The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 22
CH. 19 MARYAM PT. 16 وَسَلَمٌ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمَ وُلِدَ وَيَوْمَ يَمُوتُ And peace was on him the. 16 day he was born, and the day he died, and peace there will be on him the day he will be raised up to life again. 2160 & a19:34. having greater intensification than and is one of the attributes of God meaning, the Merciful; the Compassionate God (Aqrab & Lane). 2160. Commentary: During the first few centuries of its life Islam made very rapid progress. Large numbers of people from every religion especially from Christianity, entered its fold. They brought with them some very erroneous beliefs about Jesus Christ. As they had not imbibed fully the true spirit of Islamic teachings, their false ideas and beliefs subsequently found their way into Muslim religious literature with the result that they came to form part of the beliefs of Muslims. All these beliefs had been invented to invest Jesus with an extraordinary personality a personality much above human level. It is these foolish beliefs about Jesus that the Quran seeks to demolish in the present Surah. By instituting a comparison between Yaḥyā, who was a Prophet of an ordinary spiritual stature, and Jesus, it means to suggest that there was nothing in Jesus which distinguished him from other Divine Messengers. We give below some of the spiritual qualities and characteristics of both these Prophets as given in the Quran to establish the above fact. وَيَوْمَ يُبْعَثُ حَيَّان About Jesus it is said that: 1. He was a Prophet of God (3:50). 2. 3. He was of the righteous (3:47). God taught him the Book and the wisdom (3:49). 4. He talked to people as a child i. e. in rather early age (3:47). 5. He was granted nearness to God (3:46). 6. He was kind and dutiful to his mother (19:33). 7. He was kind of heart and compassionate (5:119). 8. He was not haughty and unblessed (19:33). 9. He was blessed by God and was strengthened with the Spirit of Holiness (2:254; 19:32). 10. Divine peace enveloped him (19:34). 11. His name Messiah was given to him by God (3:46). About Yaḥyā it is said that: 1. He was a Prophet (3:40). 2. He was noble, chaste and a Prophet from among the righteous (3:40). 3. God gave him the Book and granted him wisdom (19:13). 4. God gave him wisdom while yet a child (19:13). 5. God was well pleased with him (19:7). 6. He was kind and dutiful to his 1936