Re: Interfaith Dialogue (Jesus PBUH and Muhammad PBUH) - Islam and Christianity
From the Islamic Point of view God can’t do every thing
He can’t do un Godly things
If God wants, he can take a human form - But the moment He takes a human form, he ceases to be God. Because God and man, they are two opposites - Man is mortal - God is immortal.
You can’t have a mortal and immortal person at the same time. Man has a beginning - God has got no beginning –
You can’t have a person who has a beginning and no beginning at the same time.
Therefore the Holy Qur’an says…(Arabic)… ‘Verily Allah has power over all things’ - In several places in Surah Baqarah, Chapter 2, V.No.106, In Surah Baqarah, Chapter 2, V.No.109, Surah Baqarah, Chapter 2 V.No.284, Surah Al Imran, Chapter No. 3, V. 29, Surah Nahl, Chapter 16, V.77, Surah Fatir, Chapter 35, V. No.1. And Allah says…(Arabic)
…‘For Verily, Allah has power over all things’ –
But Allah only does Godly things, he doesn’t do ungodly things. Because Qur’an says in Surah Buruj, Chapter 85, V. No.16…‘Allah is the doer of all He intents’ - Whatever Allah intents He can do - But He only intents Godly things.
This theory of God becoming a human form, is called as ‘Anthropomorphism’ - Almighty God taking a human form. And most of the major Religions, sometime or the other, they have in their Philosophy, that God has taken a human form - Some religion once, some several times. And they have a very beautiful logic for that - they say that God Almighty, He is so Pure, He is so Holy, He doesn’t know regarding the feelings of the human being - regarding the shortcomings, the difficulties the human being can have. He is so Holy and Pure - And Allah Subhana Wa Taala doesn’t know how does a human beings feel when he is hurt - How does he feel when he gets into trouble. So therefore, God Almighty came in the form of a human being in this world to set the rules for the human beings.
On the face of it, very good logic - But I tell these people, that if I manufacture a tape recorder, do I have to become a tape recorder, to know what is good or what is bad for the tape recorder? No! I just write an instruction manual - that when you want to play the audio cassette, put in the cassette, press the play button - When you want to stop, press the stop button - When you want to fast forward, press the FF button - Don’t drop it from a height it will get spoilt - Don’t immerse it in water, it will get damaged. I write an instruction manual - I don’t have to became a tape recorder to know what is good or what is bad for the tape recorder. Similarly, when Almighty God is our Creator, He doesn’t have to become a human being to know what is good or what is bad for the human being. He sends an instruction manual and the last and the final instruction manual for the human being, is the holy Qur’an.
The Holy Qur’an is the last and final instruction manual for the human beings - The do’s and don’ts for the human beings. And he need not come down in this world as a human being to give us the instructor manual - What does he do? He chooses a man, amongst men to deliver His message - whom we call as Messengers or Prophets with whom He communicates on a higher level, through the ‘Revelation’. It is so clear cut to any logical person, that God Almighty cannot take human form - Any fool can also understand. That’s the reason the Holy Qur’an says in Surah Baqarah, Chapter 2, Verse No.18….(Arabic)… ‘The deaf, the dumb, the blind - they will not come to the true path’. And the Bible gives the same message in the Gospel of Mathew, Chapter No.13, Verse No.13… ‘Seeing they are see not, hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. Rigveda also gives the same message in Book No. 10, Chapter No. 71, Verse No. 4…‘That though they see the word, they see it not, though they hear the word, they hear not’.
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