That Togolese footballer, Emmanuel Adebayor converted to Islam is no longer news. The news had gone viral and the
Aston Villa bound striker had also confirmed it.
Adebayor has now come out to fully address the issue by giving reasons why he converted to Islam. He justified his new found faith by saying Muslims are like Jesus and also described them as” truer followers of Christ”.
Read below (Source: The Herald):
1. Jesus (pbuh) taught that there is only One God and Only God should be worshipped as taught in Deut 6:4, Mark 12:29. Muslims also believe this as taught in the Qur’an verse 4:171.
2. Jesus (pbuh) didn’t eat pork as taught in Leviticus 11:7 , and neither do Muslims as taught in the Qur’an verse 6:145.
3. Jesus (pbuh) greeted with the words “as salaamu alaikum” (Peace be with you) in John 20:21. Muslims also greet each other this way.
4. Jesus (pbuh) always said “God Willing” (inshallah), Muslims say this too before doing anything as taught in the Qur’an verses 18:23-24.
5. Jesus (pbuh) washed his face, hands, and feet before praying. The Muslims do the same.
6. Jesus (pbuh) and other prophets of the Bible prayed with their head to the ground (see Matthew26:39). Muslims do too as taught in the Qur’an verse 3:43.
7. Jesus (pbuh) had a beard and wore a throbe. It is Sunnah for Muslim men to do the same.
8. Jesus (pbuh) followed the law and believed in all the prophets, (see Matthew 5:17). Muslims do too as taught in the Qur’an verses 3:84, and 2:285.
9. Jesus’ mother Maryam (pbut) dressed modestly by fully covering her body and wearing a headscarf (hijab) as found in 1 Timothy 2:9, Genesis 24:64-65, and Corinthians 11:6. Muslim women modestly dress the same as taught in the Qur’an verse 33:59.
10. Jesus (pbuh) and other prophets of the Bible fasted up to 40 days (see Exodus 34:28, Daniel 10:2-6. 1Kings 19:8, and Matthew 4:1-Muslims do so also during the month of Ramadan. Muslims are required to fast the full obligatory 30 days (see Qur’an 2:183), and others take it a step further by fasting an additional 6 days to increase their rewards.
11. Jesus (pbuh) taught to say “Peace to this house” when entering it (see Luke 10:5), and to also greet the people in the house with “peace be unto you”. Muslims do exactly what Jesus did and taught. When we enter our homes and the homes of others we say “Bismillah” and also greet with “as salaamu alaikum” (peace be upon you) as taught in the Qur’an verse 24:61.
12. Jesus (pbuh) was circumcised. Circumcision is 1 of the 5 fitrah in Islam, so Muslim men are required to be circumcised. According to the Bible in Luke 2:21, Jesus was eight days old when he was circumcised. In the Torah, Allah/God stated to the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) that it is an “Everlasting covenant” (see Genesis 17:13). In the Qur’an verse 16:123 Muslims are required to follow the religion of Abraham. The Prophet Muhammad (saws) said, “The Prophet Abraham circumcised himself when he was eighty years old.” (see Sahih hadith Bukhari, Muslim, and Ahmad).
13. Jesus (pbuh) spoke aramaic and called God”Elah”, which is pronounced the same as “Allah”. Aramaic is an ancient, Biblical language. It is one of the Semitic languages that also include Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopic and the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian language of Akkadian.
The Aramaic”Elah” and the Arabic “Allah” are the same.
Lolzz… All his reasons r just wat I called fallacies..error..imagine..wit all his reasons I can denote dat he was a bench warmer b4…a church goer…nd nt a christian…..cus if he ws…he would av knwn all dis…..
Yes you are right
But those listed above r similarities btwn islam and christianity,those r not reasons why he convereted,no sense in all this at all
Stop confussing people with petty reports the decorum and values of christianity are much more than the contrasts and comparisons made up…..with respect to my islam brothers and sisters CHRISTIANITY is about real life and not Childs play
He did nt knw what he iz doing in this world. He is noting but a human whit out faith.
This are just similarity between the two religion,only u Adebayor and God known the real reason why you change your faith please stop deceiveing us with this lie. Time will tell
The devil’s mission in this plannet is to steal, kill and to destroy. The devil can’t destroy one without stealing. His number one assignment is to steal. The devil has succeeded stealing Adebayo’s mind. his next taget is to kill the young footballer then destruction follows. Adebayo is ignorant of the devil’s devices. But now that you ‘Adebayo’ can still talk, kindly use the same mouth that you used to send yourself into captivity to deliver yourself into a home of ever lasting joy, peace and pray this prayer. Jesus, l receive you today as my lord and saviour, confess your sins and don’t bring upon yourself what can land you into everlasting destruction again. God bless you.
