Could Not Answer

(Jerusalem), three times a year. For Allâhu ta’âlâ had promised to
manifest Himself at that sacred place. But later Jews were smitten
by the scourge of Allâhu ta’âlâ on account of the massacres they
had committed. Their government was annihilated, their enemies
invaded their territory and demolished Beyt-i-Muqaddes. As a
substitute for Beyt-i-muqaddes, Allâhu ta’âlâ appointed the body
of Jesus Christ His Beytullah (The Home of Allah). To this end He
sent Jesus Christ to His born slaves. And, reinforcing those who
believed him with the Holy Spirit, He blessed each of them with
the grade of living Beytullah. Thus there was no more need for a
special manmade home for Allâhu ta’âlâ to manifest Himself at.
Allotment of another such home would run counter to the hikmat
(ultimate divine wisdom) of Allâhu ta’âlâ. Jesus Christ’s
statement, as is quoted in the Bible, ‘There shall come such a time
when you shall neither offer this worship to Father nor make sajda
in Jerusalem. Yet those who make true sajda; let them make sajda
with their souls and in devotion everywhere. For Father wishes
them to make sajda for Him in this manner,’ shall remain valid till
the end of the world. This being the case, it would mean to reduce
the high spiritual position of Christianity to a very low grade to
fabricate a new home for all people to visit, to make the
attainment of the infinite blessings of Allâhu ta’âlâ dependent
upon that place alone, and to urge people to visit that place. And
this, in its turn, would mean to relapse into the obsolete formal,
outward Jewish customs.”
ANSWER: These objections of theirs are, like others,
groundless, as follows:
1 — For one thing, Christians have to specify the verse and the
Gospel from which they have derived this argument that the body
of Jesus Christ replaced Beyt-i-muqaddes. It is a plain fact that the
statements of an ecclesiastic who is employed in the church service
for a salary of five to ten gold pieces could not be bases for
Christian tenets.
2 — As it is written in the Gospels, throughout his life Îsâ
‘alaihis-salâm’ visited Beyt-i-muqaddes and even tried to clean the
place by ousting the pedlars in it. As it is seen, if Beyt-i-muqaddes
had been annulled and he had superseded it, he would not have
visited it continually, nor would he have purged the place of
people who had been there to earn their worldly needs. And he
would have said to his disciples, “Do not give regard to this Beyti-muqaddes
any longer. I possess its significance. And each of you
is a home of Allah.”
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