Gospel
tract for Muslims: prepared by bibles4mideast.com
The
book of Torah in the Bible (Genesis) describes that Almighty God created man
out of dust in His image, after His likeness and gave him life through the Word
to be the overseer of all creations. He named him Adam.
God
had a definite plan to glorify His name through mankind. For that He wanted man
to be surrendered unto Him.
To
obey each and every law of God is total surrendering. But Adam disobeyed, ate
of the tree of which God commanded him not to eat. So he sinned.
Suppose
you appoint a new servant for your household. He is bonded to obey your rules.
Do you ever like it if he doesn’t obey your commands, moving in his own ways
and making friendship with your enemies? You will fire him out immediately and
will make sure that he does not get any support from your subordinates and
friends.
If
God was like us, He would have removed man and would not have allowed the
universe to continue forever more. But our merciful God did not destroy Adam.
He just cast him from the paradise as a punishment for sin and granted
permission to live on earth (that is also God’s creation) and from the sweat of
his face to eat. Also He promised the Messiah, Jesus, who is the Word from God,
Son of (woman) Mary, illustrious in the world and hereafter as the deliverer
from sin.
The
Qur’an says: “Lo! the likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam. He
created him out of dust, then He said unto him: Be! and he is. (This is) the
Truth from Thy Lord. (O Muhammad), so be not thou of those who waver” (Qur’an
3:59-60).
How
Jesus is likeness of Adam?
Adam
was created as a faultless man. The Prophet David says in the book of Zabur
(Psalms): “What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that
thou dost care for him? Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost
crown him with glory and honor. Thou hast given him dominion over the works of
thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and
also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the sea” (Psalms 8:4-8).
The
Qur'an 2:34 says that God asked the angels to prostrate before Adam. All fell
prostrate; but Iblis (Lucifer) demurred through pride, and so became Satan.
Hence Satan made Adam disobedient; so he too became as a sinner. From him all
the generations became under the sin.
Bible
says, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his
own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth" (Genesis 5:3).
Here we see Adam begat a son in his (Adam's) likeness and image. When Adam was
created, he was in God's likeness and image (Genesis 1:26; 5:1). At that time
he was crowned with glory and honour (Psalms 8:5). But when he sinned against
God, he lost his glory and honour and understood he and his wife are naked
(Genesis 3:7). Means, they lost the likeness of God and owned the likeness of
sin. Genesis 5:3 says with the likeness of sin he begat Seth.
The
Prophet David says in Zabur: “Behold I was brought forth in iniquity, and in
sin did my mother conceive me” (Psalms 51:5).
The
Injil (The New Testament of the Bible) also says very clearly: “For there is no
distinction; since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans
3:23). But the same word promised a remedy too: “They are justified by His
grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus”.
The
Qur’an says in several verses: “No burdened soul can bear another’s burden”
(35:18; 39:7; 53:38).
That
means only unladened souls can bear another’s burdens.
Both
the Bible and the Qur’an say that Jesus was born as a faultless man. “He
(Archangel Gabriel) said (to Mary): I am only a messenger of thy Lord, that I
may bestow on thee a faultless son” (Qur’an 19:19). The Hadith (traditions of
Islam) also says that all the children of Adam are touched by Satan at their
birth, except Jesus, son of Mary.
The
Bible says about Jesus: “For it was fitting that we should have such a High
Priest, holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the
heavens” (Hebrews 7:26).
Once
Jesus directly asked to the Jews, “Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell
the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God hears the words of God;
the reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God” (John 8:46).
Yes!
Jesus was faultless by birth and life. He can carry the laden of sin from each
one of the world.
Jesus
said in the New Testament: “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and
I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). Prophet Yahya (John the Baptist) was
borne witness of Jesus. He declared about Jesus, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who
takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29).
In
the second letter of Paul to the Corinthians we read: “For our sake he made him
to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of
God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). No doubt! Jesus took all our sins and died on the
cross to give us eternal life. “In him we have redemption through his blood,
the forgiveness of our trespasses” (Ephesians 1:7).
In
the letter to the Hebrews also we can see as it is: “Therefore, since we are
surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every
weight, and sins which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the
race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our
faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:1-2).
In
the book of Qur’an Jesus said: “And (I come) confirming that which was before
me of the Torah (the law of Moses), and to make lawful some of that which was
forbidden unto you. I come unto you with a sign from your Lord, so keep your
duty to God and obey me” (Qur’an 3:50).
“When
Jesus came with clear proofs (of God’s sovereignty), he said: I have come unto
you with wisdom, and to make plain some of that concerning which ye differ. So
keep your duty to God , and obey me” (Qur’an 43:63).
What
do you think? Isn’t it a must to obey Jesus by accepting him as Lord and
Savior?
But
the children of Israel denied Jesus, though they were the chosen people of God.
They lost eternity. Because they at the time looked for a warrior king savior
they were blind to the truth that Jesus Christ was that Messiah promised by
their own prophets.
What
about you? Accept Jesus as your Savior and Lord.