A Gift for the Queen — Page 21
21 that such a belief be harboured for a beloved of God like Jesus, the Messiah, that his heart deserved the implication of the meaning of curse at any time. I present this humble submission, not from a religious basis, but to protect the honour of a perfect human. From Jesus as his ambassador, I submit to the Empress of India that which I heard in a state of vision from his tongue. I, therefore, hope that Your Majesty will correct this wrong notion. This grave error was committed at a time when people did not ponder over the mean- ing of curse. But now it is the call of decency that this mistake be corrected very soon and the honour of this elite beloved of God and His chosen one be restored. In Arabic as well as in Hebrew, the word ‘curse’ indicates moving away from God and leaving Him. Someone is called accursed when he abandons God and becomes faithless—when he becomes the enemy of God and God becomes his enemy. That is why according to lexicon, accursed is the name of Satan, that is, the one who abandons God and is disobedient to Him. How is it possible that we propose for such a beloved of God that, God forbid, at any time, even for a second, his heart in reality abandoned God and became disobedient and rebellious to Him? How out of place is it that, to create a fictional basis for our own salvation, we put a mark of disobedience on such a beloved of God and believe that at a certain time he rebelled against and digressed from God. It is better that one should accept hell for himself than to become an enemy of the pristine honour and self- less life of such a chosen one. Muslims claim to love Jesus, the Messiah, as much as Christians do, and his person is a common property of Christians and Muslims but I have the greatest right [to claim that love] because my nature