God: Is He Jealous for His Honour?.

Before answering this, we have to clarify, what is God that actually means here. God, as defined by Prophet Isa-

"God is a good without which there is naught good; God is a being without which there is naught that is; God is a life without which there is naught that liveth; so great that he filleth all and is everywhere. He alone hath no equal. He hath had no beginning, nor will he ever have an end, but to everything hath he given a beginning, and to everything shall he give an end. He hath no father nor mother; he hath no sons. nor brethren. nor companions.

And because God hath no body, therefore he eateth not, sleepeth not, dieth not, walketh not, moveth not, but abideth eternally without human similitude, for that he is incorporeal, uncompounded, immaterial, of the most simple substance. 
He is so good that he loveth goodness only; he is so just that when he punisheth or pardoneth it cannot be gainsaid.

In short, here on earth no one canst see him nor know him perfectly; but in his kingdom the righteous one shalt see him for ever: wherein consisteth all our happiness and glory.'"  

Now for answering the Question we have to say, "Yes, it's true that God is jealous for His honour. 

When a youth loves a lady, and she does not love him, but another, he is moved to indignation and slays his rival. Even so, does God: for, when Israel has loved anything such that he forgets God, God has brought such a thing to nothing.

Now what thing is more dear to God here on earth than the priesthood and the holy Temple? Nevertheless, in the time of Jeremiah the prophet, when the people had forgotten God, and boasted only of the Temple, for that there was none like it in all the world, God raised up his wrath by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and with an army caused him to take the holy city and burn it with the sacred Temple, such that the sacred things which the prophets of God trembled to touch were trodden under foot by infidels full of wickedness.

Abraham loved his son Ishmael a little more than was right, so in order to kill that evil love out of the heart of Abraham, God commanded that he should slay his son: which he would have done had the knife cut.

David loved Absalom vehemently, and therefore God brought it to pass that the son rebelled against his father and was suspended by his hair and slain by Joab. O fearful judgement of God, that Absalom loved his hair above all things, and this was turned into a rope to hang him!

Innocent Job came near to loving his seven sons and three daughters [too much], when God gave him into the hand of Satan, who not only deprived him of his sons and his riches in one day, but also struck him with grievous sickness, such that worms came out of his flesh for the next seven years.

Jacob loved Joseph more than his other sons, so God caused him to be sold, and caused Jacob to be deceived by these same sons, such that he believed that the beasts had devoured his son, and so lived in mourning for ten years."

"As God lives", Isa said, "I fear that God will be angered against me. Therefore all of you, said Jesus: must go through Judea and Israel, preaching the truth to the twelve tribes, that they may be undeceived."

Therefore, he said, "Let us make prayer and fast for three days, and from henceforth every evening when the first star shall appear, when prayer is made to God, let us make prayer three times, asking him for mercy three times: because the sin of Israel is three times more grievous than other sins." 

End.
Not yet Verified.

Sources:
Gospel of Barnabas,

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Judgment Day: How the Day will Begins- a Short Brief.

The judgment day of God will be so dreadful that, the reprobates would sooner choose ten hells than go to hear God speak in wrath against them against whom all things created will witness. On that day, not alone shall the reprobates fear, but the saints and the elect of God, so that Abraham shall not trust in his righteousness, and Job shall have no confidence in his innocence. And what say I? Even the Messiah, the Habib of God shall fear, for that God, to make known his majesty, shall deprive his Habib of memory, so that he shall have no remembrance how that God has given him all things. I tremble because by the world I shall be called God, and for this I shall have to render an account.

When the forty years have passed, God shall give life to his Habib, who shall rise again like the sun, but resplendent as a thousand suns. He shall sit, and shall not speak, for he shall be as it were beside himself. God shall raise again the four angels favoured of God, who shall seek, Muhammad, the mercy of God, and, having found him, shall station themselves on the four sides of the place to keep watch upon him. Next shall God give life to all the angels, who shall come like bees circling round the Muhammad, the mercy of God. Next shall God give life to all his prophets, who, following Adam, shall go every one to kiss the hand of the Habib of God, committing themselves to his protection.

Next shall God give life to all the elect, who shall cry out: "O Muhammad be mindful of us!"

At whose cries pity shall awake in Muhammad, the mercy of God, and he shall consider what he ought to do, fearing for their salvation.

Next shall God give life to every created thing and they shall return to their former existence, but every one shall besides possess the power of speech.  
Next shall God give life to all the reprobates, at whose resurrection, by reason of their hideousness, all the creatures of God shall be afraid, and shall cry: "Let not your mercy forsake us, O Lord our God."

After this shall God cause Satan; to be raised up, at whose aspect every creature shall be as dead, for fear of the horrid form of his appearance. ‘May it please God," said Jesus, "that I behold not that monster on that day.’

Only Muhammad, the Habib of God alone shall not be affrighted by such shapes, because he shall fear God only.

Then the angel, at the sound of whose trumpet all shall be raised, shall sound his trumpet again, saying: "Come to the judgment, O creatures, for your Creator wills to judge you."

Then shall appear in the midst of heaven over the valley of Jehoshaphat; a glittering throne over which shall come a white cloud, whereupon the angels shall cry out: "Blessed be you our God, who has created us and saved us from the fall of Satan."

Then Muhammad the Mercy of God shall fear, for that he shall perceive that none has loved God as he should. For he who would get in change a piece of gold must have sixty mites; wherefore, if he have but one mite he cannot change it. But if the Habib of God shall fear, what shall the ungodly do who are full of wickedness?"

The Mercy of God shall go to collect all the prophets, to whom he shall speak praying them to go with him to pray God for the faithful. And every one shall excuse himself for fear; nor, as God lives, would I go there, knowing what I know.

Then God, seeing this, shall remind his Habib how He created all things for love of him, and so his fear shall leave him, and he shall go near to the throne with love and reverence, while the angels sing: "Blessed be your holy name O God, our God."

And when he has drawn near to the throne, God shall open [his mind] to his Habib, as a friend to a friend when for a long while they have not met. The first to speak shall be the Prophet, who shall say: "I adore and love you, O my God, and with all my heart and soul I give you thanks for that you did vouchsafe to create me to be your servant, and made all for love of me, so that I might love you for all things and in all things and above all things; therefore let all your creatures praise you, O my God."

