why the muslims make the differences between the prophets they like more muhammad than jesus, jesus is rarely?

Question

mentioned in the islam.. only when they are talking againts christianity.. but jesus is not mentioned as muhammad.. in the islamic prayers abraham is mentioned.. but never jesus .. includes muhammad has a birthday celebration.. but not jesus.. if jesus was great prophet why dont you celebrate his birthday? or say in your prayer the peace with you jesus

Answer 1

Greet you in the same manner as Jesus (pbuh) greeted in Hebrew Luke 24:36
‘Sholam alay kum’
or Islamic greeting in Arabic Assalaamu alai kum
both meaning ‘Peace be on you’.


Jesus is mentioned by name in twenty-five places in the Holy Qur’ân, he is also addressed with respect as: Ibn Maryam, meaning "The son of Mary"; and as the Maseeh (in Hebrew it is the Messiah), which is translated as "Christ". He is also known as Abdullah, "The servant of Allah"; and as Rasul u Allah, the messenger of Allah.
He is spoken of as "The Word of God", as "The Spirit of God", as a "Sign of God", and numerous other epithets of honor spread over fifteen different chapters. The Holy Quran honors this mighty messenger of God, and the Muslims have not fallen short over the past fourteen hundred years in doing the same. There is not a single disparaging remark in the entire Quran to which even the most jaundiced among the Christians can take exception.


The Christian does not know that the true spirit of charity which the Muslim displays, always, towards Jesus and his mother Mary spring from the fountainhead of his faith - the Holy Qur’ân. He does not know that the Muslim does not take the holy name of Jesus, in his own language, without saying Eesa, alaihi assalam ("Jesus, peace be upon him")
The Christian does not know that in the Holy Qur’ân Jesus is mentioned twenty five times. For example:
"We gave Jesus, the son of Mary, clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit" (The Holy Qur’ân 2:87)
"O Mary! God giveth thee glad tidings of a Word from Him: his name will be Christ Jesus, the son of Mary..." (3:45)
"...Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of god..." (4:171)
"...And in their foot steps we sent Jesus the son of Mary..." (5:46)
"And Zakariya and John, and Jesus and Elias: all in the ranks of the righteous." (6:85)

