Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim. As salaamu 'alaikum. The following excerpts are taken from a review/critique, of The Gospel of Barnabas, and provide further clarity:


Chapter 109 The discourse on sleeping continues. ".....it is never lawful to forget God and his fearful judgment: and the sleep of the soul is such oblivion." It is sinful to forget THE ONE TRUE GOD. "Then answered he who writes: "O master, how can we always have God in memory? Assuredly, it seems to us impossible. Jesus said, with a sigh: "This is the greatest misery that man can suffer, O Barnabas. For man cannot here upon earth have God his creator always in memory; saving them that are holy, for they always have God in memory, because they have in them the light of the grace of God, so that they cannot forget God." Desire that ye should be holy. "Desire to be holy if you wish to overcome entirely this misery of forgetfulness. Sure it is that water cleaves the hardest rocks with a single drop striking there for a long period. Do you know why you have not overcome this misery? Because you have not perceived that it is sin." Constancy of pursuit is success' little secret.

Chapter 110 Allaah, the Most Merciful, unceasingly grants us HIS, bounty. HE, All Glory Be To HIM, should be thanked with every breath that we take. "Jesus answered: "Truly I say to you, one cannot attain to such condition by human powers, but rather by the mercy of God our Lord. It is true indeed that man ought to desire the good in order that God may give it him. Tell me, when you are at table do you take those meats which you would not so much as look at? No, assuredly. Even so I say to you that you shall not receive that which you will not desire. God is able, if you desire holiness, to make you holy in less time than the twinkling of an eye, but in order that man may be sensible of the gift and the giver our God wills that we should wait and ask." The fast of the soul is broken when one sins. "For to none is it lawful to sin." 005.035 "O ye who believe! Do your duty to Allah, seek the means of approach unto Him, and strive with might and main in his cause: that ye may prosper." Al-Qur'an, 005.035 (Al-Maeda [The Table, The Table Spread]) 017.018 "If any do wish for the transitory things (of this life), We readily grant them - such things as We will, to such person as We will: in the end have We provided Hell for them: they will burn therein, disgraced and rejected." 017.019 "Those who do wish for the (things of) the Hereafter, and strive therefor with all due striving, and have Faith,- they are the ones whose striving is acceptable (to Allah)." Al-Qur'an, 017.018-019 (Al-Isra [Isra, The Night Journey, Children of Israel]). From the foregoing quotes, it should be noted that Allaah; The Most Merciful, The Beneficent, The Sovereign, Will give you that which you "strive" for. All Praise, Glory and Honour Be To HIM; Be HE Blessed, For Evermore.

Chapter 111 Satan will strive to disrupt the communication between man and Allaah, The Dominant, The Sovereign. "But beware that Satan will use all his strength [to bring it to pass] that you [shall] watch during the night, and afterward be sleeping when by commandment of God you ought to be praying and listening to the word of God." "....Woe to the world, because with this and with greater sin is its heart weighed down! Accordingly, when I said to you that laughter should be turned into weeping, feasts into fasting, and sleep into watching, I compassed in three words all that you have heard that here on earth one ought always to weep, and that weeping should be from the heart, because God our creator is offended; that you ought to fast in order to have lordship over the sense, and to watch in order not to sin; and that bodily weeping and bodily fasting and watching should be taken according to the constitution of each one."


*Chapter 114 Man's sense's being overwhelmed, he has too much good in the world and must work, suffer tribulation and loss of goods. And needs to do penitence to atone for sins, seeing that The Almighty GOD, Allaah; pardoned not (Lucifer) the angel nor [Adam, PBUH] the first man, HE {All Praise Is Due HIM, Alone} would cut man down and commit him to Hell, as producing no fruit of good works but idolatry - Evil - continually. 002.155 "Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere, 002.156 Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return":- 002.157 "They are those on whom (Descend) blessings from Allah, and Mercy, and they are the ones that receive guidance." Al-Qur'an, 002.155-002.157 (Al-Baqara [The Cow]) A. Yusuf Ali Translations.

