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In
the land of Palestine 'Imran was a pious and virtuous man one of the people of
Israel. He was appointed a priest of a temple. His wife Henna was also a
virtuous lady. Both the husband and wife were quite popular amongst the people
of Israel. 'Imran was in the linage of Solomon and Henna Phachoben Qabil was
also from the descendants of David. lmran had no child and both of them desired
a child. Once Henna saw a bird feeding its chick, while she was strolling in
her courtyard. She felt filled with the love of a mother and she prayed to God
to grant her a child. After a few days, she felt that she had conceived. She
felt extremely grateful to God and in that state of happiness and delight she
vowed that she would devout the child for the service of the Temple.
lmran
died before she had delivered the baby. After his demise she delivered a baby
girl. Upon seeing a girl she got worried that how she would fulfill her
covenant with God. Then god told her that He had accepted that girl and because
of her, entire family would be blessed and respected. She named the child as
Marrium, which in Assyrian, means maidservant. In Gospels she is mentioned as
Mary.
God
did choose Adam and Noah, the family of Abraham, and the, family of lmran
above all people, offspring, one of the other:
And
God hears and knows all things. Behold! A woman of '1mran said: ”O my Lord! I
do dedicate unto Thee what is in my womb for Thy special service: So accept
this of me: For Thou hears and knows all things." When she was delivered,
she said: "O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!” And God
knew best what she brought forth- "And no wise is the male like the
female. I have named her Mary, and I commend her and her offspring to Thy
protection from the Evil One, the Rejected." Right graciously did her Lord
accept her: He made her grow in purity and beauty: To the care of Zechariah was
she assigned. Every time that he entered her chamber to see her, he found her
supplied with sustenance. He said: ”O Mary! Whence comes this to you?" She
said, "From God, for God provides sustenance to whom He pleases without
measure. " (S:
3,V: 33-37)
When
Mary grew to childhood from infancy the issue of her guardianship and custody
came under discussion. Every priest wanted to have the honor of her
guardianship but eventually Zechariah; the chief priest of the Temple and
husband of her aunt Elisabeth was given this responsibility. He allocated a
chamber for her so. that during the daytime she could remain busy in
worshipping the Lord God and in the night he took her to her aunt.
Mary used to spend most of her time in praying
and performing the duties assigned to her from the Temple. She was so pious and
virtuous that she was known for her piety and virtue all over the holy
land.
Zechariah
occasionally visited the chamber of Mary to see if she needed anything. He used
to marvel to see off-seasoned fresh fruits in her chamber. One day he couldn’t
desist from asking her as to from where did those fruits come to her. She
replied, “It is a bountiful grace of my Lord, He provides sustenance to His
creatures as and when He wills.”
From
this answer it was not difficult for him to know that she enjoyed a special
place in the sight of God. Seeing the off-seasoned fruits, he thought that God,
who is blessing his niece, could also bless him with a child. Thinking this he
profusely prayed to God for granting him a son. God acceded to his
prayer.
Right
graciously did her Lord accept her: He made her grow in purity and beauty: To
the care of Zechariah was she assigned. Every time that he entered her chamber
to see her, he found her supplied with sustenance?" He said: ”O Mary!
Whence comes this to you?" She said, ”From God, for God provides
sustenance to whom He pleases without measure. ” (S:
3,V: 37)
Mary was living her life with grace, piety and
virtue. Zechariah was greatly impressed of her out-standing spiritual strength
and devotion.
Behold!
The angels said: ”O Mary! God hath chosen thee and purified thee- chosen
thee above the women of all nations. ”O Mary! Worship Thy Lord devoutly:
Prostrate thyself and bow down before Him, with those who bow down. "
(S:3,V:42-43)
Christ
was one of those exalted prophets whose coming into the world was prophesied by
many prophets of God.
Now
when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herods the king,
behold, there came wise men from the east of Jerusalem, saying where is he that
is born King of Jews? For we have seen a star in the east, and are come to
worship him. When Herods the king had heard these things, he was troubled and
all and Jerusalem with hi. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and
scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be
born? They said unto him, in Bethlehem of in the land of the Judea: for thus it
is written by the prophet, and thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah art not the
least among the princes of Judah: for out of thee shall come a governor: that
shall rule my, people Israel. (Gospel
of Matthew, ch 2, 1-6)
The holy Quran also narrates the event of
Zechariah and John as the preliminary of the birth of Christ and declares Yahya
the forerunner of Christ and one who would testify and baptize him.
While
he was standing in prayer in the chamber, the angels called unto him.‘
"God doth give thee glad tidings of Yahya, witnessing the truth of a Word
from God (Jesus), and be besides noble, chaste, and a prophet, of the goodly
company of the righteous."
(S:
3,V: 39)
Mary
the virtuous, righteous and chaste woman of her times remained occupied with
her praying and got out of her chamber only when the need was there.
Once
when she was meditating in an isolated corner of the Temple, away from the
people, she saw the angel of God in humanly form. Upon seeing a man in her
privacy, she felt troubled and said, “If you have fear of God, I beseech refuge
from you in the name God.”
The
angel said, “Don’t be afraid of me, I am not a human but an angel sent to you
from God to give you the tiding of a son.”
When
Mary heard this, she said bewildered, “How it is possible, because no man has
ever touched me, for I am neither married nor have I committed adultery?”
The
angel replied, “I am just a messenger from thy Lord. He has instructed me to
say so to you and He has also said that your son would be a sign of His power
and a mercy from Him and this is His decision. God gives you the tiding of a
son who would be His word: his name would be Easa and his title would be
Messiah and he would be exalted in his life here and in the hereafter because
he would be near to his Lord God. As a sign he would speak to, people in his
infancy and would live up to his old age so that he could perform the service
of guiding the people and this would happen because God has willed so. God
would we him His Book, and teach him wisdom and appoint him apostle and prophet
to guide and steer the people of Israel.”
The
holy Quran relates this story like this:
Behold!
