THE CHRIST JESUS
(Mohammed Gameil)
When I came here to Europe, I found out that the people like Jesus in a way which can't be described. Although they consider the god as three parts (father, son and holy spirit) they always ask for the help from Jesus not from his father who sent him. I thought at first that Jesus is only the son of the Lord, so I said to myself why don't they ask the Lord directly (father). But later I discovered that Jesus is considered as the human part of the god and father is the part who is in the heaven.
Who led to these complexities which let the people very confused now? One of my friends from Venezuela said to me that his parents ceased from going to the church because they can't imagine these forms of god (part that can be seen "Jesus" and part invisible who is in the heaven "father" ). The second part (father) is common with the Muslims in their religion whereas the first part (Jesus) is considered in their religion as a prophet like the many prophets who came before and this is the cause of all these wars and all these bloods flooding in the streets and in the fields of war between the Muslims and the Christians. My friend said that his parents are waiting till the Christians and the Muslims find the truth and select both one way to follow and solve this problem between them! I said to this friend: we really have to solve this problem which people more than one thousand year ago had left to us. We want to live as brothers without these fights. But all I can say to you now is to try to analyze both religions and criticize them and try to find where the difference is because all the people agree now that these Holy Books must have been descended from the Creator of the universe in which we are living. So why had the Creator sent two contradicting Books or have we made these contradictions by ourselves?
In the field of scientific research as I learned from my professors, they always advise me to investigate the matter first by myself and after reaching my personal opinion, I try to read the previous works (researches) written on the same point. In this case; I can criticize on right bases without tending to follow their opinions if happened that I read the previous researches first. This advice is really true and all the students of research apply it, except in the point of the religion, all the people follow what had been written 2000 years ago either they are Muslims or Christians, the Muslims say that the Christians are in vain and the same is said by the Christians and they always hold fights and wars and no one will know the truth till this world comes to its end.
Why doesn't everyone try to think in these differences by himself and I'm sure that everyone is capable of doing that, it isn't more complicated than Geology, Physics, or any other complicated science, this is at least to know the exact way which leads him either to the paradise or to the fire.
O you who believe! Guard your own souls: if you follow the right guidance. No hurt can come to you from those who strayed. The return of you all is to Allah: it is He that will inform you of all that you do. (Quran 5:105).
For myself; I tried to find the position of Jesus in the Quran. What I found is that he is well respected and all the Muslims don't differentiate between him and their prophet Mohammed or all the previous prophets and to you some of what is written about Jesus and his mother in the Quran:
Allah preferred Adam and Noah and the family of Abraham and the family of Imran (Jesus`family) above all his creatures. (Quran 3:33).
And the Angels said: "O Mary!: Allah has chosen you and made you pure and has preferred you above all women of the world." (Quran 3:42).
All Jesus`miracles are mentioned completely in the Quran as follow:
When Allah said: "O Jesus, son of Mary!: Remember my favor to you and to your mother, how I strengthened you with the holy spirit, so that you speak to people in the cradle as well as in maturity; and how I taught you the Scripture and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel and how you did the shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by my permission and you did heal him who was born a blind and the leper by my permission and how I restrained the people of Israel from harming you when you came to them with clear proofs and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is not else than mere magic." (Quran 5:110).
So some people hadn't believed Jesus at all either as a prophet or as the son of the god (people of Israel) and considered him a magician. The others who had left their impression till now and especially after Jesus had been ascended to His God hadn't believed that a prophet can do all these miracles, he must be a god or a human part of a god. But they had forgotten a very important thing that: Jesus hadn't created a human being, on the contrary; he had been going to be killed by normal people! I say "going to be killed" because he is considered as being crucified in Christianity, and the question is: how is he considered as a god and at the same time killed by human beings? How can a god be killed? It was worth to say as it is written in the Quran that he hadn't been killed or crucified but His God Allah (Jesus`father) had raised him up to the heaven to protect him from the harm of such people of Israel. His features had been put in another man who had really been killed and crucified and so the people thought that they crucified Jesus.
Allah said: "O Jesus!: I'm gathering you and causing you to ascend to Me and cleaning you of those who disbelieved and setting those who followed you above those who disbelieved until the Day of Resurrection. Then to Me you will all return and I`ll judge between you as to that where you used to differ." (Quran 3:55).