Mother And Son

Mary Honored
The birth of Jesus Christ is described in two places of the Qur’ân - chapter 3 and chapter 19. Reading from the beginning of his birth, we come across the story of Mary, and the esteemed position which she occupies in the House of Islam, before the actual annunciation of the birth of Jesus is given:
"'Behold'! the angels said: 'O Mary! God hath chosen thee and purified thee, and chosen thee above the women of all nations" (3:42)
"Chosen thee above the women of all nations." Such an honor is not to be found given to Mary even in the Christian Bible! The verse continues:
"O Mary! Worship thy Lord devoutly: prostrate thyself, and bow down (in prayer) with those who bow down." (3:43)
Divine Revelation
What is the source of this beautiful and sublime recitation which, in its original Arabic, moves men to ecstasy and tears? Verse 44 below explains:
"This is part of the tidings, of the things unseen, which We reveal unto thee (O Muhammad!) by inspiration: Thou wasn’t not with them when they cast lots with arrows, as to which of them should be charged with the care of Mary: nor wasn’t thou with them when they disputed (the point)." (3:44)
Mary's Birth
The story is that the maternal grandmother of Jesus, Hannah, had hitherto been barren. She poured out her heart to God: If only God will grant her a child, she would surely dedicate such a child for the service of God in the temple.
God granted her prayer and Mary was born. Hannah was disappointed. She was yearning for a son, but instead she delivered a daughter; and in no way is the female like the male, for what she had in mind. What was she to do? She had made a vow to God. She waited for Mary to be big enough to fend for herself.
When the time came, Hannah took her darling daughter to the temple, to hand over for temple services. Every priest wanted to be the god-father of this child. They cast lots with arrows for her - like the tossing of the coin - head or tail?
Eventually she fell to the lot of Zakariya, but not without a dispute.
The Source of His Message
This was the story. But where did Muhammed, salla Allah u alihi wa sallam, get this knowledge from? He was an Ummi, Arabic for "unlettered". He did not low how to read or write. He is made by God Almighty to answer this very question in the verse above, by saying that it was all by divine inspiration. "No!", says the controversialist. "This is Mohammed’s own concoction. He copied his revelations from the Jews and Christians. He plagiarized it. He forged it."
Knowing full-well, and believing as we do, that the whole Qur’ân is the veritable Word of God, we will nevertheless agree, for the sake of argument, with the enemies of Muhammed, salla Allah u alihi wa sallam, for a moment, that he wrote it. We can now expect some cooperation from the unbelievers.
Ask him: "Have you any qualms in agreeing that Muhammed was an Arab?" Only an ignorant will hesitate to agree. In that case there is no sense in pursuing any discussion. Cut short the talk. Close the book!
With the man of reason, we proceed. "That this Arab, in the first instance, was addressing other Arabs. He was not talking to Indian Muslims, Chinese Muslims, or Nigerian Muslims. He was addressing his own people, the Arabs. Whether they agreed with him or not, he told them in the most sublime form, words that were seared into the hearts and minds of his listeners that Mary the mother of Jesus, a Jewess, was chosen above the women of all nations. Not his own mother, nor his wife nor his daughter, nor any other Arab woman, but a Jewess! Can one explain this? Because to everyone his own mother or wife, or daughters would come before other women.
Why would the prophet of Islam honor a woman from his opposition! and a Jewess at that! belonging to a race which had been looking down upon his people for three thousand years? Just as they still look down upon their Arab brethren today."
Sarah and Hagar
The Jews learn, from the Bible, that their father, Abraham, had two wives Sarah and Hagar. They say that they are the children of Abraham through Sarah his legitimate wife; that their Arab brethren have descended through Hagar, a "bondwoman", and that as such, the Arabs are an inferior breed.
Will anyone please explain the anomaly as to why Muhammed, salla Allah u alihi wa sallam, if he is the author, chose this Jewess for such high honor? The answer is simple, he had no choice he had no right to speak of his own desire. "It is no less than an inspiration sent down to him." (53:4)
The Chapter of Maryam
There is a Chapter in the Holy Qur’ân, named Surat u Maryam "Chapter Mary", named in honor of Mary the mother of Jesus Christ, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him; again, such an honor is not to be found given to Mary in the Christian Bible. Out of the 66 books of the Protestants and 73 of the Roman Catholics, not one is named after Mary or her son. You will find books named after Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul and two score more obscure names, but not a single one is that of Mary!
If Muhammed, salla Allah u alihi wa sallam, was the author of the Holy Qur’ân, then he would not have failed to include in it with Mary, the mother of Jesus, his own mother Aamina, his dear wife Khadija, or his beloved daughter Fatimah. But No! No! This can never be. The Qur’ân is not his handiwork!.
The Good News
" 'Behold!' the angels said: 'O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a word from him: his name will be Jesus, the son of Mary; held in honor in this world and the hereafter; and (of the company of) those nearest to Allah." (3:45)
"Nearest to God," not physically nor geographically, but spiritually. Compare this with "And (Jesus) sat on the right hand of God." (Mark 16:19). The bulk of Christendom has misunderstood this verse as well as many others in the Bible. They imagine the Father (God) sitting on a throne, a glorified chair, and His Son, Jesus, sitting on His right hand side. Can you conjure up the picture? If you do, you have strayed from the true knowledge of God. He is no old Father Christmas. He is beyond the imagination of the mind of man. He exists. He is real, but He is not like anything we can think of, or imagine.
In eastern languages "right hand" meant a place of honor, which the Holy Qur’ân more fittingly describes as "In the company of those nearest to Allah." The above verse confirms that Jesus is the Christ. and that he is the Word which God bestowed upon Mary. Again, the Christian reads into these words, a meaning which they do not carry. They equate the word "Christ" with the idea of a god-incarnate; and the "Word" of God to be God.
"Christ" Not a Name
The word "Christ" is derived from the Hebrew word Messiah, Arabic Maseeh. Root word masaha, meaning "to rub", "to massage", "to anoint". Priests and kings were anointed when being consecrated to their offices. But in its translated Grecian form, "Christ" seems unique: befitting Jesus only.
Christians like to translate names into their own language; like Cephas to "Peter" , Messiah to "Christ". How do they do that? Very easily. Messiah in Hebrew means "Anointed". The Greek word for anointed is Christos. Just lop off the 'os' from Christos, and you are left with "Christ"; a unique name!
Christos means "Anointed", and anointed means appointed in its religious connotation. Jesus, peace and blessing be upon him, was appointed (anointed) at his baptism by John the Baptist, as God's Messenger. Every prophet of God is so anointed or appointed. The Holy Bible is replete with the "anointed" ones. In the original Hebrew, he was made a Messiah. Let us keep to the English translation "anointed."
Not only were prophets and priests and kings anointed (Christos-ed), but horns, and cherubs and lamp-posts also.
"I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar ..." (Genesis 31:13)
"If the priest that is anointed do sin ..." (Leviticus 4:3)
"And Moses... anointed the tabernacle and all things that was therein..." (Leviticus 8:100)
"..the Lord shall...exalt the horn of his anointed" (I Samuel 2:10)
"Thus saith the Lord to his anointed to Cyrus..." (Isaiah 45:1)
"Thou art the anointed cherub..." (Ezekiel 28:14)
There are an hundred more such references in the Holy Bible. Every time you come across the word "anointed" in your Bible, you can take it that that word would be christos in the Greek translations, and if you take the same liberty with the word that the Christians have done, you will have Christ Cherub, Christ Cyrus, Christ Priest and Christ Pillar, ...etc.
Some Titles Exclusive
Although, every prophet of God is an anointed one of God, a Messiah, the title Maseeh or Messiah, or its translation "Christ" is exclusively reserved for Jesus, the son of Mary, in both Islam and in Christianity. This is not unusual in religion. There are certain other honorific titles which may be applied to more than one prophet, yet being made exclusive to one by usage: like "Rasulullaah", meaning "Messenger of God", which title is applied to both Moses (19:51) and Jesus (61:6) in the Holy Qur’ân. Yet "Rasulullaah" has become synonymous only with Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, among Muslims.
Every prophet is indeed a "Friend of God", but its Arabic equivalent "Khalillullaah" is exclusively associated with Father Abraham. This does not mean that the others are not God's friends. "Kaleemullaah", meaning "One who spoke with Allah" is never used for anyone other than Moses, yet we believe that God spoke with many of His messengers, including Jesus and Muhammed, may the peace and blessings of God be upon all His servants. Associating certain titles with certain personages only, does not make them exclusive or unique in any way. We honor all in varying terms.
Whilst the good news was being announced (verse 45 above) Mary was told that her unborn child will be called Jesus, that he would be the Christ, a "Word" from God, and that...
"He shall speak to the people in childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the righteous." (3:46)
"At length she brought the (babe) to her people carrying him. They said: 'O Mary! truly a strange thing has thou brought!'. 'O sister of Aaron!, thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!' " (The Holy Qur’ân 19:27-28)
Jews Amazed
There is no Joseph the carpenter here. The circumstances being peculiar, Mary the mother of Jesus had retired herself to some remote place in the East (19:16). After the birth of the child she returns.
A. Yusuf Ali, comments in his popular English translation of the Qur’ân:
"The amazement of the people knew no bounds. In any case they were prepared to think the worst of her, as she had disappeared from her kin for some time. But now she comes, shamelessly parading a babe in her arms! How she had disgraced house of Aaron, the fountain of priesthood!
"Sister of Aaron": Mary is reminded of her high lineage and the unexceptionable morals of her father and mother. How, they said, she had fallen, and disgraced the name of her progenitors!
What could Mary do? How could she explain? Would they, in their censorious mood accept her explanation? All she could do was to point to the child, who, she knew, was no ordinary child. And the child came to her rescue. By a miracle he spoke, defended his mother, and preached to an unbelieving audience."
Allah azza wa jall says in the Qur’ân:
"But she pointed to the babe. They said: 'How can we talk one who is a child in the cradle?' He (Jesus) said: 'I am indeed a servant of Allah (God): He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet: 'and He hath made me blessed wheresoever I be, and hath enjoined on me prayer and charity as long as I live. '(He hath made me) kind to my mother, and not overbearing or unblest; 'So Peace is on me the day I was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to life again)'!" (19:29-33)



