Search This Blog

Friday, January 16, 2009

Jumáh Journal-Temptation

These days there is a lot of exposition of and reflections on Armageddon, the biblical story of the final battle between the good and evil (and the scene is located in Yeroshalem area)
No, I am not commenting on the Ghazza battle though it can very well be a precursor of such well-predicted event.
They reveal the battle between good (equivalent to God) and evil (equivalent to Satan).
Firstly Satan (at least according to Islamic understanding) was himself created by God, so it appears rather peculiar that Satan who has been given the powers he possesses, by God, will "fight" God. That may be Christian version because they believe Jesus PBUH to be God also, in addition to being His Son.
Most peculiar however in that belief is that Satan makes his attempt at TEMPTING him (I am sure you have all heard about this when the movie came out about this temptation).
Can God be tempted? If so then how can he NOT be human?
That leads to the dual nature, Jesus was human as well as divine, the arguments goes on and then the third dimension "holy Ghost" comes in. Well, it is true that we as Muslims cannot understand it
Well there are so many other things about Jesus PBUH which are clearly human and cannot be continued to be explained on the basis of " His way of teaching human beings how to be good human."
The Qurán is clear about why and who should be the messenger, apostle, prophet of God, to the human beings:

"Say, if there were settled, on earth angels walking about in peace and quiet, We should certainly have sent them down from the heavens an angel for an apostle" S. 17th Bani Israel, Aya 95, Yusuf Ali's Translation of the Qurán