CHAPTER TWELVE
What is meant by these words. «Father» «Lord» «God» and «Master». in their Books in which resemblances fogged the truth -. Questions about the divine nature of the Messiah awaiting answers from the worshippers of the Cross.
O you the company of the Trinitarians and the worshippers of the Cross ! , tell us who was holding the heavens and the earth when their Lord and Creator was tied up on the Cross and His hands and legs were tied up with ropes, and the hand that perfected the world was nailed?. Did the heavens and the earth stay devoid of their God and Creator while He was suffering from this tremendous infliction!?. Or do you say that He delegated their management to someone else, and He descended from His Throne to have Himself tied up on a wooden cross and taste the firing heat of the driven nails and incur on Himself self- damnation where He said in the Torah:
«Damned is he who is put on the cross?
Or do you say He was managing them while tied up in these ropes! . How about when He died and was buried!?, or do you say and that is exactly what they mean – we do not know but this is in the Books and it was said by our forefathers, and they are the example to follow and the answer is in their hands!?. We say to you and to the forefathers , O you the company of the Trinitarians and the worshippers of the Cross!, what did point out to you the godhood of the Messiah?. If you find these signs through his capture by his enemies and through dragging him to the wooden slab of the Cross
with a wreath of thorn on his head while they were spitting on his face, slapping him, and then by mounting him on this horrible instrument of torture, tying up his hands and legs with ropes, driving nails into them while he was screaming and calling for help. Then through his throes of death and his burial!. What a suitable inference
for people like you who are more foolish than grazing animals, and who are a shame to the human race. And if you say that you found the proof of his godhood in the «fact» that he was not born of mankind , and that if he was created he would have to be born of mankind ; if this inference is valid then Adam is the god of the Messiah, for he is worthier to be a god than the Messiah, because he had neither a father nor a mother where the Messiah had a mother!. By the same token , Eve should be deified as well as a fifth god because she had no mother, and her birth is more miraculous than that of the Messiah. God, praised be He , had diversified the descendants of Adam to manifest His Almightiness, and that He does as He pleases. He created Adam neither through a male nor a female, and He created Adam’s wife from a male but without a female, His servant the Messiah through a female but without a male and He created the rest through the male-female agency. And if you say you came to the conclusion that he is a god because he resurrected the dead and that nobody can give back life to the dead other than God, then you had better made Moses another god, for he came up with
something far more miraculous than the Messiah, and the Messiah did not come even close to match up with him : He changed a piece of wood to a great animal , a serpent. Making a living creature from wood is much more miraculous than giving back life to a body that used to be alive . If you say that this is different from resurrecting the dead; here is the prophet Elisha who gave back life to the dead and the Nazarenes admit that. So did the prophet Elias who gave back life to a boy by the Will of God. Here is Moses who gave back life by the Will of God to seventy of his people who died. In their Books there are many similar stories about the prophets and their disciples. Did any one of them become a god because of that?!!. lf you say you made him a god because of the miracles he performed; the miracles of Moses are much more outstanding. Here is the prophet Elias, he blessed the flour of an old woman and anointed her and for seven
years she did not run out of flour in her sack nor of oil in her bottle . If you made him a god because he fed many loaves of bread to thousands of people, then what do you have to say about Moses: he fed his people manna and quails for forty years!. Here is Muhammad bin Abdullah: he fed the whole army from a scanty food provision till they were satisfied and till they filled their knapsacks, and he gave them to drink from a scanty water provision, hardly enough to fill the palm of the hand, till they filled every water-skin in the camp, and this miracle is attributed to him in a chain of successive
authoritative reporters . If you say that you made him a god because he shouted at the sea and made its waves calm down; here is Moses: he parted the sea by his staff and it parted to twelve routes and the water gushed upward between the routes like erect walls, and from solid rock he caused twelve running springs to rush!. And if you made him a god because he cured the mute and the leper; the surrection of the dead is more miraculous than that, and the signs of Moses and Muhammad (peace be upon both of them) are more miraculous than that. If you made him a god because he so alleged, then the matter is either as you say of him or that he in fact claimed servant-hood to God, neediness, sovereignty of God, and that he is made and created by God. If your claim of him is the case, then he is brother to the anti-Christ: neither a believer nor a truth-teller let one that he could be a noble-hearted prophet and his recompense is Hellfire, and what a destination it is according to the saying of the Most High:
“Whoever of them were to say, “I am a god besides Him,” they would be rewarded with Hell by Us. This is how We reward the wrongdoers.” (Surah Al-anbiya: 29)
Any one who claims god-hood before God is one of the greatest enemies to God like Pharaoh, Nimrod, and their likes. As such, you (Addressing the Nazarenes) have stripped the Messiah from the unificence of God, from his prophethood and message, and put them in the image of a loving incliner!!. And one of the most it standing signs that identifies the deceitful nature of the antichrist is his claim of godhood, where God will send His servant and Messenger the Messiah of the true guidance, the son of Mary, who will kill the anti-Christ and reveal to all the creatures that he is a liar and a slanderer. Had he been a god he should have not been killed, let someone to have been crucified, nailed, and spat at on the face ! . If he was the Messiah, the true Messiah claimed himself to be a servant to God, the prophet and His Messenger as the Gospel bears witness to that and the reason and innate disposition indicate. But you claimed him a god and this is what you say but you did not give one single evidence toward his godship where you denied his call as a prophet. In many cases in your Gospels, you have mentioned about him what declares his servanthood to God and that he is lorded and created, he is the son of a human being, and that he did not claim other than the
prophethood and the Message. You denied him all of that and you partial future events and they come to pass. This happens to many soothsayers , astrologers, and sorcerers ! . If you say that you made him a god because he called himself a «son of God» in more than one place in the Bible like his saying:
«I am going to my Father»
«I am asking my Father»
and thereabout, and you say that the son of God is god, then made yourselves all gods, for in more than one location in the Bible called Him « My Father and your Father » «do not attribute yourselves to your father on earth, for your Father is the Or heaven alone». Phrases like these are many in the text of the Bible and this points out to the fact that in their ways of expression «Father» stands for the «Lord» . If you made him a god because disciples claimed that and they are the people who knew about more than the rest; then you have denied the Gospels which between your hands , because all of them, with utmost frankness clarity, state that the disciples did not claim him to be other than what he claimed himself to be: a servant of God. Here is Matthew then in the chapter of his Gospel, backing himself up with prophecy of Elijah about the Messiah, and on the authority of Most Exalted in Might, Most Sublime, he says:
«This is My servant whom I chose, and My beloved with whom I am pleased.»
In the eighth chapter of his Gospel, he quotes Jesus says:
«I thank you O’Lord!.»
«O’Lord of heavens and earth!. »
Here is Luke, in the last section of his Gospel, he says that the angel appeared to Jesus and one of his disciples while they were on the road stricken with sadness. He said to them while they did not recognize him:
«Why are you saddened?.»
«As if you are a stranger in Jerusalem ! If you do not know what happened in it these days concerning the Nazarene ! . He was a prophet, a strong man, devout in his saying and his deed before and before the people. They arrested him and killed him.»
