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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Bible and Christianity (an Islamic View) Part 4: Jesus According To the Holy Qur’an The similitude of Jesus before Allah is as that of Adam; He created him from dust, then said to him “Be”: and he was. The Holy Qur’an: The Family of Emran (3): 59. . . . In fact he (Jesus) is not more than a servant: We granted Our favour to him, and We made him an example to the Children of Israel. The Holy Qur’an: Adornment (43): 59.

Foreword The holy Qur’an, the last of the Divine Books, revealed by the Creator to the last of His Messengers, is unarguably the only Divine Book we have that has not undergone any distortion or corruption since its revelation. The last Revelation, coming as it does 610 years after the birth of Jesus, tells us about the role and mission of Jesus.

The Qur’an also informs us about the miracles and powers that Allah Almighty had bestowed upon Jesus, and emphasises upon the virtues of his mother Mary. Mary was a devout woman such that she received blessing of God, and on many occasions she received food from the heavens. The conception of Jesus was also extraordinary in that he did not have a father, and his conception took place by the Will of God. By the Will of God he spoke from birth, when announced to the people that he was a prophet.

Jesus was sent as a prophet to the Children of Israel, in a long tradition of prophets sent to them by the Creator of existence. He was the bearer of the same message that prophets and messengers before him had brought, the unity and indivisible oneness of the Creator, Eloh in Hebrew or Allah in Arabic, to abide by, and in harmony with the teachings of Allah, and to prepare for the life of the hereafter.

{Say: We believe in Allah and what is revealed to us and what was revealed to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and his descendents, and what was entrusted to Moses and Jesus and the prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to Him we have surrendered.}51 {The Messenger believeth in what hath been revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men of faith. Each one (of them) believeth in Allah, His angels, His Books, and His Messengers.