WHICH MARY GIVE BIRTH TO JESUS?
In Islam Mary the mother of Jesus was the daughter of Imran who is called Am-ram in the Bible who died over 1500 years before Christ.
Exodus 6:20. And Am-ram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Am-ram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.
Numbers 26:59. And the name of Am-ram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Am-ram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
This is who Qur’an called mother of Jesus.
Surah Al Imran _ The family of Imran, Am-ram.
Quran 3:35.
لَكَ مَا فِى بَطْنِى مُحَرَّرًا فَتَقَبَّلْ مِنِّىٓ ۖ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ
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When the wife of Imran said, ‘Lord, I have vowed to Thee, in dedication, what is within my womb. Receive Thou this from me; Thou hearest, and knowest.’
In the verse mention above talk about how Mary the mother of Jesus was born to Am-ram. I knew some Christian will laugh at this junction because they will know this is a serious joke and can Mary mother of Jesus become Daughter of Am-ram in Old Testament? Some Muslims and others will be confused here, wait there is a lot to expose more. Meanwhile if you check the history the name of Mary father is Joachim and her mother name is Anne.
Maryam 19:28
يَآأُخۡتَ هَٰرُونَ مَا كَانَ أَبُوكِ ٱمۡرَأَ سَوۡءࣲ وَمَا كَانَتۡ أُمُّكِ بَغِيࣰّا
O sister of Aaron, your father was not a man of evil, nor was your mother unchaste.”
Now let go into the story of how Jesus was born according to the Qur’an. Here you will see how Muhammad copy some part from the Bible and added his own to it in order to convince people that he brought a revelation.
QURAN 19:16-33
16. And mention in the Scripture Mary, when she withdrew from her people to an eastern location. 17. She screened herself away from them, and We sent to her Our spirit, and He appeared to her as an immaculate human. 18. She said, “I take refuge from you in the Most Merciful, should you be righteous.” 19. He said, “I am only the messenger of your Lord, to give you the gift of a pure son.” 20. She said, “How can I have a son, when no man has touched me, and I was never unchaste?”
21. He said, “Thus said your Lord, `It is easy for Me, and We will make him a sign for humanity, and a mercy from Us. It is a matter already decided.’“ 22. So she carried him, and secluded herself with him in a remote place. 23. The labor-pains came upon her, by the trunk of a palm-tree. She said, “I wish I had died before this, and been completely forgotten.” 24. Whereupon he called her from beneath her: “Do not worry; your Lord has placed a stream beneath you. 25. And shake the trunk of the palm-tree towards you, and it will drop ripe dates by you.” 26. “So eat, and drink, and be consoled. And if you see any human, say, ‘I have vowed a fast to the Most Gracious, so I will not speak to any human today.’“ 27. Then she came to her people, carrying him. They said, “O Mary, you have done something terrible.
28. O sister of Aaron, your father was not an evil man, and your mother was not a whore.”
29. So she pointed to him. They said, “How can we speak to an infant in the crib?” 30. He said, “I am the servant of God. He has given me the Scripture, and made me a prophet.
31. And has made me blessed wherever I may be; and has enjoined on me prayer and charity, so long as I live. 32. And kind to my mother, and He did not make me a disobedient rebel.
33. So Peace is upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the Day I get resurrected alive.”
But in another Chapter and Verse of the Qur’an reveal how Jubril make her become pregnant. Read the two surah and verse below.
وَمَرْيَمَ ابْنَتَ عِمْرَانَ الَّتِي أَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا فَنَفَخْنَا فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِنَا وَصَدَّقَتْ بِكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّهَا وَكُتُبِهِ وَكَانَتْ مِنَ الْقَانِتِينَ12 And Mary, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity, and so We breathed into her of Our Spirit; and she believed in the truth of her Lord’s Words and His Books, and was one of the devout. Quran 66:12.
