In this article I am going to list seven characteristics that the Quran attributes to Jesus which prove that Christ is superior and better than Muhammad himself. This doesn’t mean that we believe what the Islamic scripture teaches about Jesus, since it is not a revelation from God nor a historically reliable book when it comes to the life and teachings of the historical Jesus, or any of the other biblical characters that it mentions. We simply cite the Quran for the sake of the Muslims who did believe in its authority in order to force them to contend with what their own religious text has to say about Jesus being greater than their own prophet.
1. Jesus’ maternal family has been preferred above all
creatures.
Lo! Allah preferred Adam and Noah and the Family of
Abraham and the
Family of ‘Imran above (all His) creatures. They were
descendants one of another. Allah is Hearer, Knower. (Remember) when the wife of ‘Imran said:
My Lord! I have vowed unto Thee that which is in my belly as a consecrated
(offering). Accept it from me. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Hearer, the Knower!
And when she was delivered she said: My Lord! Lo! I am delivered of a female –
Allah knew best of what she was delivered – the male is not as the female; and
lo! I have named
her Mary, and lo! I crave Thy protection for her and for her
offspring from Satan the outcast. S. 3:33-36
1b. Muhammad’s family members were pagans who worshiped idols.
2. Jesus’ mother is the greatest woman ever created and the only
woman mentioned by name in the entire Quran. Mary even has an entire chapter
named in her honor, namely, the nineteenth chapter titled Surah
al-Maryam (“The Chapter of Mary”).
And when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah hath chosen thee and
made thee pure, and
hath preferred thee above (all) the women of creation. S. 3:42
2b. Muhammad’s parents were pagans who are burning in hell.
Chapter 204: THE APOSTLE OF ALLAH SEEKING PERMISSION FROM THE
LORD, THE EXALTED AND HIGH, FOR VISITING THE GRAVE OF HIS MOTHER
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger as saying: I sought permission to beg
forgiveness for my mother, but He did not grant it to me. I
sought permission from Him to visit her grave, and He granted it (permission)
to me. (Sahih Muslim,
Book 004, Number 2129 https://sunnah.com/muslim/11/134)
Abu Huraira reported: The Apostle of Allah visited the grave of
his mother and
he wept, and moved others around him to tears, and said: I sought permission from my Lord
to beg forgiveness for her but it was not granted to me, and I
sought permission to visit her grave and it was granted to me. So visit the
graves, for that makes you mindful of death. (Sahih Muslim, Book 004, Number 2130 https://sunnah.com/muslim/11/135)
Chapter 86: HE WHO DIED WITH UNBELIEF WOULD BE (THROWN) INTO THE
FIRE, INTERCESSION WOULD BE OF NO AVAIL TO HIM AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF HIS
FAVOURITES WOULD NOT BENEFIT HIM
Anas reported: Verily, a person said: Messenger of Allah, where
is my father? He said: (He) is in the Fire. When he turned away, he (the Holy
Prophet) called him and said: Verily
my father and your father are in the Fire. (Sahih Muslim, Book
001, Number 0398 https://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=001&translator=2&start=0&number=0398)
3. Jesus and his blessed mother are absolutely pure and sinless.
“And when the angels said: O Mary! Lo! Allah hath chosen
thee and made
thee pure…” S. 3:42a
He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I may bestow on
thee a faultless
son. S. 19:19
3b. Muhammad and his parents were sinners tainted by Satan.
“… ‘And I have named her Mary and commend her to You with her
seed her children to protect them from the accursed the outcast Satan’. In a
hadīth it is stated ‘EVERY
new-born is touched by Satan and begins life by
crying except
for Mary and her son’ as reported by the two Shaykhs Bukhārī
and Muslim.” (Tafsir
al-Jalalayn, Q. 3:36 https://www.altafsir.com/Tafasir.asp?tMadhNo=0&tTafsirNo=74&tSoraNo=3&tAyahNo=36&tDisplay=yes&UserProfile=0&LanguageId=2;
bold emphasis ours)
(“… And I seek refuge with You for her and for her offspring
from Shaytan, the outcast.”) means, that she
sought refuge with Allah from the evil of Shaytan, for her and her offspring,
i.e., `Isa, peace be upon him. Allah accepted her supplication, for
`Abdur-Razzaq recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Messenger of Allah said…
<<EVERY newly
born baby is touched by Shaytan when it is born, and the baby starts crying
because of this touch, except Maryam and her son.>> Abu
Hurayrah then said, “Read if you will…
<<And I seek refuge with You for her and for her offspring
from Shaytan, the outcast>>.” The Two Sahihs recorded
this Hadith. (Tafsir Ibn
Kathir http://www.qtafsir.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=546&Itemid=46;
bold emphasis ours)
4. Jesus is the preexistent Word of God who came down from God’s
presence as a Spirit in order to take on flesh from Mary.
