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Refutation of the Allegations Made Against Islam 33 and no peer. ( Islam i U su l k i Fal a sf i , R uha n i Khaz a ’in vol. 10, pp. 58–63) 1 The Promised Messiah as says: It is important to realize that the religion which is cham- pioned as ‘Christianity’ is, in fact, the religion of Paul and not that of Christ, for the latter never taught the doc- trine of the Trinity. As long as he lived, he only taught the Oneness of God and His being without partner. After he died, his brother James—who was his successor and a holy man—also taught the Oneness of God. But Paul unjustly opposed him and started preaching contrary to his true teachings, and went to the extent of creating a new faith. He set his followers against the Torah and taught them that there was no need for the Law after the Messiah’s Atonement, and Christians did not need to follow the Torah because the Messiah’s blood was enough to wipe away their sins. Another abomination which he intro- duced into this religion was that he made the eating of swine lawful, whereas the Messiah had declared swine to be an unclean animal. This is what he meant when he used the expression, ‘Do not cast pearls before swine’. While he compared the holy teachings to pearls, he likened unclean and impure people to swine. The truth is that the Greeks used to eat the flesh of swine, just like the people of Europe 1. This reference text also appears in Philosophy of Teachings of Islam, edi- tion 2, pp. 92-101, published in 2017. [Publisher]