Qur’an Tells the Truth about Mary

 Qur’an Tells the Truth about Mary

By Um Esma

 

According to the Qur’an, Mary was a Levite who married a man from the Tribe of Judah after the Annunciation: At the time Mary lived and Jesus was born, Palestine had been under Greek and Roman occupation for more than 300 years. Due to the cultural influence of Greece and Rome, the Jewish cultural elite had become Hellenized; a process which involved the adaptation of Greco-Roman myths into the Jewish culture. One of the most predominant myths was the Greek Heroes, as Perseus and Heracles, Sired by Zeus Upon a Virgin Myth. This myth was applied by the thoroughly Hellenized Gospel authors to the biography of Jesus. The myth was strongly opposed by conservative Jews as Justin Martyr explains in his contemporaneous Dialogue  with Trypho, Chapter 67. As is explained in the Gospel according to Matthew, 5:17-19, Allah (SWT), sent Jesus, the Messiah, to overthrow this massive Hellenization of Palestinian culture and return it to the covenants of Moses (the Torah or Law) and David (the Navvim or Prophets). Rome was victorious in Palestine and the Church adopted the Hellenized version of Jesus' biography. However, Allah (SWT) sent Muhammad to relate the true biography of Jesus including the manner of his birth. 

 

 The Quran confirms that Mary was either married but had not yet cohabited with her husband or she had not yet entered into a marriage contract. in Quran 3:45 which says: " [And mention] when the angels said, "O Mary, indeed Allah 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 Allah]." Here Gabriel is telling Mary that she was to be the mother of the messiah. According to 2 Samuel 7, the messiah was to be a patrilineal descendant of David who was from the tribe of Judah. Quran says that Mary was from the tribe of Levi. According to Quran 3:35, Mary's mother is described as (ٱمْرَأَتُ عِمْرَٰنَ) or a 'woman of Imran (biblical Amram)". Imran (Amram) was from the tribe of Levi and the father of Moses, Aaron and Miriam. Mary is thus designated as a 'sister of Aaron' because she is also from the tribe of Levi. (Quran 19:28) The Gospel of Luke describes Mary's cousin in a similar manner when it states her kinswoman, Elizabeth, was 'from the daughters of Aaron' (Luke 1:36). So, the Quran declares through the annunciation of the messiah, that Mary, a Levite was either married or about to be married to a man from the tribe of Judah who was one of the many patrilineal descendants of David. Jesus would not have fulfilled the requirements of the messiah unless his mother was married to a descendant of David who would be his biological father. The genealogies of Jesus in the gospels of Matthew and Luke confirm that Jesus' biological father was from the tribe of Judah. Qur’an is always correct and precise.