Jesus 100: 100 days to find him, to follow him and to begin to become like him

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The Christians. (They are) the community ( umma) of the Christ, Jesus, son of Mary (peace upon him). He is who was truly sent (as prophet; mab'uth) after Moses (peace upon him), and who was announced in the Torah. To him were (granted) manifest signs and notable evidences, such as the reviving of the dead and the curing of the blind and the leper. His very nature and innate disposition ( fitra) are a perfect sign of his truthfulness; that is, his coming without previous seed and his speaking without prior teaching. For all the (other) prophets the arrival of their revelation was at (the age of) forty years, but revelation came to him when he was made to speak in the cradle, and revelation came to him when he conveyed (the divine message) at (the age of) thirty. The duration of his (prophetic) mission ( da'wa) was three years and three months and three days. [130] Shia Islam and for boasting, “We killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.” But they neither killed nor crucified him—it was only made to appear so. Even those who argue for this ˹crucifixion˺ are in doubt. They have no knowledge whatsoever—only making assumptions. They certainly did not kill him. Esposito, J. L. (2003). The Oxford Dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512558-0. Schäfer, Peter (13 September 2009). Jesus in the Talmud. Princeton University Press. p.139. ISBN 978-0691143187. Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2010). "On the Qur'anic Accusation of Scriptural Falsification (tahrîf) and Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic" (PDF). Journal of the American Oriental Society. 130 (2): 189–202 . Retrieved 2018-03-03.

Now, aren’t you excited to embark on this wonderful journey of self-expression and creativity? I can tell you, from my years of experience, that the journey is just as thrilling, if not more, than the destination. What Does The Bible Say About Tattoos? Owen. " What Did Jesus Really Look Like? New Study Redraws Holy Image." Live Science. February 27, 2018. Accessed: June 24, 2019. During the time of Christ, most Jews used only one name, which could be followed either by the phrase "son of . . . " or the person's hometown, which is why Jesus is often referred to as Jesus of Nazereth. [3] Illustration depicting Jesus fishing in the Sea of Galilee with some of his followers. (From “At Home’ by Grace Stebbing, published by John F Shaw & Co) Jestice, Phyllis G., Holy people of the world: a cross-cultural encyclopedia, Volume 1, 2004, ISBN 1-57607-355-6, pp. 558–559Some academics have noted that the account in Surah 19 is particularly close to that in the Christian Gospel of Luke. [13] The Annunciation to Mary is mentioned twice in the Quran, and in both instances Mary/Maryam is told that she was chosen by God to deliver a son. In the first instance, the bearer of the news (who is believed by most Muslims to be the archangel Gabriel), delivered the news in ( 3:42-47) as he takes the form of a man ( 19:16-22). [14] [15] The details of the conception according to 66:12 and 21:89, Mary conceives Jesus by being blown into her womb through the spirit (i.e archangel Gabriel), Mary asks how she can bear a son in view of her chastity, she is told that God creates what he wills and that these things are easy for God. [14] Gerard. The Crucifixion of Jesus: History, Myth, Faith. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1995. According to the details of the narrative, some parents became annoyed and forbade their children to play with Jesus, suspecting he was a magician. As a result, the parents kept their children away from Jesus and gathered their children into a single house. One day, feeling lonely, Jesus went out looking for his friends, and coming upon this house he asked the parents where their children were. The parents lied, responding that the children were not there. After Jesus asks who, then, is in the house, the parents call Jesus a pig. Jesus then says "Let there be swine in this house", turning all the children into swine. [22] Sakura, Muham (11 November 2017) [December 2015]. "Preface". The Great Tale of Prophet Adam & Prophet Jesus In Islam. United Submitters International. p.6. ISBN 9783739635736. In traditional Islamic eschatology, it is claimed that Jesus Christ will return in the Second Coming with Imam Mahdi to kill the Al-Masih ad-Dajjal ('The False Messiah'), after which with the ancient tribes Gog and Magog ( Yaʾjūj Maʾjūj) would disperse. After these creatures would miraculously perish, Imam Mahdi and Jesus would rule the entire world, establish peace and justice, and die after a reign of 40 years. Some Muslims believe that he would then be buried alongside Muhammad at the fourth reserved tomb of the Green Dome in Medina. These are apocryphal traditions related to hadith-based traditions.

