{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/pro/jes01.htm","path":"isl/pro/jes01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/jes01.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\nIslam\u00a0\nIndex\u00a0\nPrevious\u00a0\nNext\u00a0\nThe Pregnancy of Mary With Jesus And His Birth (PUT)\nGod said: And make mention of Mary in the Scripture, when she had withdrawn\nfrom her people to a chamber looking East, And had chosen seclusion from\nthem. Then We sent unto her Our Spirit and it assumed for her the likeness\nof a perfect man. She said: Lo! I seek refuge in the Beneficent One from\nthee, if thou art God- fearing. He said: I am only a messenger of thy Lord,\nthat I may bestow on thee a faultless son. She said: How can I have a son\nwhen no mortal hath touched me, neither have I been unchaste ? He said:\nSo (it will be). Thy Lord saith: It is easy for Me. And (it will be) that\nWe may make of him a revelation for mankind and a mercy from Us, and it\nis a thing ordained. And she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to\na far place. And the pangs of childbirth drove her unto the trunk of the\npalm-tree. She said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become\na thing of naught, forgotten! Then (one) cried unto her from below her,\nsaying: Grieve not! Thy Lord hath placed a rivulet beneath thee, And shake\nthe trunk of the palm-tree toward thee, thou wilt cause ripe dates to fall\nupon thee. So eat and drink and be consoled(Mariam:16-26), and in the chapter\nof \u00c2l-`Imr\u00e2n: (And remember) when the angels said: O Mary!\nLo! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a word from him, whose name is the\nMessiah, Jesus, son of Mary, illustrious in the world and the Hereafter,\nand one of those brought near (unto Allah). He will speak unto mankind\nin his cradle and in his manhood, and he is of the righteous. She said:\nMy Lord! How can I have a child when no mortal hath touched me ? He said:\nSo (it will be). Allah createth what He will. If He decreeth a thing, He\nsaith unto it only: Be! and it is. And He will teach him the Scripture\nand wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel, And will make him a messenger\nunto the Children of Israel(\u00c2l-`Imr\u00e2n:45-49). When Mary turned\nto be an adult, and the will of God desired to show up for the tyrant ignorant\npeople, He inspired to the virgin Mary to go out of her home to the landscapes\nand she isolated herself away from the people and she used to do that because\nshe is shy, and suddenly the angel Gabriel came down to her as a messanger\nfrom God, and he came down in the form of a good young man with a nice\nshape, and she saw him and she was alone, she got so afraid of him and\nthought that he wanted to harm her, so she asked for refuge in God and\nsaid to him: Lo! I seek refuge in the Beneficent One from thee, if thou\nart God-fearing, and when Gabriel sensed her fear, he calmed her down and\ntold her that he is a messanger from God to give to her the tidings of\na faithful son. Of course she was amazed for how she can have a son without\nbeing touched by a human being, and Gabriel calmed her down and told her\nthat this is the will of God that nothing stops in the way of His will,\nand then he blew on her dress on the top of her chest, and the air went\ninto her body and into her womb and so she got pregnant by the will of\nGod. So God created a human being into her womb without letting her be\ntouched by a human being, as He created Adam without a father and mother,\nand He is able to do anything. It is mentioned in the chapter of \u00c2l-`Imr\u00e2n\nthat the tidings were brought to her by a group of angels, and that the\nchild's name is the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, and he shall be illustrious\nin the world and the Hereafter, and one of those brought near, by his prophecy,\nby his message and by his miracles like curing the blind and the leper\nand resurrecting the dead people by the permission of God, and in the after-life\nhe is given the high place and brought near by lifting him up to heavens\nand accompanied with angels and he shall be of great matter. We say there\nis no opposition, because Gabriel blew into her by the command of God and\nhe brought to her the happy tidings and the angels told her about it before\nand after this event. Angels used to surround her and protected her against\nthe enemies and calmed her down and God showed her some of His light, so\nthere is no opposition between the two holy