Jamal Badawi – Prophethood 8 – Jesus In The Quran Mission

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The transcript discusses the history and use of the word Jesus in the Bible, as well as the confusion surrounding his mission and use of multiple quotes in scripture. The importance of affirming the law and following laws is emphasized, as well as the use of " Cole" in the Bible to describe natural death. The transcript also touches on Jesus's teachings and the concept of deification, as well as the importance of affirming the law and following laws. The use of "mon commodity Tuesday" in the Bible is also discussed, as well as the concept of profits and profits with Jesus.

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			Salam Alaikum, ladies and gentlemen, peace be upon you all and welcome to another episode of Islam
focus. I'm your host Muhammad Hassan Hosni, and today's episode is the eighth, one on the series or
in the series of prophethood in Islam.
		
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			Today's topic is the mission of Jesus and the end of his mission on Earth. Our guest today is Dr.
Jamal Badawi Salaam Alaikum. Welcome to our programs. As usual, maybe we should start with a short
summary of the last episodes. And the last episode was the second in the
		
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			topic on Jesus in the Quran. So this one hopefully be the third and last at least for the time
being.
		
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			In the second episode, that's last time we tried to clarify what the Quran means when it says that
Jesus is a word from God, or spirit proceeding from him. And when we indicated that according to the
Quranic usage, the Word of God refers to a command of God in that sense all human beings that not
only Jesus our words of God because we are all created by the command of God. We also said that when
the Quran says that Jesus is a spirit proceeding from God, we call it also verses in the Quran that
shows all human beings also have this spirit proceeding from God in essence of their spirituality in
allegorical sense, not in a sense of divinity. So both words then are used in a way that has nothing
		
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			to do with platonic philosophy at all, or the idea of Trinity whatsoever. And we also indicate that
the term Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit when it's used in the Quran, it does not again deal with whether
it's in a sense of philosophical, theological Trinity type of meaning, but rather, spirit means Holy
Spirit means Archangel Gabrielle, and angels are creatures of God but not part of divinity.
		
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			We also quote indicated that the Quran is very clear, not only on the rejection of the idea of
having Jesus or his mother Mary, as Gods beside that are separate gods, but that all forms of
deification at Trinity was specifically
		
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			negated in the Quran, yes, and any form of exclusive sonship of Jesus to God has also been denied.
We also indicated that this is not only in the Quran, but as a Muslim, I find so many verses and the
New Testament which we quoted also last time I refer to indicating that the term son of Gods as used
by Prophet Jesus peace be upon him, is used in a sense of closeness to God as it was used actually
in the Old Testament before. And we concluded, in fact, that the whole notion of deification of
Prophet Jesus peace be upon him is something that has developed much later on. In fact, after the
second problem, if you have one more minute, I found two quotations that are quite interesting. And
		
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			both are come from Christian sources. I tried to keep it as objective and open minded as possible.
And Dr. AB Bruce, Doctor of divinity, he's a Reverend, by the way, when published, this was
published in Encyclopedia biblica. And he started something that I mentioned or refers to quickly
last time. He says that, in St. Luke in the Gospel of St. Luke, Jesus is called Lord's about a dozen
times. And if you compare that with the earlier gospels of Saint Matthew and Mark, we find that he
was simply referred to as Jesus and then to cut him word for word he says, effect, which seems to
indicate the gradual evolution in the belief of his divinity. So this is something based again on
		
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			specialist analysis of the style and writing in the
		
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			New Testament. Another thing that was quite interesting is a reprint that I have here from the
Christian Science Monitor on its issue.
		
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			June 7 78, and just I've got the first paragraph.
		
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			It says debate over age old Christian creed
		
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			It's on the Divinity on Jesus of Jesus had has erupted with an explosiveness that has sent curious
theologians looking for explanations. The controversy was touched off in Britain last year. So that
was 77 by the publication of a book called The Myth of God incarnate in it a group of prominent
Anglican and Presbyterian theologians. So this our church people, called for an updating of
Christianity by freeing it from definitions of early Creed's creates, which portray Jesus as God
incarnate, the second person of the 3% in one godhood, the pre existence eternal, only begotten Son
of the Divine father. In fact, the article goes on indicating that there was lots of protests by so
		
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			many people, almost all of whom it says, never read the book. So if the subject really is looked
into with cool minds, without any prejudice, or bias one way or the other, I think we will find that
you are more faithful to the teaching of Christ. When we go back to his simple decisive words, this
image of Mr. nature that he was a messenger and a prophet of God.
		
