UFAFANUZI: Mtume Mohamad amewahi kutenda muujiza gani?

UFAFANUZI: Mtume Mohamad amewahi kutenda muujiza gani?

Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?


"Tricks and simulated miracles"


"Many are those who trade in tricks and simulated miracles, duping the foolish multitude; and if nobody unmasked their subterfuges, they would impose them on everyone."



Leonardo da Vinci


(Manuscript F, Institut de France, 5v)
 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?
Waking the Dead

Did Jesus really "raise" anyone?

Dawn of the Dead?


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"And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,"


– Matthew 27.50.



Not a verse that gets much attention from the "historical Jesus" school.


Ancient Jewish lore said that the Lord would split open Mount Olivet and the righteous dead would rise.


This scenario crept into Matthew 27 but the other evangelists prudently ignored this challenging "historical event".
 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?


Bwana Paulo anatwambia katika Waebrania 9:27

Na kama ambavyo mwanadamu ameandikiwa kufa mara moja tu, na baada ya hapo kukabili hukumu


Unaweza kutuambia hao aliowafufua Yesu , Elisha, Eliya na wale waliofufuka wakati Yesu alipotundikwa msalabani wako nchi gani hivi sasa wakisubiri hukumu ???
 
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Outwitting the Grim Reaper – Luke's tale

The son of the Widow of Nain


The Hill of Moreh lies at the eastern end of the Jezreel plain. On its southwestern slope once stood the town of Shunem. It was here that the Old Testament prophet Elisha restored to life a woman's dead son. On the northern slopes of the same hill, about a mile away, stood the town of Nain. And it was here, according to the writer of Luke (though no one else), that Jesus Christ performed exactly the same trick.* To the rational mind, the Christian fable merely copies the Old Testament tale, ensuring that the new hero JC meets and exceeds the power of the earlier prophet. To the pious mind, the rehashed yarn achieves "fulfilment" in Christ.


Elisha's miracle is itself a reprise of a stunt performed by his mentor Elijah. In the "original" story, Elijah is hiding from King Ahab somewhere near Sidon. He is fed by a poor widow who is under "God's command" and miraculously her barrel of meal never runs out. But her son dies, and this affords Elijah an opportunity to restore him to life.


"And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks ... And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick ... there was no breath left in him ... And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD ... and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived. And Elijah took the child ... and delivered him unto his mother."

– 1 Kings 17.10,23.


In the updated Elisha version, the scene is transferred from Phoenicia to Galilee and the story is broken into two parts. In the first part a poor widow is rewarded with the multiplication of food miracle (this time it's oil). In the second part a childless woman is granted a child who, as a boy, inexplicably dies. Again, this presents an opportunity for a restoration of life miracle and Elisha, like Elijah, lays upon the child and breathes new life into him.


"And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed ... And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. ... And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son."

– 2 Kings 4.32,36.


In Luke's version of the same story there are, it seems, "original" elements, as well as the repeated motifs of "location", "widow" and "only son". JC meets the funeral procession on its way to the grave. Crying is mentioned and Jesus does not lie on the corpse but rather touches the burial casket and speaks to the body.


"Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not. And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother."

– Luke 7.12,15.


Historically authentic? Hardly. Consider the evidence from another funeral and another wonder-worker, Apollonius of Tyana.


"A girl had died just in the hour of her marriage, and the bridegroom was following her bier lamenting as was natural his marriage left unfulfilled, and the whole of Rome was mourning for him, for the maiden belonged to a consular family. Apollonius then, witnessing their grief, said: "Put down the bier, for I will stay the tears that you are shedding for this maiden". And withal he asked what was her name ...

Merely touching her and whispering in secret some spell over her, he at once woke up the maiden from her seeming death , and the girl spoke out loud and returned to her father's house, just as Alcestis did when she was brought back to life by Hercules."

– Flavius Philostratus, Vita Apollonii, 4.45.


