Here, in one sentence, the Mission of Prophethood entrusted to him on attaining maturity has been stated, which was "to observe and follow the Torah in letter and spirit, and to exhort the Israelites as well to do the same.
In other words, Prophet John bore in his heart the same kind of intense love for Allah's servants as a mother has for her child. According to Luke, Prophet John was older than Prophet Jesus by six months and their mothers were cousins.
He was appointed a Prophet at the age of 30 years, and according to the Gospel of John, he started his mission of inviting the people toward God in Jordan. He would say: "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.
Make straight the way of the Lord. According to Mark, "John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptizm of repentance for the remission of sins. And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
He thus came to be known as John the Baptist, and the Israelites held him as a prophet. Prophet Jesus said about John: "Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a man greater than John the Baptist. He would say: "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. By this he meant that very soon Prophet Jesus was going to start his Mission of Prophethood. The same thing has been said about him in the Qur'an: ". He urged the people to observe the Fast and Prayers.
He would also tell them, ". He that hath two coats, let him -impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. When the tax-collectors asked, "Master, what shall we do? When the corrupt scholars, Pharisees and Sadducees of the Israelites, came to be baptized by him, he rebuked them, saying: "O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?..
The Jewish ruler of his time, Herod Antipas, in whose tetrarchy he was performing his Mission of inviting the people to the Truth, had been so deeply influenced by the Roman civilization that he was causing sin and evil to spread freely in the land. He had kept Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, unlawfully in his house; when Prophet John reproved him for this and raised his voice against other evils being committed by him, Herod got him arrested and sent to jail.
However, he held him in high esteem for his piety and righteousness and even feared him on account of the great respect he enjoyed among the people. On the contrary, Herodias thought that the moral consciousness that Prophet John was producing among the people was directly aimed at women like herself and pulling them down in the public eye.
Thus she nursed a grudge against him and would have him killed but could not. Soon an opportunity came her way. On the birthday banquet of Herod, her daughter danced and so delighted Herod and others that the king said to her, 'Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
Herod felt sorry to hear this, but could not reject the demand of the daughter of his beloved. He at once got Prophet John killed in the prison and presented his head on a dish to the dancing girl. It cannot be Nazareth as some people have wrongly taken it to be, because Nazareth is to the north of Jerusalem.
The plain meaning is this: "A pure son shall be born to you just as your Lord has decreed, even though no man has touched you. And it is a sheer perversion to interpret it as: "So shall it be that a man will touch you and a son will be born to you. This will be so because the child will speak in the cradle. They would have said, "Look at the virgin daughter of the pious house of Aaron!
She has conceived a child and that, too, in the Sanctuary where she had retired for devotion! Had Mary been married and had a husband, she would not have left his or her parents house by herself and chosen a distant place for the purpose of delivery. She did not utter these words on account of the labor pains but due to the pangs of sorrow as to how she would conceal the child from her people. The angel's words"Grieve not at all"explain why she had spoken these desperate words.
When a married girl is delivering her first baby, she might be dying with pains, but she is never so sorrowful and grieved. It is now Our responsibility to answer the critics. Had she been married and given birth to her first baby like any other mother, there was no occasion to tell her to observe "a fast of silence", though it was a common custom among the Jews. The first meaning is supported by a tradition of the Holy Prophet and the second is plausible because that is supported by the Arabic idiom.
But we are inclined to the second meaning, for the wording of the said tradition does not necessarily mean that she actually had a brother named Aaron. The tradition as related in Muslim, Nasa'i, Tirmizi, etc. When he presented the problem before the Holy Prophet, he replied, "Why didn't you say that the Israelites named their children after their Prophets and other pious men?
They attribute these words to the elderly people of the Jews, who said years later, when Jesus was a grown up boy, that they could not have any useful dialogue with a mere kid. But the person who keeps the whole context in view, will realize that this interpretation is absurd and has been given merely to avoid the miracle. As a matter of fact, the dialogue took place when the people were condemning Mary who being unmarried, had brought forth a child, and not when the child had grown up into manhood.
In the first verse, the angel while giving the good news of a son to Mary, says: "He will speak to the people alike when in the cradle and when grown up"; in the other verse, Allah Himself says to Prophet Jesus: " As Allah intended to punish the children of Israel for their continuous wicked ways and evil deeds, He made a pious virgin girl of the family of Prophet Aaron, who had devoted herself to worship in the Temple under the patronage of Zachariah, bear a child and bring it before her people in order to concentrate the whole attention of the thousands of people assembled there on this extraordinary event.
Then He made this new born child speak out even in the cradle that he had been appointed a Prophet. Though they had seen this wonderful Sign of Allah, they rejected the Prophethood of Jesus and brought him to the court for crucifixion, and thus incurred the wrath of Allah. For the births of both were the result of the same sort of miracle as they have been mentioned together in the same context in the Gospel of Luke.
Therefore, it is mere distortion that the Christians should regard one as the servant of God and the other as the son of God. And it was they who had invented the doctrine of shirk by making him the son of God. In the Introduction to this Surah, we have already stated the historical background of this address.
In order to form an idea of its great significance, it should be kept in mind that:. This shows that the Muslims under no circumstances should conceal the Truth;. They indeed were faced with the real threat that this frank Islamic criticism of the basic articles of the Christian Faith might turn the king against them and he might hand them over to the Quraish. But in spite of this, they presented the whole truth before the king without the least hesitation. The story of Prophet Abraham has been selected for this purpose because the Quraish professed to accept him as their religious leader and were proud of being his descendants.
