The Instrument of Light

By Dawood G. N.

Veteran Attorney abandon High position he occupied as A Christian after a research in on religion.

In this book he gives reasons for his decision to leave the Roman Catholic Church of which he was member from childhood to become a muslim.

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The Instrument of Light By Dawood G. Ngwane

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The Author of this book was born on the 30th day of March 1930 at a place called Mthandeni at the foot of Ewome Mountain in the district of Maphumulo. His parents were Bafana Augustine Joseph Ngwane and his wife Nonkomfe Resta Ngwane who were Christians of the Roman Catholic Denomination. His parents were very poor as his father was a sickly person and the task of maintaining the family fell squarely on the shoulders of his mother, a semi-educated woman who had only passed standard two.

The Author did not go to school until he reached the age of eight years because in those days there was no school in Mthandeni. He started schooling at the age of nine years at a Roman Catholic school called Saint Philomenah at Isithundu Mission Station Maphumulo where he was admitted as a boarder. He was the youngest boarder. He immediately got himself interested in church activities and at that early age joined a group of Altar boys serving under Father Lot, a long, white bearded priest who was constantly seen on horseback, with his beard flowing in the wind, visiting the outstations or attending to the management of the college.

Because of his family’s financial situation, the author was very poorly dressed and walked bare footed as he had no shoes. The first shoes he put on his foot were a pair of shoes he bought himself when he started working. He served at the Altar barefooted; this was not uncommon in those days.

At the age of eleven when he was supposed to go to standard one (grade three in today’s terms) his parents moved from Maphumulo to Inanda, at Amaoti, where he spent the whole of that year without schooling. The Amaoti Government School was nearby but his parents would not dream of sending their child to a non-Catholic school. In the following year he started schooling again, at Saint Michael’s School in Red Hill. He had to walk a long distance from Amaoti to Phoenix Railway Station to catch a 5:30am train to Red Hill daily to be at school on time. After this, he went to Saint Anthony’s in Newlands.

In the year 1945 he was compelled by circumstances to go to a non-Catholic school for the first time and he went to Amaoti Government School as a day scholar. He had just passed standard five and was registered at Amaoti for standard six. It was in that year that his mother passed away and he was forced to leave school and look for work. The death of his mother did not deter him from engaging in Church activities. He became a youth organiser for Saint Paul’s Catholic Church in Greyville at the age of twenty years and formed a Church Choir from his youth organisation of which he was Choir Master.

In 1965 he moved from Lamontville to Umlazi, where he joined the congregation of Saint Alphonse Church in “P” Section under Father Reginald Vezi (now deceased), and this is where he spent the next 20-odd years serving as Church Choirmaster for various churches in the area.

In 1989 he was elected as the chairman of the local council of an organisation known as Home and Family Life, at Saint Alphonse; and was then elevated by the Bishop of Mariannhill to the Chairmanship for the Dioceses of Mariannhill. In the following year he was appointed as one of the Trustees for Saint Mary’s Hospital.

Since the author had only passed standard five he worked first as a gardener, and later as a bicycle delivery boy. He also worked as a labourer at different places doing manual work. Through all this, though, he educated himself through private study, working hard to educate himself and his children at the same time. The end result of his effort was the attainment of a Junior Law Degree (B. Luris) which he obtained in 1979. He passed his senior law Degree (LL.B) in 1982 and his Masters Degree in Law (LL.M) in 1993.

He took an early pension from BP petroleum, where he was working as a company representative, to start his legal practice, at the age of 56, and registered a firm of attorneys, Ngwane and Ngwane, with his daughter Lindiwe, who obtained her LL.B Degree in the same year as her father. At the time he became chairman of Home and Family Life and a trustee of Saint Mary’s Hospital he was practising alone, as his daughter Lindiwe had seen greener pastures in East London, where she started her practice and her family. Today she is the National Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry and has closed her legal office in East London.