Note that Philostratus' report of the 1st century Apollonius "raising the dead" refers back to an even earlier Greek myth(Euripides Alcestis) told of another demigod, Hercules!


In other words, in the Lucan tale we have not "history" but a classical "raising the dead" yarn which adapts elements of Greek myth to Jewish prototypes, filtered through a story told about a Pythagorean sage! We might also note that not only is "Luke" the sole gospel writer to mention the Widow of Nain tale but that "Luke" was the supposedly part-time travelling companion of Paul and certainly no "eye-witness" of Jesus.
 
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Outwitting the Grim Reaper – John's tale



The Raising of Lazarus


"The name Lazarus, in the same abbreviated form La'zar (for El'azar, Eleazar) which we find in the Gospels, is quite common on the ossuaries."

– W. F. Albright, The Archaeology of Palestine, p244.


The most famous of JC's "raisings" is the one reported by John. It is the most detailed and dramatic – which makes it all the more curious that it goes unrecorded in any of the synoptic gospels. But then, in a sense, it does appear, not as a miracle but as parable. A complex web is woven in which the threads are a place (Bethany), two sisters (Mary and Martha), a Simon, a jar of expensive ointment, Jesus' feet, a corpse and a return to life.


Early in Luke, after the incident at Nain and an exchange of messages with John the Baptist, Simon the Pharisee invites Jesus to dinner. As he eats, an unnamed prostitute "stood at his feet behind him" (!) and in some curious contortion manages to wash his feet with her tears, wipe them with her hair, and anoint them with ointment from an alabaster box. JC uses the occasion to pontificate on degrees of sin and love. (Luke 7.36,40).


A little later in Luke, JC finds himself in "a certain village" with "a certain woman" named Martha and a sister called Mary. To Martha's chagrin, Mary, rather than help with the dishes, "sat at Jesus' feet" to hear his words. The great man tells Martha to chill out, or words to that effect, declaring that Mary's action is "the good part". (Luke 10.38,42).


Luke's final contribution comes in chapter 16. JC has wended his way "through the cities and villages towards Jerusalem", telling a multitude of parables. One of the last he relates is the story of "a certain rich man" and a sick beggar called Lazarus, who has fed on crumbs from the rich man's table. Both die, the beggar taken up to heaven, the rich man down to hell. The pleas from the rich man for Lazarus to cool his thirst are in vain. It's payback time. The crunch line is delivered by JC:


"If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."

– Luke 16.19,31.


In these words Jesus mouths a rebuttal to any suggestion that a reanimated corpse might be a good way to convince unbelievers of his mighty power. Belief must come from scripture, not physical evidence. This rather nicely gets the priests out of a hole. Luke's parable is the only reference to a Lazarus in any of the synoptic gospels and there is no suggestion that the two sisters might have a brother of that name.


Matthew (and Mark) conflate Luke's first two stories into one. The village is now named as Bethany and the house is that of Simon the Leper. As Jesus eats, an unnamed woman anoints his head by pouring "very precious ointment" from an alabaster box. The disciples protest at the waste (not to mention the mess) but JC declares that the woman has "wrought a good work". (Matthew 26.3,13; Mark 14.1,9).


John's gospel now completes the wondrous yarn by weaving all three of Luke's tales into one. Lazarus is no longer the hero of a parable but is the flesh-and-blood brother of Martha and Mary. The opening verses of chapter 11 make clear that the unnamed prostitute with such versatile hair that featured in Luke 7 in fact is Mary of Bethany.


"Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick."

– John 11.1,2.


The sisters have not hitherto been mentioned in John so clearly the writer is working from the other gospels. Apparently, Jesus loves the whole family (note the emphasis – but doesn't he love everybody?) – Lazarus "he whom thou lovest", Martha and her sister "Jesus loved". The sisters "sent unto him" (does everybody have a servant?) but Jesus dallies. It seems he already knows Lazarus is sick but is unconcerned, events will all reflect "to his glory":


"When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby."

John 11.4.


Where exactly is Jesus at this point? He has "escaped" out of Jerusalem and is beyond the Jordan "where John first baptized." John says in 1.28 that this is "Bethabara" but no such place is known to history. Many Bibles "correct" this (confusingly) to read Bethany to flow with the following verses (well, it is all a fiction, after all!). After an affected delay Jesus deigns to visit his now dead friend, in his grave four days and "stinking". The motif of "four days" is chosen in deference to the Jewish notion that the soul hovers at the grave for three days. Lazarus is really dead.


Martha goes out to meet the approaching holy man and affirms her faith in both resurrection "at the last day" and Jesus as the Son of God. Inexplicitly Jesus again dallies, this time allowing Martha to "secretly" tell her sister Mary that "the Master" has called for her. Mary rushes out to fall at JC's feet (love those feet!) and Jesus, who knows everything, asks where Lazarus is buried. The crowd of Jews who have gathered in sympathy question whether Jesus could have saved the life of his "loved friend" (the one that we have never heard of before). Jesus groans and weeps.


At the cave where Lazarus is buried Jesus orders the removal of the stone door and very publicly prays, explaining his motive for this to God himself (who surely knows everything?).


"Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me."

– John 11.41,42.


Finally, Jesus shouts "Lazarus, come out!" and the dead man emerges, grave clothes and all.


At this point, "Lazarus", loved friend and restored dead man, is all but entirely dropped from the story (what? no tales from the grave?). Instead, John's focus is back on JC and a repeat of the "costly ointment/hair wiping feet" scene from the synoptic gospels referred to briefly at verse 11.2. History is about to repeat itself.


But there is no possibility this could be a a second, similar instance. John picks up the precise value of the ointment ("spikenard") used at Mark 14.4 ("three hundred pence"). John reiterates identical Jesus dialogue to justify his indulgence of costly ointment "because the poor are always with you". And John has Jesus issue the same instruction to his disciples to "Let her alone!" The only difference is that John has shifted the indignation of the disciples (Matthew 26.8, Mark 14.4) to one disciple alone. Judas Iscariot, son of Simon (the Pharisee or is that the Leper?!) has been fingered as the bad guy.


"Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this."

– John 12.3,7.


What are we to make of a "historical" event that both begins and ends at the same moment in "history", a pastiche of borrowed elements and recycled names? The answer is NO HISTORY AT ALL. The "raising of Lazarus" is as bogus as the flying pigs of Gadara and the birthing of a god from a Jewish virgin. The rehashed story does not even have its origins with fiction from the synoptic gospels but rather with a rabbinic tale of Bar Majan the tax collector, itself copied from Egyptian funeral texts of El-Azar, an ancient prototype for the Lazarus parable of judgement in the afterlife.


But then, why waste a good yarn?
 
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Outwitting the Grim Reaper – Jairus' daughter

All three synoptic gospels tell the story of a 12-year-old girl who had died in her bed and was visited by Jesus. The child it seems was the daughter of "a ruler of the synagogue" called Jairus. Jesus took hold of the girl's hand and told her to get up. That's all it took to return the girl to life. One presumes that the dire malady which had caused her premature death had been cured at the same time and the girl didn't just die the next day!
A simple tale, which, significantly, in each gospel is interrupted by a second story, of a woman having a 12-year issue of blood, who is cured by touching JC's garment, "cured by faith". Note the contrast: JC's healing hands perform miracles but so does faith in the Lord. The message is clear: don't expect miracles, your faith will cure you.


Who were the witnesses to this little drama of outwitting the grim reaper? Mark tells us it was three disciples and the parents:


"And he suffered no man to follow him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James ... And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying."

– Mark 5.37,40.


Luke
agrees:


"And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden."

– Luke 8.51.


