In the Quran, it says Uzair is believed by Jews as son of God. Is it true?

Question

I read in the Quran and i am just curious. I am not being rascist.

Uzair is Arabic for Ezra. Is it true that Jews believe Ezra is son of God. If so, why?

Answer 1

'whynotaskthemoron' is right.

George Sale writes in his book The Koran, IX Edition of 1923, London, p. 152.:

This grievous charge against the Jews, the commentators endeavour to support by telling us, that it is meant of some ancient heterdox Jews, or else of some Jews of Medina; who said so for no other reason, than for that the law being utterly lost and forgotten during the Babylonish captivity, Ezra having been raised to life after he had been dead one hundred years, dictated the whole anew unto the scribes, out of his own memory; at which they greatly marvelled, and declared that he could not have done it, unless he were the son of God. Al-Beidawi adds, that the imputation must be true, because this verse was read to the Jews and they did not contradict it; which they were ready enough to do in other instances.

That Ezra did restore not only the Pentateuch, but also the other books of the Old Testament, by divine revelation, was the opinion of several of the Christian fathers, who are quoted by Dr.Prideaux, and of some other writers; which they seem to have first borrowed from a passage in that very ancient apocryphal book, called in our English Bible, the second book of Esdras.

Dr. Prideaux tells us, that herein the Fathers attributed more to Ezra, than the Jews themselves, which he laboured much in, and went a great way in the perfecting of it. It is not improbable however, that the fiction came originally from the Jews, though they be now of another opinion, and I cannot fix it upon them by any direct proof. For, not to insist upon the testimony of the Mohammedans (which yet I cannot but think of some little weight in a point of this nature,) it is allowed by the most sagacious critics, that the second book of Ezra was written by a Chrisitian indeed, but yet one who had been bred a Jew, and was intimately acquainted with the fables of the Rabbins; and the story itself is perfectly in the taste and was of thinking of those men

Answer 2

The Islamic exegetes have mentioned that there existed a community of Jews in Yemen who considered Ezra as son of God. Hirschberg says in Encyclopaedia Judaica:

H Z Hirschberg proposed another assumption, based on the words of Ibn Hazm, namely, that the 'righteous who live in Yemen believed that 'Uzayr was indeed the son of Allah.' According to other Muslim sources, there were some Yemenite Jews who had converted to Islam who believed that Ezra was the messiah. For Muhammad, Ezra, the apostle (!) of messiah, can be seen in the same light as the Christian saw Jesus, the messiah, the son of Allah.[4]

Quran mentioned a group of Jews--not Jews in general. We know that the unitarian Christians don't believe in Trinity. They are a small group although.

Answer 3

No it is not true. Jews don't believe that anyone can be a son of G-d as we are all children of G-d. Ezra is merely a prophet, but not a messiah or a son of G-d.


I read the Quran as well. I must have missed that part.

Answer 4

Ezra was a priest of the jews that lived around 500 bc.Most believe he is one of the people that wrote the bible.People did worship him as the son of god just as how people worship Jesus as the son of God.And for a good reality check.They were both jews.And that is the truth. And to add to the response to the above answer.I am islamic and in the quran he is not a prophet.No where in the quran does it say he is a prophet.Only on a list of 25 of the many prophets of old.But that is not in the scriptures of the quran.The only place it speaks about Ezra in the quran is when it talks about the day of resurection.When you are to meet THE GOD and he will ask "who did you take as your lord.And the jews will say they took Ezra as thier lord.Son of Allah.And Allah will say you are liars.For I(Allah) have no children.And they will be cast down to hell."And the same thing is to be for the christians."Allah will ask them who they took as thier lord.The christians will say we took isa(jesus) son of allah as our lord.And allah will say you are liars, for I(allah) have no sons.And they will be cast down to hell." "Till there remains the ones who obeyed allah and followed the prophet muhamaad and his sunna.And allah will adress them saying who did you take for your lord.And they will answer WE took no lord other than allah.The only one worthy of worship.And they shall be permitted into paradise."And paradise is not heaven.Because there are more than one heaven in truth.Even in pagan religions, they exist.But most argue that is not the fact.To return to the true life indeed.In the hereafter. SALAM-PEACE

Answer 5

Jews believe the sons of God are angels

Answer 6

That statement goes against a fundamental concept of Judaism. We believe that God cannot be bound by human limits, so he's not human or partly human. Therefore he cannot father a human son, so the idea is false.

I would like to thank you for not just believing everything you read and instead thinking for yourself. It's far too often that I see people base their lives on a book, the Bible, which they haven't fully read or comprehended.

Answer 7

No. The Jews do not believe that G-d has a son. There is only one Almighty being.

Answer 8

Jesus is the son of God. The one and only.

Answer 9

Yes, it is true.

Answer 10

I don't read fairy tales.