O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion
nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of
Mary, was an Apostle of Allah, and
His Word which He cast down unto Mary, and a Spirit from Him.
So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not “Three” – Cease! (it is)
better for you! – Allah is only One God. Far is it removed from His
Transcendent Majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is in the
heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender. S.
4:171
4b. Muhammad was nothing more than an ordinary, fallible,
imperfect man who was filled with doubts and fears, and whose god would often
threaten to punish and/or kill him.
And seek forgiveness of Allah.
Lo! Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. And plead not on behalf of (people) who
deceive themselves. Lo! Allah loveth not one who is treacherous and sinful. S.
4:106-107
Allah forgive thee (O Muhammad)! Wherefor
didst thou grant them leave ere those who told the truth were manifest to thee
and thou didst know the liars? S. 9:43
And if thou (Muhammad) art in doubt concerning
that which We reveal unto thee, then question those who read the Scripture
(that was) before thee. Verily the Truth from thy Lord hath come unto
thee. So be not
thou of the waverers. S. 10:94
And they indeed strove hard to beguile thee (Muhammad) away from
that wherewith We have inspired thee, that thou shouldst invent other than it
against Us; and then would they have accepted thee as a friend. And if We had
not made thee wholly firm thou
mightest almost have inclined unto them a little. Then had we made thee taste a
double (punishment) of living and a double (punishment) of dying, then hadst
thou found no helper against Us. 17:73-75
Or thou have a house of gold; or thou ascend up into heaven, and
even then we will put no faith in thine ascension till thou bring down for us a
book that we can read. Say (O Muhammad): My Lord be Glorified! Am I aught save a mortal messenger? S.
17:93
Say: I
am only a mortal like you. My Lord inspireth in me that your
God is only One God. And whoever hopeth for the meeting with his Lord, let him
do righteous work, and make none sharer of the worship due unto his Lord. S.
18:110
O Prophet! Keep thy duty to Allah and obey not the disbelievers and
the hypocrites. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise. S. 33:1
And verily it hath been revealed unto thee as unto those before
thee (saying): If
thou ascribe a partner to Allah thy work will fail and thou indeed wilt be
among the losers. S. 39:65
Then have patience (O Muhammad). Lo! the promise of Allah is
true. And ask
forgiveness of thy sin, and hymn the praise of thy Lord at fall
of night and in the early hours. S. 40:55
Say (unto them O Muhammad): I am only a mortal like you. It is
inspired in me that your God is One God, therefor take the straight path unto
Him and seek forgiveness of Him. And woe unto the idolaters, S. 41:6
Say: I am no new thing among the messengers (of Allah), nor know I what will be done with
me or with you. I do but follow that which is inspired in me,
and I am but a plain warner. S. 46:9
So know (O Muhammad) that there is no God save Allah, and ask forgiveness for thy sin
and for believing men and believing women. Allah knoweth (both)
your place of turmoil and your place of rest. S. 47:19
Lo! We have given thee (O Muhammad) a signal victory, That Allah may forgive thee of thy
sin that which is past and that which is to come, and may
perfect His favour unto thee, and may guide thee on a right path, S. 48:1-2
And if he had invented false sayings concerning Us, We assuredly
had taken him by the right hand And
then severed his life-artery, And not one of you could have
held Us off from him. S. 69:44-47
He frowned and turned away Because the blind man came unto him.
What could inform thee but that he might grow (in grace) Or take heed and so
the reminder might avail him? As for him who thinketh himself independent, Unto
him thou payest regard. Yet it is not thy concern if he grow not (in grace).
But as for him who cometh unto thee with earnest purpose And hath fear, From
him thou art distracted. S. 80:1-10
Then hymn the praises of thy Lord, and seek forgiveness of Him.
Lo! He is ever ready to show mercy. S. 110:3
5. Jesus was conceived of and born from a virgin maiden who had
never been sexually touched by any man.
She said: My Lord! How can I have a child when no mortal hath
touched me? He said: So (it will be). Allah createth what He will. If He
decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is. S. 3:47
She said: How can I have a son when no mortal hath touched me,
neither have I been unchaste? He said: So (it will be). Thy Lord saith: It is
easy for Me. And (it will be) that We may make of him a revelation for mankind
and a mercy from Us, and it is a thing ordained. S. 19:20-21
5b. Muhammad was born in the ordinary manner of sexual
intercourse.
