“As for the man who is weak in faith, welcome him… One believes he may eat anything, while the weak man eats only vegetables.”[1]
What does faith have to do with food? A lot! Remember that God’s messages serve the purpose of proving the existence of the invisible world. In that world, vegetables represent logicae, and the animal world represents ethicae. God is pleased when both logicae and ethicae are “consumed.” It is self-evident that someone who relies only on logicae but avoids ethicae (love) will be weak in faith. There is a well-known biblical story about Cain, who was a farmer, and Abel, who was a shepherd. When they offered the fruits of their labor to God, without any obvious reason, God did not favor Cain’s gift but accepted Abel’s offering. Shepherding in the invisible world symbolizes the cultivation of ethicae in the world we live in, and this gives the story a completely different meaning.
“Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.”[2]
For the Day of Judgment, a message like this has been sent. On the Day of Judgment, it will be necessary to understand the invisible world. For a person to be capable of this, they must possess extensive knowledge about the material world. If I perceive logicae (knowledge) as plants, then it becomes clear what has ripened on Earth in this era. Humanity has acquired enough logic-based knowledge about the material world to interpret the invisible world with it.
“And when they assume authority, they strive throughout the land to spread mischief in it and destroy crops and cattle…”[3]
Tyrants rule by altering the perceptions in the minds of their subjects and by imposing their own logicae and ethicae (plants and animals) upon them.
“Do not, for the sake of food, destroy the work of God… It is right not to eat meat… or do anything that makes your brother stumble… The faith that you have, keep between yourself and God.”[4]
Indeed, ethicae (meat) are more dear to God than logicae, but at the same time, He says that this should not be a reason to impose terror on others. What sense would an instruction not to eat meat and especially keep this belief from others make if its true meaning was not that meat should be understood as ethicae (the animal world)? And why are ethicae more pleasing to God? Because only in the animal world (ethicae within reason) can awareness of the invisible world and genuine faith develop.
“And ˹remember˺ when you said, ‘O Moses! We cannot endure the same meal ˹every day˺. So ˹just˺ call upon your Lord on our behalf, He will bring forth for us some of what the earth produces of herbs, cucumbers, garlic, lentils, and onions.’ Moses scolded ˹them˺, ‘Do you exchange what is better for what is worse?…'”[5]
Moses certainly taught the people about love, but they did not want it. This explains the view that plants are – an inferior food.
I shall repeat. It is possible to conceive the organic cosmos as a cosmos analogous to the inorganic cosmos. The condition for this is to perceive hereditary material as matter and organic molecules as the energy of that cosmos. Knowledge becomes analogous to the visible part of the inorganic cosmos, while organic mass, as energy, becomes invisible. The highest achieved level of bodily structure among living beings on Earth is the structure of the human body. In the cosmos of knowledge, this level is analogous to planet Earth. In this comparison, the Earth’s core corresponds to internal organs, the layer of liquid metal around the core is analogous to the central nervous system (the vegetative system, which represents plant life within us). The solid inner layer of the Earth corresponds to the human skeleton. The soft layer between the mantle and the crust, along which continents slide and from which volcanoes erupt, corresponds to the endocrine glands, the Earth’s crust corresponds to muscles, the waters correspond to the somatic nervous system, the gaseous envelope – the atmosphere – is analogous to the structure of the brain. The ozone layer, which regulates temperature in the atmosphere, is analogous to the exocrine glands. The thermal energy possessed by the Earth, which moves through all layers, is analogous to blood circulation, which also carries “energy” – blood – to all parts of the human body. In the atmosphere (brain), life has developed, consisting of plants (logicae) and animals (ethicae). Through the exceptional development of ethicae (animals), more complex multicellular beings develop within reason. This structure allows for the development of the brain. Since we know the principle, nothing prevents us from conceiving logicae and ethicae as plants and animals and, further, from observing them through a perspective in which their hereditary material appears as a distinct cosmos, and each individual plant and animal as a celestial body whose matter consists of knowledge within its cells, and whose energy consists of its organic-chemistry-based structure. Thus, we are indirectly able to imagine our logicae and ethicae as an inorganic cosmos. On more complex, “multicellular” ethicae (animals) – which, in this sense, can be perceived as planet Earth – new life emerges.
Jesus and all the figures mentioned in the Revelations belong to the invisible world. In that world, I perceive Jesus – as a highly developed being with his own brain – as a planet with life on it.
