Lowell Gallin Talk to
Z.O.A. on January 16th, 2011
TEXT OF TALK BY
LOWELL GALLIN ON HIS NEW BOOK, "CRACKING THE QUR'AN
CODE: GOD'S LAND, TORAH AND PEOPLE COVENANTS WITH ISRAEL IN THE QUR'AN AND
ISLAMIC TRADITION" TO Z.O.A. WESTCHESTER-ROCKLAND COUNTY CHAPTER BUSINESS
MEETING AND BREAKFAST (DR. ANNABELLE WOLFZAHN, CHAPTER PRESIDENT), SUNDAY,
JANUARY 16TH, 2011, AT WOLFZAHN HOME, SCARSDALE, NEW YORK
We read in chapter seven of the Qur'an, Sura A'raf, "The Heights", verse
137 (Ali Qur'an, pages 379-380; "Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 177):
"And We [Allah/God] made a people considered weak (and of no account)
inheritors of lands in both East and West, - lands whereon We [Allah/God]
sent down Our blessings. The fair promise of thy Lord [Allah/God] was
fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and
constancy, and We [Allah/God] leveled to the ground the great Works and
fine Buildings which Pharaoh and his people erected (with such pride)".
Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments (Note 1096 - Ali Qur'an, page 380;
"Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 177):
"Israel, which was despised, became a great and glorious nation under
Solomon. He had goodly territory and was doubly blest. His land and people
were prosperous, and He was blessed with wisdom from God. His sway and his
fame spread east and west. And thus God's promise to Israel was fulfilled.
Note that Syria and Palestine had once been under the sway of Egypt".
I wrote "Cracking the Qur'an Code: God's Land, Torah and People Covenants
with Israel in the Qur'an and Islamic Tradition"
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3743146 , in honor and based on
the teachings of Dr. Asher Eder of Jerusalem, Israel; and Sheikh Abdul
Hadi Palazzi http://www.amislam.com/ of Rome, Italy.
Dr. Eder and Sheikh Palazzi serve as Jewish and Muslim Co-Founders and
Co-Chairmen of the Islam-Israel Fellowship (established 1997) of the Root
and Branch Association, Ltd. (established 1981) http://lowellgallin.com .
We packed our book with over 200 pages of theological antioxidants,
Qur'anic quotations and traditional Islamic commentaries thereon, which
clearly show that the Qur'an unequivocally affirms God's Land, Torah and
People Covenants with Israel.
What are those Covenants?
A. The Land Covenant: God - the God of Israel - gave the Land of Israel to
the Children of Israel.
B. The Torah Covenant: God gave His Torah to the Children of Israel.
C. The People Covenant: God chose the Children of Israel to believe in Him
and to live faithfully according to His Torah in the Land of Israel.
A1. The Land Covenant in the Qur'an - one example:
We read in chapter ten of the Qur'an, Sura Yunus, "Jonah", verse 93 (Ali
Qur'an, page 508; "Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 151):
"We [Allah/God] settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful
dwelling-place, and provided for them sustenance of the best".
Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments (Note 1474 - Ali Qur'an, page 508;
"Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 151):
"After many wanderings, the Israelites were settled in the land of Canaan,
described as 'a land flowing with milk and honey' (Exodus 3:8). They had a
prosperous land; and they were supplied with spiritual sustenance by men
sent to deliver God's message".
B1. The Torah Covenant in the Qur'an - one example:
We read in chapter five of the Qur'an, Sura Maida, "The Table", verse 44
(Ali Qur'an, pages 256-257; "Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 228):
"It was We [Allah/God] who revealed the Law (to Moses); therein was
guidance and light. By its standard have been judged the Jews, by the
Prophets who bowed (as in Islam) to God's Will, by the Rabbis and the
Doctors of Law: for to them was entrusted the protection of God's Book,
and they were witnesses thereto".
Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments (Notes 751-752 - Ali Qur'an;
"Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 228):
"(751) 'Rabbani' may, I think, be rightly translated by the Jewish title
of Rabbi for their learned men. Jewish learning is identified with
Rabbinical literature. 'Ahbar' is the plural of 'hibr' or 'habr', by which
we may understand Jewish Doctors of Law.... (752) They were living
witnesses to the truth of Scripture".
