\u00b41. Q. Al-Maida 5:113-114, 10 AH.
\u00b4\u201dThen will God say, `O Jesus son of Mary! Recount my favor to you\u2026 Behold! I taught you the Book and Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel\u2026
\u00b4\u201dAnd behold! I inspired the disciples (al-hawariyun) to have faith in Me and My apostle (Jesus). They said (to Jesus), `We have faith and (you must) bear witness that we are Muslims (submitted ones).\u201d
\u00b42. Q. Al-Imran 3:52-53, 2-3 AH.
\u00b4\u201dWhen Jesus found unbelief on their part he said, `Who will be my helpers to (the work of) God?\u2019 The disciples said, `We are God\u2019s helpers. We believe in God and (you must) bear witness that we are Muslims (submitted ones). \u201c`Our Lord we believe in what You have revealed and we follow the apostle (Jesus).’\u201d
\u00b43. Q. Al-Saff 61:14, 3 AH.
\u00b4\u201dO ye who believe! Be ye helpers of God: as said Jesus the son of Mary to the disciples, `Who will be my helpers for God?\u2019 The Disciples said, `We are God\u2019s helpers!\u2019 Then a portion of the Children of Israel believed, and a portion disbelieved: but We gave power to those who believed against their enemies, and they became the ones that prevailed.\u201d
\u00b44. Q. Al-Hadid 57:26-27, from 8 AH.
\u00b4\u201dAnd We sent Noah and Abraham, and established in their descendants prophecy and the Book: and some of them are rightly guided, but many are rebellious.
\u00b4\u201dThen We sent after them our apostles and We sent Jesus the son of Mary, and bestowed on him the Gospel; and We ordained in the hearts of those who followed him compassion and mercy; and monasticism, they invented it. We did not command it\u2026yet We bestowed on those among them who believed, their due reward, but many of them are rebellious.\u201d cp. 5:85.
\u00b4We learn from this verse that although monasticism is not of God, there were true believers among these followers of Jesus who received their \u201cdue reward\u201d (in heaven).
\u00b4Historically, monasticism started in the 4th century, although certain men, such as Paul of Thebes, lived a separate life as hermits in the third century. St. Anthony of Egypt was the first to organize even a loose group in 305 AD, and in the Sinai, too, monasticism began about the same time.
\u00b45. Q. Al-Kahf 18:10,25, Meccan.
\u00b4\u201dBehold, the youths betook themselves to the Cave. They said, `Our Lord! Bestow on us mercy from Yourself, and dispose of our affair for us in the right way\u2019 \u2026\u201d
\u00b4So they stayed in their Cave three hundred years, and (some) add nine (more)\u2026\u201d
\u00b4Yusuf Ali, in several notes to his translation of the Qur\u2019an, refers this to 7 young Christian men of Ephesus who, while fleeing from persecution, hid in a cave and did not wake up for 300 yrs. He discusses various dates which terminate between 440 and 450 AD, and says that the Khalifa Wathiq (842-846 AD) sent an expedition to examine and identify the locality. Hamidullah mentions this possibility, but thinks that the passage refers to a time well before Christianity. However, Toufiq Al-Hakim in his play Ahel Al-Kahf describes them clearly as Christians.
\u00b46. Q. Al-Buruj 85:4-9, Early Meccan.
\u00b4\u201dWoe to the makers of the pit (of fire), fire supplied with fuel, Behold, they sat over against the (fire), and they witnessed (all) that they were doing against the believers. And they ill-treated them for no other reason than that they believed in God\u2026\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00b41. Q. Al-Maida 5:113-114, 10 AH.\u00b4\u201dThen will God say, `O Jesus son of Mary! Recount my favor to you\u2026 Behold! I taught you the Book and Wisdom, the Torah and the Gospel\u2026\u00b4\u201dAnd behold! I inspired the disciples (al-hawariyun) to have faith in Me and My apostle (Jesus). They said (to Jesus), `We have faith and (you must) bear witness that we are Muslims (submitted ones).\u201d\u00b42. Q. Al-Imran 3:52-53, 2-3 AH.\u00b4\u201dWhen Jesus found unbelief on their part he said, `Who will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-injil","category-studies"],"yoast_head":"\n