05-27-2004, 08:29 PM
(bismillah
as salam alykom
Ok may Allah allow me to present this point in the most accurate manner so as to help Joshua and those who are looking for the truth ameen. May Allah also overlook any erros ameen.
Let me try and shed light on an important point here, the problem about Jesus usually stems from the part in which Allah Is Addressing Mariam through the Angle Gabriel Saying and We Sent to her our soul who manifested in the form of a human being. The word our soul here usually raises controversy.
I know, let me by the Will of Allah try to help here being a native Arabic speaker.
The soul in Arabic is Ruh which is the item (will not say part since we don’t exactly know what it is) responsible about life. In other words, when it is taken one immediately dies. It is the item that is contracted when the angle of death assumes his role towards someone.
So being the source of life, Allah Uses the term soul in many ways. For example Allah called Quran in one Ayah the soul, just take note of this, being a reason to make us alive after being dead. R u getting it, following the Quran revived the people after been dead due to non believing.
Using the word Ruh does not in any way represent Allah’s soul .
On another sense the same word Ruh (soul) means the core or essence of something. Ruh ashye-e means core of something.. So when Allah Sends Ruh (soul) succeeding it in Arabic with a suffix that means ours, it simply means from us we send the core of something, or we send what makes u alive. Big difference.
I can see u saying o why Allah if He is One is using we…. Insh a Allah I will get to this later.
“He sends down the angels <b>with inspiration </b> of His Command to whom of His slaves He pleases (saying): "Warn mankind that La ilaha illa Ana (none has the right to be worshipped but I), so fear Me (by abstaining from sins and evil deeds).” (16:2).
If u read this Ayah in Arabic, it says <b>yonazel ul malaeka beruh min amreh</b>… In this position, Allah Clearly explains an important usage of the word Ruh, it is the revelation, the inspiration the Quran which is the essence, the source of life and core of interest.
“Which the trustworthy <b>Ruh [Jibrael (Gabriel)]</b> has brought down;” (26:193).
Another usage is Allah Calling Angle Gabriel in many positions the Ruh. In no way Allah Means that Gabriel is Allah’s soul but rather he is the Ruh of angles, the important one among them, since he is responsible of bringing revelation to the Messengers. Again a revelation related task, therefore must be called Ruh. <b>Not in any sense is a part of Allah</b>.
“(He is Allah) Owner of High Ranks and Degrees, the Owner of the Throne. He sends the <b>Inspiration </b> by His Command to any of His slaves He wills, that he (the person who receives inspiration) may warn (men) of the Day of Mutual Meeting (i.e. The Day of Resurrection).” (40:15)
Again here Allah calling the revelation the Ruh.
Let me get to the we point I raised earlier. U may ask why Allah is speaking in the plural form here, they keep telling me He is One, does not consist of parts?
In Arabic when we address an older or respectable person, just like in French, we use the plural from. To this effect Allah Is stressing the fact about His Superior position, His Mighty, His Graciousness not that He is more than one. No just One but not any one. Allah the All Mighty, the All Powerful.
Insh aAllah I have more on this, just preferred to bring them bit by bit for everyone to digest before we move on.