What is the perception of the Jesus in Islam?

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've heard that Muslims also believe in Jesus, but in a different way than Christians.


And since Muslims acknowledge the teaching of Jesus, why Islam allows the stoning of women who have committed adultery, as Jesus said "“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her"

In Islam Jesus is a penuvmah, or "breath from allah". What this means is that they regard him as a prophet. Also, Mohammed himself and many Muslims consider(ed) Jesus a greater prophet than Mohammed (Mohammed is not considered a penuvmah), but as Mohammed is the most recent prophet in their opinion his teachings built upon the OT prophets and Jesus. However, the only material that Muslims consider canonical on the subject of Jesus are some fragments from Matthew. This is interesting because the only NT document that we know of Mohammed being exposed to was a fragmentary manuscript of Matthew owned by his uncle, the same uncle who officiated Mohammed's first marriage.

Muslims believe in the theological ideas of continuous revelation (some) and abrogation (basically all). Abrogation is the principle that finding and adhering to the most recent scriptural material is the key to resolving doctrinal disputes in hermeneutics: "hermeneutics" is the formal practice of harmonizing between different accounts, commissions and doctrinal statements in what seems to be contradictory verses (I say "seems to be" there because a part of hermeneutics is distinguishing between apparent and real contradictions). When using the principle of abrogation in interpreting the Quran, one must understand that Emams don't just consider book 2 of the Quran dominant over book 1 and so on and so forth. The Quran was actually compiled in order of size, not by the date of each book. So as with most religions that practice hermeneutics, it isn't so easy to just start making conclusions right off the bat as if it's inconsistent for Muslims who believe in Jesus as a prophet to stone people. Much more familiarity with the history of the Quran and hadiths is required to make such judgments about the religion.

Moving on to continuous revelation: it happens to be the case that throughout the history of Islam groups have sprouted up who have claimed that there was either a Second Coming after Mohammed- and by Second Coming I mean second penuvmah or "the coming of the Son of Man" who fulfills portions of apocalyptic prophecy both from Christ in Matthew chapter 24 in particular and in the OT, a penuvmah is often but not always a prophet and also one who is classified on another level than other prophets- another prophet after Mohammed, or one who was both. The idea of a penuvmah actually entails an immaculate conception, hence the penuvmah being a "breath from Allah"; many Christians would actually be surprised to learn that Muslims believe in the virgin birth of Jesus. This belief is derived in part from the book of Genesis, chapter 2 verses 5-7:

5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land, and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up- for the Lord god had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and watering the whole face of the ground- 7 then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

Also, there do happen to be a number of strictly pacifistic sects in Islam such as Sufi Islam. Chad, Senegal, and Niger are examples of countries where the majority of Muslims are Sufi Muslims. Yazdanism is another similar sect that branched out of Sufi Islam amongst the Kurdish people.

Muslims deny that Jesus was crucified and deny that he is more than a prophet or a man. They have a docetic view of the crucifixion, like some gnostics, where Jesus just appeared to be crucified and suffer but it was just an illusion.

Jesus will deny that he ever claimed to be a god. Islam takes its monotheism pretty seriously.



He's just a man but he will play some role in their riff on the end times. The whole thing is kind of a "me too" mishmash. He's just a character, like Batman, that they use in their own way and it's not a story that Christians would accept.



Jesus may not have said that anyway. It's only found in one gospel, the latest, and isn't found in the earliest manuscripts of that account. Scholars have been going round and round on it for a long time.

Muslims believe in the Revelation, a coming time of trouble, an Armageddon type event and then Gods kingdom on the Earth.
They, like Christians, believe it is Jesus who will return rather than Muhammad to lead Gods war.

I guess you can look at it that way and just ignore the rest.

The irony of the OP's question is that Muslims feel the bible has been corrupted, so much so that they feel the major tenets of Christianity are in error, and he's asking a question specifically about a biblical story that scholars can't agree on and that may in fact be an example of textual corruption.