Surah5.57:
The Messiah, son of Mary, was not but a messenger; [other] messengers have passed on before him.
Surah 4.171:
The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers.
Muslims always renounce Christianity on one of their several usual claims. First and foremost, the claim that Jesus was not a God. In this blog I show Jesus is God based on what the Quran and Hadith actually say concerning the Day of Judgement.
Surah 22.6:
This is because Allah alone is the Truth. He alone gives life to the dead, and He alone is capable of everything.
Surah 22.7
And certainly the Hour is coming, there is no doubt about it. And Allah will surely resurrect those in the grave.
These verses relate to Yom al-Qiyamah, that is, the Day or Judgement or Resurrection. There are several claims here that no one else, no prophet or messenger, except Allah, can make. These are His attributes, which are also some of His 99 names by which only He can be called. He is Al-Haqq (The Truth), Al-Muhyi (Giver of Life), Al-Qdair (Omnipotent- capable of everything), and Al-Ba’ith (Resurrector). Here the Quran says Allah has power to bring the dead back to life, and that on the Day of Resurrection, he will raise the dead. No one else, except Allah can perform these deeds.
John 5.21, 26, 28, 29:
(21) For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes
(26) Truly, truly, I say to you an Hour is coming and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
(28) Do not marvel at this, for an Hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice.
(29) and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed evil a resurrection of judgement.
John 14.6:
Jesus said to him: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father but through me."
John 6.40:
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.
Six hundred years earlier, Jesus said he is the Truth (Al-Haqq), he has the same power as the Father to bring the dead back to life (Al-Muhyi) and it's His job to raise the dead on Judgement Day. He also said He is the Light (An-Nur) and the Way (Ar-Rashid) which are also other names of Allah. If the Quran says all these are attributes of Allah, then the good book must surely mean Jesus is also God.
If Jesus was just a messenger of Allah and he made those claims of divinity, then surely Allah would not have permitted that. 'Islam' means total subjugation to God. Allah permits no disobedience from believers and his prophets. This is summed up in Surah 69.44-48.
Surah 69:44-47:
(44) And if he (the Prophet) had made up about Us some [false] sayings,
(45) We would have seized him by the right hand;
(46) Then We would have cut from him the aorta.
(47) And there is no one of you who could prevent [Us] from him.
In reference to His messenger, Allah promises He would surely cut Muhammad's aorta for lying which means the certainty of death. Surely Allah would have treated His other prophets such, as Jesus, in similar manner for making false claims? Surah 4.157 describes how Allah, the great deceiver, saved Jesus from crucifixion by using a dopelganger in his place which deceived the Romans and Jews. In Surah 4.158: "Rather, Allah raised him to Himself. And ever is Allah Exalted in Might and Wise." Apparently Allah does not consider what Jesus said in those verses in John as false sayings, which therefore is to say, the Quran implies Jesus is God after all.
To Muslims, Quran is the actual words of Allah revealed through Muhammad and hadiths are the words and deeds of the prophet transmitted through a chain of narrators. Hadiths rank second in importance to Muslims and it is a source for religious and moral guidance formulated in the Sunnah. It is the hadiths, not the Quran, that principally shape Islamic jurisprudence known as Sharia and Islamic traditions and practices. This is the reason why non-Muslims are sometimes confused to think Muslims hold greater reverence for the Prophet than Allah.
Hadiths are records of what Muhammad's companions or family said they heard from Muhammad or saw what he did, and also records of what someone who heard from these companions and family members. Contentions arise amongst Muslims over these hadiths and the schism gave rise to the various sects in Islam same way as Protestantism in Christianity. Hadiths are classed by its authenticity into sahid, hasan, or da'if (authentic, good or weak).
Hadith Qudsi is a special collection of hadiths which Muslims believe are the words of Allah as narrated by Muhammad. The Quran are the words of Allah ad verbatim. Hadith Qudsi are words of Allah expressed by Muhammad and these are not included in Quran. Qudsi means 'pure' There are many such 'pure' hadiths, depending on which publication.
AnNawawis Forty Hadith Qudsi 18: :
On the authority of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Allah (mighty and sublime be He) will say on the Day of Resurrection:
O son of Adam, I fell ill and you visited Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I visit You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so had fallen ill and you visited him not? Did you not know that had you visited him you would have found Me with him? O son of Adam, I asked you for food and you fed Me not. He will say: O Lord, and how should I feed You when You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: Did you not know that My servant So-and-so asked you for food and you fed him not? Did you not know that had you fed him you would surely have found that (the reward for doing so) with Me? O son of Adam, I asked you to give Me to drink and you gave Me not to drink. He will say: O Lord, how should I give You to drink whin You are the Lord of the worlds? He will say: My servant So-and-so asked you to give him to drink and you gave him not to drink. Had you given him to drink you would have surely found that with Me.
It was related by Muslim.
This is about the Day of Judgement where Allah considers the righteousness of Muslims. Those who have not done right by his neighbours, have not done right with Allah. Only the righteous are allowed to exit Hell. This hadith seems remarkably familiar to something spoken 600 years earlier .
Matthew 25:31-46 (KJV):
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
In Christianity, Jesus is the King on the Day of Judgement, the Malik Yom Hadin. He sits to judge the nations and this is what He will say to the righteous and the un-righteous.
Why then did Muhammad say that on Day of Judgement, Allah will say what Jesus will say on that day? To put it another way, why did Jesus said 600 years earlier, that He is the Malik Yom Hadin and when He judges the nations He will say what Muslims say Muhammad said God will say?
The escape hatch for Muslims in this kind of conundrum is another of their common polemic - the Bible has been corrupted. Now let's just go along with this, and I am not saying Bible is corrupted, but just assume it is. How can the corruptor of Matthew's write what Jesus will say that 600 years later Muhammad will say Allah will say on Judgement Day?
The only conclusion is either Muhammad was a plagiarist, or Islam confirms Jesus is God.
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