ALYOSHIN. LUTHER. KHALIFATE.

ALYOSHIN.  LUTHER.  KHALIFATE.

1. The international diplomatic coalition of 30 states was created to counteract the new khalifate during the special conference in the French Presidential Palace in Paris on 15 September 2014. It includes France, USA, UK, Germany and even Russia (which was invited in spite of the Ukraine and Crimea crises). Then the USA created the broader international military coalition of 50 states to begin the “hot war” to demolish the khalifate (of them only US, France and Shiah Iraqi troops with the Yezidic Kurdish militia have really begun the military actions). These steps obviously are not effective and, may be, even counter-productive. The reasons of such a conclusion are given further.

2. The khalifate is not a mere military either political or diplomatic phenomenon. It is the theological one. It exists in the beliefs and minds of the khalifate idea adepts. Therefore, even in the case of a total destruction of the khalifate military and political system it will continue to exist inside the heads of thousands of the US, UK, French, German, etc. citizens, who will go on fighting straightly inside those countries.

3. The cause of such a situation is in the essence of the khalifate idea. The Arabic word “khalif” (Arabic pronunciation “khalifa”) means “the deputy” (of the prophet or of the envoy of the God Almighty). It is equal in meaning to the word “vicar”. As the Roman Pope names himself “the vicar of Jesus Christ”, so the khalif is the today deputy or the actual vicar of the prophet Muhammad. Thus, the idea of khalifate means, that every Moslem must fulfill all the commandments of the acting khalif, considering it to be the religious duty, the breaking of which must be punished with death.

4. Consequently, the counteraction to the khalifate must have the theological basis. We have here the wonderful historical example. The Ottoman Emperor Suleiman the Magnificent, who also called himself “the khalif”, brought the khalifate armies straightly into the heart of Europe during his reign (1520 – 1566). This terrible invasion made Charles V – the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire – adopt the Augustan Confession (Augsburg, 1530), written by Melanchthon, and stop the persecution of the Protestants (in order to have the military and diplomatic anti-khalifate coalition with the Protestant princes). Doctor Martin Luther (the spiritual and theological leader of the Reformation, the professor of the University in Wittenberg) managed to explain to that coalition leaders, that for the effective actions they need understand the theology and ideology of the khalifate. Therefore, Luther suggested to print (with the that time most progressive technology, using the Gutenberg machine) the Koran in Latin (translated in XI century by the famous Benedictine Peter of Cluny). This suggestion had been approved by the Emperor and all the princes, and 1000 copies of the Koran in Latin appeared in 1534 in Wittenberg. All the European princes, all the known theologists and Universities received their own copies of the Koran in an understandable for all educated people language. Thus, Luther, who is known, as the publicator of the first printed Bible in German, is also the publicator of the first printed Koran in the European language. I had a privilege to work with the volume of this splendid edition in 2012 in the Wittenberg Luther-house. For sure, Luther criticized the Koran theology (e.g., in the rather severe preface to the named edition), but, in any case, his publication was the beginning of mutual understanding through the dialogue (though, may be, extramural and unformalized) between Christians and Moslems, between Bible-readers and Koran-readers.

5. Today I also suggest to have such a dialogue through the study of the Bible-Koran interactions and through discussing them in the specially organized Bible-Koran seminars (watch: “Peacemaker”, isaurian.blogspot.com, 25 September 2012; “Biblical prophecy about Islam”, isaurian.blogspot.com, 03 August 2014). Indeed, I have discovered, that the Bible contains the prophecies about Koran and about Islam, while the Koran expounds the Tovrat (Torah), Zabur (Psalter), all the Bible prophets’ books and Injil (New Testament). Koran calls to read and to use all those books, prescribing, sure, the special method of reading or frame of reading (“Koran” means “reading”). This situation gives a very wide possibility for a dialogue, for a scientific, theological and peacemaking discussion.

6. The invasion to Europe of khalif Suleiman caused the peace between Catholics and Protestants, the beginning of the theological dialogue between Christians and Moslems and theologically based effective counteraction to the khalifate threat. Today it is obviously necessary to use my discoveries and suggested by me practical methods of the Bible-Koran interactions based dialogue to counteract the threat of the modern khalifate, to prevent the explosion of the khalifate adepts’ terror, to establish the firm peace on the Earth!

7. The Holy Spirit through Paul calls us: “Imitatores mei estote sicut et ego christi” (V, 1 Cor., 4:16), i.e. “Imitate me, as I imitate Christ”. Today we call all the leaders of the states of the anti-khalifate coalitions: “Imitate Emperor Charles V to use the theological methods of Luther to counteract the khalifate! Use the Bible discoveries and the theologically based practical methods of N. E. Alyoshin to counteract the modern khalifate threat!’

8. “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matthew, 11:15).

9. Peace unto you! (John, 20:19)

Professor   Nicholas Eugene Alyoshin

(Aleshin Nikolay Evgenievich

e-mail: isaurian@gmail.com

blog: isaurian.blogspot.com)