Yasir Qadhi – Jesus In Islam Vs Christianity

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			Jesus Christ is a central figure to our faith tradition. Allah subhanho wa Taala mentions the new
Myriam, Jesus Christ Alessia over 25 times in the Quran. And our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
made it a fundamental pillar of our faith. For he said in the famous Hadith in Sahih, Muslim whoever
testifies La ilaha illa Allah and I am the messenger of Allah. And Isa is the rule of law. What
kelimutu who Alka, Allah Maria, whoever testifies that Allah is Allah and the Prophet system is the
Prophet. And Jesus is rule for law, he will Kadima to who and the rule of law as we will explain in
today's world about his his spirit and his word that he gave to mobium. Whoever testifies to these
		

			shall enter Jannah so believing in Jesus, as a Muslim is a fundamental requirement to be a Muslim.
We are the only other faith community other than Christians who make it a part of their faith that
they must believe in Jesus and receptive LBM and our belief in Isa and the Christians belief in
Jesus is similar in some ways, and different in others. And in today's short holds above, we will
try to illustrate some of those similarities and some of those differences. And especially for our
younger brothers and sisters, they should know what we believe about Jesus Christ because it is a
fundamental part of being a Muslim. We as Muslims firmly believe that the mother of Isa and her name
		

			is Miriam is the holiest and the greatest woman who has ever walked the face of this earth. The only
woman mentioned by name in the Quran is the mother of Jesus. the only woman that has a chapter named
after her in the Quran is the mother of Jesus. And Allah azzawajal tells us in the Quran that
Djibouti visited Maryam Djibouti, the greatest Angel visited Millennium and said to Maria Yama Yama
in Luba shiraki, Kalimantan Mr. Min who is Mohammed mercy or Isa, Omar, Omar Liam, we are gifting
you we are giving you glad tidings of a word and a spirit proceeding from him. And his name the
gifts name shall be al Merci de saben memoriam Alma sia is not the name it is the title. Alessia is
		

			the title and in English we say the Messiah in Arabic Alessia it is a title it's a adjective as a
description. And the description here means the one who has been anointed to anoint means to rub
muscle have means to rub and in the previous Shetty and the classical laws before our law, this is
not our law, and the other laws, the law of Moses and the previous laws. When a person wanted to
convert, they would have to be anointed or robbed with a special water they call it holy water. And
this lives to this day in the ritual of baptism. When Christians baptized themselves, there is a
basis in their shediac this baptism you rub the child on the hair according to some traditions, and
		

			in the previous Shetty as each Prophet would anoint the next prophet. So john the baptist who was
the cousin of Jesus, anointed Jesus, he made Jesus the Messiah by the name of Allah, the permission
of Allah, this anointing is the Messiah. This is the Messiah, the Messiah, and the name of the child
was Esau. And Risa has been latinized to Jesus, that the letter J did not exist in Aramaic and Risa
never heard the name Jesus in His whole life. If you said Jesus to Jesus, he wouldn't know you're
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			To him because Jay did not exist in their language, the actual name of Jesus. And this even
Christians acknowledge and they understand the real name of Jesus was closer to Esau, we say Isa,
they will say Esau, the term j or the letter J did not exist. When it was translated to Latin, then
they said, Jesus, but the actual name is Esau, or Isa, the son of Mary, and the Messiah means the
Messiah, which means the anointed one. And we believe that Maria Maria has Salam was the greatest of
all women. Because the law says in the Quran, yeah, Maria Mo, in the law has stuff hockey, what a
hierarchy was sfakia donousa and alameen amarrian. Allah has chosen you. Oh, Imodium, Allah has
		

