I am updating this article which was written for another website several years ago. The facts haven’t changed but it does need some additional information that has been made available since it was originally written in 2012.. This is an attempt to factually demonstrate how Jesus is portrayed in Islamic holy texts such as the Quran and Hadith collections (teachings of Mohammed as recalled by those around him) by quoting those texts.
I want to start by saying that we currently live in a time where great opportunities are open to us to minister to the followers of Islam and bring the Gospel to them. It’s not the politically correct thing to do and it bizarrely will probably be called hate speech even by some churches, but it is what we are commanded to do in the Great Commission. Matthew 28 18:20 states:
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
At the same time we have to be knowledgeable of the cultures and religions of the people we minister to. This means understanding what Islam truly says about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There are many well meaning Christians that have been fooled by propaganda into thinking that Islam honors Jesus and is somehow just another way of Yahweh God making himself known to another group of people. Let’s just get this out of the way (and open the floodgates for hate mail). Islam the religion is of the Antichrist and is not of our God, Yahweh. I say this because 1 John 2:22-23 states:
22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
The Dome of the Rock circa 1920. Public Domain.
As you will see from this article, when the top of Mount Zion where the Temples of Yahweh stood (the literal throne of God on Earth before the coming of Christ) was turned into a mosque, the builders took great care to write a denial of Christ in huge letters along the inside of the dome. A portion of this inscription reads:
Believe therefore in God and his apostles, and say not Three. It will be better for you. God is only one God. Far be it from his glory that he should have a son.” (emphasis added) — Quote from Chapter (4) sūrat l-nisāa (The Women)
The Islamic authorities in Jerusalem go even further by denying that the Jews ever had any connection to Mount Zion. In 1998 the Grand Mufti, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, stated
“Moslems have no knowledge of awareness that the Temple Mount has any sanctity for Jews.” Makor Rishon, May 22, 1998.
In 2009 the former chairman of the Islamic-Christian Council for Jerusalem and the holy places, Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, stated:
“Jews have no connection to Jerusalem…. I don’t know any of the Jewish holy sites in it… Israel has been excavating since 1967 in search of remains of their temple or their fictitious Jewish History.” — Palestinian Media Watch, June 9, 2009.
I will in a future article go deeper into Islamic history and show why it is so important to them to deny the history of the Jews as the covenant people of Yahweh. For now, let’s more into what the holy texts of Islam say about the second figure of the Trinity, Jesus Christ. That analysis will begin in part two of this series.