Is Islam missing something? Satan for one thing.

Also, Jesus as God.

If I can assume ‘Gulf Times’ from Qatar is an Islam authority, then they have missed Jesus way back at the fall of the angels.

Here’s what they understand, as we do:

For those who wish to know the truth about Satan and his clan and their technique, we quote from the Qur’an – the book of ‘assured certainty.’

“And surely We created you and then gave you shape, then We told the Angels ‘Prostrate to Adam’, and they prostrated, except Iblees, he refused to be one of those who prostrate.

(Allah) said: ‘What prevented you (O Iblees) that you did not prostrate when I commanded you?’ Iblees said: ‘I am better than he (Adam). You created me from fire and him You created from clay.’

(Allah) said: ‘Get you (O Iblees) down from this, it is not for you to be arrogant here, get out, for you are of the meanest ones.’

(Iblees) said: ‘Respite me till the Day they are raised up (ie the Day of Resurrection).’

(Allah) said: ‘You are of the respited.’

(Iblees) said: ‘Because you have sent me astray, surely I will sit in wait against them (human beings) on Your straight path.’ (7:11-16)

We know from our New Testament (not Islam’s “corrected” New Testament), that Jesus and Satan were in terrific conflict unto Jesus’ earthly death, and we know that we are in this conflict today.

That at the very beginning Satan realized Jesus would become man, clay whom Satan already didn’t think much of. It is the tremendous battle between Jesus and Satan and us that defines the devil. It is the absolutely critical thing that helps us understand Jesus’ life on earth, what He did for us, and why.

Satan would much desire we ignore Jesus, and concentrate solely upon the Father. That’s what he did. To find out that the Son would become man, made Satan an enemy of the Son, as if with the Father and Son, one could be loved, and the other not.

Islam also denies Jesus’ divinity thanks to the words of their prophet via a particular angel. Whoever this angel was, he did Islam no favor.

A religion that denies the Son would be missing the whole battle in their understanding of Satan. They also could claim loyalty to the Father, while ignoring the glory of the Son becoming man. Satan’s lesser disloyalty to the Father could then be these ‘clay creatures’. But he has a much bigger problem than that. He has to contend with the Son in the Trinity who became clay, and has defeated him.

Without Satan, we can not understand Jesus’ time on earth. Without Jesus, Islam can not understand Satan. It is not just Satan’s pride against us clay folks as the Qur’an tells. It is Satan’s will not to bow to any Son of God who would become clay, and forever change himself with his resurrected body.