			chosen you, and cleansed and purified you and made you above all of the women of the world. So the
greatest woman to ever walk on the face of this earth is the mother of Jesus. And that is Maria
alayhis salam, what an honor that we as Muslims have to believe. What an honor for her that Allah
told her, you are the greatest woman that Allah has chosen over all of the world. And of course, the
story of Madame is mentioned in the Quran that the mother of mother Liam, when she was pregnant with
mme she wanted to gift she thought it was a boy, she wanted to give to her boy, to be a priest to be
a rabbi to be a scholar, and she wanted the child to be raised in the holiest temple, and that is
		

			the Temple of Solomon. But when the child was born, the child turned out to be a female and not a
male. And she had already made the promise that this child shall be gifted to the temple, and she'll
be raised within the temple and shall become a scholar or a priest or whatnot, it was too late to
change the promise. So she gifted the female even though in those times, females were not gifted to
the temple. And her uncle was zecharia. And so is that Maria, the mother of Jesus was raised by her
uncle zecharia inside the temple, and she grew up worshipping Allah from her infancy. And Allah
mentions in the Quran miracles for Miriam, as a young lady, when Madame is worshiping in her chamber
		

			zecharia would visit her to make sure she has food and water, and she would find the best fruits and
the purest water and cold drinks all therefore her. And zecharia would say, who brought this to you?
I'm the only one that has the key, I'm taking care of you. I'm your uncle, where'd you get this food
from? and Maria would say him in the law, it is from Allah Subhana Allah to Allah, Allah blessed me
with food, this is in the Koran, Maria has been blessed with miracles even before Jesus is born. And
then we all know the story that the angel comes in ANGEL Djibouti walks into the chamber of medium
and medium is terrified because nobody has access to the chamber. And Madame thinks this is a man
		

			who wants to do some harm, who wants to do some physical damage to her who wants to remove her
chastity. And so mobium says, I seek refuge in a law, a law will protect me against you. And God
says, I am not an enemy. I am a law servant to you. I am a messenger to you. And I'm here to tell
you the good news that Allah will give you a gift, and that gift will be a child, and the child will
be the Messiah, or the Messiah. And Miriam says, How can I have a child? I have no husband, and I've
never touched him. And I've never done anything evil about abominable, how can I get pregnant? And
jabril says, this is a miracle when he wants to do something. He says Kuhn, fire Kuhn, and it is.
		

			And so and this is a key point, and I want everybody to listen to this. We Muslims believe Jesus was
formed by the *. And Jesus was not the actual Quran in Arabic. Mr. Mohammed said, Can I reset the
Quran while I'm Yoku? Or can the difference between us and Christians, Christians believe Jesus
became the word. So the Word became Jesus and Jesus became the word. And so Jesus is a walking word,
Jesus is the Word of God. That's a Christian belief. We say, Jesus was conceived at the word because
of the word, Jesus did not become the Word of God. Jesus is a human. And when Allah said when Marian
became pregnant, so Jesus was caused by Kuhn, and Jesus was not Kuhn, whereas Christians say Jesus
		

			was the word and the logos was with God, the logos was God, and Jesus was God. So we have this
difference here. Jesus was conceived by Kuhn by be he didn't become the Word of God. And of course,
the Quran mentions many miracles of Jesus. He spoke in the cradle. He spoke simply a newborn baby,
he defended his mother's chastity, and he defended the charge that people said, Where did this child
come from? And he defended his mother's innocence and he told them
		

			am Allah servant to you as a baby he said, I am Allah servant to you. And as the child grew up, he
did so many miracles and the Quran mentions some of them, such as the bird fashioning birds from
clay and blowing into it and they become real birds such as healing the leper healing the blind,
resurrecting the dead by the permission of Allah. The story of Lazarus is in the New Testament when
somebody had died and he prayed to Allah and so Allah azza wa jal brought the dead back to life.
These are things that no human can do, unless Allah subhana wa tada is helping and he then announced
his prophethood to the children of Israel. He, Allah says in the Quran, that, that Isa was received
		

