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BarĀhĪn-e-a H madiyya — Part Four 224 needs. Moreover, a majority of the Jews had come to believe, like some naturalists, that the system of the world functioned by a set of regu- lated and fixed laws in which God Almighty did not have sovereign power and strength to intervene. In other words, both of His hands were tied and He could neither invent nor annihilate anything in con- tradiction with the operating law; and since the time that He had freed Himself from the creation of this universe, this mechanism was run- ning by the inherent capacity of its components, and the Lord of all the worlds did not have control over, or involvement in, its operation. Rather, He did not have any power to manifest His rub u biyyat on the basis of His pleasure or displeasure in respect of the different needs of the recipients, or to make any change or alteration by His special deter- mination. In fact, the Jews believe that God Almighty is a corporeal being with a physical body and, as such, just like the physical world and a part of it. Their defective perception is permeated with the view that many of the things that apply to creation are equally applicable to God. Further, they do not believe that He is Holy in all respects, and their Torah, which has been interpolated and altered, contains references with diverse forms of impertinence about God Almighty. For instance, it is written in chapter 32 of Genesis that God Almighty wrestled with Ya ‘ q u b [ Jacob] through the entire night until morning, and could not overcome him. Similarly, in contravention of the truth that God Almighty is the Lord of all that exists in the universe, they have made some men into ‘sons of God’ and in some places women are called ‘daughters of God’, and at another place in the Bible it has been said, ‘you all are gods’. The fact of the matter is that the Christians had also learnt the les- son of creature-worship from these very teachings, because when the Christians found that the Bible made many men and women sons and daughters of God, and even gods, they said, ‘Come, let us include our son of Mary among them so that he may not remain lower in status than the other sons. ’ It is from this perspective that God Almighty has stated in the Holy Quran that by describing the son of Mary as