The use of the symbols { } are for clarification purposes only!
And behold! ALLAH will say {on the Day of Judgment in front of the whole of mankind!}: “O Jesus the son of Mary! Did you {ever} say unto men {the human race in all its splendor and diversity}, worship me and my mother as gods in derogation of ALLAH?” He will say: “Glory to YOU! never could I say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, YOU would indeed have known it. YOU know what is in my heart, though I know not what is in YOURS. For YOU KNOW in full everything that is hidden.
“Never said I to them anything except what YOU did command me to say, to wit, ‘WORSHIP ALLAH, my LORD and your LORD’; and I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them; when YOU did raise me up, YOU were the Watcher over them, and YOU are a witness to ALL things.” Quran (5:116-117)
And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him {Jesus} before his {final} death; and on the Day of Judgment he will be a witness against them; Quran (4:159)
The next day he {prophet John the Baptist} saw Jesus coming towards him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” John (1:29)
Once again we have a Mutashabihat-type verse or a verse that is one of those which can be classified as supernatural and mysterious to say the least.
NOTE HOWEVER, THAT THIS VERSE DOES NOT SAY ‘SINS OF THE WORLD’ BECAUSE IT DOESN’T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH INDIVIDUAL SINS! And this can be shown if one carefully reads the scriptures correctly!
For example:
Who receives guidance receives it for his own benefit: who goes astray does so to his own loss: No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another: Q (17: 15)
It might be better if one takes this verse (John (1:29) as a TIME-FRAME verse* based on a condition, completion or evolutionary job done by Jesus the Christ (pbh). It’s only natural that these type of verses require careful thought if one does not want to go astray!
{*For I {THE ONE GOD} will be merciful regarding their wrong deeds, and WILL NEVER AGAIN remember their sins.” Hebrews (8:12)
Then HE {the ONE GOD} adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE.” Hebrews (10:17)
No longer {in this period of blessedness when the kingdom of paradise becomes established on Earth} will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because {at that time} they will ALL KNOW ME, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I WILL FORGIVE THEIR INIQUITIES and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah (31:34)
And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
“This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD:
I WILL PUT MY LAWS ON THEIR HEARTS, AND WRITE THEM ON THEIR MINDS,”
then HE adds, “I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS AND THEIR MISDEEDS NO MORE.”
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin {in the paradise to come}.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus {technically speaking it would be better to say, “by the blood (his life’s efforts – beliefs/works) of the Christ-soul – see Isaiah Chapter 53},
BY THE NEW AND LIVING WAY WHICH HE OPENED FOR US THROUGH THE CURTAIN {OF TIME}, THAT IS THROUGH HIS FLESH, {BEING THAT HE SERVED MANY TIMES ON EARTH IN HIS FLESH TO HUMBLE HIMSELF AND DO THE WILL OF HIS GOD – FROM ADAM TO HIS LAST TRIAL AS JESUS – Isaiah Chapter 53}
and since we {WILL} have a great priest over the House of GOD {upon his return},
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water {a NEW BEGINNING in a NEW AGE}.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering {BY BEING STRICTLY OBEDIENT TO OUR ONE AND ONLY GOD}, for he {THE CHRIST-SOUL} who {WAS} promised is {WAS} faithful {TO HIS TRUST – see Isaiah chapter 53};
and let us consider how to stir up {REMIND AND ENCOURAGE} one another to love and {to do} good works,
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and {GIVE OF OURSELVES} all the more as you see the Day {OF JUDGMENT} drawing near.
For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of FIRE which will consume the adversaries** {WHO FIGHT AGAINST THE TRUTH AND REFUSE TO BOW DOWN IN WORSHIP TO THE ONE LORD OF ALL}. Hebrews (10:15-27)
{**The son of man {after his return and the Gog and the Magog are destroyed} shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And {they} shall cast them into a furnace of FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Matthew (13: 41-42)}
A condition, completion or evolutionary job meaning in part that this soul, who was adam, Melchizedeck , Joseph son of Jacob, Ezekiel, Joshua bin Nun and finally Jesus the son of Mary became the statesman, warrior, interpreter of dreams, foreteller of future events, healer, miracle worker and among the highest level of prophets (RASUL-type of prophet) and was miraculously cleansed of sins (born without sin) has ‘opened the door’ or ‘PAVED THAT WAY’ for Muhammad (pbh)!
Who said so?!!!!!! Jesus (pbh) did!!!!!***
{***“When the Spirit of truth {Prophet Muhammad} comes, he will guide you into ALL the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears {AS IN REVELATION} he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come {future happenings}.
He will glorify me, FOR HE WILL TAKE WHAT IS MINE**** and declare {show} it to you.
