The Revelation of Dyeing, yes, Dyeing.

To dye or not to dye, that is the question.

Many Christian sects (sects of the sect called Christianity) believe that in order to be admitted into the Kingdom of "God", a person must be baptized. I was baptized in the Roman Catholic church in my hometown.

Here is a fine article describing the real word in the ancient languages spoken by the prophets themselves i.e. Hebrew/Aramaic and Arabic. As well, in Greek (not a language of the prophets as far as we know), the word "baptize" is actually translated to mean "to dye":

http://www.islam4all.com/newpage9.htm

It all starts way back in the Bible when some curious actions and remarks are made in regards to baptizing. It isn't clear who is baptizing who:

"No man born of woman was ever greater than John the Baptist," says Jesus, "but the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John."

That is from the hadith known to most people as The Gospels. The word "least" in this case has been erroneously translated to mean "more pious" when in fact, the word lesser meant "younger". In other words...the last one to arrive, the one with the least amount of "real time" tenure on the planet, would be the most important in terms of developing humanity's understanding of the Creator.

Patience they were told but instead, the new Christians and their monks and popes and translaters, took it all out of context and innovated practices that the people seemed to need in order to keep them unified. They invented things like Baptism, misconstrued it all together and today, we have many people in the world with a mistaken notion of baptism.

The article cited is long but well worth the effort for those interested in how Islam and the Quran supplanted the existent information in order to clarify the role of the prophets, the articles of faith and most of all, the Sunna (practices).

In the Quran, Yehye (pbuh) is noted in the Sura describing the life of the mother of Isa whose name was Mirium. It is perhaps one of the most important suras as it is given the place of 19. The number nineteen was given in order that those who disagreed with Islam and the last prophet might indeed put the pieces of the puzzle together. It is worth mentioning and very much so.


[19.7] O Zakariya! surely We give you good news of a boy whose name shall be Yahya: We have not made before anyone his equal.

It establishes that St. John (from the Aramaic/Arabic Yu'hannan) was the most important prophet up until that precise time. Add to it the remnants of what he is quoted in several of the gospels as having said about his position in regards to the "lesser" or "younger" prophets (Jesus/Isa and Mohamed, SA) as being "not as important". Add to it the puzzling role of baptizers in the Bible and voila! A logical story ensues about the way the Bible prophecied many things that have not been fufilled which led to impatience on the part of the writers of the Bible and the administrative staff at the Catholic church who implemented policies that they were mistaken about. Like Baptism.

Furthermore, the Quran tells the truth about who needs to get baptized, how they are to be baptized (with spirit and fire) and by WHOM.

So who gets this honor? I'll tell you.

[2.111] And they say: None shall enter the garden (or paradise) except he who is a Jew or a Christian. These are their vain desires. Say: Bring your proof if you are truthful.

[2.112] Yes! whoever submits himself entirely to Allah and he is the doer of good (to others) he has his reward from his Lord, and there is no fear for him nor shall he grieve.

[2.113] And the Jews say: The Christians do not follow anything (good) and the Christians say: The Jews do not follow anything (good) while they recite the (same) Book. Even thus say those who have no knowledge, like to what they say; so Allah shall judge between them on the day of resurrection in what they differ.

Allah via the angel Gibreel goes on to mention the rituals of Ibriheem:

[2.130] And who forsakes the religion of Ibrahim but he who makes himself a fool, and most certainly We chose him in this world, and in the hereafter he is most surely among the righteous.

[2.131] When his Lord said to him, Be a Muslim, he said: I submit myself to the Lord of the worlds.

[2.132] And the same did Ibrahim enjoin on his sons and (so did) Yaqoub. O my sons! surely Allah has chosen for you (this) faith, therefore die not unless you are Muslims.

[2.133] Nay! were you witnesses when death visited Yaqoub, when he said to his sons: What will you serve after me? They said: We will serve your God and the God of your fathers, Ibrahim and Ismail and Ishaq, one God only, and to Him do we submit.

With the good reminder about those who preceeded the last prophet and naturally, were not given the entire instruction...only a part of it to which they were faithful when they circumcized their sons:

[2.134] This is a people that have passed away; they shall have what they earned and you shall have what you earn, and you shall not be called upon to answer for what they did.

Allah then finalizes his order in one sentence. The ONLY time it is stated in the Quran and hence, it is one of those overlooked phrases that carries huge weight:

[2.138] (Receive) the baptism of Allah, and who is better than Allah in baptising? and Him do we serve. -The Cow in the Glorious Quran



Revelation. Those who continue to follow old rituals and decry Islam as a copy cat religion...well. Those who insist that if a person doesn't get baptized in their church and will go to hell because of that detail...are all in extreme error. Because this is the actual proclamation that wasn't given until Allah was good and ready. They just stopped listening before Allah was done: