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The Isa, in the Koran, was not speaking the word of God, rather he himself even is the word of God.Yes, the Koran says to go to war with nonbelievers, maybe focusing on Muhammad's local enemies that did not believe he was a prophet. But then again, he does sort of lump in the Jews and Christians as targets, occassionally. What I do not get, as I read an English translation of the Koran, is how the Koran can say this, yet at the same time praise Jesus so much, and testify that Jesus was speaking the Word of God. Jesus' message, unlike much of the Old Testament, is clearly one of peace. We are supposed to love our enemies, and if they attack us, turn the other cheek.
Can someone explain this contradiction in the Koran, hopefully from an educated point of view, rather than a prejudice point of view?
Let's Start with this one...
When asked about Jesus’ Crucifixion, Muslims will invariably reference one ayah from the Koran, to support their conviction.
Islam bases an entire doctrine regarding Jesus’ crucifixion & death upon the cross, on a single solitary Koranic ayah.
And in this single solitary ayah, the entire doctrine teeters upon the rendering of a single solitary word (wama) – which Islam has misinterpreted as a negative.
The correct rendering of this ayah is as thus…
وقولهم إنا قتلنا المسيح عيسى ابن مريم رسول
الله وما قتلوه وما صلبوه ولكن شبه لهم وإن
الذين اختلفوا فيه لفي شك منه ما لهم به من علم
إلا اتباع الظن وما قتلوه يقينا
Waqawlihim inna qatalna almaseeha AAeesa ibna maryama rasoola Allahi wama qataloohu wama salaboohu walakin shubbiha lahum wa-inna allatheena ikhtalafoo feehi lafee shakkin minhu ma lahum bihi min AAilmin illa ittibaAAa alththanni wama qataloohu yaqeenan
4.157 And their saying: "Truly we killed The Messiah, Jesus, Mary's son, “allah's” messenger”, and that they killed him, and that they crucified him, and certainly they alike, and truly whom they differed in Him, certainly they (are) not in doubt from Him, on account of Him, from knowledge, except to follow the belief, and that they surely killed him.
To overcome the Muslim mindset, we need to first define the Arabic word that has been misinterpreted by Islam.
Here is the classic Arabic definition for "ma"...
ما = “ma”
“ma” definition:
Conjunctive pronoun. That; which; that which; whatsoever; what; as; as much; in such a manner as; as much as; as for as; any kind; when; how. Does not, as a rule, refer to reasonable things, but instances to the contrary sometimes occur. It is one of those particles, which, in conditional propositions, govern the verb in the conditional mood; it is frequently a mere expletive. It is also a negative adverb, Not; in general it denies a circumstance either present, or of past, but little remote from the present; it governs the attribute in the accusative, thus it is a negative particle when placed before the perfect as in 53.2; or before a pronoun as in 68.2; or before an demonstrative noun as in 12.31. The particle, when joined to the perfect, denies the past; when joined to the imperfect, the present.
References:
An Arabic-English Lexicon, E.W. Lane, volume eight, p. 3016
A Grammar of the Arabic Language, W. Wright, Third edition, volume 2, p. 300
The Dictionary of the Holy Qur’an, 1st edition, Abdul Mannan Omar, pp. 523 - 524
A Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran, John Penrice, pp. 135 - 136
As we can see below..."ma", when joined to "wa", is simply a filler-word in this ayah...
وقولهم إنا قتلنا المسيح عيسى ابن مريم رسول
الله وما قتلوه وما صلبوه ولكن شبه لهم وإن
الذين اختلفوا فيه لفي شك منه ما لهم به من علم
إلا اتباع الظن وما قتلوه يقينا
Waqawlihim inna qatalna almaseeha AAeesa ibna maryama rasoola Allahi wama qataloohu wama salaboohu walakin shubbiha lahum wa-inna allatheena ikhtalafoo feehi lafee shakkin minhu ma lahum bihi min AAilmin illa ittibaAAa alththanni wama qataloohu yaqeenan
4.157 And their saying: "Certainly we killed The Messiah, Jesus, Mary's son, “allah's” messenger”, and that they killed him, and that they crucified him, and certainly they alike, and truly whom they differed in Him, certainly they (are) not in doubt from Him, on account of Him, from knowledge, except to follow the belief, and that they surely killed him.
