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Clearing Christian
Doubts
ABRAHAM A JEW?
Muslims considers that the first Muslim on the earth was not Muhammad but Abraham who submitted totally to Allah. But Islam as a way of life had been revealed to other prophets prior to Abraham like Adam and Noah. Then Islam follows as the way of life for all humanity. But Christians believe Abraham as a Jew. Bible didn’t calls him a Jew.
And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, and they came unto Haran and dwelt there (Genesis 11:31)
So Abraham who was born in Ur of Chaldees could not have
been a Jew.
First because Ur of Chaldees was in Mesopotamia, which is now a part of Iraq. He
was then more an Arab than a Jew.
Secondly the name Jew came after the existence of Judah, the great-grandson of
Abraham. (see chart below)
And Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran. . . and into the land of Canaan they come. (Genesis 12:4,5)
So Abraham emigrated to Canaan at the age of seventy five and the Bible clearly mentioned that he was there a stranger in another verse :
And I will give unto thee, and to they seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God (Genesis17:8)
And there came one that escaped , and told Abram the Hebrew. (Genesis 14:13)
How can you call Abraham a Jew if the Bible itself calls him a Hebrew, which means a man from the other side of the Euphrates. It also means pertaining to Eber, a descendant of Shem. If we read the following verse we will know what happened to the name of Jacob after wrestling with an angel.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. (Genesis 32:28)
So Abraham was a Hebrew. The descendants of Jacob were Israelites consisting of the twelve tribes, Judah was nicknamed “Jew” so that only Judah’s descendants were called Jews originally
MOSES A JEW ?
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Ghershon and Kohath, and Merari . . . . And the sons of Kohath; Amram . .. . And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses. (Exodus 6:16-20)
So Moses was also not a Jew because he was not descended from Judah but a Levite. Moses was the ‘law giver” (Torah is law) to the children of Israel. We are using the Holy Qur'an as standard. Christians can explain the Bible and correct the Jewish and Christian prejudices with the context of the Qur'an. It is the last revealed Book which has never been corrupted or adulterated. Its contents has been guaranteed by Allah is Chapter 2:2
This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt . . . (Holy Qur'an 2:2)
No doubt We have sent down the Qur'an and surely We will guard it (from corruption) (Holy Qur'an 15:9)
This verse is a challenger to mankind. It is a clear fact that more than fourteen hundred years have passed and not a single word of this Qur'an has been changed, although disbelievers tried their utmost to change it, but they failed miserably in their efforts. As it is mentioned in this Holy Verse :”We will guard this Book” by Allah, He has guard it.
On the contrary, all the other holy books (Torah, Psalms, Gospel etc.) have been adulterated in the form of additions, deletions, or alterations from the original.
Lets see what Qur'an says about Abraham and Moses that we can deduce it from the Bible.
O people of the Scripture [Jews and Christians] ! Why do you dispute about Abraham, while the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed till after him? Have you then no sense? (Holy Qur'an 3:65)
Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was a true Muslim (worshiper of none but Allah alone) and he joined none in worship with Allah. (Holy Qur'an 3:67)
Or say you that Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the twelve sons of Jacob were Jews or Christians? Say (O Muhammad) , “Do you know better or does Allah (know better)? And who is more unjust than he who conceals the testimony he has from Allah? And Allah is not unaware of what you do. (Holy Qur'an 2:140)
Of course they were not Jews or Christians as the name Jew came after Judah and the name Christians came long after Jesus had left.
(ICRA)