And she who guarded her virginity. We breathed into her of Our spirit, and made her and her son a sign to the world. Quran 21:91
In quran 19:16-33. The Qur’an only answer to Mary’s obvious question in her virgin-condition was to say that Allah simply says: ‘Be!’ (Kun), and ‘it comes to be’ (fayakun). For one who created the whole universe by his word of power it is hardly surprising to find that it is ‘easy’ for him to cause a woman to conceive a son without the contribution of a human father, but why should this be the only reason why God would do this? Why would he choose to enact the birth of Jesus, a prophet in Islam no different to or greater than all the other prophets, in such a unique way? And how could the virgin-birth of Jesus be a sign to the nations when there was no way of proving it? In the Qur’an, when Mary was challenged as to how she could conceive a child out of wedlock, she had no way of proving her chastity. So she pointed to her infant son Jesus who promptly spoke from his cradle and gave the women around her a discourse about himself and his coming role on earth: ‘I am indeed a servant of Allah. He has delivered to me the scripture and has made me a prophet. And he has made me blessed wherever I am, and has enjoined on me the required worship and charity (as-salati wal-zakat) for as long as I live; and to be kind to my mother, and not overbearing or unblest’ (Surah 19:30 33).
The sign here was not the exceptional cause of Jesus’ birth – it was his miraculous ability to address the bystanders in coherent speech while still a baby in a cradle. Unless there was some very significant purpose in the virgin-birth, it is hard to see how it could have been a sign in its own right when no one could prove it. (Once again, Mary is found alone with Jesus with no sign of Joseph anywhere. Even when Jesus says that he will be kind to his mother, he makes no reference to the man who by then would have been her husband for many years. One cannot help wondering whether Muhammad possibly believed in the perpetual virginity of Mary, especially as the Qur’an nowhere mentions his brothers and sisters.).
What is most interesting here is the determination in the Qur’an to actually play down the virgin-birth of Jesus as being inconsequential other than as an arbitrary demonstration of Allah’s creative power. It says: ‘The likeness (mathal) of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of Adam. He created him from dust and said to him “Be!” and he came to be (kun fayakun)’ (Surah 3:58). The argument built into this text is obvious – Jesus’ conception was no different to the creation of Adam. Both of them simply came into being by a creative fiat (accomplishment) through the word of God alone. Muslims accordingly have argued that the creation of Adam was in fact greater than that of Jesus, for the latter was conceived solely through a mother, but Adam was brought into being without a father or mother!
Likewise it is argued that Eve came into being the same way and that both Adam and Eve were created without mothers or fathers. Muslims who reason like this are merely following the Qur’an itself which seems to be more concerned about explaining away any unique significance in the virgin-birth of Jesus that might be relative to him personally, rather than giving any answer to the question why Jesus should have been chosen as the uniquely-conceived son.
It goes without saying that Adam and Eve could not have had any human parents. Someone had to be created first! But the birth of Jesus could, in the normal course of events, have surely been the same as that of any other prophet if there was nothing unique about him personally. Both Isaac and John the Baptist were conceived in unique ways – from an ageing father and a barren woman both beyond the age of child-bearing, but a father and mother still achieved their conceptions in the natural way. Jesus’ birth – and his alone of all men and woman in human history – was not only supernatural but contrary to natural means. Adam and Eve were created – Jesus was procreated in a very unusual way which invaded and disturbed all the normal means by which children are brought into the world. There must have been a very special reason for Jesus’ unique birth – and the Qur’an hints at it when it says ‘We made her and her son a sign for all peoples’ (Surah 21:91). What was that sign?
There are two texts in the virgin-birth passages that must be examined here. The first is the address of the angels to his mother: ‘O Mary, Allah announces to you a word from him, whose name is the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, worthy of praise both now and in the hereafter, and from those who draw near’ (Surah 3:45). Now the Qur’an begins to give some real meaning to the unique birth – the angels tell her that her son will himself be unique, not one to whom the Word of God comes, but an actual Word from God himself, from the very heart of the One who sits on the throne of heaven. He will also be given a unique title – al-Masih, the long-awaited glorious Messiah promised through David and the prophets many centuries beforehand.
The Unique Sinlessness of Jesus, the Son of Mary
Even though the Qur’an states that Jesus was a prophet of Islam no different to all the other prophets who went before him, it grants to him many of the biblical features around his life and personality that distinguish him and mark him out as vastly superior to his forerunners. The virgin-birth is just one of many examples – it was a unique event based on a purely supernatural conception that has no meaning or significance unless one accepts that the person who was born had pre-existed his human form and had come into the world with a very significant and universal mission, in Jesus’ case to redeem it from its transgressions and iniquities.
