September 05, 2018 Wednesday
Bedtime Story
Annunciation in Quran
I shall continue with Biblical account of
the Annunciation as stated in Luke 1 tonight.
31 You will conceive and give birth to a
son, and you are to call him Jesus.
32 He will be great and will be called the
Son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him the throne of
his father David,
33 and he will reign over Jacob’s
descendents forever; his kingdom will never end.”
34 “How will this be”, Mary asked the
angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit
will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.
So the holy one to be born will be called
the Son of God.
36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to
have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be to unable to conceive
is in her sixth month.
37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
38 “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary
answered.
May your word to me be fulfilled.”
Then the angle left her.
This is the end of the biblical description
of the Annunciation affair, a story that even an average child can conjure up
from her average mind.
Not surprisingly (since Quran assumes
familiarity with major narratives recounted in the Biblical scriptures – even
Bible exist in several versions with the Hebrew version recognizing just 24
books and Catholic Church Bible recognizing 73 books), the Annunciation has
also been described in Quran.
In fact, Jesus is mentioned more often in
Quran than Mohammad and Moses as a person is mentioned the most number of times
in Quran relative to any other person including Mohammad.
Besides Jesus and Moses, many others
characters of Bible find a place in Quran such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac,
Joseph, Job, David, Solomon, John the Baptist and many others.
The odd thing, which would come much to the
surprise of Christians if only they were aware of it, is that many of the above
mentioned Biblical characters have been listed as Prophets of God or Prophets
of Islam.
Quran, quite in contrast to the behavior of
its adherents, has a distinctively positive relationship with the older
religious books such as the Torah (five books that include Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy), the Gospels and the Bible implicitly
stating that they have all have come from one god.
Here is how Quran puts it in 3:3
“It is He who sent down to thee (step by
step), in truth, the Book, conforming what went before it; and He sent down the
Law (of Moses) and Gospel (of Jesus) before this, as a guide to mankind, and He
sent down the criterion between right and wrong.”
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
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physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
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