#كل_الرسل_مسلمين_من_القرآن
Praise be to Allaah.
It should be noted that the word “Islam” may refer to two things: a general meaning and a specific meaning.
Islam in a general sense means submitting to Allaah alone, which implies worshipping Him alone and obeying Him alone.
Everyone who believes in Allaah alone and worships Him according to His laws that have not been abrogated is a Muslim.
Shaykh al-Islam said in al-Tadmuriyyah, p. 168-170:
This religion is the religion of Islam, besides which Allaah will accept no other religion, either from the earlier or the later generations. All the Prophets followed Islam. Allaah says of Nooh (interpretation of the meaning):
“And recite to them the news of Nooh (Noah). When he said to his people: ‘O my people, if my stay (with you), and my reminding (you) of the Ayaat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allaah is hard on you, then I put my trust in Allaah. So devise your plot, you and your partners, and let not your plot be in doubt for you. Then pass your sentence on me and give me no respite.
72. ‘But if you turn away (from accepting my doctrine of Islamic Monotheism, i.e. to worship none but Allaah), then no reward have I asked of you, my reward is only from Allaah, and I have been commanded to be of the Muslims (i.e. those who submit to Allaah’s Will)’”
[Yoonus 10:71-72]
And Allaah says of Ibraaheem (interpretation of the meaning):
“And who turns away from the religion of Ibraaheem (Abraham) (i.e. Islamic Monotheism) except him who befools himself? Truly, We chose him in this world and verily, in the Hereafter he will be among the righteous.
131. When his Lord said to him, ‘Submit (i.e. be a Muslim)!’ He said, ‘I have submitted myself (as a Muslim) to the Lord of the ‘Aalameen (mankind, jinn and all that exists).’
132. And this (submission to Allaah, Islam) was enjoined by Ibraaheem (Abraham) upon his sons and by Ya’qoob (Jacob) (saying), ‘O my sons! Allaah has chosen for you the (true) religion, then die not except in the Faith of Islam (as Muslims — Islamic Monotheism)’”
[al-Baqarah 2:130-132]
And He says of Moosa (interpretation of the meaning):
“And Moosa (Moses) said: ‘O my people! If you have believed in Allaah, then put your trust in Him if you are Muslims (those who submit to Allaah’s Will)’”
[Yoonus 10:84]
And He says of the Messiah (interpretation of the meaning):
“And when I (Allaah) inspired Al?Hawariyyoon (the disciples) [of ‘Eesa (Jesus)] to believe in Me and My Messenger, they said: ‘We believe. And bear witness that we are Muslims’”
[al-Maa'idah 5:111]
And He says of the previous Prophets (interpretation of the meaning):
“…by which the Prophets, who submitted themselves to Allaah’s Will …”
[al-Maa’idah 5:44]
And He tells us that Bilqeez said (interpretation of the meaning):
“My Lord! Verily, I have wronged myself, and I submit [in Islam, together with Sulaymaan (Solomon)] to Allaah, the Lord of the ‘Aalameen(mankind, jinn and all that exists)”
[al-Naml 27:44]
This is the religion of Islam, besides which Allaah does not accept any other. This means obeying Allaah at any given time by doing what He commanded at that time. So initially the command was to face towards the Rock [in Jerusalem] in prayer, then the command came to face towards the Ka’bah. Both actions come under the heading of the religion of Islam, because religion is obedience and worship in both cases, but the actions varied in some regards which was the direction faced in prayer. Similarly the religion of all the Messengers is one and the same, but their laws varied.
#دفاع_عن_النبى
It takes honesty and braveness to stop lies and fabrications.
The eternal message to humanity to submit to our creator delivered by the most merciful human being to mankind was delivered and accepted by the universe and is till the end of time.
It’s not what I think it’s what the universe believe except rejects.
#الدليل_من_الإنجيل_على_عدم_الصلب
among the Christians themselves who believed that the Messiah was not crucified, and that the one who was crucified was a look-alike, as is proven in the Christian sources themselves.
