Does the Quran Mention a Virgin Birth for Jesus (a.s.)? - Mufti Abu Layth

he then went on to say about the birth of Jesus and this is something that people are deviants for challenging now regarding Jesus Ali Ali Salaam in the Quran we know the language surrounding Jesus in the Quran is quite interesting okay because it's styled in ways that no Muslim beliefs about Jesus so for example Jesus is referred to on more than one occasion in the Quran as the Word of God

now that doesn't resonate with Muslims we don't believe in Jesus to be the Word of God that's a Christian thing get in the Quran so for example in Ali Imran verse 43 Allah says when giving glad tidings to Mary that they hear that she received glad tidings we kill him at a Minu but of the word coming from God is smoo al maseeh hi Sapna Mariam the Messiah Jesus the Son of Mary that will be his name this the word this is the word of God in another verse in Surat

Annisa 170 in normal Messiah is Sapna maryam rasool allah wa kelly but jesus is the messenger of god and his word which he sent down or threw down on to Mary and the Spirit of God whoa I mean once again what are these these words no Muslim really believes this about Jesus if you want to accept literal nobody believes that another see this is very like like in the Gospel of John that in the beginning there was you know in the beginning there was the word

and the word was with god and the word was god and as muslims if you believe that the word of god is uncreated then by that you ought to it follows almost ties into Jesus being uncreated because he is the word of God now Muslim sayo but by the Word of God here we just mean he was a miracle no but that word of God isn't used for any other prophet and you could say yeah because he didn't have a dad yeah but then you argue that Adam didn't have a dad and you don't refer to Adam as the Kelling Mutulu as

the Word of God so what what is going on why and then the word the Holy Spirit is used with no other prophet I mean it's used once as revelation coming down with the Holy Spirit but otherwise it's used on three occasions just with Jesus and so you have for example Allah says in Surat al-baqarah verse 87 well I get now who will help others and we assisted we gave him a help with the Holy Spirit this was to Jesus in surah Baqarah verse 253 well artena i said 'no Merryman

bayonetta we gave him the clear signs what a Vietnam be Royal quarters and we as helped him with the Holy Spirit in surah maidah verse 1 1 5 Allah says if call Allah yeah i said 'no maryam and when god said oh jesus the son of mary booth corneum a ti-liger remember my blessings upon you and your mother Juana why did it take a yet took a barrow help others when I helped you with the Holy Spirit once again what is this Holy Spirit this is mentioned with any other prophet generally you don't get any of this so there's a lot of rhetoric being used when it comes to Jesus that was

generally the kind of Christian rhetoric that is used in the Quran perhaps in a sense of building bridges between the Muslim and Christian communities and to maybe a find an ally in them and be maybe for many of them to convert and come closer find themselves in greater proximity to Islam and they by embrace the message right

right generally a he says 58:22 what what is that let's see let's see 58 saw rattle okay let me just see oh right no I've passed it sorry one moment I wish they would number in this myself I haven't got it numbered you see

right okay what verse did you say 58 22 21 22 let's I didn't know it doesn't say it doesn't say see this is my point it doesn't say in any verse of the Quran right I I mean see it says we help them with a spirit from him not with the Holy Spirit we're raw hello cutters raw hell cutters is the Holy Spirit not raw raw just

means spirit Holy Spirit which people will say is gibreel now that only comes generally comes wants to do with revelation that we sent down revelation with the Holy Spirit other than that with the only prophet that it is mentioned it is just ASA now my point of mentioning this is that the rhetoric with Jesus is is different so now when it comes to the virgin birth first of all it's a different topic that even in the Bible right now with the exception of the Gospel of Luke and

