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Join the MCA Mailing List and Stay Connected Advertisements Is Tuesday at 5:00 PM I: • • • I PRAYER TIMINGS Effective 12/26 MCA NOOR Fajr 6:30 6:30 Dhuhr 12:35 12:35 Asr 3:00 3:30 Maghrib Sunset Sunset Isha 7:00 7:00 Juma 1 12:15 12:15 Juma 2 01:00 01:00 Newsletter Juma 2 01:45 01:45 Published Weekly by the Muslim Community Association of San Francisco Bay Area www.mcabayarea.org Jamadi ‘I 10, 1442 AH Friday, December 25, 2020 Interior of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Abu Dhabi, UAE AL-QURAN It is He who made the sun a shining light and the moon a derived light and determined for it phases - that you may know the number of years and account [of time]. Allah has not created this except in truth. He details the signs for a people who know. Surah Yunus 10:5 HADITH “Whoever sees something evil should change it with his hands (unless by doing this it creates a bigger evil) . 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Al-Muqeet The Sustaining One The Maintainer, The Guardian, The Feeder, The One who has the Power. “And to Allah belong the best names, so invoke Him by them.” [Quran 7:180] 3 A comparison of the Islamic and Christian views of Jesus Courtesy: www.soundvision.org The person of Jesus or Isa in Arabic (peace be upon him) is of great significance in both Islam and Christianity. However, there are differences in terms of beliefs about the nature and life occurrences of this noble Messenger. Source of information about Jesus in Islam Most of the Islamic information about Jesus is actually found in the Quran. The Quran was revealed by God to Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and memorized and written down in his lifetime. Today, anyone who calls him or herself a Muslim believes in the complete authenticity of the Quran as the original revealed guidance from God Source of information about Jesus in Christianity Christians take their information about Jesus from the Bible, which includes the Old and New Testaments. These contain four biblical narratives covering the is a requirement for anyone who calls him or son, when no man has ever touched me, and I am life and death of Jesus. They have been written, herself a Muslim. A person claiming to be a Muslim not unchaste? He said: So it will be, your Lord says: according to tradition, respectively by Matthew, who, for instance, denies the Messengership of ‘That is easy for Me; and We wish to appoint him Mark, Luke and John. They are placed at the Jesus, is not considered a Muslim. as a sign unto men and a Mercy from Us’: It was a beginning of the New Testament and comprise matter so decreed” (Quran 19:16-21). The Quran says in reference to the status of Jesus close to half of it. as a Messenger: “The Messiah (Jesus), son of Mary, 3. Do Muslims believe Jesus had a miraculous Encyclopedia Britannica notes that none of the was no more than a Messenger before whom birth? YES sources of his life and work can be traced to many Messengers have passed away; and his The Quran says: “She (Mary) said: ‘O my Lord! How Jesus himself; he did not leave a single known mother adhered wholly to truthfulness, and they shall I have a son when no man has touched me.’ written word. Also, there are no contemporary both ate food (as other mortals do). See how We He (God) said: ‘So (it will be) for God creates what accounts written of his life and death. What can make Our signs clear to them; and see where they He wills. When He has decreed something, He be established about the historical Jesus depends are turning away!” (Quran 5:75). says to it only: ‘Be!’- and it is” (3:47). almost without exception on Christian traditions, 2. Do Muslims believe he was born of a Virgin especially on the material used in the composition It should also be noted about his birth that: “Verily, Mother? YES of the Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke, which the likeness of Jesus in God’s Sight is the likeness reflect the outlook of the later church and its faith Like Christians, Muslims believe Mary, Maria in of Adam. He (God) created him from dust, then in Jesus. Spanish, or Maryam as she is called in Arabic, was (He) said to him: ‘Be!’-and he was” (Quran 3:59). a chaste, virgin woman, who miraculously gave Below are the views of Islam and Christianity 4. Do Muslims believe Jesus spoke in the cradle? birth to Jesus. based on primary source texts and core beliefs. YES “Relate in the Book the story of Mary, when she ISLAM “Then she (Mary) pointed to him. They said: ‘How withdrew from her family, to a place in the East. can we talk to one who is a child in the cradle?’ 1. Do Muslims believe he was a Messenger of One She screened herself from them; then We sent to He (Jesus) said: ‘Verily! I am a slave of God, He has God? YES her Our spirit (angel Gabriel) and he appeared given me the Scripture and made me a Prophet; “ before her as a man in all respects. She said: I seek (19:29-30). Belief in all of the Prophets and Messengers of refuge from you in God Most Gracious (come not God is a fundamental article of faith in Islam. Thus, near) if you do fear God. He said: Nay, I am only 5. Do Muslims believe he performed miracles? YES believing in Prophets Adam, Jesus, Moses, and a Messenger from your Lord, to announce to you Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon them) the gift of a pure son. She said: How shall I have a Muslims, like Christians believe Jesus performed 4 miracles. But these were performed by the will and CHRISTIANITY apart from Divine Revelation, but which, even permission of God, Who has power and control when revealed, remains “hidden by the veil of faith over all things. 1. Do Christians believe Jesus was a human being and enveloped, so to speak, by a kind of darkness” and Messenger of God? YES & NO (Const., “De fide. cath.”, iv). The First Vatican “Then will God say: ‘O Jesus the son of Mary! Council further defined that the Christian Faith recount My favor to you and to your mother. With the exception of Unitarian Christians, who contains mysteries strictly so called (can. 4). All Behold! I strengthened you with the Holy Spirit like all the early followers of Jesus, still do not theologians admit that the doctrine of the Trinity is (the angel Gabriel) so that you did speak to the believe in the Trinity, most Christians now believe of the number of these. The Catholic Encyclopedia people in childhood and in maturity. Behold! I in the Divinity of Jesus, which is connected to the taught you the Book and Wisdom, the Law and notes that of all revealed truths, this is the most belief in Trinity. They say he is the second member the Gospel. And behold: you make out of clay, as impenetrable to reason. of the Triune God, the Son of the first part of the it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and you Triune God, and at the same time “fully” God in breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by My leave, 6. Do Christians believe that Jesus was the son of and you heal those born blind, and the lepers by every respect. God? YES My leave. And behold! you bring forth the dead by 2. Do Christians believe he was born of a Virgin “For God so loved the world that He gave His My leave.
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