Eight Similarities Between Islam and Christianity
Theology is, has been and will always be an area of interest to both civilians and scholars. However, according to a survey conducted by Religious Population, there are 2.01 billion Christians and 2.08 billion Muslims worldwide. The latter religions don’t only exhibit similarity in the number of followers and believers but there are fairly many similarities between the foundations of both religions. Here are eight similarities between Christianity and Islam.
LOVE YOUR ENEMY
[Holy Quran: [Surat Fussilat 41:34]
"And not equal are the good deed and the bad. Repel [
Holy Bible: [Mathew 5:44]:
"You have heard that it was said, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.' "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."
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GOSSIPING
Holy Quran: [Surat Al-Hujurat 49:12]
"O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah ; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful."
Holy Bible: [Proverbs 18:7-8]
“A fool's mouth is his undoing, and his lips are a snare to his soul. The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts.”
DRINKING
Holy Quran: [Surat Al- Mai'idah 5:88-94]:
"O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah ], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful."
Holy Bible: [Romans 14: 21]:
"[It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak."
DRESSING MODESTLY
Holy Quran: [Surat An-Nur 24:30-31]:
"And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess..."
Holy Bible:[Timothy 2:9]:
"Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments..."
ADULTERY
Holy Quran: [Surat An-Nur 24:2]:
"The [unmarried] woman or [unmarried] man found guilty of sexual intercourse - lash each one of them with a hundred lashes, and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion of Allah , if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a group of the believers witness their punishment."
Holy Bible: [Leviticus 20:10]:
" If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death."
TATTOOS
Holy Quran: [Surat An- Nisa 4:119]:
"And I will mislead them, and I will arouse in them [sinful] desires, and I will command them so they will slit the ears of cattle, and I will command them so they will change the creation of Allah ." And whoever takes Satan as an ally instead of Allah has certainly sustained a clear loss."
Holy Bible: [Leviticus 19:28]:
"You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD."
MAGIC
Holy Quran: [Surat Ash-Shu'ara' 26:49]
[Pharaoh] said, "You believed Moses before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic, but you are going to know. I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will surely crucify you all."
Holy Bible: [Leviticus 19:31]:
"Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so you make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God."
PORK
Holy Quran: [Surat Al Baqarah 2:173]: He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah . But whoever is forced [by necessity], neither desiring [it] nor transgressing [its limit], there is no sin upon him. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
Holy Bible: [Deuteronomy 14:8]: "The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.
