Some Hidden Pearls — Page 6
their best to destroy him. When, however, the early phase of this opposition passed away, in the succeeding generations, a sense of the truth of his claim began to take birth, which developed first into appreciation, then into recognition and confirmation, which continued to strengthen, as the days passed. Accordingly we find that, referring to his famous predecessor, Jesus of Nazareth, the Promised Messiah says-and says with remarkable grandeur : 6 "Before me, what did not the Jews do to an unoffending man, the son of. Mary! How, as they thought they nailed him to the cross! But Allah saved him from death by crucifixion . . . And then, later, came the time when the same Jesus, son of Mary, attained a greatness where forty crores of people fall in obesiance before him, and great kings bow down their heads in reverence at the mention of his name. So, although I have prayed that, like Jesus, son of. Mary, I should not be made into a