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Autor: Hussein Hajji Wario
Data: 22.04.2011
Category: Reconciliação, Fé no Mundo, Grupos de Povos Não Alcançados
Today is Good Friday. This is the day those of us who are followers of Jesus Christ commemorate his suffering and death. Our salvation would be in vain had Jesus not died and resurrected. Do you know most Muslims believe Jesus was never crucified or died? Only a small minority most Muslims consider heretics believes Jesus died a natural death in Kashmir many years after he supposedly escaped the crucifixion. The majority believes a Jesus look-alike was crucified while the real Jesus ascended to heaven. They believe he will return at the end of the world. All these Muslims draw their conclusions about Jesus’ supposed fate from the Qur’an. The travel to Kashmir is not in the Qur’an or the Hadith. Majority of Muslims who denies the death of Jesus claims since Jesus was a prophet of Allah, Allah wouldn’t have left him to die such a horrible death.
One thing Muslims would not say or are just ignorant of; Allah was silent about Jesus’ death the first 12 years of Islam. It was only after Prophet Muhammad’s arrival in Medina when Allah supposedly started objecting to the death of Jesus Christ. It was not like Christians in Arabia did not celebrate Easter. The issue surrounding the death of Jesus Christ was not an issue in Islam. In fact Allah—the all-knowing—was silent in Mecca over the fate of Jesus.
Verses from the Qur’an revealed in Mecca show ALL prophets who had preceded Muhammad died. Muslims consider Jesus as one of these prophets. Sura Al-Anbiya, chapter 21 of the Qur’an, verses 7 and 8, “And We sent not (as Our messengers) before thee other than men, whom We inspired. Ask the followers of the Reminder if ye know not? We gave them not bodies that would not eat food, nor were they immortals.” And then verse 34 of the same chapter, “We appointed immortality for no mortal before thee. What! if thou diest, can they be immortal!”
Since majority of Muslims believes that Jesus has not died yet, does that mean Jesus as Muslims understand him is immortal? These verses certainly show all prophets before Prophet Muhammad died because all of them were mortal. Muslims who argue a prophet of Allah shouldn’t be subjected to suffer need to read about circumstances that led Prophet Muhammad’s death. I hope they have answers to the three years he suffered as a result of the poisoned lamb he ate. The Hadith has the whole story. The two facts—Muhammad’s suffering and death and all prophets’ mortality—simply confound Muslims contention about the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Have fun engaging your Muslim friends this Easter.
Hussein Wario is a former Kenyan Sunni Muslim. He is the author of Cracks in the Crescent. He blogs regularly at http://www.cracksinthecrescent.com You can listen to his testimony here or read it here.
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I never realized that there was such controversy surrounding the death of Jesus. Is it true that some believe that Judas took his place? As Christians, I wonder if we could truly be a good witness to those who believe in this manner. Are we versed in our own beliefs to prove the death and resurrection of Christ to those who are against it?
14.07.2011
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There seem to be several issues of conflicting statements in the Qu’ran regarding the life and death of Jesus. Unless I am mistaken, isn’t there a Sura where Allah and Isa are in conversation and the word “muttawfikka” is used to describe what Allah did to Isa? My understanding is that this word literally translates as “cause you to die.” However, many conservative Muslim scholars argue that the translation should be “take you away” in the context. Thoughts?
23.04.2011
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@ B_Robertson_NC:
Yes, that was in Surah 3 verse 55. There are so many translations about that one Ararbic word. Same word rendered in English as "die natural death," "take," "gather," "terminate." I can’t believe one word is causing all these probems for Islamic scholars. The message of the Qur’an should not be this confusing. The book claims to be clear. One word dispels that notion!
25.04.2011
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I believe we need to stress the need for God to provide a sacrificial atonement for the sins of all mankind. Muslims only recognize the ownership of sins committed personally and the need to ask forgiveness from God. They believe that Adam asked and was forgiven for the sin he committed in the Garden, so there was no need for further atonement on his behalf or on behalf of his descendants. The idea of Christ’s death as an act of universal atonement for the sins of all mankind is a heretical concept in Islam. We must pray for wisdom and guidance as we seek to illuminate the purpose of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection to our Muslim brothers and sisters.
23.04.2011
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@ B_Robertson_NC:
Brian,
For me, no Christian really explained to me about a sacrificial atonement for the sins of all mankind. You are right the Jesus sacrifice on the cross for the sin of mankind is a heretical concept in Islam. I did not believe in it at. Then I was skeptical but with time the Holy Spirit convinced and convicted me. You are right. The idea of blood cleansing sin is not in Islam. There are a few places in the Hadith where Prophet Muhammad slaughtered an animal to “relieve” newborns of sufferings.
Here are two Hadith references on Aqiqa…
First:
“Aqiqa is to be offered for a (newly born) boy, so slaughter (an animal) for him, and relieve him of his suffering.” (Note: It has been quoted in Fateh-AL-Bari that the majority of the Religious Scholars agrees to the Hadith narrated in Sahih At-TlRMlZY that the Prophet was asked about Aqiqa and he ordered 2 sheep for a boy and one sheep for a girl and that is his tradition “SUNNA”.)
Second:
Yahya related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam from a man of the Banu Damra that his father said, "The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was asked about the Aqiqa. He said, ’I do not like disobedience (uquq),’ as if he disliked the name. He said, ’If anyone has a child born to him, and wants to sacrifice for his child, then let him do it.’ "
Third:
Malik said, “What we do about the aqiqa is that if someone makes an aqiqa for his children, he gives a sheep for both male and female. The aqiqa is not obligatory but it is desirable to do it, and people continue to come to us about it. If someone makes an aqiqa for his children, the same rules apply as with all sacrificial animals - one-eyed, emaciated, injured, or sick animals must not be used, and neither the meat or the skin is to be sold. The bones are broken and the family eat the meat and give some of it away as sadaqa. The child is not smeared with any of the blood .”
25.04.2011
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