Fountain of Christianity — Page 31
31 fested even to this day? Why should one allow Satanic ideas to enter one’s mind and think that—Heaven for- bid—an account contained in the Holy Quran has been taken from some earlier writing or book? Do you doubt the existence of God, or is it that you do not believe Him to be the All-Knowing? As I have already said, the Jews and Christians have no solid grounds for declaring one book to be authentic and another inauthentic, for none of them is a witness to the authenticity of the one, and none of them has caught the forger of the other. I have the testimonies of European scholars themselves to this effect. They [Jews and Chris- tian] are a blind people, devoid of the light of faith. The state of the Christians is even more deplorable, for their knowledge of science and philosophy has been of no avail to them. They deny the very existence of Heaven but, at the same time, believe Jesus as to be sitting there! If earlier Jewish scriptures are considered to be true, they do not bear out the Prophethood of Jesus as. For example, according to the Book of Malachi, Elijah as had to reappear before the coming of the true promised Messiah—who Jesus as claimed to be—but Elijah as has not appeared to this day. This was a weighty argument put forward by the Jews, but Jesus as was unable to give a satisfactory answer. The Holy Quran has indeed done a great favour to Jesus as by affirming his Prophethood! As for the doctrine of the Atonement, it, too, was rejected by Jesus as when he likened himself to Jonah as who had re-