The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 432
432. Essence of Islam-III shall not default, and will be ready even to suffer death in such a case. Allah Almighty knows that I am sincere in this offer. If anyone entertains any doubt in this respect, he should put forward a better plan, which I shall accept without objection. If I am false it would be better that I were destroyed by means of some severe punishment. If I am true, then I desire to save those who have destroyed themselves. . I call on all Christian clerics, who are respected and distinguished among their own people, in the name of God, to listen to me. Gentlemen, if you have in your hearts even a particle of love for that righteous one whose name is Jesus the Messiah, I call on you to stand up against me. . I call you in the name of God, Who caused Jesus to be born of the righteous Mary, Who sent down the Gospel,. Who caused Jesus to die a natural death and revived him spiritually and exalted him to heaven and put him in the living company of Abrahamas, Moses as, Jonah as and other. Prophets who had been revived spiritually before him, that you should stand up against me. If the truth is on your side and Jesus is truly God, you will be victorious. . If he is not God and is a humble and helpless person, and. Islām is true, God Almighty will hear me and will manifest at my hands that which is beyond your power. [Ā'ina-e-Kamālāt-e-Islām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 5, pp. 276-277]. There was a time when the Christian ministers alleged, out of their bigotry, that there were no prophecies in the. Holy Qur'an. Muslim divines tried to answer them, but the truth is that, in the matter of prophecies and extraordinary signs, an effective reply can be given only by one who can himself make a prophecy. This matter cannot be settled by verbal debate. When the false denials of the Christian ministers transgressed the limits,