Fountain of Christianity — Page 27
Fountain of Christianity اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ * صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمُ 18 27 you would not have uttered such things. Do you consider it heresy to acquire the perfections of just one Prophet, while God promises that, through perfect submission to the Holy Prophet, you can acquire the perfections of all the Prophets? Do pay attention, for it is possible to recognize a true re- ligion which is from God, and the true religion is the one that leads to Him. While other religions lay stress on hu- man efforts to find God as if they were doing Him a favour by doing so in Islam God manifests His own ex- istence by pronouncing أَنَا الْمَوْجُودُ ]I do exist!] in every age, and He has manifested Himself to me in this age. Peace and blessings be on that Prophet a thousand times, for through him we have recognized the True God. I am sorry to say that you only expose your ignorance when you express doubts about the statement that Maryas was the sister of Aaron. Scholars have written a lot to counter this objection. Why should it surprise you if, by way of metaphor or for some other reason, God has de- clared Maryas to be the sister of Aaron? The Holy Quran has repeatedly mentioned Aaronas as a Prophet who lived in the time of Mosesas, and has mentioned Maryas as the mother of Jesusas, who was born some fourteen hundred years later. Do you wish to say that God was unaware of these facts, and that He has made a mistake by declaring 18 Al-Fatihah, 1:6-7 [Publishers]