points. The author (Malcolm Steer) has attempted to emphasise and thus, impress upon the reader
i) the supposed theological legitimacy of the trinity.
ii) the supposed lack of salvation in Islam.
iii) Theological misrepresentation and failure to comprehend.
Despite residing in the Middle East for nine years (and being surrounded by muslims!), Malcolm Steer has utterly failed to understand the concept of Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism). So how can any religion logically prove its monotheist legitimacy and by what set of intellectual contentions does one define monotheism?. One must anticipate that there must be some criteria to define the uniqueness & transcendancy of a creator and Islam clearly defines this as follows:
1)Tawheed ar-Ruboobeeyah (`Maintaining the unity of Lordship')
2)Tawheed al-Asmaa was-Sifaat (`Maintaining the unity of Allah's names & attributes').
3)Tawheed al-Ibadah (`Maintaining the unity of Allah's worship').
These three aspects form the basis for the categories into which the science of Tawheed has been traditionally divided. Thus any infringement of the above three categories is regarded as `shirk' (ie 'sharing'), the association of partners with Allah , which in Islamic terms is in fact idolatry (and this is what Christianity has become).
Furthermore, I have noticed that the vast majority of people who have converted to Christianity (under the guidance of malcolm steer) are actually of Iranian descent and who have subsequently fled their motherland. These poor misguided souls have incorrectly regarded politics as religion. In an area where there is much political tension, it has been very easy for malcolm steer, et al to utilise this opportunity.
i) the supposed theological legitimacy of the trinity.
ii) the supposed lack of salvation in Islam.
iii) Theological misrepresentation and failure to comprehend.
Despite residing in the Middle East for nine years (and being surrounded by muslims!), Malcolm Steer has utterly failed to understand the concept of Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism). So how can any religion logically prove its monotheist legitimacy and by what set of intellectual contentions does one define monotheism?. One must anticipate that there must be some criteria to define the uniqueness & transcendancy of a creator and Islam clearly defines this as follows:
1)Tawheed ar-Ruboobeeyah (`Maintaining the unity of Lordship')
2)Tawheed al-Asmaa was-Sifaat (`Maintaining the unity of Allah's names & attributes').
3)Tawheed al-Ibadah (`Maintaining the unity of Allah's worship').
These three aspects form the basis for the categories into which the science of Tawheed has been traditionally divided. Thus any infringement of the above three categories is regarded as `shirk' (ie 'sharing'), the association of partners with Allah , which in Islamic terms is in fact idolatry (and this is what Christianity has become).
Furthermore, I have noticed that the vast majority of people who have converted to Christianity (under the guidance of malcolm steer) are actually of Iranian descent and who have subsequently fled their motherland. These poor misguided souls have incorrectly regarded politics as religion. In an area where there is much political tension, it has been very easy for malcolm steer, et al to utilise this opportunity.
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