Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Head of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit, Ain-Shams University. Cairo, Egypt, President of the Egyptian Society of Inventors, Member of the Egyptian union of Writers, Published some 60 Medical Articles, Supervisors for 79 PhD theses, Supervisors for 111 Master Degree theses, Co-Chief Editor of the Egyptian Journal of Lab. Medicine, Honorary President of SPIC-Egypt (The Society of Practitioners of Infection Control – Egypt)
This is the third article of the series: "Is The Lord God Seen or Not in Bible versus Quran?"
The Bible says that many men have seen the Lord God like Abraham and Isaac, Jacob (who saw God face to face) etc...
Not only has that, but Jacob Wrestles with God and Jacob defeated GOD.
Yet the Bible declares that No one has ever seen God at any time.
Read the articles "The Lord God is seen in Bible versus Quran" (1) and (2).
The Noble Quran says that No one can see the Almighty Creator in the life of this world; yet, only the believers will see Him in the Hereafter.
======================================================
?? In the Bible: The Lord God is Seen (3)
Jacob has seen the Lord God face to face. Not only he has that, but Jacob Wrestles with God and Jacob defeated GOD.
The Bible says:
Jacob was left alone. And a man (the Lord God) wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.
When the man (the Lord God) saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him.
Then he (the Lord God) said, "Let me go, for the day has broken."
But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
And he (the Lord God) said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob."
Then he (the Lord God) said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed."
Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he (the Lord God) said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying,
"For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered."
Upon reading the story of wrestling of God with Jacob, one may ask many questions as for example:
1) How can a man defeat the Lord, the Almighty Creator in a fight?
2) Why would GOD want to fight a human being anyway?
3) Why would not GOD want to Abraham instead of Jacob?
4) What kind of teaching is GOD trying to give us in Genesis 32:22-30? Is he trying to say that Israel is above the Lord God?
5) Why the Lord God said, "Let me go, for the day has broken? Is He photosensitive and could not work at day light?
6) While the Lord God was busy for all the night in wrestling with Jacob, who took care of the worlds, universes, stars and the other creatures?
7) Is God a man or an Angel? Upon telling the story of Wrestling of God versus Jacob, in which Jacob defeated God, the Bible substitutes the Lord God with "a man". The scholars, in their interpretation, claim that Jacob wrestled with an Angel!
8) Who wrestled with Jacob, Jehovah, El-elohe, El, God Father, the Lord Jesus or the Holy Spirit? However, He is not Allah by any means!
9) Are we allowed to marry two wives like Jacob?
10) Are we allowed to do our best to struggle with the Lord God and try to defeat Him?
11) If God when He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh; He disjointed his hip, why He could not defeat him?
12) Just before this wresting with God, Jacob prayed; to whom he was praying if he did not know the name of his Lord God?
13) What would be the case if God tried to wrestle with Esau or Josheb-Basshebeth who were stronger than Jacob?
14) Etc…
N.B.:
It is well known that Esau was physically stronger than Jacob.
Jacob believed that Esau is the lord and he is his servant!
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to Esau and he instructed them: "This is what you are to say to my master (my lord) Esau: 'Your servant Jacob says…. (Read Genesis 32) Jacob was greatly afraid of Esau.
The Question is: what if God Wrestled with Esau?
On the other man, the Bible talks about a man who may be the ever stronger man in the History of mankind. This man raised his spear against eight hundred men, whom he killed in one encounter. That man's name is Josheb-Basshebeth (2 Samuel 23:8).
Again, what if God Wrestled with Josheb-Basshebeth?
--------------------------------------------------------------------
? Jacob has seen the Lord God face to face. Not only he has that, but Jacob Wrestles with God and Jacob defeated GOD.
Genesis 32:22-30
New International Version
22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.
24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.
25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.
26 Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me."
27 The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered.
28 Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome."
29 Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."
--------------------------------------------------------------------
? Yet, No one have ever seen the Lord God in the Bible!
Read Exodus 33:20, John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12 and read the articles "The Lord God is Seen in Bible versus Quran" (1) and (2).
======================================================
?? In the Quran: The Lord God is NOT Seen (3)
Verse 6:103
QARIB: no eye can see him, though he sees all eyes. He is the subtle, the aware.