St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori said:
One of the innovations of the first century was that of Florian, according to which Christ was a non-holy force and was able to take whatever shape or form he wanted. Hence when the Jews wanted to crucify him, he exchanged forms with Simon the Cyrene, thus Simon was crucified whilst Jesus was mocking the Jews.
John Fenton, a commentator on the Gospel of Matthew, said:
One of the second-century Gnostic sects said that Simon the Cyrene was crucified instead of Jesus.
Seuss said in his book, ‘Aqeedat al-Muslimeen fi Masaa’il an-Nasraaniyyah [What the Muslims believe about some Christian issues]: The Basilidian sect denied the crucifixion. They were one of the first-century sects.
[We have taken these quotes from the book Silsilat Manaazirah ma‘a Qissees: Hal suliba al-Maseeh? [Series of Debates with a Priest: Was the Messiah crucified?] by Dr. Munqidh as-Saqqaar.]
We will quote from your scripture and the words of your scholars words to prove that:
Mark says:
“Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph, and Salome.
In Galilee these women had followed him and cared for his needs. Many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem were also there”
Mark 15:40-41.
Matthew says something similar (Matthew 27:55-56).
Luke says:
“But all those who knew him, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things”
[Luke 23:49].
John says:
“Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene”
[John 19:23].
John Fenton says: The disciples fled when Jesus was arrested, and even though Peter had followed him from afar to the courtyard of the high priest, we do not hear anything more about him, after he denied Jesus.
Matthew, Mark and Luke tell us that the witnesses to the crucifixion were women who had followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem; they saw his burial and discovered the tomb empty on the Sunday morning, and they met Jesus after his resurrection.
The scholars commented on what John said about Mary, the mother of the Messiah, being present at the cross by saying: That is not possible at all, that the relatives and friends of Jesus would be allowed to stand near the cross.
Similarly, the Encyclopaedia Britannica says, commenting on the differences in the gospels concerning those who witnessed the crucifixion: We find in the (three) synoptic Gospels that only the women followed Jesus, and that the list which was written very carefully and in precise detail did not include his mother – and that they were watching from afar.
But in John, we find that his mother Mary stood with the two other Marys and the “beloved disciple” beneath the cross, and from that time, the beloved disciple took this story to his close friends.
At the same time, his mother does not appear in Jerusalem – according to the ancient texts – except just before the feast of Pentecost, when she is accompanied by his brothers (Acts 1:14).
End quote from Munaazarah bayna al-Islam wa’n-Nasraaniyyah [Debate between Islam and Christianity] (p. 107).
So, according to what your scripture says, none of the disciples of the Messiah were present at the crucifixion at all; rather those who were present were some of the women, although the Gospels differ as to their number and identity.
#نجاة_عيسى_من_اليهود
Finally, we will quote here some passages from the Gospels which indicate that the Messiah was saved from being killed by the Jews, and that they did not capture him and crucify him.
“The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.
Jesus said, ‘I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.
You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’”
John 7:32-34.
“Once more Jesus said to them, ‘I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.’
This made the Jews ask, ‘Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, “Where I go, you cannot come”?’
… So Jesus said, ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.
The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him”
John 8:21-29.
The last thing the Messiah said to his disciples in the moments just before he was captured was:
“A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me.
…. But take heart! I have overcome the world”
John 16:32-33.
The Messiah said of his enemies among the Jews that they would never be able to reach him; they would look for him but not find him; and that Allah was with him and would never leave him to face his enemies alone, and that he had overcome the world. All of this indicates that his enemies were not able to reach him or kill him or crucify him; rather Allah saved him from them, because if he had actually been crucified, it would mean that his enemies had looked for him, found him and killed him, so what he had said about these matters would have been false.
Allah the Almighty spoke the truth when He said in the Holy Qur’an (interpretation of the meaning):
“and their saying: ‘We slew the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary’, the Messenger of Allah - whereas in fact they had neither slain him nor crucified him but the matter was made dubious to them - and those who differed about it too were in a state of doubt! They have no definite knowledge of it, but merely follow conjecture; and they surely slew him not,
but Allah raised him to Himself. Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise”
[an-Nisaa’ 4:157-158].