The logic theory is that: the god is (a one) who can't be seen or described and who can't be imagined by the normal thinking of the human mind. So how can He leave himself (or his human part) to the people to kill and crucify him? By kill we understand that the blood had flooded out of his body and this is not a character of a god but of a human being. They answer saying: yes, we agree that Jesus was the human part which consists of flesh and blood. If I agree that Jesus was the human part of the god, now Jesus and his spirit (holy spirit) died and crucified as it is said and remains only the third part, the father, who can't be seen, only one part alive who never die, who created this universe, so why don't you worship this one remaining part instead of worshipping Jesus. In this case you reach the same opinion of the Muslims and therefore one opinion and one thought!
The Angels themselves who were created by the Creator and the Owner of this universe are of much better constituents than us, they are of pure glancing light and never extract waste products like us. Someone said to me that Jesus had sacrified himself by leaving himself to the people to crucify him. What is the reason for such sacrification? to believe! what happens if they didn't believe? nothing; and his father will punish them later.
Do you remember the story of Abraham when he had seen a dream that he was going to slay his son Ismael? he tried to carry out what he saw in his dream (all dreams of the prophets were always connected with the Creator; they are not like our dreams!). While he was starting to slay his son; two Angels carrying two sheep had descended from the heaven to be slayed instead of Ismael. So Allah (Jesus`father) hadn't accepted the sacrification for the son of Abraham, how can he accept it for his son Jesus!?
Jesus as it is mentioned in both Bible and Quran; show that he was eating from the normal food the people were eating, is that a character of a god to eat and extract waste products? Do you know that the people who pretended that Jesus is the son of the god or one of three gods in one god and at the same time those who pretended that they killed and crucified the god Jesus are themselves who didn't accept Mohammed as a prophet eating the food and walking in the markets!
And they said: "what ails this Messenger (of Allah) that he eats food and walks in the markets, wwasn't an Angeldown to him, to be a warner with him." (Quran 25:7).
So how don't you accept that a human prophet eats and walks among the people, on the other hand; you accept a god eats and be killed and crucified!
The Messiah, son of Mary was no other than a Messenger, Messengers (like him) had passed away before him. And his mother was a sainty woman. And they both used to eat (earthy) food. See how we make the revelations clear for them and see how they turn away. (Quran 5:75).
Those people of Israel had accused Mary of committing adultery when they saw her carry a child on her hands and they all know that she hasn't married yet, and they told her that her father was always a good man and also was her mother and they hadn't thought that she can do such a bad thing (going in bed without marriage), but the wish and ability of Allah (Jesus`father) let Jesus speak in his cradle to tell those people that his mother is a good woman and this is the will of Allah to be born by this way.
And because of their disbelief and of their speaking against Mary a tremendous calumny, and of their saying: we killed the Messiah Jesus, son of Mary, Allah's messenger, they killed him not nor crucified but it appeared so to them. Those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they killed him not for certain but Allah took him up to Himself. Allah was ever mighty, wise. (Quran 4:156-158).
If Jesus is the son of the god or part of three gods in one god, so he had really been present in the heaven before descending to the earth, his descent is to let the people see him (as a god) and therefore believe. In such case; Mary is a normal girl who was selected to carry the spirit of Jesus and to bear him as a child like the other children and then passes the normal stages of growth from child-hood to mature.
The question is: why hadn't he descended directly in a mature form? in this case the people would have been terrified of this creature who appeared suddenly on the surface of the earth without a father or a mother and they would then believe at once. His descent by the normal way let a lot of people (the Muslims for example) not believe that he is a god and so the main aim of descent was not achieved and the problem of disbelief before Jesus and after Jesus is still existing and will not be solved till the end of this universe.
The Originator of the heavens and the earth! How can He have a son when there is for Him no consort, when He created everything and is aware of all things. (Quran 6:101).
A father means the presence of a mother and a mother means the presence of a father, there is no father without a mother and no mother without a father. Mary can be accepted as a mother (woman) because she had a son (Jesus) and can also be accepted as a virgin because she hadn't been touched by a human being. Allah on the other hand can't be accepted as a father because He hadn't touched a woman and to accept Him as a father of Jesus, there is no evidence for that except that it was His will to bring Jesus to the earth by this mode of creation!
