Welcome to Gospel mysteries. In this piece, I will share with you a powerful method of witnessing to Muslims.
We tell ourselves separate stories. Different covers, different heroes, different endings. Yet when you open the pages slowly and curiously, you notice the same bright filament running from Abraham’s knife to Isaiah’s quill to Mary’s cradle. Even the Qur’an nods to it. This isn’t theology by megaphone. it’s quiet pattern‑recognition. One thread, ancient and unbroken, waiting for anyone brave enough to trace it with their finger and say, “Ah, there it is.”
We both honour Abraham.
We both revere Moses, David, Isaiah, Mary, and Jesus.
So let’s start there.
This post is not about winning arguments.
It’s about following a single thread that runs through the Tawrat, the Zabur, the Prophets, and, yes, the Qur’an.
If the same pattern keeps showing up, ignoring it feels like malpractice.
Claim 1 “God has no son.”
Psalm 2 – The Royal Son
“You are My Son; today I have begotten You. Ask and I will give You the nations.”
Global inheritance. Eternal authority.
Not local politics. Not metaphorical poetry. A messianic job description.
Isaiah 9 – A Child Called Mighty God
A child is born.
His throne lasts for ever.
“Mighty God” is His name.
If eternity belongs only to God, who is this child?
Qur’an 4 : 171 – Unique Titles
The Qur’an rejects any idea of God procreating physically. Christians agree.
Yet it calls Jesus “His Word” and “a Spirit from Him.”
No other prophet receives those titles.
Royal. Relational. Eternal.
Exactly what Psalm 2 and Isaiah 9 predicted.
Key thought
The Bible’s “Son” is a status, not biology. Once that’s clear, the prophetic puzzle pieces click.
Claim 2 “Jesus did not die on the cross.”
Three Hebrew Witnesses
- Psalm 22 – Pierced hands and feet, garments gambled away.
- Isaiah 53 – Cut off from the living, buried, then sees life again.
- Zechariah 12 : 10 – “They will look on Me whom they have pierced,” says the LORD.
Crucifixion pictured centuries before Rome brought it to Judea.
Death foretold. Resurrection implied.
Qur’an 4 : 157 – What the Text Actually Says
The verse records a boast: “We killed the Messiah.”
The reply: “They killed him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so to them.”
The denial aims at the conspirators’ success, not the historical event.
It does not say God prevented Jesus’ death.
Qur’an 19 : 33 – Jesus Speaks
“Peace on me
the day I was born,
the day I die,
the day I am raised alive.”
Birth. Death. Resurrection.
Exactly Isaiah 53’s sequence.
Tawaffā – The Word Most People Skip
Qur’an 3 : 55 uses tawaffā.
Every other time that verb appears it means “cause to die.”
Early scholars like al‑Tabari read it that way.
Death first. Exaltation second.
Bridge question
If Allah promises Jesus peace on the day he dies, yet he never dies, where is the fulfillment?
Pulling the Thread
- Hebrew prophets require a suffering, pierced Messiah who rises.
- The Qur’an echoes, not cancels, that prophecy.
- The Gospel delivers the only coherent resolution: Jesus, God’s royal Son, willingly dies and lives again.
No committee of men could engineer that harmony across languages, cultures, and fourteen centuries.
Either it’s a cosmic accident, or it’s the fingerprint of God.
Share the Conversation
Ask questions, not accusations.
Place Psalm 22 beside Qur’an 19 : 33.
Invite your friend to trace the pattern themselves.
Truth does not fear honest inquiry.
Open the books together.
Let the text speak.
