Peace and grace of Christ to you all.
In this video, we will address a very important topic, which is the comparison of Jesus Christ or Allah, who is the true God.
You will find the verses and hadiths in description.
Jesus Christ or Allah
I have noticed that some brothers and sisters compare Christ with Muhammad, and I see it as an unfair comparison,
and I know that those brothers do not intend to belittle Christ, and their intention is undoubtedly good,
but I think that the comparison should be between Christ, who is God in Christianity and between God in Islam,
Jesus is not just a human who claimed prophethood, but Christ is God.
Muslims ask a question and they always repeat it, “Did Christ say, ‘I am your Lord, so worship Me?’ Or where did He say, ‘I am God, your Lord, so worship Me?'”
I answer this question after we know who God is in Islam.
When you ask Muslims about who God is, they often answer that God is Proper noun of the divine self, the necessary existence, the Creator of universes and beings,
and He is the true God of all creatures, and there is no true deity except Him.
He is One, Eternal, He has no equal, no match, no likeness, no owner, no son, and no partner.
According to Muslims Knowledge of Allah is divided into two parts:
The first section – knowing its names, attributes and actions
This is what is required, and it is what prompts man to fear Him, honor Him, glorify Him, worship Him, rely on Him, be patient with Him,
be content with Him, and be preoccupied with Him rather than His creation.
Allah said: Allah has the Most Beautiful Names. So call upon Him by them, and keep away from those who abuse His Names. Al-A’raf sura 7 verse 180
And the second section 2
knowing the truth of the divine self
This is not required because it is impossible. And the Qur’an informs that God’s essence is not comprehended. and that man does not comprehend the nature of anything,
let alone God, and that man’s knowledge is limited to the names and attributes.
From here it becomes clear that it is impossible to comprehend the divine being in Islam because God did not reveal himself to Muslims,
he only announced his names and attributes, and the divine self in Islam remains mysterious, and despite that you find Muslims attacking the Trinity,
attacking what they do not comprehend, and they have no problem that they cannot comprehend Allah.
And the problem in Islam is that Muslims believe that God is not a spirit, and this is what makes him materialistic, and this is evident through some verses and some hadiths.
For example, the Qur’an mentions that God established Himself on the Throne in Surah Taha 20, verse 5, “the Most Compassionate, who is established on the Throne.
And in Surah 7 Al-A’raf verse 54, then He established Himself on the Throne. But the ancients understood it in a literal sense.
When Malik bin Anas was asked about the meaning of Allah on the throne, He is established, He said: The Establishment is not unknown,
and the how is not reasonable, and belief in it is obligatory, and asking about it is heresy.
For my part, I see that God’s istiwa on the throne is like God’s sitting on the throne in Christianity,
and it is intended to appear in a state consistent with His glory. There is no room for objection to that, because the Almighty,
although He has no end, yet He has a special designation, and since everything that has a designation can appear in a place,
then it is possible for God to appear in every place, without being biased or confined to this place. Because it is beyond space and time.
A throne of whatever kind it is created at some point in time. And it is limited in space,
so can allah the Unlimited be contained by a created throne and limited to Him with legs like a chair carried by eight angels,
as it said at Al-Haqqah Surah 69 Verse 17.? Muslim scholars differ as to whether the number is eight, four, or eight thousand.
Or eight rows, or eight parts, each part of them with the number of humans, jinns, demons, and angels.
And the legend of Isra and Mi’raj tells that the Prophet of Islam moved with a weird the winged Buraq from the earth to the first heaven, then the second,
then the third, until the sixth, and he did not see God in it, nor did he meet him in any of those infinite heavens.
And the Messenger did not find God except in the seventh heaven and at Sidrat al-Muntaha, which is on the highest horizon!!
So were the six heavens devoid of the presence of God except for the highest horizon in the seventh heaven?
“(4) It is not but a revelation revealed,
Taught to him by one intense in strength –
One of soundness. And he rose to [his] true form
While he was in the higher [part of the] horizon.
Then he approached and descended
And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer.” Surah An-Najm 53, verses 4 to 9
It was narrated on the authority of Ali bin Al-Hussein that he said: “I am the son of the Exalted One.
God has a special place near Sidrat al-Muntaha, and the Prophet was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer!!
How to define and limit Allah more than this?
Muslims say that Allah descends from the upper heaven to the lower heaven on Laylat al-Qadr to listen to the supplications, prayers and requests of the people.
And why does Allah need to descend to the lowest heaven when He is capable of everything,
and He can hear every voice even if it is in the silence of the hearts and inside the human conscience without being expressed by the voice.
Islam defines the shape and size of God and compares it to humans. The Islamic God has an eye with which to see, a face, two right hands,
and a leg that reveals it so that the believers can know Him. We will explain all of this through the verses of the Qur’an itself.
