Tag: Asif Iqbal

  • The Three Dif­fer­ent Jesuses

    (I) JESUS IN JUDAISM * LIFE : - Estab­lish­ing the time of the ​“Jew­ish Jesus”: The ref­er­ence to Jesus in the Tal­mud is by the title : ​“Yeshu Ha-Notzri,” but accord­ing to Jew­ish chronol­o­gy, he lived at the time when Joshua Ben Per­akhyah led the San­hedrincir­ca 150 BCE ; see, for instance, San­hedrin 107b and, there­fore, pre­dat­ed Jesus accord­ing…

  • The Event of Wor­ship to the Gold­en Calf

    The Israelites repented about worshipping the golden calf BEFORE Moses returned from the mountain [7:149], yet they refused to repent but rather continued to worship the calf until Moses came back [20:91]. Does Aaron share in their guilt? No [20:85-90], yes [20:92, 7:151].

  • A Medieval Chris­t­ian Patri­arch on Prophet Muhammad

    A Medieval Chris­t­ian Patri­arch on Prophet Muhammad

    The fol­low­ing is an extract from the allo­cu­tion of Patri­arch Tim­o­thy I before the Caliph al-Mah­di on how he viewed the Prophet Muham­mad(P). I guess Chris­tians back then were not as intol­er­ant of oth­er faiths as how it might appear from their polem­i­cal web­sites such as ​“Answer­ing Islam”. It is enti­tled : Tim­o­th­y’s Apol­o­gy for Chris­tian­i­ty, Eng­lish trans­la­tion…