All what he said is called ERROR, That is not an excuse……
Please tell him to give us a genue reason, all what he said are fake
leave dis guy alone adebayor u ‘re in right path ur faith make u free
welcome to Islam peace
What makes it ‘ peace’? Almost all the problems of hatred known on the surface of the Earth are deliberately and confidently caused and commited by these ”peace religion people”(Islam).Or am I not saying the truth?…your answer is warmly welcome. Thank you!
Adebayo is free 2 belong 2 whreva he choses, nt any1 biz, ride on bros
Laughable…. He’ll soon find yet some other “flimsy similarities” between islam and buddahism/Iluminati. And he will convert again. What a mess!
plz let respect his decision,only God know who enter his paradise and beside every one has the right to any religion.
Adebayor, you are lost..you were in light now, you have entered darkness
All these are not what will take u 2 heaven but ur relationship with d master matter most.Is God seeing u as his own?be particular about heaven not about law.Do d will of God and 4get about all these law pls.GIVE UR LIFE TO CHRIST BE4 IT’S 2 LATE.
This man choose Islam b4 it’s too late, urs will follow Insha Allah………..
What I notice here is none of you are good Christian, because no good Christian will judge human like him
I don’t see any tangible reason there,Ade that’s what you choose all the best in ur new faith
NA ONLY GOD KNW D GOOD $ D BAD SO BE SLNT
i dnt blame da muslim.. bt people frm their sid tk da teaching in negative way. im saying regarding to da terrorist n all…
Nobody fight for islam, Allah fight for Islam…
May allah bless ur souls and give u more strength to serve him geniuely.no xtain will support ur decision but we all have to be factual and personal satisfaction wch xtains enjoy in churches I.e offerings,title and nature flee for fancy lifestyles.no good religion will give room all forms of self interests
Did not Ibrahim, Isiaka and Yakub paid tithe? I guess Islam is good because mallams do collect same
Plz explain to us “Jesus Christ is the son of God”. Can any prophet in Islam call they say a son of God
Can you explain why God choose Yakub over his brother?
Why are u Christian getting mad at him, have u people forgotten the years he as been into ur religion?????? There must be a reason for it…….. Allah call and he must Answer…….. He is
free
This is rubbish. As a muslim, he is lost. As a former christian, he was lost. N if he changes religion again he still will b lost. Cos he s confused. Until u stops looking for contrasts, comparisons and reasons for joining a certain religion n look @d spiritual benefits of joining such religion, u will forever b lost. As far as I’m concerned, there is only one God n He should not b dissected by religion. Your relationship with God is a personal thing, it has nothing to do with your religion or making people see y u r d way u are. I am a Christian. If u want to b a muslim, Adebayor, it’s your CHOICE. But think of its spiritual benefits to YOURSELF (afterall it’s always YOU who make heaven or hell @last)!!!
PS: U don’t have any business telling us d similarities between d bible n d q’uran. We know even more than what you have said…
adebayor changing from one religion to other has his own reason Y he changed bt dis reason M seeing dia are nt genuine. I just pray datz d heaven we are both seeking Lord will grant unto us.
Am not here to to tell u d religion to follow. I only want to correct some of ur mistakes. 1. Jesus did not fast for only days. He fast for day and night. 2. Jesus did not fast for 36 days. He fast for 40 days and 40 night. 3. Jesus did not eat pork did he say we should not eat pork? Am only havin one simple question for u. And I will be glad if u can answer me yes or no. D question is, our everlasting king, d savior, d prince of peace died and after 3 days he was up for heaven, did urs try to shake not to talk of getting up? Yes or no? Pls answer.
Good one thank you bro
i wnt blame u. u are in darkness
Bullshit!
Its important for you all to know that Christianity is not a religion, Jesus didnt come to establish a religion He came so that we might have life, and have it more abundantly. Therefore, the basis for Christianity is the Death, Burial and RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST. So to be a Christian, you must accept His Lordship, believe that He died for your sins, and God raised Him back to life for your justification. Romans 10:9-10. Christianity is the Life of God working in a man.
He is a yoruba man, beside that he didnt know what he is doing
Adbayer let me advise you brother if you want to be like jesus be jewish not muslim
Y is it dt u can not fyn anytin lik qur’an in d Holy Bible,onlik d qur’an dt half of it is copy 4rm d Holy Bible.Always Remember dz JOHN 3:16
The Quran is an interpretation of the Bible but with addition and subtraction don by their prophet. Interpreting the Bible does not make you a prophet otherwise king James and many others should be called prophet one thing he and other Muslims should know is that it is in the Quran that Jesus is coming back, and on that day it shall be like a growing sun and the brightness of his decending is so bright that no eye can face to see.