The Bible abounds with similar references . If you say you made him a god because he ascended to heaven, here is Akhnokh and He both ascended to heaven while they were still alive and without having a single thorn pricking them, and without being pursued.
Muhammad (peace be upon him ) ascended to heaven as a sheep servant of God. Here are the angels! , they ascend to heaven too. Here are the souls of the believers ! , after departing from their bodies, they ascend to heaven and their ascent does not take them out of their servanthood to God . Has the ascent to heaven had ever been in any way an exodus away from servanthood to God!?. If you made him a god because the prophets called him a god, a lord, a master, and the like, many of God’s names, Most Exalted in Might, Most Sublime are being given to others in all nations and books. The Romaeans
the Persians, the Indians, the Syrians, the Hebrews, the Copts, and others, they still call their kings «gods» and « lords » . In the first chapter of the Torah, it reads:
«God withstood all the gods .»
This is an example of the case in Judaism. Those who translated the text to the Syriac language altered it to:
«God withstood a group of people about the Spirit – in the same psalm – he said:
«I thought you were gods and that you were all sons of God!. »
God named His servant «King» and He named Himself with the same name . He called him «merciful» and «compassionate» and He called Himself as such . In the language of the monotheistic people (the Arabs), the name «Rubb» (that is Lord) is used in a context no referring to God Most Sublime, as in the expression:
«The Lord of the house» «The Lord of the camels»
«The Lord of this property .»
Isaiah said:
«The ox knows its owner, the donkey it’s lord’s place where animals are tied up, and the people of lsrael do not.»
If you made him a god because he made out of clay the image of a bird then he blew inside it and it became alive, flesh and blood, a real bird, and that only God can do that, then one would say make Moses bin Imran the god of gods for he threw his staff and it became a big snake, then he took it back in his hand and it returned to a staff. If you say: we made him a god because of the prophets and the messenger. He bore witness to that, and that when Nebuchadnezzar led them into captivity for four hundred and eighty years in the land of Babel, Azra said:
«The Messiah will come and free the people and the nations.»
and that after this period had passed the Messiah came, and that ** missing text **
One would say to you and to them : make all the prophets gods because they freed the nations from disbelief and from polytheism and they freed them from Hell by the Will of God alone. There is no doubt that the Messiah delivered those who believed in him and followed him from the lowliness of this world and the chastisement of the Hereafter, like Moses who delivered the people of lsrael from Pharaoh and his people. He delivered them , through faith in God and the Day of Judgement, from the chastisement of the Hereafter. And God praised be He delivered Muhammad bin Abdullah (peace be upon him) His servant and messenger, from the nations and the people in a way and to an extent no other prophet was delivered. If godhood is due to Jesus, then Muh ammad and Moses are more deserving than he. If you made him a god because of what the prophet Jeremiah said about his birth:
«In that time a son will be born to David . He is the glow of the light, he possesses the kingdom, establishes truth and justice on earth, and delivers those among the Jews and the people of Israel and others who believe in him, and the Sacred House stays without
fighter, and he will be called the god.»
The name «god» in the former Books and in other books – as previously mentioned – is. given to people to mean «the Lord» «the master» and «the father» . If Jesus were God – the God -, he would have been more sublime than to be called «the God» and he would
have said that he is «God». God is not defined as such and through this argument you raised to make him a god, lies the most irrefutable proof that he is a servant of God and the son of a human being:
«a son will be born to David»
This is the one who was born to David, the one called «god» and it is known that this name belongs to a man created, made and born and not begotten by the Lord of the Worlds, the Creator of heaven and the earth.
If you say that you made him a god because of what the prophet Isaiah said:
«Tell Zion to rejoice and exult, for God will come and deliver the people: those who believed in him, and deliver the Sacred House. And He will show His virtuous arm in it to all the dispersed nations and make them one nation. And the deliverance of God will reach the people of the earth because He will unite them» , we would say to you: first. one has to be sure that there has been no alteration in the translation is unknown . Even if it is confirmed to be correct, it does not provide any proof that he is a perfect god: not made and not created. The Torah contains comparable descriptions:
«God came from the Mount of Sinai and shone from Sa’eer, and declared Himself from the Mount of Faraan».
This does not point out that Moses and Muhammad are gods. What is meant in these verses is: the coming of His religion, Books, Law, Guidance, and Light. As for his saying:
«He will show His virtuous arm to all the dispersed nations.»
The Torah contains similar but more eloquent descriptions in more than one site. As for his saying:
«and the deliverance of God will reach them and before their hands.»
In the fifth book of the people of lsrael, he said in the Torah:
«Do not stand in awe in front of them or fear them, because God,your Lord who is walking before your hands, will be defending you.»
In another site, Moses said:
«These people are your people . He said:
I will walk in front of you.
If you do not walk in front of us we would be unable to ascend from this place, how could I know with these people that I found such a blessing without you walking with us, he said .»
Also in the Torah:
«and God said to Moses:
I am coming to you in the thickness of the clouds, for the people to hear Me talking to you.»
And in the Divine Books and the speech of the prophets, there are many similar passages. Included in what the Seal of the Prophets said about his Lord, Glory be to God Most Sublime, that He said:
« My servant keeps on endearing himself to Me through supererogation till I love him. If l loved him I became his hearing through which he hears his sight through which he sees , his hand through which he bears down on, his legs through which he walks, through Me he hears, through Me he sees, through Me he bears down on, and through Me he walks.»
If you say you made him a god because of what Zechariah said about him in his prophecy(Hand-written copy: Go out daughter of zion.):
«Zion because I come to dwell in you and appear through you and on this day many nations will believe in God, and they will be one nation to him, and He will manifest Himself through them, and they will know that I am the Mighty God dwelling in you . On that day, God takes the kingdom from the Jews and gives it to others forever», we would say to you: if you made godhood due to him because of that, then, by the same token, it is due to Abraham and the rest of the prophets, for the people of the Book, alongside with you, believe that God manifested Himself to Abraham, declared Himself, and appeared to him . As for His saying: «dwell in you» He did not mean –
praised be He – by that the dwelling of His Being in Jerusalem: How could His Being dwell in a place where he would be oppressed and vanquished with the most wicked of the creation!?. How could it be when He says:
«And they know that I am the Almighty God who is dwelling in you.?!»
I wonder! Did they know His Almightiness by arresting Him and by tightening His hands with ropes, and by tying Him on the wooden log of the Cross, driving nails in His hands and feet, putting a wreath of thorns on His head while He was crying for help but to no avail!?. Most of the time, the Messiah could not enter Jerusalem without
receiving a vanquishing, down-trodden and disdaining treatment . If the occurrence of these words came to be irrefutable, and their translation stood the test of correctness – as they said – they would have meant that knowing God, believing in him, and maintaining His religion and His Law took place in that spot, and that when the religion of the Messiah appeared in Jerusalem after his Ascension, this spot witnessed an unprecedented great deal of faith and hope in God.
