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Restoration Ministry

Restoration 2005: To The Point

Randy Skeete

What I Like About Mohammad

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James Kyle

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Phil Mills

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Our subject this evening as it was this afternoon is what I like about Muhammad.

When I was in school, I don't recall whether it was elementary school or junior high or high, I had to learn a poem by heart.

It was called and still is called the psalm of life by a poet called Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the first stanza of the poem says Tell me not in mournful numbers 11 Life is but an empty dream 12 And the soul is dead that slumbers 13 And things are not what they seem 14 But the stanza that applies to us tonight 15 Is the 1 that says 16 Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Now whether we want to or not we all leave footprints on the sands of time.

For some people follow in those footprints, for others people avoid those footprints.

But inevitably we leave footprints on the sands of time.

Now our subject is what I admire about Muhammad.

There are generally 2 classes of people and I class them under the heading of the effect of their lives during and after death.

Let me mention 1 great person whom I admire, Alexander the Great.

A tremendous military genius, but I've never met someone who tries to pattern his life by the principles of Alexander's military exploits.

But Alexander is indisputably regarded as 1 of the greatest military leaders of all time.

We mentioned Marco Polo this morning or this afternoon.

I have yet to meet anyone who has started a religious movement called the Marco Polo Brethren.

But he was no doubt a great explorer and a great traveler.

But then there are those who after passing off the stage people Live their lives by the principles that these people have left behind their footprints in the sands of time Let us take for instance Mother Teresa.

She dedicated her life to helping the impoverished in the great slums of the cities of India.

And there is an order of nuns after her who carry on her work.

She is dead, she is gone, but her influence remains and there are those who walk in the footprints on the sands of time that she has left.

Mohandas Gandhi at risk to life and limb he fought against what he considered an unjust occupation of his land.

And because of his efforts, his country was eventually released from the colonial grip and won its independence.

And there are people today who pursue social change by the same techniques that Mohandas Gandhi used and perhaps the most notable is our own Martin Luther King in whose footstep people follow today because of the life he lived and the ideals for which he was willing to sacrifice his life and shed his blood.

His teachings are followed today by uncounted millions of people and whose lives have been changed profoundly, materially, educationally, in many ways because they have incorporated in their lives the principles that this man propounded when he was alive.

Principles of the determined acquisition of education as the certain means of lifting oneself from a low estate.

The principles of the equality of the classes bound together by a determination to live noble lives.

The principle that 1 ought without cessation develop the mind, develop the morals, and develop the manners.

Confucius believed that learning should end in the grave and so do I.

His footprints are followed today by millions of people.

He left large footprints in the sands of time.

Footprints again that are followed by multiple millions of people.

People who have a deep respect for life as Buddha taught it.

People who believe the fundamental principle of life is love.

People who believe based on Buddha's teachings that 1 ought not to be captured and caught like an animal in a cage by material things but a person ought to be able to rise above them.

People who believe in the Eightfold Path, we ought to speak good words and have good deeds and good work, good ambition, good thoughts.

And there was a man called Muhammad and our subject is what I admire about Muhammad.

Let me extend that admiration to those whom I have already named.

Muhammad is associated with a religion that straddles the globe.

He taught among other things 5 things that I believe in myself and many others, even non-Muslims.

I may not call my God what He called His, but I believe there's 1 God, and that is found in the text that functions as my authoritative holy text.

Deuteronomy 6, verse 4, Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord, and I believe that.

It's a vital part of millions of Christians.

Whether it's 5 times a day, once a day or 50 times a day, we say that prayer is the breath of the soul.

Fasting it is not only something people do in the month of Ramadan But fasting is something some Christians do once a week some Christians fast usually the middle of the week Wednesday fasting for Christians is a very necessary spiritual exercise as essential as prayer and Bible study and engagement in evangelism giving alms to the poor.

We're told by John, and whoso seeth his brother, whoso hath this world's needs or goods, and seeth his brother hath need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him.

John, that beloved disciple closest to Jesus Christ, he taught that we should take care of those less fortunate than we are.

It exists in both religions and I admire it and I try to practice it.

And Islam believes that there should be a pilgrimage to Mecca.

I would love to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, the Holy Land, and see where Jesus walked, and the disciples walked, and the Old Testament patriarchs lived their lives and crisscrossed the land going about the business of their God.

And I believe that we should regard certain sites as very important to us, as part of the history.

No wonder Jesus says so often, or the Old Testament tells us, remember, remember, remember.

Remembering history is important, and pilgrimages are part of remembering history.

He lived his life made his contribution and then he died He went the way of all flesh.

He made a sterling contribution, then he gave up the ghost, and he died.

I admire the Prophet of Islam for his persistence.

Even when he was driven from his homeland with just a few followers you must at least admire the persistence in something he believed.

Like Buddha, he tried to provide answers to life's fundamental questions.

Like Muhammad, He founded a movement which we call Christianity.

Like these great men, he endured disappointment.

He came unto his own and his own received him not.

Mohammed was driven from his homeland or from his town.

And after a brief life of 33 and a half years, Jesus Christ died.

Human beings, all 4, preached principles for the improvement of life give gave of themselves for what they believed and made the ultimate sacrifice for the beliefs and all 4 died But let me say with all possible respect that Confucius is still dead.

But Jesus Christ who made it particularly clear when he was alive the evidence scientifically examined tells us that Jesus Christ, yes having died he rose from the grave which to the reasonable mind should lead someone to say let me take a second look at that man How can a man die and come back from the grave well there were other men who had that experience notably Lazarus But I need not take a second look at Lazarus.

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