The angels said: "O Mary! God gives thee glad tidings of a Word from Him:
his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, held in honor in this world and
the Hereafter and of the company of those nearest to God. He shall speak to the
people in childhood and in maturity And he shall be of the company of the righteous.”
She
said: "O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched
me?" He said: ”Even so: God creates, what He wills: When He hath decreed a
plan, He but says to it. Be, and it is! Anal, God will teach him the Book and
Wisdom, the law and the Gospel, and appoint him an apostle to the Children of
Israel, with His message. (S:
3,V: 42-43)
Relate
in the Book the story of Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place in
the East. She placed a screen to screen herself from them; then We sent her our
angle, and he appeared before her as a man m all respects. She said “I seek
refuge from thee to God Most Gracious; come not near if thou dost fear God.
"Nay, I am only a messenger from thy lord, to announce to thee the gift of
a holy son. She said: "How shall I have a son, seeing that no man has
touched me, and I am not unchaste?” He said; "So it will be: Thy Lord
said, 'that is easy for me and we wish to appoint him as a Sign unto men and a
Mercy from Us’- it is as so decreed.” (S:19,V: 16-21)
As
a human she was anxious and worried when the time of the birth child neared.
She thought that people have no idea and they would condemn her, so she
went to Mount Saeer, about nine mile away from Jerusalem, which is now known as
Bethlehem. After a few days, there in her pains of labor, she sat down beside
the trunk of a date-tree. And, imagining the situations to come, said in a
grief, “If I had died before all the happening and people had forgotten about
me.”
“It was then that the Angel of God called from
beneath the oasis and said, “
And
the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree: She cried (in
her anguish): ”Ah! Would that I had died before this. Would that I had been a
thing forgotten and out of sight!” But a voice cried to her from beneath the
palm-tree; ”Grieve not! For thy Lord hath provided a rivulet beneath thee; and
shake towards thyself the trunk of the palm-tree: It will let fall fresh ripe
dates upon thee. So eat and drink and cool thine eyes. And if thou dost see any
man, say, ’I have vowed a fast to God Most Gracious, and this day will I enter
into not talk with any human being.”
(S: 19,V: 23-26)
Words
of Angel did consoled her but the fear to face the people was making her
uncomfortable. She could imagine the astonishment of the people and their
confusion that how a child could be born of a women without anyone fathering
him. The angel told her that she would reach her people and when they would ask
about the child, she should tell them by signs that she was fasting and there
she wouldn’t talk, and if they have to ask anything, they should ask the baby
in her lap. And, that her Lordd God would show them the sign of His power and
authority an their hearts would be at peace.
Mary
feeling much better, having her baby in her lap, when reached Jerusalem, people
gathered around her and said, “How neither your father was a bad person nor was
your mother corrupt, then what have you done?”
Mary
as was she directed by God through the angel, made the signs that ask this
child, as she cannot answer them because she was fasting.
People,
in their surprise said “How can we ask an infant such a question?
But
the baby articulated and said, “I am the servant of God, God has given me the
Book, appointed me a prophet and messed me as, when and wherever I be. God has
commanded me to serve Him and give charity and made me to serve my mother and
not to disobey her. He has blessed me with peace on the day when I was born,
when I would die and when I would be raised again to life.”
In the holy Quran this remarkable event is
stated in detail in these words: And remember her who guarded her
chastity. We breathed into her of Our spirit, and We made her and her son a
sign for all peoples.
(S: 21,v: 91)
And
Mary, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity; and We breathed into her
body of Our spirit; and she testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and
of His Revelations, and was one of the devout servants.
(S:
68.V: 12)
So she conceived him, and she retired with him
to a remote place. And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a
palm-tree: She cried (in her anguish): ”Ah! Would that I had died before this!
Would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight! ” But (a voice) cried
to her from beneath the (palm-tree): "Grieve not! For thy Lord hath
provided a rivulet beneath thee; and shake towards thyself the trunk of the
Palm tree: It will let fall fresh ripe dates upon thee. So eat and drink
and cool thine eyes. And if thou dost see any man, say, ‘I have vowed fast to
God Most Gracious, and this day will I enter into not talk with any human
being”’ At length she brought the babe to her people, carrying him in her arms.
They said.’ "O Mary! Truly an amazing thing hast thou brought! “O sister
of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman
unchaste!"
But
she pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a child
in the cradle?”
He said: "I am indeed a servant of God.
He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet,‘ And He hath made
me blessed where-so-ever I be, and hath enjoined on me Prayer and Charity
as long as I live; He hath made me kind to my mother, and not overbearing or
miserable; So peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the
day that I shall be raised up ‘O life again!”
(3: 19,v: 22-33)
When
the people of Israel heard an infant talking such words of wisdom, they were
wonderstruck and they believed that Mary was indeed a pious and virtues person,
noble and free from every evil. Birth of this baby was a sign of God and
everyone was talking about the miraculous birth of the child. Righteous people
among them took that baby as a blessing for them and the people who had evil
thinking declared it a bad omen and the flames of hatred and jealousy filled
their hearts. In such a mixed atmosphere around him, God watched this blessed
child growing so that he could revive the dead hearts of the people of Israel
and their spirits could rekindle in them and their lives are fruitful.
And,
We made the son of Mary and his mother as a Sign: We gave them both shelter on
high ground, affording rest and security and furnished with springs. (S: 23,V:
50)
At the time
of the birth of Christ many incidents made people to note that blessing, which
God had sent on the earth. The night when Christ was born, king of Farris saw a
bright new star in the sky. When he asked the royal astronomers about it, they
told him that, that star indicated the birth of a great man who was born In
Syria. The king sent a delegation to Syria with gifts of perfumes so that they
could find out about the birth of that blessed child. The delegation after its
arrival in Syria made inquiries and asked the Jews to tell them about
that of God’s Kingdom. When Jews heard that they told their kin Herods
ab0Ut IL Th6 king invited the delegation and asked the purpose of their visit.
When he heard what they told, he felt troubled but allowed them to further
investigate.
