05-26-2004, 02:18 PM
wow Josh, too many points,
Insh aAllah I will tackle one at a time.
Very good question about why Allah made Jesus be born this way.
We will look at it from two aspects:
1. Allah Created Adam from nothing I mean no human origin.
2. Allah Created Eve from Adam.
3. Allah Created jesus from a mother with no father. Can u see just to manifest Allah's Capability to mankind.
But most important is that Jesus was sent to the Jews who were so much into their materialistic world. They were advantaged with so many blessings from Allah yet, asked for material gains and evidences. With the way jesus was born Allah Aimed to tell them and draw their attention to spirtual miracles which may be of major importance.
Yet Jesus occupies an important position of course so is his mother. Why didnt u notice that Mohamed's mother was not even mentioned in Quran or referred to in any way?
I dont see how Mohamed is always mentioned with Allah, but I can think of an Ayah may be this is what u refer to; which translates as obey Allah and obey the Messenger. U know why Josh? When people asked Aesha (one of his wives) about his manner. She said his manner and moral was applying the Quran.
Mohamed went through anything and everything a human being can go through, including marriage, divorce, immigration, being oppressed, illness, lossing children and wife by death, loosing close family members who helped him thru death.
Now why? simply to tell us how to handle each situation in light what pleases only Allah.
In other words, he was a rold model for Muslims in terms of how to tackle different situations that occur in life. We had to see an applicable example to what came in Quran done by a human being just like us. So we can not aruge that o no we can not do this or follow that.
Even missing a prayer, he experienced to tell us that if u sleep and miss prayer just do it the minute u wake up.
Even forgetting how many Raka (prayer unit) he made, to teach us that when we experience this we simply take it for the lesser number.
Can u see this Josh, not in any way we take him near or close to or equal to Allah, no one is, he is just a Messenger.
But the final one to all creation mankind and jin
Whereas Jesus was only sent to the Jews.
The rest of the points Insh a Allah will attend to them or even may be my brothers and sisters will
just not to give too much into at a time