Then God shall say: "We give you thanks,’

‘O Lord, and Bless Your Holy Name." Truly I say to You, the demons and reprobates with Satan shall then weep so that more water shall flow from the eyes of one of them than is in the river of Jordan. Yet shall they not see God "

And God shall speak to His Prophet, saying: "You are welcome, O my faithful servant; therefore ask what you will, for you shall obtain all."

Muhammad, the Mercy of God shall answer. "O Lord, I remember that when You did create me, You said that You had willed to make for love of me the world and paradise, and angels and men, that they might glorify You by me Your servant. Therefore, Lord God, Merciful and Just I pray You that You recollect Your promise made to Your servant."

And God shall make answer even as a friend who jests with a friend, and shall say: 'Have you witnesses of this, my friend Muhammad?'

And with reverence he shall say: "Yes, Lord."

Then God shall answer: "Go, call them, O Gabriel;."

The angel Gabriel shall come to the Prophet, and shall say: "Lord who are your 'witnesses?"

The Messenger of God shall answer: "They are Adam;, Abraham, Ishmael;, Moses;, David;, and Jesus son of Mary?"

Then shall the angel departs and he shall call the aforesaid witnesses, who with fear shall go thither. And when they are present God shall say to them: Remember you that which my Messenger affirms?"

They shall reply: "What thing, O Lord?"

God shall say: "That I have made all things for love of him, so that all things might praise me by him."

Then every one of them shall answer: "There are with us three witnesses better than we are, O Lord."

And God shall reply: "Who are these three witnesses?"

Then Moses shall say: "The book that you gave to me is the first"; and David shall say: "The book that you gave to me is the second"; and I shall say: "Lord the whole world, deceived by Satan, that I was your son and your fellow, but the book that you gave me said truly that I am your servant; and that book confesses that which your Messenger affirms."

Then shall the Muhammad, the mercy of God speak, and shall say: "Thus says the book that you gave me O Lord."

And when Muhammad, the mercy of God has said this, God shall speak, saying: "All that I have now done, I have done in order that every one should know how much I love you."

And when he has thus spoken, God shall give to his Messenger a book, in which are written all the names of the elect of God. Wherefore every creature shall do reverence to God, saying: "To you alone O God, be glory and honour, because you have given us to your Messenger." 

God shall open the book in the hand of His Messenger, and His Messenger reading therein shall call all the angels and prophets and all the elect, and on the forehead of each one shall be written the mark of the Messenger of God. And in the book shall be written the glory of paradise.

Then shall each pass to the right hand of God; next to whom shall sit the Messenger of God. and the prophets shall sit near him, and the saints shall sit near the prophets, and the blessed near the saints, and the angel shall then sound the trumpet, and shall call Satan to judgment.

Then that miserable one shall come, and with greatest contumely shall be accused of every creature. Wherefore God shall call the angel Michael, who shall strike him one hundred thousand times with the sword of God. He shall strike Satan, and every stroke is heavy as ten hells, and he shall be the first to be cast into the abyss.

The angel shall call his followers, and they shall in like manner be abused and accused. Wherefore the angel Michael,by commission from God, shall strike some a hundred times, some fifty, some twenty, some ten, some five. And then shall they descend into the abyss, because God shall say to them: "Hell is your dwelling-place, O cursed ones."

After that shall be called to judgment all the unbelievers and reprobates, against whom shall first arise all creatures inferior to man, testifying before God how they have served these men, and how the same have outraged God and his creatures. And the prophets every one shall arise, testifying against them; wherefore they shall be condemned by God to infernal flames.

Truly I say to you, that no idle lord or thought shall pass unpunished in that tremendous day. Truly I say to you, that the hair-shirt shall shine like the sun, and every louse a man shall have borne for love of God shall be turned into pearl. O, thrice and four times blessed are the poor, who in true poverty shall have served God from the heart, for in this world are they destitute of worldly cares, and shall therefore be freed from many sins, and in that day they shall not have to render an account of how they have spent the riches of the world, but they shall be rewarded for their patience and their poverty.

Truly I say to you, that if the world knew his it would choose the hair-shirt sooner than purple, lice sooner than gold, fasts sooner than feasts.

When all have been examined, God shall say to his Messenger: "Behold, O my friend, their wickedness, how great it has been, for I their creator did employ all created things in their service and in all things have they dishonoured me. It is most just, therefore, that I have no mercy on them."

The Messenger of God shall answer, "It is true, Lord, our glorious God, not one of your friends and servants could ask you to have mercy on them; no, I your servant before all ask justice against them."

And he having said these words, all the angels and prophets, with all the elect of God no, why say I the elect?

Truly I say to you, that spiders and flies, stones and sand shall cry out against the impious, and shall demand justice. Then shall God cause to return to earth every living soul inferior to man, and. he shall send the impious to hell. Who, in going, shall see again that earth, to which dogs and horses and other vile animals shall be reduced. Wherefore shall they say: "O Lord God, cause us also to return to that earth."

But that which they ask shall not be granted to them."

While Jesus was speaking the disciples wept bitterly. And Jesus wept many tears. Then after he had wept, John spoke: "O master, we desire to know two things. The one is, how it is possible that the Messenger of God, who is full of mercy and pity, should have no pity on reprobates that day, seeing that they are of the same clay as himself? The other is, how is it to be understood that the sword of Michael is [as] heavy as ten hells? Is there more than one hell?"

Jesus replied: "Have you not heard what David the prophet says, how the just shall laugh at the destruction of sinners, and shall deride him with these words, saying: I saw the man who put his hope in his strength and his riches, and forgot God.

Truly, therefore, I say to you, that Abraham shall deride his father, and Adam [shall deride] all reprobate men: and this shall be because the elect shall rise again so perfect and united to God that they shall not conceive in their minds the small[est] thought against his justice. Each of them shall demand justice, and above all the Messenger of God. 

As God lives, in whose presence I stand, though now I weep for pity of mankind, on that day I shall demand justice without mercy against those who despise my words, and most of all against those who defile my gospel.