The
delegates of Farris came to Jerusalem and when they saw the little Christ,
according to their customs, they prostrated before him and presented to him
various fragrances and aromas as token of their respect. They stayed there for
a few days. During their stay, one of them saw in a dream that Herods would
become an enemy of the young child, therefore they decided to go to Farris
directly without seeing the king and told the mother that Herods’ intentions
are not fair about the child, so it would be better if she could go away with
the child. Mary came to Egypt with the child and stayed there with her distant
relatives and from there she went to Nazareth. When Christ was thirteen years
of age she returned with him to Jerusalem.
People
of Israel had adopted idolatrous beliefs and rituals of worshipping God.
Telling lies, deceits, jealousy and other evil acts had practically become the
norm of their life and they took pride in them rather than to feel ashamed of
that.
They
were not reluctant to slay the apostles and prophets of God. Rabbis; the Jew
priests, in order to receive gratifications from the people had corrupted the
Law of Moses and altered it to such an extent that the forbidden thing appeared
to be fair and fair were made to look like the forbidden. They had distorted
the original shape of the Laws of God.
When
their rebellion and transgreSSi0n exceeded the limits God blessed Mary with
Jesus.
We
gave Moses the Book and followed him up with a succession of apostles; We gave
Jesus the son of Mary Clear Signs and strengthened him with the holy spirit. Is
it that whenever there comes to you an apostle with what ye yourselves desire
not, ye are puffed up with pride? Some ye called impostors, and others ye slay!
They say, "Our hearts are the wrappings, which preserve God ‘s Word: we
need no more. " Nay, God ’s curse is on them for their blasphemy: Little
is it they believe.
(S: 2,v: 87-88)
“I
have come to you, to attest the Law which was before me. And to make lawful to
you part of what was before forbidden ‘to you; I have come to you with a Sign
from your Lord. So fear God, and obey me. "It is God Who is my Lord and
your Lord; then worship Him. This is a Way that is straight.”
When
Jesus found Unbelief on their part He said: "Who will be my helpers to the
work of God. " Said the disciples: ”We are God ’s helpers: We believe in
God, and do thou bear witness that we are Muslims.
(S: 3,V: 50-52)
A
small group of his followers were sincere and devoted to him but they were
simple hearted and poor people. They in their simplicity submitted to
Christ:
“God
is All-Powerful and one of its proofs is your holy being among us. God
certainly has the power to send down from the heaven a table laid with food, so
that we could concentrate upon that what you want us to learn from you after
becoming free of the cumbersome efforts of earning livelihood.
Christ
advised them saying, “Indeed God has Power to do anything but just for the sake
of our convenience we should not test Him.”
His
disciples said, “We do not intend to test the Lord but we want to have a gift
from God and moreover, it would further strengthen our faith and certitude and
we would be more confident in testifying you.”
When
Christ saw them firmly insisting upon their stand, he prayed to God, “O God,
grant them a table set with Viands, which may not be a sign of Thy wrath for
them but a solemn festival for all of us and make it a symbol from Thee and
provide us sustenance through it, Indeed You are the best Sustainer of our
needs.”
God
sent His Revelation upon Christ saying, “Your prayer is acceded to and if,
after seeing this clear sign, anyone disobeyed God, they would be punished with
such a punishment which had never been given to anyone in this world
before.”
Behold!
The disciples, said: "O Jesus the son of Mary! Can thy Lord send down to
us a table set with viands from heaven?" Said Jesus: ”Fear God, if ye have
faith.”
They
said: "We only wish to eat thereof and satisfy our hearts, and to know,
that thou hast indeed told us the truth; and that we ourselves may be witnesses
to the miracle.”
Said Jesus the son of Mary: ”O God, our Lord!
Send us from heaven a table set with viands, that there may be for us for the
first and the last of us - a solemn festival and a sign from thee; and provide
for our sustenance, for Thou art the Best Sustainer of our needs. ”
God
said‘. ”I will send it down unto you: But if any of you after that resists
faith, I will punish him with a penalty such as I have not inflicted on any one
among all the peoples.” (S:
5.V: 112-115)
God
granted them what they had asked for. People saw angels descending form the
heaven with the table spread. Christ prostrated in token of his gratitude.
Fried fish, bread and fruit were there to eat for them; Christ invited them to
eat. They wanted him to begin but he said, “It is not for me, it has been sent
on your demand. ”‘Seeing that he was not eating, they felt perturbed. Christ
noticing their hesitation said, “Ok, call indigent, needy, poor, disabled and
diseased, it is their right to eat this.”
Thousands
of people ate of that food but there was no shortage in that food. Legend says
that the poor who had that food became prosperous, the blind recovered to sight
and the diseased got well after having that food. At night the table spread
returned to heaven. Those who could not have that food felt bad and said that
it were their bad luck that they could not have that food. God sent the food
the next day as well and then it continued for forty days. The same one food
had different tastes for different people and it tasted like ones most favorite
dish whosoever ate of it.
In
the beginning the food coming down from the heaven was prohibited for the rich
and wealthy people but on their demand Christ permitted them as well and told
them not to keep of it for the next day but people ignored that instruction and
the coming of food from the heavens stopped and as punishment, those who had
contravened were made to look like pigs and monkeys.
Christ
rehearsed the words of (incl before the people of Israel and educated them to
have faith in oneness of God, to believe in all the prophets and Books of God.
in the Day of Judgment, resurrection, to have good moral character. to avoid
evils, not to be attracted by the world and to love their fellow beings and the
creatures of God. He taught them to following the straight path using the
verses of Torah and the Gospel. But, centuries old tradition of rebelliousness
turned them on to oppose Christ and his companions.
When
the down trodden people of the society turned towards their savior with sincerity
and devotion, the influential and strong people disgraced, desecrated and tried
to humiliate Christ and those who followed him. Christ did not marry nor
he made any house. He used to E0 from town to town, city to city to preach the
words of God. He did not mind to sleep on the bare ground. People came to him
f0f quenching their spiritual thirst and to have cure for their diseases.
People
gathered around him wherever did he go expressed their reverence and love
for him.
