A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 85
REVIVAL of Islam LiEs in PROVING the Death of Jesus 85 bowed their heads weeping, and submitted to the pleasure and decree of their Lord. Each verdict of the Holy Quran was an absolute and final word for them. Praise be to Allah! What a great spirit of righteousness and obedience did the Companions ra have. On the one hand, this was evidence of the state of the abundance of their love, that they could not bear the thought of the death of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa and were ready to draw their swords to cut off the head of anyone who would utter a word about his death, and on the other, an unparalleled display of their submission to God. From a short verse of the Holy Quran, they tolerated, without hesitation, the separation from the one for whose life they would unhesitatingly have given a thousand lives and for whose sake, they were ready to die a thousand times. Notice, what revolutionary change was wrought in them by these few words of the Holy Quran. The lives of those intense lovers, who a few moments ago were ready to kill anyone who spoke of the death of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa , were themselves jeopardized and the robust young men staggered and fell to the ground. Not one of them entertained any thought of interpreting a small verse of the Holy Quran according to their liking and refusing to accept the demise of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa. We wonder what has come over the Muslim theologians of today. Why is the flow of their love turning away from Muhammad of Arabia sa and turning instead to Jesus [ Hadrat ‘ I s a as ] of Nazareth? Why have they crossed all limits in the love of a past messenger of the children of Israel that they dare to ignore such a clear guidance from the Holy Quran? Even in their words, the theologians believe the Holy Quran had given the news of the demise of the Holy Prophet sa but when the exact same words of are