There is a unanimous opinion that the former prophets and the Divine Books did not utter,a single word stipulating that the «son of man» be a «complete god» «true god from a True God» and that he is not made (created) or lorded . In fact God did not give him other than the special attributes He gave to his brother in prophethood Muhammad bin Abdullah who is more commanding in authority than he (Jesus). According to His saying:
“Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an apostle of God , and His Word which He bestowed on Mary , and a Spirit proceeding from Him” (al-Nisaa’: 171)
And to the Books of the former prophets, and all the accounts of the prophecies, there is a unanimous agreement with what Muhammad (peace be upon him) recounted, all authenticating each other; where all what the Trinitarians , the worshippers of the Cross, used to draw inference on the godhood of the Messiah are phrases and words in the Books which are common usage between the Messiah and others such as calling him «father» «word» «true Spirit» «Lord» «god» . So is the case with what they said about the dwelling of the Holy Spirit in him and the manifestation of God in him or in
his place.
The epidemic of their «dwelling» assumption (pantheism) infected some of the Sufi innovators and the worshippers of the state of austerity (rigorous and strict asceticism).
Some sects , who attribute themselves to Islam , fell in what is similar to their polytheism and disbelief. It appeared doubtful to them what the hearts of the faithful in God contain of His knowledge, light, and guidance. They thought that what these hearts contain is the same as the essence of God. The Most High said:
“To God applies the highest Similitude: for He is the Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.” (al-Nahl: 60)
“To Him belongs the loftiest Similitude (we can think of) in the heavens and the earth: for He is Exalted in Might, Full of Wisdom.”(al-Rum: 27)
And this is what is in the hearts of His angels, His prophets, and His believing servants of faith in Him, knowledge about Him, love, veneration and glorification to Him . It is similar to His saying:
“And He is God in the heavens and on earth. He knoweth what ye hide, and what ye reveal, and He knoweth the (recompense) which ye earn (be your deeds).” (al-Ana’am:3)
“It is He who is God in heaven and on earth; and He is Full of Wisdom and Knowledge.”(al-Zukhruf: 84)
These are men who are close to God. They know Him, love Him , and glorify Him, and this state is described by saying:
«He is in their hearts» meaning their love to Him and their knowledge about Him, and being the Highest Ideal in their hearts: this does not mean His Self proper. In their addresses to each other and their conversations , people are accustomed to this kind of
phrasing. A person would say to another for example: you are in my heart and in my eye as one of the poets said:
«No wonder that I long to be with them, ask about them even though they are close to me . My eye asks about them , yet in its pupil they live. My heart longs for them, yet among my ribs they live .»
And another (poet) said:
«Your image is in my eye,
Your mention, on my tongue.
Your dwelling place
Is in my heart,
Where can you disappear».
And another (poet) said:
«If l say you went away,
My heart disbelieves me.
For in it you are still living,
Or I say you did not.
My eyes belie me.
I am confused,
Between truth and deceit.»
And another (poet) said:
«I treat her kindly,
In my heart she lives.
For he who longs for his heart,
How odd it is!.»
Due to a thickness in their temperament and a fogginess in their understanding capacity, it was not far fetched for them to perceive the Being proper of God (Allah) , praised be He, dwells in a human form, unites and mixes with it!. Most Sublime is God, above what the disbelievers say.
If you say you made him a god because of what Isaiah said:
«The most amazing of all wonders is that the Lord of the angels will be born from a human being.»
We would say to you: assuming that this attribution to Isaiah is authentic, and that it is not a version corrupted through subsequent translations that it is a saying incongruous with the former or latter (revelations)-; it provides an evidence that he is made and created, that he is the son of a human being, born from a human being not from the One and Only, God the Eternal, the Absolute, He who begets not nor is He begotten, and there is none like unto Him.
If you say you made him a god because of what Matthew said in his Gospel:
«The son of man sends his angels and all the kings will gather and they (the angels) throw them in the kiln of fire», we would say that this saying does not imply anything different from the previous saying : it is not meant to say that the Messiah is the God of gods, neither that he is the Creator of the angels . This allegation is one of the most insolent kind of lies and slanders, rather than that, the God of the angels enjoined the angels to protect the Messiah, support him, and assist him, and this is proved by the testimony of Luke:
«God sent him an angel from heaven to assist him.»
This is what the Books spelled out , but the liars altered the translation against God and His Messiah, and attributed to the prophets the falsehood that they said he is the God of the angels . If the Bible testifies – alongside the agreement among the prophets and the messengers – to the fact that God enjoined the angels to protect the Messiah , then it is obvious that the angles and the Messiah are servants of God, they do His Will and they are neither gods nor deities. The Messiah said to his disciples:
«He who accepted you accepted me, and he who accepted me has accepted the One who sent me.»
He also said to his disciples:
«He who denies me in front of the people, I deny him in front of the angels and God.»
He said to the person who beat the head of the priests’ servant:
« Sheath your sword and do not think I cannot ask God the Father, He will appoint to me more than twelve of the angels.»
If you necessitate godhood to him through what you conveyed on the authority of lsaiah:
«A staff comes out from the house of a prophet, light shines on from it, and the Holy Spirit dwells in it, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the word and of understanding, the Spirit of transformation and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of God. In him they believe upon him they rely, and he is to them the crown and the dignity to the end of time.»
After requesting the evidence of the genuineness of this quotation on the authority of Isaiah, the correctness of the translation of Arabic, and that the translator did not corrupt it – a request standing against the Trinitarians, the worshippers of the Cross – we would say to them that there is nothing in this quotation that points out to the Messiah that he is the Creator of the heavens and the earth; it rather points out to what the Qur’an states that the Messiah was supported by the Holy Spirit. The quotation reads that: the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God dwells in him, the Spirit of the word and
understanding, the Spirit of transformation and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of God. It does not say that the living God Himself dwelled in him, let alone the Being of God Himself became incarnate in him and veiled Himself behind human nature. The
Spirit accompanies the prophets and the righteous . Quoting the Torah, a passage reads:
«Those who used to do good deeds in the dome of time had the Spirit of wisdom dwelled in them.»
The Spirit of understanding and knowledge is the agent through which true guidance, victory and support take place. And his saying:
«The Spirit of God» does not indicate that it is an attribute , and alone that it indicates God Himself. Gabriel is called «the Spirit God» so is the Messiah. An auxiliary, if it is an independent entity, an annexation to the owner of what is owned like saying, for example: The house of God, «the she-camel of God» and «the Spirit of God». This is not meant to be a house He dwells in, or a she-can He rides, or a Spirit He consists of. The Most high said:
“You will never find a people who ˹truly˺ believe in Allah and the Last Day loyal to those who defy Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their parents, children, siblings, or extended family. For those ˹believers˺, Allah has instilled faith in their hearts and strengthened them with a spirit from Him.1 He will admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow, to stay there forever. Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. They are the party of Allah. Indeed, Allah’s party is bound to succeed.” (al-Mujadilah: 22)
“And thus have we, by Our command, sent inspiration to thee “ (al-Shura: 52)
He supported His believing servants with this same Spirit.
