Islam and Christianity

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The Bible was formerly in the Hebrew language. In the
Middle Ages, it was translated into Latin and entitled “Itala.”
When Christianity began to spread, pagans and Jews stood
against it. So much so that the Christians had to keep their faith
a secret. They worshipped in temples which were built under
ground, in caves, in mountains, and in other secret places. The
Jews, in spite of all their treachery and oppression, could not
prevent Christianity from spreading. Saul, a preeminent Jew and
one of the greatest enemies of Christianity, pretented to be a
Christian assigned by Hadrat Jesus with the task of inviting all
nations, except the Jews, to become Christians. [See chapter 9 of
“The Acts of the Apostles” in the Bible.] He changed his name
to Paul. He pretended to be a pious Christian so that he could
corrupt Christianity from within. The concept of “Oneness” was
replaced by “Trinity.” Îsâism (“Jesusism”) became Christianity.
He falsified the Bible. He preached that Jesus Christ was the son
of God. He made it permissible for Christians to drink wine and
to eat pork. He changed the direction of their qibla towards the
east so that it faced the rising sun. He also introducted many
other falsities which were not previously communicated by
Christ (’alaihi ’s-salâm). Eventually his corrupt ideas began to
spread among the Christians. Consequently, they divided into
various sects. They deviated from the teaching of Îsâ (alaihi’ssalam),
and in their place they made up silly fables. They made
imaginary pictures and statues of Hadrat ’Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi ’ssalâm]).
They accepted and adopted the cross as their religious
emblem (symbol). They began to worship these statues and the
cross. In other words, they reverted to paganism. They
considered Hadrat Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi ’s-salâm]) to be the son of
God. However, the Prophet Jesus had never said such a thing to
them; he had only mentioned the Rûh al-Quds, i.e., the
supernatural power endowed upon him by Allâhu ta’âlâ.
Believing in the divinity of Jesus, who was believed to be the son
of God, and in the Rûh al-Quds (Holy Ghost) along with the
belief in God, caused them to stray from the belief in the one,
unchanging Creator, which has been the basis of all the true
religions, and to lapse into the ridiculous state of worshipping
three deities, called “Trinity.”
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