Hell is one, O my disciples, and in it the damned shall suffer punishment eternally. Yet has it seven rooms or regions, one deeper than the other, and he who goes to the deep shall suffer greater punishment. Yet my words [are] true concerning the sword of the angel Michael, for he that commits but one sin merits hell, and he that commits two sins merits two hells.

Therefore in one hell the reprobates shall feel punishment as though they were in ten, or in a hundred or in a thousand; and the omnipotent God, through his power and by reason of his justice, shall cause Satan to suffer as though he were in ten hundred thousand hells, and the rest each one according to his wickedness."

Then Peter answered: "O master, truly the justice of God is great, and today this discourse has made you sad; therefore, we pray you, rest, and tomorrow tell us what hell is like."

Jesus answered: "O Peter, you tell me to rest; O Peter, you do not know what you say, [or] else you would not have spoken thus.

Truly I say to you, that rest in this present life is the poison of piety and the fire which consumes every good work. Have you forgotten how Solomon, God's prophet, with all the prophets, has reproved sloth? It is true that he says: The idle will not work the soil for fear of the cold, therefore in summer shall he beg. [And for this reason] he said: All that your hand can do, do it without rest. And what says Job, the most innocent friend of God: As the bird is born to fly, man is born to work. Truly I say to you, I hate rest above all things."

Hell is one, and is contrary to paradise, as winter is contrary to summer, and cold to heat. Therefore, he who would describe the misery of hell must have seen the paradise of God's delights. O place accursed by God's justice for the malediction of the faithless and reprobate, of which Job, the friend of God, said: There is no order there, but everlasting fear! And Isaiah the prophet, against the reprobate, says: "Their flame shall not be quenched nor their worm die."

And David our father, weeping said: "Then lightning and bolts and brimstone and great tempest shall rain upon them." O miserable sinners, how loathsome delicate meats, costly raiment, soft couches, and [the] concord of sweet song shall seem to them! How sick shall raging hunger, burning flames, scorching cinders, and cruel torments with bitter weeping make them!"

And then Jesus uttered a lamentable groan, saying: "Truly, it is better never to have been formed than to suffer such cruel torments, for imagine a man suffering torments in every part of his body, who has no one to show him compassion, but is mocked by everyone; tell me, would not this be great pain?"

The disciples answered: "The greatest."

Then Jesus said: "This is a delight [in comparison] to hell. For I tell you in truth, that if God should place in one balance all the pain which all men have suffered in this world and shall suffer till the Day of Judgment, and in the other [balance] one single hour of the pain of hell, the reprobates would without doubt choose the worldly tribulations, for the worldly [tribulations] come from the hand of man, but the others from the hand of devils, who are utterly without compassion.

O what cruel fire they shall give to miserable sinners! O what bitter cold, which yet shall not temper their flames! What gnashing of teeth and sobbing and weeping! For the Jordan has less water than the tears which shall flow from their eyes every moment. Their tongues shall curse all created things, with their. father and mother, and their Creator, who is blessed for ever."

Having said this, Jesus washed himself, with his disciples, according to the Law of God written in the Book of Moses; and then they prayed. And the disciples, seeing [Jesus] sad did not speak at all to him that day, but each stood terror-struck at his words. Then Jesus, opening his mouth after the evening [prayer], said: "What father of a family, if he knew that a thief meant to break into his house, would sleep? None surely; for he would watch and stand prepared to slay the thief. Do you not know then that Satan is as a roaring lion that goes about seeking whom he may devour. Thus he seeks to make man sin.

Truly I say to you, that if man would act as the merchant he should have no fear in that day, because he would be well prepared.

There was a man who gave money to his neighbours that they might trade with it, and the profit should be divided in a just proportion. And some traded well, so that they doubled the money. But some used the money in the service of the enemy of him who gave them the money, speaking evil of him. 

Tell me now, when the neighbour shall call the debtors to account how shall the matter go? Assuredly he will reward those who traded well, but against the others his anger shall vent itself in reproaches. And then he will punish them according to the Law.

As God lives, in whose presence my soul stands, the neighbour is God, who has given to man all that he has, with life itself, so that, [man] living well in this world, God may have praise, and man the glory of paradise. For those who live well double their money by their example, because sinners, seeing their example, are converted to repentance; wherefore men who live well shall be rewarded with a great reward. But wicked sinners, who by their sins halve what God has given them, by their lives spent in the service of Satan the enemy of God, blaspheming God and giving offence to others tell me what shall be their punishment?"

"It shall be without measure," said the disciples. 

Then Jesus said: "He who would live well should take example from the merchant who locks up his shop, and selling guards it day and night with great diligence. And again the things which he buys he is fain to make a profit; for if he perceives that he will lose thereby he will not sell, no, not to his own brother. Thus then should you do; for in truth your soul is a merchant, and the body is the shop: wherefore what it receives from outside, through the senses, is bought and sold by it. And the money is love. See then that with your love you do not sell nor buy the small thought by which d work be all for you cannot profit. But let thought, speech, and love of God; for so shall you find safety in that day.

Truly I say to you, that many make ablutions and go to pray, many fast and give alms, many study and preach to others, whose end is abominable before God; because they cleanse the body and not the heart, they cry with the mouth not with the heart; they abstain from meats, and fill themselves with sins; they give to others things not good for them, in order that they may be held good; they study that they may know to speak, not to work; they preach to others against that which they do themselves, and thus are condemned by their own tongue. 

As God lives, these do not know God with their hearts; for if they knew him they would love him; and since whatsoever a man has he has received it from God, even so should he spend all for the love of God."

The End.
Not Yet Justified.

Source: -Gospel of Barnabas 

Qiyamah: The Horrible Sign at the End of the Days.

Jesus, one of the Prophet of God, sent to the house of Israel for the health of the feeble and the correction of sinners,. He did not died but God lifted him to Heaven. The wicked men who after his departure from the world annulled the truth of his gospel by the operation of Satan. But he will return towards the end, and with him will come Enoch and Elijah, and they will testify against the wicked, whose end shall be accursed.

Before that day, great destruction shall come upon the world, for there shall be war so cruel and pitiless that the father shall slay the son, and the son shall slay the father by reason of the factions of peoples. Wherefore the cities shall be annihilated, and the country shall become desert. Such pestilences shall come that none shall be found to bear the dead to burial, so that they shall be left as food for beasts.