SHAKIR: vision comprehends him not, and he comprehends (all) vision; and he is the knower of subtleties, the aware
PICKTHAL: vision comprehendeth him not, but he comprehendeth (all) vision. He is the subtile, the aware.
YUSUFALI: no vision can grasp him, but his grasp is over all vision: he is above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things.
The meanings of the verse:
Vision cannot attain Him, that is, human eyes cannot see Him.
Vision cannot encompass Him; but He attains all vision, that is to say, He perceives them, whereas they cannot perceive Him; it is not possible in the case of anyone other than Him to attain all vision while vision cannot attain Him or encompass Him in knowledge.
In other words, Vision comprehends Him not in this world, nor do created beings see what He sees. Sights will not comprehend the modality of seeing Him in the Hereafter nor will created beings be able to see Him in this world.
Nevertheless, He comprehends all vision in this world and in the Hereafter: He sees that which human beings do not see and nothing escapes or is hidden from Him.
In addition, He is the Subtle in His actions whose knowledge surrounds His created beings; He is the Subtle in dealing with His servants. He is the Aware of His created beings and their actions.
--------------------------
Scientifically speaking, In the life of this world, man is not able to see many creatures; man can not see by his naked eye the too small creatures like the bacteria and the too huge creatures like the very far giant Stars. Our eyes are incapable to see such creatures and we have to use some instruments like the microscope and telescope to see the bacteria and the very far stars respectively.
Hence, why that our eyes cannot see many of the Lord God's creatures and can see the Almighty Creator?
Nevertheless, how could the believers see the Lord in the Hereafter?
Allah will make man' sight acute, very sharp, piercing and able to perceive what man used to reject and deny in the life of this world.
However, the believers are the only people allowed to see their Lord, the Almighty Creator.
On the other hand, the disbelievers will see the Eternal Fire, the Angels of chastisement etc.
--------------------------
Conclusion: According to the teachings of the Noble Quran
1) Anyone believes or says that the Almighty Creator is seen in the life of this world is categorized as a disbeliever, it is an unjustifiable sin.
2) Anyone believes or says that the Almighty Creator that Jacob wrestled with the Almighty Creator is classified as a disbeliever, it is an inexcusable sin.
3) Anyone believes or says that Jacob defeated the Almighty Creator is greatly insulting his LORD, it is an unforgivable sin.
4) The bearer of anyone of the three above sins will dwell in the Eternal Fire.
======================================================
Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:
Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?
- Related Videos
- Related Articles
- Ask / Related Q&A
- In the Bible: God has Seven Spirits; in the Quran: Allah has One Spirit
- In the Quran but in the Bible: Allah Commanded the Angels to Honor Adam
- In the Bible: the Animals Glorify God; in the Quran: the Angels Glorify Allah
- In the Quran: Did Allah wrong the disbelievers by thwarting the benefit of their harvest?
- In the Quran: Allah is the only One Who gives life and brings death
- In the Quran: What Allah does when He wants to bring something into existence?
- In the Quran: Allah has created Eve from Adam’s rib
- In the Quran: The Most Helpful verse of the Quran that describes Allah
Benefits of History Books
By: Margaret Atwood | 09/12/2009No be relevant anywhere you live in the humanity, your kingdom, your area has a history. Some can contain been on paper down in books, various regional legend. What a huge wealth of ideas used for Action/Adventure stories! Look to your history books, regional news and eavesdrop in anytime the grown-up those prevail on collected. History is all around us.
If you are a member of the military, chances are you’ve attended a few military ceremonies in your life
By: Paul Ingersole | 09/12/2009If you are a member of the military, chances are you’ve attended a few military ceremonies in your life. These can be very structured affairs. There is a proper way to go about the ceremonies and there is a proper way that the ceremony needs to include the color guard.
The whole purpose of the color guard is to display the colors and show them off
By: Paul Ingersole | 09/12/2009Whenever there was a battle throughout history, there would always be some kind of a reminder, be it a flag or other memento, to help keep the moral of the soldiers up and keep them motivated. Our modern understanding of what the color guard is has its roots in that. Over the years the notion of the color guard has evolved and there are different procedures in place that make the color guard an even greater official event.
