The Honour of Prophets — Page 56
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 56 of our Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, by certain ignorant priests. Some of the charges are such that shame and modesty prevents us from even quoting them. A gravely indecent charge is imputed to his mother. Similarly, some of his grandmothers, Tamar, Rahab and Bathsheba, were accused of adultery and the Christian priests admit this as well. And the worst allegations are those mounted against the character of the Messiah; that is, how he made recourse to deception in every matter and ultimately how God suffered him to die according to the promise of the Torah. A Muslim cannot read any of these words of disgrace, insult and calumny without being infuriated. When the Messiah was disgraced to a degree that put him lower than even an ordinary person, it was natural for the community who believed in Christ to gradually incline towards exaggeration in praise. Hence, impassioned individuals, who were already enamoured by polytheism, would not be made content with anything less than deifying the Messiah—as if they sought to retaliate against the Jews for their violent attacks made upon the Messiah. What is even more surprising is that the Gospels, on whose basis the Christians seek to prove the divinity of the Messiah, are the same books by which a Jewish scholar has attempted to establish that God forbid,