Muhammad

I was surprised that when I read this reading, it sounded very much like I was reading from a Bible. Muhammad talks about God as "the first and last", "He makes the night give way to the day and the day to the night, and He knows the innermost heart." Muhammad even says God "created the heavens and the earth in six days and then assumed His throne." Those sound like quotes right out of the Bible. That really amazed me.

I have seen and heard so much of the differences of faiths, that to hear such similarities, really surprised me. That doesn't erase the differences, but it does help me gain some common ground and understanding.