			and 11 Israel in that he says that to them in the Rasulullah he in a calm I am Allah Rasool to you.
Mossad De Lima in a minute Torah, I am affirming the law of Moses. This is another key difference.
Muslims believe Jesus Christ affirmed the law of Moses and the Quran mentions this more sadaqa Lima,
they need even a Torah, I am affirming the Torah. I'm not here to get rid of the Old Testament. I'm
not here to throw out the law of God, I am here so that you teach and preach the law of God. But
what Hill Allah come Baba de la come, I'm gonna make some things halaal that used to be Haram, I'm
going to make the law easier for you. So the Quran says, Jesus came with an easier law, but overall,
		

			it was the Mosaic law, the law of Moses, you have to follow the shedding of Moosa, but I'm gonna
make it a little bit easier. Allah allowed me to make things allowed. That used to be how long. And
Jesus was supposed to be the final great prophet to the children of Israel. The the Old Testament
tells us and the New Testament and the Quran, this is a message that all three books agree upon. So
what I'm about to say is not just from the Quran, we learned from the Old Testament and the New
Testament and the Quran, that the children of Israel began to disobey the commandments of God, that
the children of Israel were not fulfilling the law. And so Allah sent them Jesus Christ, to remind
		

			them that this is the last chance. And there's a long list of crimes that the Old Testament
mentions, and then especially the New Testament, when you read the New Testament, Jesus criticizes
the children of Israel, in so many verses. Why? Because they were not fulfilling the commandments of
a law. And they were playing with a laws law, and they were not faithful to Allah commandments. And
so Jesus kept on telling them that don't do this, do that obey the law, and eventually, they became
frustrated at him. And instead of believing in Him, they rejected him. And instead of following Him,
they became so frustrated that they were willing that the Romans now remember the children of Israel
		

			were a minority within the Roman Empire, they did not have political power, political power is in
the hands of the Romans. These are the kings and the Emperor's these are the politicians and the the
police and the bureaucrats are all pagans. They don't believe in any right God, they are idol
worshipers, and the Bani Israel are a minority. And now within their community, there is this figure
called Jesus Christ preaching something new. They became so frustrated that they complained to the
authorities about Jesus Christ. This is in the New Testament. And it is mentioned in the Quran
indirectly, not directly. This is straight from the New Testament. And they essentially turn their
		

			backs on their own Prophet, because Jesus is one of them. He is of the children of Israel, he is
their kith and kin. They turned their backs on Jesus, and they attempted to have him executed by the
Roman authorities. They helped. They helped the traders within the camps of Jesus. Judas was his
name. They helped him to essentially turn their own in based upon false lies and promises. They said
he is a political agitator. They said he's speaking against the Emperor, even though Jesus did not
come to cause any agitation or problem. He was a peaceful person. He didn't come to spread war and
hatred, but his own people falsely accused him of that which we as he was free of. And they
		

			complained to the Roman emperor and the Roman bureaucrats. And this is why they had to get involved.
And the court case was done. And the verdict was given that he will be essentially crucified, which
was the Roman way of killing people. That's how they would kill people put them on a cross and let
them die of starvation. So according to the New Testament, this is the Christian narrative. They
entered in and they found Jesus and they arrested him and they put him on the cross. This is the
Christian narrative. He died on the cross, then they buried him, then he came back from the dead and
he was resurrected and he had announced to everybody that he is the Son of God, etc, etc. This is
		

			not the Islamic narrative, the Islamic nation.
		

