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174 Prophet Jesus (pbuh): A Prophet, Not A Son, of God

students are sons of knowledge; citizens are sons of the homeland;
an Egyptian is a son of the Nile; and an Arab is a son of the desert…
Sura al-Baqara 2:215, "Whatever you bestow in charity must go to
your parents and to your kinsfolk, to the orphan and to the poor
man and to the stranger." Interpreters say that stranger (Ibn al-Sabil,
the son of the path) indicates the traveler… Therefore, the term son
of God does not mean procreation in human terms… 64
Some Christians say that the son of God (Surely God is beyond that!)
needs to be regarded as a manifestation. This is both understandable and
compatible with what the Qur'an says.
God created the universe from nothing and has absolute dominion

over it. The heavens and the earth belong to Him. He is everywhere, and
all parents and children are manifestations of Him. His essence may be
manifested in many places and in many forms. Indeed, such an idea is
found in the Qur'an:
When Moses came to Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he
said: "My Lord, show me Yo ourself so that I may look at You!" He
replied: "You will not see Me, but look at the mountain. If it t remains
firm in its place, then you will see Me." But when His Lord manifested
Himself to the mount tain, He crushed it flat and Moses fell unconscious

to the ground. When he regained consciousness, he e said: "Glory be to
You! I repent to You and am the first of the believers!" (Surat al-A'raf:
143)
The expression manifested Himself is used in the sense of to appear,
emerge, be expressed ... In his Qur'anic commentary, Hamdi Yazir of Elmali

writes as follows:
The Lord said to him (Moses): "You will never be able to see Me, but
look at the mountain. If it remains firm in its place, then you will see
Me." At this the Lord manifested Himself to the mountain, in a rel-
ative fashion. In other words, He did so not with all of the grandeur