Scattered Pearls — Page 25
24 breaking of the Cross, Hazrat Ahmad continually laid the greatest possible stress on the point of the normal death of. Jesus Christ at its own proper time, subsequently to the event of crucifixion, when he was taken down from the. Cross alive, was looked after by his disciples, and having recovered from his wounds, travelled out of Syria in search of the "lost sheep of the House of Israel". For, indeed, the moment this fact is established on the basis of his torical evidence, of an incontestable nature, all theories of his godhead, and Atonement and Resurrection and Trinity fall to the ground, so that at the end nothing is left of these unnatural Christian doctrines. Of course, the establishment of the fact of the death of Jesus is also the first step in proving the truth of the Promised Messiah's own claim to a. Divine Mission: but the foremost reason why Hazrat. Ahmad attached so much importance to it was the dire need in these days to establish the unity of God and smash the hold of Christian doctrine of Trinity on the modern mind. This is why Hazrat Ahmad wrote: "Let the Masih (son of Mary) die his death, for in that death lies the life of. Islam," (Alhakam, August, 1908). Would to God our Muslim bretheren outside the circle of the Ahmadiyya Movement, should also realise the importance of this aspect of the question, and come to stand side by side with us, to try issues with modern Christianity. Whether or not they accept the claim of the Promised Messiah is quite a different matter. The untenable doctrines and beliefs of the Church, and the wide prevalence which these notions have gained all over the globe, weighed so heavily upon the mind of the Promised Messiah that in a great agony of feeling he wrote in one place: "I am always occupied with the idea that in some way or other there should come a clear decision between us and Christianity. . My heart melts into blood with pain when. I see this worship of a dead person which