The Holy War — Page 162
162 prepared to devote his life for his Lord; thus, the poison and the anti- dote are both within him—not that the poison should be found within him, but the antidote is to be sought for somewhere in the jungles. Apart from this, I would like to ask that if it is true that believing in the atonement of Jesus causes one to acquire a certain change within himself, then why has there been no proof presented of this? I have repeatedly affirmed and I affirm it yet again that that special change, that special purity, that special salvation, that special faith, and that special converse with God can only be attained through Islam and that the Signs of having acquired true faith become manifest after embrac- ing Islam. If this atonement is true and you have achieved salvation through this atonement, attaining true faith, then why are the Signs of this true faith—which Jesus himself described—not found within you? And to say that those Signs are not to be found in the future but were mani- fested exclusively in the past is to articulate a pointless assertion. If you call yourselves the faithful, then the Signs that have been set for you to show as a consequence, must needs be found in you, for the state- ment of Jesus cannot be false. But if you look closely, you will find that those Signs are so profusely found in Islam that you cannot even dare to come close in their demonstration. These were the Signs concerning which I had said to you that if you cannot match them, then observe and examine them in the light of the teachings of the Holy Quran, and if they appear true to you, then accept them like all just people; but what reply did you give other than mockery and derision? You brought forth three lame, crippled, etc. persons and stood them in front of me, requesting me to make them whole, whereas to make such whole is a Sign that the Christians are supposed to show. For us are those Signs that the Holy Quran has stated and we have nowhere been told that you will be able to show Signs of Divine Power by your own will; indeed, we have been only told to supplicate humbly before God, then whatever sort of Sign He desires will be shown. So is this