He could not have done this, however, if he had had any sins of his own. If he was no different to all other men and women on earth, he would have been as much in need of redemption as they were. He had to have remained sinless throughout his life to be able to become a perfect, pure and adequate substitute who could take the sins of others on himself and pay the price required to redeem them. Peter says ‘He committed no sin, no guile was found on his lips’ (1 Peter 2:22), going on to say ‘He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness’ (1 Peter 2:24). Only by being sinless himself could he assume our sins on himself and impute his perfect righteousness to us in return.
Paul says much the same in different words: ‘For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God’ (2 Corinthians 5:21). Only by being perfectly sinless himself could he make it possible for us to assume his perfect righteousness. Elsewhere Jesus is described as ‘one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin’ (Hebrews 4:15). The apostle John makes the same point as Peter and Paul when he says: ‘You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin’ (1 John 3:5).
Jesus is the only human being who has ever lived whom the Bible declares to have been completely without sin. As Jesus himself said to the Jews ‘Which of you convicts me of sin?’ (John 8:46). His sinlessness is one of those many unique features about him that distinguish him so radically from all other men, including all the prophets who preceded him. The Qur’an so often acknowledges these exceptional characteristics but fails to see their significance.
Typically, Jesus is the only person in the whole of the Qur’an to actually have been described as sinless. When the angel appeared to Mary, his mother, he said to her: ‘I am only a messenger of your Lord to give you a holy child’ (Surah 19:19). The word used here to describe the little boy (ghulam) as ‘holy’ is zakiyya. The word actually means ‘most holy, completely pure, without blemish.’ It was the justification given to Mary for her coming conception of a child while still in a state of complete purity and chastity. The word only appears in one other text in the Qur’an which reads: ‘Have you killed an innocent person who has not done this to another person?’ (Surah 18:74).
In this text the complete innocence of the victim is restricted to the fact that he had never slain someone else. He was completely blameless of any act that might have justified killing him in return. In the passage quoted Moses put this question to an unnamed companion he was travelling with and was met with a sharp rebuke that he should have shown patience with him before reacting as he did, to which Moses replied that if he again showed such impertinence his companion should part company with him (Surah 18:75-76). The justification his companion supposedly had for killing the boy is not disclosed in a typical middle-eastern wisdom mystery-story, but the complete innocence of the child is not contested.
In Surah 19:19, however, the angel uses the word zakiyya to define the whole person of Jesus. It is not a statement that he was innocent of some imagined crime, it is a definition of his overall personality. He was totally pure and holy within himself, without any sin or impurity. A hadith also excuses him of any impurity at his birth that might have given Satan an opportunity to come into contact with him, and it once again distinguishes Jesus in this respect from every other person or prophet who has ever lived: ‘The Prophet said, “no child is born but that Satan touches it when it is born, whereupon it starts crying loudly because of being touched by Satan, except Mary and her son”’ (Sahih al-Bukhari, Vol.6, p.54).
Another point is that Qur’an says Jesus and Adam are similar.
The likeness of Jesus in God’s sight is that of Adam: He created him from dust, then said to him, “Be,” and he was. Quran 3:59
Jesus and Adam: Similar or Radically Different?
It is also important to note that, while the Qur’an says that the mathal, the ‘likeness’ of Adam, is the same as the mathal, the ‘likeness’ of Jesus (Surah 3:59), the Christian scriptures reverse this completely. Paul strongly contrasts the two when he says: ‘For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive’ (1 Corinthians 15:22). He adds that Adam, the first man, was created as no more than a living being, whereas Jesus, the ‘last Adam’, came into the world as a life-giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45). Paul would never have understood the Quranic dictum that the examples of Jesus and Adam were the same, that both of them had been created purely by a word from God, ‘Be!’
Paul emphasises the contrast between them when he says: ‘The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven’ (1 Corinthians 15:47). Sure, Adam was created from the dust, but Jesus was born of a virgin because he had pre-existed Adam and took on human form to reverse the effects of Adam’s fall. Paul added: ‘Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven’ (1 Corinthians 15:49). There you have it – Adam was only a man of dust, Jesus was a man of heaven.
Paul draws the same contrast in his letter to the Romans. Sin, Paul says, came into the world through one man (Adam) and death through sin, and the deadly affliction spread to all men because all men sinned (Romans 5:12). But if they all died because of Adam’s transgression, how much greater is the grace of God and the free gift of that grace in Jesus Christ which has now abounded for many as well (Romans 5:15). Paul again emphasises the contrast between Jesus and Adam: ‘Then as one man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one man’s act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life for all men. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by one man’s obedience many will be made righteous’ (Romans 5:18 19).