Crossan, John Dominic (1995). Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. HarperOne. p.145. ISBN 0-06-061662-8. That he was crucified is as sure as anything historical can ever be, since both Josephus and Tacitus... agree with the Christian accounts on at least that basic fact. An early interpretation of verse 3:55 (specifically "I will cause you to die and raise you to myself"), Al-Tabari ( d. 923), records an interpretation attributed to Ibn 'Abbas, who used the literal "I will cause you to die" ( mumayyitu-ka) in place of the metaphorical mutawaffi-ka ('Jesus died'), while Wahb ibn Munabbih, an early Jewish convert, is reported to have said "God caused Jesus, son of Mary, to die for three hours during the day, then took him up to himself." Tabari further transmits from Ibn Ishaq: "God caused Jesus to die for seven hours", [71] while at another place reported that a person called Sergius was crucified in place of Jesus. Ibn-al-Athir forwarded the report that it was Judas, the betrayer, while also mentioning the possibility it was a man named Natlianus. [72] Most Islamic traditions categorically deny that Jesus physically died on the cross or otherwise. [57] [58] He started out as the peasant child of unmarried parents. He lived in a tiny, dusty village in an ‘up North’ part of an obscure and disliked country on the extreme edge of a great empire.Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman ( d. 958), Abu Hatim Ahmad ibn Hamdan al-Razi ( d. 935), Abu Yaqub al-Sijistani ( d. 971), Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi ( d. 1078) and the group Ikhwan al-Safa also affirm the historicity of the Crucifixion, reporting Jesus was crucified and not substituted by another man as maintained by many other popular Quranic commentators and Tafsir. More recently, Mahmoud M. Ayoub, a professor and scholar, provided a more symbolic interpretation for Surah 4 Verse 157: The Quran emphasizes the creationism of Jesus, [103] through his similitude with Adam in regards to the absence of human origin. Muhammad often used to compare the births of Adam and Jesus. [111] Ayoub, instead of interpreting the passage as a denial of the death of Jesus, instead believes the passage is about God denying men the power to vanquish and destroy God's message. The words "but they killed him not, nor crucified him" are meant to show that any power humans believe that they have against God is illusory. [69] Bulliet, Richard W. (2015). "Islamo-Christian Civilization". In Silverstein, Adam J.; Stroumsa, Guy G.; Blidstein, Moshe (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p.111. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697762.013.6. ISBN 978-0-19-969776-2. LCCN 2014960132. S2CID 170430270 . Retrieved 2020-10-24.

Now be honest with yourself. Have you ever thought, ‘life could be so much better’, ‘I could be happier’, ‘there could be more purpose, more direction, more joy’? If you haven’t, then I am truly sorry for you because somewhere along the way you have lost it. If you have thought these things then you need to spend 100 days in the company of the greatest life-changer the world has ever known. And then another 100, and another 100 after that. Ayoub 1980, p.108. Muhammad b. 'Ali b. Muhammad al-Shawkani, Fath al-Qadir al-Jami bayn Fannay al-Riwaya wa 'l Diraya min 'Ilm al-Tqfsir (Cairo: Mustafa al-Babi al-Halabi, n.d.), I, 346, citing Ibn Asakir, who reports on the authority of Ibn Munabbih.

Did the Jews Kill Jesus?

The Islamic faith echoed some strands within the Christian tradition that Mary (or Maryam) was a literal virgin when Jesus was conceived. The most detailed account of the annunciation and birth of Jesus is provided in Surah 3 ( Al Imran) and 19 ( Maryam) of the Quran, where the story is narrated that God (Allah) sent an angel to announce that Maryam could shortly expect to bear a son, despite being a virgin. [12] Virani, Shafique (2019). "Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān's Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Taʾwīl): The Birth of Jesus". Studies in Islamic Historiography: 147–169. doi: 10.1163/9789004415294_007. ISBN 9789004415294. S2CID 214047322.