His
ever-increasing popularity made his opponents even more jealous of him and the
priests, scholars and chiefs started conspiring and plotting against the
prophet of God. They were so keen to get rid of him that finally they decided
to complain to the king against him and get him hanged.
They
said to him, “This man is a threat not only for us but for your rule and
government as well. If you did not, taking some action immediately, stop him,
we fear that the religion of our forefathers and your rule will come to an end.
This man has attracted multitudes of people around him by demonstrating various
feats and now wants to become the king of Judea. He has influenced the minds of
common people and is altering the religion. If this menace is not rooted out
now, this country will slip out of your hands.”
After
heated discussion Pilate ordered to arrest Christ and produce him in his court.
Chiefs, priests and leaders were very happy on this success and they
congratulated one another and decided to wait for an appropriate time to find
him alone so that they could remain safe from the rage of people.
Then
gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council and said, what do we?
For this man doth many miracles. If we let him thus alone, all men will believe
on him and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation. And
one of them named Caiaphas being the high priest that same year, said unto
them, you know nothing at all. Nor consider that it ii expedient for us, that
one man should die for the people and mg, the whole nation perishes not.
(The Gospel Of St. John Ch: I1,
47-50)
After
two days, the feast of the Passover was due. Christ sensing the conspiracies of
Jews, gathered his disciple and said to them, “Antagonistic activities of
chiefs, priests and rabbis are not hidden from you all, the time of hard trial
is approaching, now who will stand to it and will sacrifice for the sake of
God?”
His
disciples, after hearing this, replied to him all in their earnest sincerity,
“We all love our Lord, God and will remain faithful to you, come what may and
pray to God to give us strength to be steadfast in our promise to you and to
our God.”
After
hearing this from his disciples, Christ waited to see what happens next and
what God does.
"And
they plotted against him (Christ) and God also plotted against Jews and God is
the best of plotters.
(S: 3,V: 54)
Finally
the chiefs, priests and rabbis besieged the house where Christ was staying. In
those moments of distress God consoled him:
Behold!
God said: ”O Jesus! I will take thee and raise thee to Myself and clear thee of
the falsehoods of those who blaspheme; I will make those who follow thee
superior to those who reject faith, to the Day of Resurrection: Then shall ye
all return unto me, and I will judge between you of the matters wherein ye
dispute. (S:
3,V: 55)
That
they said in boast, "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger
of God but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear
to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no certain
knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:
Nay, God raised him up unto Himself; and God is Exalted in Power, Wise.
(S: 4, V:
157-158)
Purpose
of appointing an apostle or a prophet to guide and teach, welfare and happy
living here and the hereafter. They do not claim that they have to do anything
for the good of people at their own. They openly say that all they do is from
God. They present the Word of God before the people logically and rationally.
Every apostle and prophet of God carries out that duty that has been assigned
to him after God selects him. They perform miracles so that power of God may
become a testimony for the people. Power, Sovereignty, and Lordship of God
operates behind every miracle they perform for the people.
O
Messenger, Proclaim the message, which hath been sent to thee from thy Lord. If
thou, didst not, thou wouldst not have fulfilled and proclaimed His mission.
And, God will defend thee from men who mean mischief for God guides not those
who reject Faith.
(s; 5,v: 67)
God
granted miracle to His prophets to support and to strengthen them. They very
clearly announced that they were only to warn and inform and sent to pass on
the message of God to the people. No apostle or prophet ever claimed to be in
control of the affairs of the universe or they could do anything at their own.
They told that whatsoever they do, they do it using the God gifted powers as
and when God wills so.
Miracles
of controlling the jinns, winds, and knowing the language of animals were
granted to David and Solomon. Nine open signs were given to Moses. His staff
and the ‘glowing white hand’ were two of those nine signs. Likewise, drowning
of Pharaoh in the Red Sea and safety of the people of Israel was also a great
sign of God. Sky-high flames were made harmless for Abraham, and the she-camel
was a sign of God for the people of Salih. People of Hud and Noah challenged
the wrath of God so they prophesied the inflictions, which came true. Christ was
also given various signs. The holy Quran delves upon those miracles in
detail.
Holy
Prophet of Islam; Mohammad (PBUH) was given the lasting sign in the form of the
holy Quran, his throwing of dust towards infidels of Makka and descent of an
army of angels at Badr and making the moon to divide into two halves were the
signs to establish that God has every power to do what He might will.
Faithless
people in order to tease the prophets of God demanded miracles from them.
The
infidels say: ”We shall not believe in thee, until thou cause a spring to gush
forth for us from the earth, or until thou have a garden of date’ trees and
vines, and cause rivers to gush forth in their midst, carrying abundant water,‘
or thou cause the sky to fall in pieces, as thou say will happen, against
us," or thou bring God and the angels before us face to face.‘ Or thou
have a house adorned with gold, or thou mount a ladder right into the skies.
No, we shall not even believe in thy mounting until thou send down to us a book
that we could read. ” Say: "Glory to my Lord! Am I aught but a man, an
apostle?”
(S: 17,V:
90-93)
Even if We opened out to them a gate from
heaven, and they were to continue all day ascending therein, they would only
‘say: ’'Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay, we have been bewitched by
sorcery."
(S: 15,V: 14-15)
Of
them there are some who pretend to listen to thee; but We have thrown veils on
their hearts, So they understand it not, and deafness in their ears; if they
saw every one of the signs, not they will believe in them.
(S: 6,V: 25)
A
prophet or an apostle of God is granted miracles befitting the needs of his
times. For instance:
In
the era of Abraham chemistry and astronomy were highly valued. Shamas; the sun
god, was their largest god because it had both light and fire, which according
to them were responsible for the survival of life in the universe. And, they
worshipped the fire considering it its representative on the earth. And they
cast him in to fire, or in other words, they handed him over to their gods
but God turned that firm cool and comfortable for him and it could not harm
him in any manner.
