The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 276
276. Essence of Islam-III interfering with the Divine word and framing regulations and carrying out changes that were the functions of a. Prophet. They established what they wished, and invented doctrines and modes of worship and intervened so freely as if they had been commanded to do so by. Divine revelation. Such unwarranted interference with. Divine scriptures amount to claiming Prophethood. . And they claimed Godhead in the sense that their philosophers and thinkers designed to assume all the functions of Godhead. Their plans testify to their intents. . For instance they are planning night and day to bring down the rain on their own, and control births by conveying the male sperm by means of some instrument to the womb of a woman. They believe that Divine decree has no meaning, and assert that it is only the failure of a project by some mistake which is taken to as. Divine decree. They think that whatever is attributed to. God Almighty is because previously the natural causation of everything had not been discovered and man's extreme frustration was named God or God's decree. According to them, when the system of physical causation is completely understood these 'false' notions would automatically disappear. . . . . Thus in this age the soul of Jesus was agitated a second time and longed for his substitute to appear in the world. . When this desire reached its climax, God Almighty raised one who was his spiritual reflection to defeat the. Antichrist of this age. That substitute is called the. Promised Messiah, inasmuch as the reality of the. Messiah is incarnated in him, i. e. , the reality of the. Messiah was united with him and he appeared in consequence of the demand of the soul of Jesus as. That reality is reflected in him like a reflection in a mirror. As