Arabian Adventures for DF

[Tinman]

Originally Posted by b-dog

Isa is one of the greatest prophets in Islam. Muslims believe in what happened in the Old and New Testaments. I would assume that if Jesus/Isa was attended to by the three wisemen (wizards) that some sort of magic was ok.

Plus Soloman/Suleman built the first temple in Israel and he was said to have magical powers. That is where the Seal of Soloman comes from.

But the rules of Islam were not in effect yet.
To put it another way: Jews keep Kosher. The laws for Kosher food were given after the exodus from Egypt. Therefore the first Jew Abraham did not keep (could not) kosher. Would that mean that a Jew after the law was given could eat non-Kosher?