In
the times of Moses the sorcery and magic were popular amongst the people and
they excelled in transforming things into altogether different forms and to
match their expertise God gave Moses the miracles of the Staff and the Glowing
Hand. And, that was the reason, when Moses demonstrated his powers in the Royal
Court of Pharaoh they immediately realized that that power was not ordinary
human-power and they, then and there acknowledged the supremacy of Moses
despite that they had to face the rage of Pharaoh.
Christ
was sent in the era when the art of medicines and medical sciences were at
their peak. Physical sciences were valued the most because of the influence of
lithe Greek philosophies. God, to counter these two things, on one hand, gave
Jesus the Gospel and, on the other, he was blessed with such miracles, which
could be a proof of his divine knowledge and they could not refute or rebut
him.
And God will teach him the Book and
Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel, and appoint him an apostle to the Children of
Israel, message: I have come to you, with a Sign from your Lord, in that I
make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird by God’s leave: And I
heal those born blind, and the lepers, and I quicken the dead and I
declare to you what ye eat, and what ye store in your houses. Surely therein is
a Sign for you if ye did believe; I have come to you, to attest the Law, which
was before me. And to make lawful to you part of what was before forbidden to
you; I have come to you with a Sign rom your Lord. So fear God, and obey me.
'It is God Who is my Lord and your Lord; then worship Him. This is a Way that
is straight. "
(S:
3,V: 48-51)
Then
will God say: ”O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount My favor to thee and to thy
mother. Behold! I strengthened thee with the Holy Spirit, so that thou didst
speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. Behold.’ I taught thee the
Book and Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel and behold.’ Thou makest out of clay,
as it were, the figure of a bird, by My leave, and thou breathest into it and it
becometh a bird by My leave, and thou healest those born blind, and the lepers,
by My leave. And behold! Thou bringest forth the dead by My leave. And behold!
I did restrain the Children of Israel from violence to thee when thou didst
show them the clear Signs, and the unbelievers among them said: This is
nothing but evident magic.
(S: 5,V: 110)
And,
when they (Jews) see a Sign, they turn it to mockery, and say, "This is nothing
but evident sorcery! ” (S:
37,V: 6)
Four of the
miracles performed by Jesus Christ have been mentioned in the holy Quran.
1.
He restored the dead to life
by the God’s leave.
2.
Born blinds and lepers were
cured.
3.
He could breathe life by God’s
leave in a bird formed of clay.
4.
He could also tell who ate
what and what did he spend and what had he stocked in his house.
When Christ
demonstrated miracles to prove that he was an apostle of God, his followers
requested him to him to make a bat. He molded clay into the form of a bat and
blew over it with his breath and it became live and flew away.
Bat amongst the flying animals, is the most
perfect and bizarre thing It is the only mammal that flies. It has no feathers,
it gives suck to its babies, has teeth unlike birds, it even laughs.
Medical
sciences were at their best in his times. Doctors and physicians were expert in
handling all types of diseases but they had no curative treatment for leprosy,
baldness and blindness. Patients, who could not even walk, were brought to
Jesus Christ and Jesus just visited them and they all were cured 'of their
diseases merely because of his august presence.
lbn-e-Abbas
stated that Christ restored four persons to life after they were dead.
One of them was Lazarus. He was faithful to Christ, when he fell ill; his
sister sent for Christ, who lived at a distance of three days journey. When
Christ reached his house, he was dead and buried three days back. Christ told
his sister to take him to his grave, where he prayed to God and God
restored Lazarus to life and he married, had children and lived till his
old age.
Once
a dead was being carried for its burial. An old woman, the mother of the dead
son, upon seeing the Christ, pleaded and beseeched him for the life of her only
son. He prayed to God and God restored him to life. Similarly a girl, who
had died, was also restored to life.
Once people demanded to restore Sam son of
Noah, who had died thousands of years ago. Christ asked them if they could tell
him where Sam was buried, he would ask God to give him life. People took him to
Sam’s grave and he prayed to God. Sam got 1 the grave and upon realizing
that he was alive, he betook it as the Day of Judgment and got so horrified that
half of is air turned white‘ because of the fright. Christ consoled him
and he had faith in him and requested to save him from the pain of death.
Christ blessed him with his prayer and he again died.
Jesus
Christ is one of those exalted men of God who partake in God’s system of
Administration. Christ said, “But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
(Gospel of St. John Ch: 4, 14)
When
this is saying of the Christ is deliberated upon we are led to this conclusion
that in the kingdom of God, water is the main component. All the ingredients of
universe, elements and all the phases of creative process are based upon
water. It is water that supplies life to each and every particle of the
universe. Water and soil have been mentioned repeatedly in all the holy
Books including the holy Quran.
And
in the earth are tracts diverse though neighboring, and gardens of vines and
fields sown with corn, and palm trees growing out of single roots or
otherwise: watered with the same water, yet some of them We make more excellent
than others to eat. Behold, verily in these things there are signs for
those who understand!
(S: 13,V: 4)
It
is He Who doth show you the lightning, by way both of fear heavy with and
of hope: It is He Who doth raise up the clouds, fertilizing rain. Nay,
thunder repeats His praises, and so do the angels, with awe: He flings the
loud-voiced thunderbolts, and therewith He strikes whomsoever He will yet these
are the men who dare to dispute about God, with the strength of His power supreme!
(S: 13,
V: 12-13)
He
sends down water from the skies, and the channels flow, each according to
its measure, but the torrent bears away to foam that mounts up to the surface.
Even so, from that ore, which they heat in the fire, to make ornaments or
utensils therewith, there is a scum likewise. Thus doth, God by parables show
forth Truth and Vanity. For the scum disappears like forth cast out; while that
which is good for mankind remains on the earth Thus, God doth set forth
parables.
(S:
13, V: 17)
And
We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the sky,
therewith providing you with in abundance, though ye are not the guardians of
its stores. (S: 15, V: 22)
It
is He who sends down ram from the sky: from it ye drink, and out of it
grows the vegetation on which ye feed your cattle. (S: 16, V: 10)
And
from the fruit of the date palm and the vine, ye get out wholesome drink and
food: behold, in this also is a sign for those who are wise.