To those who remain upon the earth God shall send such scarcity that bread shall be valued above gold, and they shall eat all manner of unclean things. That shall be a period of time, in which scarce any one shall be heard to say: "I have sinned, have mercy on me, O God"; but with horrible voices they shall blaspheme Him who is glorious and blessed for ever. After this, as that day draws near, for fifteen days, shall come every day a horrible sign over the inhabitants of the earth.

-The first day the sun shall run its course in heaven without light, but black as the dye of cloth; and it shall give groans, as a father who groans for a son near to death.

-The second day the moon shall be turned into blood, and blood shall come upon the earth like dew.

-The third day the stars shall be seen to fight among themselves like an army of enemies.

-The fourth day the stones and rocks shall dash against each other as cruel enemies.

-The fifth day every plant and herb shall weep blood.

-The sixth day the sea shall rise without leaving its place to the height of one hundred and fifty cubits, and shall stand all day like a wall.

-The seventh day it shall on the contrary sink so low as scarcely to be seen.

-The eighth day the birds and the animals of the earth and of the water shall gather themselves close together, and shall give forth roars and cries.

-The ninth day there shall be a hailstorm so horrible that it shall kill [such] that scarcely the tenth part of the living shall escape.

-The tenth day shall come such horrible lightning and thunder [such] that the third part of the mountains shall be split and scorched.

-The eleventh day every river shall run backwards, and shall run blood and not water.

-The twelfth day every created thing shall groan and cry.

-The thirteenth day the heaven shall be rolled up like a book, and it shall rain fire, so that every living thing shall die.

-The fourteenth day there shall be an earthquake so horrible that the tops of the mountains shall fly through the air like birds, and all the earth shall become a plain.

-The fifteenth day the holy angels shall die, and God alone shall remain alive; to whom be honour and glory."

When these signs be passed, there shall be darkness over the world forty years, God alone being alive, to whom be honour and glory forever.

The End.
Not Yet Verified.

Source:
Gospel of Barnabas.

Learning: Is a Precept of God.

Bread is not so good for the temporal life as is learning for the eternal life? Know you not that it is a precept of God to learn? For thus says God: Ask of your elders, and they shall teach you. And of the Law says God: See that my precept be before your eyes, and when you sit down, and when you walk, and at all times meditate thereon. Whether, then, it is good not to learn, you may now know. He who despises wisdom, for he is sure to lose eternal life."

One may say that Job learned not from a master, nor Abraham; nevertheless they became holy ones and Prophets. Its true and actually they don't need to Learn, because, he who is of the bridegroom's house does not need to be invited to the marriage, as he dwells in the house where the marriage is held; but they that are far from the house. And we know that the prophets of God are in the house of God's grace and mercy, and so have the Law of God manifest in them: as David our father says on this matter: The Law of his God is in his heart; therefore his path shall not be digged up.

Our God in creating man not only created him righteous, but inserted in his heart a light that should show to him that it is fitting to serve God. Wherefore, even if this light be darkened after sin, yet is it not extinguished. For every nation has the desire to serve God, though they have lost God and serve false and lying gods.

Accordingly it is necessary that a man be taught of the prophets of God, for he may clear the light to learn the way to go to paradise, by serving God well: just as it is necessary that he who has his eyes through him diseased should be guided and helped."

Now, It is a Question that how shall the prophets teach us if they are dead; and how shall he be taught who has not knowledge of the prophets?"

The doctrine of the Prophet is written down, for you to study. He who despises the prophecy, despises not only the prophet, but also God who has sent the prophet. But concerning such as know not the prophet, as are the nations, Say, if there shall live in those regions any man who lives as his heart shall show him, not doing to others that which he would not receive from others, and giving to his neighbour that which he would receive from others, such a man shall not be forsaken of the mercy of God.

Wherefore at death, if not sooner, God will show him and give him his Law with mercy. Perhaps you think that God has given the Law for love of the Law? 

Assuredly this is not true, but rather has God given his Law in order that man might work good for love of God. And so if God shall find a man who for love of him works good, shall he perhaps despise him?

No, surely, but rather will he love him more than those to whom he has given the Law. For an example: There was a man who had great possessions; and in his territory he had desert land that only bore unfruitful things. And so, as he was walking out one day through such desert land, he found among such unfruitful plants a plant that had delicate fruits.

Whereupon this man said: "Now how does this plant here bear these so delicate fruits? Assuredly I will not that it be cut down and put on the fire with the rest."
And having called his servants he made them dig it up and set it in his garden. Even so, I tell you, that our God shall preserve from the flames of hell those who work righteousness;,wheresoever they be."

"Tell me, where dwelt Job but in Ur among idolaters? And at the time of the flood, how writes Moses? Tell me. He says: "Noah truly found grace before God." 

Our father Abraham had a father without faith, for he made and worshipped false idols. Lot abode among the most wicked men on earth. Daniel as a child, with Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar in such wise that they were but two years old when they were taken; and they were nurtured among the multitude of idolatrous servants.

As God lives, even as the fire burns dry things and converts them into fire, making no difference between olive and cypress and palm; even so our God has mercy on every one that works righteously, making no difference between Jew, Scythian, Greek, or Ishmaelite.

But let not your heart stop there, because where God has sent the prophet it is necessary entirely to deny your own judgment and to follow the prophet, and not to say: 'Why says he thus? Why does he thus forbid and command?'
But say: 'Thus God wills. Thus God commands.' Now what said God to Moses when Israel despised Moses? They have not despised you, but they have despised me.

Truly, man ought to spend all the time of his life not in learning how to speak or to read, but in learning how to work well. Now tell me, who is that servant of Herod who would not study to please him by serving him with all diligence?

Woe to the world that studies only to please a body that is clay and dung, and studies not but forgets the service of God who has made all things, who is blessed for evermore."

The End.

Not Yet Verified.

Source:
Gospel of Barnabas.

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Ancient Temper: How it Lays Wait for Man?

