JESUS IS A
PROPHET OF ALLAH
Jesus ('Eesaa in Arabic) is the penultimate Messenger and Prophet of God
sent to mankind. He is held by over 1 ½ Billion Muslims worldwide in the
highest esteem. Jesus, just like many Prophets before him, called his people to
not only say they believe in God, but to obey and submit to the law of the
Creator, he commanded good (i.e. the commands of God) and forbade evil all the
while passing the message of his Lord, he guided his people to seek the
pleasure of the Creator (and not just to pursue one’s own selfish benefit and
interest) being a model for them to follow as well as an example for those who
came after him, until the advent of the Final Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ).
Jesus struggled against the corruption of the society in which he lived
– the oppressive man-made law, the promiscuousness and exploitation – the way
the Muslims today struggle against the decadence of the societies in which we
live. In the same way that alcohol, drugs, gambling and pornography have dragged
today’s societies into an abyss of depravity, similarly in the time of Jesus
the people were prone to all kinds of evil under the hegemony of the then Roman
Empire. Ultimately, Jesus and his followers were subjected to severe torture
and tyranny until he was taken up by God to be sent back to mankind towards the
end of time.
We can envisage that if alive in the UK today, Jesus would undoubtedly
have supported the struggle of the indigenous people in Palestine and Syria. He
would have supported the Palestinians being thrown out of their homes as
opposed to the occupiers and he would have supported the millions of Syrian
Muslims being murdered by Bashar Al-Assad. Jesus was a Muslim (submitter to the
commands of God) and like the Muslims today, called mankind to obey the law of
God as opposed to the law of man; and because he was labeled a radical
fundamentalist and challenged, exposed and spoke out against the man-made ideas
of his time, the government of that time, because they hated his message, introduced
their own anti-terror laws and interned him without trial in an attempt to
suppress the true word of God, not dissimilar to the many draconian laws being
introduced today against Islam and Muslims under the guise of opposing
Terrorism!
One might argue that this is a secular society and that in the new
millennium we have progressed so that ‘that was then and this is now’. However,
the nature of the divine revelation is that it transcends time so that it is as
relevant today as it was at the time of the Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ). God
sent His Messengers to mankind to guide them, to show them how to live their
lives in order to satisfy their instincts, feelings and emotions in a way which
gives them tranquillity and satisfaction in this life, and eternal bliss in the
Hereafter. One might also argue that Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus and
that it is today more a pagan festival when people merely get together to enjoy
themselves and make merry. Nevertheless, it is still pertinent, at one of the
few times in the year when some people at least do think about Jesus, to
contemplate on what he stood for and the message that he brought in what is
after all considered to be a ‘Christian country’. Just as the Muslims in the UK
insist that their allegiance is to God alone, similarly Jesus asked his people
to obey his Lord as opposed to weak men like David Cameron and Barack
Obama who follow nothing but their own whims and desires.
We therefore invite the British people this Christmas to embrace the
final testimony to mankind, Islam, as a complete way of life. We ask the
British people to discover how, unlike previous Messengers who came to their
own people, the Messenger Muhammad (ﷺ) came to the whole of mankind. And to
study how, when the Islamic Shari'ah was implemented as a law and order, far
from causing people more misery and suffering, the Khilafah system brought the
answers and solutions to all the problems that we still face today, such as
starvation, poverty, unjust wars, torture, murder and oppression. We extend to
you today an invitation to embrace the fastest growing belief in the world
Al-Islam and accept Jesus and Muhammad as Prophets of Allah.
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