Who is the Holy Spirit? (2021-08-05) ​

0:00:01 i just wanted to do a very brief
0:00:03 video on the holy spirit who or what
0:00:06 is the holy spirit in the quran and in
0:00:10 christianity just to read a very brief
0:00:13 extract from the islamic jesus by
0:00:15 akio he says on page 169
0:00:18 section entitled the holy spirit
0:00:21 christians who read the quran
0:00:23 may be repeatedly surprised to come
0:00:26 across some
0:00:27 familiar terms that have powerful
0:00:30 meanings
0:00:30 in their own theology one of these is
0:00:33 word of god
0:00:35 another is holy spirit or rook
0:00:38 al-qudoos in its arabic original
0:00:41 the term is used four times in the quran
0:00:45 three of which
0:00:46 are in direct relation to jesus
0:00:49 in all these three instances we read
0:00:52 that god
0:00:52 strengthened jesus with the holy spirit
0:00:55 and in one passage
0:00:57 chapter 2 verse 87 in the quran reading
0:01:00 from the
0:01:00 haleem translation it says we gave jesus
0:01:04 son of mary clear signs and strengthened
0:01:08 him
0:01:08 with the holy spirit and in this
0:01:11 translation
0:01:12 which i've highlighted was holy spirit
0:01:14 have a lower cage
0:01:15 case h and a lower s for spirit so it's
0:01:19 not like
0:01:20 holy spirit with capital letters uh
0:01:24 in the fourth instance however in the
0:01:26 quran
0:01:27 holy spirit appears in the context not
0:01:30 of jesus
0:01:31 but of the prophet muhammad we hear him
0:01:34 saying apparently
0:01:35 in reference to the quran quote the holy
0:01:38 spirit
0:01:39 has brought it down from your lord
0:01:42 with truth that surah 16
0:01:46 102. the holy spirit has brought it down
0:01:49 that's the quran
0:01:50 from your lord with truth so the holy
0:01:54 spirit
0:01:55 is an agent in the quran that both
0:01:57 strengthened jesus
0:01:59 and also brought down the quran hence
0:02:02 most
0:02:03 muslim commentators identify this force
0:02:06 as the
0:02:06 angel gabriel so this is who
0:02:10 the holy spirit is in the quran it's the
0:02:12 angel
0:02:13 the angel gabriel himself of course the
0:02:16 term has a completely different meaning
0:02:19 in christianity where the holy spirit is
0:02:21 conceived
0:02:22 as the third person of the trinity so
0:02:24 you get the god the father
0:02:25 god the son and god the holy spirit so
0:02:28 the holy spirit is just god basically in
0:02:30 one of his
0:02:31 persona naturally that is not what the
0:02:34 quran means in fact as
0:02:36 a scholar noted one might see a
0:02:39 corrective
0:02:40 even a polemical intent in the quran's
0:02:44 use
0:02:44 of this phrase now that quote
0:02:48 comes from the encyclopedia of the quran
0:02:51 and the author is sydney
0:02:53 h griffith who is a very distinguished
0:02:55 american
0:02:56 professor expert on various
0:02:59 early islamic history and chronic
0:03:01 interpretation
0:03:02 and that's in his article holy spirit
0:03:05 page
0:03:05 four four three i'm gonna be that again
0:03:08 that sentence because i think i i
0:03:09 personally find this
0:03:11 very convincing one might see
0:03:14 a corrective even a polemical intent
0:03:18 in the quran's use of the phrase so
0:03:21 like in many instances in my view the
0:03:23 quran is
0:03:25 correcting and polemicizing against
0:03:28 certain
0:03:28 christian theological terms for example
0:03:31 son of god
0:03:32 or jesus being divine and or jesus or
0:03:34 god having a son and so on it
0:03:37 it really is uh critiquing those views
0:03:41 so to continue this book yes there is a
0:03:43 holy spirit the polemic implies
0:03:46 but it is not a part of a triune god
0:03:49 it is only the angel gabriel
0:03:52 so the confusion that some christians
0:03:54 might feel and reading about the holy
0:03:56 spirit is clear here clarified
0:03:58 and indeed the context in the quran
0:03:59 overall makes it clear
0:04:01 what is being spoken of here an angel
0:04:04 yet what does the quran exactly mean
0:04:07 by emphasizing that the holy spirit
0:04:10 strengthened
0:04:11 jesus gabriel is believed to have
0:04:14 occasionally
0:04:15 had occasional encounters with the
0:04:16 prophet muhammad as well
0:04:18 to reveal to him verses of the quran
0:04:22 but the quran does not state that
0:04:25 gabriel
0:04:25 strengthened muhammad or any other
0:04:28 prophet
0:04:30 that is why al-razi who's a very famous
0:04:33 islamic writer and scholar from the
0:04:36 medieval period
0:04:37 he offered the possibility that quote
0:04:40 god
0:04:40 commanded gabriel to be with jesus in
0:04:44 all his circumstances god commanded
0:04:46 gabriel to be with jesus
0:04:48 in all his circumstances this can also
0:04:52 be a way of understanding how
0:04:54 jesus could be the word of god as he is
0:04:57 termed in the quran
0:04:59 in the sense of always speaking the
0:05:02 words of god
0:05:03 the transmitter of the revelation was
0:05:06 with him
0:05:06 all the time so jesus could be the word
0:05:10 of god
0:05:10 in the sense that he was always speaking
0:05:12 the words
0:05:13 of god the transmitter of revelation was
0:05:16 with him
0:05:16 gabriel all the time so
0:05:20 that's very brief um survey of the
0:05:22 question but i think it nicely sums up
0:05:24 the difference
0:05:25 of use of this very similar term in
0:05:28 christian theology
0:05:29 and in the quran i hope that was of some
0:05:31 use
0:05:32 until next time