			differs radically from the Christian narrative. Allah says in the Quran and this is a very important
point, one Cthulhu masala boo hoo, Wah can should be Hello. They neither killed Jesus nor did they
crucify him, but rather, it was made to appear to them. So it looked that Jesus had been crucified
but he wasn't crucified. This is in the Quran. What I can shoot behind the home. We're in the lead
in a tele foofy Luffy shakin all of the Christians who are differing amongst themselves, they are in
doubt they don't have certainty. will mount kata Whoo hoo, Kotaku yaquina have a yaqeen they did not
kill him. Allah is saying, you don't know. I know. But Rafa who la who in a low raised Isa up to
		

			himself. So the Quran unequivocally states, Jesus was not killed. Jesus was not crucified, rather,
an image was made that they assumed Jesus was crucified. Our scholars say, and this is not explicit,
but it's implied. Our scholars say that the traitor Judas, Allah punished him by making him look
like Jesus outwardly. So when the Roman soldiers came to arrest Jesus, Jesus was saved. And they saw
Judas and they assumed it was Jesus. So they arrested Judas, the trader, the betrayer, and they put
him to trial, they put him on the cross, and they killed him a miserable death, as he deserved as a
traitor. And this was a last punishment to Judas. So Judas died on the cross, not Jesus, the
		

			betrayer. And the trader died on the cross. But the people they saw Jesus on the cross, so they
thought Jesus has died. Now, our scholars say, and this is not explicit in the Koran, but it's
derived that and from the New Testament as well, that after the crucifixion, then Jesus came back to
his followers. This isn't the New Testament, and the Christians interpreted as the resurrection. We
interpreted as the affirmation he never died. Jesus came back to his followers to James to Peter.
And he says to them, Look, I'm here, this is my flesh and blood. I am not dead. And they could not
believe the New Testament says, So Jesus says, give me any food you have. So they had fish, and they
		

			had honey, and they had bread. So they gave him the food, he ate of the food, why did he eat of the
food, to show them I'm not a spirit. I'm not a ghost. I am flesh and blood, I am still alive. I
never died. I'm not dead, I'm alive. So he ate of the food. And this is in the New Testament. And
then he said, I have to leave a less cluttered hello world, I have to leave. My mission is over. You
go ahead and you preach what I taught you, which is to obey the law, be faithful to Allah, I have to
leave. But I promise you somebody is going to come after me. This isn't the New Testament. Now
Christians interpreted that that is the Holy Spirit who shall remain until Judgment Day Muslims
		

			interpreted as Allah says in the Quran, one more Bashir on Bella suelen. Yet even better, this mo
Ahmed Muslims interpret this phrase, which is the New Testament that the person who's gonna come
afterwards shall be our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, and so Jesus is raised up. And
right from the beginning, controversy begins amongst his own followers. Who was that? Was it really
Jesus? Was he in flesh and blood? Did he come back from the dead? Or was he never dead in the first
place? What happened? And from the beginning, Christianity split up into such a wide spectrum that
us Muslims, we have never had this problem in our religion. From the beginning, Christianity began
		

			to differ. Who is Jesus? What is his relationship with God? What is the role of the law, and you had
an entire spectrum of opinion? One spectrum and one group is the group that we say we're the real
Christians, that group, we still have references to them. And for the advanced students and the
people who are interested, you should make a note of these and do your own research. There are
groups that are now called Jewish Christians. This is the name given to them. They're Jewish
Christians. They were Christians who believed in Jesus, but who followed the law. And they believed
in Jesus as the Messiah, not as God, not as the Son of God of these groups is the EBU knights, the
		

			Knights the Knights are an early Christian group. They didn't believe in the Trinity. They didn't
believe in redemption. They didn't believe that Jesus died on the cross. They actually believed that
Jesus is the Messiah, not the Son of God, and they followed the laws of Moosa, but they were
persecuted by the other Christians and they fizzled out. Also in early Christianity, we had a group
called the nazarenes. And from that week, the Muslims get an assault off the nazarenes. The
nazarenes are another early Christian group, they to believe Jesus is the Messiah, not God.
		