In four ways tempts that wicked one. The first is when he tempts by himself, with thoughts. The second is when he tempts with words and deeds by means of his servants; the third is when he tempts with false doctrine; the fourth is when he tempts with false visions. Now how cautious ought men to be, and all the more according as he has in his favour the flesh of man, which loves sin as he who has fever loves water.

Truly, if a man fear God he shall have victory over all, as says David His prophet: "God shall give His angels charge over you, who shall keep your ways, so that the devil shall not cause you to stumble. A thousand shall fall on your left hand, and ten thousand on your right hand, so that they shall not come near you."

Furthermore, our God with great love promised to us by the same David to keep us, saying: "I give to you understanding, which shall teach you; and in your ways wherein you shall walk I will cause My eye to rest upon you."

But what shall I say? He has said by Isaiah: "Can a mother forget the child of her womb? But I say to you, that when she forget, I will not forget you."

Tell me, then, who shall fear Satan, having for guard the angels and for protection the living God?

Nevertheless, it is necessary, as says the prophet Solomon, that "You, my son, that are come to fear the Lord, prepare your soul for temptations."

Truly, a man ought to do as the banker who examines money, examining his thoughts, that he sin not against God his creator.

There have been and are in the world men who hold not thought for sin [and] who are in the greatest error. Tell me, how [did] Satan sin? It is certain that he sinned in the thought he was more worthy than man. Solomon sinned in thinking to invite all the creatures of God to a feast, [so] a fish corrected him by eating all that he had prepared.

Not without cause, Prophet David says, that to ascend in one's heart sets one in the valley of tears. And why does God cry by his prophet Isaiah, saying: ‘Take away your evil thoughts from my eyes?’ And to what purpose [does] Solomon say, ‘With all your keeping, keep your heart?"

As God lives, in whose presence my soul stands, all [scripture speaks] against the evil thoughts with which sin is committed, for without thinking it is not possible to sin. Now tell me, when the husbandman plants the vineyard does he set the plants deep? Assuredly yes. Satan does [the same]. In planting sin [he] does not stop at the eye or the ear, but passes into the heart, which is God's dwelling, as Moses His servant, [said]: I will dwell in them, in order that they may walk in my Law.

Now tell me, if Herod the king gave you a house to keep in which he desired to dwell, would you let Pilate, his enemy, enter there or place his goods in it? Surely not. Then how much less ought you let Satan enter into your heart, or place his thoughts [in your heart]. Our God has given you your heart to keep, which is His dwelling.

Observe, therefore, [how] the banker considers [his] money. [He considers] whether the image of Caesar is right, whether the silver is good or false, and whether it is of due weight. He turns it over much in his hand. Ah, mad world! How prudent you are in your business; in the last day you will reprove and judge the servants of God of negligence and carelessness, for without doubt your servants are more prudent than the servants of God.

Tell me, now, who is he who examines a thought as the banker a silver coin? No one."

Now, how is the examination of a thought like to [that of] a coin?"

The answer is: "The good silver in the thought is piety, because every impious thought comes of the devil. The right image is the example of the holy ones and prophets, which we ought to follow; and the weight of the thought is the love of God by which all ought to be done. Whereupon the enemy will bring there impious thoughts against your neighbour, [thoughts] conformed to the world, to corrupt the flesh; [thoughts] of earthly love to corrupt the love of God."

Do not think that you ought to think little, in order that you may not !fall into temptation. Actually, two things are necessary for you. The first is to exercise yourselves much, and the second is to talk little: for idleness is a sink wherein is gathered every unclean thought, and too much talking is a sponge which picks up iniquities. It is, therefore, necessary not only your working should hold the body occupied, but also that the soul be occupied with prayer. For it needs never to cease from prayer.

For an example: There was a man who paid ill, wherefore none that knew him would go to till his fields. Whereupon he, like a wicked man, said: 'I will go to the market-place to find idle ones who are doing nothing, and will therefore come to till my vines.'

This man went forth from his house, and found many strangers who were standing in idleness, and had no money. To them he spoke, and led them to his vineyard. But truly none that knew him and had work for his hands went thither.

He is Satan, that one who pays ill; for he gives labour, and man receives for it the eternal fires in his service. Wherefore he has gone forth from paradise, and goes in search of labourers. Assuredly he sets to his labours those who stand in idleness whoever they be, but much more those who do not know him. It is not in any wise enough for any one to know evil in order to escape it, but it behoves to work at good in order to overcome it."

For an example. There was a man who had three vineyards, which he let out to three husbandman. Because the first knew not how to cultivate the vineyard the vineyard brought forth only leaves. The second taught the third how the vines ought to be cultivated; and he most excellently hearkened to his words; and he cultivated his, as he told him, insomuch that the vineyard of the third bore much.

But the second left his vineyard uncultivated, spending his time solely in talking. When the time was come for paying the rent to the lord of the vineyard, the first said: "Lord, I know not how your vineyard ought to be cultivated: therefore I have not received any fruit this year."

The lord answered: "O fool, do you dwell alone in the world, that you has not asked counsel of my second vinedresser, who knows well how to cultivate the land? Certain it is that you shall pay me."

And having said this he condemned him to work in prison until he should pay his lord; who moved with pity at his simplicity liberated him, saying: "Begone, for I will not that you work longer at my vineyard; it is enough for you that I give you your debt."

The second came, to whom the lord said: "Welcome, my vinedresser! Where are the fruits that you owe me? Assuredly, since you know well how to prune the vines, the vineyard that I let out to you must needs have borne much fruit."

The second answered: "O lord, your vineyard is backward because I have not pruned the wood nor worked up the soil; but the vineyard has not borne fruit, so I cannot pay you."

Whereupon the lord called the third and with wonder said: "You said to me that this man, to whom I let out the second vineyard, taught you perfectly to cultivate the vineyard which I let out to you. How then can it be that the vineyard I let out to him should not have borne fruit, seeing it is all one soil."

The third answered: "Lord, the vines are not cultivated by talking only, but he needs must sweat a shirt every day who wills to make it bring forth its fruit. And how shall your vineyard of your vinedresser bear fruit, O lord, if he does nothing but waste the time in talking? Sure it is, O lord, that if he had put into practice his own words, [while] I who cannot talk so much have given you the rent for two years, he would have given you the rent of the vineyard for five years."