It was during the year 1994 that he began to study religion. He says that at that time, when he had become interested in studying religion, he knew nothing about Islam. He was introduced to Islam accidentally when he came across a little booklet written by Sheikh Ahmed Deedat – founder of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI) – which led him to study his religion more in order to understand it better. But the more he studied, the more he became convinced that his beliefs were baseless.

After deep soul searching, the author decided to embrace Islam. However, before he declared the shahaada (declaration that God is One and that Muhammad (shallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) was His messenger), which brings a person into the fold of Islam, he visited all his children (eight of them), who were scattered all over the country, to advise them of his decision. In January 1996 he broke the news to his Bishop at Mariannhill, and because he wanted to be quite sure that he was doing the right thing he allowed the Bishop time to convince him other wise, but the Bishop failed to even try. He finally declared the shahaada, at the IPCI offices in Durban, on 3rd March 1996, fully convinced that Muhammad is the ‘final prophet’ referred to in the Bible, in Deuteronomy 18 verse 18.

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List of Contents Page

Title

Open Order

About The Author

Preface To The English Version

Introduction

PART ONE

That Prophet

Who Was Prophet Muhammad (Shallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam)?

The Comforter

PART TWO

The Trinity

The Gospel Of John

Believe It Or Not

Jesus (‘alaihis salam), The Messenger Of God

Did Jesus Come To Die For Our Sins?

Was Jesus Crucified?

PART THREE

Belief Or Religion?

Who Was Paul?

The Instrument Of Light

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Christianity is supposed to be the religion founded by Jesus (peace be upon him). And the four Gospels are supposed to be a record of his teachings and the basis of Christianity. However, research undertaken by various scholars, including Christian scholars, clearly reveal that the religion established by Jesus disappeared a short while after him, and was dealt a final blow by the Edict of the Emperor Constantine in the year 325 AD, which entrenched the doctrine of the Trinity God.

In the four Gospels, which form the basis of Christian theology, allegedly made by Jesus, there is not a single statement by Jesus explaining the doctrine of Trinity. Nor do we find any statement by any of his disciples expounding this doctrine. Christianity is the only religion which does not have its cardinal beliefs and doctrines clearly explained in its books. And its champions, who try to explain the doctrines, will always say “it is a mystery of God”. They say this because they themselves do not understand the doctrine of their faith.

Before I embraced Islam in 1996 I visited a Roman Catholic priest, Reverend Father Doncabe, who had offered to assist me understand Christianity in order to stop me from embracing Islam. I found the priest seated behind a huge desk with three Bibles opened in different places. He stood up as I entered and came forward to shake my hand. As he held my hand he said: “Mr NGWANE, before we begin our talk we must agree on something.” I asked, still holding his hand, “and what is that?” He said “that we as Christians believe in the Bible as the word of God and we also believe in the Doctrine of the Church”.

I was puzzled because I thought the Doctrine of the Church would be based on the Bible. I did not know that the doctrine of the church was something apart from the Bible and I asked: “Is the doctrine of the church different from what is in the bible?” “Yes”, confessed the priest. “There are matters which are not in the Bible which we believe in because the church tells us to believe in, which are the doctrine of the church”. “Like what for example?” I prodded. “Like the doctrine of the Trinity” said the priest. “This doctrine you cannot find anywhere in the Bible but we believe in it because it is the doctrine of the church”.

I was actually shocked to hear this; I began to think of the millions of people, clever people all over the world, doctors in the various academic professions, professors, lawyers and academics who are clinging onto something that does not exist. The priest could see the shock on my face and he emphasised “you can read your Bible from the first to the last page and you will not find that God is a Trinity”. “Then where do you get it from?” I asked. “As I told you, it is the Doctrine of the Church” responded the priest. “Where does the Church get it from?” I insisted. “We do not ask where the Church gets its doctrine from; as Christians we believe in what the Church teaches without asking such questions.” I actually said “but that is stupid”. These words escaped from my lips and I quickly checked myself and without apologising said: “Well you have admitted defeat before we have even started because I have come to argue that God is not a Trinity. If your doctrine has no basis how are you going to convince me that God is a Trinity?”

