Beacon of Truth — Page 22
22 Frage des Todes Jesu Christi Death issue of Jesus Christ  >* ý/ : L / , - N >! : / ¡-],ý?u1/[ü/ = X E = /° ;4¬\ É Lku N N,P aðrE/ b The issue of the death of Jesus Christ The issue of the death of the Messiah of Nazareth is important in three respects. Firstly, the major part of the world being follower of Christianity and regarding Hazrat Messiah as the son of God believe that he lived in this world for a few years and was then raised to heaven, where he is alive and, God forbid, shares the eternal regime of God. Secondly, also the Muslim masses of this time after being siliently influenced by this belief and by wrongly interpreting certain Quranic verses and Hadith are firmly holding the thought that while Hazrat Isa was neither God nor son of God but on the occassion of his crucification Almighty Allah lifted him alive with his body and that he is still alive in heaven. In the la,er days after descending on earth, they claim, he will reform the Muslim Ummah. And Thirdly, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam, claimed to be the Promised Messiah. However, till the issue of death and life of Hazrat Messiah is not resolved, no Muslim can properly examine the claim of Hazrat Mirza Sahib. Due to these three reasons it is essential that in the light of Quran, Hadith and Godly blessed wisdom this issue about the death of Jesus should be clarified for the guidance of mankind, so that the superiority of Islam may be established over Christianity. During the 13th. century with the support of the prevailing belief about the Messiah of Nazareth still being alive, the Christian missionaries converted thousands and hundreds of thousands of simple Muslims to Christianity. The Christian missionaries made claims of conquering territories after territories of India. So mu4 so they indicated their determination to host the flag of Christianity in Mecca. To resist against the invasion of Christianity, no Muslim leader or s4olar had anything to protect Islam. It was only Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who became a wall of ro5. God has blessed him with arguments regarding the death of Hazrat Messiah, as an effective weapon. As a result, the invasion of Christianity was retreated. And at last a revolution in favour of Islam took place, whi4 4anged the whole situation. This great victory, even opponents confessed, was due to the reasoning proving the death of the Messiah of Nazareth.