The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 238
238. Essence of Islam-III. Our readers should reflect whether these are the signs of the real and true God! Can any clear conscience reconcile itself to the situation that the Creator of heaven and earth. Who possesses unlimited power and authority should become so weak and unfortunate and contemptible that wicked people may rule Him out of existence with their hands? If anyone should worship such a god and should put his trust in him, he is free to do so, but the truth is that if the power and authority of the god of the Christians is compared to that of the permeshwar of Āryās, it would amount to nothing at all. The fictitious permeshwar of the Āryās, though he has no power to create anything, is said to be able at least to put things together, but the god of the Christians was not proved to have even that ability. The Jews having nailed him to the cross told him that if he could save himself they would believe in him. This was not a great task but he was not able to do even this; all he had to do was to join his soul to his body. Afterwards it was declared that he had revived in the tomb. But those who made this affirmation forgot that the Jews had demanded that he should revive himself before their eyes. As he did not come back to life before their eyes, nor did he meet them after his revival in the tomb, what proof is there for the Jews, and indeed for any researcher, that he had truly come back to life? [Me'yār-ul-Madhāhib, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 9, pp. 468-470]. The sum and substance of the circumstances of the son of. May, shorn of vain and senseless praise, is that he was a humble creature and was one of the Prophets who were subject to the law of Moses as and was a follower of that great Prophet but had not himself the same status. That is to say, his teaching was subsidiary to that of Moses as and he did not have an independent status. According to the