In the Jewish and Christian sense, God is a spirit that has no material form or size, and is not limited by space or time.
He is above time and space because He created them.
In the Qur’an, God has a hand in creation
Allah asked, “O Iblîs! What prevented you from prostrating to what I created with My Own Hands? Did you just become proud? Or have you always been arrogant?” Surah Sad number 38 verse 75.
Does God need to create with His hands or with His word (Be)?
So the Qur’an admits that God has two hands that He uses for creation!! This is a comparison of God to man!!
“Those who swear allegiance to you are only swearing allegiance to God, the hand of God is above theirs” … God has a hand.
“The bounty is in the hands of God, He gives it to whomever He wills, and God is the Possessor of Great Bounty.”
Whatever the intent of the expression of the hand, even if it was figurative, it is not permissible to say that about God, nor is God likened to a materialistic human being and the organs he possesses.
What was narrated by Muslim (2788) from the hadith of Abdullah bin Omar, may God be pleased with him,
with a chain of transmission attributed to him: Come on the Day of Resurrection, then he will take them with his right hand, then he will say:
I am the King! Where are the mighty? Where are the arrogant? Then he will fold the two earths [with his left hand]).
They made God a right hand and a left hand! And here God, with His greatness and majesty, challenges His creation, saying: Where are the tyrants, where are the arrogant!!
Some commentators say: God forbid that he should have a left hand like a human being, because the left hand is weaker in strength than the right,
and it is not permissible for God’s left hand to be weaker than the right hand, as is the case with man, so they made God’s two hands both right
This is another likeness of God to man… What nonsense is this?
Since God could not have a left hand that was weaker than the right, as is the case with humans, so they invented two hands for him, both of which are right!!
And it came in the hadith on the authority of Muhammad that he said: When the believers will intercede with their Lord on the Day of Resurrection.
They come to me. So I go and seek permission from my Lord in his house, and He gives permission to me. When I see my Lord, I fall prostrating to Him.
According to this hadith, God can be seen by man and can perceive the opposite of what Muslims propagate,
and there are many proofs from Islam confirming that God can be perceived by eyes and minds, as Muslims are contradicting themselves.
Islam limited God to a place, and seated Him on a throne that has limits, and the throne is created, so how can the limited creature accommodate the unlimited Creator?
The other evidence that God limits him to a place is this hadith of the Prophet of Islam, where he says:
The Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, said to Abu Dharr when the sun set: (Do you know where you are going)?
I said: God and His Messenger know best. He said: (It goes until it prostrates under the throne, then it asks for permission, and permission is given to it.
We wonder: Does God settle in a specific place so that the sun (goes) to him and prostrates to him under the throne?
Does this make sense that there is an empty place in the universe in which God does not exist except in the Throne that is located somewhere far away,
so that the sun goes to it and prostrates under His Throne, then returns from that place to its place far from God to shine again?
This means that the Throne is within the orbit of the sun, which is restricted to movement in it.
Or that God fills the entire universe and is present everywhere, and there is no need for the sun to go to Him and return to ask permission for the sunrise.
Names and attributes of God
You always hear Muslims say in Islam, God has 99 names or attributes that describe him. Among them are the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
the King and many others. Each name represents an aspect of God’s nature and personality, but in fact there are more than 99 names of God,
and there are those who say the most beautiful names of God are not limited by number, and this is the doctrine of the masses of scholars.
Any names for God in Islam that cannot be for God as misleading
God is seen in Islam as a distant figure who requires strict submission from his followers.
Muslims believe that their purpose on earth is to serve God and submit to His will without any doubt.
This difference in perspective can be seen in various aspects of religious practice,
such as prayer and fasting. God created man only to worship him, and there is no personal relationship, only the relationship of the servant with his master.
Surah Al-Dhariyat 51 Verse 56 I did not create jinn and humans except to worship Me.
In the interpretation of Ibn Katheer, he says, “And Ali bin Abi Talha said, on the authority of Ibn Abbas: (except that they worship) that is: except that they acknowledge my worship, willingly or unwillingly, and this is the choice of Ibn Jarir.” But God failed to force man to worship Him.
There is no love of God for man, and in Islam it is forbidden to say that Alleh is love. And if you said it, you are an infidel.
Therefore, there is no plan for God in Islam to reconcile with humans, and the issue of the sin of Adam and Eve and their expulsion does not play an important role in Islam.
If you ask Muslims about the way God atones for sins and forgives them,
they say that it is due to His mercy in the end, and here the question arises: Isn’t it a mercy for all people,
or only for those whom God wants to enter into Paradise? Even Paradise in the Qur’an is not built on the basis of restoring the relationship with God,
and living Eternal life in the glory of God, on the contrary,
it is a paradise for luxury and amusement, and what was forbidden in this world is permissible in heaven.
