Non-debating religious thread...let's learn!! :)

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Originally posted by sirrahbed


Now I have a question for PCB -
As a Muslim - you believe in and love Jesus the Prophet - does this mean you read the Bible the same as Christians? How do you learn about Jesus?

We know of Jesus from the Quran, the Holy Book revealed to Prophet Muhammad, from God. As Muslims, we are required to believe God revealed the Torah to Moses, and the Bible to Jesus. We do believe those books too, were the true words of God, however, we believe certain parts in these books have been altered, or written by man over the centuries, so we cannot take everything in them as what God originally revealed at the time of Moses and Jesus. We believe the Quran is a completion, of the whole message sent by God, until the end of time. We also believe that the Bible, and Torah, foretold the coming of Prophet Mohammad. I'm not sure if this part is still included in the Bible, but we do believe that. The Jews and Christians, before the coming of Mohammad, used to tell the people about the coming of a Prophet, that God would send to mankind. That is why so many Jews and Christians converted to Islam when Prophet Mohammad came. They felt that was the Prophet God had told them about. So many others, also rejected him, and their reason for that was because he came from the generations of Prophet Ishmael, and not Prophet Isaac, but their leaders did acknowledge he was the prophet God had foretold them about. They just refused to accept it. If you're curious about this, you should watch the movie *The Message*. It really clarifies things about the beginning of Islam, and has quite a bit about Jesus in it as well.

In other words, we do not believe God sent different religions. We believe God sent the same message, to Moses, to Jesus, to Mohammad, and to every other Prophet, and with time, it was the people who altered God's words, either knowingly, or unknowingly, but we believe the Quran to be the completed message from God, and the same message that God originally sent to Jesus, and Moses, etc.

What the Quran says about Jesus is as follows:

16. Relate in the Book (the story of) Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in the East.

17. She placed a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent her our angel, and he appeared before her as a man in all respects.

18. She said: "I seek refuge from thee to ((God)) Most Gracious: (come not near) if thou dost fear God."

19. He said: "Nay, I am only a messenger from thy Lord, (to announce) to thee the gift of a holy son.

20. She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has touched me, and I am not unchaste?"

21. He said: "So (it will be): Thy Lord saith, 'that is easy for Me: and (We wish) to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a Mercy from Us':It is a matter (so) decreed."

22. So she conceived him, and she retired with him to a remote place.

23. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!"

24. But (a voice) cried to her from beneath the (palm-tree): "Grieve not! for thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee;

25. "And shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: It will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee.

26. "So eat and drink and cool (thine) eye. And if thou dost see any man, say, 'I have vowed a fast to ((God)) Most Gracious, and this day will I enter into not talk with any human being'"

27. At length she brought the (babe) to her people, carrying him (in her arms). They said: "O Mary! truly an amazing thing hast thou brought!

28. "O sister of Aaron! (it means sister as in all believers are sisters and brothers.......not literally) Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!"

29. But she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?"

30. He (Jesus) said: "I am indeed a servant of God. He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet;

31. "And He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, and hath enjoined on me Prayer and Charity as long as I live;

32. "(He) hath made me kind to my mother, and not overbearing or miserable;

33. "So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life (again)"!

34. Such (was) Jesus the son of Mary: (it is) a statement of truth, about which they (vainly) dispute.

35. It is not befitting to (the majesty of) God that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, "Be", and it is.

36. Verily God is my Lord and your Lord: Him therefore serve ye: this is a Way that is straight.
Quran: 19 Mary, 16-36