My Encounter with Mormons

As Salaam Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,

Today, what can I say about it? It has been hard. So, when a pair of Mormons knocked on my father in-laws door I dismissed them quite forcefully. After a few minutes I went out to get my daughter from school but instead I ended up arguing with them for a few minutes before it turned into a real discussion. I hate Christianity and Christians not because of them personally but because Christianity is paganism and Christians spread paganism and there is nothing more evil than that. However, I really need to correct my adab when discussing with them. Our prophet, salallahu alayhi wa sallam, stressed adab as a critical component of a Muslim and in future I will fix that in myself, Insha Allah.

Mormons have their own book called, ‘The Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ’, which they gave me a copy of toward the end of our discussion. As the title suggests the book of Mormon is an addition to the Bible, a fifth Gospel as it were.

When I discussed with these two men, I treated them the same as your normal run of the mill trinitarian Christians because the arguments work the same, but because they also admitted that the Bible has flaws I put their book in its place.

If God is perfect then by necessity His Book must also be perfect. Since, I can find many faults with the Bible I know without a doubt that it is not from God. Likewise, if I find a fault with the book of Mormon then I will also know that it is not from God. It doesn’t get simpler than that.

I haven’t yet read my new book but I would like to point out a couple of things about these Mormons that I encountered today. When I first approached them, I said something like, you don’t even know who Jesus is and yet you claim to be representatives from his church. One of them responded that he does know him because he prays to him… I jumped on that… they told me Jesus was not God and that he is only an intermediate… whats the difference between that and Hinduism, I asked… difference is Jesus died for our sins…. and it went like that for some time.

After they left me, I opened the book to the first page where you will find:
‘And also to the convincing of the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations’.

So these men who are on mission to spread their beliefs, lied to me! He is not God they said. I tried to find them to confront them in their lie but they were gone. Lying! What is the need to lie? When I give Dawah, I do not mind if someone listens to me. It is not my job to guide and I only try to give information in the most honest and direct way. I don’t need to lie because truth stands out clear from falsehood. If you need to lie then you are not on the right path.

So these Mormons asked how are we to know which religion is true? By the books. What is the purpose of the book if it is not meant to be a guidance? The Quran is perfect this is how we know it is from God, the Bible is so inconsistent and riddled with errors that we know it is not from God. So we will put this book of Mormon to the test. If it is really the ‘Word of God’ as they told me then it can stand up to a layman nobody like myself. If it cannot stand up to me then for sure it is not from God.

Don’t hold your breath for a positive outcome for this book, the Mormon who gave it to me underlined a sentence first.
‘And now, if there are faults they are the mistakes of men;’

The Word of God cannot have the mistakes of men on its pages.