The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 56
T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E 56 and some of the earlier ones were even called ‘god’. In keeping with this common expression, the Gospel applied this word to Jesus as well and this proved to be a deadly poison for the fool- ish. The entire Bible is proclaiming emphatically that this word is not reserved for the Son of Mary alone, but has been used for every Prophet and righteous one, with Jacob even being called the Firstborn Son. But when an unfortunate person is caught in a trap, he cannot escape it. And curiously enough, all the rules prescribed for the Divinity of Jesus Christ—namely, that he is both God and man—had already been set down with regard to Krishna and Ramchandra in the [sacred] books of the Hindus. This new [Christian] teaching is so much similiar [to the earlier one of Hindus] that we cannot but express the view that all this was an imitation of the Hindu doctrines. The Hindus, also, held the doctrine of Trimurti which alluded to the Triad of Brahma, Bishnu and Mahadev. Hence, the doctrine of Trinity appears to be a mirror image of this doctrine. What is surprising is that what- ever logical hair-splitting the Christians were offering in order to make Jesus into God and to avoid rational objections and what- ever links they are inventing between the humanity and divin- ity of Christ with the view of somehow circumventing rational objections—still, they cannot avoid them and finally they try to get away by consigning it to Divine mysteries—exactly the same is the case with Hindus who declare Ramchandra and Krishna to be I shvara [also spelled ‘Eshwara’—god]. This means that they also give the same explanations as do the Christians and when they completely run out of arguments they claim that this is the secret of I shvar that is revealed only to those who practice yoga, renounce the world, and engage in ritual [Hindu] worship. But