Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 101
101 They agreed on this news, and in fact they have old books in which these stories are found in Arabic and Persian, including a book called Ikm a ludd i n and other famous books. I have seen in the books of the Christians that they claim that Y u z A saf was a disciple of Jesus as and wrote this explicitly. There are no people among them who did not translate this story into their language, and built a church in his name in some of their countries. There is no doubt that the claim that he was a disciple is self-evidently false, as none of Jesus’ disciples was the son of a king and the claim of prophethood was not heard from them. Then, despite this, Y u z A saf called his book the Gospel, and the Prophet of the Gospel was none other than Jesus as. So, take what has become clear from the truth and leave the hearsay. If you are looking for details, read a book called Ikm a ludd i n , and you will find in it everything that cools the burning thirst. This fact is further supported by this that many of the cities in Kashmir were named after ancient cities, I mean cities that were in the land of Jesus’ advent and their nearby villages, such as Homs, Gilgit, Skardu, and others that we left out of brevity. This is something you cannot overlook; it is the source of hidden truth for which the Christians were called a d- Dalli n [those that have gone astray. ] Allah gave them this name in S u rah al-F a ti h ah to highlight their misguidance and to emphasise that the doctrine of Jesus’ life is the mother of their misguidance, akin to the mother of the Book of the Purified Scriptures. If they had not raised him to heaven with his physical body, they would not have made him one of the gods, and it would not be possible for them to return to monotheism without abandoning this belief. So, Allah revealed this matter out of mercy for this Ummah, and proved with clear