isa 15

The second thing: 

look at the S E Q U E N C E. 

It is profound !

C R E A T I N G

The first miracle that is mentioned, by the permission of Allah...

is giving life to something that did not have life.

Why is that important?

Remember, now under Herod, there was Roman influence in the city of Jerusalem.

So for the first time there, you have sculptures.

And what does Allah say on the day of judgment to the sculpture makers:

that they will be challenged to give life to that which they make.

So when Isa molds something, and blows into it...

and shows that it is only Allah that gives life...

it is to challenge, first, the entirety of people...

that only Allah gives life.

H E A L I N G 

The second one, which is healing, is repairing life.

So something had life, but lost its quality.

Again, by the permission of Allah.

R E S U R R E C T I N G

The third one, giving life to the dead, by the permission of Allah.

So something that lived, and then died, and giving life to it.

By the permission of Allah.

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isa 14

The first mirecle for the Muslims is the speaking from the cradle...

Remember Rev. Andy Stoker was mentioning some of the gospels that were left out...

that mentioned some of the mircales that Islam mentions,

But they are not considered part of the corpus of gospels today.

So the first miracle to the Christians, is turning water into wine.

'I inform you of the things that you conceal, that what you eat and hide in your homes.'

Isa a.s. was given knowlegde, He was able to tell people what they were hiding...

He was able to tell peopel of some of the secrets that they spoke amongst themselves.

So you have this child that challenges people...

totally challenges the established rabbis and scholars...

at a young age.

And now He has also been given a miracle, of being able to say these things... 

and of course that made people very paranoid about Him.

Isa a.s. is the last prophet...

of a line of prophets of Bene Israel.

And Bene Israel was a nation of miracles.

So you find prophets that raised the dead, that cured people, did many of these things.

And here, in the last prophet of Bene Israel, Allah combines many of those in one man.

So He was made a messenger to the children of Israel...

who will say indeed, I have come to you with a sign from your Lord.

I designed for you from clay that which is like the form of a bird.

That I breathe into it and it becomes a flying bird, by the permission of Allah.

And I cure the blind and the leper, and I give life to the dead, by the permission of Allah.

And I inform you of that which you eat and store in your homes.

Indeed, in that is a sign for you of you are believers.

So all of Isa's miracles are mentioned...

by the permission of Allah.

That is the frst thing.

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isa 11

Number one.

Jesus ﷺ was circumsized.

Why is that significant?

Because that shows that Maryam a.s. and Isa a.s.... 

saw themselves as being bound by the Laws of Musa a.s.

and practicing the Law of Musa a.s.

Giovanni Bellini

And when Jesus ﷺ says, in the New Testament,

'I have not come to abrogate or replace the Law of Moses...

but to uphold it in its truest sense'...

then that speaks to it from the very early childhood...

that they did not see themselves as departing, or forming a new religion...

nut instead, continuing the tradition of Musa a.s.

Bernardino Luini

The history of Isa a.s. would show that he went to local schools...

where they study the Torah, but He was more knowledgeable than the rabbis.

So He shocked the people by his knowledge of the Torah. 

He challenged the people. by his knowledge.

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isa 9

Maryam was told...

as she gave birth to this child, that He was the Messiah...

that He was the Messiah that everyone was waiting for.

That Allah gives her the glad tidings about Isa a.s.:

His name is the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary.

Léon Cogniet, Massacre of the Innocent

So Maryam is basically told that this child of yours...

is that child that poses a threat to the empire.

That people are waiting for...

but also poses a major threat.

And Allah mentioned Ruh Minho, meaning 'a soul from Allah'.

That doesn't mean that He is a part of God physically.

Instead, when Allah ascribes something to himself...

He glorifies it, assignsa particular virtue to it.

The Word of God... 

the implication of that in Islam is... 

that He was created from the Word 'Be!'

Now, why is Isa a.s. threatening?

Herod having the dream that a young man from Bethlehem was going to overthrow him...

is similar to Firaun having the dream about Musa going to overthrow him...

and him deciding that, then, he might as well kill all the children.

And so that's where you have the massacre of the innocent.

And where you have the fleeing of Maryam a.s. with Isa to Egypt for some time.

And the eventually she comes back from Egypt, and she goes to Nazareth.

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isa 8

Al Qurtubi...