Matthew generally the Bible never really referred to in essence the virgin birth I mean this was an a the early Christians it's not it's Oh most likely that the early Christians did not believe in a virgin birth right this is the early Christians I'm not speaking about Muslims the early Christians most likely did not believe in a virgin birth and neither and the prophecy that they're referring to in the Old Testament even biblical scholars highlight that that word does not say butall virgin he says Alma which meant a young girl as in like a

young maiden which most likely was a virgin but didn't have to be so the same word is used with Solomon and the same word is used on a certain occasion Alma who had a child and so and it's one of the prophecies mentioned in the Old Testament that they kind of fall back on but you will see before the Gospels are written so any of the letters of the Apostles of the letters of for example Paul and all of these there is never a mention of a miraculous birth of Jesus and this comes much later definitely by the 2nd century 3rd century after Krish after Jesus

this becomes doctrine now the question is as well Mary is never in Islam referred to as the Virgin Mary this is a very Christian thing right that this is never the and some Muslims have started to fall victim to this we never say virgin mary virgin it mary is not referred to as maryam al bottle ok she is not Mary was definitely married and she was most likely definitely not a virgin generally speaking throughout her life like the Catholic Church likes to believe so for example Jesus had

brothers and sisters in fact the Gospel of Mark and definitely the Gospel of Matthew 13 mentions James josie's Jude Simon and unnamed sisters were the children of Mary and the siblings of Jesus that is mentioned so now just to highlight right so okay another thing I wanted to highlight the reason I was saying this is I've not said that people cannot believe in the virgin birth I've not said that I've said that the Muslims

have had a difference of opinion on this matter that you do have that as a general belief that Muslims feel that Mary had a virgin birth although no verse in the Quran says that she had in birth a verse implies it does not say just as the table verse implies that the table may come down but it doesn't say that it did happen like that so I'll come to that verse in just a moment now verse is implying notes oh yes of God he says in his thing this is a clear verse of the Quran I'd like him to show me what clear verse of the Quran says that it was a virgin birth that it happened

like that now not just implies but directly says that then I mentioned some Oh Lamar like Maulana Abdul Karim Allah thirty Alamut Amana Ahmadi and these people said that it was a natural birth and that's not the case but the miracle they highlighted was that when she got married to Joseph that Joseph would abstain and he was not interested in any kind of intimacy and hence when the angel came and she said but how can I have a child and I haven't even been touched that after that that she did conceive she conceived naturally just as

Ibrahim Ali Salons wife said how can I have a child and when the angel came to her and she said I've reached the menopause I'm an old lady and they said and the angel said well it's the decree of God it doesn't mean she had a natural somehow kind of non-sexual birth it does it didn't mean that just as the wife of Zechariah in the Quran who says that she was barren and she says well how can I have a child and the angel says it is the decree of God it doesn't mean that she just conceived just like that she had a husband Zachariah I mean that none of these and the same so these people who have argued this point have just

gone with with those two prophets before them they said well the same thing was said to them same thing was said to Mary everybody accepts Mary had a husband at the time Joseph the difference was was that birth a virgin birth Muslims do not believe verge she remained a virgin throughout her life nobody says these not Muslims anyway and even many Christians beyond the Catholics don't say that either so and here's another verse now this is an interesting one you see chef yes sir are you saying no we must only go with literal reading of the Quran in surah tota hareem in verse

verse 12 you had the verse about Mary whoa Mary my Boneta in Ramallah t Aston at for jaha and Mary who had been chaste and safe guarded her private parts and asana by the way is a verb that is used often in Arabic to do with safeguarded through marriage so hence they say when somebody is in trouble for adultery were they my son as Allah says in the Quran well ma sana 2 min an Nisa which is the beginning of the fifth juice is referring to those women who are married

who are chaste through marriage okay Imran Allah ty0 Mary my Boneta immorality a sonnet for John - ah now female Ruina you see this verse reads and maryam the daughter of Imran who safeguarded her genitals her private parts we breathed into the into it he says fauna naffy he into her private parts may Rowena of our spirit now that's in surah tutoring now as far

as I'm aware no Muslim would generally believe that to be literal I mean I don't know maybe share here sort of God he does believe it to be literal but generally Muslims don't believe God actually went and breathed into Mary's private parts with his spirit into that no but no Muslim that I'm aware of generally believes that to be literal so yet yet you're saying that any other verse must always take every literal implication so this is my this is my point

