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The point derived from these revealed texts is that God informs us in them that Jesus, as well other prophets beside him, hold a great position in Islam. And they contain information that his creation and the creation of his mother came about from the highest form of purity and that they both came from families that were firmly upon Islam and a pure state. These verses also contain mention of his Message, his miracles, and his call to believe in God's Lordship, to worship Him, fear Him and be dutiful to Him.

This speech concerning Jesus is just like God's speech concerning Adam and all of the messengers, with regard to their history, manners and call. They are true stories, there being no folklore or exaggeration in them at all. Muhammad and his followers believed this and loved the prophets from the bottom of their hearts. And they honored and respected all of the prophets amongst whom was Jesus, peace be upon him. And they held this to be one of the fundamental beliefs of their Religion, as Allah says:

"The Messenger (Muhammad) believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and so do the believers. Each one believes in Allah, His Angels, His Books and His Messengers. (They say): 'We make no distinction between one another of His Messengers', and they say: 'We hear and we obey. (We seek) Your Forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the return.'" [Quran 2:285]

And He says:

4. "And remember in the Book, (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew in seclusion from her family to a place facing east and placed a screen (to screen herself) from them. Then We sent to her Our spirit (the angel Gabriel), and he appeared before her in the form of a man, in all respects. She said: 'Verily, I seek refuge in the Most Gracious (Allah) from you, if you do fear Allah.' He (the angel) said: 'I am only a messenger from your Lord, (to announce) to you the gift of a righteous son.' She said: 'How can I have a son when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?' He said: 'So it will be. Your Lord said: 'That is easy for Me. And We wish to appoint him as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us. And it is a matter already decreed.' So she conceived him,⁶ and withdrew with him to a far away place (Bethlehem valley). The pains of childbirth were such that it drove her to the trunk of a date-palm tree. She said: 'Would that I had died before this, and had been forgotten and out of sight!' Then (the baby Jesus) cried out to her from below her, saying: 'Grieve not, your Lord has provided a water stream under you. Shake the trunk of the date-palm tree towards you, it will drop fresh ripe dates before you. So eat and drink and be glad. And if you see any human being, say: Verily, I have vowed a fast unto the Most Gracious, so I shall not speak to any human being this day.' Then she brought him (the baby) to her people, carrying him. They said: 'O Mary, indeed you have brought forth a tremendous thing! O (the likes of the) sister of Aaron!⁷ Your father was not a man who would commit adultery, nor was your mother an unchaste woman.' So she pointed to the baby. They said: 'How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?' He (Jesus) said (to them): 'Verily, I am a slave of Allah. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet. And He has made me blessed wherever I may be. And He has enjoined on me prayer and the giving of charity for as long as I live. And (He has enjoined me) to be dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me arrogant and wretched. And peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I shall die, and the day I will be raised alive.' Such is Jesus, son of Mary. This is a statement of truth about which they doubt. It is not befitting to Allah that He should beget a son. Far removed and exalted is He above such a thing! When He decrees a matter, He need only say: 'Be' to it and it is. (Jesus said): 'Verily, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him alone. This is the Straight Path.' Then the (Christian) sects differed between themselves, so woe unto the disbelievers from the meeting of a great Day (i.e. the Day of Resurrection). How clearly will they (the disbelievers) see and hear - the Day when they will appear before Us! But the wrongdoers today are in manifest error!" [Quran 19:16-38]

This true story explains what happened to Mary after God had raised her in a good manner with the care she received from that noble prophet (i.e. Zachariah) and after she had become reputed as a pious worshipper that was pure, chaste and honorable. So the time, which God designated to carry out His Will by creating Jesus in the manner He informed us He would, had now come: "Then We⁸ sent to her Our spirit, and he appeared before her in the form of a man, in all respects."

This refers to the angel Gabriel. So at the time this (miraculous) event took place, this pure and chaste woman had set out to devote herself to worshipping God, and she had placed a screen in front of her for this purpose in order to protect her honor and chastity and so that she can establish her worship. Then lo and behold, a human that was well-proportioned in his form and beauty suddenly appeared before her. So she demonstrated the signs of her chastity and modesty in this instance, saying: "Verily, I seek refuge in the Most Gracious (Allah) from you, if you do fear Allah."