That Jesus is a “resident” of the brain is confirmed by the following quote:
“And they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).”[6]
Jesus is within the brain. He is an ethica that has evolved to its highest level (the human body) and, as such, has become aware of the world of knowledge (the invisible world) to which it belongs, due to possessing a brain and life within it. This is a story for you from that being (Jesus) within my reason about the invisible world.
This story places both me and this time in a unique position. This is the “day” of understanding the invisible world, and thus the Holy Books. The Holy Books call this day – the Day of Judgment. The Book says that it is:
“˹Watch for˺ the Day ˹when˺ the earth will be changed into a different earth and the heavens as well…”[7]
“On that Day the earth will recount everything, having been inspired by your Lord ˹to do so˺.”[8]
At least 1,000,000,000 people believe that the Earth will truly speak. The Holy Books do not lie. The Earth will indeed speak, but it will not be the inorganic Earth upon which the followers of the Holy Books walk. I am that Earth that will speak on that (this) day.
As long as our reason has not evolved to the point where the beings within it become aware of the reality to which they belong (the cosmos where knowledge is matter and which is invisible to our eyes), true interpretation of the Holy Books and genuine belief in God and the invisible world are out of the question.
Islamic theologians say that the invisible worlds (Ghayb) truly exist. According to them, these worlds are inaccessible to the human mind, reason, senses, and science. Man cannot comprehend God and His laws. When believers asked Imam Ali about God’s decree and man’s effort to understand it, he replied:
“It is a dark path – do not thread upon it, it is a deep ocean – do not dive in it, and it is the secret of Allah – do not take trouble about (knowing) it.”[9]
Why is the “deep ocean” a good comparison? Let us return to the Model of the invisible world. The invisible world is a real cosmos in which matter consists of the hereditary material of all living beings, and energy is their organic structure. The invisible world is analogous in its origin and evolution to the inorganic cosmos. Forces analogous to those in the inorganic cosmos operate in it. The spatiotemporal arrangement of hereditary material is analogous to the spatiotemporal arrangement of inorganic matter in the corresponding cosmos. The invisible cosmos is described in parables within God’s Revelations. The Day of Judgment is the moment when these parables will be correctly interpreted. That is why the guidance of Imam Ali and other theologians – “Do not dive into” the interpretation of God’s decree – was useful. Until now, the entire body of human knowledge has been insufficient for interpreting the parables in the Holy Books. It is impossible to interpret these parables without understanding the theory of relativity, quantum theory, the theory of evolution of the living world, the theory of the origin and evolution of the cosmos, the Solar System, and the Earth. On Earth, the “harvest is indeed fully ripe”. A “ripe harvest” implies the existence of mature plants (wheat). According to the Model, plants are analogous to logicae, so a “ripe harvest” means the same as mature, highly evolved knowledge. Humanity has indeed gathered enough knowledge to interpret the parables in God’s Revelations. But knowledge alone is not enough. It is dead without understanding. The Book says:
“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.“[10]
The Day of Judgment has arrived. The instruction “do not take trouble about knowing God’s laws” no longer applies. The parables in the Holy Books are no longer incomprehensible. One could say that they are exceptionally simple. Understanding the meaning of the words used in parables – waters, seas, oceans – is the cornerstone for interpreting all other parables. The word “wave” evokes in us an association with the sea. The word wave can also remind us of energy – a wave of energy.
SEA = WAVE = ENERGY. Waters and seas in the Holy Books mean energy.
Moses says in the Qur’an:
“I will never give up until I reach the junction of the two seas, even if I travel for ages.”[11]
“He merges the two bodies of ˹fresh and salt˺ water, yet between them is a barrier they never cross.“[12]
Theologians believe that the verse refers to two seas on Earth. Why would Moses want to find the place where two seas meet? It’s not about two seas on Earth, but rather about the meeting point of two worlds, the visible and the invisible, two energies, two cosmoses, the cosmos of inorganic matter and the cosmos of hereditary material. Moses was searching for the very same thing that all scientists today are still searching for. They seek the point of contact between spirit and body.
Regarding the two witnesses the Book foretells for the Day of Judgment, the Book says:
“They have power over the waters to turn them into blood…”[13]
Let us return to the Model of the invisible world, in which the human body is analogous to planet Earth. In that Model, the energy possessed by planet Earth is analogous to the circulatory system in the human body. The Model allows us to convert energy = water into blood.
