This Is Islam Uncovered

🌳 The Grafted Branch That Became Its Own Tree: Why Islam Is Not a Continuation of Biblical Faith

Islam claims to be a continuation and correction of Judaism and Christianity — a grafted branch on the tree of biblical revelation. But the theological fruit it produces contradicts the very roots it claims, and after Muhammad’s death, the graft gave way to an entirely new tree—with different roots, trunk, and fruit. What began as a narrative of continuity ended as a religion of replacement and rupture.

1. 🌿 The Grafted Branch: Islam’s Claim to Continuity

Islam positions itself as part of the Abrahamic tradition, presenting the Qur’an as the final, uncorrupted revelation. It affirms the Torah and the Gospel as once-valid scriptures and includes biblical figures like Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. This serves a strategic function: to legitimize Islam by attaching it to the long-standing monotheistic heritage of Judaism and Christianity.

“He has sent down the Book to you with truth, confirming what came before it. And He revealed the Torah and the Gospel.” – Qur’an 3:3
“To you We sent the Scripture in truth, confirming the scripture that came before it and guarding it in safety.” – Qur’an 5:48

This is the grafted branch metaphor in action — Islam tries to plug itself into the theological trunk of the earlier revelations. But a graft is only valid if it produces compatible fruit. This is where Islam fails the test.

2. 🍋 Contradictory Fruit: The Theological Rejection of Its Roots

Despite its claim of confirmation, Islam rejects the most central doctrines of both Judaism and Christianity:

🔻 A. God’s Nature:

Judaism and Christianity: God is personal, relational, covenantal.
Christianity: God is triune — Father, Son, and Spirit.
Islam: Allah is radically one, impersonal, unknowable, and not triune.

Islam denies the Trinity (Qur’an 4:171) and replaces relational intimacy with strict submission.

🔻 B. Jesus’ Identity:

Christianity: Jesus is the incarnate Son of God, crucified, and risen.
Islam: Jesus (Isa) is a human prophet, not divine, and was not crucified (Qur’an 4:157).

This isn’t a clarification. It’s a direct contradiction of Christian revelation.

🔻 C. Salvation and Covenant:

Judaism: Righteousness through faith and covenant obedience.
Christianity: Grace through faith in Christ’s atonement.
Islam: Salvation by works, submission, fear, and law.

The Gospel of grace is replaced by a religion of merit and external conformity.

The result? Different doctrines, different goals, and ultimately, a different God.

3. 🪚 After Muhammad: The Graft Is Abandoned

While Muhammad’s Qur’anic claim was one of continuity, what emerged after his death (632 CE) was a religion that looked nothing like Judaism or Christianity. The grafted branch broke off, and Islam planted its own tree:

🕋 A. New Foundation: Hadith and Sharia

Thousands of hadiths (sayings attributed to Muhammad) were compiled generations later, becoming central to Islamic law and belief.
Sharia law emerged not from the Torah or Gospel, but from hadith, juristic opinion, and state-sanctioned consensus.

Islam became a post-Qur’anic religion, shaped more by empire and legalism than revelation.

⚖️ B. Legal Overhaul:

Sharia replaced both Mosaic law and Christian grace.
Punishments (amputations, stonings), ritual law (wudu, dietary rules), and political rules (jizya, dhimmi status) codified a new legal system foreign to both Jewish halakha and Christian ethics.

🏛 C. Theocratic Empire:

Early caliphates (Umayyad, Abbasid) merged state power with religious authority.
Islam became not just a faith, but a total system—legal, military, political, and economic.

Unlike the early church or Israelite prophetic tradition, Islam was born into empire.

4. 🌳 Islam as a New Tree: A Separate Religion in Essence

Despite its claims of being the "final revelation," Islam bears no theological DNA from its supposed predecessors:

Category	Judaism	Christianity	Islam
View of God	One, covenantal	Triune, relational	One, distant, impersonal
Jesus	False messiah (Judaism)	Divine Savior	Prophet, not crucified
Salvation	Obedience and faith	Grace through Christ	Works and submission
Authority	Torah	Bible (Old & New Testaments)	Qur’an + Hadith
End Times	Awaited Messiah	Return of Christ	Mahdi + Isa destroys cross

What began as a borrowed narrative became a new religion with a new structure. Islam isn't the completion of the biblical arc—it’s a rewriting of the entire script.

5. 🧠 Logical Breakdown: 5 Laws of Logic Islam Violates in Claiming Continuity

1. Law of Non-Contradiction

You cannot affirm the Torah and Gospel as divine (Qur’an 5:48) and simultaneously contradict their content (e.g., Jesus' crucifixion, deity).

2. Law of Identity

If the Christian Jesus is divine and crucified, and the Islamic Jesus is neither, they are not the same person—regardless of name.

3. Law of Excluded Middle

Islam cannot be both a continuation and a rejection of the prior revelations. Either it aligns or it doesn't. It doesn’t.

4. Law of Sufficient Reason

Islam offers no historical, textual, or forensic reason to believe the Torah and Gospel were corrupted—just assertion without evidence.

5. Law of Consistency

A religion that claims to confirm previous scripture must preserve its core claims. Islam preserves the names, but changes the meanings—a bait-and-switch, not a fulfillment.

🔥 Conclusion: Islam Is Not a Graft — It’s a Substitution

The metaphor of the grafted branch reveals Islam’s attempt to draw legitimacy from the biblical tradition. But the graft never took—and after Muhammad’s death, the branch grew in another direction entirely.

It changed the character of God.
It denied the cross.
It invented new laws.
It politicized prophecy.
It erased redemptive history.

Islam didn’t grow from biblical revelation. It hijacked its vocabulary, rejected its theology, and planted a new system in the soil of Arabian tribal politics and imperial ambition.

📌 Final Word:

Islam is not the third branch of Abrahamic faith.
It is a cut-and-paste ideology masquerading as continuity, but rooted in contradiction.
A different tree. A different god. A different gospel.