Fountain of Christianity — Page 44
44 order to cover up His weaknesses, because if He admits the souls into eternal salvation, they will all at one time have attained salvation and saved themselves the trouble of being unceasingly sent back to the world. But since Parmeshwar wants the universe to continue—so that He might go on ruling it—He does not wish to admit any soul into eternal salvation, to the extent that even if a soul becomes an Avatar, or a Rishi, or a Siddh, He still keeps throwing it back into the cycle of transmigration. But can we ascribe to the Kind and Omnipotent God such meanness that He should take pleasure in torment- ing His creatures and refuse to ever grant them eternal peace? No, such meanness can never be attributed to the Pure and Holy God. But, it is unfortunate that teachings which ascribe meanness to Him are to be found in the books of the Christians as well. They believe that who- ever refuses to accept Jesus as God will be thrown into the everlasting Hell. But this is not the teaching God Almighty has given us. We have been taught that the disbelievers, after suffering chastisement for a time, will ultimately partake of God’s mercy, as described in the following Hadith: i. e. , a time will come upon Hell, when there will be no one in it; and its doors shall be moved to and fro by the morning breeze. Likewise, it is written in the Holy Quran: