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I have written two other books which are going to be published in the very near future. One is entitled: How shall they hear? Sharing your Christian faith with Muslims. The other one is on the deity of Jesus entitled: Who is this Jesus?. Click here if you want more details, or to pre-order these two books. 


How shall they hear? Sharing your Christian faith with Muslims.

Author: E.M. Hicham
Publisher: Ambassador International

Publication date: August 2009 


  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents  

 

Acknowledgment

 

Introduction        
                                                                                  

Why another book on Islam?

What is the goal of this book?

What is the plan of this book?

Who is this book for?

 

Part I. Introduction to Islam and Muslims


1. How did Islam begin?                                                                                   

2. What is the difference between Sunnite and Shia

    Muslims?       

 

How is the relationship between Sunnites and Shia?

Where does the division get its origin?

Who are the Wahhabis?

 

3. What is the difference between the Qur’an and Sunnah?

What is the Qur’an?

Is it true that only the Arabic version of the Qur’an is considered authentic?

Are there different versions of the Qur’an?

What is the Sunnah?

What is the difference between the Qur’an and the 

Sunnah?

            Where does the Sunnah come from?

How do Muslims know that the Hadith (traditions about 

Muhammad) are true?

What is the difference between the Sunnah and the Hadith?
How do Sunnis and Shia differ on the Hadith?

     

4. What influence does Muhammad have on Muslims today?

5. How important is the concept of Ummah (community)?           

6. What do Muslims believe?  

7. What is the Islamic teaching on Paradise (Heaven)?

 8. What are the religious duties of Muslims?    

                                  
            First pillar: Profession of faith (Shahada)

Second pillar: Prayer (Salat)

The Ablution ceremony
Regulations on prayer
Purity of place and clothes
Qibla – The right direction for prayer
Azan - The call to prayer
The Mosque
The Multi-role Mosque
Friday prayer (jum'ah)
The Friday Sermon
The Islamic “Clergy”
Television-assisted program to help curb radical Islamism

Third pillar: Religious tax or Alms (zakat)

Fourth pillar: Fasting (saum)

The first evening of Ramadan
The Special Feeling of Ramadan
Violence heats up during Ramadan
A typical day of fasting
Breaking the daily fast During Ramadan
The last 10 days of Ramadan
The festival for the end of Ramadan

Fifth pillar: Pilgrimage (hajj)

Spiritual Climax
Preparation for pilgrimage
The circling of the Kab’ah
Muhammad’s tomb
Arafat Day and its Significance
Stoning of Satan
The return home of pilgrims


Sixth pillar: Jihad

 

9. What are some other Muslim practices?       

10. What does Islam teach about Sin and Salvation? 

11. What do Muslims say about the concept of the inheritance of original sin?      

                                          

Part II. Customs and Behaviour

      

12. Customs and Behaviour: 

      Tips on how to act in a Muslim home or country

13. A visit to a Muslim home: Day 1

14. A visit to a Muslim home: Day 2

15. A visit to a Muslim home: Day 3

 

Part III. Sharing your Christian faith

 

16. Sharing your faith with Muslims:                                          
       Tips on how to share the Gospel with Muslims (Part 1)

 

17. Sharing your faith with Muslims:                                         
       Tips on how to share the Gospel with Muslims (Part 2)

 

18. Sharing your faith with Muslims:                                   
         Where can I meet Muslims?          

                                   

Part IV. Dealing with theological issues


19. Areas which need some explanation for Muslims:                 
        The Nature and Character of God

20. Areas which need some explanation for Muslims:           

        The Authority of the Bible

21. Areas which need some explanation for Muslims:                  
        The Consistency of God's revelation

22. Areas which need some explanation for Muslims:                
       Jesus is the Son of God

 

23. Areas which need some explanation for Muslims:                

       The Deity of Jesus

24. Areas which need some explanation for Muslims:                
        The Crucifixion of Jesus

25. Areas which need some explanation for Muslims:         

        The Absence of any prediction regarding Muhammad
         in the Bible

 

Part V. Questions & Answers


26. Your Questions answered: A Christian asks                                 

I have never been engaged in Muslim evangelism. How can I get involved in it?

