Christ’S Claim Is That God Creates From Clay the Shape of a Bird
( And a messenger to the Children of Israel, [saying], “Indeed, I have come to you with a sign from your Lord in that I design for you from clay [that which is] like the figure of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird by permission of Allah. And I heal the blind and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by permission of Allah. And I inform you of what you eat and what you store in your houses. Indeed in that is a sign for those who believe.”) For you, if you are believers (49) and confirming what came before me of the Torah and that I may make lawful for you some of what was forbidden to you and I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, so fear Allah and obey me . (50) Indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. This is a straight path. (51) Al Imran
Indeed, the example of Jesus before Allahas the example of Adam. He created him from dustand then said to him, Be, and it is.59 The truth is from your Lord, so do not be among the doubters. 60 (Al Imran
( Is not He who created the heavens and the earth able to create the likes of them? Yes, and He is the Knowing Creator. (81) His command is only when He intends a thing that He says to it, “Be, ” and it is. (82) So exalted is He in whose hand is the dominion of all things, and to Him you will be returned. (83)) Yasin
First of all, Christ is a creature and a born being, and the creature is not a creator and cannot create from nothing by himself. Even in their book that they sanctify, Christ
never claimed that he is God the Creator or that he is the Creator of the heavens and the earth and whoever is in them. Rather, it was not mentioned that he created anything.
Is their book so lacking in proving their claim that Christ is God the Creator that they claim it from the Qur’an?!
The Sheikh of Islam responded to that by saying: All of the verses that the Christians use as evidence - and others - are evidence against them, not for them, and that is for several reasons:
The first reason: Allah did not mention about the Messiah an absolute creation, nor a general creation, as He mentioned about Himself, the Blessed and Most High, in many verses. As for the Messiah , peace be upon him, He said about him: {And when you created from clay, as it were, the figure of a bird , by My permission }… the verses. And the Messiah said about himself: {I create for you from clay , as it were, the figure of a bird, then I breathe into it , and it becomes a bird by Allah’s permission }… the verses. So he only mentioned the creation of a specific thing with Allah ‘s permission , so how can this Creator be that one?!
The second reason: He created from clay in the form of a bird , and what is meant by that is: forming it in the form of a bird , and this creation is something that most people are capable of, for one of them can form from clay in the form of a bird , or animals other than birds , and the miracle is that The soul is breathed into it and it becomes a bird by the permission of Allah the Almighty, and it is not merely created from clay , for this is a common matter.
The third aspect: Allah informed that the Messiah only did the forbidden imagery and the blowing by the permission of Allah the Almighty, and the Messiah, peace be upon him, informed that he did it by the permission of Allah , and Allah informed that this is from the blessings that He bestowed upon the Messiah, peace be upon him, as He the Most High said: {He is only a servant upon whom We bestowed favor and made him an example for the Children of Israel} [Az-Zukhruf: 59].
And the Most High said: {O Jesus, son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Holy Spirit so that you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity, and when I taught you the Book and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel, and when you created from clay , as it were, the figure of a bird, by My permission, and you breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission , and you healed the blind and the leper by My permission, and when you brought forth the dead by My permission } [Al-Ma’idah: 110].
All of this is clear that he is not Allah , but rather he is a servant of Allah who did that by the permission of Allah , just as others did the same. The prophets, and he stated that the one who gives permission is not the one who is given permission, and the teacher is not the one who is taught, and the one who is blessed and his mother is not him, just as he is not his mother.
The fourth aspect: They said: He referred to the Creator as the Word of God. United in humanity, then they said in His statement {with the permission of God } that is, with the permission of the word united in humanity, and this shows their contradiction and their slander against the Qur’an; Because God told in the Qur’an that Christ was created from clay in the form of a bird by God’s permission , so he distinguished between Christ and God , and between God being the one who gave permission to Christ , and these people claimed that what he meant by that was that the divinity united with the humanity of Christ is the Creator, and he is the one who gives permission, so they made the Creator the one who gives permission, and this is an interpretation of the Qur’an that contradicts the clear Qur’an.
The fifth aspect : If the divinity is the Creator , then it does not need to give permission to itself, for they say: He is one God, and He is the Creator, so how does He need to give permission to Himself and bestow blessings upon Himself?!
The sixth aspect: The Creator is either the Self connected to speech, or speech which is an attribute of the Self, so if it is speech, then speech is an attribute that is not an Self existing in itself as a Creator , even if it is not united with humanity, and its union with humanity without the described is impossible if union was possible, so how is it possible?!
