Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 89
89 question from God if he had taught the people to take him for a God : ^C u^ ) uJ J u^tfU^ UU i >/* d U'J "And I was a witness of their actions so long as I lived among them, but since Thou, God, hast caused me to die, Thou hast watched over them. " This verse tells us plainly that the Christians departed from Jesus' teachings after his death because he witnessed their actions so long as he lived among them, and the corruption took place after God caused him to die. There is, moreover, an admission here on the part of Jesus that he was ignorant of the corruption of the Christians, which he could not have been, if he had been alive and had personally come back into the world, and with his own hands destroyed the false re- ligion. In the latter case, his proper answer to the question *U I ^y y. /* v^/V ) \y ) 3 ur j } ^ J u' WW* caJ ) p "Didst thou say to the people : take me and my mother for gods beside God," should have been, "Almighty God! Thou knowest that not only did I not teach any such doctrine but in my second advent, I uprooted this evil doctrine. " How can his ignorance of Christian corruption be consistent with his second advent ? In another verse, the Holy Quran plainly hints at his journey to Cashmere. Thus it says : ^j*** j; )/ ^>M Xy ; ^J ) Uw j) 5 " And we gave the son of Mary and his mother a refuge on a lofty place which was secure and watered wit : h springs. " This is a description of Cash- mere. Moreover the verse plainly indicates that this took place after some heavy misfortune or great danger, for the word LO' signifies the giving of refuge in danger; and with the exception of the event of crucifixion, no other event of great misfortune or danger to Jesus is recorded in history. Similarly the Holy Pro- phet not only testified to Jesus' death by stating that he saw him among the dead prophets, but settled the question of Jesus'