The lord was wroth, and said with scorn to the vinedresser, "And so you have wrought a great work in not cutting away the wood and levelling the vineyard, wherefore there is owing to you a great reward!"

And having called his servants he had him beaten without any mercy. And then he put him into prison under the keeping of a cruel servant who beat him every day, and never was willing to set him free for prayers of his friends."

Truly, on the day of judgment many shall say to God: "Lord, we have preached and taught by your Law."

Against them even the stones shall cry out, saying: "When you preached to others, with your own tongue you condemned yourselves, O workers of iniquity." 

"He who knows the truth and works the contrary shall be punished with such grievous penalty that Satan shall almost have compassion on him.

Tell me, now has our God given us the Law for knowing or for working? Truly, all knowledge has for end that wisdom which works all it knows. 
Tell me, if one were sitting at table and with his eyes beheld delicate meats, but with his hands should choose unclean things and eat those, would not he be mad?"

"Yes, assuredly," said the disciples.

Then Jesus said: "O mad beyond all mad men are you, O man, that with your understanding know heaven, and with your hands choose earth; with your understanding know God, and with your affection desire the world; with your understanding know the delights of paradise, and with your works choose the miseries of hell. Brave soldier that leaves the sword and carries the scabbard to fight! Now, know you not that he who walks by night desires light, not only to see the light, but rather to see the good road, in order that he may pass safely to the inn?

O miserable world, to be a thousand times despised and abhorred! since our God by his holy prophets has ever willed to grant it to know the way to go to his country and his rest: but you, wicked one, not only wiliest not to go, but, which is worse, have despised the light! True is the proverb of the camel that it likes not clear water to drink, because it desires not to see its own ugly face. So does the ungodly who works ill; for he hates the light lest his evil works should be known.

But he who receives wisdom, and not only works not well, but, which is worse, employs it for evil, is like to him who should use the gifts as instruments to slay the giver." 

Its true that God had not compassion on the fall of Satan, but yet [had compassion on the fall of Adam; And let this suffice you to know the unhappy condition of him who knows good and does evil.

The End.
Not yet Verified.

Source: -Gospel of Barnabas.

False Judgment: Is the Father of all Sins.

On the Sabbath Jesus entered into the synagogue, and all the people ran there together to hear him speak. The scribe that day read the psalm of David, where says David: When I shall find a time, I will judge uprightly. Then, after the reading of the prophets, arose Jesus, and made sign of silence with his hands, and opening his mouth he spoke thus: "Brethren, you have heard the words spoken by David the prophet, our father, that when he should have found a time he would judge uprightly.

I tell you in truth that many judge, in which judgment they fall for no other reason than because they judge that which is not meet for them, and that which is meet for them they judge before the time. Wherefore the God of our fathers cries to us by his prophet David, saying: Justly judge, O sons of men.

Miserable therefore are those who set themselves at street corners, and do nothing but judge all those who pass by, saying: "That one is fair, this one is ugly, that one is good, this one is bad."

Woe to them, because they lift the sceptre of his judgment from the hand of God, who says: "I am witness and judge, and my honour I will give to none.'"

Truly I tell you that these testify of that which they have not seen nor really heard, and judge without having been constituted judges.Therefore are they abominable on the earth before the eyes of God, who will pass tremendous judgment upon them in the last day.

Woe to you, woe to you who speak good of the evil, and call the evil good, for you condemn as a malefactor God, who is the author of good, and justify as good Satan, who is the origin of all evil. Consider what punishment you shall have, and that it is horrible to fall into the judgment of God, which shall be then upon those who justify the wicked for money, and judge not the cause of the orphans and widows.

Truly I say to you, that the devils shall tremble at the judgment of such, so terrible shall it be. You man who are set as a judge, regard no other thing; neither kinsfolk nor friends, neither honour nor gain, but look solely with fear of God to the truth, which you shall seek with greatest diligence, because it will secure you in the judgment of God. But I warn you that without mercy shall he be judged who judges without mercy"..-(Gospel of Barnabas, CH-49)

Tell me, O man, you that judge another man, do you not know that all men had their origin in the same clay? Do you not know that none is good save God alone? wherefore every man is a liar and a sinner. Believe me man, that if you judge others of a fault your own heart has whereof to be judged. Oh, how dangerous it is to judge! oh, how many have perished by their false judgment! Satan judged man to be more vile than himself; therefore he rebelled against God, his creator: whereof he is impenitent, as I have knowledge by speaking with him. Our first parents judged the speech of Satan to be good, therefore they were cast out of paradise, and condemned all their progeny.

Truly I say to you, as God lives in whose presence I stand, false judgment is the father of all sins. For as much as none sins without will, and none wills that which he does not know. Woe, therefore, to the sinner who with the judgment judges sin worthy and goodness unworthy, who on that account rejects goodness and chooses sin. Assuredly he shall bear an intolerable punishment when God shall come to judge the world.

Oh, how many have perished through false judgment, and how many have been near to perishing! Pharaoh judged Moses and the people of Israel to be impious, Saul judged David to be worthy of death, Ahab judged Elijah, Nebuchadnezzar the three children who would not worship their lying gods. The two elders judged Susanna, and all the idolatrous princes judged the prophets. Oh, tremendous judgment of God! the judge perishes, the judged is saved. And wherefore this, O man, if not because [in] rashness they falsely judge the innocent?

How nearly then the good approached to ruin by judging falsely, is shown by the brethren of Joseph, who sold him to the Egyptians, by Aaron and Miriam, sister of Moses, who judged their brother. Three friends of Job ;judged the innocent friend of God, Job. David judged Mephibosheth and Uriah. Cyrus judged Daniel to be meat for the lions; and many others, the which were near to their ruin for this. Therefore I say to you, Judge not and you shall not be judged."

And then, Jesus having finished his speech, many forthwith were converted to repentance, bewailing their sins; and they would fain have forsaken all to go with him. But Jesus said: "Remain in your homes, and forsake sin and serve God with fear, and thus shall you be saved; because I am not come to receive service, but rather to serve."

And having said thus, he went out of the synagogue and the city, and retired into the desert to pray, because he loved solitude greatly.-(Gospel of Barnabas, CH-50)

End.