Such a statement could only come from the heart of a true believer that seeks refuge and solace in God during times of grief and difficulty. And in her saying, she reminds and alerts (the angel in the form of a man) to be fearful of God. All of this was done in order to repel what occurred to her from this frightening and dangerous ordeal.

Then the noble messenger (Gabriel) gave her news that caused her fear to be removed and her heart to find tranquility: "I am only a messenger from your Lord, (to announce) to you the gift of a righteous son." So she replied in amazement: "How can I have a son when no man has touched me, nor am I unchaste?"

This is the normal way that children are conceived (i.e. through cohabitation). So the angel informed her: "So it will be. Your Lord said: 'That is easy for Me. And We wish to appoint him as a sign to mankind and a mercy from Us.'"

So creating the universe and all that it contains within it is something easy for God, as He says:

"The creation of you all and the resurrection of you all is nothing more than like the (creation and resurrection) of a single person." [Quran 31:28]

So this spirit blew (the life of Jesus) into her. And he was the angel Gabriel whom God sent for this great task to carry out His Command. So she conceived him, and withdrew with the baby in her womb to a far away place. There she gave birth to her child and was faced with the problem that any chaste and honorable woman like her would feel (i.e. slander of being a fornicator), so she wished she were dead. Then there came that which removed her fear and anxiety: "(The baby Jesus) cried out to her from below her, saying: 'Grieve not, your Lord has provided a water stream under you."

These were signs and miracles that increased her reliance, tranquility and faith in the fact that God would protect her, demonstrate that she was free from any claims of fornication, and manifest her honor and nobility. So all she needed to do was point to this infant that the slanderers used as a means to accuse her of fornication. "They said: 'How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?'"

So this child, whose speech they disregarded, startled them while he was still in his cradle through that amazing miracle, saying to them: "Verily, I am a slave of Allah. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet. And He has made me blessed wherever I may be. And He has enjoined on me prayer and giving of charity for as long as I live. And (He has enjoined me) to be dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me arrogant and wretched. And peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I shall die, and the day I will be raised alive."

These are truly some of Allah's incredible verses, in which He discusses the way Jesus was conceived and born and how he absolved his Virgin Mother from slander. Then these amazing verses provide an explanation of the mission and message of Jesus. Part of Jesus' great message was to clarify to the people that he was a servant of God, and remarkably, this was the first thing he said when he spoke to the people (from the cradle). The second thing he mentioned in his speech was his Message, saying: "He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet." Then the third thing he talked about was the effects of his call: "And He has made me blessed wherever I may be."

Then he went on to explain His religious laws and the religious laws of those messengers that came before him, saying: "And He has enjoined on me prayer and the giving of charity for as long as I live."

Then he talked about his beautiful characteristics, such as being righteous and dutiful, and how God did not give him the characteristics of the arrogant and wretched: "And (He has enjoined me) to be dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me arrogant and wretched."

Then Allah comments on everything he mentioned previously about Jesus and his mother, saying: "Such is Jesus, son of Mary. This is a statement of truth about which they doubt."

This is the true and definitive statement from the Lord who created Jesus and everyone else - the One who is All-Knowing and All-Aware of every miniscule and magnificent aspect of this universe and mankind, amongst whom was Jesus. Allah has indeed stated the truth about him, which cannot be blemished by the smallest speck of falsehood that the liars from amongst those doubtful and deviant individuals state about him. Allah has spoken the truth about him, which every person with an uncorrupted intellect and pure innate understanding will accept. This is also what all of the previous religious laws spoke about and that which the believers adhered to.

