Hao jamaa wamesha hadaiwa bila kujitambua na wamehadaika.
Sasa Esau atakuwa bin Mariam ambaye Dada wa Haruni kama kitabu chao kinavyo dai ?
Huyo Issa atakayekuja kuishi duniani baadae na kuoa na kuwa na familia ya mke na watoto...!
Hiyo dini kama wangeruhusu uhiari na bila ya kushinikizwa kuweza kuiacha hadi leo inge elekea kufa kabisa.
Wengi ni waislamu kwa kufuata mkumbo tu na hawaelewi uislamu unasema nini.
Maana ili uujue vizuri Islamu ni lazima ujue kiarabu ili uweze kusoma na kuielewa lugha ya kiarabu.
Kwa tatizo hili la kuto kuijua lugha ya kiarabu kiufasaha wengi hawajui kinacho elezwa kwenye qurani na hadidhi zake.
Waislamu wengi hasa wa huku Afrika hata qurani yenyewe hawajawahi kuigusa licha ya kuweza kuisoma na kuielewa hasa wa vijijini.
Kilinachofanyika ni kufuata mkumbo tu.
Was there a Jesus? Of course there was a Jesus – many!
The archetypal Jewish hero was
Joshua (the successor of Moses) otherwise known as
Yehoshua (Yeshua)bin Nun (‘Jesus of the fish’). Since the name Jesus (Yeshua or Yeshu in Hebrew, Iesous in Greek, source of the English spelling) originally was a
title (meaning ‘saviour’, derived from
‘Yahweh Saves’) probably every band in the Jewish resistance had its own hero figure sporting this moniker, among others.
Josephus, the first century Jewish historian mentions no fewer than
nineteen different Yeshuas/Jesii, about half of them contemporaries of the supposed Christ! In his
Antiquities, of the twenty-eight high priests who held office from the reign of Herod the Great to the fall of the Temple, no fewer than four bore the name Jesus:
Jesus ben Phiabi,
Jesus ben Sec,
Jesus ben Damneus and
Jesus ben Gamaliel. Even Saint Paul makes reference to a rival magician, preaching
‘another Jesus’ (2 Corinthians 11,4). The surfeit of early Jesuses includes:
Too strange to be a coincidence! According to the Biblical account, Pilate offered the Jews the release of just one prisoner and the cursed race chose Barabbas rather than gentle Jesus.
But hold on a minute: in the original text studied by Origen (and in some recent ones) the chosen criminal was Jesus Barabbas – and Bar Abba in Aramaic means ‘Son of the Father’!
Are we to believe that Pilate had a Jesus, Son of God and a Jesus, Son of the Father in his prison at the same time??!!
Perhaps the truth is that a single executed criminal helped flesh out the whole fantastic fable.
Gospel writers, in scrambling details, used the Aramaic Barabbas knowing that few Latin or Greek speakers would know its meaning. |
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Jesus ben Sirach. This Jesus was reputedly the author of the
Book of Sirach (aka
'Ecclesiasticus, or the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach'), part of Old Testament
Apocrypha. Ben Sirach, writing in Greek about 180 BC, brought together Jewish 'wisdom' and Homeric-style heroes.
Jesus ben Pandira. A wonder-worker during the reign of Alexander Jannaeus (106-79 BC), one of the most ruthless of the Maccabean kings. Imprudently, this Jesus launched into a career of end-time prophecy and agitation which upset the king. He met his own premature end-time by being hung on a tree – and on the eve of a Passover. Scholars have speculated this Jesus founded the Essene sect.
Jesus ben Ananias. Beginning in 62AD, this Jesus had caused disquiet in Jerusalem with a non-stop doom-laden mantra of
‘Woe to the city’. He prophesied rather vaguely:
"A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against the whole people."
– Josephus, Wars 6.3.
Arrested and flogged by the Romans, Jesus ben Ananias was released as nothing more dangerous than a mad man. He died during the siege of Jerusalem from a rock hurled by a Roman catapult.
Jesus ben Saphat. In the insurrection of 68AD that wrought havoc in Galilee, this Jesus had led the rebels in Tiberias ("
the leader of a seditious tumult of mariners and poor people" – Josephus,
Life 12.66). When the city was about to fall to Vespasian’s legionaries he fled north to Tarichea on the Sea of Galilee.
Jesus ben Gamala. During 68/69 AD this Jesus was a leader of the ‘peace party’ in the civil war wrecking Judaea. From the walls of Jerusalem he had remonstrated with the besieging Idumeans (led by ‘James and John, sons of Susa’). It did him no good. When the Idumeans breached the walls he was put to death and his body thrown to the dogs and carrion birds.
Jesus ben Thebuth. A priest who, in the final capitulation of the upper city in 69AD, saved his own skin by surrendering the treasures of the Temple, which included two holy candlesticks, goblets of pure gold, sacred curtains and robes of the high priests. The booty figured prominently in the Triumph held for Vespasian and his son Titus.
But was there a crucified Jesus?
Certainly.
Jesus ben Stada was a Judean agitator who gave the Romans a headache in the early years of the second century. He met his end in the town of Lydda (twenty five miles from Jerusalem) at the hands of a Roman crucifixion crew. And given the scale that Roman retribution could reach – at the height of the siege of Jerusalem the Romans were crucifying upwards of
five hundred captives a day before the city walls – dead heroes called Jesus would (quite literally) have been thick on the ground. Not one merits a full-stop in the great universal history.
But then with so many Jesuses could there not have been a Jesus of Nazareth?
The problem for this notion is that
absolutely nothing at all corroborates the sacred biography and yet this 'greatest story' is peppered with numerous anachronisms, contradictions and absurdities.
For example, at the time that Joseph and the pregnant Mary are said to have gone off to Bethlehem for a supposed Roman census, Galilee (unlike Judaea) was not a Roman province and therefore ma and pa would have had no reason to make the journey.
Even if Galilee
had been imperial territory, history knows of no ‘universal census’ ordered by Augustus (nor any other emperor) – and Roman taxes were based on property ownership not on a head count. Then again, we now know that Nazareth
did not exist before the second century.