As witnessed by the plethora of positives in this ayah, the conditional mood is only positive.
Couple this, to the very next ayah, as thus…
بل رفعه الله إليه وكان الله عزيزا حكيما
Bal rafaAAahu Allahu ilayhi wakana Allahu AAazeezan hakeeman
4.158 But “allah”, he raised Him to him, and “allah” mighty, wise.
4.157 & 4.158 tell us of its most likely Biblical source...
This One given to you by the before-determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you having taken by lawless hands, having crucified Him, you killed Him. But God raised Him up, loosing the throes of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by it. (Act 2.23 - 24)
As we can see, 4.157 & 4.158 are simply parroting NT material...
Thus, context is clear that in 4.157 “wama” is simply governing the verb in the conditional mood – which is positive….NOT negative.
Further, rendering this Islamic one-hit-wonder ayah as a negative would force other Koranic ayahs into contradiction.
As further evidence that 4.157 confirms Jesus’ death upon the cross, all the Koranic crucifixion instances are shown here, which confirm that the Koran always describes a crucifixion event with complete certainty of death…
• 5.33…they will be crucified till death
• 7.124…I will surely crucify you till death
• 12.41…so will be crucified till death
• 20.71…and I will surely crucify you till death
• 26.49…and I will surely crucify you till death
Death through crucifixion is always mandated in the Koran.
Thus, there is no reason at all to believe that 4.157 would break this trend…
No, but I have Muslim friends who have worked there and told me that, although it was like almost 10 years ago.
I will let let another members of cc from saudi, then, to explain the current situation there.
In any ways, Jesus is sovereign there. amen
maybe he is relaying on my experience , I'm a Saudi citizen and from the indigenous people of Saudi ,OK so you are relaying the experience of one person in Saudia Arabia who is not even a resident, in one city and you are stating that is how Saudia Arabia is.
No, here's what I referred to (can be seen in post no. 57):maybe he is relaying on my experience , I'm a Saudi citizen and from the indigenous people of Saudi ,
is that man still around ?No, here's what I referred to (can be seen in post no. 57):
No, but I have Muslim friends who have worked there and told me that, although it was like almost 10 years ago.
I will let let another members of cc from saudi, then, to explain the current situation there.
In any ways, Jesus is sovereign there. amen
Blessings ya akhi aziz
which man?is that man still around ?
plz let me be in contact with him I feeel sooooooooooooooooooooooo loooooooooooooooooooooooooonely here![]()
tha's what Sharia law stated(AL-Deyah) : if u want to flee from death penalty and the family of the murdered person agreed to do so , u can pay 100 camel or it's equivalent of money or whatever amount they ask (sometimes it reach 30,000,000 USD) to the victim's family ..otherwise u'll be executed by sword.in action called (beheading)which man?
haven't heard of him for a while, he may not be working in Saudi anymore.
Anyway, aziz, what's with the ransom money asked by the saudi families for indonesian workers? So the worker can flee from death penalty, but families mostly ask until US$500000. Not to mention, most Indonesian female workers who accused of murder was doing self defence when she was (about to be) raped by their masters.
do you have the hadith? never knew about this, thanks.tha's what Sharia law stated(AL-Deyah) : if u want to flee from death penalty and the family of the murdered person agreed to do so , u can pay 100 camel or it's equivalent of money or whatever amount they ask (sometimes it reach 30,000,000 USD) to the victim's family ..otherwise u'll be executed by sword.in action called (beheading)
It would be great to do a comparison between Islam and Catholisism, quite a few similarities I believe.
Most of the Koran was based on the OT because Mohammed was illiterate and was very dependent on Jewish rabbis to read & translate the OT for him. And the NT was badly twisted into an anti-Christian movement.
Translation: Without the OT & NT there would be no Koran.