C1. The People Covenant in the Qur'an - one example:
We read in chapter two of the Qur'an, Sura Al Baqarah, "The Cow", verse 40
(Ali Qur'an, page 27; "Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 275):
"O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favor which I
[Allah/God] bestowed upon you, and fulfil your Covenant with Me
[Allah/God] as I fulfill My Covenant with you, and fear none but Me
[Allah/God]".
Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments (Note 58 - Ali Qur'an, page 27;
"Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 275):
"The appeal in made to Israel subjectively in terms of their own
tradition. You claim to be a favoured nation: have you forgotten My
[Allah/God's] favours? You claim a special Covenant with Me [Allah/God]. I
have fulfilled My [Allah/God's] part of the Covenant by bringing you out
of the land of bondage and giving you Canaan, the land 'flowing with milk
and honey'. How have you fulfilled your part of the Covenant? If you fear
Me [Allah/God], nothing else will matter".
Real peace between the Children of Israel and the Children of Ishmael in
the Land of Israel can only be based on honoring God's Land, Torah and
People Covenants with Israel, as affirmed by both the Jewish Tanach
(Israelite/Jewish Bible) and the Islamic Qur'an.
Real peace between the Children of Israel and the Children of Ishmael in
the Land of Israel will be made tribe by tribe, clan by clan and family by
family.
Please do not get nervous. We are going to rattle the theological saber
for a moment here.
We believe - Sheikh Palazzi, Dr. Eder and I - we believe that honoring
God's Land, Torah and People Covenants with Israel is a commandment, not a
"policy option". Time give to the nations to honor these covenants is not
unlimited. We hope that the leaders of the nations today will make the
right choices, in the time left for them to do so.
We rattled the theological saber for a moment. Let's continue on a
happier, here and now, subject.
Sheikh Palazzi, Dr. Eder and I hope our book helps get the word out about
Muslims, and Muslim-majority nations - yes, they exist - who are
pro-American and pro-Israel, and who respect Christians and Jews as what
the Qur'an calls the "People of the Book".
Let's call that Roll of Honor:
The ethnic Turkic, Sunni Muslim majority nations of Central Asia, the
Caucasus and the Middle East.
(Footnote: Please see "Cracking the Qur'an Code", Section Four – Central
Asia, page 351, Chapter One – "From the Bosporus to the Borders of China:
One Hundred and Twenty Eight Million, Six Hundred and Seventy Thousand
Friends - The Pro-Jewish, Pro-Israel, Ethnic Turkic, Sunni Muslim Majority
Nations of the Middle East: Turkey; the Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Central
Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan" by
Lowell Gallin. Page 353, Chapter Two – "From the Bosporus to the Borders
of China: 128 Million Muslim Friends - Time for a Turkic-Israel
Federation" by Lowell Gallin)
CENTRAL ASIA:
KAZAKHSTAN
(Muslim population 8,822,000; percentage of total Kazakh population 56.4%)
(Government of Kazakhstan)
http://en.government.kz/
(Embassy of Kazakhstan in Israel)
http://www.kazakhemb.org.il/
(Embassy of Israel in Kazakhstan)
http://astana.mfa.gov.il/mfm/web/main/missionhome.asp?LanguageID=0&Question2=&MissionID=99&MissionID=
KYRGYZSTAN
(Muslim population 4,734,000; percentage of total Kyrgyz population 86.3%)
(Government of Kyrgyzstan)
http://www.gov.kg/
(Honorary Consuls of Kyrgyzstan in Israel)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Sherut/ForeignInIsrael/Continents/Asia/Kyrgyzstan/
TAJIKISTAN
(Muslim population 5,848,000; percentage of total Tajik population 84.1%)
(Government of Tajikistan)
http://www.tjus.org/
(Footnote: Tajikistan is 65% Tajik and 25% Uzbek).