O people of Scripture: Don't exaggerate in your religion and don't say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah Jesus, son of Mary was only a Messenger of Allah and His word which He conveyed to Mary and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His Messengers and say not "three" cease! it is for you, Allah is only one God. For it is removed from His transcendent majesty that He should have a son. His all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth, and Allah is sufficient as a Defender.
The Messiah will never scorn to be a slave to Allah, nor will the favored Angels. And who scorn His service and is proud, all such will He assemble to Him.
Then as for those who believed and did good works, to them He will pay their wages in full, adding to them of His bounty; and as for those who were scornful and proud, them will He punish with a painful doom. And they will not find for them against Allah any protecting friend or helper. (Quran 4:171-173).
Someone says: the Quran speaks about the miracles and good works of Jesus because it had been descended from the God whom Jesus is his son or part of him. We say: you confess now that the Quran had been descended from Allah, so why had it been descended since everything was solved by Jesus, by his humble to let the people crucify him? and since it had been descended from the same God; so there must be no controversy with the other Holy Books and in this case all of us have to believe it and to believe the prophet carrying it (Mohammed) as well as to believe all the Books and prophets that had been sent before.
O you who believe!: Believe in Allah and His Messengers and the Scripture which He sent to His Messenger and the Scripture which He sent to those before (him). And who denies Allah, His Angels, His Books, His Messengers and the Day of Judgement, has gone far, far astray. (Quran 4:136).
And those who believe in Allah and His Messengers and make no distinction between any of the Messengers, we shall soon give them their (due) rewards: for Allah is oft forgiving, most merciful. (Quran 4:152).
What all the people now do is that they deny the Islamic religion and hence Mohammed and the Quran but this is not logic because all the evidences and all the orientalists who studied the Arabic Language in general and the Quran in particular have confessed that the Quran hadn't been and can't be written by a human being because they have failed to write a chapter or even a sentence like those written in the Quran. On the other hand; Mohammed was illiterate and received all words of the Quran from the Creator of this universe by the help of the Angel Gabriel.
It is said that Mohammed had quoted the words of the Quran from both Old and New Testament! If we read the whole Quran we will find a lot of things which are not mentioned in the other Books at all and it is not the time to mention them here. On the other hand; Quran, although there are some facts which are mentioned in the other Books is totally in another manner of writing which is impossible for an illiterate person (Mohammed) to write them. I invite those who pretend the quotation to try to compile the three Books in a new book, no one can do that and if he could, do you know what will he feel? he will feel as if he was a new god to this universe but Mohammed never said that he is a god, he said "I'm only a human messenger!"
And if you are in doubt concerning that which we revealed unto our slave (Mohammed), then produce a surah (chapter) of the like thereof and call your witnesses beside Allah if you are truthful, if you do it not and you can never do it, then guard yourselves against the fire prepared for disbelievers whose fuel is of people and stones. (Quran 2:23-24).
Those also who say that the Quran is a compilation of both Old and New Testament, if Mohammed had done this really, we must find some mistakes or contradictions because no human being till now like the scientists for example who wrote a complete book or a complete theory without any mistakes and each of them modify his opinion after years or some other scientists come and change or modify his theory. In the Quran no one has found any controversy and if this indicated; it indicates that Mohammed was an unusual man, because he was illiterate on one hand and hadn't left any mistake or controversy in his book on the other hand!
Will they not then ponder on the Quran? if it had been from other than Allah they would have found therein much incongruity. (Quran 4:82).
In addition to that; the Quran hadn't been descended one time but throughout the period of Mohammed's prophecy till his death. And those who believed him, believed before the whole Quran had been descended. It was logic that he completes his book first and then tells the people about it. They then read it and decide either to believe or not. But this hadn't happened at all.
If it is said now that Mohammed had made a compilation of both Old and New Testament, it was said before "Why hadn't the Quran been descended one time instead of at times?"Do you know why? because if it had been descended one time, I`ll believe you now that Mohammed had really compiled it!
And those who disbelieved said: "why is the Quran not revealed to him all at once?" (it is revealed) thus that we may strengthen your heart with it and we have arranged it in a right order. (Quran 25:32).
On the other hand; what leads Mohammed to compile the two religions in one religion and to pretend that he is the new prophet to that religion? only two reasons: position and money. for the position; I mean to be their king but Mohammed had lived his life as a normal person even in any problem, he had to take the opinion of the others and had never taken any decision from himself or acted as if he was the leader of Muslims. By money; I mean to deceive the people saying that he can forgive their sins at the God by paying him money pretending that he is nearer to the God! this had never happened at all because any Muslim who makes a sin doesn't go to any righteous man and pays money but it is a secret between him and His God and he asks for forgiveness only from His Majesty directly. Also Mohammed hadn't died as a rich man, he had died as a poor man because he hadn't left any money in his house but had always been giving it to the poor and who ask.
