Jesus in the Qur'an - episode 1



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  • Allah refers to the house of Imran 
    • This refers to the legacy of Musa (al.) 
    • Cos Imran was Musa's father
    • But, the fact that Allah uses it here, means that Isa (al.) refers to the end of that legacy and the beginning of a new one. 
  • The concept of isthifa (choice) 
    • There's a number of words for choice in the Qur'an, but Allah chose to use this one here. 
    • Isthifa comes from safwa - which means purity
      • This suggests that the choice was purely the preference of the one who chose. 
    • Isthifa is done when it's entirely up to us (like picking a colour of a thing) 
    • When talking about Allah making a choice based on safwa, we don't have the room the question why he picked what he did. 
    • Of course all Allah's choices are based on wisdom. 
    • But we don't have the room to question it. 
  • Allah did select certain people
    • The first choice he made was to pick Adam. 
      • Explanations of this choice are:
        • Allah picked Adam over the angels. 
        • Allah created all the souls and selected Adam's for the body he had created. 
        • Adam was sent to the Earth - Allah chose him to receive revelation also. 
    • Allah chose Nuh 
      • Humanity was in a single valley at the time
      • The ones that survived were the ones with Nuh. 
      • Adam was the start of humanity. Nuh was the restart of humanity. 
  • Allah has always made choices that applied to all of humanity. 
    • Except) despite messengers coming to one community at a time. 
    • He started with the universals - Adam and Nuh preached to all of humanity. 
    • Then things became more specific. 
  • The legacy of prophet hood in the family of Ibrahim was because of
    • The tests that Ibrahim had passed 
    • The dua he had made to make his legacy Muslim. 
  • Within this legacy was the family of Imran. 
    • The legacy of Imran was that they kept getting prophet after prophet
    • A continuous stream of prophets. 
  • The legacy of Imran ended with Isa (al.) 
    • It was started with Musa (al.) 
    • Isa (al.) was retaight the tawrat, with the addition of the injil. 
    • Then the legacy of Imran ended. 
    • Then it became time for the family of Ibrahim (al.) to pick up that legacy from Muhammed (Sal.) 
  • I'm a subtle way Allah rejects the divinity of Isa (al.) in this, by saying he was of the legacy (family) of Imran. 
  • Maryam (al.) was mentioned, in Qur'an, as the sister of Haroon 
    • This seems like a mistake
    • But she was someone that learnt and taught tawrat. 
    • She's supporting the legacy of Musa (al.), as Haroon did. 
    • In any generation, when anyone revives the legacy of Musa (al.), they are considered a brother (or sister) of Haroon (brother/sister in cause). 
    • So, this means that people referred to her as the Haroon of her time. 
  • Maryam (al.) was named similarly to the actual, biological sister of Haroon - Miryam. 
    • So people (in Sematic culture) were saying she should've been like Miryam.