In another letter Paul contrasts Jesus and Adam again. He says: ‘Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men’ (Philippians 2:5-7). It was Adam and Eve who, though being nothing more than mortal creatures, had grasped at equality with God when they believed Satan’s lie that, if they ate of the forbidden fruit, they would ‘be like God, knowing good and evil’ (Genesis 3:5).
Jesus, who was in the form of God, being one with the Father and the Holy Spirit, nonetheless had not held onto that status, but humbled himself in becoming a man and in submitting himself to his Father as a human servant to God. So the pride of Adam and the humility of Jesus are contrasted, but Paul does not leave it there. He adds that, unlike Adam, Jesus ‘humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross’ (Philippians 2:8). He was not only humbled, he was violently humiliated, purely so that he could undo the effects of Adam’s sin and bring repentance and eternal life to those who had now become his fellow human beings.
The contrast between the first man Adam, created from dust, and the second man Jesus, born of a virgin, is powerfully set forth in Paul’s epistles. It is that contrast that makes Jesus the glorious deliverer that he is, the one who redeemed the world from the effects of Adam’s fall. The Qur’an fails to discern this when it suggests that Adam and Jesus were similar in the manner of their becoming human beings. The contrast between them is absolute as Paul so capably shows. No mother of Adam would ever have been told: ‘Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.’ That honour was reserved for the mother of Jesus alone.
Qur’an continue given a story that when she became pregnant she was living alone if you read it well you will understand this, she was alone and eating palm date and drink water this is nothing but lie, Qur’an even said she gave birth under palm tree. Quran 19:16-26
Let see what Bible say about this
GOSPEL OF MATTHEW.
Matthew 1:18-25
[18]Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
[19]Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
[20]But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
[21]And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
[22]Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
[23]Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
[24]Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
[25]And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.
According to the account of Matthew you will see it clearly that Mary was not alone and didn’t go anywhere or stay away from her people, even Joseph who was her husband when he intended to stay away from her. God sent His Angel to minister to him. Did you hear anything like this from Muhammad account in the Quran?
GOSPEL OF LUKE
Luke 1:26-35
[26]And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, [27]To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. [28]And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly [29]And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. [30]And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. [31]And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. [32]He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: [33]And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. [34]Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? [35]And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
If you read the book of Luke, you will see that the gospel give account of month and city where the event happen while Qur’an could not provide this. And here Mary never travel to any place to hide herself before the visitation of Angel Gabriel. The Angel that appear to Mary said Jesus will be called Son of God, while the Jubril that visited Maryam according to Qur’an said Jesus known as Isa is slave of Allah.
This contradict the identity of Jesus. In the Bible the Apostles confirm that Jesus is Son of God, Jesus called himself Son of God, even the demons called him Son of God.
Matthew 16:16-19
[16]And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
[17]And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. [18]And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [19]And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
John 10:30-33
[30]I and my Father are one. [31]Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
[32]Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? [33]The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
Matthew 8:28-29
[28]And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. [29]And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? Even Satan himself called him Son of God
Matthew 4:3
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
Luke continue to give account of where and when Jesus was born in Chapter 2
Luke 2:1-7
[1]And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. [2](And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) [3]And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. [4]And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) [5]To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
[6]And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. [7]And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Qur’an says Mary went to a place and stay away from her people, give birth under palm tree. While the Gospel says she went to Bethlehem with Joseph and give birth in manger.
Qur’an is also silent on the Angels that appear to the shepherd to announce the birth of Jesus. Muhammad purposely do this because he condemn the who truly Jesus is, Jesus is called Lord and Saviour while Qur’an only address him as slave of Allah.
Luke 2:8-17
[8]And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. [9]And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. [10]And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. [11]For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. [12]And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
[13]And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, [14]Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. [15]And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. [16]And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
[17]And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
In the case of 3 wise men that visited Jesus in the Book of Matthew Chapter 2 Muhammad was silent about this just because he want to avoid where the 3 men fell down and worship Jesus.
Matthew 2:10-11
[10]When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. [11]And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
By now many of us will have seen clear differences between the account of Jesus eyewitness and disciple that met his Apostles And the account that Muhammad who came after 600 years later who has never seen Jesus or meet any of his disciple give. Think which one is perfect to follow.
2 Peter 1:16
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Galatians 1:8-9
[8]But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
[9]As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.