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- Subject: Re: Jesus not a prophet, Son of God
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- From: <RBNXHS@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:09:12 EST
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- This is in response to R. Pitts question on Surah 5:78 of the Qur'an as to
- what the term "they" in the sentence (yet see in what ways *they* are
- turned away) refer to:
- I did not quote the entire surah, nor the verses preceding 5:78,
- otherwise, this problem of identifying 'they' would not have arisen.
- I am sorry for this. The word 'they' in the verse does not refer
- either to Jesus or his mother, Maryam, but to Christians. Allah
- here is accusing the christians of how they are turned away when
- the truth of the matter concerning Jesus was that he was nothing
- more than a human being and a Prophet, the likes of whom had passed
- away before him. Yet christians claim divinity for Jesus|
- I also realised thru' our correspondence (with R. Pitts and S. Wiggins) that
- most western christians are unaware of the fact that Allah is the God of
- Moses, Abraham, Jesus, and all humanity. Allah is not different from the
- Jewish concept of God. As a matter of fact, the old Syriac (Aramaic) term
- for God is Allaha. In Arabic, which is a semitic language and a sister langu-
- age to Aramaic the last letter 'a' is simply dropped. The Arab christians use
- the same term for refering to God (God the Father), of course, their underst-
- anding about the nature of God is quite different from Muslims and Jews.
- Another associated point: YHWH is not Jehovah, nor is it Yahway. No Jew knows
- how to pronounce it correctly, since the vowels were never put in the Torah.
- Whatever it is, YHWH means same God, or Elohim, or Elaha (or Eloh) or Allaha
- or Allah (it is simply one of the attributes of God).
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- Siddiqui.
-