Jesus in the Holy Quran / Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Jesus in the Holy Qur’an: In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the mercifulChapter 19, Maryam (Mary):Verses 15-34; The Holy Qur’an:• Peace be upon him the day he was born, the day he dies and the day he raised from the dead.• And remember [the account] of Mary in the book when she withdrew from her people to an Eastern place.• She screened herself away from them, and We sent to her Our Spirit and it appeared to her in the form of a well-shaped human being.• She said: “I seek refuge with Allah from you, if you fear God.”• He said: “I am only the messenger of your Lord to grant you a boy most pure.”• She said: “Shall I have a boy, when no man has touched me and I have not been an unchaste woman?”• He (the angel) said: “Thus [it will be], your Lord has said: “This is an easy matter for Me; that We may make him [the boy, Jesus] a sign unto mankind and a mercy from Us.” And thus it was decreed.• So, she conceived him and she withdrew with him to a distant place.• Then labour pangs drove her towards the trunk of a palm tree. She said: “I wish I had died before this and had become completely forgotten.”• Whereupon [a voice, her child Jesus] called her from beneath her: “Do not grieve. Your Lord has created below you a stream.”• “Shake the trunk of the palm tree towards you and it will drop upon you fresh ripe dates.”• “Eat, drink and rejoice [your eyes with Jesus]. Then if you see any human say: ‘I have vowed to the Compassionate to fast, and so I shall not talk today to any human being’.”• Then she brought him [the child] to her people, carrying him. They said: “O Mary, you have surly committed a strange thing.”• “Sister of Aaron, your father was not an evil man and your mother was not unchaste.”• Whereupon she pointed to him. They said: “How will we talk to one who is still an infant in the cradle?”• He said: “Indeed, I am the servant of Allah [The God], who gave me the Book and made me a prophet.”• “And he made me a blessed wherever I am, and has commanded me to pray and to give the alms, so long as I live;• “And be devoted to my mother; and He did not make me arrogant and mischievous.”• “Peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die and the day I rise from the dead.”• Such was Jesus, son of Mary; it is the truth which they dispute.* * * * * *The Wise, Lughman, (Chapter 31:Verse 22; Qur’an Majid):“And who submits his face towards (The God) Allah, and he is a good-doer, then has surly grasped the firmest handle, and towards Allah is the ultimate issue of all affairs.”O’ the best of Good-doers./129