So all of these events that occurred, such as the angel Gabriel breathing into (the sleeve of) Jesus' mother, then her conceiving him and giving birth to him, the pains and hardships his mother faced because of that, her being absolved from these hardships by Allah causing her child to speak from the cradle, which proved that she was free from blame and which also proved that he was one of the slaves of God that He chose to be His prophet and messenger and to receive His Book, as well as his being mandated with the same tremendous religious laws that the prophets and messengers before him were mandated with, such as establishing the prayer, giving charity and being dutiful - all of this is the established and confirmed truth. And any claims and allegations that contradict this are false. So the attacks and accusations forged by the Jews against Jesus and his mother are all lies. And the claims made by their opponents - the Christians - with respect to Jesus alleging that he was God or the son of God or part of a divine trinity are also falsehood and misguidance, which no upright intellect, religious law or innate nature will accept.

The truth with regard to this matter is that which has been stated by God, the One who created Jesus and everyone else from beginning to end - jinn and mankind - for the purpose of worshipping Him. And He is the One who chose him as a slave and messenger, just as He chose others to carry and convey his Message to mankind, so that they may actualize the objective for which they were created - and that is to worship God alone and to make the religion sincerely for His sake.

Jesus indeed conveyed His Message in the best of manners, and he was at the forefront from his nation of those who worshipped and submitted themselves to God, speaking the truth openly from the time when he was in his cradle to his years of manhood up to the point when God raised him up to Him.⁹

This is the status of the prophet and messenger of God, Jesus, peace be upon him, in Islam and according to the Muslim nations. So this is the truth and anything else beside it is a lie and misguidance.

God is not in need of begetting a son. Attributing a child to Him is from the greatest forms of disbelief and misguidance, since it constitutes the highest level of insult and deficiency being ascribed to His Honor, Greatness and Lordship. This is since everything apart from God (the Creator) can only be one of His creations, and all of His creations submit themselves to His Honor and Grandness and are mandated to worship Him, whereas God is divine and free of begetting a child. This is why Allah says to those who ascribe a child to Him, and His speech is the truth:

"You have indeed brought forth something very terrible (i.e. an evil statement) - due to which the heavens are ready to tear apart, the earth split asunder, and the mountains fall in ruins. It is that they ascribe a child to the Most Merciful (i.e. God). However, it is not befitting for the (Majesty of the) Most Merciful that he should beget a child. There is none in the heavens and the earth except that he comes unto the Most Merciful as a servant. Verily, He knows each one of them, and has counted them a full counting. And each one of them will come to Him on the Day of Resurrection alone (and without any helpers)." [Quran 19:89-95]

And He says:

"Say: He is Allah, the One (Indivisible). Allah is the Self-Sufficient (in need of nothing). He begets not nor was He begotten. And there is no one coequal or comparable to Him." [Quran 112:1-4]

Allah said, talking to Prophet Muhammad:

"And warn those who say: 'God has begotten a child.' No knowledge have they of such a thing, nor their fathers. Abominable is the statement that comes out of their mouths. They utter nothing but a lie." [Quran 18:4-5]

So anyone that claims that God has a son is speaking nothing but lies, regardless of whether they are Arabs, who say that the angels are God's daughters, or Buddhists and Brahmans, who claim that for Buddha and Brahma, or the Christians, who claim that Jesus is the son of God, God Himself or part of a divine trinity. All of these are lies and fabrications on God. And in spite of this, all of these groups reject and deny each other - no group (amongst those mentioned above) accepts the views of their opponents. So the lies and fabrications are removed due to the fact that these groups all disbelieve in each other, and because of the fact that the Quran, Islam and Muslims disbelieve in them and their false claims, as do all upright minds and innate natures.

And all that remains is the clear truth that God informed us of in His miraculous Book, which falsehood cannot enter whether from in front of it or behind it. This is the magnificent Book (i.e. the Quran), which Allah uses to challenge the jinn and mankind to bring forth a book equal to it or ten chapters similar to it or at least one chapter similar to it. But they were unable to do this for more than 14 centuries. And they will never be able to accomplish this until the Day of Judgement.¹⁰

So what truer and stronger proof is there than the fact that the neither the jinn or mankind were able to produce any part of that Book that was brought by an unlettered man who could neither read or write (i.e. the Prophet Muhammad)? This proves that whatever He said about Jesus is the truth, and everything beyond it is nothing but falsehood.