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			Now that you mentioned the mission of Christ, maybe we should actually talk a little bit about what
does the Quran has to say about the scope of the mission of Jesus Christ on earth? I believe it is
as clear as it is in the Bible. If we really
		
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			unbiased Lina the Quran is very clear to start with,
		
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			on the fact that the mission of Prophet Jesus peace be upon him was explicitly and exclusively to
the children of Israel.
		
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			To quote from the Quran in chapter three, verse 49, quoting Jesus, and it says, and appoint him a
messenger to the children of Israel, that God appointed Jesus as a messenger to the children of
Israel. So it's very specific. Also, in chapter 61, verse six in the Quran, we read,
		
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			all children of Israel, that Jesus says to them, I am the messenger of God sent to you.
		
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			Also, in chapter five, verse 49, after talking about various Israelite prophets, it says, and in
their footsteps in the footsteps of both Israelite prophets, we sent Jesus the son of Mary,
confirming the law that has come before him. So in that sense, the Quran is very obvious. And as
indicates also, even the New Testament that says to attest to this fact, then shows what the New
Testament does, okay, there are so many places, but perhaps I can refer to at least two very
explicit quotations of Prophet Jesus peace be upon him, to indicate that this is exactly consistent
with what the Quran says. And in Matthew and the Gospel of Matthew, for example, Chapter 15, verse
		
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			24,
		
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			you know, this famous story of this Canaanite woman who wanted him to help her cure her daughter.
And he said to her, I am not sent, but to are unto the lost sheep of the house of Islam, it was very
explicit, he refused that, as you know, even say, it's not appropriate to throw the food of the
children to the, to the ducks. Even though of course, later on, he responded because of her face.
But his statement is very obvious and very clear. In Matthew chapter 10, when he was giving
instruction to the 12 disciples, and specifically in verses five and six, and Matthew, it says,
these two Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying, Go not into the way of Gentiles, go not into
		
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			the way of Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter units. But God has to the lost sheep
of the house of Israel, again, repeating the same principle that he was sent. Basically, as an
Israelite prophet. This is also implied in Matthew, chapter 19, verse 28, very similar confirmation.
Indeed, one can say safely, that there is no evidence whatsoever, at least in the three synoptic
gospels. That's Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Any clear and decisive statements got it on the tongue of
Jesus, in which he says that my message is universal and I was sent for all human beings. In fact,
I'd like to make two comments here to avoid any misunderstanding or misinterpretation of this
		
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			quotations that the, the way, the conclusiveness of the expressions of the Own Words of Jesus, as
quoted in the gospels, definitely overshadows any claim that was developed much later on, like we
find, for example, in Paul's letters to the Corinthians or Romans,
		
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			to claim that he ordained them towards the end or after resurrection to go
		
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			and preach to all mankind or to all people. Definitely this very clear and obvious statements are
much more critical than things that has developed later on when the whole notion of deification of
Jesus started to, again, some momentum. The other observation also that when we say that both the
Koran and the gospel, the Gospels, in fact, support that his mission was to the children. So it
doesn't mean at all that any of his teaching cannot be valid for other than the Israelites. In fact,
the teaching of old prophets, like we said before, are relevant, especially in the modern side. The
question of knowledge of God is relevant to all times and places, ethics, ethics, or ethics, but of
		
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			course, as far as the mission or the scope, because even though it was added for all times, for all
people, still God's plan was to send later on after Jesus, one final and universal message and that
was a prophet Mohammed, about 600 years roughly after Jesus.
		
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			Peace be upon him. Okay, Dr. Goodman, could you tell us something about what the Quran has to say
about the essence now, not the scope, but the essence of the mission of Jesus Christ, you're
referring to the the nature of his teachings, basically, what is it? What was it all about? As
vizury? For example, the whole notion of coming to atone or like our sense of humanity? Yeah, well,
like, like all other prophets, whether Israelite prophets or others that you find mentioned in the
Quran, his message very conclusively was to invite people to know God's to worship Him and to obey,
to obey Him.
		
