Fountain of Christianity — Page 4
4 and deceit of the Christians could work, and that we are now in the sixth millennium since the birth of Adam—the time when the Divine dispensation ( Silsilah ) was destined to triumph. This is the last battle 4 between light and dark- ness, in which light shall be victorious and darkness shall be vanquished. Again, it was really not necessary for me to write about the outdated beliefs of the Christian clergy, but I had to do it on the insistence of the above-mentioned gen- tleman. May God bless this effort and let this book be a source of guidance for the people. A m i n. Remember, we hold Jesus as in great esteem, and regard him as a Prophet of God. 5 We are also averse to the kinds of objections raised against him that have recently been published by the Jews. My aim is only to show that just as the Jews attack Jesus and his Gospel out of sheer preju- dice, in much the same way the Christians attack the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet sa. Christians should not have followed the misguided ways of the Jews, but it is a rule that when people are unable to attack a religion on the ba- 4 The word 'battle' must not be taken to mean a battle fought with swords or guns, for God has now forbidden this kind of Jihad. This form of Jihad was destined to be abolished in the time of the Promised Messiah as , as foretold by the Holy Quran. S a hih Bukh a r i also contains the Hadith * which refers to the Promised Messiah as. [Author] * He [the Promised Messiah] shall put an end to war. [Publishers] 5 Whatever unpleasant things have come forth from my pen regarding Jesus as are only by way of counteraccusation. I have done no more than to reproduce the words of the Jews. If only the Christian clergymen could be civil and God-fearing and would stop abusing our Holy Prophet sa , the Muslims would respond with twenty times greater cordiality. [Author]