And if the Creator is the Self described by speech, then that is God, the Creator of everything. The Lord of the worlds, and according to them He is the Father, and according to them Christ is not the Father, so he is not the Creator of everything , and the Qur’an makes clear that it is God who gave permission to Christ to create from clay in the form of a bird , so it is clear that the one who created from clay in the form of a bird is not God , nor is it one of His attributes, so Christ is not God , nor is he an ancient, eternal son of God, but His servant did it with His permission. The seventh aspect: Their saying that he referred to the Creator of the Word of God united in humanity taken from Mary , because thus he said on the tongue of the Prophet David: (By the Word of God the heavens and the earth were created), so it is said to them: This text from David is an argument against you, just as the Torah and the Qur’an and all that is proven from the prophets are an argument against you, for David, peace be upon him, said: (By the Word of God the heavens and the earth were created), and he did not say: The Word of God is the Creator , as you said that he referred to the Word of God by the Creator . The difference between the Creator of the heavens and the earth and the Word by which the heavens were created The earth is a known and apparent matter, like the difference between the able and the powerful. The able is the creator, and He created things with His power, and the power is not the creator… God Almighty creates.
The eighth aspect: The saying of David, peace be upon him: (By the word of God the heavens and the earth were created) agrees with what came in the Qur’an and the Torah, and other books of the prophets, that God says to a thing, “Be,” and it is. This is in the Qur’an in more than one place, and in the Torah God said : (Let it be thus, let it be thus).
The ninth aspect: Their saying: ( Because there is no creator except God and His word and His spirit). If they mean by His word His speech, and by His spirit His life, then these are among the attributes of God , like His knowledge and power, so none of the prophets expressed the life of God as the spirit of God , so whoever interprets the speech of one of the prophets by the word spirit to mean the life of God , then he has lied about him, then it is said: These are His words and His life are among the attributes of God , like His knowledge and power, and then the Creator is God alone and His attributes are included in the name His name does not need to be connected to his name with the waw of association that indicates that God has a partner in his creation, for God has no partner, and for this reason when the Most High said {God is the Creator of all things} everything other than Him was included in his creations, and his attributes such as his knowledge, power, will, and speech were not included, because these are included in the meaning of his name and are not things separate from him. And if they meant by the word of his spirit the Messiah , or something united with the humanity of the Messiah , then the Messiah, peace be upon him, is all created like all the messengers and God alone is the Creator.
The tenth aspect: It is not permissible for David, peace be upon him, to mean the Messiah by the word of God ; Because Christ is , for all people, a name for humanity, and for Christians it is a name for divinity and humanity when they united, and union is an event for them, so before the union there was no humanity or what is called Christ, so it is known that David did not mean by the word of God Christ , but the Christians’ aim is to say: He meant the word in which - that is, Mary - united with the body of Christ , but the one who was created by God’s permission is Christ, as the Qur’an stated in His saying: {Indeed, God gives you good tidings of a word from Him, whose name will be the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, distinguished in this world and the Hereafter and among those brought near to God} [Al Imran 3:45].
So the word that he mentioned, and that it is the one by which the heavens and the earth were created, is not the Christ who was created from clay in the form of a bird by God’s permission .
So their argument is this - that Christ , as the Word of God, The creation of things - on the creative word with His permission, this is a false argument, rather that word by which the heavens and the earth were created did not have humanity with it when it was created by agreement of the nations, and humanity must enter into Christ , so it is known that the word did not mean Christ . See: The Correct Answer (2/287-293).
Jesus - peace be upon him - did not create the clay from which he created the bird, and he did not create the bird, and all his role was to breathe into this bird so that it became a bird by the permission of God Almighty.
The meaning of creation attributed to Jesus - peace be upon him - is estimation and depiction, according to a previous example , while creation for God is making, estimation and innovation without a previous example, so it is creation from nothing; because God is the Creator of the clay which is the material of the birdThe role of Jesus - peace be upon him - is to form this clay into the shape of a bird, then blow into it and it turns into a bird with the permission of God Almighty. This means that the matter is subject to the permission of God Almighty. With this statement, it becomes clear to every rational person that this is a miracle of Jesus - peace be upon him - that God performed through his hands, just as God Almighty performed through the hands of Abraham - peace be upon him - in support of him and confirmation of his prophethood, as he is the servant and messenger of God.
The reality of creation is of two types:
The first: absolute creation, and the second: restricted creation.
The latter: It is as Moses created a snake from a stick, and Christ created a bird from clay…
And this creation is with His permission: And when you created from clay, as it were, the figure of a bird, by My permission.
And He said: And a messenger to the Children of Israel, “Indeed, I have come to you with a sign from Your Lord, indeed I create for you from clay [that which is] like the figure of a bird, then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by permission of Allah
. (48) (Al Imran Nun) So the meaning of restricted creation is: that the creature does not create anything except by permission of Allah, and this is clear to us from the previous verses… Therefore Allah says about Himself: So blessed be Allah, the best of creators.