Surat Al `Imran (51-60)

{إِنَّ اللهَ رَبِّي وَرَبُّكُمْ فَاعْبُدُوهُ هَذَا صِرَاطٌ مُسْتَقِيمٌ} [آل عمران: 51]

51- Allah is my Lord and yours. You and we subject to Him in servitude and obedience, so keep to worshipping and obeying Him because it is the Straight Path that pious Muslims follow.

{فَلَمَّا أَحَسَّ عِيسَى مِنْهُمُ الكُفْرَ قَالَ مَنْ أَنْصَارِي إِلَى اللهِ قَالَ الحَوَارِيُّونَ نَحْنُ أَنْصَارُ اللهِ آَمَنَّا بِاللهِ وَاشْهَدْ بِأَنَّا مُسْلِمُونَ} [آل عمران: 52 ]

52- When Jesus [peace be upon him] felt that they insist on disbelief and going into the way of aberrance, and they wanted to kill him, he said to the people: Who shall follow and help me in calling to the religion of Allah?

The Apostles who were the elite among the Children of Israel said: We are the supporter of the religion of Allah and His Messenger. We shall aid and support you because we had believed in Allah as our Lord and you as a messenger, so be our witness that we have submitted to the command of Allah and devoted ourselves to Him.

{رَبَّنَا آَمَنَّا بِمَا أَنْزَلْتَ وَاتَّبَعْنَا الرَّسُولَ فَاكْتُبْنَا مَعَ الشَّاهِدِينَ} [آل عمران: 53]

53- O Allah, we have believed in the Scriptures that you sent down and followed Your Messenger, Jesus son of Mary, in all that he commands and prohibits, so write us from the witnesses with the nation of Muhammad [peace be upon him] because they are witnesses to people.

{وَمَكَرُوا وَمَكَرَ اللهُ وَاللهُ خَيْرُ المَاكِرِينَ} [آل عمران: 54]

54- The disbelieving group who opposes Jesus [peace be upon him] moved to kill him in cold blood after he had been accused lying and sorcery, and after claiming falsly his pure and chaste mother with adultery, and reported him to the king. However, Allah spoiled their plots because Allah is more Powerful than they are, Most precise, Wise, All-Able to revenge.

Al Baghawy said: The word "Makr" in Arabic in regard of the creatures means: Malice, plot, and deception. However, "Makr" in regard of Allah means: Respite the servant for a while and taking him suddenly from where he does not know. He said also that the meaning is: The Makr of Allah in this Ayah means that He made the one who wanted to kill Jesus [peace be upon him] exactly looks like him until he was killed!

{إِذْ قَالَ اللهُ يَا عِيسَى إِنِّي مُتَوَفِّيكَ وَرَافِعُكَ إِلَيَّ وَمُطَهِّرُكَ مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا وَجَاعِلُ الَّذِينَ اتَّبَعُوكَ فَوْقَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِلَى يَوْمِ القِيَامَةِ ثُمَّ إِلَيَّ مَرْجِعُكُمْ فَأَحْكُمُ بَيْنَكُمْ فِيمَا كُنْتُمْ فِيهِ تَخْتَلِفُونَ} [آل عمران: 55]

55- Allah said to His Prophet, Jesus: I shall make your eyes sleep, I shall lift you to me, bring you out from among the infidels who wanted to kill you, I shall rescue you of them, and I shall make those who followed you superior to those Jews who disbelieved in you. They shall be superior to them until the Day of the Recompense and when they come to Me on the Day of Resurrection, I shall judge among you in the matters you disputed about in the world, I shall show you the truth, and distinguish those corrupted their religion and denied it from those who kept to it, followed My Prophets and their teachings and committed to that.

{فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فَأُعَذِّبُهُمْ عَذَابًا شَدِيدًا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآَخِرَةِ وَمَا لَهُمْ مِنْ نَاصِرِينَ} [آل عمران: 56]

56- As for those who disbelieved of them, I shall torture them painfully as a retribution for their disbelief and obstinacy, in this world and in the Hereafter.

This was the case of the Jews who disbelieved in Christ [peace be upon him], so they were punished with death, captivity, and humiliation, and in the Hereafter their fate shall be fire.

No one shall be able to prevent them or save them from the torment of this world and of the Hereafter.

{وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَيُوَفِّيهِمْ أُجُورَهُمْ وَاللهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الظَّالِمِينَ} [آل عمران: 57]

57- As for those who believed in Allah and in His Messengers then followed his faith with good deeds as the believers do, Allah shall give them full reward, in the world by giving them win and victory, and in the Hereafter by the everlasting bliss. Allah hates the unbelievers who prefer delusion and aberrance to faith and guidance, and He shall not bestow mercy upon them.

{ذَلِكَ نَتْلُوهُ عَليْكَ مِنَ الآَيَاتِ وَالذِّكْرِ الحَكِيمِ} [آل عمران: 58]

58- The story that We narrated to you about Jesus [peace be upon him] is from the revelation of Allah to you and from His precise speech with no doubt.

{إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَى عِنْدَ اللهِ كَمَثَلِ آَدَمَ خَلَقَهُ مِنْ تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ} [آل عمران: 59]

59- The similitude of Allah's Power in the creation of Jesus without a father is like His Ability of creating Adam without a father or a mother. He created him from dust and said to him "Be Adam." The One who created Adam is capable of creating Jesus; if Jesus was created without a mother, Adam was created without a father and a mother. Allah wanted, by this creation, to show His Ability of creation without an earlier example: from a male and a female.

{الحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّكَ فَلَا تَكُنْ مِنَ المُمْتَرِينَ} [آل عمران: 60]

60- It is the just words, the true proof, and the right evidence on the ability of Allah, the Creator and the fashioner, o Messenger of Allah. It is the true words about Jesus, the son of Mary, and the other claims are aberrance, so do not doubt anything of that.

It is a method of making you firm on the truth and in order that Muslims and those who want to believe know him, so the Messenger of Allah [peace be upon him] was in no doubt about that.