What pulls the carpet from under this shaggy-dog story is that only one of the witnesses wrote a testimony – Johnand he says not a word about it! Perhaps that is why both Mark and Luke add that JC's performance was kept secret: "He charged them straitly that no man should know it" – Mark 5.43; "He charged them that they should tell no man" – Luke 8.56. Unfortunately this instruction does not seem to have reached the ears of Matthew. This evangelist reports the exact opposite:


"The fame here of went abroad into all that land."

– Matthew 9.26.


What we have here, then, is not eye-witness testimony to a reality but inconsistent "testimony" from non-witnesses. Their tale is especially suspect because it is not confirmed by the only purported "witness" to the drama. As Robert Price suggests, "We ought to catch the hint that it is fictional, as the name 'Jairus' means 'He will awaken."! (The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, p152) It is also possible that the evangelists were browsing through their well-thumbed copy of Josephus for good ideas.
 
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Outwitting the Grim Reaper – Matthew's Tale


When the Saints come marching in


"Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."

– Matthew 27.50,53.

This primitive piece of holy moonshine did not really make it into "mainstream" Christianity. It's there in Matthew (and gains some support in the so-called epistles of Ignatius) but the other gospellers prudently avoid repeating such nonsense. If they had, we would surely be entertained by apologists claiming that this mass rising had really happened and that it represented "fulfilled prophecy": the verses in Matthew are a crib from the soothsayer Zechariah, complete with "earthquake cleaving the Mount of Olives" and the dead saints rising and repopulating Jerusalem.


"Behold, the day of the LORD cometh ... And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south ... ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with thee."

– Zechariah 14.1,5


The three orphaned verses of Matthew are the residue of this very early notion that cosmic upheaval would accompany the coming of the Messiah. The chronology is uncertain but implicitly judgement day has begun, and with it the separation of the righteous from the godless.


But the melodrama has an obvious basis in the mundane. Separating the old walled city of Jerusalem from Mount Olivet to the east is a depression which has been known variously as the Valley of Jehoshaphat, Wadi en Nar (Valley of Fire) and the Kidron Valley. Its extension running immediately south west of the old city was the Valley of Hinnom, which originally enjoyed the name Gehenna. It was here that ritualistic burning of human sacrifices occurred (well, according to Jeremiah and 2 Chronicles, that is). No doubt the real burning of enemies led to the prophetic notion that on the Day of the Lord faithful Jews would gloat on the godless in torment below from the sanctuary of their holy mountain.


"Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who were with me, replied, This valley is the accursed of the accursed for ever. Here shall be collected all who utter with their mouths unbecoming language against God, and speak harsh things of His glory. Here shall they be collected. Here shall be their territory."

– 1 Enoch 26.2.


Gehenna
superceded the older (and less terrifying) Sheol as the underworld of the Jews and would in time become the Hell so beloved by the Christians. In a "first draft" for the End Time, their Messiah's arrival would signal a general resurrection of the saints who would emerge from the graves of Mount Olivet. The entire apocalyptic landscape of Judgement, Heaven and Hell reflects nothing other than the localized topography of the hills and valleys of Jerusalem!


The "loose end" of many walking dead in Matthew led the other evangelists to adopt an alternative scenario that JC was the "first fruit" of resurrection and that the "general resurrection" would have to wait.


Smart move, or everyone might have asked, What happened to those raised saints strolling about Jerusalem?
 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?

Deception


Thus by small steps a complex weave of fantasy is woven. As indeed the Church Fathers cheerfully admit:


"I will only mention the Apostle Paul. ... He, then, if anyone, ought to be calumniated; we should speak thus to him: ‘The proofs which you have used against the Jews and against other heretics bear a different meaning in their own contexts to that which they bear in your Epistles.

We see passages taken captive by your pen and pressed into service to win you a victory, which in volumes from which they are taken have no controversial bearing at all ... the line so often adopted by strong men in controversy – of justifying the means by the result."