TURKMENISTAN
(Muslim population 4,757,000; percentage of total Turkmen population 93.1%)
(Government of Turkmenistan)
http://www.turkmenistan.gov.tm/_en/
(Honorary Consul of Turkmenistan in Israel)
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Sherut/ForeignInIsrael/Continents/Asia/Turkmenistan/
UZBEKISTAN
(Muslim population 26,469,000; percentage of total Uzbek population 96.3%)
(Government of Uzbekistan)
www.gov.uz/en/
(Embassy of Uzbekistan in Israel)
http://www.uzbembassy.org.il/
(Embassy of Israel in Uzbekistan)
http://israel.visahq.com/embassy/Uzbekistan/
CAUCASUS:
AZERBAIJAN
(Muslim population 8,765,000; percentage of total Azeri population 99.2%)
(Government of Azerbaijan)
http://www.president.az/?locale=en
(Embassy of Israel in Azerbaijan)
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/Israel/Israel2.html
MIDDLE EAST:
TURKEY
(Muslim population 73,619,000; percentage of total Turkish population 98.0%)
(Government of Turkey)
http://www.tccb.gov.tr/pages/
(Embassy of Turkey in Israel)
http://www.musavirlikler.gov.tr/index.cfm?dil=EN&ulke=IL
(Embassy of Israel in Turkey)
http://israel.visahq.com/embassy/Turkey/
(Footnote: People in Turkey, not Turkey's current Wahhabi/Salafi Muslim
Brotherhood ruling party).
End references to the ethnic Turkic majority nations.
We continue with our Roll of Honor:
BALKANS:
ALBANIA
(Muslim population 2,522,000; percentage of total Albanian population 79.9%)
(Government of Albania)
http://www.keshilliministrave.al/?gj=gj2
(Embassy of Albania in Israel)
http://albania.visahq.com/embassy/Israel/
AFRICA:
NIGERIA
(Muslim population 78,056,000; percentage of total Nigerian population 50.4%)
(Government of Nigeria)
http://www.nigeria.gov.ng/
(Embassy of Nigeria in Israel)
http://www.nigerianembassy.co.il/
(Embassy of Israel in Nigeria)
http://abuja.mfa.gov.il/mfm/web/main/missionhome.asp?MissionID=20397
SIERRA LEONE
(Muslim population 4,059,000; percentage of total Sierran population 71.3%)
(Government of Sierra Leone)
http://www.statehouse.gov.sl/
(Embassy of Sierra Leone in Israel)
http://sierra-leone.visahq.com/embassy/Israel/
(Footnote: Regarding escalating attacks in Africa by Muslims against
Christians. Homework: Please read, New York Post, July 19, 2010, "The
Coming Crusade: African Christians verses Islamists" by Colonel Ralph
Peters, whose endorsement appears on the back cover of "Cracking the
Qur'an Code"
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_coming_crusade_Z9uUphPo0KFvXK5i3wzlzJ
).
At this point some of you may want to ask the following two questions. If
you do not, I certainly do:
A. All those nice verses from the Qur'an you cited about God's Land, Torah
and People Covenants with Israel - what about all those nasty verses about
Jews and Christians?
B. All those nice Muslims and Muslim-majority nations, who are
pro-American, pro-Israel and who respect Christians and Jews as what the
Qur'an calls "People of the Book" - what about all those nasty Muslims,
and Muslim-majority nations, who are all doped up on Jew-hatred,
Israel-hatred and Holocaust denial, who are blowing up themselves and the
world as suicide-murderers, slicing off heads and filming the
decapitations on video? What about them?
Let's introduce two theological keys here.
Then we will turn to the Dark Side of the Force that is Islam.
A. Theological Key Number One:
All negative verses in the Qur'an about the Children of Israel, about Jews
- as with the Tanach (Israelite/Jewish Bible) - must be read within the
context of both the Qur'an's and the Tanach's affirmations of God's Land,
Torah and People Covenants with Israel.
God's Covenants with Israel are never seen as abrogated, no matter how
much the Children of Israel fail and fall. Replacement Theology - and
there have been and are streams of Replacement Theology in both
Christianity and Islam - has no place.
What about the negative comments about Christians in the Qur'an?
Same thing. The Qur'an affirms that God also made a covenant with the
Christians. He gave them a book - the Greet Testament, and a prophet -
Jesus.
B. Theological Key Number Two:
What about all those nasty Muslims and Muslim-majority nations? (Footnote:
While most Arabs are Muslims, most Muslims are not Arabs. The world's most
populous Muslim nations are Indonesia, India and Bangladesh, in that
order. Arabs constitute only twenty percent of the world's 1.3 billion
Muslims, of whom 90% are Sunni, and 10% are Shi'ite).