Hail Mary! Chaste, Pure, Chosen Above Other Women.

Hannah (Hebrew Ḥannāh, meaning "favor" or "grace"; according to Eastern Churches, she is ascribed the title Forbear of God, and both the Birth of Mary and the Dedication of Mary to the Temple are celebrated as two of the Twelve Great Feasts. Ḥannah) is also revered in Islam, recognized as a highly spiritual woman and as the mother of Mary. The Qur'an describes her as the daughter of Fatuz, who remained childless until her old age. One day she saw a bird feeding its young while sitting in the shade of a tree, which awakened her desire to have children of her own. Hannah prayed for a child and eventually conceived; her husband, named Imran, was one of the Panel Imams of the temple of Solomon and died before the child was born. Expecting the child to be male, Hannah vowed to dedicate him to isolation and service in the Temple.

However, Hannah bore a daughter instead, and upon delivering she was surprised because she expect a son, whom she vowed to Gods service, but it was a daughter and she confused that a daughter could serve God or not. However she named her Mary and seek her protection from Satan. And Qur'an answered that this daughter is uncomparable, much more than a son.

Although the canonical books of the New Testament never mentioned the parents of Mary (Luke 3:23 names Mary's father as Heli), traditions about her family, childhood, education. The oldest and most influential source for these is the apocryphal Protevangelium of James, first written in Greek around the middle of the second century but termed as apocrypha with the accusation of "absurdities" by St. Jerome in the 4th and 5th centuries and condemned as untrustworthy by Popes Damasus I, Innocent I, and Gelasius I.

It’s interesting, Qur'an declares her above the Women of the worlds, when there are lot of great Women in the History of Islam, viz. Rahima, wife of Ayub [Job], Sara, wife of Abraham, Athia, wife of Pharaoh Ramesis II, Maryam, sister of Moses, Safura, wife of Moses, Khadija, wife of Muhammad, Amina, mother of Mohammad, Ayesha, wife of Muhammad, and Fatima, daughter of Mohammad etc. Yet the ranking shall never be change nor one dare to, as it has declared by God, the Lord of the Worlds, not by Muslims.

According to Qur'an Mary was the daughter of Imran. And Imran was the next man after Abraham, whose family is chosen over the world. Indeed, Allah chose Adam and Noah and the family of Abraham and the family of 'Imran over the worlds – Descendants, some of them from others. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.-(3:33-34)

Imran- was one of the Imams of the 12 (Imams) of the Temple of Jerusalem. His wife was Hannah, -Hannah binte Fatuz. They have no children as Anna was a barren and they both were already in their older age. Yet Hannah always pray to Almighty to give them a child to cool and peace her eyes and the Lord heard her pray and she became pregnant. Hannah was so happy that she made a promise- "My Lord, indeed I have pledged to You what is in my womb, consecrated (for Your service), so accept this from me. Indeed, You are the Hearing, the Knowing." -(3:35)

Hannah delivered a child. It was a girl and she was surprised because of her promise. It was not known to her that a girl could be consecrated for the Lords service or not. So, she said, "My Lord, I have delivered a girl." And Allah was most knowing of what she delivered, "And the male is not like the female. And I have named her Mary, and I seek refuge for her in You and (for) her descendants from Satan, the expelled (from the mercy of Allah)."

So her Lord accepted her with good acceptance and caused her to grow in a good manner and put her in the care of Zechariah. -(3:36-37) It is believed that the only children born without the "touch of Satan," were Mary and Jesus,[Bukhari, Anbiya, 44; Muslim, Fada'il, trad. 146, 147]

The Quran narrates that Mary grew up in the temple of the prayer, and had a special place in the temple of her own. She was placed under the care of the Zechariah, her uncle. The Muslim narrative makes it clear that lots were cast as to who should be the guardian of Mary and the outcome was that she should be placed under Zechariah's care.

Hannah didn't forget her promise. Her husband died when she was pregnant. So when Maryam leaved Brest feed, she brought her to the temple.All Imams were interested to take care of the child as she was consecrated for the Temple. Zechariah, one of the 12 Imams claimed that he is the right person among all to brought her up as his wife Elezabeth is the sister of Hannah. But other Imams were not agreed with that and not interested to give up the chance to brought up the child. And they began to quarrel and later decide to go for a lottery to solve the dispute. At that time, there were a lot of ways to examine fate viz. throwing dice on the ground, shooting arrows etc but in case of Maryam they through their pens in the pond of the Temple with a condition that he will win whose pen moves against wind. And when they cast Zechariah wins. That is from the news of the unseen which We reveal to you, and you were not with them when they cast their pens as to which of them should be responsible for Mary. Nor were you with them when they disputed.(3:44)

Thus, Mary accommodate in a room attached to the Temple in the east under the care of Zechariah. Every time Zechariah entered upon her in the prayer chamber, he found with her provision. He said, "O Mary, from where is this (coming) to you?" She said, "It is from Allah. Indeed, Allah provides for whom He wills without account." (3:37)

Allah can do anything- there is no doubt in it to Zechariah. But he never saw such miracle in his own eyes before- Maryam takes fruits that were not available in that season. He has no children and he never prayed to almighty to give him one because he knew- he himself and his wife much older to gave birth a child. But seeing this miraculous seen with his own eyes, he prayed standing there and wished to have a child. At that, Zechariah called upon his Lord, saying, "My Lord, grant me from Yourself a good offspring. Indeed, You are the Hearer of supplication." (3:38)

This is the child hood story of Mary, the mother of Jesus- the Christ, who is born without a father. And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity, so We blew into (her garment) through Our angel, and she believed in the words of her Lord and His scriptures and was of the devoutly obedient.(66:12)

Mary spent more than a decade in the Temple and served her Lord. Then one day Gabriel brought her the news of birth of Jesus. He appeared as a well proportioned man. Mary was in her room at that time. She was surprised to see him and then feared to lose her virginity. Qur’an says-

Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place toward the east. And she took, in seclusion from them, a screen. Then We sent to her Our Angel, and he represented himself to her as a well-proportioned man. She said, "Indeed, I seek refuge in the Most Merciful from you, (so leave me), if you should be fearing of Allah."