phrases, meditate and you shall\nbe a winner. As God creates everything for a reason, as well He can create\nthings altogether for no apparent reason, although what we had mentioned\nis an obvious reason and the angels brought to her the tidings that her\nson shall talk to the people while he is still a child and when he is old\nenough, and God will teach him the Torah and the wisdom and shall teach\nhim all the revealed books before he is sent as a prophet with the Gospel\nwhich had nothing like it before and it is the clue for him that he is\nsent to the people as a prophet and it is the clue for his purity and his\nmother's purity, and he shall guide them to the perfect way after they\nwere on that path for some time and then went astraying and allowed what\nwas prohibited by God and prohibited what was allowed by God, and he only\ncame to guide them and complete them with the finest of manners.\nIt is mentioned by Al-Baydh\u00e2wi that the pregnancy time of Jesus\nwas seven months and some said it was only six months and some said it\nwas eight months, and no one being born in the eighth month and lived except\nof him, and some said that her pregnancy time was only for one hour and\nas she got pregnant with him she gave birth for him, and the one that mentioned\nthis last phrase is Abdul-Wah\u00e2b Al-Najj\u00e2r and he denied all\nof the other opinions, and we don't have in our hands what makes us able\nto be sure of it with clues but it is better to believe in the normal pregnancy\nas it is with others.\nIt is famous that she gave birth to Jesus (PUH) in the town of Bethlehem\nthat is not so far away from Jerusalem, just few kilometers, and because\nit is so famous for christians and also muslims it is not a matter to argue\nabout in recent days, and no one claims something else, and the apparent\nof the holy Quran also doesn't opposes this opinion: when she had withdrawn\nfrom her people to a chamber looking East(Mariam:16), and her people are\nin Jerusalem, and she went away from them when she felt that she will give\nbirth soon, and she ran away from the people and so no one would see her\nat the time of her delivering and she is without a husband, for her pregnancy\nwas strange and weird enough and the people didn't know all of that and\nthier souls are sick, and her pregnancy is something denied by them especially\nfor a woman of her type, and they considered her one of the finest people\nand this is the truth, and for this God ordered her to keep away from them\nbecause she will not find someone to help her among them or to have mercy\non her while she is giving birth to a child without a father, and God appointed\nfor her the place of her delivering and it was beside the dry date-palm\nto show her how Merciful He is by making the palm green again and let it\ngive date which would fall down to her, all of that as calming effects\nand as to strengthen her faith, for He resurrected a dead date-palm and\nshe shaked it and it gave her falling dates, sanctification be to Him how\nwonerful He is, sanctification be to Him how Merciful He is upon His maid\nand His chosen one. So she started to ask about that dead date-palm until\nthe passers by guided her to it as it was told by many tidings and narrations,\nand when she reached that palm she gave birth to Jesus, and when she looked\nat him she said: Oh, would that I had died ere this and had become a thing\nof naught, forgotten!(Mariam:23), and she said: what shall I say to the\nIsraelites, and Jesus then called her: Grieve not! Thy Lord hath placed\na rivulet beneath thee(Mariam:24), and it was a short river with a spring\nfor her, and her child said to her: And shake the trunk of the palm-tree\ntoward thee, thou wilt cause ripe dates to fall upon thee(Mariam:25).\nIt is mentioned that the palm was dead long time ago, and she expanded\nher arm and shaked it with her hand and it planted leaves and beared fruit\nand the dates dropped down from it so she calmed down to see God's mercy,\nand she came to it with desire to hide herself with it after she ran away\nfrom her home and to count on it, all of that was by the guidance of her\nLord. In narrations told by the Household (PUT) it is said that her child,\nJesus, said to her: cover me and do with me so and so, and so she did and\ndid whatever he told her to do for he only says what God wants and He is\nthe One that made him speak to her to fill her heart with joy and turn\nher sadness into happiness, and then her son Jesus said to her: So eat\nand drink and be consoled. And if thou meetest any mortal, say: Lo! I have\nvowed a fast unto the Beneficent, and may not speak this day to any mortal(Mariam:26).