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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Birth of Jesus Christ (a.s) [The Manin Debate] In any way, whether the birth of Christ (AS) were 2000 years ago, whether 1780 years ago or a few years ago, it would not make a difference for us at the moment since we pay more attention to the spiritual aspect of events than to the historical details.

We consider this date as our criterion too, because the majority believes that the birth of Christ happened in these very days, in other words, consensus and agreement of many people, so to speak- that it happened on such a day- this consensus and agreement stress the importance of this very day. Allah states: “and remind them of the days of Allah” 7 .

Every day belongs to God, they are***“days of Allah”*** , but the days He has bestowed on us a godsend, we pay respect and tribute to them in the name of Allah’s days and we hope that the inner Messiah will be born inside us. This mentality of doubtfulness and fuss that I mentioned in the beginning has been developed so greatly that some say the existence of Jesus Christ is just an imagination, a myth, there was not any Christ at all. We definitely reject such statement.

This is not the question of the birth date as it makes no difference for us what date it was; we reject it because aside from all the historical records, there is a more convincing evidence and that is the Creator of Jesus who has directly said: “to Allah, the example of Jesus is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him: "be". And he was there.” 8 So let the historians say whatever they think.

We say there really was some Jesus- as there was some Adam too- and words have been left as inheritance from Christ (AS) which have mostly been recited in the Gospels. Therefore, we are rest assured up to this point that there was some Christ who is respected by us, Muslims, too, because his name is cited in the Quran which is of the greatest validity to us. Moreover, some teachings attributed to His Excellency have been passed on to us.

In Islam, the Quran is the afflatus; the very words and sentences of which Allah has spoken. There are also some traditions (hadiths) that are the conversation or direct relation between Allah and the Prophet; which Allah speaks to the Prophet, but the Prophet was not allowed to announce them as some part of the Quran. Such traditions (hadiths) are called the “Hadith-e-Qodsi”.