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			In fact, I could quote one verse in the Quran, which combines this essence of his message, alongside
with some peculiar things that was part of his message, particularly to the Israelites. And this
appears in chapter three and verse 50, in the Quran, and it says, I have come to you, Jesus saying,
to attest or confirm the law, which was before me. So when if his job then according to this part of
the verse, is to confirm whatever remained intact unchanged of the law or the Torah. And then it
continues, and to make lawful to you part of what was before forbidden to you. And as you know, in
the Judaic law, certain restrictions were imposed on people which were just by way of punishment, so
		
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			it can relieve them from some of the forbidden things, things that were forbidden only by What
punishment, not because they are bad, and then it's continuous, I have come to you with
		
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			a sign from your Lord. So here God or be God, conscious, more appropriate transition, be God
conscious and obey me. So in addition to the specific
		
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			parts of his mission that's directed to the Israelites, he emphasized that you should feel God and
obey me, and then actually continues that God is my Lord and God not. One peculiar thing also about
Prophet Jesus peace be upon him, appears in chapter 61, verse six,
		
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			that he actually gives tithing and mentioned to his people specifically, that there was a prophet to
come after him, to complete the whole revelation of truth and testify of him. This is what was
misinterpreted in Muslim point of view, to me in the Holy Spirit. And actually, he was referring to
Prophet Mohammed. And actually, the verse in the Quran refers specifically to one of the names of
Prophet Mohammed. But again, this is a topic perhaps that you can address in a separate way. One
more thing, if I make in Matthew, chapter 1229, we find something quite interesting. And you hear it
and as if you're reading the Quran, because they are both almost identical in the meaning that are
		
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			the terminology they use. It's called Jesus and Matt and mark.
		
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			Sorry, it's Mark, Mark, chapter 12, verse 29. And Jesus answered him, the first commandment is,
Hear, O Israel,
		
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			the Lord, our God, is one Lord, answering the Jewish what is the most important commandment, the
Lord our God is one God, you read the Quran in fine.
		
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			That is what Jesus was quoted as saying
		
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			about the miracles of Jesus, the origin of the Koran, touch upon that subject altogether? Well, of
course, the discussion of the virgin birth is definitely one of the outstanding medical so that we
can discover that so I suppose about the miracles that are referred to usually in the Christian
tradition, right, like Americans that were similar somehow to what was given to other prophets to
support his mission. Yes. And in chapter three, verse 14, in particular, it says, and when he came
as a messenger to the children of Israel, that's referring to Jesus, he said, I have come to you
with a clear sign from your
		
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			In your very presence, I make the likeness of a verse out of clay and breathe into it. And it
becomes by God's or by a last comment at birth.
		
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			I heal the born blind, and the lepers,
		
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			and I bring to live the dead by God's command. Notice this ending always.
		
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			I inform you of what you eat and what you stood up in your houses. Surely, there is a great sign for
you in all this, if you have a mind to believe. So in that sense, question of healing, bringing
people
		
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			dead, and knowing even when people are starting in their homes, but in each of these different
always says, are called Jesus I think by the name of God, that it's not something that I know it
because I'm divine, but God has given me this knowledge or this power, if you wait. How about the
gospel? Does the Quran mention anything about his about Jesus being given a gospel or a book or
divine book in translation in the Quran, we find that there is always mentioned about holy books or
scriptures given to the prophets. And that could be like I said, a different topic because this is
one of the articles of faith of the Muslim is to believe in God His profits and, and his books. And
		
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			in the Quran, we find specific books mentioned like the ZBrush normally interpret as the Psalms as a
scripture, the source of all beliefs of Prophet Abraham that that shows he was given the revelation,
that Torah
		
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			is mentioned also in the Quran. And the Quran mentioned about Jesus, more specifically, the gospel,
the original Arabic that appears in the Quran is an Injeel, which some translate as good news. But
when the Quran talks about the ngl, it is curious to note that is not only mentioned once that you
can say, well, it might have a dubious interpretation, it is mentioned 12 times in six different
chapters in the Quran that God gave Jesus or supported him with Injeel.
		