Say: verily, if the humans and the jinn assembled to produce the like of this Quran, they can't produce the like thereof even if they were helpers to each other. (Quran 17:88).
If we accepted the compilation; but Mohammed had been ascended to the heaven to have the order of how and how often to pray. This happened in only one night although we need months to travel to the moon. In the next day; Mohammed told the people about his journey to the heaven and that he was taken by the Angel Gabriel to Jerusalem where he prayed with all the prophets including Jesus. What was the reaction on the disbelievers? they hadn't believed. Really they had right because it is impossible to travel from Mecca to Jerusalem and then ascend to the heaven and back again while the people were sleeping. The question of the people was: "what is the evidence for that pretence?" Mohammed replied that there was a group of traders coming in the way between Jerusalem and Mecca to sell their goods and they will arrive at sun rise, that was really true and happened. But the disbelievers thought that someone of this group had informed Mohammed about their arrival, so they asked him another very embarrassing question: "Describe to us Jerusalem in detail? " Mohammed described everything small and large to them (by the help of Allah), in spite of that; they hadn't believed !
So; first we start together that the Quran had been descended from the heaven and Mohammed isn't a fiction: now, who is the god that had sent him? is he the god Jesus? in this case why had he sent him after he himself had descended to the earth and ordered the people of what they should do? and why had he sent him (Mohammed) and he knows that the people are not going to believe him because they believe only the god Jesus whom they had seen by their eyes, and who had sent all the prophets from Abraham till Moses? (we neglect Jesus from the prophets considering him as a god and also Mohammed considering him as a fiction).
Had Jesus himself sent all those prophets but after getting tired of those people who wouldn't like to believe unless the see by the eyes what and who they are ordered to believe, he had descended by himself to let them be sure of the presence of a god and then as a kind of sacrification and humble he allowed them to kill and crucify him? What harm affects the God if all the people on the surface of the earth either Jews, Christians or Muslims didn't believe? nothing will harm Him and He will throw them all in the fire.
Finally if we agreed that the Quran and Mohammed are a fact not a fiction and we agreed that Jesus is a god, so he must have sent this religion to complete the previous religions and in this case we should obey him and believe this religion as well as the former two religions!
O people of the Scripture! now has our Messenger come to you to make things clear after an interval (of cessation) of the Messengers, lest you should say: there came not to us a messenger of cheer and warner. Now has a Messenger of cheer and warner came to you. Allah is able to do all things. (Quran 5:19).
If Jesus isn't a god but a prophet, so who is his father? this question is very important and to answer it we are led to get back a long period of time to the first creature on the surface of the earth; Adam, and we ask the same question, who is the father of Adam? Is he the older brother to Jesus and hence both are Allah's sons? but Adam had no mother like Jesus, so who is Adam's mother and consequently the first wife to the God if we considered Mary as the second!? As we see we get ourselves into more complicated problems and questions.
The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam. He (Allah) created him of dust, then He said to him Be! and he was. (Quran 3:59).
Jesus is innocent of all these accusations and pretences because he hadn't ordered the people to consider him as a god or his son. But all this happened after His God Allah had raised him up to the heaven to protect him from the evil of the people who tried to kill him. And how a selected prophet created from His spirit is left to be killed and crucified by people created from clay! As actually happened with the prophet Mohammed when he had been followed by the disbelievers in his way from Mecca to Al- madinah, trying to kill him. But he hid in a cave (Ghar Thawr), and a spider spun its threads and a dove brooded on its eggs. That indicated the presence of no one inside the cave. So the disbelievers were deceived and Mohammed was saved by this way from their hands. His friend Abu-Bakr who was his companion inside the cave said to him: "if one of those people looked down at his feet, he would see us at once" but Mohammed answered: "Allah is with us" Jesus will be asked in the Last Day in front of all the people who worshipped him as a god or his son, he will say as written in the Quran:
And when Allah says: "O Jesus, son of Mary, have you said to the people: take me and my mother as two gods beside Allah?" he says: "Be glorified! It wasn't me to utter that to which I had no right: If I used to say it, then you knew it, you know what is in my mind and I don't know what is in Your mind; Lord: only You are the Knower of things hidden: I only said to them what you commanded me: worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord. I was a witness of them while I dwelt among them and when You took me, You were the watcher over them, You are witness over all things.