I do not believe that any priest or Bishop could have done better than Father Doncabe, for no priest or Bishop will be able to show where in the Bible Jesus said that God is a trinity and that He himself was part of that Trinity. The best any priest or Bishop will do is to quote from Paul, who is called ‘the apostle’; for it is Paul who is the architect of present day Christianity and is therefore their source of reference..

WHO WAS PAUL?
Paul was a Jew born in Tarsus, a City in Cecilia. He was a Roman citizen. His original name was Saul and he was an avowed enemy of the disciples and followers of Jesus (‘alaihis salam) and persecuted the Christians.

One day, on his way to Damascus, something happened to him which changed his life and his attitude towards the Christians. From the day of that incident Saul changed his name to Paul and he, without informing the disciples of his new faith, began to preach the Gospel, for he says in his letter to the Galatians:

“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mothers womb and called me by his Grace to reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathens immediately, I conferred not with flesh and blood; neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and returned again into Damascus. Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days.”

We read in the Bible that when Paul received his sight “straight away he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the son of god” and I ask: where did Paul learn what he was preaching about? Having been an avowed enemy of the Church what did he know about the teachings of Christ?

A quick answer will come from Christian theologians and they will tell me that Paul was inspired; for did Jesus not appear to Ananias in a vision and tell him that Paul is “a chosen vessel unto me”, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and Kings and the children of Israel!

(Acts 9:15)

This would be a valid answer if Paul was preaching the Gospel of Jesus, but Paul came with a different Gospel from that which the disciples preached and which Jesus preached. Paul is boastful of the fact that his Gospel is a different Gospel which, he claims, was revealed to him by Jesus.

“But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (Galatians 1:11-12)

But the question remains, if his Gospel was revealed to him by Jesus why then is it completely different from what Jesus taught? Jesus said he had not come to destroy the law and he says:

“Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven: But whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven” (Matthew 5:19)

And Paul says:

“Before the faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith, but after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.” (Galatians 3:23-25)

According to Paul the Law was meant to guide man towards faith in Jesus. In other words the Law was meant to remain only for a certain period of time. But Jesus says:

“For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall not be taken away from the law, till the law is fulfilled.” (Matthew 5:18)

Who, then, does Paul follow? Jesus!? Why then differ from his teachings? Even after Jesus had gone away from this world his disciples continued preaching what he had taught them. Peter, who was their leader, once in a lecture to the Jews, said:

“Ye Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God, with mighty works and wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst, as you yourself know” (Acts 2:22)

In this lecture Peter was inviting Jews to Christianity, and he says clearly that Jesus was an ordinary man who God used to do wonders. He does not say Jesus performed wonders because he was God but he says God did wonders through him.

If Paul was inspired by Jesus why would he go all out to destroy the church Jesus established and create his own church.

When I heard about the new theory, which I referred to earlier, of “Jesus and two Gospels”, I sat there with my ears wide open, listening to this new theory. I had never heard it before and I tried to mentally page through the Bible to see where it had come from and my mind dwelt on Paul.

One may not say by reading the Gospel of Matthew that Jesus brought another Gospel. The following is recorded therein:

“Go ye therefore and preach to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commended you, and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world”(Matthew 28:19-20)

In another place we read that Jesus sent forth his disciples and commanded them saying: “Go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritan enter ye not. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel – And as ye go preach saying, the Kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 10:5-7)

What is very clear is that:-

1.In Matthew 10:5 Jesus commands his disciples to go out preaching to Jews only.

2.In Matthew 28:19-20 Jesus sent the same disciples to preach to all nations but he makes two very important statements: The first is that they must teach (the nations) TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT HE HAD TAUGHT THEM (the disciples). The second is that he (Jesus) is with them (the disciples) always “even unto the end of the world.”.

Now which is the new Gospel? The message the disciples have to carry to all nations is the same message Jesus gave them to preach to the Jews. If Jesus had another Gospel for the Gentiles he would not command his disciples to teach them (the nations) to observe all things that he (Jesus) had commanded (the Jews) to observe.