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			Now, when the Quran talks about Jesus, or gospel as a book given to Jesus,
		
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			it talks about it in the context of other holy books, which leaves you with the distinct impression
that the Quran does not appeal to some good news in a broad, loose sense, but rather to a specific
holy book that was given to Prophet Jesus. I know this might sound quite fascinating because most of
our Christian Brothers believe, for example, that the Gospels simply means the biographies written
about Jesus by the former writers, but not necessarily something that explicitly was revealed to
Jesus the same way it was revealed to Mohammed or to Moses. But indeed, I have run through some
differences that talk about a very well known problem in biblical studies called the Synoptic
		
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			problem of synoptic gospels whereby they compare the contents of the various four Gospels and try to
see whether what sources they have probably drawn from, and they want reference, they use the term
cue that there was a gospel chord cue from which some of the writers, at least of the Synoptic
Gospels have used as a source of information. And which means that there was probably a separate
according to the biblical studies from Christian side, I'm not talking about Muslim findings, there
was probably a different gospel from which earlier gospels even copied, which for the Muslim
possibly could be the original gospel given to Jesus, let's not forget that there is a whole issue
		
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			also about the canonized gospels, the history of the church, so is that there have been a large
number of Gospels and it was only in the fourth century that the church canonized the four Gospels
and disregard. Exactly the others were burned. So it is quite possible, both from Christian as well
as Muslim sources that Jesus did have a separate, independent holy book that was lost,
unfortunately, to history.
		
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			Okay, now let's look at the concept of profits with as related to Jesus. And I would like you to
tell us if Jesus himself or that let me rephrase it by saying in the New Testament, in the gospels,
is there any evidence as to the prophethood of Jesus, plenty of evidence, he just gave a few
examples, but to summarize, he looked at himself as a servant of God, a prophet of God, a messenger
of God. his contemporaries also thought of him as a prophet.
		
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			In the Gospel of Luke, for example, Chapter 13, verses 33 and 34. It says, nevertheless, I must walk
today and tomorrow, and the day following, for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem,
or Jerusalem. Jerusalem, which kills the prophets, is talking about himself as a prophet. And more
explicitly, even outside of the Synoptic Gospels, perhaps from the Biblical Studies point of view,
the least trusted or the least, the authentic gospel, they
		
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			gospel of john, which is I suppose there are lots of problems, artists authorship is a whole
subject. In chapter eight, verse 14, it says, but now you seek to kill me, is telling people, and
then that has told you the truth which I have heard of God. So himself admitting he has heard
certain truths from God, and he's conveying that to them. And that's definitely a characteristic of
a prophet. As far as your other parts of the question whether his contemporaries also thought of him
as a prophet, definitely, there's no question about that. Just to give one example, in the Gospel of
Luke, according to Luke in chapter seven, verse 16,
		
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			talking about the visit that Jesus made to the city of nine, and it says that a great prophet is
risen up among us, so people knew that this was a prophet, there are also other things that people
were sought to lay hands on him, but they feared him as a prophet, when he also indicated that a
prophet was not honored in his own town in his own town. So the the the gospels are replete with
evidence is
		
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			that both Jesus peace be upon him as well as as well as his contemporaries knew that he was a
prophet, and to theorize that he was hiding that secret is definitely something that does not have
that much, especially if it has to be the cornerstone of
		
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			the highlands to make it metaphorical and naked, about
		
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			just simple and obvious. How about the end of his mission of the Jamaat, that does the Quran
mentioned something about the Do we agree with the Christian version of his
		
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			crucifixion and ascension? Or how does the Quran deal with that subject on this I stick to the
wording of the Quran, because this is a method that very little information is available and even
		
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			I'm sure that among early Christian sects, as George said, mentioned, for example, that there have
been so many sects that disputed whether it was Jesus or Judah, this courier was put to the cross.
This is disputed among early Christian sects, as well. But since you're asking about what the Quran
specifically mentioned, I refer you to chapter four, verses 156 on and it says, Then, they that is
the contemporaries of Jesus, they went so far in their unbelief, that they uttered a monstrous or
false charge against me. They themselves bragged. And notice here, they bragged, we have slain
Jesus, son of Mary, a messenger of Allah. Whereas in fact, they did not slay him. Nor did they
		
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			crucify him. The Quran is very obvious, they say they, they did not slay him, nor did they crucify
him, but the matter was made dubious for them. And in other translations also should be translated
as the matter was made to appear to them as such, that they must have been some kind of confusion.
And they thought, impression, they got the wrong impression that it was Jesus, who was put on the
cross. And then it continues, the verse that says, and those who have differed about this matter,
are also in doubt concerning it. They have no knowledge of it, but for the mere conjectures, for
they were not sure that they had succeeded in killing Jesus. Nay, the fact is, that Allah or God has
		
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			raised and left him to himself for God is all powerful, and all wise. So according to the specific
text of the Quran,
		
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			it's conclusive that he was not the one person no matter how common it may be. Because like I said,
again, the this
		
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			in an era Christianity now lots of theories also as to what happened, but I'm just saying are
sticking my sister with the Quran.
		