 

Do I have to be an experienced apologist to share the Gospel with Muslims?

 

Should I use the Qur’an?

 

What is Muslims’ attitude towards Christians?

 

 

Is it true that the Qur’an does not talk about the love of Allah?

 

How do I tell the Good News to Muslims?

 

Should I avoid saying that Jesus is the Son of God?

 

A Muslim I am talking with has been coming to me with a lot of alleged Bible contradictions. What should I do?

 

I have a Muslim friend who says he believes that Christianity is true but is having trouble with summoning the courage to become a Christian. He says he still has trouble with certain doctrines, such as the deity of Christ. What should I do?

 

I work with a Muslim. I want to share the gospel with him, but I am not sure how to start. What should I do?

 

What are the reasons Jews and Muslims cannot seem to get along? Is this rooted in religion, culture, or both?

 

Are Muslims receptive to the Gospel?

 

What attracts Muslims to follow Jesus?

 

 

27. Your Questions answered: A Muslim asks                                 

Why haven’t you become a Muslim?

 

We Muslims believe in all God’s holy books, why don’t Christians believe in the Qur’an?

 

What do you think about Muhammad?

 

Why do Christians insist on the death of Jesus?

 

Wasn’t Jesus a national prophet to Israel only?

 

But isn’t Christianity a religion of the Europeans?

 

Why are there four Gospels rather than just one?

 

Why are Christians divided? Doesn’t this division show their weakness?

 

What about the ungodly life of some ‘Christians’?

 

Who killed Jesus?

 

Why does the Bible show Jesus drinking wine, and even using a miracle to create wine? Why all this moral decadence?

 

The Bible says not to eat pork. Why have Christians turned away from the commands of God?

 

Did the prophets sin?

 

If people are saved through Jesus’ death, then what about those who lived before him?

 

There is really no difference between my religion and yours, is there?

 

Part VI. Receiving Muslim converts into Christian fellowship               

 

28. How difficult is it for a Muslim to convert to Christianity?

 

29. Receiving Muslim converts into Christian fellowship               

 

Should a Muslim convert join a local church?

 

What are the church’s responsibilities towards Muslim converts?

 

How can we integrate Muslim converts into the church?

 

Should a Muslim convert be encouraged to be baptised?

 

Should a Muslim convert break completely from Islam?

 

Conclusion                                                                                       

 

APPENDIX 1:  Sharing the doctrine of the Trinity with 

                       Muslims                                                  
APPENDIX 2: Old Testament Messianic Prophecies                    

APPENDIX 3: Online resources for Muslim Evangelism

APPENDIX 4: Glossary of Arabic Islamic words

APPENDIX 5: Recommended reading

 

Bibliography

Other books for further study

Bibliography for Ministry to Muslim Women

 

About the author   

 

 

What Others Are Saying About this book:

 

“A brilliant toolkit for Muslim Evangelism. If you long to reach out to your Muslim friends with the Gospel but are wondering how to start then this is the book for you.” M.E.C. Word of Hope Ministries.

 

“As far as outreach to Muslims is concerned, there are few books like this one. Why is that? The author was one of them!…Having been involved with Christian work in South Asia for many years, I can truly say that everything you need to know is here, nothing is left out.”
From the forward by Paul Simpson, Raymond Lull Memorial Trust

 

“You have probably suspected for a while that not all Muslims are radical, but they are all reachable. However, with so many opportunities to meet and speak with Muslims, whether Asian, Arabic or British - including British converts to Islam what shall we say to them? How do they think? What do they either understand or misunderstand about the Good News? There are a few key issues that they raise as arguments to disprove the Christian message. Any help believers can get these days is to be valued. Help from someone who used to think in exactly the same way as many Muslims do, who is now unreservedly and wholeheartedly evangelical and who daily goes among Muslims to speak with them of the Saviour is bound to be of particular value.