“But one of the soldiers pierced his (Jesus’) side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.”[14]
The description of Jesus’ blood and water flowing out is a symbol-based depiction of a person dying, that is, the release of life energy (water = blood) from him.
“The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, till I put thy enemies under thy feet.”[15]
This means the same as – until a being conscious of the cosmos of knowledge develops on the planet built from their hereditary material. That is how Jesus will “walk on them”.
“Christ is a rock.”[16]
“Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.”[17]
We no longer see this as an abstraction but as a science-supported reality. Take a look at the Model EARTH = BODY. From within Jesus (JESUS = EARTH = ROCK), volcanoes will erupt. It is well known that during Earth’s formation, volcanic activity gave rise to the atmosphere, oceans, and indirectly, life itself. The formation of highly developed ethicae, the body of Jesus on my hereditary material, is the same as the formation of the Earth. Immediately after that, from that Earth – Jesus – “water will flow”, that is, the matter from which organic molecules, energy, will be formed, which again means “living water” from which the cosmos of hereditary material within Jesus will be created.
“‘Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued as they were from the beginning of creation.’ They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water…”[18]
Here is the confirmation of the cosmos of hereditary material, the cosmos of knowledge that has been “invisible” until now. That is what the living world is – “the heavens created long ago”.
I claim that Jesus will appear within us. Faith is the proof.
“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God… every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God.”[19]
It is not said – Jesus Christ had a body like other people – but rather – Jesus came in the flesh. The way I interpret the expected coming of Jesus is fully aligned with the true and unambiguous meaning of that statement. Jesus Christ truly came in the flesh, in my flesh, on my hereditary material.
“‘How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?’ … it would be for a time, two times, and half a time… all these things would be accomplished.”[20]
Time is something that characterizes the cosmos. Time begins with the creation of the cosmos. The three times refer to the three cosmoses, one inorganic as we perceive it, and two organic (which are made inorganic by the knowledge encoded in DNA). The first organic cosmos is life on Earth, the second organic cosmos are logicae and ethicae understood as life on hereditary material.
Half a time refers to life in Christ. That life consists of new logicae and ethicae, i.e., plants and animals on Jesus’ hereditary material.
The development of the cosmos in Christ is not complete – half a time. This is the phase of development following the emergence of consciousness in the cosmos of knowledge. According to the Model, the “arrangement of the heavens” looks like this:
- The inorganic cosmos that we see in the sky. The Earth also belongs to this cosmos.
- The inorganic cosmos in which the matter is my hereditary material and the hereditary material of all living beings, and the energy (radiation) is the organic molecules from which my body and the bodies of all living beings are constructed.
- The inorganic cosmos, similar to the previous one, in which logicae and ethicae should first be understood as plants and animals, because that is truly what they are, and then the hereditary material in their cells should be understood as matter, and their structure as the energy of that cosmos.
- Life in Jesus.
- “The sea is no more.”
“Thanks be to God from Whose gaze one heaven does not hide another, nor one earth another.”[21]
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away… But according to his promise we wait for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.”[22]
Thanks be to God, the time has come when our gaze is no longer confined to a single heaven and Earth, and when we can “see” the existence of others like them. The only truly new heavens are those created from the hereditary material of plants and animals from Jesus’ hereditary material. These heavens are truly “in Jesus”, and because he is a highly developed ethica, the new heavens are indeed “where righteousness dwells.”
“And all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts…”[23]
Kidneys[24] and hearts are not examined only by doctors. It is impossible to understand all of this without reflecting on the Model Earth = Human, where the parts of the body take on new meaning, and their interrelations really need to be examined. These words mean – “That I am he who examines the structure of the Earth, its origin and development, life upon it, and everything that affects that life, in order to understand how the body and spirit of living beings function.” This kind of thinking shaped my logicae and ethicae – the body of Jesus.
“Though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.”[25]
“Come to him (Jesus), to that living stone…”[26]
The Model of the invisible world truly allows us to describe a human being with the phrase – “living stone.” What is, in essence, a stone in the living world is knowledge, hereditary material (the matter of the invisible inorganic cosmos). This enables us to “know” Christ in another way, not only physically.
