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EXCESS IN RELIGION:
4:171 - O people of the Book! commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but truth.
Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) an Apostle of Allah and His Word which He
bestowed on Mary and a Spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Apostles.
Say not "Trinity": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One Allah: glory be to him: (for
Exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth.
And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs. 675676
675 Just as a foolish servant may go wrong by excess of zeal for his master, so in religion people's excesses may lead
them to blasphemy or a spirit the very opposite of religion. The Jewish excesses in the direction of formalism,
racialism, exclusiveness, and rejection of Christ Jesus have been denounced in many places. Here the Christian
attitude is condemned, which raises Jesus to an equality with Allah: in some cases venerates Mary almost to idolatry:
attributes a physical son to Allah: and invents the doctrine of the Trinity, opposed to all reason, which according to the
Athanasian Creed, unless a man believes, he is doomed to hell for ever. Let our Muslims also beware lest they fall
into excesses either in doctrine or in formalism. (4.171)
676 Christ's attributes are mentioned: (1) that he was the son of a woman, Mary, and therefore a man; (2) but a
messenger, a man with a mission from Allah, and therefore entitied to honour; (3) a Word bestowed on Mary, for he
was created by Allah's word "Be" (kun), and he was: iii. 59; (4) a spirit proceeding from Allah, but not Allah: his life and
his mission were more limited than in the case of some other Messengers, though we must pay equal honour to him
as a Prophet of Allah. The doctrines of Trinity, equality with Allah, and sonship, are repudiated as blasphemies. Allah
is independent of all needs and has no need of a son to manage His affairs. The Gospel of John (whoever wrote it)
has put in a great deal of Alexandrian and Gnostic mysticism round the doctrine of the Word (Greek, Logos), but it is
simply explained here. (4.171)
5:77 - Say: "O people of the Book! exceed not in your religion the bounds (of what is proper)
trespassing beyond the truth nor follow the vain desires of people who went wrong in times
gone by who misled many and strayed (themselves) from the even way. 785
785 Excess, as opposed to moderation and reason, is the simplest test by which a hypocrite or a selfish man who "trades"
on religion, is known from a sincere, pious, and truly religious man. Excess means that truth is sometimes concealed
or trampled upon, that the fashions of ancestors or contemporaries are copied or overdone, and Allah's name is
dishonoured by blasphemies or the setting up of false gods or fetishes, or that good (or even bad) men are deified and
worshipped. The true path is the even path, the path of rectitude. (Cf. ii. 108, and v. 12). (5.77)
JESUS – A SIGN:
43:61 - And (Jesus) shall be a Sign (for the coming of) the Hour (of Judgment): therefore have no
doubt about the (Hour) but follow ye Me: this is a Straight Way. 4662
4662 This is understood to refer to the second coming of Jesus in the Last Days before the Resurrection, when he will
destroy the false doctrines that pass under his name, and prepare the way for the universal acceptance of Islam, the
Gospel of Unity and Peace, the Straight Way of the Qur-an. (43.61)
43:63 - When Jesus came with Clear Signs he said: "Now have I come to you with Wisdom and in
order to make clear to you some of the (points) on which ye dispute: therefore fear Allah and
obey me. 4663
4663 True wisdom consists in understanding the unity of the Divine purpose and the Unity of the Divine Personality. The
man Jesus came to reconcile the jarring sects in Israel, and his true teaching was just the same as that which was
expounded in a wider form by Islam. He did not claim to be God: why should not the Christians follow the doctrine of
Unity rather than what has become their ancestral and traditional custom? (43.63)
MESSENGER TO COME: - AHMAD:
61:6 - And remember Jesus the son of Mary said: "O Children of Israel! I am the apostle of Allah
(sent) to you confirming the Law (which came) before me and giving glad Tidings of an
Apostle to come after me whose name shall be Ahmad." But when he came to them with Clear
Signs they said "This is evident sorcery!" 5436543754385439
5436 The mission of Jesus was to his own people, the Jews. Cf. Matt. x. 5-6. See also Matt. xv. 24: "I am not sent but to the
lost sheep of Israel;" also Matt. xv. 26: "It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs." (61.6)
5437 Cf. Matt. v. 17. (61.6)
5438 "Ahmad", or "Muhammad", the Praised One, is almost a translation of the Greek word Periclytos. In the present
Gospel of John. xiv. 16, xv. 26, and xvi. 7, the word "Comforter" in the English version is for the Greek word
"Paracletos", which means "Advocate", "one called to the help of another, a kind friend", rather than "Comforter". Our
doctors contend that Paracleots is a corrupt reading for Periclytos, and that in their original saying of Jesus there was
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