[Cordoba, 13th century]

he says that Musa, Isa...

-sa it is like 'shajara', tree...

So Musa a.s. was tied to the trunk of a tree...

and put into the water.

And Isa... was born under a tree... and 'I... refers to 'light'...

so a light came out of the womb of Maryam when He was born.

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isa 5

The first thing He says, is that He is abdullah.

He declares that He is here in servitude to Allah swt.

By doing so, He immediately clarifies He is not God.

Ánd He clears the name of Maryam a.s.

Then, He speaks to the future.

He will give me a Book, and He will make Me into a Prophet.

And He made Me Blessed, wherever I may be.

Not just blessed in Jerusalem, not just blessed in Egypt.

Blessed wherever I may be, in both comings...

both the first coming of Christ and the second.

And He has entrusted Me with the prayer... 

and with the zakat, alms giving.

As long as He is alive...

in both comings.

In both comings will He uphold the Law of the Prophets before Him.

If you think about it, the first coming Isa a.s. upholds the Law of Moses.

The second coming will uphold the Law of Muhammad a.s.

So it is interesting, because He comes with a mandate... 

to uphold the Laws that come before Him as well.

And He has made Me dutifull to My Mother.

And He has not made Me one who is wicked...

or one who brings some sort of deprivation to the one He is born to.

It is said that one of the signs of wickedness of the time is the disrespect to the parents.

And it is said that this is also one of the signs of the Day of Judgment.

The idea of children treating their parents like slaves...

that is sort of the end of the road for people...

So Isa a.s. upholds His duty to His Mother.

And it is really powerful, because it speaks again to the virtue of Maryam.

That one of the reasons for His sending was to honor His Mother.

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isa 4

Maryam a.s. gives birth to Isa a.s.

A virgin birth to Jesus ﷺ.

Without any human intervention.

And Muslims affirm the virgin birth...

and Allah swt says that the creation of Jesus ﷺ is like the creation of Adam a.s.

He is said to be, and it was. 

[i.e. He was the Word...]

Just like Adam had no mother or father...

Isa a.s. was created without father.

And so this was a testimony to the power of Allah swt.

There is no need for any human intervention in the creation of this special child, Isa a.s.

And Maryam a.s. brings that child to that area of the temple.

And she is holding Isa a.s. in her hands, she is scorned, she is mocked.

Allah has honored this woman in the most beautiful of ways.

An entire chapter in the Quran is named after her.

She was from the devout.

And she is a leader for both men and women.

She is the best of women created, and she is an example for all of us...

to look towards as a person of devotion, a person of ibadah, servitude.

Story of Maryam a.s.

She is not the footnote in the story of Isa a.s.!

She is not just the chain between Imran a.s. and Isa a.s.

She herself is a woman deserving of much recognition...

and much love and respect.

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isa 1

zwijgen 5

B E   G E N T L E 

In Medina... 

a group of people from a Jewish tribe said...

instead of 'As-salamu alayk' [Peace be upon you]

'As-Samu alayk' [Death be upon you].

He ﷺ replied: 'Alayk [and upon you].'

Aisha r.a. felt compelled to add: 

'And upon you be death, along with the curse of Allah and His wrath!' 

The Prophet ﷺ said: 'O Aisha, be gentle!

'Indeed, Allah is gentle and loves gentleness in all matters. 

'Beware of being harsh and vulgar.' 

Even being in a position of power... 

did not tempt him to retaliate [wraak nemen]... 

or repeat back the same words. 

He did not even let his wife respond harshly... 

to those who insulted him ﷺ.

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zwijgen 4

S P A R I N G   T H E M   D I V I N E   P U N I S H M E N T

When Quraysh became even more vicious... 

the Prophet ﷺ prayed for Allah to punish them. 

A famine overtook them, resulting in malnutrition... 

to the point that they hallucinated seeing smoke.

Ultimately, the Prophet ﷺ received verses... 

from Surat ad-Dukhan [The Smoke - text]...

and he ﷺ  supplicated for them. 

Allah brought forth rain... 

until they were quenched and secure... 

eventually returning to rebellion against him.

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zwijgen 3

P R A Y I N G   F O R   T H E I R   G U I D A N C E

Abu Jahl was the Prophet ﷺ 's staunchest enemy. 