 

This book is a serious reference book for believers.  It looks at Islamic history, theology and culture. It recounts stories of encounters and conversions. It shows the necessity of adjustments in attitudes by Christians and Churches as they increasingly receive converts from Islam into church membership. It is written in a style suited to give both information and motivation in witness to Muslim friends and neighbours. It serves both purposes excellently. It will almost certainly give you the confidence to begin intelligent witness with Muslims. I recommend it without reservation."
Rev. David Harding. Pastor of Milnrow Evangelical Church, and executive member of United Beach Missions.

 

"I have an increasing anticipation picking up the booklets and books written by E.M. Hicham. He writes in such a gripping manner, elegantly and logically. They are a compelling read. The reader wants to turn to the next page to see what he writes on these subjects of profundity and importance. I thank God for him and for his friendship."  Rev. Geoff Thomas, Pastor of Alfred Baptist Church, Aberystwyth, Wales, and writer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Who is this Jesus ?
A prophet? A great teacher? A lunatic?…or Someone else?

Author: E.M. Hicham
Publisher: Evangelical Press

Publication date: January 2010



Table of Contents  

 

Acknowledgment

 

Introduction

Forward

 

1. What did the prophets say about Jesus?

 

2. What did the apostles say about Jesus?

 

3. What did Jesus say about Himself?

 

4. What does the character of Jesus show us?

 

5. What do the actions of Jesus demonstrate?

 

6. What did writers in the first centuries say about Jesus?

 

7. What impact has Jesus had on real lives?

 

Conclusion

 

A personal invitation

 

Appendix: Answering the most common objections to the deity of Christ

 

 

What Others Are Saying About this book:

“In this excellent book E.M. Hicham carefully shows his readers that one cannot escape the question, ‘Who is Jesus?’ Because of the nature of Christ’s ministry and his clear claims to deity, the one answer you cannot give is, ‘He was just a good man’. Was Jesus beside himself to make such authorative claims? Was he deluded? Were the writings of the Gospels a fabrication as Dan Brown claimed in his ‘Da Vinci Code’? Hicham shows overwhelming evidence that there was no tampering with these records and that we must face up to the reality of the claims of Christ and the remarkable testimony of millions of changed lives down the centuries that Christ really is the Son of God sent to save us from our sins.

 

Those of us who have had the privilege of knowing Hicham can testify to the remarkable Christian grace in this man of God raised up for this generation, his powerful preaching (in at least three languages) and the great gifts of writing and communication with which God has endowed him. I unreservedly recommend this book for all enquirers of the Christian Gospel.”

 

Professor Andy McIntosh, Leeds, 2009

Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory,

University of Leeds, England, and writer.

 

 

“Without doubt the key figure of human history is Jesus Christ. If you live in the western world the date written on the coins in your pocket and on today’s newspaper has been fixed with reference to his birth. Jesus Christ never wrote a book or song yet more books and songs have been written about him than about any other person who has ever lived.

 

Jesus Christ never took up a sword, nor led an army, yet all of the armies who have ever marched have not affected history as much as he has. His teachings are unsurpassed, his miracles are unique, and he lived without sin of any kind. Three days after his death his tomb was empty and hundreds of his followers claimed that he conquered death itself.

 

Today, he has followers in every country of the world. Over two billion people claim allegiance to him. So who is he? This excellent book by E.M. Hicham seeks to answer that important question by considering the writings of the prophets, the words of eyewitnesses and by examining what Jesus himself said. I strongly recommend this book and urge you to read it thoughtfully so that you may answer for yourself that vital question: ‘Who is this Jesus?”

 

Dr Steve Taylor, Liverpool, 2009

Reader in Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Liverpool, England, and Chairman of United Beach Missions, UK and Europe.

 

 

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