Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 238
238 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad la’nat not agreed upon in both the Arabic and Hebrew lexicons? If the heart is not wicked and obstinate, and if it is the pleasure of God Almighty for which a person adopts a certain religion, then is this subject of ‘curse’ not sufficient to uproot the Christian faith? So firstly, one ought to reflect that when it was an accepted belief and it had already been stated in the Torah that cursed is the one hung on a tree and he is a liar, then tell me how can a person intercede on our behalf when he is himself cursed and a liar? As the saying goes: ‘how can he who is himself misguided, guide anyone else?’ I am truthful when I say that since the time that the Christians have forsaken God and have placed the crown of divinity on the head of a humble man, they have become blind—they cannot see a thing. On the one hand they deify a mortal, and on the other hand they put him on the cross and declare that he is accursed, whereafter they send him to hell for three days as well. Did he go to hell to advise the inmates of hell or did he go there to be an atonement for them? Allegations on the Marriage of Mary as and Joseph So in brief, these are the sorts of inconsistencies that we have. Now the actual point is that not only this, but rather no moral example is established in the per - son of the Messiah, and it is only by the support of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that he is vindicated. If one had to accept him on the basis of the Gospel, who could believe in him in the face of all these difficulties? The Christians, as well as the Gospel, have even further stained his character. The sorts of allegations that are raised by the Jews are such that one feels embarrassed even to mention them. These brazen people have even accused the mother of Jesus as. Then, there is another serious issue for which the Christians have no answer whatsoever, which is that the mother of Mary as had pledged that she would serve the Holy Temple and live as a renunciate and remain celibate. Even Mary as herself had made the same oath that she would remain in the service of the temple. So what calamity and affliction had descended so that this oath was broken and she was married? In books of history written by Jewish authors, putting aside other things, it is written that Joseph was coerced into this marriage and the elders from among the Israelites said to him that he would have no choice but to accept this marriage. Now in view of this account, one can see how many objections arise. Firstly, when an oath was made, then why did the mother and grandmother of god break this oath? Secondly, according to the Christians, if p. 504