As for his saying:
«In him they believe, upon him they rely,»
he is referring to God, not to the staff that grew from the house of the prophethood , and God praised be He, combined both of these roots in His saying:
“Say: «He is (God) Most Gracious: we have believed in Him, and on Him have we put our trust» “(al-Mulk: 29)
“Moses said: «O my people! If you do (really) believe in God, then in Him put your trust if ye submit (your will to His).”» (Yunus: 84)
The Qur’an is replete with similar passages. And he recounted that He supported him with the Spirit of knowledge and fear of God. Thus, he combined between the knowledge and the fear which are the two fundamentals of the Qur’an, both combined in His saying, Most Sublime:
“Those truly fear God, among His Servants, who have knowledge: “ (Fatir: 28)
And in the saying of the Prophet (peace be upon him) :
«I am the most knowledgeable about Allah and the most God fearing of you .»
This is the sheer state of affairs of the servant of God. As for the true God, he Lord of the Worlds, no fear or apprehension reaches Him, and no other is worshipped beside Him, and the Messiah kept all supererogatory acts of worship to God at all times.
If you necessitated godhood to him on the authority of isaiah’s saying:
«A child is born to us and we give him such and such. The sign of his leadership is on his back between his shoulders. He calls himself a great and wonderful king, a powerful god, sovereign and overlord, strengthened with safety in all ages. His dominion is complete and endless», we would say to you that in this foretoken there is nothing to indicate by any means that it refers to the Messiah. If it was to mean the «Messiah» then it would have fallen short to provide the criteria indicative to their description requirements . In the first place it points out to Muhammad bin Abdullah clearer than it does to the Messiah, for Muhammad is the one whose leadership mark is on his back and between his shoulders. On one hand , the Seal of the Prophethood stood on the upper side o f his back in between his shoulders and it is one of the signs of the prophethood foretoken by the (former) prophets, and the sign of the sealing of their divan , and for this reason it came with his emergence. On the other hand, he was sent with the sword he wore on his shoulder. And this is indicated by Isaiah’s saying:
«Sovereign and overlord, strengthened with safety,»
this is one of the attributes of Muhammad (peace be upon him), the supported, the victorious, the leader of peace and safety, for his religion is Islam (submission to Allah), and he who follows him gains safety from the shame in this world and the punishment of the Hereafter, and from being captured by his enemies. The Messiah did not overpower his enemies as Muhammad (peace be upon him) did; on the contrary, his (the Messiah’s) enemies gained the upper hand over him. They captured him and did what they did to him as the Trinitarians, the worshippers of the Cross, believe. Where could these attributes be congruous with the Messiah’s ?! They are rather in agreement with the attributes of Muhammad bin Abdullah (peace be upon him ) from every single aspect . It is he whose dominion is complete and lasting to the end of time. If you say you do not consider Muhammad a god but a sheer servant, we would say «yes» by God he is as such : a sheer servant of God, and servanthood to God is the highest of his ranks . As far as the translations are concerned, the name «god» came to mean the obeyed master, not the worshipped God, the Creator, the Sustainer.
If you necessitated godhood to him from the saying of lsaiah, as you alleged:
«Here is the Virgin! she conceives a son called Emmanuel.»
and that «Emmanuel» is a Hebrew word that means «Our God is with us» and thus the prophet (Isaiah) testified to his godhood; we would say to you that even If this saying is confirmed, its interpretation does not indicate that the virgin gave birth to the Lord of the Worlds, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, for he said she gives birth to a son and this is a proof that he is one of the many sons around and not the Lord of the worlds. As for his saying «called Emmanuel» it indicates that he is called by that name as people give names of different descriptions and connotations to their children: names composed and non-composed of verbs, phrases of two or one names, or one noun plus one verb. Many of the people of the Book call their sons «Emmanuel» . Some of their scholars say that what is meant by the virgin therein is not Mary . They mention a story that indicates that the Messiah is not known by this name « Emmanuel» even if his name is as such: because he is called «Our God is with us» or «We anticipate of God’s reward in the Hereafter» or «God alone» or something to this effect. Some of the Trinitarians, the worshippers of the Cross, altered this word and said that it means: «God is with us» . Some of their scholars did more justice than they: they gave lead
to reason over whims; God guided them to the truth and lifted up blindness from their sights. They said to them:
«Is this the one who said : I am God and there is none like unto Me. I give life, cause death, create and sustain!?, Or he is the one who said to God: And You are the True God alone who sent Jesus the Messiah!?»
They said that the first (assumption) is void and null, where the second is the one the Bible testifies to . One must believe the Bible and refute the allegation that the Messiah is a worshipped god. They said that this name is not specific to the Messiah: both the Nazarenes and the Jews give the name «Emmanuel» to their children up to the present time . The meaning of this naming in their midst is «the one of not able ranking» so do the Syriacs they name their children «Emmanuel». And the Muslims and others greet a man saying: «God be with you» . Thus , when a man is named by a word meaning «God be with you» this would be to bring blessedness by the meaning of the name.
If you necessitated godhood to him on the authority of Habakkuk’s saying:
«God revealed Himself on earth, mixed with people and walked with them .» and on the authority of Jeremiah’s saying:
«God reveals Himself on earth and mixes with people», we would say to you that after having to prove the prophethood of these two men, and confirming the correctness of the translation conveying their alleged sayings, and making sure that this translation is not an alteration – there emerges three points you find them hard to prove – this does not supply any evidence that the Messiah is the creator of the heavens and the earth, and that he is a true god neither created nor made. There are similar accounts in the Torah which are even more profound, but they did not indicate that Moses is a god or
being outside the count of the servants of God. The phrase «reveal Himself» does not connote anything different than «reveal Himself» «appeared» and «proclaimed Himself» and other similar expressions mentioned in the Torah and the other divine Books. It is mentioned in the Torah that God revealed Himself, and appeared to Abraham and other prophets, and this did not indicate godhood to any of them. It is still common usage in the customs of the people and the way they address each other to say:
«So-and-so is with us and he still lives with us, he did not die,»
if his deeds, way of life , his reputation and enjoinments are adopted and practised. So says the consoler to a man bereaved by the death of his father:
«He who fathers a man like you does not die, and I am
(consider me) your father.»
A student who learns and adopts the teachings of his mentor is referred to so-and-so by the name of his mentor as Akrama used to be referred to as: this is Ibn Abbas . So was abi-Hamed : this is al-Shariee. If a king sends a representative to a country, the people say: the king came , the king ruled , the king is represented . In the authentically divine Hadith:
«Allah, Most Exalted in power, Most Sublime, says on the Day of judgement:
O My servant! I fell ill and you did not visit Me.
O Lord ! How could I visit You and You are the Lord of the Worlds! , says the servant.
Did not My servant so-and-so fall ill and you did not visit him, if you did, you would have found Me with him, says Allah.
O My servant! I got hungry and you did not feed me, Allah says.
How could I feed You and You are the Lord of the Worlds ! , says the servant.
Did not My hungry servant so-and-so ask you to give him food and you did not! , Had you fed him you would have found your recompense with Me, says Allah.
O My servant! I asked you for water to drink and you did not give Me to drink! , says Allah.
How could I give You to drink and You are the Lord of the Worlds!, says the servant.