(S: 16, V: 67)
We
send down water from the sky according to due measure, and We cause it to soak
in the soil; and We certainly are able to drain it off with ease. With it We
grow for you gardens of date-palms and vines: in them have ye abundant fruits:
and of them ye eat and have enjoyment, also a tree springing out of Mount
Sinai, which produces oil, and relish for those who use it for food.
(S: 23,V: 18-20)
Sees!
thou not that God makes the clouds move gently, then joins them together, then
makes them into a heap? Then wilt thou see rain issue forth from their midst.
And He sends down from the Sky mountain masses of clouds wherein is hail: He
strikes therewith whom He pleases and He turns it away from whom he pleases, the
vivid flash of His lightning well-nigh blinds the sight.
(S:
24, V: 43)
Who
has created the heavens and the earth, and who sends you down rain from the
sky? Yea, with it We cause to grow well-planted orchards fall of beauty of delight:
is not your power to cause the growth of the trees In them. Can there be
another god besides God. Nay, they are a people who swerve from justice.
(S: 27,V: 60)
Among
His Signs is this, that He sends the Winds, as heralds of Glad Tidings, giving
you a taste of His Grace and Mercy, that the ships may sail majestically by His
Command and that ye may seek of His Bounty: in order that ye may be grateful W
9 did indeed send, before thee, apostles to their respective peoples, and they
came to them with Clear Signs: then, to those who transgressed, We meted out
Retribution.‘ and it was due from Us to aid those who believed It is God Who
sends the Winds, and they raise the Clouds: then does He spread them in the sky
as He wills, and break them into fragments, until thou see rain-drops issue
from the midst thereof‘ then when He has made them reach such of his servants
as He wills behold, they do rejoice! Even though, before they received the rain
- just before this - they were dumb with despair!
(S: 30,V: 46-49)
And do they not see that We do drive rain to
parched soil bare of herbage, and produce therewith crops, providing food for
their cattle and themselves? Have they not the vision? (S: 32,V: 27)
Seest thou not that God sends down rain from
the sky? With it We then bring out produce of various colors. And in the
mountains are tracts white and red, of various shades of color, and black
intense in hue. And so amongst men and crawling creatures and cattle, are they
of various colors. (S:
35,V: 27)
Seest thou not that God sends down rain from
the sky, and leads it through springs in the earth? Then He causes to grow,
therewith, produce of various colors.‘ then it withers; thou will see it grow
yellow; then He makes it dry up and crumble away. Truly, in this, is a
Message of remembrance to men of understanding. (S: 39, V: 21)
He has let free the two bodies of flowing
water, meeting together; Between them is a Barrier, which they do not transgress: (S: 55,V: 19)
"He will send rain to you in abundance;
Give you increase in Wealth and sons; and bestow you gardens and bestow on you
rivers of flowing water. (S: 71,V:
11-12)
And
made therein mountains standing firm, lofty in stature; and provided for you
water sweet and wholesome?
(S: 77,V: 27)
And
do We not send down from the clouds water in abundance, That We may produce
therewith corn and vegetables, And gardens of luxurious growth? (S: 78,V:
14-16)
He
draws out there from its moisture and its pasture. (S: 79,V: 31)
Then
let man look at his food, and how We provide it: For that We pour forth water
in abundance, And We split the earth in fragments, And produce therein corn,
And Grapes and nutritious plants, And Olives and Dates, And enclosed Gardens,
dense with lofty trees, And fruits and fodder, for use and convenience to you
and your cattle. (S: 80,V: 24-32)
He
created the heavens without any pillars that ye can see; He set on the earth
mountains standing firm, lest it should shake with you; and He scattered through
it beasts of all kinds. We send down rain from the sky, and produce on the
earth every kind of noble creature, in pairs. (S: 31,V: 10)
Christ
said, “I am blessed with the Love of God so u abundantly that I have become a
spring of life.
There
are millions of galaxies in the universe and all these l galaxies are the Light
of God.
God
is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as
if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass:
the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive,
neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though
fire scarce touched it.‘ Light upon Light! God doth guide whom He wills to His
Light God doth set forth Parables for men: and God doth know all things. (S:
24,V: 35)
The
entire body of Spiritual Knowledge has been divided into three main chapters.
One of these three chapters is related to with the acts and deeds of individual
life and comprises of creative formulae concerning formation of life. Second
chapter deals with the creative formulae of species and the third one deals with
the introduction of the Lord Creator God Almighty.
Man
or any individual of a species or the species, as a whole, is constrained to
live its life in two alternating phases of sleep and wakefulness, or simply,
day and night; as does the Quran terms them.
When all the verses where the words Lail
(Night) and Nehar (Day) are mentioned, are deliberated upon, we are led to conclude
that these two, in actual effect, are the senses that keep on alternating. When
the senses are molded into the pattern of night, these become dreams and when
these are molded into the pattern of the day, they become the
wakefulness.
God
says, “And We cause the night to enter into the day and the day is taken out of
the night.” And, “We peel off the night from over the day and the day is peeled
off the night.” It means that the human senses keep on alternating into
the night and day, or to say, these alternate Diurnal and Nocturnal senses.
When the senses are in the day, they become limited and when these enter the
night, or become Nocturnal, the limiting confinement is removed.
When
we mention of the mystical knowledge or the knowledge pertaining to the Unseen,
we refer to the Nocturnal Senses.
“We promised Moses with thirty nights and completed it in forty.”
It is noteworthy that Moses stayed at Mount of Sinai for forty days and forty
nights. It did not happen that he came down the mount during the day and went
up there again in the night. Then, why has God mentioned only nights? It means
that Moses remained in his Nocturnal Senses for forty days and forty
nights.
“Blessed
is He who took His servant to the Temple of Solomon from the Sacred Mosque in
the night.”