Well, what about all those nasty Muslims, and Muslim-majority nations?
Theological Key Number Two: A religion, any religion, will only be as good
as it's: 1. Sacred scriptures, 2. Traditions of interpretation, and 3. Who
is doing the interpreting.
Let's turn to the Dark Side of the Force that is Islam. Just for a moment.
This subject is dealt with in "Cracking the Qur'an Code" in Section Two,
Chapter Two, Address by Sheikh Palazzi to the International Conference on
Countering Suicide Terrorism, Institute for Counter Terrorism,
Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlyia, Israel, February 20-23, 2000.
Ground Zero for global "Muslim" mass murder is Riyadh, capital of "Saudi"
Arabia.
Arabia only became "Saudi" after the Al Saud Bedouin tribe, from Najd, in
northeastern Arabia:
A. Drove the Bani HaShem (Hashemites) out of Mecca and Medina, holy cities
of Islam, from 1924-26. The Hashemites had been the traditional guardians
of Mecca and Medina since the tenth century C.E.;
B. Conquered much of the rest of the Arabian peninsula;
C. Proclaimed their "kingdom" of "Saudi" Arabia in 1932.
"Saudi" Arabia's control of the holy cities of Islam in western Arabia,
and the oil producing regions of eastern Arabia, is a terribly toxic mix
of religious and economic power - a double whammy which has facilitated
the worldwide spread of their satanic tribal Wahhabi/Salafi suicide-murder
death cult.
The state religion of "Saudi" Arabia is Wahhabism.
The Al Saud Bedouin tribe adopted the Wahhabi religion in the mid-1700s.
This religion is named for its founder, Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab, who
was excommunicated by leading Sunni scholars of the day for his numerous
heresies.
Wahhabis, as they are called by Sunnis and Shi'ites, call themselves
"Salafis".
99.9% of all global "Muslim" mass murder groups are Wahhabi in theology
and "Saudi" Arabian, Kuwait and Gulf State Arab in recycled petro-dollar
profit funding.
Well known Wahhabi mass murder groups include:
A. al Qaeda, under the leadership of Osama Bin Laden (assuming he is still
alive);
B. The Muslim Brotherhood, under the leadership of Yusuf Al Qaradawi (who
is very much still alive) of Qatar;
C. Hamas, "Palestinian" branch of the international Muslim Brotherhood;
D. The Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Taliban are ethnic Pathans
(Pashtun) who follow an Indian version of Wahhabism known as Deobandism.
Deobandism is named after the city of Deoband in northern India, where
Wahhabi missionaries from Arabia set up shop at the end of the nineteenth
century.
(Footnote: There are 49 million Pathans in the world today, half up in the
mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan and half in a worldwide Pathan
Diaspora. The traditional Islam of the Pathans is a soft species of Sunni
Islam, heavily scented with Sufi mysticism. Pathan society was shattered
and pretty much destroyed during the Afghan Communist revolution of 1978
and subsequent Soviet invasion, mass murder and genocide during a decade
long occupation ending in 1988. Around 1.3 million Afghans, primarily
Pathans, were slaughtered by the Soviets, millions more were crippled and
maimed, often by mines with which the Soviets blanketed the country, and
several million more ended up fleeing the Soviet carnage to Pakistan and
Iran....Most Pathans proudly believe that they are descendants of the Lost
Ten Tribes of Israel, that they are Bani Israel (Children of Israel). My
next book, now in progress, which I hope will help awaken this slumbering
spiritual colossus, is called "Return of the Pathans").
"Saudi" Arabian, Kuwait and Gulf State financing of global Wahhabi mass
murder networks is state sponsored terrorism, from the ruling tribal crime
families on down.
90 plus percent of "Muslim" mosques, "community center" and "public
interest" groups in the West are Wahhabi outfits, financed by "Saudi"
Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf States. Potemkin Village fantasy operations,
these outfits have little or no local constituencies.
The industrial iron lungs of these global Wahhabi terror sponsoring states
- "Saudi" Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf States - are kept pumping primarily
by our own U.S. oil giants.
