Islam's Reformers .pdf

without a father took a person out of being human and madehim divine, Âdam (’alaihi ’s-salâm) would more necessarily bedivinized, because he was created both without father andwithout mother. Hence, Christians have spoilt their revealedreligion and impaired it to an illogical state.Jews deny ’Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) and because he wascreated without a father regard him illegitimate. Muslims are fairin this respect and, escaping the excessiveness shown by bothgroups, regard him as Allâhu ta’âlâ’s human creature andprophet. Europeans today are very advanced in science andtechnology, yet remaining attached to an ancient prophet, theyare deprived of the greatest improvement and progress. Theyhave not gotten rid of this fanaticism today, either. Not onlyretrogressive are they in refusing the new religion, but also theyhave distorted the old one. Forty years after ’Îsâ’s (’alaihi ’ssalâm)ascent to heaven, the Romans captured and ruinedJerusalem and pillaged and killed or captivated the Jews. Therewas not any Jew left in Jerusalem. His twelve apostles went todifferent places. The Injîl (the heavenly book revealed to him)was lost. Later new books were written under the name of theInjîl. Four of these books spread widely. The Gospel ofBarnabas was almost completely true, but those who had beendeceived by corrupt gospels destroyed this gospel, a copy ofwhich has been discovered in the twentieth century andreproduced in English in London and Pakistan. The ’Îsâwîreligion, the true religion of ’Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was reduced toa form which he could not recognize if he saw it. Thus,Christianity came into being. This regression did not stop untilthe nineteenth century, when many of them became irreligious.As the prophethoods of Mûsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) and ’Îsâ(’alaihi ’s-salâm) were evident through miracles, so theprophethood of Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm) is obvious throughmiracles. In the time of Mûsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) magic was verymuch advanced; medicine in the time of ’Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm)and poetry and eloquence in the time of Muhammad (’alaihi ’ssalâm)were very much advanced. Allâhu ta’âlâ bestowed oneach of these prophets the miracles in the fields which eachumma esteemed. It is written in books clearly and detailedly thatMuhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm), like ’Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm),resuscitated the dead and that the disbelievers of Quraishcalled Muhammed (’alaihi ’s-salâm) a magician, as the Pharaoh- 89 -