\nThey missed her in her place and in her champer so they went out looking\nfor her with Zacharias, and then she came carrying her son close to her\nchest, and when the faithful women of the Israelites saw her with Jesus\nin her arms, they went to her mercilessly and started to spit on her but\nshe didn't talk to them until she went into her champer and settled down,\nand then the Israelites came to her and Zacharias with them and they said\nto her: They said: O Mary! Thou hast come with an amazing thing, O sister\nof Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot(Mariam:27-28),\nand they meant to mock at her by that, and they charged her with adultery,\nand Aaron at their time was a wicked man so they made a comparison between\nher and him, and some others said that Aaron was a faithful man at their\ntime and they made a comparison between the two of them as to mock at her\nfor her great deed, and then they said to her: from where you got this\nchild? Then she pointed out to Jesus, and they said to her: How can we\ntalk to one who is in the cradle, a young boy? And God made her son Jesus\n(PUH) talk and he said: Lo! I am the slave of Allah. He hath given me the\nScripture and hath appointed me a Prophet, And hath made me blessed wheresoever\nI may be, and hath enjoined upon me prayer and almsgiving so long as I\nremain alive, And (hath made me) dutiful toward her who bore me, and hath\nnot made me arrogant, unblest. Peace on me the day I was born, and the\nday I die, and the day I shall be raised alive!(Mariam:30-33).\nIt is apparent from some narrations that the palm tree that she gave\nbirth to Jesus under was a dry palm tree as we mentioned before and no\none of the people was near by it and she had no water to drink or to wash\nherself, and she was upset and thought many times about what they would\nsay to her and what they would charge her with, but the Merciful the Knower\ncalmed her down and founded for her the dates from the dry palm-tree after\nthat it turned into green in the winter, and founded for her the running\nwater in that deserted landscape, and He is the One who is able to show\nher innocence in front of those who call her with bad names without obtaining\nthe truth, and He is the One to protect her and to prove her innocence,\nand if they meditated in heavens and earth and in whatever they contain\nof wonders they wouldn't be surprised to know that Jesus was created without\na father, and even it is not as wonderous as the creation of the human\nbeing from a man and a woman by a contact and not as wonderous as the creation\nof the rest of the animals with the change in their conditions, all of\nthat speaks about a fine Creator that is not to be reached by the minds\nof the people, and He said: And We made the son of Mary and his mother\na portent(Al-Mu'minun:50), and our speech is either dedicated to one of\nthe disbelievers or the hypocrites, and for this they are not to be blamed\nbut we are the one to be blamed for wasting time with them, and if it was\ndedicated to someone that believes in God and His miracles, then the matter\nis easy with them, and if it was dedicated to someone that doesn't believes\nmiracles but believes in God then we shall say: what do you deny from God's\ndeeds and He is the One who founded Adam without a father and a mother,\nand the One created Adam is able to create Jesus without a father, and\nso God said: Lo! the likeness of Jesus with Allah is as the likeness of\nAdam. He created him of dust, then He said unto him: Be! and he is(\u00c2l-`Imr\u00e2n:59),\nand it is narrated that the age of Mary when she gave birth to Jesus was\nthirteen years old, and she had period only twice before pregnancy, and\nonly God knows.\nIt is mentioned that God sent Jesus (PUH) to the Israelites in special\nand his prophecy started in Jerusalem, and his successors were the twelve\napostles that taught the people the regulations of his religion. It is\nmentioned in the argument between Al-Hasan (PUH) and the Roman king (Caesar),\nthat he (Al-Hasan) said to him: Jesus was thirty three years old and then\nGod raised him up to heaven and he shall come back down in Damascus, and\nhe is the one that shall kill the False Christ..etc.\nNext: Jesus is One of Those of Will","title":"The Prophets, Their Lives and Their Stories: Jesus The Son of Mary: The Pregnancy of Mary With Jesus And His Birth (PUT)","type":"page"}