"Whereupon the Law of God says that man has too much good in this life, and so it is necessary that he should suffer tribulation and be deprived of earthly goods, in order that he may do good works. Therefore our God waits for man to be penitent...." Verses quoted of David and Job [PBUT] not found in the Bible. Job 34:11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to [his] ways. Job 37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work. And David PBUH, say's: Also unto thee, O Lord, [belongeth] mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work - Psalms 62:12.


Chapter 115 "Let man say somewhat to me. What has he brought into the world, by reason of which he would live in idleness? Certain it is that he was born naked, and incapable of anything. Hence, of all that he has found, he is not the owner, but the dispenser. And he will have to render an account thereof in that dreadful day." The brute beast - debased mind, ("666")* - is of ones own household, as the abominable lust in man. The unbridled, unreasoned, wanton desire, forced through the bounds of intellect and affection - ought to be greatly feared as being the enemy - the Shaytaan, the father of sin, lust. So it is not possible to go any place where your enemy may not come, until you do penitence and then rein-in, stabilize, and with Spiritual truths, purify, the lower self / soul; which is from the higher Self/Soul, whom awaits your return. This chapter states that there were eighty-three people in the ark with Prophet Noah [PBUH]. 011.040 At length, behold! there came Our command, and the fountains of the earth gushed forth! We said: "Embark therein, of each kind two, male and female, and your family - except those against whom the word has already gone forth,- and the Believers." but only a few believed with him. Al-Qur'an, 011.040 (Hud [Hud]). Genesis 7:13 counts only eight people. And from Noah's [PBUH] three son's was the earth re-populated Genesis 9:18-19. 011.048 The word came: "O Noah! Come down (from the Ark) with peace from Us, and blessing on thee and on some of the peoples (who will spring) from those with thee: but (there will be other) peoples to whom We shall grant their pleasures (for a time), but in the end will a grievous penalty reach them from Us." Al-Qur'an, 011.048 (Hud [Hud]). A. Yusuf Ali Translation. [ See *"666" pgs. 26,56,190,etc."The Apocalypse Unsealed" by James Morgan Pryse.]


Chapter 116 - 117 Prophet Isa [PBUH] discourses on idolatry. [Qur'an's support 16:87; 17:57; 25:17; 66:6] The following story it would seem, is found only in this gospel - the story of Elijah [PBUH]. "It behoves a man to live in the city, even as the soldier lives when he has enemies around the fortress, defending himself against every assault and always fearing treachery on the part of the citizens. Even so, I say, let him repel every outward enticement of sin, and fear the sense, because it has a supreme desire for things impure. But how shall he defend himself if he bridle not the eye, which is the origin of every carnal sin?" "Elijah answered: "May our God pardon you, O brother, because as regards me I know that you have told me the truth, seeing that the more I hate myself the more I love God, and if you saw me you would still your desire, which is not pleasing to God. For Elijah is not your creator, but God; whence, so far as concerns you, I am the devil," said Elijah weeping, "because I turn you aside from your creator. Weep then, O brother, because you have not that light which would make you see the true from the false, for if you had had that you would not have despised my doctrine. Wherefore I say to you, that many desire to see me and come from far to see me, who despise my words. Wherefore it were better for them, for their salvation, that they had no eyes, seeing that everyone that finds pleasure in the creature, be he who he may, and seeks not to find pleasure in God, has made an idol in his heart, and forsaken God." Then Jesus said, sighing: "Have you understood all that Elijah said?" The disciples answered: "In truth, we have understood, and we are beside ourselves at the knowledge that here on earth there are very few that are not idolaters."


Chapter 118 Guarding the eyes is an act of protection from lust. "If, then, the eye shall not be guarded, O Andrew, I tell you that it is impossible not to fall headlong into lust." "Wherefore Jeremiah the prophet, weeping vehemently, said truly: "My eye is a thief that robs my soul." The preceding verse is not found in the Old Testament. "For truly everything which has an end is vain." And be it known that there is no thing in this world, that is of permanence. All is temporary, and of fleeting duration. The Spirit world, the world of the Soul, Is, of permanence.


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