“He who does not eat His Flesh and does not drink His Blood cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”[27]
This statement scandalized the Jews and became the foundation of their disbelief. Modern psychologists interpret this as cannibalism. And yet, this is the plain truth. It is necessary to understand Christ as a rock, a planet, his reason as the life on that planet, the blood of Christ as the energy of that planet, the body of Christ as the structure of that planet, and to recognize that life on Earth was, in its evolution, truly dependent on the energy of the planet (the blood of Christ) and that it was indeed built from atoms that belonged to the Earth (the body of Christ). From that point on, it all becomes one truth, encoded in the most ingenious way possible. Take a look at the Model.
“He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.”[28]
The same Model applies here. Those who live in Christ walk upon him – the planet, and for there to be life in Jesus – it is necessary to nourish one’s reason with the word of God.
“Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? – unless indeed you fail to meet the test!”[29]
“The kingdom of God is within you.”[30]
The maximum development of ethicae (animals) within my reason is the structure of the human body and brain, in which a new reason (life) is formed and developed. This is life in Christ – the kingdom of God within us. The Holy Book says that Paradise is as vast as the heavens and the Earth. Without the level of development of reason in which beings on our hereditary material become conscious, that is, without life in Jesus, there is no understanding of the word of God, and thus no faith nor goodness within us.
“I am the door; if any one enters by me, he will be saved…”[31]
“Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way which he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh…”[32]
The only path to a life independent of the events in the, so far, only known inorganic cosmos is through the development of the body and reason of Jesus. Neither our organic molecules, nor our hereditary material, nor the organic structure of living beings on our hereditary material are completely independent of the forces governing the inorganic cosmos. But life in Jesus Christ, because it is separated from the inorganic cosmos by an entire cosmos, the cosmos of the hereditary material of living beings on Earth, is absolutely independent of physical events in our inorganic cosmos.
“If you can penetrate beyond the realms of the heavens and the earth, then do so. ˹But˺ you cannot do that without ˹Our˺ authority.”[33]
Only life has the ability to penetrate beyond the boundaries of the inorganic cosmos. That penetration is the entry into a new cosmos – the cosmos of hereditary material.
“God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.”[34]
“…He lavished (grace) upon us. For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.”[35]
The Model unambiguously explains the way in which we can envision life in Jesus. Life consists of plants and animals. Their hereditary material can be imagined as a cosmos. Thus, through the presence of life in Christ, an entire “inorganic” cosmos is also present, together with the Earth and the life upon it.
“It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me[36]…
Christ will be honored in my body[37]… ” Apostle Paul
“He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.”[38]
The Apostle Paul says that he died “according to the law”, but that Christ lives in him. The life of Christ within reason is essentially “life within life”. We easily resolve this illogicality by recognizing that the new life does not occur in parallel with the “old” one. It can only exist in a new cosmos, in which the relationship with the “old” life is represented by the transformation of a part of that “old” life, its hereditary material, into the non-living matter of the new invisible cosmos. This transformation makes sense only when it is used to explain reason. The “death” involved in this transformation is an illusion. Nothing truly dies, rather, it is “transformed” into a non-living cosmos so that the phenomenon of reason can be explained. Paul says: “My desire is to depart and be with Christ“.[39]
“Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus.”[40]
“And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.”[41]
What is it that people will long for? They will long for the creation and development of new life on the hereditary material of their most developed ethicae, or, which is the same, the creation and development of their consciousness of the invisible world. In this way, the ethicae that live on their hereditary material “die” by transforming into the inorganic cosmos of their hereditary material, that is, into the new invisible world.
Physical death of our body is by no means the moment of attaining any kind of consciousness.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (grave), to which you are going.[42]
“He who fights that Allah’s Word (i.e. Islam) should be superior, fights in Allah’s Cause.”[43]
“Never say that those martyred in the cause of Allah are dead – in fact, they are alive! But you do not perceive it.”[44]
Muslims say that the one who fights to make Allah’s word victorious and loses their life in that path is a shahid (martyr). The understanding of the Model of the invisible world gives us the ability to say now, on the Day of Judgment: “Yes, the shuhada are alive – and we know this! A shahid is not a dead man, but an awakened one.” A shahid is someone who, guided by God’s will and God’s words from the Revelations, attains awareness of the invisible world. At that moment, new logicae and ethicae are born within his reason – and that means: new life. If you’ve carefully read my interpretation of the invisible world, it should be clear to you how it is possible to say that the body of an awakened man, who is undoubtedly alive, is dead. The Model truly provides an interpretation for all previously incomprehensible messages from God’s Revelations. Neither organic molecules nor our hereditary material are any more alive than the planet Earth we walk upon.
