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eason! Learn what you do not know by inference from what you
have been taught.”
Fourth: Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’ was sent as the Prophet among the
Israelites through various miracles, and some of his blessed
statements comprised the figurative elements of his time’s current
language; so the priests that came some time later, being unable to
interpret his symbolic expressions, established a system of creed
called Trinity, that is, believing in three gods, which could never be
accepted by anyone with common sense and which had existed in
the ancient Indian cults and in Plato’s philosophy. On the other
hand, those kinds of our master Rasûlullah’s ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi
wasallam’ teachings that are called mutashâbihât (symbolic,
parabolical, ambiguous teachings), which include âyat-i-kerîmas,
hadîth-i-sherîfs and other teachings, are explained at length in
books of tafsîr and hadîth, which report also that such teachings
contain countless other ultimate and subtle divine denotations,
connotations, nuances, and inner essential meanings.
[Mutashâbihât are those âyat-i-kerîmas and hadîth-i-sherîfs with
occult, hidden meanings whose façade meanings do not agree with
the established meanings of the popular types of narratives and
which therefore need to be interpreted.] Their number is very
much larger than those in the teachings of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. If our
Prophet ‘sall-Allâhu alaihi wasallam’ had been chosen and sent
from among the Israelites, they would have altogether denied the
divinity of Allâhu ta’âlâ, saying, “There is no God but hadrat
Muhammad.” Who on earth will doubt this?
THEIR SECOND CLAIM: The second assertion put forward
in Ghadâ-ul-mulâhazat is that “While Christianity spread gently
through kindness, Islam spread by violence, force, and by giving
wordly advantages.”
ANSWER: This assertion of theirs is, like the others, false,
groundless, as follows:
First: It is a fact declared in the Bible and confirmed by Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’ that Christianity was not a religion other than
Judaism, but it was a complementary of Judaism. The only
difference was that it (Christianity) did not command jihâd-i-fîsebî-l-illâh
(Holy War only for the sake of Allah). Absence of
jihâd in Christianity is a proof of its deficiency, rather than
proving its superiority. To assert that a religion that spreads
through physical means [violence, force, power] is not a true
religion would mean to confess that Christianity, before any other
religion, is a false one.
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