			They followed the law of Mussa. And you had other groups as well. No time to get into all of them,
the civilian knights, the the area knights, the Aryans, all of these, they were people who had other
versions of Christianity. But what happened? Very briefly, two primary figures that every Muslim
should be aware of this is basic history, that even academics who are fair to the tradition
acknowledge this, where did modern Christianity come from two primary individuals. Number one, Paul,
Paul, was an early convert to Christianity who never met Jesus. He says he met him in a dream, but
he never actually met Jesus before. And when Jesus was walking on this earth, and Paul began to
		

			preach a very different version of Christianity, Paul began to preach that Jesus was not just the
Messiah, he was the son of God. Paul also began to preach that Jesus, you don't have to follow the
law to believe in Jesus. belief in Jesus substitutes the law, if you believe in Jesus, you don't
have to pray or follow kosher or eat according to the Jewish tradition or anything, all of it is
gone. If you believe in Jesus, you are saved. And Paul also began to preach that Jesus's message is
for all of humanity, not just the children of Israel. These were the three main things that Paul
introduced, that Jesus never said, Jesus only preached, he's the Messiah, Jesus said, follow the
		

			law. And Jesus said, I am for the children of Israel, not for all of mankind. Paul changed all of
that. And the second figure is the figure of Constantine, the Roman Emperor, who died 337 ce, ie a
round 250 years before our Prophet system. So for 300 years, Christianity was a minority tradition
in the Roman pagan Empire, Christians were persecuted Christians were killed by the Roman pagans,
until an accident of fluke Allah other. The Roman Emperor, at the time by the name of Constantine,
decided to convert to this obscure religion that less than 3% of his followers of his kingdom
followed small religion, like Islam in America, small religion, similar to that the Roman Emperor
		

			for reasons that are still discussed To this day, not the topic of our Hooda decided to convert to
Christianity. But which version did he convert to, he decided to convert to a version that was still
somewhat similar to his previous pagan beliefs. And he adopted a version of Christianity that taught
a trinity belief, three gods, even though there were Christian sects that did not believe in three
Gods he adopted a version of Christianity that had a father figure and a son figure and a redeeming
figure. And there are many parallels in paganism to this and even the image of Jesus with a halo on
top and this is very similar to early Christian pre Christian paganism. And there are many research
		

			papers and and dissertations done about the parallels between Constantine Christianity and between
paganism before Constantine a lot of parallels. So Constantine adopts a version of Christianity that
was similar to his own beliefs, and then he makes it the official version, so much so anybody who
disagrees with that version shall be persecuted and exiled. So he banned any other Christianity
other than his Christianity, and that became the Council of Nicea and the Nicene Creed. And one
thing led to another until it became the dominant and then it became the only version of
Christianity in the entire world. We have bits and pieces of other Christians remaining until the
		

			time of Sandman and fantasy until the time of other people like the emperor of Najafi negus, he
appeared to follow versions of Christianity that we're known Constantine, but eventually all other
versions of Christianity were wiped out, and only our Prophet sallallahu Sallam came preaching the
true Christianity, and that is Jesus is the Messiah, he is not the Son of God, and Jesus came to
fulfill the law. And brothers and sisters, of course, we disagree with Christians theologically,
yet, the Quran also praises the sincerity of Christians. The Quran says that Christians, by and
large are sincere people but they're misguided. Allah says in the Quran, that what he then Aqaba,
		

			Homer what data lilina amarula. Then, in an assault off, you will find the closest in love in
support to the believers are those who say we are Christians Why? That is because they have
righteousness and they have piety and they are not arrogant. What anomalistic beer one, and we find
that true Christians, people even in this day who follow corrupted Christianity, you generally find
them to be humble. You find them to be loving people. You find them to be not arrogant. This is what
		

