"And they say, 'The Compassionate has taken a child.' You have indeed asserted a terrible thing. The heavens are well-night rent thereby, and the earth split asunder, and the mountains made to fall down in ruins, that they should claim for the Compassionate a child."
Quran 19:88-92
This passage is drawn from the 19th surah, Maryam, which, as we've discussed already tells the story of Mary and the birth of Jesus. I'll have more to say about it later. As I've said previously, it's one of the surahs that I always recommend to non-Muslims as an introduction to the faith and to the Quran itself. This is a passage which, if read the wrong way, can seem like an attack on Jesus, but in fact it's not that at all. It comes in the chapter right after the retelling of the Jesus story. After telling the story it became necessary to throw in the reminder that Mohammad, or the reader, should not assume that this meant that Jesus was actually the son of God (because from an Islamic point of view there's no such thing). Instead the point is made that it's an insult to Jesus himself to suggest that he's the son of God because, again from the Islamic point of view, he isn't the son of God nor did he claim that he's the son of God. So, it's not a shot at Jesus, which Muslims would find absolutely horrifying, but instead a shot at those who would promote Jesus as something that he wasn't, and would in fact, personally, find repugnant.
Quran 19:88-92
This passage is drawn from the 19th surah, Maryam, which, as we've discussed already tells the story of Mary and the birth of Jesus. I'll have more to say about it later. As I've said previously, it's one of the surahs that I always recommend to non-Muslims as an introduction to the faith and to the Quran itself. This is a passage which, if read the wrong way, can seem like an attack on Jesus, but in fact it's not that at all. It comes in the chapter right after the retelling of the Jesus story. After telling the story it became necessary to throw in the reminder that Mohammad, or the reader, should not assume that this meant that Jesus was actually the son of God (because from an Islamic point of view there's no such thing). Instead the point is made that it's an insult to Jesus himself to suggest that he's the son of God because, again from the Islamic point of view, he isn't the son of God nor did he claim that he's the son of God. So, it's not a shot at Jesus, which Muslims would find absolutely horrifying, but instead a shot at those who would promote Jesus as something that he wasn't, and would in fact, personally, find repugnant.
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