But as they followed and obeyed Satan, he accused them of worshiping Satan. Thus it is clear that if somebody follows and obeys , Satan, he virtually worships him. For Satan has never been a deity in the sense that people have made him an object of worship; nay, they have always been cursing him and following him at the same time. They were told that they would be honored and blessed with true renown just as Prophet Abraham had been blessed with true renown after his Migration.
The Qur'an has used this title for angels, who are sent by Allah on a special mission, or for the human beings who brought His Message to mankind. As regards the word "Nabi", it literally means the one who brings news, or the one who is high in rank, or the one who shows the way. This title is used for the Prophets in all the three senses. Thus Moses was a Messenger Prophet because he was a Messenger of high rank who gave news from Allah and showed the Right Way to the people.
The Qur'an does not necessarily differentiate between the use of the two titles, for sometimes it uses the title Rasul for one person at one place and the title Nabi for the same person at another place, and sometimes uses both the titles together for one and the same person.
However, at some places each title has been used in a way as to show that there is some technical distinction between the two, though that has not been precisely marked out, except that every Rasul Messenger is a Nabi Prophet as well, but every Nabi may not be a Rasul, and that a Rasul has a special and more important mission to perform.
When the Holy Prophet was asked how many "Messengers" and "Prophets" had been sent to the world, he said that the number of the Messengers was or and of the Prophets , Tur, the eastern side would lie on his right and the western on his left if he faced the mountain, otherwise a mountain by itself cannot have a right or a left side. Some commentators opine that he was a Prophet from among the Israelites, but the majority of them are inclined to the view that he was a Prophet before Noah.
There is no authentic Tradition which may help determine his identity. The next verse 58 , however, supports the view that he appeared before Prophet Noah. For of all the Prophets mentioned, he alone was the one who may be said to be "from the descendants of Adam. The commentators are of the opinion that Idris was Enoch of the Old Testament, about whom it is said:. In Talmud, there are greater details about Enoch, which are briefly as follows: "Before Noah when the descendants of Adam began to degenerate, the angel of God called to Enoch, who led a pious life away from the people, and said, 'O Enoch, arise, come out from seclusion, and go about among the people of the earth, guiding them to the path which they should follow and the ways which they should adopt.
Enoch ruled over mankind for years: his rule was based on justice and truth, and consequently God favored mankind with all kinds of blessings. Polano: The Talmud Selections, pp. The Bible says: " This is the first evil that is committed by a degenerate people; for, after this there remains no connection whatever between them and God.
Here it has been stated as a universal principle that the degeneration of the people of all the former Prophets started with the abandonment of Salat by them. As they became more and more neglectful of their Salat, their lusts took complete hold of them and they fell to the lowest depths of moral depravity and began to follow their whims instead of the Divine Commands.
It implies to mean that the greatest blessing that man will enjoy in Paradise will be that there he will hear no idle, vile or indecent talk; all the dwellers of Paradise will be neat and clean and pure people and every individual will be gentle and right-minded by nature; everybody will be secure against backbiting, slander and indecent songs and other ugly sounds.
Starting with the Contingency argument that all beings are contingent i. Earth is 4. This was the time when the opposition of Meccans turned from verbal accusations and abuse to physical and socio-economic torture and bans. Thus initially eleven men and four women left for Abyssinia than in a few months this number increased to almost a hundred and only forty Muslims left there in Mecca with the Prophet. Meccans decided to send a delegation under Abdullah bin Abi Rabiyah and Amr bin As to Habash with gifts to the King and his ministers with a request to send the migrants back to Makkah claiming that these spoiled youth have forsaken their faith and also have not embraced Christian faith either, but have invented a new Religion Every religion is basically a set of beliefs about cosmology that how everything around us is working, why and how it is created and what is its purpose.
Traditions are that when the King inquired this to migrant refugees, Jaafar bin Abu Talib I already told you that Kaaba in Mecca housed hundreds of idols which were important to the various tribes and people of Arabia at the time. The central theme of this Surah is that although all this world is running by specific laws and cause and effects but God is above all these laws and to show this He performs Miracles like the birth of John and Jesus.
Also, God can give Miraculous abilities to any one of his servants as he has given to Jesus. Regardless of all Miracles, Jesus was merely a slave of God, and the claim that Jesus is the son of God is strongly rebuffed.
O people stars breathe like this, and these are the two breaths of hell or fire that is mentioned in some religious scriptures. They started harassing the Muslims by all means and at all fronts. The Muslims were estranged socially, they had to endure the psychological pain of cutting remarks and taunts of the pagans and they were going through physical pain and suffering.
The weak ones and the slaves were tortured mercilessly by their masters and kinsmen. Yasir ra and Sumayyah ra were martyred, Bilal ra was dragged on hot sand and Khubaib ra was laid on hot coals. Even the nobles like Abu Bakr ra and Uthman ra were not spared. Such were the days when Surah Maryam was revealed…. But these verses came as comfort and strength. Surah Maryam contained verses about the reward for those who believed and gave them glad tidings.
It related stories of the Prophets of the past who had faced similar conditions. They mention the story of Ibrahim as who was forced to flee his hometown. These verses also contained a warning for the disbelievers by telling them the fate of those who rejected the message. Muslims today are going through a similar time; war and persecution. Those who practice Islam are estranged in their lands.
They have to endure the hatred, harassment and opposition from the non-believers as well as other Muslims. Today, again, these verses of Surah Maryam serve as a beacon of hope and strength; keep going and you shall be successful.
Do not despair for this is the path of those who were favored upon by Allah. Your faith is the most valuable; do not leave it for anyone or anything.
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