You must now understand why my mind dwelt on Paul as I mentally paged through the Bible before my visitors. For the Gospel I know to be different from the Gospel of Jesus is the Gospel preached by Paul, which is the Gospel preached by all Christian preachers all over the world.

You say Paul’s Gospel is the Gospel of Jesus!? He himself confirms that his Gospel is different from the Gospel preached by the disciple of Jesus. You see, after the departure of Jesus from this world his disciples continued to preach, as ordered by their master. At that time Paul started preaching and spreading his new religion and the people were confused because both groups claimed to be preaching the Gospel of Jesus.

Paul warns the Corinthians:

“For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye received another Spirit which we have not received or another gospel which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” (2 Corinthians)
To the Galatians he says:

“I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the Grace of Christ (meaning himself) unto another gospel, which is not another Gospel, but there are some (the disciples) that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel; of Christ. But though we, or an angel from Heaven preach any other gospel unto you let him be accused as we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accused.” (Galatians 1:6-9)

It is clear from the above quotations that Paul’s Gospel is a different Gospel; that he is all out to win followers for himself and his new religion. The disciples of Jesus; Peter, Barnabas and the others; fall under the group preaching “another Gospel”. How can Paul be preaching the Gospel of Jesus? Wherever he goes he makes a point of warning the people to follow him and his teachings and he in his own words says that his Gospel is not the Gospel preached by others (the others being the disciples).

“For” he says “I neither received it (the gospel) of man, neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ” (Galatians 1:12)

He warns the Corinthians

“Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me” (1 Corinthians 4:16)

He is worried that people are divided, some follow his teachings and others the teachings of the disciples of Jesus and he urges the Corinthians:

“…that you speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement.”

And further he states:

“…some of you say I am of Paul and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas (Cephas is Peter) and I of Christ”

But who has caused this division?! If it is true that the voice that spoke to Saul on his way to Damascus was the voice of Jesus I have these questions in my mind:-

1.Why would Jesus promise his disciples that he is with them always even unto the end of the world knowing that he is going to instruct Saul, an avowed enemy to grow new furthers and become a “very special disciple” who has been chosen to bring a new message for the Gentiles?

2.What did Jesus mean when he said “Whosoever shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven”!?

We, Muslims, believe in the Gospel of Jesus (known as Injeel) and we believe in all that Jesus (Esa ‘alaihis salam) taught. But we do not agree with the contaminated Gospel where men have changed the word of God, as preached by Jesus, to suit themselves. Jesus like all the other prophets of God brought one message, which has not changed from generation to generation. There is no different message for a certain tribe or nation, all nations were created by God Almighty and He alone is worthy of worship and all nations, of all colours and hues, were created by him. “THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE GOD”

Many writers who have written about Paul, including Christian theologians have expressed the view that the founder of present day Christianity is Paul; not without reason, for, as I have shown, Paul’s teachings are not those of Jesus or his disciples.

Looking at the incompatibility of Paul’s teachings with the teachings of Jesus and Paul’s attitude towards the disciples, one is left with the question: whose voice did Paul hear on his way to Damascus? He says the voice was that of Jesus, But was it!? What proof is there to show that the voice he heard was that of Jesus? Why must we believe him? I don’t believe nor do I have reason to believe that after the ascension of Jesus, God has ever allowed him to come back to this world or that his voice was ever heard by Paul or any body else. I believe that the only time Jesus will come back will be near the end of the world, as both Christians and Muslims believe.

If Paul did hear the voice and the voice did mention the name of Jesus, I leave it to you to figure out whose voice it could have been. If a person shouts your name in the dark and only his voice is heard it does not follow that because that person mentioned your name then it was you who spoke.

I invite you to read your Bible starting from Acts:

You will observe that the activities of the different disciples or apostles are mentioned up to Acts 15. From Acts 16 onwards you will find only the name of Paul; why do you think this is so? Read Acts 15 and you will find the reason for Paul’s defiance, which caused him to break away from the body of the disciples in Jerusalem to go and establish his headquarters in Rome, which is to this day the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, the Papal seat.

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