Why can’t Christians hope for intercession but Muslims can?

It may even be that you die as a Muslim and enter into Paradise and do not find me there — and perhaps you will bring me out from the fire because you recognise my absence and remember that I was a believer who did good with you.

 

There are many types of intercession — none of which elevate the interceding creation beyond being a creation. Even the best of creation that has the greatest share of intercession on that Day, Muhammad ﷺ.

None of those that intercede are considered to have an unseen authority which is reflected in reality— they are never taken as objects of worship partnered with Allah, because then no intercession would avail the polytheists.

 

So, this is not like the various Christian concepts of intercession which attribute divinity to the Messiah, elevate him beyond a mighty messenger and creation blessed wheresoever he is, and take him as an object of worship or even God Almighty. Indeed, those are completely lacking any certainty or knowledge thereof, especially regarding the lies they attribute against God and the Messiah. And truly, the Son of Mary was not killed or crucified, and those who differ therein are full of doubt.

 

We do not affirm these matters because of speculation. We affirm the clear narrations, hearing Allah and His Messenger ﷺ, and obeying. The Prophet ﷺ extensively instructed on these matters of Religion and worship and the Hereafter and the Day of Judgment. There is not clear instruction on these matters from the Messiah in the New Testament.

Even of those accounts, how many prayers do they allege the Messiah instructed — and to Who is the prayer directed?

One!

We don’t pray to the creation. Deuteronomy 4:9-19 eternally forbids such worship of —or attribution of divinity to— the Messiah, among various other passages to that effect.

The Trinity and its various interpretations are as foreign to the life of the Messiah and his theology as the concept of him as an American brother of Satan.

 

The case against that the Messiah never remotely said anything like claiming divinity or requesting worship is not simply due to the absence of any such report. It is also including that none of those reports are reliable, and they are not taken to be understood in light of the understanding of explicit statements.

The explicit statements are deliberately ignored, especially the long tradition of their understanding held by the people who received them — in favour of a distortion of implicit text that can easily be interpreted in light of the explicit teachings.

 

So, when it comes to the denial of God being man, or the denial of Him having any likeness or similarity, or even the denial of so much as the heavens containing him — much less a house that contains humans being capable of containing Him — Trinitarians have been taught to have no scruples denying these statements, especially the traditional understanding of them, so to attempt and shift the understanding of other verses into the theology that is motivating them.

So a statement, for example, “I and the Father are one” can easily be interpreted in the same way a Jew and Muslim understands a Messenger is one (united) with God (in purpose). It would agree wholly with other explicit statements. In fact, this same interpretation is given in John 17 — they are one as the Disciples are one. However — those whose hearts rebel against the truth, seek to distort such implicit statements, even though their authenticity is not verifiable, and even though they can easily agree with the explicit.

This is why a Trinitarian will deny God is ignorant (such as of the Hour) and then one breath later attribute ignorance and godhood to the Messiah.

 

With a logically consistent methodology, it’s simply impossible to have the conclusion that the theology or preaching of the Messiah ever approached a departure from the radical monotheism of the Messengers of the Most Merciful — while the historical development of the Trinitarian doctrine is well known and not from the Messiah or the Disciples. The major differences in theology among those who disagree on this matter is due to the lack of empirical and consistent criteria — their theological motives, coming from an impure intention and sinful heart, take them into entirely different routes for validating their conjectures. That is because they do not have knowledge of even the most basic matters they establish their theological foundations upon.

It is to no surprise that hearsay among a foundation is consequentially unreliable in results.

 

Be brutally honest: do you think that, if you died suddenly and were questioned by Allah, “When you were certain that I exist and that I created you, why did you partner me in a Trinity with My own creation, and use a book to justify this — a book that you are not even sure of the authorship and transmission of, even admitting that contributors of it are unknown?”

… that you’d feel comfortable with your answer ?

How would it compare to answering the question, “why did you not instead accept My Book and accept My Messenger ﷺ when you knew that he came with that Book?” … ?

Could someone really prefer and invite to a book that one cannot know, with authors one cannot know, and transmitters one cannot know…when we are born knowing the Mighty Forgiver?

 

When we enter the Grave, we will be questioned, “Who is your Lord?”, “What is your Religion?”, “Who is your Prophet?” and we will be examined as to what we mean by our answers, how we know our answers, why we accepted our answers, and so forth — they won’t be asking for a password.

 

 

47:14

Can those ˹believers˺ who stand on clear proof from their Lord be like those whose evil deeds are made appealing to them and ˹only˺ follow their desires?

 

4:157

…and for boasting, “We killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.” But they neither killed nor crucified him—it was only made to appear so. Even those who argue for this ˹crucifixion˺ are in doubt. They have no knowledge whatsoever—only making assumptions. They certainly did not kill him.

 

53:28

…They follow nothing but ˹inherited˺ assumptions. And surely assumptions can in no way replace the truth.

 

5:14-17

And from those who say, “We are Christians,” We took their covenant, but they neglected a portion of what they had been commanded to uphold. So We let hostility and enmity arise between them until the Day of Judgment, and soon Allah will inform them of all they have done.

O People of the Book! Now Our Messenger has come to you, revealing much of what you have hidden of the Scriptures and disregarding much. There certainly has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book

through which Allah guides those who seek His pleasure to the ways of peace, brings them out of darkness and into light by His Will, and guides them to the Straight Path.

Indeed, those who say, “Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary,” have fallen into disbelief. Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Who has the power to prevent Allah if He chose to destroy the Messiah, son of Mary, his mother, and everyone in the world all together?” To Allah ˹alone˺ belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth and everything in between. He creates whatever He wills. And Allah is Most Capable of everything.

 

2:136-138

Say, ˹O believers,˺ “We believe in Allah and what has been revealed to us; and what was revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, and his descendants; and what was given to Moses, Jesus, and other prophets from their Lord. We make no distinction between any of them. And to Allah we all submit.”

So if they believe in what you believe, then they will indeed be ˹rightly˺ guided. But if they turn away, they are simply opposed ˹to the truth˺. But Allah will spare you their evil. For He is the All-Hearing, All-Knowing.

“This is the ˹natural˺ Way of Allah. And who is better than Allah in ordaining a way (religion)? And we worship ˹none but˺ Him.”