If You punish them, they are Your slaves and if You forgive them (they are Your slaves), only You are the mighty, the wise." (Quran 5:116-118).
O people of Scripture! Exceed not in your religion other than the truth and follow not the vain desires of people who went wrong in times gone by, who misled many and strayed (themselves) from the even way. (Quran 5:77).
They surely disbelieved who say: Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. The Messiah himself said: "O people of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Lord: who ascribes partner to Allah, for him Allah has forbidden paradise. His abode is the fire. For evil doers, there will be no helpers.
They surely disbelieved who say: Allah is the third of three; there is no god but one God and if they don't cease from what they are saying; a painful doom will fall on those of them who disbelieved. (Quran 5:72-73).
Isn't the Creator of this universe able to destroy all the people on the surface of the earth as He did with many former people who had disbelieved like the Pharos for example who are well known to us all by their great civilization in Egypt? Isn't He able to render the high low and the strong weak? Isn't He able to do what He wants as He created everything? as He created the heavens and hung them without ropes, as He created the earth which is also hung in the universe without any ropes and revolves around itself and around the sun in a regular mannerto cause this vin the day and night and the seasons, as He created us from a viscous solution and as He created several uncountable things!
They indeed disbelieved who say: Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. Say: who then can do out against Allah, if He willed to destroy the Messiah, son of Mary and his mother and everyone on the earth? Allah is the Owner of the heavens and the earth and that inbetween. He creates what He will and Allah is able to do all things. (Quran 5:17).
Eventually, that is not a criticize against Christianity or Jesus because I respect them and believe the three religions together (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) as coming from the Owner and Creator of this universe who is one and has no human character. All whom He sent to the earth were prophets as it is impossible for the majesty of the God to let the people see Him and live among them.
In the Bible there is the story of Moses when he asked his God Allah to see Him, really some prophets asked Allah to see Him because they had doubt about the God or they couldn't imagine Him and also to be sure when they come to guide the people to the right way, the first prophet Abraham asked the same question but in another way, he said to his God to show him how He gets life back to the dead people! Allah asked him "haven't you believed Abraham?" Abraham replied that he has believed but to be sure.
What happened with Moses was that Allah had ordered him to look at the mountain (Mountain Moses in Sinai), if the mountain stood still in its place; so Moses can see Him, but the mountain had been destroyed and Moses fell down from the terrible situation. That means that you can't see Me Moses! So how had the God refused that the prophets whom He Himself had sent to the people to see Him and then descends Himself to the earth in the form of a human being? it was worth to allow those prophets to see Him and in this case they would be sure of Him and would be able to inform those people about the exact presence of a God and thus fulfil the purpose.
No one has a human character and then orders the people to follow him and consider him as a god. Jesus is innocent of these accusations and all this has happened after his ascension to His God but not during his life.
It is not possible for any human being to whom Allah had given the Scripture and wisdom and the prophecy that he afterwards say to people: Be slaves to me instead to Allah; but (what he said was): "Be faithful servants of the Lord by what you were teaching of the Scripture and by what you were studying." (Quran 3:79).
Some people say if the God is really one and Jesus is only a prophet, so why hadn't He punished or now punishes the disbelievers? This is normally to let the people do and believe as they like but they will return to Him afterwards. Probably He does a miracle as He had done with the Pharos and several other people but He only knows the future, no one else.
They say: "Allah has begotten a son!" Glory be to Him! He is self-sufficient! His are all things in the heavens and on earth! No warrant have you for this! say you about Allah what you don't know?
Say: "those who forge a lie against Allah will never prosper" A little enjoyment in this world and then to Us will be their return. Then we'll make them taste the severest chastisement for their disbelief. (Quran 10:68-70).
And Satan will say when the matter is de: "It was Allah who gave you a promise of truth, I too promised, but I failed in my promise to you. I had no authority over you except to call you, but you listened to me; then reproach not me, but reproach your own souls. I can't listen to your cries, nor you listen to mine, I rejected your former act in associating me with Allah. For wrong doers there must be a grievous chastisement. (Quran 14:22).