Despite inflicting physical and emotional wounds on the Messenger of Allah ﷺ... 

his guidance was still on the Prophet’s mind.

He ﷺ used to say in Mecca: 

'O Allah, strengthen Islam with Abu Jahl or Omar ibn al-Khattab.'

Despite Abu Jahl being the pharaoh of the Muslims... 

the Prophet ﷺ had the heart to pray for him.

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zwijgen 2

S T A Y I N G   O  P T I M I S T I C

The wife of Abu Lahab...

would follow the Prophet ﷺ around...

to hurt and humiliate him, calling him Mudhammam, 'the slandered one'.

Instead of responding to her... 

he ﷺ would simply find solace in saying to his Companions: 

'They insult Mu-dhammam... 

while I am Mu-hammad ['the praised one']!' 

He quickly calmed the situation and found optimism... 

at a time where it seemed impossible to detect a silver lining.

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zwijgen 1

The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ... 

was a man of mercy and moral greatness... 

even when faced with ridicule, insults, and slander. 

Here are 5 remarkable instances from humanity’s most luminous [verlicht,lichtend] life ever:

L E T   T H E   A N G E L S   R E S P O N D 

Although the insults of Quraysh tightened his chest with pain... 

he ﷺ never stooped to reciprocating in kind. 

In fact, he inevitably took the higher road of not responding at all... 

hopeful that this would one day penetrate their harsh hearts.

Édouard Manet

Once... 

the Prophet ﷺ silently smiled when Abu Bakr r.a., his most noble Companion, refrained from responding to a person who was insulting him. 

When Abu Bakr r.a. eventually spoke up, the Prophet ﷺ became angry and left. 

He ﷺ later explained: 'An angel was with you, responding on your behalf. But when you said back to him some of what he said, a devil arrived, and it is not for me to sit with devils.'

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mekka-jibril

When Ibrahim and Ismail finish building the Kaaba...

Ibrahim a.s said: Oh Allah, show us the rituals.

So Allah sent Jibril a.s.... 

and Jibril a.s. did the hajj with Ibrahim.

Step by step, he took him through the circumambulation of hajj.

He walked him through it, the same hajj that you do.

The hajj that was revived by the Prophet pbuh.

And once Shaitan tempted him.

From the places where the Jamarat are today.him.

Jibril is the one who told Ibrahim to throw stones at him.

And we do that today, in commemoration of that moment.

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isaak-jibril

Then the noble guests...

They definitely included Jibril, Michail, and the Angel of Death as well.

But a group of angels comes to visit Ibrahim a.s.

James Tissot

They don't announce themselves.

They don't say that they are angels... 

but just appear to be strangers walking through, wayfarers.

Ibrahim greets them enthusiastically: Come on in, have a seat!

He goes to Sarah: We've got guests!

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And they gave him the glad tidings... 

of a knowledgeable young son [Isaak].

This old man and his old wife.

Rembrandt

Now Sarah is listening from the other room.

Because she's getting scared too.

She comes in hysterically, slapping her face.

What are you talking about? He is old and I am old.

He can't have kids and I can't have kids.

How is this happening?

Ferdinand Bol

Now, Jibril is the one who is speaking now.

And he, as always, answers with one word first:

Look, it's just like that.

That is how the angels are raised.

They don't ask these kind of questions.

How is this happening? Allah decided that is is going to happen.

It's just going to happen. 

Just like that.

Your Lord is most wise and most knowledgeable.

For Sarah was questioning God's wisdom: why nów?

Look, that is the way it goes.

Now notice, Ibrahim a.s. isn't doing anything.

He is watching his wife argue.

Ibrahim is calm.

John Martin, Sodom & Gomorrah

And how calm is he?

He notices something... 

that you wouldn't notice in a moment of shock like that.

He says: That's nice, but what are you angels really up to?

Because Ibrahim recognizes, if this was a glad tiding of a child...

there would have just been Jibril, what's the Angel fo Death doing here...

What are the other angels doing here...

It is said, that was because Ibrahim was úsed to strange things happening.

Ibrahim has been thrown into a fire and it didn't burn him, right.

He was to slaughter his son, and his son turned into a ram.

He had seen so much in his life, that he has this trust in Allah.

That, you know what, it is what it is, alhamdulillah, and he was used to it.

