My favorite thing about shamelessly throwing myself out into the internet ether is the sort of responses it sometimes invites. You’d be surprised how many people out there have figured everything out about religion and written a self-published book about it. Or maybe you wouldn’t.

This week I had the pleasure of hearing from Belinda Mohamed, a woman whose bio says she was born in 1981 in Algiers, the descendant of an Algerian saint. She explained that she found me through my writings on Harun Yahya, which particularly caught her attention because of rumors that Yahya thinks he’s the Mahdi (he denies this, of course, as the Mahdi is supposed to). She also notes, before attaching her treatise, Secrets of Religions (download it free here), “I am Muslim and I respect all Religions.”

What follows is a remarkable numerological exposition of the Qur’an—the numbers appear to map out everything in the universe, from the human body to the manner of prayer to the nature of Satan. I can’t begin to grasp it. But maybe this is why I have so much trouble understanding:

BELINDA MOHAMED WROTE AND TRANSLATED ALONE THIS BOOK IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.

As we’ll see, she might have benefited from some help with the English. Any ideas about this introductory tale? (She likes to center text.)

I would like to tell you a story before to invite to the discovery of this book..
I met this story one day, and at my turn I would like to introduce her to you.

There was a wind one day, vacing in The 25. The old winds were already outside. The wind continued forward until he reached the left of The 25, he saw a scene between a lion and the two. The two went out and after them the high winds. The father of these winds was sitting, he had signed for the row with The One and the first in the row of the winds was walking with haste, and it is also how we recognize him. The smallest wind went out of The 25 and follow the row until the row accompanies him and leaves him before The 24. The wind came in the 24  and stood near the wells as he had been requested. Wells are the places where men show their truths, willy-nilly. The wind was not dressed, he was ordered not to talk and his actions should also be uncertain. The wind came near the first well and he found a people and asked them to drink, they gave him a dirty glass because they took into consideration his  torn clothes, but he drank..The wind came near the second well and he found a people and asked them to drink ,they made him pay his glass at credit and they insulted him after he drank. The wind came close to the third well and he found a people and asked them to drink, they replied that only those with tents among them were allowed to drink. The wind came near the fourth well and he found a people and asked them to drink  they offered him the water although the water had not been for a long time in the light.  The small wind smiled and went away because there was no more water in the well and he understood.

I hope you liked this story. I heard it one day and I am transmitting it to you today.

Interesting Discovery.

Next, we learn that there are limits to her proclaimed respect for “all Religions”:

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WHO
FOLLOW THE CROSS
AND CHRISTIAN

THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE CROSS IS NOT CHRISTIAN

THOSE CALLED CHRISTIANS IN THIS BOOK

ARE THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE CROSS
AND I ASK MY FRIENDS EVANGELISTS
(OR PROTESTANTS: THE REPRESENTATION OF THE
CHRISTIANITY)
TO CONTINUE THE COMBAT AGAINST THE
CATHOLIC PAGANISM, THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE
CROSS

PROTESTANTS ARE MY FRIENDS.

I forgot to mention the book’s subtitle: “THE PROOF : ISLAM IS THE ONLY RELIGION OF TRUTH.”

Then comes the numerological odyssey that has to be seen to be believed. Download the book to take a look. The focal point of it all apparently lies in Surat al-Kahf, the 18th surah of the Qur’an, translated “The Cave.” It is a surah that the Prophet Muhammad recommended believers recite on Fridays, and it has particular relevance for end-times matters. The Cave mentioned in it was a place of hiding for a group of pious young men who were being persecuted by the world for their beliefs. For three hundred years that felt like a day, God kept them asleep to protect them from danger.

For Belinda, this is a secret for living through our times.

THE CAVE IS THE SALVATION

I encourage you to delve into the book and explore its meanings for yourself. But some of you might be at a disadvantage. Verse 22 of Surat al-Kahf reminds its hearers:

And consult not any of them (people of the Scripture, Jews and Christians) about (the affair of) the people of the Cave.

It is always a treat when such things find their way into my mailbox.

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