This is some about God, which remains mysterious.
Now let’s turn to Christ
We Christians believe that Christ is the Son of God, which means that he is God, and as I said at the beginning,
Muslims object to this with a trivial question that they derived from their elders, and they challenge Christians with a challenge that they are the heroes in,
without thinking about the question and its triviality.
And the question is, “Did Christ say I am your Lord, so worship Me? Or where did He say, I am God, worship Me?”
So they think that this question should be posed like this, and that Christ should say with the exact phrase, I am God, so worship me,
and we may ask, where did Christ say that I am not God, so do not worship me? And if Christ had said explicitly that he was God,
would people have worshiped him? Let us take an example from Pharaoh in the Qur’an.
In Surah Al-Naza’at 79 verse 24, “saying, “I am your lord, the most high!” Why do you not worship Pharaoh because he said it explicitly?
And Christ did not only say that he is God, but confirmed that with the authority of his words and his actions
At the outset, I must clarify that Christ is not a human being who has become a god, but rather God descended from heaven and incarnated in the form of a human being to redeem humanity and save it from its sins
and forgive its sins in order to open the door of heaven and His kingdom to those who believe in Him and those who repent of their sins.
Christ said: ” Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” John 11:25 .
Can a prophet say that, or only God can say that ?
Where was Christ before the incarnation and birth of Mary? Where was the Word of God and His Holy Spirit before His birth?
Did the Muslim ever ask himself this question? Is the word of God eternal or created? Was God at some time without a word or spirit? And create his word later?
If the answer of the Muslim is the eternal word of God, then Christ, in his capacity as the word of God,
is eternal, and he is begotten, not created, equal to God the Father in essence, he is light from light,
true God from true God. He became embodied in the fullness of time, and the Spirit of God dissolved in his body during the good news of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, and in her a fetus became a human being.
He is the Son of God in divinity, and the Son of Man in humanity. It carries two theological and human nature.
Christ said in the Holy Bible more than once, “I am the son of man.” He said, “I am the son of God. My father sent me.
” He is “the Lamb of God who bears the sins of the world.” He emptied himself, becoming in the likeness of man, to redeem man with his blood on the cross.
36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him?
37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. John 9: 36-39
So the man worshiped him and said to him, I believe, sir. Christ did not object to prostration because he deserved it as God.
And if he was only a prophet, he would object to prostration.
The word son of man is an expression of the humanity of Christ. The Son of God is an expression of the divinity of Christ.
That is, the divinity of Christ the Lord. Among the sayings of the Lord Christ that prove his sonship to God the Father and his affiliation with Him in the Spirit:
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17 : 1-3
Who of mankind has the authority of God to give people eternal life? Christ alone has the authority of God to grant people temporary life on earth and eternal life in heaven.
He granted life and restored the soul to the dead, and resurrected Lazarus, who had died, and walked out of his grave.
He gave him life again with the authority of his divinity. So does God give His authority and power to an ordinary person,
or to His incarnate Word only Jesus Christ sent from Him? Is he who creates like one who does not create? And who revives the bones while they are ruined? Christ revived it,
for He is God and does not need to say I am God. His deeds and teachings explained to people that he is God.
Who is Jesus Christ other than God who appears in the flesh, who carries the authority of God with him, and by his word works miracles?
Does Christ, after all this authority that he possesses, the wondrous sayings, and the supernatural and rational miracles that he performed in front of people in broad daylight,
need to say: I am God, so worship me?
The Jews understood the intent of Jesus Christ from his sayings that he meant that he had the divinity of God.
That is why they wanted to stone him several times, but they did not succeed, because his hour had not yet come, and when the hour that Jesus predicted came,
the events were arranged as they were drawn, so one of his disciples betrayed him and handed him over to the religious leaders of the Jews and their rabbis in return for accepting a bribe of thirty pieces of silver,
so they fabricated a false accusation against him. In front of the Roman ruler Pilate,
they demanded that he be crucified because he blasphemes against God and says that he is the Son of God, and wants to create sedition in society,
according to the claim of the Jewish elders. That is why the Roman ruler sentenced him to crucifixion,
at the desire of the Jewish elders, and not as a conviction on the part of the ruler who acknowledged the innocence of Christ.
And he was crucified, and this is the will of Christ that was fulfilled when he said: I have power (over my life) to put it down, and I have power to take it.
That is, by His authority, his body dies as a human when He wills,
and by the authority of His divinity, He rises from death whenever He wills, because He is the way, the truth, and the life. And that’s exactly what happened.