Did no My thirsty servant ask you to give him water to drink and you did not! . Had you given him to drink you would have found your recompense with Me, says Allah .»
More eloquent and touching than that is the saying of the Most Sublime:
“Verily those who plight their fealty to thee do no less than plight their fealty to God: the Hand of God is over their hands: “ (al-Fath: 10)
“He who obeys the Apostle, obeys God”(al-Nisaa’: 80)
Had the Muslims followed the same line of free disposal of corroboration, they would have led themselves to the same erroneous inference and would have seen Muhammad as a god.
If you necessitated godhood to him according to the verses in the third chapter of the Kings chronicles:
«Now O Lord! God of lsrael, Your words to David come to pass because it is true that God will dwell with the people on earth. Listen to all of you people! , let the earth with all that is on it listen and God be a witness to it. He comes out from His place, descends and walks over the eastern places of the earth considering the sin of the people of
Jacob», we would say to you that, first, this chronicle requires tenable credibility, that it was uttered by a prophet, that it is congruent with the original and that the translation conforms with it; and this is not known . Afterwards , commenting on this kind of sayings is not different from what we said before of its like and to what you mentioned before (of justification) and to what you may mention. There is nothing in this speech to indicate that the Messiah is the Creator of the heavens and the earth, or that he is a god neither made nor created. His saying:
«The Lord will dwell with the people on earth» means the same as being with them . If His light, Guidance, Religion, and His prophets are established on earth , then this would stand for His dwelling and not that He Himself in His Sacred Being descended from His Throne and dwelled with the people on earth . Even if by all estimates of
impossibilities this event took place, it would not necessitate Him to be the Messiah knowing that messengers and prophets before and after him dwelled (on earth with the people) . What then necessitates that the Messiah to be a god excluding his brethren in prophethood!?. Would this allegation be taken into consideration because of the power and the dominion he had on earth although you say that he was captured and had suffered vilification and oppression!?. is this the price he had to pay for his dwelling on earth with his creation!?. If you manifested His appearance in a human nature as the Messiah, we would say to you: is not it more plausible and possible to see His love, knowledge, religion, and words stand for this manifestation?!. This would agree with the human nature of the Messiah and the human nature of the rest of the prophets and the messengers. According to this reasoning, there is nothing in this saying that pronounces a special human nature specific to the Messiah . As for this impossible «Incarnation» that no mind, nature, law, or any of the prophethoods can possibly digest: that is the incarnation of the Self and the Being of the Lord in the human nature of one of His creatures, united , mixed, and physically interacted with it; no mind or sharia can take it seriously. Not in the least, no prophethood could possibly bring about such a teaching, and all the lines of prophethood from the first to the last cannot possibly agree with such an impossibility.
The Trinitarians diverted against the original teaching of the Prophets in singing the praises of God and in describing Him with the descriptions of ultimate perfection.
First, God, praised be He, the Most High, is Timeless, One and Only, has no partners in His Dominion, no equal, no rival . He has no minister, no adviser, no assistant, and there is no intercessor between him and these creatures other than by His ordain.
Second, He does not beget nor is He begotten, has no equal, no relative in any way or form, and has no wife.
Third, He is Self-sufficient, does not eat or drink, does not need anything of the sort His creation needs by any means or way.
Fourth, He is eternally Unchangeable, none of the variables is attributed to Him like age, sickness , slumber, sleep , forgetfulness, regret, fear, worry, sadness, and the like.
Fifth , He is not comparable to anything or any one of His creation, rather, there is none like unto Him neither in His Essence nor in His attributes or deeds.
Sixth, he does not dwell in anything or anyone of His creation, and none of them dwells in Him; rather , in His Essence, He is separate from His creation and so His creation are.
Seventh, He i s more magnificent and greater than everything, above everything, higher than everything, and there is nothing at all above Him.
Eighth, He has absolute power and have absolute mastery over everything. Nothing He wants to do stands in His way; rather , He is the Doer to whatever He wills.
Ninth, He is Omniscient, He knows the secrets and all that is hidden. He knows all that had been, and all that will be , and all that had not been; and if it were to be, He knows how it would have been:
“With Him are the keys of the Unseen, the treasures that none knoweth but He. He knoweth whatever there is on earth and in the sea. Not a leaf doth fall but with His knowledge: There is no grain in the darkness (or depths) of the earth, nor anything fresh or dry (green or withered), but is (inscribed) in a Record clear (to those who can read). “ (al-Ana’am: 59)
There is nothing that He does n o t know both intrinsically and extrinsically, totally and completely.
Tenth, He is All-Hearing, All-Knowing, All-Seeing. He hears the clamour of sounds and voices in all different languages , and all ways and means of versatile languages and expressions. He hears and sees the crawling of a black ant on a solid rock in a pitch dark night, for His Hearing encompasses all the acoustics , His sight all the optics, His knowledge all information. His mercy overwhelms all the creation, and His Dominion encompasses the earth and the heavens.
Eleventh, He is the Everlasting witness . He does not delegate succession to anyone to manage His Dominion . He does not need anyone to tell Him about the needs of His creation, or help Him to respond to them or intercede on behalf for mercy or compassion.
Twelfth, He is the absolute Authority, He alone holds the power of Command over the worlds. He is the Sayer of the Truth , the Guider to the Straight Path , the Sender of the messengers , the Revealer of the Books , the watcher over every soul of what it acquires of good or evil. He is the Requiter of the good-doers and the evil-doers.
Thirteenth , He is the Everlasting the Eternal who does not weaken, disappear, disintegrate, or die.
Fourteenth, He is the Fulfiller to His promises and His Telling. No one is truer than He in His saying and telling. He never leaves appointments behind.
Fifteenth, He is the Most Holy, the Everlasting over eternity, and it is absolutely impossible for His Everlastingness to compromised.
Sixteenth , He is the Most Holy, the Essence of peace. He was absolutely Free of any defect, vulnerability, or blemish.
Seventeenth, He is the Most Perfect: absolute perfection in every way or means is His alone.
Eighteenth , He is the Ultimate Justice, the One who does not wrong a single soul, The does not fear inequity from His servant against Him.
This is what all the Books and the Messengers conveyed : authentically documented telling that no sharia can stand out, teach otherwise, and not in the least, no prophet taught otherwise. The Trinitarians, the worshippers of the Cross, deserted all of the and adhered to the dubious resemblance in the meanings, the genes phrasing of words, and to sayings of the way-strayers before the who misguided many a soul, and they themselves turned away from the Right Path. The roots of the Trinitarians and their sayings about the Lord of the Worlds utterly contradict that to the most extren
of all measures.
Had not Muhammad bin A bdullah emerged, the prophethood of all other prophets would have been null and void. The people of Israel before and after Moses.
