Thursday, April 8, 2010
Faith & Logic: Extra-ordinary Birth of Jesus Christ
It was customary for Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928-2003), the 4th. Head of the Ahmadiyya Community, to hold sessions in which he responds to questions addressed to him. Presented below is the answer to a question raised at one such session. (Transcribed and edited by Waseem A. Sayed, PhD.)
Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff |
Source & Credit: AskIslam.Org
By His Holiness Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928-2003)
Question: Why did Hazrat Isa – Jesus (as) have such an extraordinary birth?
Answer: Well, many reasons have been suggested by Hazrat Masih-e-Maood (as)– Promised Messiah [the Holy Founder of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community]. One of them was that God wanted him to become a Sign for the House of Abraham through Israel that your end has reached. No man is holy enough now, in you, to give birth to a Prophet. So the line has come to an end, and like the railway line which comes to an end, you know, there, you find a sign posted, and something blocks the railway, as a sign that here it comes to an end.
So Jesus’ birth, according to Masih-e-Maood (as), was used as an indicator that here the house of Isaac comes to an end, house of Yaqub – Israel - here comes to an end. And the prophecy regarding the progeny of Hazrat Abraham would now shift to the other son that is Ismail and it is from his progeny that the prophets will begin to appear. Now, this is exactly what happened-exactly.
After Jesus, no real Prophet was born in the house of Israel. He is the last of the major Prophets. Small, minor soothsayers and divines of course were born but not worth mentioning. So, as far as the real Prophets of God are concerned, everybody knows, Jesus was the last. So, the Prophets shifted from that house to the house of Ismail and that’s what we see here that the birth of Hazrat Muhammad Rasoolullah (sa – peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and with that the new line of Abraham’s children was involved in this. O.K.- that is one good answer which is suggested by Hazrat Masih-e-Maood (as) himself.
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