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MISCONCEPTIONS
ABOUT ISLAM |
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| Muslims respect
and revere Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him), and await
his Second Coming. They consider him one of the greatest of God's messengers
to mankind. A Muslim never refers to him simply as 'Jesus', but always
adds the phrase (Peace Be Upon Him) (abbreviated
as (P. B. U. H.) here),
The Noble Qur-an confirms his virgin birth (a chapter
of the Qur-an is entitled 'Mary'),
and Mary is considered the purest woman in all creation. The Qur-an
describes the Annunciation as follows: "Behold!" the angle said, 'God has chosen you, and purified you, and chosen you above the women of all nations. O Mary, God gives you good news of a word from Him whose name shall be the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, honored in this world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near to God. He shall speak to the people from his cradle and in maturity, and shall be of the righteous.' She said: 'O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man has touched me?' He said: "Even so; God creates what He will. When He decrees a thing, He says to it, "Be!" and it is." (Qur-an, 3:42-47)  |
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| Jesus (Peace
Be Upon Him) was born miraculously through the same power, which
had brought Adam (Peace Be Upon Him) in to
being without a father: "Truly, the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He created him out of dust, and then said to him, 'Be!' and he was." (Qur-an, 3:59) During his prophetic mission Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) performed many miracles. The Qur-an tells us that he said: "I have come to you with a sign from your Lord: I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, and breathe into it and it becomes a bird by God's leave. And I heal the blind, and the lepers, and I raise the dead by God's leave." (Qur-an 3:49) |
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| Neither Muhammad
(Peace Be Upon Him) nor Jesus (Peace
Be Upon Him) came to change the basic doctrine of the belief in
One God brought by earlier prophets, but to confirm and renew it. In the
Noble Qur-an Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) is
reported as saying that he came: "To attest the Torah which was before me. And to make lawful to you part of what was forbidden unto you; I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear God and obey me." (Qur-an 3:50) The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) said: "Whoever believes that there is no god but Allah, alone without partner, that Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) is His messenger, that Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) is the servant and messenger of God, His word breathed into Mary and a spirit emanating from Him, and that Paradise and Hell are true, Allah will make him enter Paradise." |
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