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Mary, Normal Labor and Natural Birth
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Taking a closer look at Mary giving birth to a child.
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Qur'an - "throes of labor"
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| "And the pains of child-birth drove her to the trunk of a palm-tree; she cried (in her anguish): 'Ah! Would that I had died before this! Would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight!'" |
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Qur'an - "fashoned in the womb"
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"He formeth you in the wombs of your mothers by several gradual formations within three veils of darkness. This is Allah, your Lord. His is the Kingdom. There is no God but He. Why therefore are ye turned aside from the worship of Him to idolatry?"
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Bible (Matthew. 11:18 -19)
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| "For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil."
"The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children."
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Comment:
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Why worship the deity of Virgin Birth? That is idolatry. That is not Allah's doing. The Qur'an did not mention even one such case.
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Bible - Birth (How Who and Where)
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| "And the angel answered and said unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." |
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| "And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." |
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| "And this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." |
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Commentary # 2475 by A. Yusuf Ali:
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"but because in Bethlehem itself the birth was in an obscure corner under a palm-tree, from which perhaps the babe was afterwards removed to a manger in a stable.".
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Muslims are deceived into believing that Mary gave birth to Jesus by the trunk of a palm tree somewhere in a remote place. Further that angel Gabriel was the midwife!
Mary was still a parturient woman, not yet a mother, after her journey away from the place of retreat to her arrival in the village of her people. Their rebuke was addressed to a pregnant woman under unbearable birth pangs. Mary's silence and by her pointing to 'him' motioning to whom their accusation should be directed confirms that she was still on her 'one day fasting' as was the advice to her. Mr. "Him" had to be seen, spoken to, understand, and reply.
The throes of birth assailed her by the trunk of the palm tree to which she clung for support in her agony but delivery took place in the manger.
The Bible is completely silent over the pains Mary experienced delivering her first born for obvious reasons.
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Through a woman ( touched by a man )
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Through a mother ( the child was hers ) |
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By way of a natural birth |
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As a babe |
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Attended upon by shepherds |
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Wrapped in swaddling clothes |
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Lying in a manger. |
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