Bismillah
Quote:Just because the Koran states that Jews worship Ezra does NOT make the statement true.
Do a search of the web. You will discover that no one, other than some Muslims, believe this claim.
Subhan Allah, when it comes to The Holy Quran, The True Word of Allah, statements are not true, but when it comes to The Bible, then everything in it is true.
First we as muslims before searching as brother said, whatever Allah says in The Holy Quran, we beleive it we do not go questioning and asking why, just like the jews did with Moses(PBUH).
Second, to clear this matter according to Ibn Katheer, Qurtobi and Tabari translation and as translated to us by Azharete scholar sheikh Sayed Noah, in this verse of The Quran Allah(SWT), is saying that after the death of Moses, when the jews made mischief and killed many prophets sent by Allah(SWT) to them, Allah(SWT) wanted to punish them, The Torah was erased from their hearts, and Nebuchadnezzer envaded their homes and killed their scholars and enslaved the elderly and respectful people among them,and burned the Torah, but some scholars escaped with copies of the Torah where they burried it in the mountins, and also it was raised in a coffin after the death of Moses(PBUH) with some of his belongings.
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem:
248. And their Prophet (Samuel) said to them: Verily! The sign of His Kingdom is that there shall come to you At-Tâbût (a wooden box), wherein is Sakinah (peace and reassurance) from your Lord and a remnant of that which Musâ (Moses) and Hârûn (Aaron) left behind, carried by the angels. Verily, in this is a sign for you if you are indeed believers.
2- Surat Al-Baqarah
Now Ezra escaped the masacre done by Nebuchadnezzer, Ezra kept weeping that the scholars are dead and the The Torah and its teachings is lost, he kept crying until his eyelashes fell, and while he was weeping he passed by a woman on a grave crying" Oh u who feed me, Oh u who attire me. So he told her: behold woman, who used to feed u before who used to attire u? She said Allah, so he told her then Allah is The Eternal He does not die. So she told him Ezra who used to teach the scholars before their death? he said Allah. she said then why are u crying on them Allah is The Teacher. Here he realised that this was a lesson to him, then he was ordered o go to a river to wash and to pray 2 rakh'as, then he was told that he will find there a scholar, eat whatever he feeds u. So he did what he was ordered, then he returned being the most knowledgable scholar and The Torah was enscribed in his heart, he returned to the jews and told them that he came back with The Torah, they told him we never thought that u were a liar, so he had pens tied to his fingers and wrote the whole Torah. When the enemy left and the escaped scholars came back, the jews told them of Ezra, they went to the buried copies and found them, and compared them to the one with Ezra they found it the same, <b>so a group of the jews, the ignorant ones</b> of them said that this thing will not happen to him unless he is son of Allah, and they said that after the nasarah(christians) said about jesus that he is the son of Allah copying them, so in this ayah Allah(SWT) is condemning that group of jews and who said that Ezra is the son of Allah, as well as the christians who said that jesus is son of Allah, and not all of them, in many verses of The holy Quran, u find that Allah (SWT) never said that all jews and christians are Kuffar, becasue He is The All-Knowing, that many of them are good people, and many will embrace islam. But those who follow their rabbi's and bishop's who say false things about Allah(SWT) for money and worldly gains, then they ascribed with Allah companions, becasue they permitted what Allah(SWT) forbidden and forbid what Allah(SWT) permitted.
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem:
77. Know they (Jews) not that Allâh knows what they conceal and what they reveal?
78. And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.
79. Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands and then say, "This is from Allâh," to purchase with it a little price! Woe to them for what their hands have written and woe to them for that they earn thereby. 2, Surat Al-Baqara
This is the explanation of why jews said Ezra is the son of Allah, those who said it are dead from that time, just like those who were turned to pigs and monkeys, some will think that the jews living now are descendants of those, no they are not becasue they were transformed and killed, becasue of The Wrath of Allah upon them.
Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem:
65. And indeed you knew those amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath (i.e. Saturday). We said to them: "Be you monkeys, despised and rejected."
66. So We made this punishment an example to their own and to succeeding generations and a lesson to those who are Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - see V.2:2). 2, Surat Al-Baqarah
May Allah(SWT) accept from me, forgive my shortcomings and mistakes, if I am right from Allah(SWT) if I am wrong from myself and shaytan.
<b>Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem:</b>
<b>64. Say (O Muhammad ): "O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians): Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but Allâh, and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides Allâh. Then, if they turn away, say: "Bear witness that we are Muslims."</b>
65. O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Why do you dispute about Ibrâhim (Abraham), while the Taurât (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel) were not revealed till after him? Have you then no sense?
66. Verily, you are those who have disputed about that of which you have knowledge. Why do you then dispute concerning that which you have no knowledge? It is Allâh Who knows, and you know not.
67. Ibrâhim (Abraham) was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a true Muslim Hanifa (Islâmic Monotheism - to worship none but Allâh Alone) and he was not of Al-Mushrikûn (See V.2:105). 3, Surat Al-Imran
Peace