The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 231
The Messiah and his Second Coming 231 humble creature of God and His Prophet. God Almighty has raised me as a witness against the Christians and has commanded me to proclaim that the deification of the son of Mary is a false doctrine that amounts to infidelity. . He has also honoured me with His converse. . . . . O Christians! be sure that Jesus, son of Mary, is not God. . Do not wrong your souls by attributing the greatness of. God to one of His creatures. Our hearts tremble at hearing that you call on a weak and helpless creature as if he were God. Turn to the True God so that you may achieve good and may receive salvation. [Kitāb-ul-Bariyyah, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 13, pp. 53-55]. Jesus did not Claim to be God. The deification of the son of Mary is a terrible wrong. He is only a man and a Prophet in the Mosaic dispensation. . You have not seen him but I have seen him many times. . None of you knows him but I know him. He is a honourable man who acknowledges the greatness of Moses as and believes sincerely in the greatness of our lord and master Muḥammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and is, like us, devoted to him. Were he to appear in the world at this time and find that he has been deified and is believed to have atoned for the sins of mankind, he would be so ashamed of this false glorification that he would be ready to suffer death and would supplicate God for forgiveness. What proof have you of his godhead? Do his words or the words of his disciples indicate his godhead? Even if they did, this would be an empty claim unsupported by any proof. This claim cannot be supported even from the Gospels. Nowhere do the Gospels state that the son of Mary ever claimed to be God. Indeed, when the Jews confronted him on one