Hi. I truly feel honored with this current opportunity of becoming acquainted with the Islam tenets through the information you have provided. Tank you for sharing.
Hi marcoav, my pleasure!
In fact, the strength of Tahawi Beliefs of Ahl al-Sunna reinforces my view that, among all the previous religions given by God to the various evolving groups of people from East to Middle East, the religion of Islam is the highest and perfected Message from the Great Hierarch
That much is indeed true...
but not this bit, for God is One and has no partners, thus He is not the hierarchy amongst three 'gods' or 'three parts of god'; God has no need for partners for He is infinetely great and independent of everything and can do all things without effort or without anything decreasing from His Kingdom or His powers being debelitated in the slightest; nor can all of creation ever harm God or ever benifit God; God is the supreme and infenetely supreme, thus He remains the One and Only for all of eternity and everything other tham Him is His creation and under His total control;
this is basically the Message given by all of the Prophets too, such as Moses saying that God is One [first of the 'ten commandments']; there is in the ten commandements too that no image should be associated with God; so when all of the Prophets message is in accordance with the last and final one, then surely something went wrong when it is imagined that Jesus [pbuh] radically changed this message to a polythiestic one; God corrects the distortions of Jesus' [pbuh] real message in the last revelation; the Quran as thus:
Surah IV, vs. 171: 伀 People of the Book! Commit not excesses in your religion; nor say of God aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of God, and His Word [i.e God said 'Be' and Jesus was], which He bestowed on Mary, and a [created] Spirit proceeding from Him; so believe in God and His apostles. Say not "Trinity": desist: It will be better for you: for God is One God; Glory be to Him: (Far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is God as a Disposer of affairs.
Surah V, vs. 119: And behold! God will say: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Didst thou say unto men, Worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of God?" He (Jesus) will say: "Glory to Thee! Never could I say what I have no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, Thou wouldst indeed have known it. Thou knowest what is in my heart, though I know not what is in Thine. For Thou knowest in full all that is hidden.
Vs. 120: "Never said I to them aught except what Thou Didst command me to say, to wit, "Worship God, my Lord and your Lord'; and I was a witness over them whilst I dwelt amongst them; when thou didst take me up Thou wast the Watcher over them, and Thou art a witness to all things.
Surah LXI, Vs. 6: And remember, Jesus, the son of Mary, said: "O Children of Israel! I am the apostle of God (sent) to you, confirming the Law (which came) before me, and giving Glad Tidings of an apostle to come after me, whose name shall be "Ahmad". But when he came to them with Clear Signs, they said, "This is evident sorcery!.
In the Holy Qur'an, Jesus (PBUH) refers to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) as "Ahmad". The word "Ahmad" and "Muhammad" both have the same meaning which is "To praise God", derived from the Arabic word "HAMD" meaning "Praise".
Those who say that the Messiah, son of Maryam, is the third of three are disbelievers. There is no god but One God. (The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 5, Verse 73)
[the reason why Jesus [pbuh] is reffered to in the Quran as 'the son of Mary' [when in Arabic culture, sons are called by their fathers name, i.e, Muhammad Ibn Abdullah [Muhammad son of Abdullah], is becasue he ahd no father and only has a mother as a parent.]
Regarding Jesus [pbuh's] miracle birth, God says:
Surah III, vs. 45: Behold! the angels said: "O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the one of Mary, held in honour in this world and the Hereafter and of (the company of) those nearest to God.
Vs. 46: "He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity and he shall be (of the company) of the righteous."
Vs. 47: She said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?" He said: "Even so: God createth what He willeth: When He hath decreed a Plan, He but saith to it, "Be", and it is!
[the miracle birth of Jesus [pbuh] without a father, does not in anyway indicate that God is Jesus' father, for to attribute a son to God is an enormity!
; all miracles that Prophets were blessed with is to prove to the people that they were indeed Prophets/Messengers of God; nothing else...; regarding this miracle and others that God granted to Jesus, He says:
Indeed the likeness of ‘Eesaa (Jesus) before Allaah is as the likeness of Adam. He created him from dust, then (He) said to him: "Be!" – and he was. [Aal ‘Imraan: 59]
{The truth from your Lord, so be not of those who doubt.} [Aal ‘Imraan: 60]
Allah [swt] quotes Jesus [pbuh] as saying:
Lo! I come unto you with a sign from your Lord. Lo! I fashion for you out of clay the likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it and it is a bird by Allah’s leave. I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead, by Allah’s leave. And I announce to you what you eat and what you store up in your houses. Lo! herein verily is a portent for you if you are to be believers.
And (I come) confirming that which was before me of the Torah, and to make lawful some of that which was forbidden unto you. I come unto you with a sign from your Lord, so keep your duty to Allah and obey me. Lo! Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a straight path. (Qur’an 3: 49-51).
Jesus [pbuh] is and was reffered to as 'the Spirit of Allah' and He was given the powers of healing [by Allah's leave], as Jesus [pbuh] was the embodiment of spirituality, possibly more so than all other Prophets, as [if I remember correctly] he hardly ate, hardly slept, and didn't even have a fixed abode and used to wander around..., thus he hardly had a 'worldly' aspect to him at all; Allah made Jesus [pbuh] thus as that type of spirituality was needed to balance of the desease of extreme materialism that was around at his era; He was given the miracle of healing as at his time, being a physicist and making medicine was the art of the day thus Allah gave Jesus [pbuh] a miracle to top all of that and show that Jesus' miracles were indeed from Allah [Just as Allah granted Moses an apt miracle to prevail all of the 'majic' that was rampant in his age, etc]
'The 'spirit of Allah' simply means, the spirit belonging to Allah, just as a car belonging to me can be called 'the car of Abdullah' and not meaning ofcourse that the car is part of me.
Here are some links that show how the Bible itself indicates Jesus being none other than a servant and mere mortal of God, who used to worship God and called people to the worship of God and not himself [and when we take into considration the numerous evident distortions/contradictions in the Bible, then it becomes apperant that any verses that indicate Jesus was divine in any way are fabrications of men or iether misinterpreted]:
If Jesus was God ... (www.islaam.org.uk)
Jesus in the Qur'an
hope that helps
Peace
