Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 20
20 All at once, my heart cries out that God would never do this! He loved the Holy Prophet s as more than anybody else, he would never have allowed him to die and be buried in the ground while the Messiah lived in heaven. If there ever was anyone who deserved to live and to be ascended to heaven, it was our Nobel Prophet; if he is dead, then all Prophets are dead. Being cognizant of the great status of the Holy Prophet s as , how can we accept that he climbed the Mount of Thaur by stepping on the shoulders of Ab u Bakr ra on the day of his migration and God did not send an angel to help him, whereas when the Jews came to arrest the Messiah, God at once caused him to ascend and stationed him in the fourth heaven? Likewise, how can we accept that when the enemy found the Holy Prophet s as among a handful of Companions during the battle of Uhud, God did not raise him to heaven even for a little while, nor did He create someone resembling him whose teeth could be broken instead of his. Instead, He allowed the enemy to attack him, so that he fell unconscious and the enemy claimed tri - umphantly that they had killed Muhammad, the Prophet of Allah (God forbid!). In the case of the Messiah, on the other hand, it is alleged that God did not want him to undergo any suffering, and that as soon as the enemy resolved to attack him, God raised him to heaven and caused an enemy of the Messiah to resemble him so that he ended up being put on the cross instead of the Messiah. This we can never accept. We wonder what has come over these people that they claim to love the Holy Prophet s as and yet undermine his status. Nor do they stop at this, for they torment and issue verdicts of apostasy against anyone who, forced by his love for the Holy Prophet s as , refuses to give anyone else superiority over him. Is it heresy to