Interestingly enough, in the pamphlet “A conversation between Christians and Muslims”, the author (a Saudi Imam) asserts that believing in the miraculous birth of Jesus is a basic tenet of Islam. However, the next logical step is that if Jesus birth is true, then he was, in a physical sense, half-immortal, a god, if you will.
So given this, how is it possible that such a man as Jesus could play second fiddle to a mortal man who never performed any miracles?
BTW, from his comments on the Bible, I doubt that the Saudi Imam referenced above ever even bothered to read it. I do hope that his understanding of the Quran is much better.
Near as I understand from personal conversations with an Imam, and my own reading; even though they believe Mary was pregnant by Miracle, Jesus was not the son of Allah, but the simple result of Allah’s supernatural power. They believe to lift Jesus to Son, is to make him God and inheritor of the Kingdom and equal to Allah. To them that is heresy, and not monotheism.
So,Jesus was to be the first born Holy Muslim prophet to announce Allah’s true religion while living; then on the Last day return, not to rule, but as Allah’s appointed General to conquer the Infidels and enforce universal Islam.
Mohammad was the second Holy,and greatest prophet;risen up by Allah six hundred years later,to reform apostate Christianity and Judaism and begin the conversion of the World by Evangelism,immigration,and the sword.
After Jesus finishes the job in End Time,and the World follows Islam, then the Mahdi Will rule as Allah’s appointed King. All three have different roles at different times, and are under Allah’s specific orders;but not as coequals to him.