Had not Muhammad bin Abdullah (peace be upon him) emerged, the prophethood of all other prophets would have be rendered null and void, for the emergence of his prophethood in confirmation to theirs and a testimony to their authenticity. He emergence is one of the signs the former prophets foretokened, and the Most High pointed out to this very meaning in His saying:
“In fact, he came with the truth, confirming ˹earlier˺ messengers.” (al-Saffat 37)
The messengers foretokened his coming, and his coming is never attestation to them, for it is the interpretation of what they told , and there is no disagreement between this and the other sayings: his confirmation to the messengers is his testimony to their truthfulness and to his belief in them . He confirmed their truthfulness by his very coming and saying. Similar to this is the saying of the Messiah:
“And remember, Jesus, the son of Mary, said: «O Children of Israel! I am the apostle of God (sent) to you, confirming the Law (which came) before me, and giving Glad Tidings of an apostle to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad.» “ (al-Saff: 6)
When the Torah foretokened his coming and his prophethood, his very emergence came a confirmation to it, then he (the Messiah) foretoken the coming of a prophet after him . Thus the emergence of the foretokened messenger came as an attestation to him as it was in the Torah . The Will of God in Him Messengers is that the former foretokens the coming of the latter, and the latter bears witness to the former . Had not Muhammad bin Abdullah emerged, and had he not been sent out, the prophethood of the former prophets would have been rendered null and void. God, praised be He, does not renege on His promises or differ His telling. He foretold Abraham and Hagar manifest foretokens, and we did not see them die out, and they did not come to pass till the emergence of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) . Hagar was foretold by signs no other woman in the world was given other than Mary the daughter of Imran when she was given the foretoken of the coming of the Messiah . However, Mary was given the foretoken only one time, where Hagar was given the foretoken about Ishmael twice, and it was given to Abraham many times. Then , after her death , God mentioned Hagar addressing her through the tongue of the prophets . In the Torah it is
mentioned that God said to Abraham :
«I have replied to your plea concerning Ishmael.
I have blessed him and made him great and glorious.»
This is the version of some of the translators. As for the version translated by the «seventy two Rabbis» it reads that:
«He will give an offspring to twelve nations. »
It also reads that:
«When Hagar ran away from Sarah, the angel of God appeared to her and said:
O Hagar the slave girl of Sarah ! Where did you come from and where are you going !?
She said:
«I ran away from my mistress» .
The angel said to her:
«Return to your mistress and obey her, I shall multiply your offspring and theirs till they become countless. You will conceive and give birth to a son whom you shall name Ishmael, because God heard thereupon your humility. He will be the eye of the people, and his hand will be above all and the hand of all stretched toward him in submission, and his dwelling will be on the borders of all of his brethren.»
In another passage, the story of her placement with her son Ishmael in the wilderness of Faraan, is mentioned . In it, it is mentioned that:
«The angel said to her:
Rejoice O Hagar! , let your heart be pleased, for God Most High heard the voice of the boy. Stand up, carry him, and hold tight to him, for God is preparing him for a great nation . » and that God bestowed a blessing on her, and thereon appeared a water well . She went and filled the skin-bag from it and gave the boy a drink . God looked after her and the boy till he grew up, and his dwelling was in the wilderness of Faraan. These are four pure foretokens for the mother of lshmael: two of them were sent down upon Abraham and two upon Hagar. There are other foretokens in the Torah about Ishmael and his son and that they are a very great nation where the stars in the sky can be counted; but they cannot. This foretoken is but completed by the emergence of Muhammad bin Abdullah and his nation.
The people of lsaac stayed living dispersed and expelled under the rule of the pharaohs and the Copts till God rescued them through His prophet and interlocutor Moses bin Imran . He bequeathed them the land of al-Shaam (Syria) which became the centre of their kingdom. Then , He took it away from them and dispersed them on the surface
of the earth a Diaspora : their glory and their kingdom dispossessed, the swords of Sudan (Negroes) took them in, and red-shamed people over-rode them . When the Prophet (peace be upon him ) emerged, these prophecies were completed and it took a long time for them to come to pass. And the people of Ishmael took leadership over those around them; they pulled them down to the ground and grounded them to powder, and they spread all over the world. All the nations stretched out their hands to them in humbleness and submission. The eminence they reached was as high as the stars between India and Habasha (Ethiopia, Abyssinia) between the far South and the land of the Turks, the Saqalibah and khazar. They possessed what is between the Khafiqayn till the meeting point of the waves of the two seas. The name of Abraham came to life again on the tongues of the nations. After the emergence of the Prophet (peace be upon him ) , no child , woman, freeman, bondman, male o r female was left out without knowing Abraham and the family of Abraham.
As for the Nazarenes religion – although it spread in many great countries – its adherents had no perceptible sovereignty nor a cogent might in the dominion of lshmael and his mother Hagar. The hands of this nation did not become above the hands of all, nor did the hands of all other nations stretch out for them in submission. So are the rest of the foretokens aforementioned: they all give an irrefutable evidence that they meant to point out to Muhammad bin Abdullah (peace be upon him) and his nation, for if their interpretation did not mean to indicate his emergence (peace be upon him) , then all of these prophecies would have been nullified. For this reason, when the
unbelievers from among the people of the Book knew that it is impossible to believe in the former prophets without believing in the prophet they foretoken, they said instead:
«We are still waiting for him to come, for he has not come yet.»
When some of them who went to extremes in refuting his claim realised that he is that prophet from the son of lshmael, they denied the fact that Abraham ever had a son called Ishmael and that this son never existed. It is not too much for the people of slander, the brothers of monkeys, and the killers of prophets to say such things; neither is it too much for the Trinitarians, the worshippers of the Cross, who uttered the most atrocious profanities against the Lord of the Worlds to defame our religion and discredit our Prophet (peace be upon him). We here make it clear that they can prove neither a virtue nor a prophethood, nor a sign, nor a miracle appertaining to the Messiah unless they admit that Muhammad is the Messenger of God. Otherwise , in discrediting him , nothing of the attributes pertaining to the Messiah can be proved at all.
They cannot prove for the Messiah any virtue or prophethood if they disbelieve in Muhammad. The Jews are the mentors of the Nazarenes in concocting The fable of the crucifixion and the news about the Messiah.
We say : «people of Trinity, worshippers of the Cross ! if you disbelieve in the Qur’an and in Muhammad (peace be upon h im) , where do you get the reasons from to prove a virtue or a miracle for the Messiah !?. Who conveyed to you a sign or a miracle of his? You followed those who came about two hundred and some tens of years after his departure . You were told of a vision and you hastened to believe it.». It was worthier for those who disbelieved the Qur’an to deny as well the existence of Jesus in the world , because they do not accept the foretoken of Jesus about him (Muhammad). They are, in particular, his avowed enemies who slandered him with the most atrocious accusations . The stories about the Messiah and the Cross are but the fabrications of the Jews who are the masters of similar acts, though among themselves, they are immensely indecisive about him as you (the Nazarenes) are.
The Jews allege that when they captured him they put him in prison for forty days. They said: you were unable to imprison him for more than three days before you killed him, for he was helped by one of the Romaean leaders who was working with him in the craft of medicine. In the Gospels you have in your hands , it is mentioned that he was taken on Friday early morning and was crucified at nine oclock on the same day. When do you agree with the Jews in conveying the news about him?. And the Jews unanimously agree that he did not do a miracle nor did he show them any sign except
that he once flew up when they were about to seize him . Thereupon, one of them chased after him . He flew higher than he. Then Jesus fell down as they allege. It is mentioned in the Bible in their hands that:
«The Jews asked him one day:
What do you do to get to the point where you fulfil the ordain of God Most High?