U.S. oil giants pay no U.S. taxes on their leviathan level foreign income
(Footnote: Look up the U.S. Oil Depletion Allowance Act of 1949) derived
from barrels of oil sold at zillions of times the real cost of production.
Doing business with "Saudi" Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf States is, in
effect, trading with the enemy during war time.
The Arab Bedouin tribal crime families ruling the global Wahhabi terror
sponsoring states - "Saudi" Arabia, Kuwait and the Gulf States - must be
removed from power, their assets seized, and their global Wahhabi mass
murder networks shut down.
We spoke before about a Roll of Honor.
Let us speak about a Debt of Honor.
We owe a Debt of Honor to stop the murder and maiming (physical and
psychological) of our soldiers in Afghanistan by the "Saudi", Kuwait and
Gulf State funded Wahhabi Taliban.
We need an American foreign policy for America, one no longer hijacked by
elements of our oil and banking establishment. An American foreign policy
for America based on faith in the God of Israel and our commitment as a
nation to honor and live faithfully according to His Noahide Covenant and
Laws http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/141085/covenant .
Let's conclude these opening remarks with:
A. Two additional positive and uplifting verses from the Qur'an, one about
Jerusalem and one about the Temple of Solomon.
B. Passages from the Tanach (Israelite/Jewish Bible), which show that from
a prophetic perspective, in the rapidly approaching Messianic Era, the
story of the conflict between Ishmael and Israel, Muslims and Jews, Arabs
and Israelis, has a happy ending/new beginning.
A1. Jerusalem in the Qur'an:
We read in chapter two of the Qur'an, Sura Al Baqarah, "The Heifer", verse
259 (Ali Qur'an, pages 104-105; "Cracking the Qur'an Code", pages
299-300):
"Or (take) the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet, all in ruin to
its roots. He said: 'Oh! How shall God bring it (ever) to life, after
(this) its death?'"
Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments (Note 304 - Ali Qur'an, page 105;
"Cracking the Qur'an Code", page 299):
"This incident is referred variously [by the traditional Muslim
commentators] (1) to Ezekiel's vision of dry bones (Ezekiel 37:1-10) (2)
to Nehemiah's visit to Jerusalem in ruins after the Captivity, and to its
rebuilding (Nehemiah 1:12-20) and (3) to 'Uzair, or Ezra, or Esdras, the
scribe, priest and reformer, who was sent by the Persian King after the
Captivity to Jerusalem, and about whom there are many Jewish legends".
A2. Temple of Solomon of Jerusalem in the Qur'an:
We read in chapter thirty four of the Qur'an, Sura Saba, "City of Saba",
verses 12-13 (Ali Qur'an, pages 1136-1137; "Cracking the Qur'an Code",
page 321):
"(12) And to Solomon...We [Allah/God] made a Font of molten brass to flow
for him; and there were Jinns that worked in front of him, by the leave of
his Lord [Allah/God]....(13) They worked for him as he desired (making)
Arches, images, Basons as large as Reservoirs, and (cooking) Cauldrons
fixed (in their places): 'Work ye, sons of David, with thanks!'"
Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali comments (Notes 3804, 3807 - Ali Qur'an,
pages 1136-1137; "Cracking the Qur'an Code", pages 322-323):
"(3804) In the Old Testament, 2 Chronicles, Chapters 3, and 4, are
described the various costly materials with which Solomon's Temple was
built, and it was furnished with vessels, candle-sticks, lamps, censers,
etc....(3807) The building of the Temple was a great event in Israelite
history. The motto here given is 'Work!' For only that would justify, the
maintenance of the kingdom of David, which reached its zenith under
Solomon. Without work, both literally and figuratively for 'righteous
deeds', all that glory & power would be out of place, and it fell away in
a few generations, with the decline of the moral spirit which was at its
back".
B1. Excerpts from the Tanach (Israelite/Jewish Bible):
Our final verses are from the Tanach (Israelite/Jewish Bible), about the
coming peace in the Middle East.
I now conclude with excerpts from the Introduction to "Cracking the Qur'an
Code", excerpted from pages 13-15:
(begin excerpt from "Cracking the Qur'an Code" Introduction...)
