Enlightenments from the Call of Jesus pbuh

Enlightenments from the Call of Jesus pbuh

The truth is that the call of Jesus pbuh is one of the most complex and difficult types of calls to Allah swt, that is because it was in a community which supposedly was a community of faith whose ideologies were not tainted by obvious polytheism. And also, Jesus pbuh had to face the clerics and rabbis of the Children of Israel who were practiced in the discussion and argumentation in ideologies and other religious matters. Thus the call of Jesus was distinguished by many issues, such as:

1. Asceticism:

The most prominent embodiment of this asceticism was Jesus pbuh and his twelve disciples. And this asceticism, which Jesus pbuh profoundly demonstrated to the people, was a cure for that condition of opulence which spread among the clerics of the Children of Israel who enjoyed the life under the authority of the disbelieving Romans, and became like animals in mangers, they care for nothing except feasting and filling their paunches.

By this, Jesus pbuh and his disciples showed the Children of Israel and the Jews, rather showed all people how the practicing divine cleric, who is devoted to Allah, ought to renounce this world and approach the hereafter, especially in humane societies which have been strained with tyrannical dominion, where the poor have no loaf of bread left to eat with dignity, nor a sound intellectual method by which they can be enlightened, after this tyrannical dominion drowned them in moral and social corruption.

Hence, the asceticism of Jesus and his disciples was a scandal that embarrassed the clerics of the Children of Israel, and it showed the people the straight path and correct method that the divine cleric and leader must follow in order to be a light by which people are led and enlightened, and a savior for them from the authority of the tyrant, and a leader to Allah, the One, the Conqueror.

2. Sincerity in the worship of Allah swt:

The Jews were not worshipping idols at the time Jesus was dispatched, but they were paying tribute to Caesar, and they were following their clerics in all their jurisprudence, and imitating them blindly, ﴾They have taken their rabbis and clerics as lords without Allah, and the Messiah, the son of Mary. And they were not commanded except to worship one God; there is no God except Him. Exalted is He above what they associate with Him.﴿.^[33]

And such deeds are shirk (association) in Allah swt, as they did not only abandon jihad and abandon the rejection of the presence of the disbelieving Roman forces in the Holy Land, the land of the monotheists, but they also worked on strengthening the state of the occupier and the tyrant and establishing his power by paying the tribute to the Roman Caesar. And by this action, they became worshippers of a tyrant and not monotheists worshipping Allah, even if they claimed to be so. Moreover, they followed their clerics when the latter violated the legislation of the prophets and successors, and this act is a worship of misguided clerics without Allah swt because the misguided clerics place their opinion in opposition to the legislation of Allah swt, and they demand that the people follow them and they delude people [into thinking] that obedience to them is obedience to Allah, while in such a situation obedience to them is obedience to Satan, may Allah curse and embarrass him.

Therefore, Jesus pbuh set off teaching people and clarifying for them these Divine truths and at one time, calling them to sincerity in the worship of Allah swt, and at another time, calling them to the disbelief in the tyrant and fighting him and demolishing the economic, military, and media pillars of his country.

Jesus pbuh calls the people to rebel against the clerics of the Children of Israel who gave themselves the authority to legislate in opposition to Allah swt, and they called people to obey them and follow in their footsteps. Thus, they misguided the people after they themselves were misguided, as they made themselves lords to be worshipped without Allah swt.

3. Justice and Mercy:

Without justice and mercy, life becomes dark with only oppression, injustice, cruelty, and pain. And the tyrant with neither justice nor mercy, as it is oppression, coarseness, and cruelty that keep Pharaoh, Nimrod, Caesar and their likes in power and in control of the helm of the satanic leadership so they may lead their supporters and those who follow in their footsteps into the abyss of Hell. And whoever expects some justice and mercy from a tyrant is like he who wishes to smell a beautiful scent from an impurity.

This is why the powerful weapon in the hand of the prophets pbut was justice and mercy. Thus, Jesus pbuh set out spreading and calling for justice and mercy within the community: the justice that the clerics of the Children of Israel dismissed when they kept the charity money for themselves and passed legislations according to their desires and the foolish and ignorant allegations, and the mercy that people never knew while being in the shadow of the tyrant.

And the mercy of Jesus pbuh even included the tax collectors who directly worked for Caesar; thus Jesus pbuh tried to save them from the black and dark ending which was awaiting them if they were to continue walking in Caesar’s footsteps.