What do Muslims think about Jesus?

What do Muslims think about
Jesus?
Muslims respect and revere
Jesus, and await his Second
Coming. They consider him
one of the greatest of God's
messengers to mankind. A
Muslim never refers to him
simply as 'Jesus', but always
adds the phrase 'upon him
be peace'. The Quran
confirms his virgin birth (a
chapter of the Quran is
entitled 'Mary'), and Mary is
considered the purest
woman in all creation. The
Quran describes the
Annunciation as follows:
'Behold!' the Angel said,
'God has chosen you, and
purified you, and chosen
you above the women of all
nations. O Mary, God gives
you good news of a word
from Him, whose name shall
be the Messiah, Jesus son of
Mary, honored in this world
and the Hereafter, and one
of those brought near to
God. He shall speak to the
people from his cradle and
in maturity, and shall be of
the righteous.'
She said: 'O my Lord! How
shall I have a son when no
man has touched me?' He
said: 'Even so; God creates
what He will. When He
decrees a thing, He says to
it, "Be!" and it is.' (Quran,
3:42-7)
Jesus was born miraculously
through the same power
which had brought Adam
into being without a father:
Truly, the likeness of Jesus
with God is as the likeness
of Adam. He created him of
dust, and then said to him,
'Be!' and he was. (Quran,
3:59)
During his prophetic mission
Jesus performed many
miracles. The Quran tells us
that he said:
I have come to you with a
sign from your Lord: I make
for you out of clay, as it
were, the figure of a bird,
and breathe into it and it
becomes a bird by God's
leave. And I heal the blind,
and the lepers and I raise
the dead by God's leave.
(Quran, 3:49)
Neither Muhammad nor
Jesus came to change the
basic doctrine of the belief
in One God, brought by
earlier prophets, but to
confirm and renew it. In the
Quran Jesus is reported as
saying that he came:
To attest the law which was
before me. And to make
lawful to you part of what
was forbidden you; I have
come to you with a sign
from your Lord, so fear God
and obey Me. (Quran, 3:5O)
The Prophet Muhammad
said:
Whoever believes there is
no god but God, alone
without partner, that
Muhammad is His
messenger, that Jesus is the
servant and messenger of
God, His word breathed into
Mary and a spirit emanating
from Him, and that Paradise
and Hell are true, shall be
received by God into
Heaven. (Hadith from
Bukhari)/