Jesus & Allah Entering Creation
Overview
Muslims often criticise the Christian belief that Jesus is the Almighty God (in union with the Father and the Holy Spirit) by stating that God cannot or will not enter His creation.
However, Sahih al-Bukhari (1145) and Sahih Muslim (758a, 758b, 758c, 758d & 758e) state that Allah enters the nearest or lowest heaven each night to respond to the prayers of humanity.
This means that the criteria that Jesus cannot be the Almighty God because God cannot or will not enter His creation is a double standard and is falsified by Islamic sources.
Hadith Narrations
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Sahih al-Bukhari, 1145
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Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Messenger said, "Our Lord, the Blessed, the Superior, comes every night down on the nearest Heaven to us when the last third of the night remains, saying: "Is there anyone to invoke Me, so that I may respond to invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me, so that I may grant him his request? Is there anyone seeking My forgiveness, so that I may forgive him?"
Sahih Muslim, 758a
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger as saying: Our Lord, the Blessed and the Exalted, descends every night to the lowest heaven when one-third of the latter part of the night is left, and says: Who supplicates Me so that I may answer him? Who asks Me so that I may give to him? Who asks Me forgiveness so that I may forgive him?
Sahih Muslim, 758b
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger as saying: Allah descends every night to the lowest heaven when one-third of the first part of the night is over and says: I am the Lord; I am the Lord: who is there to supplicate Me so that I answer him? Who is there to beg of Me so that I grant him? Who is there to beg forgiveness from Me so that I forgive him? He continues like this till the day breaks.
Sahih Muslim, 758c
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger as saying: When half of the night or two-third of it is over. Allah, the Blessed and the Exalted, descends to the lowest heaven and says: Is there any beggar, so that he be given? Is there any supplicator so that he be answered? Is there any beggar of forgiveness so that he be forgiven? (And Allah continues it saying) till it is daybreak.
Sahih Muslim, 758d
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger as saying: Allah descends to the lowest heaven at half of the night or at one-third of the latter part and says: Who is there to supplicate Me so that I answer him? Who is there to ask Me so that I grant him? And then says: Who will lend to One Who is neither indigent nor tyrant? (This hadith has been narrated by Sa'd b. Sa'id with the same chain of transmitters with this addition:" Then the Blessed and the Exalted (Lord) stretches His Hands and says: Who will lend to One Who is neither indigent nor tyrant?)
Sahih Muslim, 758e
Abu Sa'id and Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger as saying: Allah waits till when one-third of the first part of the night is over; He descends to the lowest heaven and says: It there any supplicator of forgiveness? Is there any penitant? Is there any petitioner (for mercy and favour)? Is there any solicitor? -till it is daybreak.
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