Three Questions by a Christian and their Answers — Page 55
55 know how these books were compiled? Few are the eyes that can cut through the veils, and fathom the truth, and catch the culprit; and countless are the souls that are liable to fall under the spell of falsehood. This is what has caused a whole world to go astray and many more continue to go the same way. These ignorant people have not considered the important question of evidence or lack of evidence, and have chosen not to be cautious of the natural tendency to contrive and scheme, which has been witnessed in mankind from time immemorial, and have thus allowed themselves to be trapped in this satanic snare. Like an evil alchemist who takes a thousand coins from a simpleton and promises to turn them into gold worth a million or two, these cunning people have deprived the ignorant of their true and pure faith and have assured them of false piety and false blessings which have no practical existence, nor any evidence. In the end, they have made their people worse than themselves, in wickedness, deceit, world-love and pursuit of their baser self. Remember, even a fragment of evidence given by the Holy Quran with regard to the miracles and prophecies shown by the Holy Prophet sa , is a thousand times more substantial than the evidence of a mountain of Gospels regarding the miracles and prophecies of the Messiah as. Why? Because, according to the statements of Christian scholars them- selves, the Gospels are only the words of the disciples. What is more, the accounts have not even been witnessed by the disciples first hand, nor do they provide any link of how they learnt of these events, nor even do they claim to