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			It's very interesting that in the last part of the IRS you just mentioned, he said that they did not
kill him, but God has caused him to rise or sort of ascend to heaven, He raised him to heaven. What
could you be a little bit more specific about the meaning of raising here? Okay. Getting back to the
original, the original words in the Quran, Arabic says, Rafa, hula hula, it didn't say specifically
heavens. It says if you translate it literally, but God raised him unto himself. Okay? The best way
to understand that without, again, going in any philosophizing is to stick to the term that that are
raising, as it appears in the Quran, and I found that it appears in three meanings and three
		
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			different meanings in the Quran are three possibilities. One Of course, according to some
interpreters, that God raised Jesus in body and soul. And we should not say that this is impossible.
It cannot be proven scientifically, but God is definitely able to raise Jesus or lift him or take
him away, before crucifixion in body and salt. So that's one possibility.
		
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			Reality is that the Quran also uses the term production,
		
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			to refer to taking away of the souls, that the body would be on Earth, but the soul would be taken
away, which could possibly mean that Jesus might have lived died somewhere else. But God's referring
to the raising of, of his soul. But again, we don't have any definite conclusive proof that this is
the interpretation is one of the possible. In fact, there might be some indirect evidence to this
point in the Quran. In one verse, it says why it's called a La Jolla, he said in the motto of our
Africa, when God said, Oh, Jesus, I am with our seeker, and raising you with a word motto seeker
would have two meanings. A common meaning would be causing you to die, which means natural death.
		
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			And the other meaning also could be with our seeker means completing your term, which could be
completing your message, bring your mission to a halt and raise you. And other indirect evidence
also is that the Quran says very clearly and conclusively. kulu nacinda cottonmouth. That is, every
soul will test this and Jesus, peace be upon him being a prophet and human being. He definitely
would have to test this like all other human beings. Also in the verse that I quoted before quoting
Jesus, when he spoke to his mother, when that's in the first program on Jesus in the Quran, he says,
What Salaam Allah Yama will lead to i O Muhammad, peace be upon me the day I was born and the day I
		
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			die. But this is one possibility. The third meaning that is used in the Quran about raising is used
also allegorically to refer to raising of status. The Quran uses the term to refer to the raising of
the status of mosques of knowledgeable people, just to give reference without quoting in details in
chapter 2436. In chapter 19, verse 33, and chapter 1975. In chapter 58, verse 11, we find that the
term lifting is used not necessarily in the physical sense, but in the lifting of status. Like it
talks about prophet Idris, for example, that God raised him in a high position, but nobody
ennobling. That's right.
		
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			But like I said, these are all possible interpretations. The Quran does not tell us in a conclusive
sense, how he was raised, but from the practical point of view, the Muslim it doesn't make any much
difference. Any difference really, whether he was crucified or not a Muslim, had it not been for the
Quran, it would not make any difference. Many prophets were killed. crucifixion was the method of
killing that dismission stands on its own merits,
		
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			regardless of the method, okay, Dr. Jamal, we have a minute and a half, could you give us a very
brief answer to the second return of Christ? What about the second return of Christ?
		
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			Wonder? Okay, well, very briefly speaking, they there is nothing in the Quran conclusively saying,
say, for example, that Jesus would have a second coming. However, there are some prophetic
traditions, that is, tradition, or sayings of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, in which he talks
about the second coming of Jesus, but it's quite different from the meaning understood among our
Christian brothers and sisters. That is, he will not be coming as somebody as a judge or as God to
rule and judge, but rather he would be coming as a follower of Islam. And as we mentioned before,
Islam is the face of all prophets, not only of Prophet Muhammad, and Jesus was a Muslim, according
		
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			to the Quran is the one who submitted to the Word of God in this prophetic tradition, and if I have
time, I could have caught it and indicated the ingredients. But it says that he will come to declare
the truth about himself that say even he will break the cross, which he would regard as something
that came from other students taking symbols or mythical ideas that was before Christianity has
nothing to do with his teaching.
		
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			That's Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. And it's also mentioned interestingly enough, which has
some similarity, that towards the end of the
		
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			day participating with the believers in fighting the false messiah or antichrist. Thank you very
much Dr. tamale was most interesting. Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for joining us
today. We hope you will come to join us next week where a new hosts will be hosting the show and
		
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			I am Hamid Hassan Hosni wrapping up. Thank you. God bless your Salaam Alaikum