If you ask what "Cracking the Qur'an Code" is about, I will answer: "A
warriors' guide for the gathering global Islamic Zionist Jihad".
Hearing a response like that, you may believe that Lowell has either lost
his mind or speaks only about a "state of mind".
After reading this book we will see if you still believe that.
In the not-too-distant future, I believe that the world will hear Muslims
chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and "Am Yisrael Chai" (The People
of Israel lives). Together.
In the not-too-distant past, two brothers, Ishmael the elder and Isaac the
younger, buried Abraham their father. Together:
“And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a
hundred and threescore and fifteen years. And Abraham expired, and died in
a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his
people. AND ISAAC AND ISHMAEL HIS SONS BURIED HIM IN THE CAVE OF
MACHPELAH, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is
before Mamre; the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth;
there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife”.
Genesis 25:7-10
In the not-too-distant future, I believe that the Children of Ishmael and
the Children of Israel (Jacob/Israel - Abraham's grandson, Isaac's younger
son and Ishmael's nephew) will replant and rebuild the Lands of Arabia and
Israel, as part of a truly new Middle East. Together:
"In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria,and the
Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the
Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be
the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the
earth; for that the Lord of hosts hath blessed him, saying: 'Blessed be
Egypt My people and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel Mine
inheritance'".
Isaiah 20:23-25
In the not-too-distant future, I believe that two brothers, Nebaioth and
Kedar, Ishmael's first and second born sons, will bring offerings to the
rebuilt Third and Final Temple of Jerusalem. Together:
“Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the
Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham. And these are the names of
the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The
first-born of Ishmael, NEBAIOTH; AND KEDAR, and Adbeel, and Mibsam, and
Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa; Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedem;
these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their
villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their
nations”.
Genesis 25:12-15
“Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen
upon thee. For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness
the peoples; but upon thee the Lord will arise, and His glory shall be
seen upon thee. And nations shall walk at thy light, and kings at the
brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: They
all are gathered together, and come to thee; thy sons come from afar, and
thy daughters are born on the side. Then thou shalt see and be radiant and
thy heart shall throb and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea
shall be turned unto thee, the wealth of the nations shall come unto thee.
The caravan of camels shall cover thee, and of the young camels of Midian
and Ephah, all coming from Sheba; they shall bring gold and frankincense,
and shall proclaim the praises of the Lord. ALL THE FLOCKS OF KEDAR SHALL
BE GATHERED TOGETHER UNTO THEE, THE RAMS OF NEBAIOTH SHALL MINISTER UNTO
THEE; THEY SHALL COME UP WITH ACCEPTANCE ON MINE ALTAR, AND I WILL GLORIFY
MY GLORIOUS HOUSE".
Isaiah 60:1-7
A few years ago, I was on a Jerusalem construction site together with an
Arab foreman and his two young co-workers. The foreman spoke of the
problems plaguing Arabs and Jews in the Promised Land.
I said that a descendant of David, the King Messiah, would arise to sit on
the throne of his fathers, and that he would bring peace between Arabs and
Jews in the Promised Land.
"When?" the foreman quietly asked.
"Soon", I answered.
No one spoke. Silently, we stood together. Though we were alone on a
construction site, and I could easily have had an "accident", I felt no
fear of these Arab construction workers.
I spoke with honor and respect for King David, whom I knew they respected.
The Qur'an says that David was a prophet and a king, and the author of the
Psalms.
One day, hopefully soon, David's descendant will come, and bring peace to
the Land of Israel and the whole world.
(...end excerpt from "Cracking the Qur'an Code" Introduction)
END TEXT OF TALK BY LOWELL GALLIN ON HIS NEW BOOK, "CRACKING THE QUR'AN
CODE: GOD'S LAND, TORAH AND PEOPLE COVENANTS WITH ISRAEL IN THE QUR'AN AND
ISLAMIC TRADITION" TO Z.O.A. WESTCHESTER-ROCKLAND COUNTY CHAPTER BUSINESS
MEETING AND BREAKFAST (DR. ANNABELLE WOLFZAHN, CHAPTER PRESIDENT), SUNDAY,
JANUARY 16TH, 2011, AT WOLFZAHN HOME, SCARSDALE, NEW YORK
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