The Difference Between the Copts, the Jews, and the Christians
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The questioner:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, and all his Companions. May Allah reward the Honorable Shaykh Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan for these valuable lessons, and I ask Him to record them among his good deeds and benefit us with them; He is the All-Hearing, the Responsive. Honorable Shaykh, I ask your permission to read some of the questions that have reached us.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the difference between the Copts, the Jews, and the Christians? Do the Copts have a Messenger? And what is their religion?
The Shaykh:
The Copts are the people of Pharaoh, the group of Pharaoh from the people of Egypt, because there were two groups in Egypt in the time of Pharaoh: the group of the Copts, from whom Pharaoh was, and the group of the Children of Israel, who are the descendants of Ya'qub (peace be upon him). May Allah reward you. The Copts were not originally Christians, but later some of them entered Christianity; they became Christians later.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah, his family, and all his Companions. May Allah reward the Honorable Shaykh Salih ibn Fawzan al-Fawzan for these valuable lessons, and I ask Him to record them among his good deeds and benefit us with them; He is the All-Hearing, the Responsive. Honorable Shaykh, I ask your permission to read some of the questions that have reached us.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the difference between the Copts, the Jews, and the Christians? Do the Copts have a Messenger? And what is their religion?
The Shaykh:
The Copts are the people of Pharaoh, the group of Pharaoh from the people of Egypt, because there were two groups in Egypt in the time of Pharaoh: the group of the Copts, from whom Pharaoh was, and the group of the Children of Israel, who are the descendants of Ya'qub (peace be upon him). May Allah reward you. The Copts were not originally Christians, but later some of them entered Christianity; they became Christians later.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما الفرق بين الأقباط واليهود والنصارى؟ وهل للأقباط رسول؟ وما هو دينهم؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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