The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 260
260. Essence of Islam-III authority over heaven and earth and a fourth had no hesitation in asserting that there is no God beside him. In short, the tendency to exaggerate carries them too far. A vision in which someone saw that the dead had emerged from their graves and had walked into the town was changed into an actual event that the dead had truly emerged from their graves and had arrived in Jerusalem and met other people. Just imagine how a feather was turned into a crow, and a crow into millions of crows. . With such exaggeration, how is it possible to get to the truth?. It is also worth considering that the Gospels, the socalled books of God, contain inflated statements such as that if all the works of Jesus had been committed to writing, there wouldn't be room enough in the whole world to accommodate them. Can such exaggeration be the way of honesty and truth? If the works of Jesus were so unlimited and beyond count, how were they confined within the brief space of three years?. . . . Then, in the same Gospel of Matthew, we read:. And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept. (Matthew, 28:12-13). Look, just how childish and absurd such statements are. . If it means that the Jews wanted to cover up the fact that. Jesus had risen from the dead and had bribed the watchmen so that this great miracle should not become known to the people, then why did Jesus, whose primary duty it was to proclaim this miracle among the Jews, keep it a secret and forbid others from disclosing it? And if it is