Life of Ahmad — Page 537
537 CHAPTER 56 JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA On the occasion of the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria Ahmad as wrote a book entitled Tu h fa’-e- Qai s ariyya (printed at the D iy a ’ul Islam Press, Qadian), and took this opportunity of pointing out to the Queen the inherent weakness of the Christian faith. Jesus as , he explained, was a Prophet of God, he was devoted to Him, and he glorified the Father in heaven. To believe, as present day Christianity holds, that he was cursed 127 for three days is entirely wrong 127 'Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us' (Gal. 3:13). This has been interpreted by Christian authorities to mean that Jesus as was treated as if he was accursed. The idea is strengthened by the use of the substantive for the adjective. The words of the Scripture clearly indicate that Jesus as underwent 'that punishment which under the law betokened the curse of God. ' It is believed by Christians that the way in which the curse of the law fell upon Jesus as was through the manner of his death. 'The ignominious death by which he died was one for which the curse of God specially declared that that criminal who died upon the cross or gibbet was an object of the divine wrath. Christ died as such a criminal, and so came under the curse. ' (C. J. Ellicott’s Bible Commentary Vol. 7, p. 444). It should be remembered that, according to Muslim scriptures, Ahmad as proved that Jesus as did not die on the cross. So he was not accursed.