Could Not Answer

Word is creative and that the Word is Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’.
Augustine, who is esteemed and accepted as a saint amongst
Christians, acknowledges that such Christian tenets as trinity,
good, and evil exist in their exact identities in Plato’s philosophy.
In addition, he cites Plato’s views as a document for proving
trinity. The views of a person who died 350 years before the
Christian era are identical with the tenets of Christianity: a hard
question for Christians to answer. This concurrence shows that
Plato was contemporary with Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’, which is the truth.
And this truth is explained in the 266th letter of the book
(Mektûbât) by the great Islamic ’âlim Imâm-i-Rabbânî Ahmad
Fârûqî [1] ‘rahmatullâhi aleyh.”
Furthermore, Saint Thomas, one of the ecclesiastical
personages of the eighth century of the Christian era, endeavours
to prove the Christian tenets, particularly trinity, by taking the
philosophy of Aristotle, who was Plato’s disciple. This book of
ours is too small for us to mention all the ecclesiastical saints who
were the true defenders of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle.
Yet we shall touch upon an illuminatory fact, which will give our
readers a more realistic insight into the matter: Throughout the
Middle Ages, even after the realization of the Renaissance in
Europe, opposing the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, or
refusing it, or even slightly contradicting it was requited with
penalty of death by the ecclesiastical tribunal called Inquisition.
We wonder how today’s trinitarian Christians should explain this?
It is certain that philosophy of Plato (Platonism), philosophy of
Rawâqiyyûn (Stoicism), philosophy of Ishrâqiyyûn (Gnosticism),
and other Greek schools of philosophy had a major role in the
formation of the tenets of Christianity. This fact is explained in
detail and with proofs in the book titled (The Influence of Greek
Ideas on Christianity), by Dr. Edwin Hatch.]
As is understood from the above statements, such concepts as
purging the heart of wicked traits, attaining happiness by adopting
beautiful moral habits, acquiescing in destiny, having tawakkul
(putting your trust in Allâhu ta’âlâ), accepting human beings as the
sons and children of Allâhu ta’âlâ, and Allâhu ta’âlâ as the
common father of all, do not belong exclusively to the Gospels.
Hundreds of years before the Gospels they were being discussed
among Greek philosophers, [and various philosophers were trying
to explain them in various ways. For they had been taught about
[1] Imâm-i-Rabbânî passed away in Serhend in 1034 [A.D. 1624].
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