The symbols { } are used to clarify this author’s position!
How can the notion as found in Isaiah chapter 13 of Jesus or the Christ-soul (pbh), to be more exact, be considered an ‘offering for sin‘* and still conform to Islamic standards?
*An offering for sin IS NOT A FORGIVENESS OF SINS. Sin is singular and would be more correctly referenced to the New Testament’s idea of ‘separation from the ‘spirit’, spiritual or Divine Pathway. Therefore, all souls must enter ‘into the flesh’ due to the taking on of sin.
It isn’t important where the soul or souls took on the carnal development but what is important is that there must be a SIGN of its ending by a valiant leader who would act as a volunteer in crossing the divide (gulf between sin and sinlessnes {born without the touch of Satan on the placenta or having the drop of ‘stain’ cut out of the heart by Archangel Gabreal}) as an emissary to the human race.
Such a leader, if deemed acceptable to ALLAH, would then be acknowledged as the ‘Messiah’ or anointed one when the mission would be completed! And it was so, because father Abraham (pbh) did see ‘his’ day and was happy in such – Gospel of John!
Then when all was accomplished it was heard: “You are my ‘chosen one’ (as Messiah designate) in whom I am well pleased!” (New Testament).
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; HE has put him to grief. When YOU {O ALLAH} shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed {the faithful for in this ‘adam’ (Jesus), all that were to be saved found salvation as promised to those who would follow the truth}, He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand {in that kingdom (paradise on Earth) given to him and the Faithful}. Isaiah (53: 10)
First of all, knowledge is not equated with following the truth although it may be a part of it. An example of this is that the false, one-eyed prophet or the Anti-christ soul had knowledge of the Greatest Name of ALLAH but that, in truth, did not save him from the destiny of evil.
ALLAH says it best in the Quran such that Jesus (pbh) becomes a SIGN** unto mankind. Jesus (pbh) being a devout JEW {defined here as a strict follower of Mosaic Law} certainly put himself strictly under the LAW and followed it to the letter of what it implied.
**And WE {ALLAH} made the son of Mary and his mother as a SIGN… Q (23: 50).
He is not only a SIGN of the coming of the Last Hour, (Q-43: 61), but also a SIGN for SALVATION as he himself was saved by his SAVIOR LORD, THE ONLY SAVIOR THERE IS, when he truly repented as all men like himself needs to do.
Part of that Mosaic LAW states that ONLY ALLAH (GOD) is THE SAVIOR and there are no other saviors of the soul besides HIM.***
*** Even I, am the LORD, and BESIDES ME THERE IS NO SAVIOR.
I have declared and have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you; therefore, you {of the faithful whom I have chosen} are MY witnesses,” saith the LORD, “that I am {THE ONE AND ONLY} GOD.
Yea, before the day was {created}, I am HE, and there is none that can deliver out of MY hand; I will work, and who shall {has the strength to} turn it back?”{that is, who can overrule MY WILL} Isaiah (43: 11-13)
Only THE ONE GOD is the SAVIOR. And HE has shown that WHEN HE marks a person for that pathway of salvation, there is none who can take that ‘soul’ out of HIS hand! Thus showing HIS DOMINATION, UNCONQUERABLE AND UNMATCHED STRENGTH OF WILL and the ONE WHO IS ALL ABLE TO DO WHATSOEVER HE SO CHOOSES, The (AL-) MUQTADEER!
And wherever these souls may be, HE will call them out from (darkness to light, or any place or any country) and collect them (the BELIEVERS – which in the Jewish Book is referenced by the words ‘Holy Israel’ – meaning ANY PERSON OF ANY FAITH WHO ACKNOWLEDGES AND BELIEVES AND FOLLOWS THE ONE GOD AND ALL OF HIS TRUE PROPHETS IN THE MANNER OF PRESCRIBED DEVOTIONS).
But men have forgotten this and have wrongfully made ‘Holy Israel’ about land and/or the Hebrew faith as also the wrongful Christian who declares that ‘a non-Christian’ won’t be saved or is inferior to a Christian or a Muslim proclaiming himself, by his own judgment, to be superior to others. This is nothing more than a sickly disease!
The similitude of making the ‘Christ-soul’ an offering for sin is that of a huge store selling all kinds of expensive goods. The ‘would be purchasers’ are the gold miners who are seeking for gold in the mountains and the land where the gold is contains lots of wealth but that wealth is only buried here and there in certain spots not instantly reached.
So, if a person comes to the store and spends his time trying to pickup purchases of goods, valued of course, in the millions and billions of dollars before setting out in search of the gold, he will be told straight out to pay for those purchases.
If he cannot, and most assuredly he can’t, he will be told to go out and look for the treasure and then come back and purchase those goods. That equals no money, no goods!
He may spend time in the store daydreaming about getting the fancy goods or arguing about how he should be advanced credit. However, due to his persistent and petulant behavior, the manager will have the person exited from the building.
That person will want to return after he is given a chance to accumulate his wealth so he can purchase vast quantities of riches. However, like all things bright and beautiful, the store will only remain in business for a ‘season’ and then will completely shut its doors for good.****(For a better analogy see the reference near the end of this article.
Upon having this happen, the would be miner now finds that he is left out in the cold and there is no chance for him to enjoy the ‘wealth of abundance’ that he so rigidly and stupidly threw away by wasting his time on foolish arguments and other foolish things!
The store is Paradise, the wealth of goods is the enjoyment of this place in all its splendor, grace and various levels. The operators of this store are the Angels. The gold represents the ‘good deeds and true faith buried in the ground. The prospecting for ‘gold’ is the work put into gaining Baraka – ALLAH’s BLESSINGS and REWARDS for these good deeds and honest faith.
