A Call to Faith — Page 11
11 Have patience as had the Messengers of strong determination; and be steadfast in resisting your enemies. Is it not strange that despite knowledge of this, those who call themselves Muslims and scholars believe that when the Messiah as was to be crucified, Allah the Exalted gave his likeness to another man and placed him in the hands of the Jews while raising the actual Messiah as to heaven? If this were true, Christians would be justified in the belief their guide is greater than the Prophet of Islam sa on the basis that he underwent 13 years of hardship in Mecca and five more in Medina; Allah the Exalted made him endure these agonies without coming to his help; whereas the moment Jesus’ as enemies sought to harm him, God Almighty raised him to the fourth heaven and did not tolerate his torment for an instant. I call on those who grieve for the plight of Islam and who claim to love the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad sa , and ask whether you have given thought to the damage such scholars have inflicted on Islam and how they have dishonoured the Holy Prophet sa by raising the Messiah as to heaven? Have you ever considered that the doctrine of the Messiah as surviving in heaven for so many years as advanced by these scholars only strengthens the hand of Christianity? Quite clearly an individual raised to heaven and kept alive there by Allah the Exalted is