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Darren Allatt's avatar

Hi Lufti,

I’m not well enough educated on Islam to be able to offer a thorough explanation, but I will do my best.

Where most of the Christian elements come, such as this Albert Pike and Lucifer thing, in is in the Scottish Rite which is a Christian order.

But the views and misconceptions are then applied incorrectly to the Craft.

Sure even though some of the AASR in more recent times have been secularised and there are “universal” chapters that have removed the Christian elements, it’s still at its foundation a Christian order.

But, in terms of reconciling Islam and Craft Freemasonry -

From Wikipedia:

“The Quran states that several prior writings constitute holy books given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, in the same way the Quran was revealed to Muhammad. These include the Tawrat (Torah/Old Testament), believed by Muslims to have been given by God to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, the Zabur (used in reference to the Psalms)[1] revealed to David (Dawud); and the Injil revealed to Jesus (Isa).”

So how I interpret this, is because the Old Testament which the Craft degrees is based on, is by the Quaran defined to be a Holy Book, it makes Islam and Craft Masonry compatible.

I would encourage you to view the teaching of the Craft through the lens do the Quaran.

But it sounds like an article I should consider to offer some interpretation.

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Philip's avatar

You use lots of words describing stuff in freemasonry just like Roman Catholics explaining how they don't worship Mary.

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