The ordain of God is that you believe in the one He sent, he said.
What sign of yours can you show us so that we believe in you, and you know that our forefathers ate manna and quails in Mafawez (passes of deserts)!, they said to him.
If Moses fed you bread , I feed you a heavenly bread, he said, meaning the bliss of the Hereafter.
Had they known a miracle to him they would have not posed a similar question. In the Bible in your hands, it states that the Jews said to him :
«Show us a sign through which we can believe in you!»
He said :
«Put down a house and I shall rebuild it for you in three days. »
Had the Jews known a sign by him , they would have not said that. Had he shown them a miracle before, he would have mentioned it to them. Again, in the Bible in your hands, it mentions that:
«They came asking him for a sign . He rebuked them and said :
No sign is given to an impudent and wicked tribe.»
It also mentions that they said to him while he was on the Cross (as you the Nazarenes think):
«If you were the Messiah, bring yourself down, then we believe in you.»
They sought a sign and he gave none. O people of the Trinity, the worshippers of the Cross! , if you disbelieve the Qur’an, no sign or virtue to Jesus the son of Mary can be confirmed, no one would pay attention to the news conveyed by you or by the Jews because of the utterly irreconcilable differences in your narratives, and of your uncertainty in your accounts . So do the Jews agree upon the fact that he did not claim a trace of godhood to himself contrary to what you believe in although it would have not suited their purpose better if he did , for it would have provided them with an irrefutable evidence to deny him . H o wever, there is an ample evidence why the Jews
accused him of attributing godhood to himself, and this is because when he departed and his mention lingered behind , the rabbis and the scholars of the Jews feared that their laymen would follow him, for his teachings strike a tender cord in the hearts of the pure minded .To circumvent that, they showered him with atrocious fallacies and attributed to him a claim in godhood to ward off the selfless people away from him.
The accounts of the Jews and the Nazarenes about Jesus and his lineage cannot be trusted.
Among themselves , the Jews have enough differences about Jesus. It is a fact that points out to their uncertainty about anything relating to him . Some of them say that he was a man from their midst and that they knew his father and his mother: that is attributing his missing text virgin mother who never commi tted a sin. May God put His wrath upon them for these slanders. They call his father: the Romaean adulterer Bandira, and his mother: the hairdresser, and they allege that her husband Joseph bin Judas, found Bandira in her bed . He then abandoned her and denied her son. Some of the Jews abstained from going as far and said that his father is indeed Joseph bin Judas,
Mary’s husband . They mentioned that the reason why this association of being the breed of adultery had been stuck to him is because: one day he was with his teacher Bahshou’e bin Barkhia with the rest of the pupils in a journey . They dwelled in a place. A woman from his family came over and started exaggerating her hospitality to them . Bahshou’e said:
«How becoming this woman is!»
meaning what she was doing. Jesus as they alleged- said :
«Had not she had a defect in her eye.»
Bahshou’e shouted at him and said:
«O you mimzar (meaning bastard) how would you commit sight adultery by looking at her.»
Then he returned to Jerusalem boiling with anger, banning his name, and putting a curse on him that would last for four hundred centuries. Then Jesus joined one of the Romaean leaders and worked with him in the craft of medicine, and as such giving him power over the Jews while they were at that time under the protection of the emperor Petariosh. He kept violating the precepts of the Torah: returning to them sometimes, and objecting to them other times, till he ended up to be what he was.
Other Jewish sects say something different. They say that he was playing ball with the kids . The ball fell in the midst of a group of Jewish leaders and the kids felt embarrassed to retrieve it but Jesus did not. He strode amidst the leaders and took it.
«You are but a bastard .»
The extent of the differences among the Jews in this matter reaches to such a point that they called his father as they alleged the man who betrothed Mary the daughter of Joseph bin Judas the Carpenter. Some object to this claim and say that it was Joseph the
iron-smith instead.
The Nazarenes allege that she had a husband and he was Joseph the son of Jacob. Some say he was Joseph the son of Al. They also have their differences in tracing his forefathers and their numbers back to Abraham. Some mention less, some mention more than the others. This is what the Jewish scholars have to tell us about him and
about the crucifixion which, as it is well known, was not witnessed by any of the Nazarenes, and was witnessed only by the Jews who said:
«We killed him and we crucified him .»
These are the people who said about him what we conveyed to you coming from them . If you have believed in the Crucifixion you may as well believe them in the rest of their accounts! ; but if you disbelieve them through what we say about him , then what is the reason behind your believing them in the Crucifixion and your disbelieving in the ultimate source of truth (the Qur’an) whose truthfulness is proven irrefutably and which states that they (the Jews) had neither killed him nor crucified him, but God did spare him and protect him. He (Jesus) is more precious and noble before God than to let him suffer through what you (the Nazarenes) and the Jews said about him.
The Nazarenes are the most disunited people in their religion and in what their different and known denominations agreed upon.
As for the news coming to you, we have never known a nation more disunited about its worshipped god, its prophet, and its religion than you . If you ask a man, his wife, his mother, and his father about their religion, each one gives you a different answer. If you have ten of them studying the religion, they end up with ten different sects except the agreement of their main denominations upon the Trinity, the worship of the Cross, and that the Messiah the son of Mary, is not a good servant of God nor a prophet nor a messenger, but a true god, creator of heavens and earth, of the angels and the prophets,
and that he is the one who sent the messengers and showed miracles and signs through their deeds, and that the world has a god, a father God , still He is , and that His son descended from heaven and incarnated himself in the Holy Spirit and in Mary, then He and His human son became one God , one Messiah, one Creator, and one Sustainer. Then Mary conceived him and gave birth to him . Then he was captured, crucified, felt the excruciating pain, died and was buried. After three days, he rose, ascended to heaven and sat on the right side of His Father . They said that the one that Mary gave birth to, was seen by the people and dwelled with them is God Himself, and he is the son of God and the word of God. He is the Eternal, the Everlasting, the Creator of heavens and the earth, the same one that Mary gave girth to, the same one who dwelled in her womb for nine months. He is the same one who was suckled and weaned, ate, drank, defecated, captured, crucified, tied up with ropes and had his hands nailed.
The disagreement of their main denominations in the personhood of the Messiah.
Then they disagreed. The Jacobites, the followers of Jacob Barade’ee said that he was called as such because his raiment was made of rags from the pack-saddles of donkeys and camels . He used to patch them together and wear them . They believe that the Messiah has one nature made up of two components : one human ( Naso ot) and the other divine ( Lahoot) , and that these two components united and became one human being, one essence, and one person. This one nature and one person is the Messiah . He is all human and all divine at the same time: one nature, one person out of two . They also said that Mary gave birth to God who was captured, crucified , nailed, died, was hurried, and then rose.