			The Quran says so our stance brothers and sisters is that we believe we are the real followers of
Jesus Christ. We believe we are following the teachings of Jesus. And we say to our fellow
Christians, that we want you to research what Jesus Himself said, We want you to study the true
teachings of Jesus. And if you do so, then you will also conclude that Jesus never taught the
Trinity. Jesus never taught that he is divine. Jesus never taught that you should disobey the law.
He was a Jew, and he practiced the Mosaic law, and he was circumcised, and he observed kosher, and
he never told you to disobey the law of Moses. And this is our perspective of Jesus. And we say now
		

			that we're about to be approaching the Festival of Christianity, that indeed, we all have our
festivals we understand Christians have their festivals as well. But we should realize that we as
Muslims, we have our festivals, liquid and gel lemon come Sheraton woman hajah each Shadi are each
religion has its own way and its own holy days as well. Christianity has its holy day, and by the
way, I have to say 25th of December is not something Jesus said, this goes back to the winter
solstice celebration of Roman pagans. 25th of December is not originating from Jesus Christ. It's
originated from Constantine, it goes back to Roman paganism, the whole mythology of having a tree,
		

			this tree that they celebrate the Christmas tree, a Middle Eastern. Jesus, by the way, was a
Palestinian Jew, a Jew, he was a Palestinian Jew. Jesus was a refugee. He was an immigrant. He was a
Palestinian, he was a middle Easterner and he was a Jew, right? This is Jesus Christ, the whole
mythology of the the the nativity scene of this particular tree of hanging things on it. This is not
what the Middle Eastern Palestinians used to do. This is all coming from paganism, and also from
European Celtic traditions, Nordic traditions, nothing to do with the actual teachings of Jesus.
Nonetheless, we say to our fellow Christians, like comme De Luca, Malia, Dean, you have your way we
		

			have our way and all Muslims, it is not of our methodology to celebrate other festivals like others
do not celebrate or read. We don't expect Christians to celebrate read, we as well do not celebrate
other festivals. And also we have to be careful about,
		

			if you like, devaluing the value of our monotheism and Allah subhanho wa Taala. If somebody wishes
us, Merry Christmas or whatnot, we can give a generic greeting back that may God bless you, right?
Happy, Happy season or festival, we should try our best to avoid words like Christmas, because we
don't want to give the ambiguity that we are supporting their belief in Jesus being the son of God,
because we do not believe Jesus to be the Son of God, as well. We as Muslims should not import these
festivals into our faith tradition, there is no reason for us as Muslims to have Christian trees or
Christmas trees or have these decorations in our houses. Yes, if you're a convert, and your whole
		

			community and family is still Christian, and you have to visit them to fulfill the ties of kinship,
and you are the Muslim in your family, that's a different story. So you go to your family and you
portray yourself what is Islam and you are the dignified Muslim, but you should not participate in
any rituals that they pray to Jesus in because you are a Muslim, you don't pray to Jesus Christ. So
if you're a convert, or a revert, and you go to your family on Christmas, that's something else and
we will give concession for this. But those of us who have Muslim families, we should not be
importing religious festivals and and pageantry that has nothing to do with our faith tradition,
		

			into our faith tradition. And to conclude the first hold up one of the most interesting things that
always shocks Christians, when we say it to them is that we say to Christians, we Muslims believe
Jesus is still alive. And Christians are shocked what say yes, Jesus never died from our
perspective. He is still alive. We believe this but Rafa Hullo la wallmark Cthulhu Hua masala boo,
he did not die yet, and he was not crucified. We firmly believe as Muslims, and this is main there
is no difference of opinion in Islam, that Jesus is a prophet that Allah raised up, and he shall
come back towards the end of times, and he shall preach the true tawheed. And those Christians that
		

			are sincere will recognize when Jesus comes back that Jesus never preached the Trinity. We believe
Jesus will come towards the end of times, and the melody will be alive at the time and there will be
the great Armageddon or the battle all of this we share with Christians the one differences we
Muslims believe we will be fighting on the side of Jesus, we will be Jesus's supporters. We will be
the true followers of Jesus and Jesus Christ shall be our mom and our leader. This is how much we
respect 87 Imodium May Allah subhana wa tada causes us to understand these wisdoms and benefit
		

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