Joachim Patinir, Sodom & Gommorah

So he simply says: what are you really up to?

And they said: we have been sent to a transgressing people.

We have been sent to the people of Lot [Sodom] a.s.

Lot, his nephew, the only one who believed in Ibrahim a.s.

Lot supported Ibrahim very early on.

And he grew in his own ambitions.

He went out to do da'wah in another town nearby.

So when Ibrahim heard that they were sent to the people of Lot...

what did he do? He forgets about the child... 

he starts arguing with the angels on behalf of Lot.

And they said: Look, we now Lot is there. 

We know the believers are there.

They are going to be fine. 

It is those that have transgressed... 

and those that have oppressed.

Notice...

that on the way to destroy a nation...

they just gave the glad tidings to Ibrahim a.s....

of a child that is going to produce nátions...

one of the largest nations on earth: Bene Israel.

A nation of prophets, of anbiya, and so on...

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hagar-jibril

Then Allah commands Ibrahim... 

to leave Hagar and Ismail in the desert.

And Hagar is running around, carrying her baby, looking for anyone to help her.

She is in an abandoned place, there is no on there, right.

All of the sudden, she heard a sound.

She said: Come forth, if you have anything good to offer.

Suddenly, it was Jibril.

All he did was, he struck the ground with his heel.

When Jibril did that, the water obviously started coming from the earth...

and you know, in huge loads, Zamzam comes bursting out fo the ground.

And the mother of Ismail, she carved out the well.

Because she was afraid that the water would go all over the place...

and nothing would be left.

And the Prophet says: had she not done that...

the entire earth would have been touched by Zamzam.

Each and every single part of the earth.

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cf.Gen.21:17-20

ibrahim-jibril

The most mention of Jibril with any previous prophet... 

are with Ibraham/Abrahim and his family.

You find the mentioning of Jibril a.s. on numerous occasions,

You find it from the moment that Ibrahim was thrown into hat fire.

It says, that when Ibrahim was to be thrown into the fire, áll of the angels wanted to help him.

Michael a.s. was waiting for a command from Allah swt to put the fire out.

Allah could have easily just caused it to storm and the fire goes out.

All of the angels are waiting and wondering... 

why there is a delay in the command to do away the fire...

or to protect Ibrahim a.s.

So Jibril comes to Ibrahim a.s., and he says:

'Is there anything you want me to do for you?'

Ibrahim knows why Jibril is asking that question.

He says, I am not elite (?) for that.

Look, if it's from you, I don't want anything from you.

He said, if it's from Allah then okay.

He recognizes that Jibril was not given a command from Allah to put the fire out.

So if it's from Allah, then I'll take it, if it's from you, Jibril...

Look, Allah has a plan right?

So Jibril is telling Ibrahim: 

Why don't you just ask Him, just ask Allah.

Ibrahim a.s. says: Allah knows my situation.

His knowledge of my situation, makes it irrelevant for me to ask.

Abraham knows that Allah is going to make a way out of this.

So Jibril a.s. wanted to help hem.

But Ibrahim was the first one in that situation...

to say: Allah is enough for me, and He is the best of protectors.

And obviously the plan of God swt was...

that the fire wasn't going to burn Abraham.

It would be cool and peaceful on Ibrahim a.s.

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enoch-jibril 2

Idris, who is Enoch...

what you can take from the narrations about him, is that he is a man with high ambitions.

That is very prone to calling people to good and forbidding evil.

There is a famous narration...

that he wanted to know the date of his death.

Because of his aspirations of da'wah, he wanted to know how to adjust his goals accordingly.

So he tells Jibril a.s. to find out for him.

One thing to note about Jibril as well: 

he is the only one that can take a prophet through the heavens and bring him down. He is the only one that can ascend or descend with any of the prophets of Allah, thourgh the heavens.

He takes Idris a.s. and he ascends with him. And in this, he meets the Angel of Death in the fourth heaven. And in the fourth heaven, Jibril a.s. asks the Angel of Death, that this is the servant of God Idris and he wants to know how much time he has left.

And the Angel of Death says, you know, I was amazed when Allah told me to take this man's soul in the fourth heaven. So he dies in the fourth heaven.

So Idris is the only man that ever died in the heavens.

He was raised to a high position...

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