Okay, I was hoping there'd be something about who the "Lamb" is. To me, it seems to be Jesus, but Baha'is can't have Jesus, the Godman, be the one returning... so, for them, it is the "Spirit of Christ" that is returning.
Yeah, no Lamb is mentioned anywhere in the whole Qur'an, there is no scapegoat type theology and sacrifice is pretty de-emphasized overall. Barely anything about blood. The method in the Qur'an is to simply ask for forgiveness, the sacrifice is fasting or giving in charity or feeding the poor. Jesus in the Qur'an is also mostly an unimportant figure who is treated as expendable and redundant practically and having no power of his own or authority. Mary almost seems to get quite a bit more affection and sympathy overall in the way her story is told with a lot more closeness and the praise given to her, though she is also described as easily destructable just like her son Jesus. The content regarding Jesus is mainly breezed through without much attention given to any particular scene or incident except possibly 4 unique incidents which are still covered pretty briefly, Jesus puppeted to speak in the crib, Jesus and the Tablespread which can be like a reference to the famous painting in the future and "Last Supper" but this one is more about people being jerks and asking for things to manifest magically, Jesus asking to be extracted, and Jesus at Judgment saying "I didn't tell them to worship me, if I did you would know anyway, and you can kill them or forgive them, whatever". Jesus in the Qur'an seems to give the impression that he never liked people very much, they were extremely fickle and annoying, and wasn't even particularly fond of his companions either, was probably pleased to go and have little to nothing more to perform. Even I seem more enthusiastic about talking to people than the Jesus depicted in the Qur'an, probably because no one worships me. I bet that it would probably get pretty irritating and infuriating dealing with a lot of fans constantly asking for miracles which were just meant to demonstrate and prove the miraculous power of God. There is a quick breezed through montage of some miracles performed by God using Jesus which makes sure to have Jesus saying that these are by God's power, which most likely was misunderstood into him being God and it being his power. The Qur'an is full of what I perceive to be subtle humor and clownery and really gives the impression that people are annoying idiots, but that God has made them that way. The God of the Qur'an really seems like a kind of ironic prankster and full of ridiculous humor regarding the absurd or the drama people are going though, but many people coming from different backgrounds seem not to be able to detect quite how funny the Qur'an is and how frequently it mocks human beings, their boasts, their troubles, their doubts, their deaths, their afterlives. Though it is also serious, God even makes mention of controlling the reactions and instances of weeping and laughing, which the Qur'an induces to the devout, as the experience of reading it with care as a believer causes both laughter and tears. If one detects no humor in the Qur'an, I really doubt they are reading it correctly. God has basically no reason to be deadly serious like a human being, because not only did God create humor and every instance of particular humor and all jokes and funny things and their performances in every detail including our nuanced perception and reactions wholly, but also has nothing at all at stake, nothing permanent, nothing irretrievable, infinite resets, replays, can kill and bring back, create any experience, we are in the midst of total information manipulation, enchanted by whatever God makes us think is occurring. "Why so serious?". It is why the Qur'an bestows upon an understanding believer a very strong confidence and lightheartedness as well as a seriousness about ethics rather than other forms of things that concern those who perceive a limited life, like legacy. The Qur'an describes life as a dream, and the afterlife as a much slower reality compared to how life will be similar to a fleeting dream we woke up from, just like we might haveca dream in life which we acquire great wealth or some objects or relations and wake up and there is none of that with us. Reality itself is only illusory and an impression given, you are residing in one place, there is no space or time except as God makes it appear to be. There is no "system", its all just being made up, you appear to move forward and backwards in space but there was no space, only experience being given and impressions, you are with God, there is no there, its all here, one point, nothing else and nothing around it. This can be hard for people to accept, because God has them totally deluded and absorbed in the Magic Picture Show.
Here is every instance of "Lamb" in the Qur'an as far as I can find:
No word has been translated as "lamb" in the entire Qur'an and the Qur'an doesn't tend towards exaggerated mystical speech as its fashion, especially considering that it gets annoyed even by people calling their wives their mothers or adopted kids calling their caretakers their parents. Paradise and Hell are also literal "is this then magic?" people are mocked with due to their thinking it wasn't ever going to be "real", as "real" as anything we consider "real" now for example.
Here are a few sheep though as an apology:
6:143
[They are] eight mates - of the sheep, two and of the goats, two. Say, "Is it the two males He has forbidden or the two females or that which the wombs of the two females contain? Inform me with knowledge, if you should be truthful."
6:146
And to those who are Jews We prohibited every animal of uncloven hoof; and of the cattle and the sheep We prohibited to them their fat, except what adheres to their backs or the entrails or what is joined with bone. [By] that We repaid them for their injustice. And indeed, We are truthful.
The idea here is that anyone created or made into or becoming a Jew and being burdened with these laws is in fact being cursed by God with these arbitrary sanctions, hardships, obsessive compulsive type issues. One might say, but Jew babies are innocent. That is true, except that the Qur'an suggests that in this modern world, and even in the past, the person who is made to be good will be led to better things, the person who is made for hell will be led to bad things, and we never know for certain which is which or where we are headed for certain, we may think we are great and are evil, we may be ashamed but are great and good without even thinking so, "God knows, you know not".
20:18
He said, "It is my staff; I lean upon it, and I bring down leaves for my sheep and I have therein other uses."
This is one of the most powerful and important sections of the whole Qur'an as it deals with the "information manipulation" I brought up earlier. God, refraining to say it, asks Moses what is in his hand. Moses is then made to explain it. Then God makes him cast it down and turns it into a living creature, a serpent, then upon picking it up its made a stick again. This is to show that God makes what is not "Be" and what is becomes no longer the case, making what is false and non-existent true, what is true non-existent and false. It was a stick, but that was turned into a lie, it is a snake, but that was turned into a lie. Of all the Prophets, Musa was shown some of the most instructive and educational of miracles. What God does, what God is, and what God can do, leaving Moses in total suspense and devout fear, terror. Musa is also among the funniest and most comedic or clownish of the characters in the Qur'an with some of the funniest incidents and stories and possibly dealt with and covered more than any other figure in the Qur'an. Other extremely prominent figures are Abraham and Solomon. Noah, Lot, Adam all get a lot of mention and long stories. These three people (Abraham, Moses, Solomon) are given tremendous demonstrations of the miraculous powers of God. Next, with prominent mentions are Joseph and Mary, Jesus, and Mary is also given some quick instruction on the same miraculous powers and the religion of the Malaika (angels).
Moses, Abraham, Solomon are really outstanding stories, with Moses and Abraham both experiencing ordeals with reality manipulating events such as Abraham being thrown in a furnace where the fire was given qualities different from the usual or expected and instantly made cool and not harmful. Abraham is demonstrated the resurrection, but not as clearly as one figure mentioned briefly who may be a reference to Balaam due to being linked with a donkey but really its someone traveling among ruins and who wonders how it could be thr case regarding ressurection and is given the answer by experiencing it and observing it.
21:78
And [mention] David and Solomon, when they judged concerning the field - when the sheep of a people overran it [at night], and We were witness to their judgement.
I typed Lamb and Sheep into Qur'an Corpus. Its just not significant terminology or ideology in the Qur'an. What is important in the Qur'an is God's total power and control over all reality and experience. If one bangs their head all day and doesn't understand this, or that God is Subhan (Non-Information, Chaos/Void, Like Nothing, Pure Power and Intelligence without material or "stuff" or form or limitations), what is it that they worship? If they think there are other factors really controlling their day or "upholding the bird" in any sense, then they believe in other powers which are illusory and transient and know nothing about The One Who is Like Nothing and Is Not Like Anything.