There are several places where you can purchase color guard uniforms
By: Paul Ingersole | 09/12/2009If you are a member of the color guard you will need to purchase and select the necessary uniforms. If the color guard has been around for a while, chances are that the color guard uniforms already exist. They tend to get handed down from one team to the next. But sometimes people opt to keep their uniforms and that means that each year, people will have to choose new uniforms.
Color guard flags are pretty much the reasons why the color guard exists
By: Paul Ingersole | 09/12/2009During official and military ceremonies, there are additional color guard flags that are included. If it is a military ceremony, or a ceremony that includes several branches of the military service division, those flags would also be included. There is an official flag for the United States Army, United States Air Force, Marines, Navy, and Coast Guard. So if all of those branches are involved in the ceremony, all of those flags would be present.
When it comes to official matters, the color guard often blends into the background
By: Paul Ingersole | 09/12/2009Most of us have seen the color guard in action before but haven’t really paid attention to it. The color guard is usually present at ceremonies, especially official ceremonies where there are flags involved. With the government and the military, the color guard is an important part of whatever event is going on.
Time, Life and the Colonization of the Land
By: Simon Harding | 07/12/2009Time, Life and the Colonization of the Land -an educational introduction
Many adopted children continue to search for their birth origin
By: Paul Ingersole | 07/12/2009While the people who purchased these babies did indeed want to raise a child, they were either unable to adopt one legally or were tired of waiting for it to happen. Many of the women were told their child had gone to a good home, and consented to the adoption. Other girls who were more hesitant were informed that the baby had died during birth.
In Bible versus Quran: the Foreign Woman is Bitter and is Sharp as a Sword
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 10/12/2009 | LiteratureThe Bible says that in the end, she (the foreign woman) is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. In the entire Quran, the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is not mentioned therein.
In Bible versus Quran: the Mouth of the Foreign Woman is smoother than Oil but…
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 10/12/2009 | ChristianityThe Bible says that the mouth of a strange (foreigner) woman is smoother than oil, BUT in the end… The Quran is not interested in the race, the color and/or the location etc. of men or women.
In Quran: What about who commits an evil deed?
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 10/12/2009 | PhilosophyAllah, Lord, God, Quran, Bible, Foreigner, Woman, Paradise, Race, Color, Discriminate, Path, Israelite, Death, Robber, Bitter, Wormwood, Sword, Foot, Crooked, Prostitute, Pit, Commit, Evil, World, Comfort, Hereafter, Honey, Mouth, Oil, Bitter, Sharp
In Bible versus Quran: the Lips of the Foreigner Woman drop Honey but…
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 10/12/2009 | Women's IssuesThe Bible says that the lips of a strange (foreigner) woman drip honey, BUT in the end… The Quran says that whoever acts righteously, whether male or female, and is a believer, shall be admitted into Paradise regardless of his or her race, color, location etc.
In Bible versus Quran: the Foreign Woman is Unfaithful and is like a Robber
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 09/12/2009 | CultureThe Bible says that the foreign woman lies in wait like a robber and she increases the unfaithful among mankind. The Quran is not interested in the race, the color and/or the location etc. of men or women.
In Quran: The life of the world is ephemeral; the Hereafter is Eternal
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 09/12/2009 | MysticismThe Quran says that this ephemeral life of the world is only an enjoyment, containing comforts which will eventually disappear; whereas the Hereafter truly is the everlasting abode which will never perish.
In Bible versus Quran: the Prostitute is a pit and the Foreign Woman is a pit
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 09/12/2009 | Book ReviewsThe Bible says that the prostitute is a deep pit and the foreign woman is a narrow pit. The Quran says that whoever commits an evil deed shall not be requited except with the like of it whether male or female regardless of his or her race, color, location etc. Also, the word "prostitute" is not mentioned therein in the Quran.
The Foreigner woman in Bible versus Quran (2)
By: Prof.dr. Ibrahim Khalil | 09/12/2009 | ReligionThe Bible says that the foreigner woman is a pit, she is like a robber, she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a sword. Her feet go down to death; her paths are crooked etc. In the entire Quran, the foreigner woman or the stranger woman is not mentioned therein.