Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 46
46 guilty of adultery. The Christians have charged members of the holy family of the Holy Prophet with all sorts of faults. They contend that as the Holy Prophet was descended from Hagar, who according to the Christians was a slave of Abraham, peace be on him, and according to t hem the descendants of a female slave have no right of spiritual succession, therefore, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, cannot be accepted as a Prophet. Christian writers have advanced several false charges against the Holy Prophe t himself and the members of his family. In reply to all this. the Promised Messiah showed from the Bible that as a bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation (Deut. 23:2) the Jesus of the Gospels could not enter into the congregation of the Lord inasmuch as in his genealogy three women are mentioned who were guilty of adultery. These women were Tamar, Rachab and the wife of Uriah. Padre Imaduddin, in his commentary on the G ospel of St. Matthew, has observed: This shows that Lord Jews did not disdain to he born in the chain of sinners. Thus the Promised Messiah refuted from Christian sources the calumny that the ancestors of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, were not sinless people. There is no such allegation concerning him in any standard Islamic book or histo ry, while the Bible contains statements to the effect that we have mentioned which are admitted by Christian scholars.