All that the Father has {given me} is mine; therefore I said that he {Prophet Muhammad} WILL TAKE WHAT IS MINE AND DECLARE {SHOW} IT TO YOU.” John (16: 13-15)
{****We know that Prophet Muhammad (pbh) was a Rasul-type prophet and we also know that he was a statesman, warrior, interpreter of dreams, foreteller of future events, healer, miracle worker and was miraculously cleansed of sins (the human condition that all humans are given into when born as in membership to the ‘clan’ of being sons of Adam)*****}
{*****Anas told that Gabriel came to GOD’s Messenger when he was playing with some other boys, seized him, threw him down, split open his heart and took out of it a clot of blood, saying, “This is the devil’s portion in you******.” He then washed it with Zamzam water in a gold dish, repaired it, and put it back in its place. The boys went running to his mother, i.e. his foster –mother, saying, “Muhammad has been killed,” so they went to him and found him looking upset. Anas said he used to see the mark of the sewing in his breast. (Muslim transmitted it.)}
{******This is the condition of men as every man has a Jinn coursing through his veins according to the Prophet (pbh) but his Jinn bowed down as in Islam to ALLAH’s WILL.}
What matters here is the condition of that soul and NOT how it was done. For example, BOTH Jesus and Muhammad spoke Semitic Languages but NOT the same exact ones. BOTH did their preaching in the Middle East but NOT in the same country, etc. etc.
Along with this we can sense the role adam played out as representing the human race; Hence, he is that very important SIGN to mankind:
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet (pbh) said, “Moses argued with Adam and said to him (Adam), ‘You are the one who got the people out of Paradise by your sin, and thus made them miserable.” Adam replied, ‘O Moses! You are the one whom ALLAH selected for HIS Message and for HIS direct talk. Yet you blame me for a thing which ALLAH had ordained for me BEFORE HE created me?.” ALLAH’s Messenger further said, “So Adam OVERCAME {SHOWED HIS EXCELLENCE OVER} Moses by this Argument.”******* (Bukhari)
{*******The argument here depends upon the recognition of WHO ACTUALLY RUNS THINGS! In other words, WHO IS THE ALL-ABLE (AL-QADER) with the ability to DO HIS WILL UNCONTESTED AND DOMINANT IN PLANNING THAT NONE CAN CHALLENGE! So the argument is saying, “Why lay all the blame on me (adam) FOR FOLLOWING ALLAH’s PRECONCEIVED PLAN!
Adam is NOT shirking his responsibility because he actually did a wrong but he is FURTHER GLORIFYING ALLAH FOR ALLAH’S WISDOM AND FORESIGHT!!!
And so was laid down the PATTERN to be followed for reasons best known by ALLAH HIMSELF!!!:
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of ALLAH (pbh) said: “By HIM in whose hand is my soul, if you did not sin, ALLAH would replace you with people who would sin and they would seek forgiveness from ALLAH and He would forgive them.” (Muslim)
A hard to understand concept when it comes to the ability of humans to overly whine when in difficulty but one (human) went forth to distinguish his soul (the Christ-soul) in his development of finally becoming the INHERITOR OF THE TITLE “MESSIAH or ANOINTED ONE”!}
Abu Hurairah reported GOD’s Messenger (pbh) as saying, “I am the nearest of kin to Jesus son of Mary in this world and the next. The prophets are brothers, sons of one father by co-wives. Their mothers are different, but THEIR RELIGION IS ONE. There has been NO prophet between us.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
Abu Hurairah reported GOD’s Messenger (pbh) as saying, “I have been given superiority over the prophets in six respects: I have been given words which are concise but comprehensive in meaning; I have been helped by terror (in the hearts of enemies); spoils have been made lawful to me; the earth has been made for me a place of worship and ceremonially pure; I have been sent to ALL OF mankind {NOT JUST ONE PEOPLES OR ONE NATION}********; and the line of prophets is closed with me. (Muslim)
{********And it shall be that every soul that does NOT listen to that prophet {WHAT HE BROUGHT} shall be destroyed from the people.