6. Jesus is the Creator and life-Giver who raised the dead
and breathed life into inanimate clay objects, in the same way that God does.
And will make him a messenger unto the Children of Israel,
(saying): Lo! I come unto you with a sign from your Lord. Lo! I create for you out of clay
the likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it and it is a bird,
by Allah’s leave. I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead,
by Allah’s leave. And I announce unto you what ye eat and what ye store up in
your houses. Lo! herein verily is a portent for you, if ye are to be believers.
S. 3:49
When Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember My favour unto
thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that
thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee
the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst create from
clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission,
and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal
him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by
My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee
when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved
exclaimed: This is naught else than mere magic; S. 5:110
6b. Muhammad performed no miracles.
They also say, ‘Why
has no sign been sent down upon him from his Lord?‘ Say:
‘Surely God is able to send down a sign (ayatan), but most of them know not.’
S. 6:37
They have sworn by God the most earnest oaths if a sign comes to
them they will believe in it. Say:
‘Signs are only with God.’ What will make you realize that,
when it comes, they will not believe? S. 6:109
The unbelievers say, ‘Why has a sign not been sent down upon him
from his Lord?’ Thou
art ONLY a warner, and a guide to every people. S. 13:7
Naught prevented Us from sending the signs but that the ancients
cried lies to them; and We brought Thamood the She-camel visible, but they did
her wrong. And We do not send the signs, except to frighten. S. 17:59
This last passage is one of the clearest proofs that Muhammad
did absolutely no miracles whatsoever. The text says that Allah refrained from
providing miracles, which would make no sense at all if Muhammad did indeed
perform signs and wonders. Regarding this verse, the late Sunni scholar
Muhammad Asad candidly admitted:
This highly elliptic sentence has a fundamental bearing on the
purport of the Qur’an as a whole. In many places the Qur’an stresses the fact
that the Prophet Muhammad, despite his being the last and greatest of God’s
apostles, WAS NOT EMPOWERED TO PERFORM MIRACLES similar to those with
which the earlier prophets are said to have reinforced their verbal messages.
His ONLY miracle was and is the Qur’an itself – a message perfect in its
lucidity and ethical comprehensiveness, destined for all times and all stages
of human development, addressed not merely to the feelings but also to the
minds of men, open to everyone, whatever his race or social environment, and
bound to remain unchanged forever… (Asad, The Message of the Qur’an [Dar
Al-Andalus Limitd 3 Library Ramp, Gibraltar rpt. 1993], p. 427, fn. 71; online
edition; capital and underline emphasis ours)
7. Jesus returned to God himself, since that is where he
originally came from.
(And remember) when Allah said: O Jesus! Lo! I am gathering
thee and causing
thee to ascend unto Me, and am cleansing thee of those who
disbelieve and am setting those who follow thee above those who disbelieve
until the Day of Resurrection. S. 3:55
But Allah took him up unto Himself.
Allah was ever Mighty, Wise. S. 4:158
7b. Muhammad died and was buried.
Muhammad is but a messenger, messengers (the like of whom) have passed away before
him. Will it be that, when he dieth or is slain, ye will turn
back on your heels? He who turneth back on his heels doth no hurt to Allah, and
Allah will reward the thankful. S. 3:144
Lo! thou wilt die, and lo! they will die; S.
39:30
Further Reading
The Quran Agrees: Jesus is the most Exalted of all (https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/jesus_most_exalted_q.htm)
The Quran Also Agrees: Jesus Is the Most High! (https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/jesus_most_high_q.htm)
Jesus Christ: Islam’s Greatest Prophet and Messenger (https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/jesus_knows_unseen_q.htm)
Mary in the Islamic Perspective: Additional Proof for Jesus’
Superiority over the Prophet of Islam (https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/mary_amina.htm)
Muhammad and Miracles (https://answeringislam.net/Responses/Azmy/mhd_miracles.htm)
Evidence that Muhammad was a Sinful Transgressor (https://answeringislam.net/authors/shamoun/mhd_transgressor.html)
Muhammad the compromiser and doubter (https://answeringislam.net/Shamoun/compromise_doubt.htm)
Sura 10:94 and Muhammad’s doubts (https://answeringislam.net/Responses/Osama/zawadi_s10_94.htm)
Muhammad: Man of Faith or One Filled With Doubts? (https://answeringislam.net/Responses/Osama/zawadi_q10_94.htm)
Muhammad the Doubter Still (https://answeringislam.net/Responses/Osama/zawadi_mhd_doubter.htm)
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