The time spent in ‘work’ or useless pursuits is the life experiences of the soul. The store closing represents the aspect of time whereby the soul has been given opportunities to accumulate the necessary wealth to enter the store and make purchases but of course that time won’t last forever. The greater the wealth, the greater the purchasing power a person has.
Now the person travels from stage to stage as the Quran says which represents time spent in doing what the soul does and a person must do that. As for the definition of ‘stage to stage’ there are many definitions and probably all of them are not really understood by mankind.
That doesn’t make it a non-prerogative. Most logically, one doesn’t have to know what the road is composed of when he is traveling on it so there is that!
As to the Christ-soul, who is the noblest of souls, we know as Jesus (pbh), he showed the way by his long journey: (Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; He has put him to grief) to be a SYMBOL or SIGN of a behavior pattern that would merit SALVATION: Here then is the ROAD which all successful ones must travel: NOT IN KIND (THE EXACT SAME IN QUALITY) BUT IN SPIRIT OF SUCH.
So, this Christ-soul traveled the road destined for him to take as a STANDARD BEARER much like Lewis and Clark did on their epic journey. So one can say, Lewis and Clark paved the way for future explorations!
Not that they achieved the greatest of explorations but that they were the first of their kind.*****Therefore, that Christ-soul as adam paved the way for the development of THAT WAY.
*****Believe me that I am in the FATHER, and the FATHER in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake {that I do}.
Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believes in me, the works that I do he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my FATHER {GOD} {as I have completed my task and await my reward that HE shall give me}.
“{So,} IF {indeed you do} love me, keep my commandments {ordinances}.” John (14: 11-12 & 15)
AND THAT TRUE AND COMPLETED WAY IS SHOWN ACCORDING TO THE WORDS OF JESUS HIMSELF IN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH (PROPHET MUHAMMAD) AS DECLARED IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN.
So, maybe we don’t understand the ‘spiritual dynamics’ of what is going on but we can understand the prerequisites of ‘true faith’ by following that Spirit of truth who came to REVEAL ALL TRUTH and, according to prophet Isaiah (pbh), he is that one who became the ‘Prophet to the Gentiles’!
“Behold MY Servant, whom I uphold, MY Elect {MY CHOSEN}, in whom MY soul delighteth: I have put MY Spirit upon him {Muhammad}; he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles {pagans and non-Jews}.
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench; he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he hath set judgment in the earth {completed his holy task that he was assigned to do – made the religion complete}; and the isles shall wait for his law.”
Thus saith GOD the LORD—HE that created the heavens and stretched them out, HE that spread forth the earth and that which cometh out of it, HE that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
“I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold Thine hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles {There is no god BUT ALLAH and Muhammed is HIS PROPHET};
to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house {to bring to the ungodly and ignorant that knowledge of truth and righteousness so that they may be freed}.
I am the LORD; that is MY name. And MY GLORY will I not give to another, neither MY praise to graven images.
“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
Sing unto the LORD a NEW SONG {A NEW TESTAMENT} and HIS PRAISE from the end{s} of the earth, you that go down to the sea and all that is therein, the isles and the inhabitants thereof.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice {IN PRAISE TO THE ONE}, the villages that Kedar {sons of Ishmael} doth inhabit. Let the inhabitants of the rock sing; let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare HIS praise in the islands.
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man; HE shall stir up jealousy like a man of war. HE shall cry, yea, roar; HE shall prevail against HIS enemies {for HIS PLAN IS MIGHTY}.
“I have long time held MY peace; I have been still and refrained MYSELF. Now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. Isaiah (42: 1-16).
****A much better analogy than the one I gave concerning the Kingdom of Heaven can be found in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25:
“Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,
but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made: ‘Behold, the bridegroom comes; go you out to meet him.’
Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, ‘Give us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out.’
But the wise answered, saying, ‘Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you; but go you rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.’
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us!’
But he answered and said, ‘Verily I say unto you, I know you not.’
Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man will come.
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods.
And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to every man according to his several {individual} ability, and straightway took his journey.
Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them another five talents.
And likewise he that had received two, he also gained another two.
But he that had received one went and dug in the earth and hid his lord’s money.
After a long time the lord of those servants came and reckoned with them.
And so he that had received five talents came and brought the other five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered unto me five talents. Behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.’
His lord said unto him, ‘Well done, you are a good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter you into the joy of your LORD.’
“He also that had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered unto me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.’
His lord said unto him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many things. Enter you into the joy of your LORD.’
“Then he that had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew thee, that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not strewed.
And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the earth. Lo, there you have what is yours.’
His lord answered and said unto him, ‘Thou wicked and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed.
You ought therefore to have placed my money with the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with interest.
Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that has ten talents.
For unto every one that has {true faith and true works} shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that has not {true faith and true works}, shall be taken away even that which he has.
And cast you {O Angels} the unprofitable servant {wasteful (worldly) disbeliever} into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“When the son of Man shall come in his {appointed} glory and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his {well-earned gift of} glory.
And before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.
And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the king****** {of this great and glorious dominion given to him by THE ONE GOD} say unto them on his right hand, ‘Come, all blessed by my Father {GOD}, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the {beginnings of} foundation of the world.
For I was hungry, and you gave me meat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
naked, and you clothed me; I was sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came unto me.’
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothed you?
Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and came to visit you?’
And the king shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.’ Matthew (25: 1-40)
******In Islam, the return of the Messiah Jesus (pbh) is as a ruler (king) and not a prophet as Muhammad (pbh) is designated as the LAST of the TRUE PROPHETS sent unto mankind!