“…But the Hereafter is indeed the real life, if only they knew.”[45]
“But no! In fact, you love this fleeting world, and neglect the Hereafter.”[46]
And “the Hereafter” is not a world one enters after physical death. It is the world in which all of us already exist, the invisible world of hereditary material, and people truly know nothing about that world, and they neglect it. To be a believer means the same as striving to gain awareness of the invisible world, in the faith that God’s Revelations provide proof of its existence and instructions for understanding it. Expanding one’s knowledge of spiritual reality by contemplating the creation of the heavens and the Earth is proof of our concern for the invisible world, and for ourselves as part of that world. Our ethicae are no longer a matter of altruism, but proof that we have understood the laws of the invisible world. Reason without ethicae is the same as Earth without animals.
The development of our logicae and ethicae is in no way conditioned by religious affiliation. Every person, regardless of their religious background, when they reach the necessary level of development of their logicae and ethicae (when Jesus is fully formed within them), will firmly believe in the existence of the invisible cosmos of knowledge. When they see that both the Christian and Islamic Holy Books carry the same message, and when they come to firmly believe in the One God, accepting the interpretations that opposed Islam and Christianity as misconceptions, the hatred and hostility imposed over centuries will be torn down within them.
“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances…”[47]
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.”[48]
Faith is the proof. The quote says that “the sons will be revealed in us” (life) and that this is to be expected.
“So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman… Then the man said, ‘This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.’ … and they become one flesh.”[49]
“Glory be to the One Who created all ˹things in˺ pairs – ˹be it˺ what the earth produces, their genders, or what they do not know!”[50]
“For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants… This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God…”[51]
Take a look at the Model EARTH = HUMAN BODY. A man and a woman have the ability to create new lives, their children, from a specific part of their bodily structure. The Earth, built from the hereditary material of a human, likewise possesses the ability to create living beings from the substance of its own body. The body and brain, or the Earth and the atmosphere, are the “parents” of all logicae and ethicae, that is, the plants and animals of the invisible world. The description of Adam and Eve and their descendants, based on symbols, is no longer a weak point in proving that the Bible is the originally transmitted word of God. Through the Model of the invisible world, it becomes clear that the description of Adam and Eve is in fact a description of the Earth, made of hereditary material, and the life upon it. In this interpretation, Adam is the symbol describing the solid part of the Earth (the human body), and Eve is the symbol describing the atmosphere (the human brain). The Holy Books indicate this by suggesting the presence of gender both within us and in what we do not know. If, according to my claim, Adam is the same as the Earth, and Eve is the same as the atmosphere, then the claims in the Holy Books that Eve was made from Adam’s rib no longer contain anything that is incomprehensible to the human mind. Indeed, the atmosphere (Eve) was made from material expelled by volcanoes from parts of the Earth (Adam) that, according to the Model EARTH = HUMAN BODY, are analogous to the skeleton of the human body (Adam’s rib). Adam could truly say of Eve, “This is bone of my bones”, just as one could say of the atmosphere, “This is matter from the material that was inside the Earth, in the layer we call the mantle”.
Take another look at the quote about the creation of Eve. It is commonly said that Eve was made from Adam’s rib. But with careful reading, you will notice that this is only partially true. Eve was created from Adam’s flesh just as much as from his rib, and God closed the place from which He took the material from which Eve was made with flesh. The analogy with the formation of the atmosphere from the Earth’s inner layers is now complete.
The atmosphere was not formed only from material in the Earth’s mantle. Volcanoes eject matter from the molten layer of the Earth, the asthenosphere, which lies between the mantle (the skeleton) and the crust (the muscles – flesh), and whose composition is a molten mixture of those two layers (rib and flesh). Furthermore, after a volcanic eruption, the crater closes and becomes part of the crust (flesh). This is a description of the event that is described in the Holy Books as the closing with flesh of the opening in Adam’s body from which God took the material from which He later created Eve. Remember, culture is founded on symbols.
“Let people then consider what they were created from! ˹They were˺ created from a spurting fluid, stemming from between the backbone and the ribcage.”[52]
“And ˹remember˺ when your Lord brought forth from the loins of the children of Adam their descendants…”[53]
The liquid expelled between the mantle (the spine – skeleton) and the crust (the chest – muscles) is volcanic lava. From that mass, life was indirectly created. Adam and Eve cannot be anything other than “one body” (Earth and atmosphere; body and brain), and there is no longer any need to interpret this unity as an emotional bond caused by God’s will.
