Noah's Ark: An Invitation to Faith — Page 135
NOAH'S ARK cause. Be loyal in all circumstances so that you may be blessed with favour and the Holy Spirit, for this reward has been prepared for those who have entered this community. The greatest manifestation of the Holy Spirit was shown to our Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. At times, the Holy Spirit appeared to certain Prophets in the form of a dove, or in the form of a cow to other Prophets and avatars, or in various other semblances to others. The Holy Spirit did not manifest itself in the guise of a human being until the advent of the perfect man, that is to say, our Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. When, however, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, appeared, since he was the perfect man, the Holy Spirit also manifested itself upon him in the form of a human being. As this powerful manifestation of the Holy Spirit encompassed the entire breadth of heaven and earth, for this reason, the teaching of the Holy Quran remained safeguarded against polytheism. Conversely, the Holy Spirit manifested itself to the founder of Christianity in an exceedingly frail form, that is, a dove; therefore, the unholy spirit, namely Satan, attained ascendancy over the religion. He exhibited his power and might in the likeness of an enormous serpent and assailed Christianity. This is the reason that the Holy Quran has referred to the misguidance of Christianity as being the most terrible on earth. It states that the deification of a human as God and to attribute a son to God is such a grave sin on earth that it could well rend heaven and earth asunder and shatter it into pieces. So, Christianity has been mentioned and refuted in the very beginning 135