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This short paper in approximately 20 pages reviews the miracles bestowed by Allah (God) on Prophet Jesus. For more details on Quran’s addressing the Christians, Jews, and Muslims on this topic, refer to the book “JESUS: The Prophet who Didn’t Die” (available at HilalPlaza.com). Islam considers Jesus as Prophet of Allah (God) – not Son of God. Quran repeatedly references Jesus as “son of Maryam”.
Like many other prophets, Prophet Jesus was also empowered with multiple miracles. These special powers have enabled prophets to help their peoples guide toward truth and to convince them about their “divine role” and the truth of their teachings. According to Ibn Kathir (a famous Islamic scholar) every prophet was given a miracle that suited his time . For example, at the time of Moses, magicians were at their peak and the power of magic was highly praised. So, Allah gave Moses a set of “magical” miracles which astonished even the highly praised magicians of that period and convinced them of the divinity of Allah (God) and truth of Moses’ teachings. Similarly, during the time of Jesus, knowledge in physics and medicine was advancing. So Jesus brought miracles which could not be performed by medicine and physics at that time. Jesus could bring clay to life. He could cure blindness and leprosy. He could even bring the dead to life again. Ibn Kathir goes on to say that like Jesus and Moses, Muhammad (peace be upon him) was also given a miracle that suited his time.
According to him;
“Muhammad was sent during the time of eloquent people and proficient poets. He brought them a Book from Allah; if mankind and the Jinn tried to imitate ten chapters, or even one chapter of it, they will utterly fail in this task, even if they tried to do it by collective cooperation. This is because the Qur'an is the Word of Allah.” (Kathir I. )
Other topics discussed in this paper include the following:
- Introduction
- Background on Maryam and Jesus
- Maryam’s Birth and the decision for her Guardianship
- Life of Maryam
- Birth of Jesus
- Maryam Comes Back to Jerusalem
- Isa speaks from the cradle
- Introduction to Jesus’ Miracles
- Jesus speaking in the cradle as an infant
- Allah sent a table of food for his disciples on his request
- Jesus could breathe life into objects made of clay
- Healing the Blind and the Leper
- Power to know what people had eaten and stored in their homes
- Conclusion