The Holy Mother and Son Revered by the Holy Qur’an | ||
The Holy Mother and Son Revered by the Holy Qur’an Processed by: Zahra Ejlal Translated by: Shiva Mirhasani
Messiah (Jesus Christ) in the HolyQur’an The personality presented by the HolyQur’an regarding Prophet Jesus Christ- The Messiah (AS) - is by far more sublime and lofty than that presented in the Bible(s) presently available.The HolyQur’an confirms certain beliefs of the Christians about Prophet Jesus Christ (AS) and rejects some others, including trinity and the crucifixion. The Birth of Christ Jesus is the son of Mary who is the daughter of Imran. The wonderful life of Mary with its story has come in the HolyQur’an with certain details. It is said that due to the vow of her mother, Mary went to Jerusalem, then after an event Prophet Zachariahaccepted her guardianship through a draw. To give an answer to those who claim that Jesus is God, in verse 45 of Al-I Imran and other verses of the HolyQur’an, Jesus is introduced as the son of Mary. For one who is born by a mother and goes through all the stages of evolution of fetus which is the characteristic of matter cannot be considered as God. And as we know God -The Almighty is not subjected to any change or evolution. The Holy Qur’an says: “He said, ‘So shall it be. Your Lord says, “It is simple for Me.” And so that We may make him a sign for mankind and a mercy from Us, and it is a matter [already] decided.’ Thus she conceived him, then withdrew with him to a distant place. The birth pangs brought her to the trunk of a date palm. She said, ‘I wish I had died before this and become a forgotten thing, beyond recall.’ Thereupon he called her from below her [saying] ‘Do not grieve! Your Lord has made a spring to flow at your feet. Shake the trunk of the palm tree, freshly picked dates will drop upon you. Eat, drink and be comforted. Then if you see any human, say, “Indeed I have vowed a fast to the All-beneficent, so I will not speak to any human today.”Maryam 21-26 When people found out that Mary was pregnant, they started to denounce her by saying:“Your father was a good man, then how come you have become a bad girl and became pregnant while you are not married….” When Mary was laboring, she asked the Lord: “Oh God! what should I do?” Then the voice of angel said to her:“Leave the city.” Then Mary went to a place outside the city where there was a dry date tree, and then God asked Mary to sway the tree, then there were fresh dates ready from that dry tree by miracle and occult power, Mary ate from those dates and eventually she gave birth to her child. Mary gave birth to his son away from the sight of people and then she went among the people, she was reprimanded by them. By God's command, Mary told those people to ask the child. “Then Jesus said, ‘Indeed I am a servant of Allah! He has given me the Book and made me a prophet. He has made me blessed, wherever I may be, and He has enjoined me to [maintain] the prayer and to [pay] the Zakat as long as I live, and to be good to my mother, and He has not made me self-willed and wretched.” The Holy Qur’an, Maryam 30-33. By this way God saved Mary from their accusations in a miraculous way. Mary, the choice of God As Qur’an said: “And when the angels said, ‘O Mary, Allah has chosen you and purified you, and He has chosen you above the world’s women. O Mary, be obedient to your Lord, and prostrate and bow down [in worship].’ ” The Holy Qur’an , Al-i Imran 42-43 Mary, the interlocutor to angels Indeed Islam has regarded women with great values. In fact whereas women were looked down upon in societies, the HolyQur’an describes women with high values, women can reach to a position that they can talk to angels of God. As the Holy Qur’an says: “When the angels said, ‘O Mary, Allah gives you the good news of a Word from Him whose name is Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, distinguished in the world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near[to Allah].”The HolyQur’an, Al-iImran 45-46 “We revealed to Moses’ mother, [saying], ‘Nurse him; then, when you fear for him, cast him into the river, and do not fear or grieve, for We will restore him to you and make him one of the apostles.'"The Holy Qur’an, Al-Qasas 7 “Thereupon he (that is the angel Gabriel, or the baby Jesus, whom she was carrying in the belly) Called her from below her [saying,] ‘Do not grieve! Your Lord has made a spring to flow at your feet.” The Holy Qur’an, Maryam 24 In order to put away the bulk of accusations away from Virgin Mary, for she gave birth to that child without a husband, and to console her, the HolyQur’an says:“He will speak to people in the cradle and in adulthood, and will be one of the righteous.” Al-i–Imran 46 Mary, is the guest of God God will entertain Mary during her pregnancy. As we read in the HolyQur’an:“Shake the trunk of the palm tree, freshly picked dates will drop upon you.” Maryam, 25 Jesus is a servant of God as the others are! Christ's birth without the father can never be a reason to believe he is God, because the creation of Adam was even harder, since he did not even have a mother. The first word that Jesus said after he was born was: “Indeed I am a servant of Allah! He has given me the Book and made me a prophet. He has made me blessed, wherever I may be, and He has enjoined me to maintain the prayer and to [pay] the Zakat as long as I live, and to be good to my mother, and He has not made meself- willed and wretched.” The Holy Qur’an, Maryam 30-33 Trinity According to the HolyQur’an, Trinity is considered as idolatry and blasphemy, and Jesus himself has renounced it. As the Holy Qur’an says: “They are certainly faithless who say, ‘Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary.’ But the Messiah had said, ‘O Children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. Indeed whoever ascribes partners to Allah, Allah shall forbid him [entry into] paradise, and his refuge shall be the Fire, and the wrongdoers will not have any helpers.’ They are certainly faithless who say, ‘Allah is the third [person] of a trinity.’ while there is no god except the One God. If they do not relinquish what they say, there shall befall the faithless among them a painful punishment.” Al-Ma’idah 72-73 They never killed or hanged Jesus Christ, but by mistake they hanged another man who had similarity to him. Those who argued about Jesus, they themselves were in doubt about their own beliefs, and they were following some illusions and false ideas. “And for their faithlessness, and their uttering a monstrous calumny against Mary, and for their saying, ‘We killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, the apostle of Allah’- though they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but so it was made to appear to them. Indeed those who differ concerning him are surely in doubt about him: they do not have any knowledge of that beyond following conjectures, and certainly they did not kill him. Rather Allah raised him up toward Himself, and Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.” The Holy Qur’an, Al-Nisa 156-158 But in a verse we read: “When Allah said:"O Jesus, I shall take you[r soul], and I shall raise you up toward Myself, and I shall clear you of [the calumnies of] the faithless, and I shall set those who follow you above the faithless until the Day of Resurrection.”Al-i Imran 55 Jesus is mentioned about 33 times in the Holy Qur’an and we Muslims hold Prophet Jesus (AS) in great reverence.
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