– St. Jerome, Epistle to Pammachus (xlviii, 13; N&PNF. vi, 72-73)


Was Saint Paul an unabashed liar? From this verse in Romans it would appear so:


"For if the truth of God hath more abounded by my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also adjudged a sinner?" – St. Paul, Romans 3.7.


However in context Paul is actually censuring other Christians who say "Let us do evil, that good may come" (that is, from God's judgement). But like Paul we can "take the passage captive" to make a point.
 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?

Luminaries of Deception



Jerome is not alone in his candour. Bishop Eusebius, the official propagandist for Constantine, entitles the 32nd Chapter of his 12th Book of Evangelical Preparation:


"How it may be Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine, and for the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived."


Eusebius is notoriously the author of a great many falsehoods – but then he does warn us in his infamous history:


"We shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity."

– Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 8, chapter 2.


Clement of Alexandria was one of the earliest of the Church Fathers to draw a distinction between "mere human truth" and the higher truth of faith:


"Not all true things are the truth, nor should that truth which merely seems true according to human opinions be preferred to the true truth, that according to the faith."

– Clement (quoted by M. Smith, Clement of Alexandria, p446)


John Chrysostom, 5th century theologian and erstwhile bishop of Constantinople, is another:


"Do you see the advantage of deceit? ...

For great is the value of deceit, provided it be not introduced with a mischievous intention. In fact action of this kind ought not to be called deceit, but rather a kind of good management, cleverness and skill, capable of finding out ways where resources fail, and making up for the defects of the mind ...

And often it is necessary to deceive, and to do the greatest benefits by means of this device, whereas he who has gone by a straight course has done great mischief to the person whom he has not deceived."


– Chrysostom, Treatise On The Priesthood, Book 1.


'Golden Mouth' John is notable for his extensive commentaries on the Bible which emphasized a literal understanding of the stories; the style popular at Alexandria until then was to acknowledge an allegorical meaning of the text.


Thus eminent ‘believers’ added falsehood to the beliefs of later generations. ‘For the best of reasons’ they ‘clarified’ obscure points, conjured up characters to speak dialogue that could have been said, invented scenarios that could have happened, borrowed extensively from a wider culture. And this all before they became the custodians of power and had real reasons for lies, inventions and counterfeits. As we shall see, god’s immutable laws became as flexible as putty.


The 5th and 6th centuries was the 'golden age' of Christian forgery. In a moment of shocking candour, the Manichean bishop (and opponent of Augustine) Faustus said:


"Many things have been inserted by our ancestors in the speeches of our Lord which, though put forth under his name, agree not with his faith; especially since – as already it has been often proved – these things were written not by Christ, nor [by] his apostles, but a long while after their assumption, by I know not what sort of half Jews, not even agreeing with themselves, who made up their tale out of reports and opinions merely, and yet, fathering the whole upon the names of the apostles of the Lord or on those who were supposed to follow the apostles, they maliciously pretended that they had written their lies and conceits according to them."


In the ferocious battle for adherents, the propagandists sought to outdo each other at every turn. One example: by the 5th century, four very different endings existed to Mark's gospel. Codex Bobiensis ends Mark at verse 16:8, without any post-crucifixion appearances; it lacks both the 'short conclusion' (of Jesus sending followers to 'east and west') or the 'long conclusion' – the fabulous post-death apparitions, where Jesus promises his disciples that they will be immune to snake bites and poison.


Once the Church had grabbed mastery of much of Europe and the middle-east, its forgery engine went into overdrive.


'The Church forgery mill did not limit itself to mere writings but for centuries cranked out thousands of phony "relics" of its "Lord," "Apostles" and "Saints" … There were at least 26 'authentic' burial shrouds scattered throughout the abbeys of Europe, of which the Shroud of Turin is just one … At one point, a number of churches claimed the one foreskin of Jesus, and there were enough splinters of the "True Cross" that Calvin said the amount of wood would make "a full load for a good ship." '

– Acharya S, The Christ Conspiracy.




Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), the tireless zealot for papal authority – he was the founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) – even wrote:


"We should always be disposed to believe that which appears to us to be white is really black, if the hierarchy of the church so decides."


The Reformation may have swept away some abuses perpetrated by the priesthood but lying was not one of them. Martin Luther, in private correspondence, argued:


"What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them."

– Martin Luther (Cited by his secretary, in a letter in Max Lenz, ed., Briefwechsel Landgraf Phillips des Grossmüthigen von Hessen mit Bucer, vol. I.)
 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?


All Liars


'Only lies have our fathers handed down to us, emptiness in which there is nothing of any avail!'


– Jeremiah 16.19.



A Lying Prophet


'And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, "Thou mayest certainly recover": howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.'


– 2 Kings 8.10.


 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?


Father of Lies?


"All scripture is given by inspiration of God"

– 2 Timothy 3.16.


"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."
– 2 Thessalonians 2.11




It's Official – White is Black!


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Ignatius Loyola – Jesuit Fuhrer
 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?


Born under star' from soothsayer with talking donkey!


And if you've ever wondered where the "born under a star" nonsense began it actually comes from the mouth of an Arab wizard supposedly hired to curse the Israelites.



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"And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.


And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay."



– Numbers (22.29,30)


A little later Balaam utters the words wrenched out of context centuries later by Christian novelists:


"And Balaam said unto Balak ... there shall come a Star out of Jacob."


– Numbers (24.12,17)
 
Manabii na Mitume wengi walikuwa ni watu wa Kutenda miujiza mikuu ya kudhihirisha uwepo wa MUNGU mkuu.
Mfano;
1. Musa: Alitenganisha Bahari kuwaokoa wanaisraeli.

2. Eliya: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa

3. Elisha: Alifufua mtu aliyekufa na kuponya waliugua

4. Yesu: Huyu alifanya makuu mengi sana, mnayafahamu

5. Nuhu: alitengeneza Safina kuokoa viumbe dhidi ya gharika

6. Paulo: aliponya walougua

7. Daniel: alitupwa kwenye banda la Simba wenye njaa na kutoka hai.

8. Shadrack, Meshaki, na Abednego: walitupwa kwenye tanulu la moto mkali kiasi kwamba hata walinzi walioenda kuwatupa walifariki kwa joto la moto ule, lakini cha kushangaza hao jamaa hawakuungua wala kupata jeraha la moto. Mfalme Nebukadineza akaduwaa na kuamini kweli Mungu yupo.

9. Yona: alimgomea mwenyezi Mungu baada ya kuambiwa aende akahubiri, lakini yeye akaamua kutoroka na kupanda jahazi ambalo badae lilipigwa na dhoruba ikabidi wenzake wamtupe Yona kwenye maji hili dhoruba litulie, na kweli lilitulia, Yona akamezwa na Samaki mkubwa na akaishi tumboni mwa samaki na siku kadhaa akaenda kutapikwa na samaki huyo nchi kavu. Badae akatii kwenda kuhubiri.

10: Lutu: MUNGU alitenda muujiza wa kuunguza miji ya Sodoma na Gomorrah baada ya Ushoga, mapenzi ya jinsia moja na dhambi za kila aina kukithiri katika miji hiyo, ambapo Lutu aliwapokea Malaika ambao walitumwa kwa kazi maalumu ya kuokoa familia ya lutu.

Hao ni wachache baina ya yaliyomengi yaliyotendwa au kukumbwa na watumishi wa Mungu.

Katika mapokeo ya Kiislamu, Mtume Muhammad kwa ujumla hahusiani na kufanya miujiza kama vile manabii wengine, kama vile Musa au Yesu, wanavyoelezewa katika Biblia. Badala yake, Waislamu wanaamini kwamba Quran, kitabu kitakatifu cha Uislamu, kinachukuliwa kuwa muujiza wake mkuu. Quran inaaminika kuwa neno halisi la Mwenyezi Mungu kama ilivyoteremshwa kwa Mtume Muhammad kwa kipindi cha miaka 23. Sifa zake za kiisimu na kifasihi, pamoja na mwongozo unaoutoa, huonwa kuwa wa miujiza na Waislamu.

