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Born | c. 4 BCE |
Disappeared | c. 33 CE Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Judea, Roman Empire |
Known for | Being the Messiah, prophet |
Predecessor | Yahya (John the Baptist) |
Successor | Muhammad |
Opponent | Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (The False Messiah) |
Parent | Maryam (mother) |
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In Islam, Jesus (Arabic: عِيسَىٰ ٱبْنُ مَرْيَمَ, romanized: ʿĪsā ibn Maryam, lit. 'Jesus, son of Mary'), is believed to be the penultimate prophet and messenger of God and the Messiah being the last of the messengers sent to the Children of Israel (Banī Isra'īl) with a revelation called the Injīl (Evangel or Gospel).
In the Quran, Jesus is described as the Messiah (Arabic: المسيح, romanized: al-Masīḥ), born of a virgin, performing miracles, accompanied by his disciples, and rejected by the Jewish religious establishment; in contrast to the traditional Christian narrative, however, he is stated neither to have been crucified, nor to have died on the cross, nor to have been resurrected, rather, he is depicted as having been miraculously saved by God and as having ascended into heaven. The Quran places Jesus among the greatest prophets and mentions him with various titles. The prophethood of Jesus is preceded by that of Yahya (John) and succeeded by Muhammad, the coming of latter of whom Jesus is reported in the Quran to have foretold under the name Ahmad.
Christians view Jesus Christ as the Incarnation of God, the Son of God in human flesh, but the Quran denies the divinity of Jesus and his status as the Son of God in several verses, and also says that Jesus Christ did not claim to be personally God nor the Son of God. Islam teaches that Jesus' original message was altered (taḥrīf) after his being raised alive. The monotheism (tawḥīd) of Jesus is emphasized in the Quran. Like all prophets in Islam, Jesus is also called a Muslim (lit. submitter [to God]), as he preached that his followers should adopt the 'straight path' (Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm). Jesus is attributed with a vast number of miracles in Islamic tradition.
In their views of Islamic eschatology, most accounts state that Jesus will return in the Second Coming to kill the Al-Masih ad-Dajjal ('The False Messiah'), after which the ancient tribe of Gog and Magog (Yaʾjūj Maʾjūj) will disperse. After God has got rid of them, Jesus will assume rulership of the world, establish peace and justice, and finally die a natural death and be buried alongside Muhammad in the fourth reserved tomb of the Green Dome in Medina.
The place where Jesus is believed to return, the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, is highly esteemed by Muslims as the fourth holiest site of Islam. Jesus is widely venerated in Sufism, with numerous ascetic and mystic literature written and recited about the most important historical Jewish Christian-Islamic prophet-messenger to these Abrahamic faiths.[citation needed]
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