Noah's Ark: An Invitation to Faith — Page 86
HAZRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD (AS) Furthermore, when the Mary of the Israelites gave birth to her son, God responded to the allegations of her opponents with the following proclamation regarding Jesus: وَلِنَجْعَلَهُ آيَةً لِلنَّاسِ وَ رَحْمَةً مِنَّا وَ كَانَ اَمْرًا مَقْضِيًّا God Almighty responded to my opponents with the very same answer in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya at the time of my spiritual birth, which has been described in metaphor. God made clear to my opponents saying, 'Your machinations can do him no harm and I shall make him a sign of mercy for the people. ' And this was destined by Him since the beginning. Similarly, the Jewish scholars issued an edict of disbelief against Jesus, which was prepared by a mischievous Jewish scholar and endorsed by other priests. Even the Jewish scholars and priests of Bayt-ul-Maqdas, most of whom were Pharisees and who numbered in the hundreds, put their seals of attestation on this edict of disbelief against Jesus. ² This is exactly what happened with me. Then, after this edict had 1 And We shall do so that We may make him a sign unto men, and a mercy from us, and it is a thing decreed (Surah Maryam, 19:22) [Publisher] 2 Although there were many Jewish sects in the time of Jesus, peace be upon him, there were two which were considered to be true. i) Those [Saduccees] who adhered to the Torah and collectively sought verdict pertaining to religious matters from it; ii) the Pharisees were the other sect, who considered the oral tradition to be an authority over the Torah. The Pharisees were largely spread throughout the Jewish territories and followed numerous oral traditions that mostly contradicted and conflicted with the accounts of the Torah. Their argument was that certain juridico-religious matters, such as acts of worship, civil transactions and penal law were not found in the Torah, but 86