I pray that God Almighty will truth your side. You follower of devil that call. Yourself follower of christ
oh next time we will hear he has converted to satanic….. I hear Islamic is just the same as satanic…. take the example of Boko Haram, Isis, Taliban, alshabab all these are satanists killing Innocent people….
oh Mr bench warmer I’m sure this season you will warm that bench and literally you will burn it all…. and next time I read your news we will hear that you are a suicide bomber…
I rest my case Mr bench warmer satanic….
In adebayor’s claim dat jesus bend to pray. According to d bible jesus fell to d ground n prayed only at dat time nt bend always to pray. And again adebayor jumped to 1cor 11:6. But jumping V4-5 which says any man dat covers his head to pray dishonour is head. Also in d five fitrah of Islam Adebayor may b forgot to mention “jihad” which says kill dem where ever u find them. Adebayor my gud frnd be a Muslim if u want to bt don’t use dis baseles reasons as to why. We pray for ur soul. Ade!
I wonder why his mum was doing that to him he does not hv brain at all.
Adebayor was never in the light, he was never a Christian. If anyone is in the light such a person will see all the benefit and important of the light and never dream or imagine a low intensity of light not to talk of darkness. but for someone who is in darkness before and did not cry for help or is not even ready to be helped out of the darkness will go from darkness to deeper darkness. it is my prayer that it will not be too late for you Adebayor and any other person out there making the same mistake.
He chose the true path!
Truly, All that you had said here had been falsifying.
Sure that ”Jesus” is souling up back to his life. But, regardful should noone making thoughts from inexpertise volutions of reasonings to say which so clearly that it mightn’t been at observance.
Besay, You don’t ever calling me unto a religion/belief. I led it straightenly that most in religious doctrinism are ever disengagingly attaining theirs instrospectivities so lightful ; all is at path parabolic discourse. It looks as stagnum withof stickened both end stigma.
”Anonymous” acts odd that it says nothing here prosper.
Adebayo quits ”christianity” because believing he had seen similar means of touraging and catching pursuit far-neared up into his admire. He mentioned why of his quit. He believes that ”christians”, ”muslims” share both of relations and doings.
What I think was that he switched off one to fulfilling other at manner of scalable balance approach in dogma.
I see reasons why peoples change order in beliefs into science sometimes – arguments, empericism, dialogue of substantial concors. It’s just only an advancive artherthesia of living expressiveness. I am sure that noone had never seen ”Jesus” in here but we believe how he conveys messages of nessful goodings and beliefs.
Natural philosophy explains clearly why put up straight order of approaches to anything as beginning knowlegde whilst neglected falsificating.This life itself needs amendment.
Firstly, talking about beliefs said in being corcordfulness to stem-brain end of attentive mind. That’s the why ” beliefs come descendantly at perpetual prospectivess in a single tracting patternation ”.
It shadows everything not at all. It only had brought decrease of knowledge. because, ”Adebayo” isn’t a prophet who you follow, not a islamic scholar nor pastor. So, what do becomes these are becauses of becoming of the nature itself. This life itself needs a rethought and amendments.
If ”Adebayo” quits, you stay! It’s about gamingly advocacy. So, don’t we aided anyone out of his/her belief; we only aid reasoning immersefulness. That’s life.
I could say that anyone becomes anykind for saking a smootful living and lifestyle on himself today in our world. ”Everything turns Monetarismic”- ”Adebayo” changes! That’s it. Nothing keep stares outside tether my mind. That’s lifestyle but nothing.
But, The stage at which peoples who were created from same clay, same structure, minds, thoughts had fitted it bamboozling theirself by living anger, unfitting discourse and tickened hatred sucked up love-binded structures, made-up of its creationals to down top. At this stage, humanoid lives to becoming adamant in optimity.
plzz guyz try going to YouTube an watch Dr. Zakir Naik’s videos. He’ll clear your doubts insha’allah
Plz note:those who called there self bokoharam they are nt a muslim.coz allaha said in his only quran “he or she who killed a single person has killed da whole world”or did you remmember that time in delta state those huligant killing pipu,that means they are christian,plz stop saying what you dont knw or understand . So diz bokoharam are not muslims. And i don’t knw maybe they ‘er christian
see Yusuf estes u, must look the way fored