This
also means the same thing that God blessed the Holy Prophet (PBUH) with His
august company and Unseen was revealed upon him while he was in his Nocturnal
Senses. Every knowledge whether it is learnt or is gifted one, is based
upon thinking and deliberations. The more the sphere of search and research
enlarges, the newer philosophies and doctrines keep on emerging. This very
process is involved in the development of sciences of the present era. A
scholar reaches a conclusion because of his deliberations. Following his
findings, his successor scholars keep delving deeper and deeper into that
knowledge. The more a mind accepts the explanations, the more it is versed with
the knowledge.
Every
science has two aspects: its apparent form and its intrinsic values; or to say,
every science could be exemplified as a leaf having two pages.
Mystical
knowledge or the three departments of Spiritual sciences, too, are no exception
to this. If we take them as three leaves, thus, we have six pages in all. The
first page is the Reflection of the Beatific Vision; the second page has the inscriptions
of the Secrets Plan and expediencies of God. Third page is reserved for the
explanations of the Secret Plan; fourth page has the cosmic features, fifth one
is the record of the Commands and the sixth one has the details of the acts and
deeds.
The knowledge pertaining to the entire cosmos,
Beatific Visions of the Preserved Scriptura, High Throne, the realm of Souls,
Heavens, Intermediary Phase, the Material World, Purgatory, Resurrection, Day
of Judgment, Hell and Paradise, Eternity and Infinity have been preserved in
these three leaves or the six pages. When God bestows the knowledge of these
three leaves on a person, he becomes a special person according to God’s
Dictum. The people responsible for carrying out the duties of God’s System of
Administration include prophets and people other than prophets.
His
Divine Grace Qalander Baba Auliya has told one of the many incidents related
with Tajuddin Baba Auliya Nagpuri; a person like the one known as Khizar, was
given certain Administrative Duties in the Kingdom of God.
Once
Tajuddin Baba, in his typical state of absorption, was staring with half opened
eyes‘ at a leave that had fallen from the tree, under which he was sitting.
When Hayat Khan, one of his admirers, who had a penchant to observe him sitting
in that state of engrossed absorption, invited Maharaja Ragho Rao to see that
leaf, which was moving like a living thing under the influence of his gaze. That
leave had all the features of an insect and was creeping towards the tree trunk.
Then, they saw another leaf transforming into an insect, which followed the
first one and then yet another leaf joined the march.
When
Tajuddin Baba emerged out of his trance and was asked about that happening, which
they had seen, he said, “All the parts of life are joining together in the
tree. Parts of life like sighting, hearing, understanding and moving etc, can
be sighted when one peeps in the tree. It’s every leaf has a mouth, limbs, and
legs just like the real ones but it can only be seen by the people when the
leaf encounters a life. And, when a leaf embraces with my life, it transforms
into a living insect. Try to understand that one can embrace by sighting as
well. Remember life makes life and life absorbs in life.”
Formula
of cloning has been expounded in these words of Tajuddin Baba, “When a leaf
embraces my life, it transforms into a living insect.” According to Qalander
Baba’s statement he had stated these words in 1916AD and scientists made its
discovery in 1993AD.
Research-wise
the scientific knowledge can be broadly divided into Physics, Psychology and
Parapsychology or Metaphysics.
Physic
deals with matter, Psychology is the study of Conscious and Parapsychology is
related to with the Unconscious. Now even the scientists have come to know that
a material body, no matter how small it is, has a covering of lights upon it.
They have termed the Reflection of this covering as Aura.
Everything
existing has a covering upon it, which is weaved of single or compound
waves of lights. Death means that the light covering (Astral body) dissociates
itself from the material body. Noor the cosmic lights or simply the light feeds
this astral body.
Scientists
are still trying to locate the actual source of cosmic lights. When we acquire
knowledge about something, inventions are made. What this Astral body or the
covering‘ lights are? After equipping with its complete knowledge and with
God’s granted powers, the astral body can be made to resume its control over the
physical body.
God
had granted the very knowledge to Christ. When a form is made from the material
elements, it provides a basis for the lights. Christ covered a sparrow or a
bat, molded from clay, or a dead body, with the covering of lights and, as soon
as, by the leave of God, this covering was filled with Noor, the dead would
become alive.
When man or any creature dies, according to
the laws of nature, the compound netting of light does not provide it with the
shower of Noor, which result in the death of that thing. God had given Christ
the knowledge and power to breathe soul in a dead body to restore it to life
and when a bird made of water and clay was encased in a covering of compound
lights, the life ran in that bird and it flew.
"And God will teach him the Book and
Wisdom, the Law and the Gospel, And appoint him an apostle to the Children of
Israel, with this message: I have come to you, with a Sign from your Lord, in
that I make for you out of clay, as it were, the figure of a bird and breathe
into it, and it becomes a bird by God’s leave: Ami I heal those born blind, and
the lepers, and I quicken the dead by God ’s leave; and I declare to you what
ye eat, and what ye store in your houses. Surely therein is a Sign for you if
ye did believe; I have come to you, to attest the Law, which was before me And
to make lawful to you part of what was (Before) forbidden to you; I have
come to you with a Sign from your Lord. So I 'ar God, and obey me. It is Allah
Who is my Lord and your Lord; then worship Him. This is a Way that is
straight.”
(S: 3,V: 48-5)
People
versed with their Inners and knowing the Administrative System of God tells
that every creature in this world has two bodies: the Physical body and the
body made of lights and Noor.
In
the compound waves, which are weaved like the warp and weft of a fabric, light
keeps on flowing and the very same flowing light is responsible for the stimuli
produced and generated in entire body. The stimuli generated by these lights
are the life of the material bodies. When the flow of lights is not transferred
to the limbs and parts of the body, death takes over. Four Nooric Falls that
originate from the Extolled Veil, Grand Veil, Great Veil and the High Throne,
continuously descend to maintain the flow of Noor and lights in a body.
How
can ye reject the faith in God seeing that ye were without life, and He gave
you life; then will He cause you to die, and will again bring you to life; and
again to Him will ye return. (S:
2,V: 28)
It
is God Who causes the seed-grain and the date - stone to split and sprout. He
caused the living to issue from the dead, and He is the one to cause the dead
to issue from the living. That is God then, how are ye deluded away from the
truth? (S: 6, V:
95)
Every
being is formed from a male and a female, which according to the creative laws
are dual in their natures and thus every body has two sides. Both these two
sides have cells, which are responsible for the sex and the sexual emotions.