Kuna baadhi ya matukio na matukio yaliyoripotiwa katika Hadith za Kiislamu ambayo yanachukuliwa kuwa ni miujiza, kama vile Isra na Miraj, ambayo ni Safari ya Usiku na Kupaa kwa Mtume, ambapo inasemekana alisafiri kutoka Makka kwenda Yerusalemu na. akapanda mbinguni. Hata hivyo, haya kwa kawaida hayasisitizwi kama kipengele kikuu cha utume wake kwa jinsi miujiza inavyosisitizwa katika hadithi za manabii wengine katika baadhi ya mapokeo mengine ya kidini.

Je Mohamad alifanya muujiza upi wa kuonekana au alikumbwa na muujiza hupi kuzihirisha ukuu wa MUNGU?
Ukitaka kujua Miujiza aliyotenda bado una fursa ya kusoma Vitabu vinavyomtaja, baadhi ya Watu wameweza kukusaidia kukwambia Miujiza aliyotenda.
 
Muhamad sio Mtume labda kwa jamii ya waarabu.

Muhamad huwez kumuweka kundi moja na hao mnaowaita manabii+mitume , maana huyo jamaa alikuwa na tabia chafu kama ubakaji, uuaji na kushikilia watumwa, pia huyu jamaa hawezi kuwa na sifa ya Utume labda kama alijituma yeye mwenyewe na kujipa huo utume wa mchongo, pili hakuwa na nguvu za kutenda miujiza wala maajabu yoyote.

Tatu, dini yake na huyo Mungu wake Allah ni mbaguzi hawezi kuwa Mungu wa jamii zote dunian kama analazimisha lugha moja tu ya kiarabu ndio iwe lugha ya imani na kitabu chake cha dini, pia huyo muhamad kama kweli ni mtume basi atabaki kuwa mtume wa waarabu pekee maana ktk jamii za afrika na ulaya hatambuliki kwakuwa hakuna jamii zilizomjua wala utume wake kufika huko isipokuwa kwa mauaji na injili ya vita na kueneza biashara haramu za utumwa wa binadamu.

Muhamad ni jambazi
Astaghfirullah! Ewe ndugu yangu muogope Mwenyezi Mungu na usiseme isipokuwa ya haki tu. Usimsingizie Mtume wa Mwenyezi Mungu mambo ya uongo. Nakushauri kabla ya kumtukana Mtume Muhammad SAW usome kuhusu maisha yake. Tafuta vitabu usome usikariri tu unayosikia kwa wapuuzi.

Mtume Muhammad SAW ni mpole sana na mkarimu sana. Nilipoisoma historia ya maisha yake na mateso aliyopitia na jinsi alivyokuwa mpole na msamehevu nilijikuta ninatokwa na machozi. Muhammad ni mtu mwema sana.
Nakuombea Mwenyezi Mungu akusamehe kwani unasema hivyo kwa sababu tu hujui
 
Hiyo Quran ndio muujiza wenyewe ukiisoma ndio utajua.

Ni sawa Mitume wa zamani walipewa miujiza kama ilivyoelezwa lakini pamoja na miujiza yote je watu waliamini? Huyo Firauni ndio alionyeshwa miujiza tena mikubwa mikubwa na mbona hawakuamini pamoja miujiza waliyopewa.? Si walisema Musa AS ni mchawi? Hata Muhammad SAW ndio hivyo hivyo hata angewaleta Malaika live wakawaona still bado binadamu wasingeamini vile vile wangesema ni uchawi.

Anaye amini ni yule anayesikia maneno ya Mwenyezi Mungu kwa hivyo fungua masikio na akili yako na usome Quran Mwenyezi Mungu atakuongoza kwenye imani.
 
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