Truth About the Split — Page 52
52 and in according to him a rank superior to that of the Holy Prophet sa. For it is a patent fact that the Muslims have been so deeply imbued with the doctrines of Christianity that while they admit that their own Prophet is dead and lies buried in an earthly grave, they believe that Jesus is still alive residing in the heavens. They thus corroborate the divinity of Jesus as by attributing to him a kind of living and eternal existence. Further, they entertain the belief that Jesus like the Almighty God was a quickener of the dead. Such opinions do in fact make the Muslims the counter-types of Christians, because in strange contrast with such beliefs regarding Jesus, we may note that Muslim theologians do not admit regarding their own Prophet that he infused life even into a single bird. Thus these Muslims do in a way surpass the Christians in attributing to Jesus the power of creation. They also believe that Jesus possessed knowledge of the unseen, so much so, that knowledge of the last day, universally regarded as a special prerogative of God was, according to them, another of the peculiarities possessed by Jesus as. In view of such a similarity of beliefs, there is little room for doubt that present-day Muslims have become virtually like Christians. The latter represent one of the most actively proselytizing peoples of the world, and have