Speaking about celebrating a religious festival in a particular month, the last edition addressed how it is used more to exercise power and display a sense of majority over actually finding the need of a true living God in human lives. Christmas is not a religious festival nor an event to be celebrated by Christians alone. That is a completely wrong assumption. In that connection the last week edition pointed out verses from Upanishad and Vedas and Puranas about the mention of the Saviour named Jesus and His virgin birth. You may click HERE in case you missed the same.
This week let’s see how Jesus is mentioned in Quran.
A passage in the Quran (Sura Al-Imran 3:42-55)
“42 And when the angels said: O Maryam! Surely Allah has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the world.
43 O Maryam!
Keep to obedience to your Lord and humble yourself, and bow down with those who
bow.
44 This is of
the announcements relating to the unseen which We reveal to you; and you were
not with them when they cast their pens (to decide) which of them should have
Maryam in his charge, and you were not with them when they contended one with
another.
45 When the
angels said: O Maryam, surely Allah gives you good news with a Word from Him
(of one) whose name is the Messiah, Isa (referred to Jesus) son of Maryam,
worthy of regard in this world and the hereafter and of those who are made near
(to Allah). . .”
To summarize
three things are about Isa (Jesus):
1 Isa is holy. The passage describes Isa as the Word of Allah (Allah
is the standard Arabic word for God); he is the Ruhullah (Spirit of
God), and he is the Messiah whose name means Savior, He is righteous and born
of a virgin.
2 Isa is powerful. He gave sight to the
blind, healed lepers and raised the dead, It is a Muslim’s duty to Allah to
obey Isa. To know what Isa has told us to do, we must read the Injil (which
is the four gospels in the Bible).
3 Isa knows the
way to heaven. Allah
raised Jesus to himself. Isa is in heaven and knows the way to heaven. Those
who follow Isa are above those who disbelieve.
The intention of this article is to encourage you to find the true story of Christmas from the Bible. If all books history, archaeology, sociology, science and world religion point to this Savior Jesus, then probably it’s worth finding the reality. The Christmas event is an amazing story of God finding man in his wretchedness and giving hope of life after death which is conditioned only through Him. It makes sense because He is the only person in the entire human history who rose from the dead. May God Bless you as you complete this month with joy and hope.
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