now this is the verse that you're referring to that in surah Maryam and there's another one as well but this one is in a bit more detail what Scofield kitabi Maryam and remember Maryam when she set off to a place for Taha that mean dunya major Byrne and then Allah says for our Salina alayha rohana Fatima Salalah hey Bashar and so we and we sent our spirit and this once again they say is the spirit here is the Holy Spirit being gibreel but Allah didn't say that but they this is the general understanding and he appeared as a strong man to her

as sorry as a fully-developed man call it in the house of a Romani minka in cantata the yeah she said I seek refuge in Allah from you caller in a manner of solo rock Becky I am the messenger of your Lord Lee AHA Bielecki Holloman zakiya so I may give to you a whole am a young boy now by the way most Muslims don't accept that either literally that he gave the child to to marry nobody Muslim I don't know any Muslim that accepts that literally so ahlet's I know you're cool alia gulaman

well am iam sesame Bashar well I'm aku buffer year she says that no man has touched me I'm not a woman of bad character Olek how can I have a child Carla can I make a call our bookie who I Leah hanging that such your Lord has said he and it is easy for him Wally Naja allahu and so that we may make him I attend Lena see where I'm at a mineral can I'm Nadia and then it mentions she became pregnant and went to a distant land and so on no we're here does it say that it was a virgin conception I'm just

saying you can still believe that I do accept it implies that just as the table verse implies is that the table was sent down yet several people didn't accept that it was sent down because he didn't clearly say so so a lot could have clearly said yes and Jesus didn't have a dad but a lot doesn't say that once in the Quran he does not say that so yes you can take this verse and say you know I I take from this that it she it was a virgin birth but to say people anybody who disagreed with that has left the Dino has become a deviant and gone against

this and that how that goes and and let me tell you and those people who argued against that so for example those like Maulana Abdul Karim ls3 his teacher maulana in ayatollah gujarati it was vizier Abadi and Allah mataman an Ahmadi and all these scholars that they have so for example they use this verse in the Quran which is in surah al-anam well I speaking about the prophets and in surah 80 verse 85 he says was that career yeah yeah Issa well yes I couldn't Minnesota Haines and all of these prophets were from the pious

people Zachariah yeah here ISA and Ilyas they were all pious what is my ill well yes sir were eunice were lute and all of these were : football now al al-amin and we favored all of these women ABBA him and their fathers we favored was the reality him of1 him and they brothers and offspring this verse would include jesus in de because it says it mentions these eight prophets and he says and their fathers now you could say yeah but that was just lit that was just usage language but it didn't include him crew

but it does seem to incline definitely weighs in on the side that he had a father weighs in on that side another verse that those people used is in surah 2 an arm and they using the quran d it's not that they making this stuff up allah says in surah al-anam and this is a very powerful verse that they use actual Allah when refuting people says buddy Osama wotty one Allah created the heavens and the earth Analia kun allahu willard how can god have a child listen to this listen to these people

I'm knockin allahu Welland how can God have a child well I'm talkin level sahiba and he did not have a wife or a companion you see because Allah is showing them the reasoning that how can God have a child and he didn't have a wife now if you're gonna say yeah but you could just have a miracle child like he did in the other verse so that means God's reasoning here that God has given is silly like God is arguing against them in unless the only reason that would make sense is if a

reason and the laws of nature make sense why else does this make sense why is God saying to them buddy or Sumati well on the allah the creator of the heavens and the earth Ania cool Allahu Allah how can he have a wallet well I'm talkin lava sahiba and he did not have a female companion because that's how babies are born so right so this shows this is a clear verse why otherwise this reasoning is to say the Lord you say well that's easy God doesn't need to God could just make a

child without having a female so then that's an argument like that's an argument against God for using that as an argument the only way that verse can make sense is if all births follow a natural law of order or natural order of law sorry so now the so these are the arguments used by these people who argued for a natural birth and like I said look it's entirely up to people I'm not saying you need to believe this I'm not saying you need to believe that but to declare deviant and to declare people like Oh

they've lost the plot they they no longer main three Muslims they no longer this they no longer that because they have this reading of the Quran when the Quran itself doesn't actually say that that's a huge stretch so I mean these are some words then he whoa the time right then