"Mother" or "Woman"?
According to St. John, in the fourth verse above, describing the marriage feast at Cana, we are told that Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, behaved insolently towards his mother. He calls her "woman," and to rub more salt into the wound he is made to say "what have I to do with thee?" What connection is there between you and me, or what have I got to do with you? Could he have forgotten that this very "woman" had carried him for nine months, and perhaps suckled him for 2 years, and had borne endless insults and injuries on account of him? Is she not his mother? Is there no word in his language for "mother"?
Strange as it may seem, that while the missionaries boast about their master's humility, meekness and long-suffering, they call him the "Prince of Peace" and they sing that "he was led to the slaughter like a lamb, and like a sheep who before his shearer is dumb, he opened not his mouth", yet they proudly record in the same breath, that he was ever ready with invectives for the elders of his race, and was always itching for a showdown i.e. if their records are true:
"Ye hypocrites!"
"Ye wicked and adulterous generation!"
"Ye whited sephulcres!"
"Ye generation of vipers!"
and now to his mother: "Woman..."
Jesus Defended
Muhammed, salla Allah u alihi wa sallam, the Messenger of God, is made to absolve Jesus from the false charges and calumnies of his enemies.
"And He (God Almighty) hath made me (Jesus) kind to my mother, and not overbearing or unblest" (19:31).
On receiving the good news of the birth of a righteous son Mary responds:
"She said: 'O My Lord! how shall I have a son, when no man hath touched me?"
The angel says in reply:
"He said: 'Even so: Allah (God) createth what He willeth: when He hath decreed a matter He but sayth o it 'Be,' and it is! And Allah (God) will teach him the Book and Wisdom, the Torah (Law) and the Gospel," (3:47-48).