The point derived from this is that the Quran has given Jesus his due right and granted him the honorable position that he deserves. And it has ensured that he will always be mentioned truthfully in a Quran (revealed Book) that is read repeatedly by Muslims in their homes and in their mosques, since they recite verses from the Quran related to Jesus in their prayers. This is the case with all of the other prophets and messengers of God.

Shouldn't all of this that Islam and the Muslims adhere to serve as an invitation for the Christians, particularly the rulers, popes, priests, monks and educators amongst them, to reflect, ponder and re-examine their stance towards Muhammad and the great and miraculous Book he came with, as well as their stance towards his followers who believed in Jesus as a prophet and messenger and in the (undistorted) Scripture that was revealed to him? This would hopefully lead to them in turn showing respect and honor for Muhammad, and to being just towards him and giving him the position he deserves amongst the prophets and messengers. So where is the return of courtesy?

Is it a return of friendly gesture that they put their hands in the hands of the Jews, who disbelieved in Jesus, denied him and slandered him and his mother with the vilest of towards him from the time he was born up to this very day of ours? Aren't they the ones who treated his followers with oppression and transgression, the likes of which would make one's skin shiver?

And they corrupted his Creed and his Religion as part of their scheme and plot, making Jesus, may Allah free him from this, into a myth of him being God or the son of God or part of a divine trinity, corrupting and nullifying his true Message. And they made his Religion and his followers into a joke and an amusement for those with common sense, let alone the most foolish of people. The plotters and schemers have changed it into a religion of a pagan myth, which those with true common sense would feel ashamed of.

Allah clarifies this point further in His saying:

5. "Verily, the example of Jesus in the sight of Allah is like the example of Adam - He created him from dust and then said to him 'Be' and he was. This is the truth from your Lord, so do not be from those who doubt. So whoever disputes with you concerning him (i.e. Jesus) after all this knowledge (about him) has come to you, say: 'Come, let us summon our children and your children, our women and your women and ourselves and yourselves and then invoke God to send His curses on those of us who is lying.' Verily, this is the true story (about Jesus). And there is no God that has the right to be worshipped except Allah. And indeed Allah is the All-Mighty, All-Wise." [Quran 3:59-62]

This great example is a decisive proof that cancels out all the claims of the Christians. This is because if it is not possible or correct according to sound minds, religious doctrines, and innate natures to claim that Adam, whom God created from dust with His Hands and breathed into him his soul, is God or the son of God or part of a divine trinity, then it is for all the more reason that such cannot be claimed for Jesus. This is since the creation of Adam was more remarkable and amazing than that of Jesus, as he was created from dust and dust is not part of the human race.

On the other hand, Jesus was created from a woman, who is part of the human race, and she carried him in her womb in the same manner that woman carry children, and gave birth to him in the same manner that women give birth to children. So this is from the greatest of proofs that invalidate the false claims and absurd misconceptions of the Christians.

Muhammad is a messenger of God and the Book that he brought (the Quran) is nothing but the truth revealed by God.

So whatever He said concerning Jesus is the truth - that he was a servant and messenger of God and that God created him just as He created everyone else - including the noble messengers - for the sole purpose of worshipping Him, subjecting themselves to His Majesty and submitting themselves to His Grandness.

Below are some examples taken from your Gospels11 that confirm and support what Muhammad came with from the Quran and his teachings. In the seventh verse of Chapter 4 of the Gospel of Mathew, it states:

1. "Jesus said to him: 'Again it is written, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'" [Matthew 4:7]

2. In this same chapter, there occurs a story about Jesus and the Devil, in which the Devil ordered Jesus to prostrate to him. So the Messiah Jesus responded to him, saying: "Be gone Satan, for it is written: 'You shall worship (prostrate only to) the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve (i.e. worship).'"

This is what all the messengers came with and it is the argument that Jesus used against the Devil. So this clearly proves that all of the prophets including Jesus and Muhammad came to establish that God was One and that He was the Lord and only One deserving of being worshipped.

Jesus relied on the previously revealed books (from God) as proof, which state that God is the only Lord and that He is the only One who has the right to be worshipped and prostrated to.