And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed {and warned of} these days. Acts (3: 23-24)}
Umar reported GOD’s Messenger (pbh) as saying, “DO NOT EULOGIZE me {go overboard when discussing me} as the Christians eulogized the son of Mary. I am just HIS servant, so say, “GOD’s servant and Messenger.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
But the BASIS for ALL of these three MONOTHEISTIC RElIGIONS (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) is Father Abraham (pbh)!!! And the one who resembles Father Abraham the most was Muhammad (pbh) AND THE ONE FORMING THE BASIS********* OF TRUE FAITH AND HENCE HE BECOMES THE PROPHET TO THE WHOLE WORLD WITH THE RELIGION BEING ISLAM.:
Jabir reported GOD’s Messenger as saying, “The prophets were presented before me and I saw Moses of a type which resembled one of the men of Shanu’a. I saw Jesus son of Mary, and the nearest to him in appearance whom I have seen is Urwa b. Mas’ud. I saw Abraham, and the nearest to him in appearance whom I have seen is your companion (meaning himself). I also saw Gabriel, and the nearest to him in appearance whom I have seen is Dihya b. Khalifa.” (Muslim)
{*********Al-‘Irbad b. Sariya reported GOD’s Messenger as saying, “I was inscribed in GOD’s presence as the SEAL of the prophets when Adam was prone in his basic substance. I shall inform you about the beginning of my career: it was the petition of Abraham, the Good Tidings by Jesus, and the vision my mother saw when she gave birth to me and a light issued to her from which the castles of Syria shone for her.” (It is transmitted in Sharh as-sunna, and Ahmad transmitted it on the authority of Abu Umama from “I shall inform you … to the end.)}
And remember, Jesus, the son of Mary, said: “O Children of Israel! I am the apostle of ALLAH (sent) to you, confirming the Law (which came) before me, and giving Glad Tidings of a Messenger to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad {a derivative of Muhammad}.” But when he came to them with Clear Signs, they said, “this is evident sorcery!” Quran (61:6)
Abdullah b. Salam said “the description of Moses is written in the Torah and also that Jesus son of Mary will be buried along with him {Muhammad – see Isaiah Chapter 53, verse 9 in that he will be buried with the RICH}. Abu Mauduud said that a place for a grave has remained in the house (where Muhammad is buried).” (Tirmidhi transmitted it.)
It is such as obey ALLAH and HIS Messenger, and fear ALLAH and do right, that will triumph. Q (24: 52)
Do they seek for other than the Religion of ALLAH – while all creatures in the heavens and on the earth have, willingly or unwillingly, bowed to HIS WILL (accepted Islam) and to HIM shall they all be brought back? Q (3:83)
Had WE sent down this Quran on a mountain, verily, you would have seen it humble itself and cleave asunder for fear of ALLAH. Such are the similitudes which WE propound to men, that they may reflect {IN AWE OF HIM WHO CREATED THEM}. Q (59: 21)
Those who strive against OUR Signs, to frustrate them, will be given over into Chastisement. Q (34: 38)
WE did indeed offer the Trust to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to undertake it, being afraid thereof: but MAN undertook it; he was indeed unjust and foolish {to his soul}; Quran (33:72)
Never think that ALLAH would fail HIS Messengers in HIS PROMISE: For ALLAH is EXAULTED IN POWER – THE LORD OF RETRIBUTION.. Q (14: 47)
Times though grow increasingly bad and the Islamic ‘lands’ show a stressful deterioration. For what is faith without people managing their love and respect for their LORD? Hence, we have a falling away********** from the Spirit as so ably predicted by Paul:
The pre-coming of the Anti-christ:
{**********Now concerning the coming of our lord {Master-teacher} Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren,
not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting {supposing} to be from us {but not from us}, to the effect that the day of the lord {Master Jesus} has come.
Let no one deceive you in any way; for THAT DAY WILL NOT COME, UNLESS THE REBELLION {THE FALLING AWAY} COMES FIRST, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, {who is the Anti-christ} the son of perdition,
who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of GOD, proclaiming himself to be {THE ONE AND ONLY} GOD.
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this?
And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed {ONLY when ALLAH WILLS or} in his time.
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth {also related in hadith literature} and destroy him by his appearing and his coming. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Something taken from the internet news as to one reason from many concerning our modern way of why there is a falling away of that inner faith or spirit:
‘The Big BBC News Arabic Survey, a joint assessment by BBC News Arabic and Arab Barometer, a Princeton University-based non-partisan research network, is the largest in-depth survey ever carried out in the region.
The results of a recent survey in the Arab world show that more than half of the region’s young adults are considering emigrating, and an increasing number of people are identifying as {being} “non-religious.”
Fifty-two percent of the respondents aged 18-29 said they were considering emigrating to another country.
“Politically, there is a lack of confidence in the government as youth believe the government cannot solve their problems,” Masbah said. “Socioeconomically, youth unemployment is high; the belief is it will get worse.” And, of course, the result is that faith will drain away as being something considered archaic and perhaps useless.
However, the desire to emigrate has not increased universally across the region. Since 2013, it has decreased in the Palestinian Territories, Algeria, Sudan, Yemen and, most substantially, in Lebanon’.}
It always looks darkest before the dawn!!! And we haven’t gotten to the dark part yet! So, let each soul be on its guard and ask ALLAH for HIS PROTECTION, MERCY, FORGIVENESS and GUIDANCE! AMEEN!
