THE STORY OF MARYAM'S BIRTH PART 13

Altering the Religion of Isa

 

Allah said,

  

وَمُطَهِّرُكَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ 

And purify (save) you from those who disbelieve,

 

by raising you to heaven,

  

وَجَاعِلُ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوكَ فَوْقَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ إِلَى يَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ 

And I will make those who follow you superior to those who disbelieve, till the Day of Resurrection.

 

This is what happened. When Allah raised Isa to heaven, his followers divided into sects and groups. 

 

Some of them believed in what Allah sent Isa as, a servant of Allah, His Messenger, and the son of His female-servant. 

 

However, some of them went to the extreme over Isa, believing that he was the son of Allah. 

 

Some of them said that Isa was Allah Himself, while others said that he was one of a Trinity. 

 

Allah mentioned these false creeds in the Qur'an and refuted them.

 

The Christians remained like this until the third century CE, when a Greek king called, Constantine, became a Christian for the purpose of destroying Christianity.

 

Constantine was either a philosopher, or he was just plain ignorant. Constantine changed the religion of Isa by adding to it and deleting from it. He established the rituals of Christianity and the so-called Great Trust, which is in fact the Great Treachery. He also allowed them to eat the meat of swine, changed the direction of the prayer that Isa established to the east, built churches for `Isa, and added ten days to the fast as compensation for a sin that he committed, as claimed.

So the religion of Isa became the religion of Constantine, who built more then twelve thousand churches, temples and monasteries for the Christians as well as the city that bears his name, Constantinople (Istanbul).

To be continued إن شاء الله

Taken from Tafseer Ibn Katheer of Surah Aal Imraan

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