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==Apologetic arguments==
==Apologetic arguments==
==="Imran is Joachim"===
==="Mary coincidentally had a father called Imran and a brother called Aaron"===


Some Muslim scholars have tried to refute the controversy surrounding Imran by arguing that he is in fact the Catholic Joachim, who is the father of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to non-Biblical Catholic and Orthodox Christian teachings. In fact, these two denominations of Christianity call this father of Mary 'Saint Joachim'.
Christian sources say her father was named Joachim and they don't mention she had a brother called Aaron. And if she had a brother called Aaron, then the question still is, why is she called "sister of Aaron"? If her brother is so important that he had to be mentioned with her name, why don't we hear more about him? It is more probable that the author of the Qur'an thought that she really is the sister of Aaron and Moses and so in the Qur'an people called her "sister of Aaron" to emphasize her social status.


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{{Quote|{{Quran|19|28}}|O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a wicked man nor was thy mother a harlot.}}


However the above mentioned verse in the {{Quran|19|28}} states clearly that she is the sister of Haroun (Aaron), again placing her 1400 years prior to her actual life.
In other words, the people asked "How can you have a baby without a husband, when you are from such a moral family".
 
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==="Sister of Aaron means descendant of Aaron"===
==="Sister of Aaron means descendant of Aaron"===
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