Where he was crucified and placed in the grave for three days, then he rose from death on the third day with his body alive, and appeared to his disciples after the resurrection many times,
then he ascended to heaven in front of more than five hundred of his disciples and followers who believed in him in broad daylight,
and he did not [walk with him at night on a winged mule buuraq] without an eyewitness. To a mosque that was not built in his time, as others claimed.
The Lord Christ said: My Father works and I work: John 5:17 His work on earth was exactly the same as God’s work in heaven.
Christ said to the Jews: “Before Abraham was, I am” … and (being) is the name of God. That is, existing from eternity to eternity.
He also said: “Come (to me) all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Who can give rest to all weary humans other than God the Creator? He invites them all to come to him.
So is Christ an ordinary prophet and a servant of God’s servants, as the Qur’an said, and did the previous prophets act as the Lord Christ did?
And the Lord also said: “So that all may honor the Son as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
” Jesus Christ said: Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God, so believe in Me.
Christ equated himself with God without associating partners, because he and God are one. Christ said: “I and the Father are one / He who has seen Me has seen the Father.”
God said in the Old Testament, “You shall fear the Lord your God, and Him you shall serve, and by His name you shall swear.
” (Deuteronomy 13:6), and the Lord Jesus Christ said in the New Testament, “You shall worship the Lord your God, and only Him shall you serve.” (Matthew. 4:10).
So, God alone is to be worshipped, and the bible also says that the Lord Jesus Christ is to be worshiped, as previously prophesied about him by the prophet Daniel,
saying, saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him:
his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” Daniel 7:13-14
Jesus Himself declared that He is the one who is prayed to, that He is the Hearer of prayer, that He is the one who responds to prayer,
and that He is the one who gives strength and victory, who strengthens and makes us overcome the evil one, and he said:
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” Matthew 18:20.
” And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 14:13.
“If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it” John 14:14.
” Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 7: 21
“ And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Luke 6:46.
† And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen” Acts 1:24.
It is clear that Christ is God, and God revealed himself to us through his incarnation, and for a Muslim this is impossible,
since the Muslim is the one who decides how God is and what God does, and the Muslim does not know God’s humility because God in Islam is arrogant.
We are not the ones who say who God is or how God is, but God is the one who reveals himself, and he clearly revealed himself to us through his incarnation.
It is because of his love for humans because God is love, and it is not blasphemy for man to say that God is love,
because God is He is the source of love, and because of his love and humility, he came into the world to bring us closer to Him and to know Him personally, and to pay the price for our sins.
A Muslim must understand that the incarnation of God does not limit his power, nor change his position, nor diminish his status.
On the contrary, this indicates his strength, greatness, wisdom, and supreme authority. How is that?
Quite simply, we do not look at the event as a lawyer for God’s defense,
as if we are jealous of him and want to defend his honor, elevation, position and glory as if it was stolen from him or stolen and we want to return it to him.
Whatever God says and does, nothing of His divine or attributes changes, does not affect His essence, and does not diminish Him.
How dare a person point to God, advise him, and guide him? Based on this, let us avoid the question mark “how” and suffice with “why”,
so that it becomes easier for us to understand this wise decision and the great event that the Lord willed and fulfilled,
which is his embodiment in the womb of a woman in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Him be all the glory.
The reason for God’s incarnation
Why did God incarnate? Simply because He loves us with a supreme love that is not limited, described, or measured. Does His love for us push Him to incarnate?
Of course, yes, if God did not love us this love, He would have executed His justice in us directly. God, because of the sin that separated man from him,
when our parents Adam and Eve disobeyed his commandment, God justly ruled that the wages of sin is death, and here love played its role without canceling God’s justice, s
o his plan was to incarnate in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ at the appointed time to redeem humanity from The punishment of sin.
His love interacted with His justice, resulting in reconciliation and salvation for all human beings, and whoever wants to obtain it is available free of charge at all times and
for all people without discrimination between race, color, language and class, because God loves everyone as it is written in the Gospel of John 3:16,
and when the hour of redemption drew near, He said The Lord Jesus about it in the Gospel of John 17: 1.
He is God the mighty, the powerful, the just, the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
He humbled himself for our sake because he loves us with eternal love, so he perpetuated mercy and grace for us by redeeming us from the punishment of sin.
To Muslims, I say with all love: Do not appoint yourself as a lawyer on behalf of God, for God does not need someone to defend him,
because at the time when you think that you are defending him, you are in fact disobeying his commandments, rejecting his salvation, and underestimating the value of what he did for you.
God does not want you to be a lawyer or a savior, but rather Heis the protector and the savior.
You need to find who is the true God by yourself,
read the bible and you will see your relationship with God, How Created you and how much He loves you and care about you.
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