The word Adam means (in Hebrew) = made of the earth (which fits), and comes from the word Adamah = Earth.
The word Eve means (in Hebrew) = mother of all living.
It does not say mother of all living in vain. If it had referred only to her offspring, God would have said “of all people”.
In the Qur’an, Eve’s analogous name is Hawwa. The word Hawwa in Arabic means = air. (This can be understood in this way: air = atmosphere, and Eve (Hawwa) is, according to the Model, precisely the symbol for the atmosphere.)
The story of Abraham’s descendants is tied to two women. The Book refers to them as – the slave and the free woman. Abraham had “children”, heirs, with both. The children of the free woman are “God’s children”, for they belong to “the kingdom of heaven”. The children of the slave are the kind of children we have known until now. What makes her “enslaved” is that she is, bodily, a woman and belongs to this world. She is not “one flesh” with Abraham.
“About this time I will return and Sarah shall have a son.”[54]
The foretold arrival of Jesus “about this time” was fulfilled in me, on my hereditary material. This happened in Sarajevo. The similarity to the word Sarah[55] becomes even stronger when I tell you that the name Sarajevo originates from the word Saray[56]. And the fact that the founder of the city of Sarajevo was Isa-beg[57] (Isa = Jesus) ceases to be a coincidence after the Day of Judgment.
[1] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Romans 14:1-2
[2] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Revelation 14:15
[3] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-Baqarah (The Cow), 205
[4] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Romans 14:20-22
[5] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-Baqarah (The Cow), 61
[6] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Mark 15:22
[7] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Ibrahim (Abraham), 48
[8] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Az-Zalzalah (The Earthquake), 4-5
[9] Sayings of Imam Ali, Hadith 264, as cited at https://sayingsofimamali.com
[10] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Matthew 9:37
[11] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-Kahf (The Cave), 60
[12] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Ar-Rahman (The Beneficent), 19-20
[13] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Revelation 11:6
[14] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), John 19:34
[15] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Mark 12:36
[16] A reference to the quote: “For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.” The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), 1 Corinthians 10:4
[17] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), John 7:38
[18] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), 2 Peter 3:4-5
[19] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), 1 John 4:1-2
[20] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Daniel 12:6-7
[21] Nahj al-Balagha, The Wisdom and Eloquence of Ali, Sermon 171
[22] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), 2 Peter 3:10-13
[23] The Bible, King James Version, Revelation 2:23. “Reins” is an old English word for kidneys.
[24] “Reins” is an old English word for kidneys.
[25] The Bible, King James Version, 2 Corinthians 5:16
[26] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), 1 Peter 2:4
[27] The Writings of St. Francis of Assisi, Letter to all the faithful, tr. by Paschal Robinson, (1905), at sacred-texts.com, (according to passages from the Bible John 6:53-54; Matthew 5:20, 7:21)
[28] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), John 13:18
[29] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), 2 Corinthians 13:5
[30] The Bible, King James Version, Luke 17:21
[31] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), John 10:9
[32] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Hebrews 10:19-20
[33] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-Rahman (The Beneficent), 33
[34] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), 1 John 5:11
[35] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Ephesians 1:8-10
[36] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Galatians 2:20
[37] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Philippians 1:20
[38] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Mark 12:27
[39] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Philippians 1:23
[40] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Timothy 1:1
[41] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Revelation 9:6
[42] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Ecclesiastes 9:10
[43] Sahih al-Bukhari, Muhammad al-Bukhari, Book 52, Hadith 65
[44] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-Baqarah (The Cow), 154
[45] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-‘Ankabut (The Spider), 64
[46] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection), 20-21
[47] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Ephesians 2:13-15
[48] The Bible, King James Version, Romans 8:18-19
[49] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Genesis 2:21-24
[50] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Ya-sin (Ya Sin), 36
[51] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Romans 9:6-8
[52] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, At-Tariq (The Nightcommer), 5-7
[53] The Clear Quran, translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Al-A’raf (The Heights), 172
[54] The Bible, Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952 (RSV-C), Romans 9:9
[55] Hebrew, meaning: princess, noblewoman
[56] Turkish, meaning: palace, mansion, or government seat
[57] The word “beg” is a Turkic title of nobility