He said, "I am only the messenger of your Lord to give you (news of) a pure boy."(19:16-19) "O Mary, indeed Allah has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the worlds. O Mary, be devoutly obedient to your Lord and prostrate and bow with those who bow (in prayer)." That is from the news of the unseen which We reveal to you,(3:42-43)

-"O Mary, indeed Allah gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary - distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near (to Allah). He will speak to the people in the cradle and in maturity and will be of the righteous."(3:45-46)

She said, "How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"
He said, "Thus (it will be); your Lord says, 'It is easy for Me, and We will make him a sign to the people and a mercy from Us. And it is a matter (already) decreed.' "(19:20-21)

She said, "My Lord, how will I have a child when no man has touched me?"
(The angel) said, "Such is Allah; He creates what He wills. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, 'Be,' and it is. And He will teach him writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel and (make him) a messenger to the Children of Israel, (3:47-49)
So she conceived him, (19:22)

After Conceived, Mary completely confined herself to her room. Gradually she feels the burden and was dying with shame all the time. People may know and what will they say? And atlast the time came.

Oneday, early in the morning when everybody was sleeping, she leaves the temple. There is only one thing in her mind, to find a remote place -far from the crowd; where nobody could trace her. She moved as fast as she could. And she got a place.

The place where Mary reached was a hill top. And she withdrew with him to a remote place.(19:22) And We made the son of Mary and his mother a sign and sheltered them within a high ground having level (areas) and flowing water.(23:50)

The childbirth pain begins and she drove her beneath a date tree. There were a shed nearby and Mary found that too, but it was an abandon Cowshed that was not known to her. Thirsty, hungry, childbirth pain and with a fear to meet any men- she was completely unable to bear all of these. So she wished to die to relief from all. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a Date tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."(19:23)

Mary might thought she was alone, but she was not. Allah, the most Merciful was always with her, but she didn’t know. God sent Gabriel to meet all of her needs.This time Gabriel was unseen- But he called her from below, "Do not grieve; your Lord has provided beneath you a stream. And shake toward you the trunk of the Date tree; it will drop upon you ripe, fresh dates. So eat and drink and be contented. And if you see from among humanity anyone, say, 'Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Merciful abstention, so I will not speak today to (any) man.' "(19:24-26)

Mary issued a son and she named him Jesus. Because she was instructed to name such by the angel before she gave birth. On the 8th day, she went to the temple to perform religious duties. An old woman, who lived in the temple too and was known to her previously, help her to make all the arrangements happily. She can’t live in her room in the temple before passing 40 days. So when she was leaving the temple by chance met one of her relative. It was Joseph the Carpenter, her cousin. Thus Quran says- Then she brought him to her people, carrying him. (19:27)

People gathered, finding an interesting thing. Mary, the daughter of Imran -who was Pious, one of the Imams of the Temple and look what his daughter done; she gave birth a baby when she was unmarried!
They said, "O Mary, you have certainly done a thing unprecedented. "O sister of Aaron", your father was not a man of evil, nor was your mother unchaste."(19:27-28)

Look, the style of their teasing. They called her sister of Aaron instead of Mary or Maryam, to compare two Maryams, one is pious, respectable and other is sinner, hatred and thus to show her, and feel her the difference and to be shamed her selves. ie What a dishonour of a holy name [Maryam].’

Gradually they pinched and pierced Mary with their sharp words. Mary was seated lowering her face and didn't tell a word to answer them. Because she knows, if she told them the truth, they won’t believe her. So she kept silent with her mouth shut. And that made the crowd crazy. At that time, to relieved herself from the crowd, she signed that she had vowed to the Most Merciful abstention, so she would not speak to any. And they understood her sign, yet they were not interested to leave her with that alibi. They began to tease her more ferociously. So, Mary looked for another way when her vowed to the Merciful abstention didn't work. She concentrated her mind calmly. Suddenly, she recall the angels voice- ‘He will speak to the people in the cradle…’ So she pointed to him. They said, "How can we speak to one who is in the cradle a child?" (19:29)
People get crazier.

What to do in this situation Mary doesn't know. She was helpless and on the verse of tears. And her eyes flooded with tears and began to fall drop by drop on Jesus body, he was at that time feeding breast sited on her lap. When Mary’s eye drop touches his body, he stops feeding and leaves the breast.

Jesus observed her mothers downed crying face for a few sec. They insulted his innocent mother a lot because of him. To safe her mother from the peoples, he turns his face towards the gathering and said to them raising his finger, "Indeed, I am the servant of Allah. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet. And He has made me blessed wherever I am and has enjoined upon me prayer and zakah as long as I remain alive and (made me) dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me a wretched tyrant. And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I am raised alive." (19:30-33)

One more interesting thing you may notice here; Jesus talked about him, about his mother, about his duty; But not a single word about his father. Why he talked to, when he was born without a father!!

People, those were gathered there, were extremely surprised, a child of few days certifying his mother’s innocence! They couldn’t believe their own eyes and ears. They were dumbed for a few minutes. Then they began to stare at Mary with fear, with respect, as if, she was a stranger and they seen her for the 1st time. They were completely doubtless and already ashamed for their behavior with her. So they immediately leave the place one by one without saying a word. One thing to be noted here, Jesus never talked again before the age, when a child normally began to talk.

On the other hand, on hearing all of this, People, whom were not seen Jesus to certify her mother, disbelieved all. More over the story made them laugh and joking. It was completely unbelievable to them. Because they know fully the procedure and items that necessary to give birth a human child. And they will disbelieve, it was also written in the Holy Scripture-

‘Look among the nations and watch—
Be utterly astounded!
For I will work a work in your days
Which you would not believe,
Though it were told you.’ (Habakkuk 1:5)

The People imposed a great slander on Mary. They said, ‘The baby is nothing but the bustard son of that carpenter.’

The carpenter to whom they pointed was Mary’s cousin, named Joseph. He sometimes meets with Mary during the time of his visit the temple.

Qur’an says to those disbelievers- And (We cursed them) for their disbelief and their saying against Mary a great slander, (4:156)
Joseph was honest. He saved Mary from the slander on marrying her.

The End.
Not Yet Verified