Like Adam
Does the miraculous birth of Jesus make him a God or a "begotten" Son of God? No! says the Holy Qur’ân:
"The similitude of Jesus before Allah (God) is that of Adam; He created him from dust then said to him: 'Be', and he was." (3:59)
Yusuf Ali, comments in his notes in the Qur’ân translation:
"After a description of the high position which Jesus occupies as a prophet in the preceding verses we have a repudiation of the dogma that he was God, or the son of God, or any thing more than man. If it is said that he was born without a human father, Adam was also so born. Indeed Adam was born without either a human father or mother. As far as our physical bodies are concerned they are mere dust.
In God's sight Jesus was as dust just as Adam was or humanity is. The greatness of Jesus arose from the divine command 'Be': for after that he was more than dust a great spiritual leader and teacher"
The logic of it is that, if being born without a male parent entitles Jesus to being equated with God, then, Adam would have a greater right to such honor, and this no Christian would readily concede. Thus, the Muslim is made to repudiate the Christian blasphemy.
Further, if the Christian splits hairs by arguing that Adam was "created" from the dust of the ground, whereas Jesus was immaculately "begotten" in the womb of Mary, then let us remind him that, even according to his own false standards, there is yet another person greater than Jesus, in his own Bible . Who is this superman?
Paul's Innovation
"For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God... Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life..." (Hebrews 7:1,3)
Here is a candidate for Divinity itself, for only God Almighty could possess these qualities. Adam had a beginning (in the garden), Jesus had a beginning (in the stable); Adam had an end and, claim the Christians, so had Jesus "and he gave up the ghost". But where is Melchisedec? Perhaps he is hibernating somewhere like Rip Van Winkel (a fairy tale character who slept for many ages.)
And what is this "Hebrews"? It is the name of one of the Books of the Holy Bible, authored by the gallant St. Paul, the self appointed thirteenth apostle of Christ. Jesus had twelve apostles, but one of them (Judas) had the Devil in him. So the vacancy had to be filled, because of the "twelve" thrones in heaven, which had to be occupied by his disciples to judge the children of Israel (Luke 22:30).
Saul was a renegade Jew, and the Christians changed his name to "Paul", probably because "Saul" sounds Jewish. This St. Paul made such a fine mess of the teachings of Jesus, peace blessings be upon him, that he earned for himself the second most coveted position of "The Most Influential Men of History" in the monumental work of Michael H. Hart: The 100 or The Top Hundred or the Greatest Hundred in History. Paul outclasses even Jesus because, according to Michael Hart, Paul was the real founder of present day Christianity. The honor of creating Christianity had to be shared between Paul and Jesus, and Paul won because he wrote more Books of the Bible than any other single author, whereas Jesus did not write a single word.
Paul needed no inspiration to write his hyperboles here and in the rest of his Epistles. Did not Hitler's Minister of Propaganda Goebbels say: "The bigger the lie the more likely it is to be believed'? But the amazing thing about this exaggeration is that no Christian seems to have read it. Every learned man to whom I have shown this verse to, seemed to be seeing it for the first time. They appear dumbfounded, as described by the fitting words of Jesus:
"...seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." (Matthew 13:13)
The Holy Qur’ân also contains a verse which fittingly describes this well cultivated sickness:
"Deaf, dumb and blind, will they not return (to the path)." (2:18)