The Malikites ( who are the Romaeans and are so called in comparison to the religion of Malik (the king) and not in comparison to a man called «Milkania» who is supposedly the writer of their essays, as some non-knowledgeable people say) said that the eternal son , who is the word, was incarnated from Mary a complete incarnation like the rest of the people’s bodies, and was incorporated into that body a soul complete in reason, knowledge, and science like the souls of the rest of the people. And he became a human being in body and soul which are two components of the essence of human beings. And he became a god from the essence of Divinity like His father forever. In the essence of human beings, he is one of them like Abraham, Moses, and David, and he is one person in the sense that he did not become more than one. The essence of Divinity became a
part and parcel of his being for ever. The essence of humanness the son of Mary wore was right for him, and he is one person, he did not become more than one. he has two natures, to each of which there is a complete will: in his Divinity, he has a will like the Father, and in his humanness, he has a will like the will of Abraham and David. They
said that Mary gave birth to the Messiah; a name that comprises both: the Lahoot and the Nasoot. And they said that the one who died is the one that Mary gave birth to, and he is the same one who was crucified, nailed , slapped, and tied up with ropes; but the Lahoot did not die, did not suffer pain, and was not buried . They said that he is a complete god in the essence of his Nasoot. And that he has two wills: the Lahoot will and the Nasoot will . They came up with the same things the Jacobites brought about, that M a ry gave birth to God. However, as they allege, they have declared God to be above death. If you examine their saying, you find it actually to be the same as the saying of the Jacobites, let alone their contentions and disagreements about him, although the Jacobites went farther than they in their blasphemous disbelief both in word and content.
As for the Nestorians, they went as far as to say that the Messiah is two persons and two natures with one will, and that when the Lahoot existed with the Nasoo t , they came to have one will . The Lahoot-as they say- accepts neither an increase nor a decrease, nor does it mix with anything, while the Nasoot accepts an increase or a decrease. As such, the Messiah came to be both: a god and a human being. In the
essence of the Lahoot he is the God who is above any increase or decrease. In the essence of the Nasoot, h e is a human being, prone to increase or decrease . They said that Mary gave birth to the Messiah in his Nasoot, and that the Lahoot was never separated from him.
All of these sects refused to see the Messiah as a servant of God; he did not. They turned away from worshipping God; h e did not. They worshipped him instead of God where the highest rank of servanthood is the submission to God . Muhammad and Abraham
are better than he in this context, and they hold higher ranks in the echelon of servanthood. God chose him to be a servant to Him, but the Trinitarians refused the choice of God.
The Arianists – the followers of Arius – say that the Messiah is a servant of God like the rest of the prophets and the messengers . He is lorded, created, and made . Al-Najashi (Negus) was on this belief. If the Trinitarians can get hold of one of them, they would tear them to pieces. They would do to them what they would do to anyone who blasphemes against the Messiah . The common people of every one of these three sects do not comprehend the real meanings behind the rhetoric of their trusted elite. Rather they say that God cohabited Mary in the same manner a man cohabits a woman, and He made her pregnant and she gave birth to His son. They do not know that what
their high priests had concocted for them mere hallucinations and tailored fiction. They say:
«What we hum we believe in, and it is needless for us to know the three persons of the two substances and the two wills to save being intimidated and confused by details beyond our ken.»
“They say: (God) Most Gracious has begotten a son! * Indeed ye have put forth a thing most monstrous! * At it the skies are ready to burst, the earth to split asunder, and the mountains to fall down in utter ruin, * That they should invoke a son for (God) Most Gracious. * For it is not consonant with the majesty of (God) Most Gracious that he should beget a son. * Not one of the beings in the heavens and the earth but must come to God Most Gracious as a servant. * He does take an account of them (all) and bath numbered them (all) exactly. * And everyone of them will come to Him singly on the Day of Judgement. “ (Mariam: 88 – 95).
Muhammad acquitted the Messiah and his mother from the falsities of their enemies, and acknowledged the high rank he deserves. He kept Godfreefrom the falsities of the Trinitarians about Him.
These are then the sayings of the enemies of the Messiah : the Jews and the extravagant Trinitarian Nazarenes, the worshippers of the Cross . Thereafter, God sent Muhammad (peace be upon him) who unveiled the doubts about the Messiah and relieved the anxiety by acquitting the Messiah and his mother from the fallacies of the Jews, from their slander and lies against them . And he glorified the Lord of the Worlds, the Creator of the Messiah and his mother, and held Him above the prevarication of the Trinitarians, the worshippers of the Cross who uttered against God the most atrocious of blasphemies. He acknowledged the rank of the Messiah, who is his brother (in
prophethood ) , in the rank God put him in : one of the most honourable of ranks . He believed in him, bore testimony to him, and professed that he is a servant of God, His Spirit, and His word which He bestowed upon Mary the Virgin , the Chaste , the pure, the Righteous, the lady who was above all the women of the world in her time. He attested to the miracles and the signs of the Messiah, and relayed on the authority of God that he who disbelieves in the Messiah will find in Hellfire an everlasting dwelling. He proclaimed that His Lord, the Most High, honoured His servant and messenger and kept him away from blemish. He protected him so that the brothers of the monkeys could never harm him, contrary to what the Nazarenes alleged that they (the Jews) killed him . Rather, He lifted him up to Him protected, supported, and victorious. Not a single thorn his foes could harm him with, nor their hands could reach him in harm. He raised him before Him and hosted him to dwell in heavens, and He will send him back to earth to avenge through him from the anti-Christ and his ilk. Then, through him , He will break the Cross, kill the pig, show the Truth oflslam, and bring victory to the people of his brother (in prophethood) Muhammad who is more deserving than anyone of the people; (may peace be upon both of them). If this saying about the Messiah was put in one palm of the hand, and the saying of the worshippers of the Cross, the Trinitarians , is put in the other, it would be plain and clear to anyone with a brain the size of a grain to see the disparity between the truth and the saying of those who inflicted upon themselves the anger of God.
Without Muhammad , we would have not known that Messiah, the son of Mary – who is a messenger to God, His servant, His word, His Spirit – has ever existed. The Messiah the Jews deliberately tailored is as such one of the most evil creatures of God and not the Messiah of true guidance . And the Messiah the Nazarenes describe is one of the most fictitious of fallacies who could have not existed neither according to reason nor according to innate character, and nothing can be more impossible in existence to happen than that. Had he existed as such (Trinity and incarnation), then all the proofs
and evidence negotiable through reason would have had to be abolished and declared null and void. And no trust would have been left for anyone to believe in anything reasonable anymore . The impossibility of his existence and being as such is above all other impossibilities . Had what they say been factual, the whole world would have run out of reasons to exist, the Throne, and the Chair would have become non-existent . There would have been no Day of Judgement, no Resurrection, no Paradise, and no Hell . No wonder about the agreement of the strayed nation whom God described as more straying from the Right path than cattle, sheep, and camels, to agree on similar things! Every falsehood in existence, attributable to a nation, is applicable to them. Previously, we came to the mention of great nations, that only God can keep count of, who unanimously agreed on disbelief and misguidance after they witnessed the manifest
signs . The worshippers of the Cross are similar to their brethren, the polytheists and the people of falsehood.
By Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziah
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