When the cells of a male infuse in the female cells, a creative process is
switched on and a creature comes into being. By mentioning the miracle of
Christ, God has related the formula of creation. Life of man is dominated by
the soul. The physical body made of clay stays as long as the soul is there in
it, when the soul departs the body of dust remains no longer. When God breathed
His soul into the mould of Adam, the senses became operative in him.
We did create man from a quintessence of clay.
(S: 23.V: 12)
He
Who has made everything which He has created most good: He began the creation
of man with (nothing more than) clay and made his progeny from a quintessence
of the nature of a fluid despised: But He fashioned him in due proportion, and
breathed into him something of His spirit. And, He gave you the faculties of
hearing and sight and feeling and understanding.‘ little thanks do ye give! (S: 32,V: 7-9)
Just
ask their opinion: are they the more difficult to create, or the other beings
We have created? Them have We created out of a sticky clay! (S: 37,V: 11)
Behold,
thy Lord said to the angels: ”I am about to create man from clay: When I have
fashioned him in due proportion and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye
down in obeisance unto him." (S;
38,V: 71-72)
He created man from sounding clay like unto
pottery. (S: 55,v; 14)
And
God has produced you from the earth growing gradually. (S: 7l,V: 17)
The
similitude of Jesus before God is as that of Adam; ,He created him from dust,
then said to him: "Be". And he was. (S:
3,V: 59)
Behold!
We said to the angels: ”Bow down unto Adam": They bowed down except
Iblees: He said, "Shall I bow down to one whom Thou didst create from
clay?” (S:
17,V: 61)
His
companion said to him in the course of the argument with him: "Dost thou
deny Him Who created thee out of dust, then out of a sperm-drop, then fashioned
thee into a man? (S:
18,V: 37)
O mankind! If ye have a doubt about the
Resurrection, consider that We created you out of dust, then out of sperm, then
out of a leech-like clot, then out of a morsel of flesh, partly formed and
partly unformed, in order that We may manifest our power to you; and We cause
whom We will to rest in the wombs for an appointed term, theno We bring you out
as babes, then foster you that ye may reac your age of full strength; and some
of you are called to die, and some are sent back to the feeblest old age, so
that they know nothing after having known much, and further, thou see the earth
barren and lifeless, but when We pour down rain on it, it is stirred to life,
it swells, and it puts forth every kind of beautiful growth in pairs. (S: 22,V: 5)
And God did create you from dust; then from a
sperm-drop; then He made you in pairs. And no female conceives, or lays down
her load, but with His knowledge. Nor is a man long—lived granted length of
days, nor is a part cut off from his life, but is in a Decree ordained All this
is easy to God. (S: 35,V: 11)
It
is He Who has created you from dust then from a sperm- drop then from a
leech-like clot,‘ then does he get you out into the light as a child: then lets
you grow and reach your age of full strength; then lets you become old, though
of you there are some who die before; and lets you reach a Term appointed,‘ in
order that ye may learn wisdom. It is He Who gives Life and Death,‘ and when He
decides upon an affair, He says to it, ”Be", and it is. (S: 40,V: 67-68)
We
created man from sounding clay, from mud molded into shape; And the Jinn race,
We had created before, from the fire of a scorching wind. Behold! Thy Lord said
to the angels." "I am about to create man, from sounding clay from
mud molded into shape; When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and shape;
When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My
spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him." So the angels prostrated
themselves, all of them together: Not so Iblees: he refused to be among those
who prostrated themselves. God said: "O Iblees.’ What is your reason for
not being among those who prostrated themselves?” Iblees said: ”I am not one to
prostrate myself to man, whom Thou didst create from sounding clay, from mud
molded into shape. " (S: 15,V:
26-33)
It
is He Who has created man rom water: then has He established relationships of
lineage and marriage.‘ for thy Lord has power over all things.
(S:
25,V: 54)
Man We did create from a quintessence of clay;
Then We placed him as (a drop of) sperm in a place of rest, firmly fixed; Then We
made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood; then of that clot We made a
fetus lump; then we made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with
flesh; then we developed out of it another creature. So blessed be God, the best
to create!
(S: 23,V: 12-14)
And
God did create you from dust; then rom a sperm-drop; then He made you in pairs.
(S:
35,V: 11)
It is He Who has created you from dust then
from a sperm- drop, then from a leech-like clot; then does he get you out into
the light as a child: then lets you grow and reach your age of full strength;
then lets you become old, though of you there are some who die before; and lets
you reach a Term appointed; in order that ye may learn wisdom.
(S:
40,V: 67)
Verily,
We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave
him the Hearing and Sight.
(S: 76,V: 2)
Say.‘
"It is He Who has created you and made you grow, and made for you the
faculties of hearing, seeing, feeling and understanding: little thanks it is ye
give. (S:
67,V: 23)
They
ask thee concerning the Soul? Say: "The Spirit cometh by command of my
Lord: of knowledge it is only a little that is communicated to you, O men!
" (S:
17,V: 85)
It is clear from all these statements that the
knowledge concerning the soul has been given to man though it is small in
quantity. Now the small portion of the Knowledge mentioned here is the
Knowledge of God and the knowledge of God is infinite and a portion of infinite
is also an infinite, that is, the knowledge about the soul that God has given
to man is small as compared to the knowledge of God but it does not mean that
God has not at all taught this knowledge to man.
Soul
is the Edict of the Lord and the edict of the Lord is that when He wills a
thing, He commands it to be and there it is. And the same thing is being said
to Christ that you make bird from clay and breathe soul into it by my leave it
becomes the animal living. It means that when Christ made an effigy of a bird
from water and clay and blew upon it, it flew as a living bird and
the lepers would be cured and the dead was restored to life and the blinds
started seeing.