PEACE....
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Answer 2

You have to really study the religion to understand the dynamics. Muslims dont make any difference between the prophets, but in general, since Mohamad (pbuh) was the last and was the one that delivered the message of Islam, the focus tends to be on him. There is no celebrated birthday for propher Mohamad (pbuh), there you are wrong, as even in the Islamic religion birthdays arent celebrated period. As for the prayer, the prayer asks God to bless the people of the Prophet Mohamad (pbuh) just as he blessed the people of Prophet Abraham(pbuh) -- b/c Abraham (pbuh) preached to different people. Muslims consider Jesus (pbuh) to have preached to the same people that Mohamad (pbuh) did and to have delivered the same message.

Also, Muslims believe in the Bible and the Torah, but the unchanged versions of them. The Bible has soo many versions, and each version reads differently. Same with the Torah, but with the Koran, I've noticed you can pick it up, look at any verse and have the exact same verse down to punctuation in every other version with all that differs is the translation.

Answer 3

You are showing your ignorance. Jesus is mentioned a lot in The Q'uran. Abraham, Ishmael, Jesus and Mohammed are all revered as great prophets. Mary, the mother of Jesus, has an entire chapter devoted to her in The Q'uran. Muslims revere her as well. Maybe Muslims don't celebrate Jesus' birthday because it is obvious no one knows when it was. From a scientific and weather stand point, it is quite impossible that he was born in December.

Answer 4

Other than their last statements before death, the life of Jesus and Mohammed are completely different. Jesus told his followers to love one another, to forgive and not take vengeance and led by example. Mohammed taught his followers that rape, slavery, lying, genocide and vengeance for the sake of Allah were of the highest esteem, even calling heaven a brothel in the sky. Mohammed's life was plagued with visions from Satan who used him to establish his kingdom on earth (the kingdom of the beast), which the antichrist and false prophet will rise from. This kingdom has waged war against the saints since it's beginning and continues to do so to this day. @NewlyBorn: How about Josephus and Pliny the younger? There are countless other sources outside of the NT that provide us with historical evidence for the existence of Jesus. You sure you were ever a pastor of any sort, or is this just another one of your lies?

Answer 5

All religions began with authority. No one could question the powerful priests of ancient times. Only after the Enlightenment religion lost its power and with the separation of church and state people began questioning.

Islam has not had a Renaissance, and it has not had an Enlightenment. Islam is still in the Middle Ages and in the Middle Ages, whoever questioned religious dogmas was tortured and murdered.

No doubt, all religions have the same origins, the same myths, the same supernatural, fascinating stories intended to control ignorant populations.

Answer 6

They see Jesus as a prophet, in a line of prophets, Muhammad is the final prophet.
As to celebrating birthday's, why don't Christians celebrate Jewish holidays?
I personally see all of this kind of thing divisive.
If their is one God, and we all believe we come from that one, then are we not to love and support each other?

Answer 7

I'm asking u Now
where did the Birthday came from
and the year which has july June .............................
See there is no difference.
That's why you must think wisely Before asking a Question like that.
and 4 ur information Jesus Poh is a messenger From God
and that's for Muhammed Pbuh Too
And remember think wisely.
Mohammed pbuh is the last messenger
u must know that
I know that the first thing u say is islam is evil But
think wisely see how clear and bright islam is .

Answer 8

Muslims are told not to differentiate between prophets it is their personal view
abu zubair

Answer 9

okay man v all like mohammad but v do give same respect to jesus as to jesus and all the other prophets.
and do u know one thing how many times "jesus christ" word mentioned in ur bible
u know
i will tell u hardly 25 times and in our quran itis mentioned more than 50 to 60 times,
how many times mother of jesus mother "mary" mentioned in ur bible
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i will tell u only 17 times and it is mentioned 32 times in quran so we love more or u christans................
moses is mentioned even more times, mohammad is mentioned only fewer times in quran.
u tell me if v dont love jesus why is it mentioned more times in quran than bible.
so dear v love all prophets and v consider no other as god but ALLAH,

Answer 10

From my experience, Muslims believe in Jesus, just not anything he said. They also believe the Torah, just not anything that it says. They also believe the Bible, just not anything that it says.

Is this getting repetitious?

Answer 11

Eh, wot?