Noah's Ark: An Invitation to Faith — Page 87
NOAH'S ARK been issued against Jesus, he was greatly harassed. Terrible abuse was hurled at him, and offensive and defamatory books were published against him. The same happened to me. After 1800 years, it was as if the very same Jesus and the very same Jews had been born again. Alas, this was the meaning of the prophecy 1 which God had explained beforehand. But, these غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ people were not content until they became like the Jews and incurred the wrath of God. One of the similarities between Jesus and I was established by the hand of God Himself when He raised me as the Messiah of Islam precisely at the head of the were instead addressed in the oral account of the Talmud, which contained traditions from all the past Prophets. For quite some time these traditions were passed on verbally and were only recorded much later. For this reason, numerous fabricated traditions found way into the canon. In that era, since the Jews had split into 73 sects, each with its own recorded traditions, scholars of the oral tradition began to pay scant regard to the Torah and it was the oral tradition that was primarily followed, so much so that the Torah was cast aside and left abandoned. If it happened to coincide with the oral tradition, they accepted it, otherwise they did not. Thus, it was in such an age that Jesus, peace be upon him, was raised, and the chief audience of his message were the Pharisees who honoured the oral traditions over the Torah. It had been prophesied in the scriptures of the past Prophets that when the Jews would fragment into various sects and follow traditions rather than the book of God, a judge and arbiter would be given to them who would be referrd to as the Messiah; the Jews, would reject him and ultimately, a great chastisement would fall upon them, and that chastisement was the plague. We seek refuge with Allah! (Author) 1 Those who have not incurred Thy displeasure (Surah Al-Faatihah, 1:7) [Publisher] 87