The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 16
Christians became another god who found no mention in the Torah and was not at all known to the children of. Israel. Belief in this new god upset the whole system of the Torah and all the guidance contained in the Torah for deliverance from sin and attaining true salvation and a pure life was frustrated. Salvation and deliverance from sin now depended upon the confession that Jesus had accepted crucifixion for the sake of the salvation of mankind, and that he was the very God Himself. Many permanent laws of the Torah were abrogated and the. Christian faith was so changed that if Jesus were to come back to the earth he would not be able to recognize it. . It is a matter of surprise that the people who were admonished to adhere to the Torah set aside its commandments at one stroke. For instance, it is nowhere stated in the Gospel that though the Torah forbids the eating of the flesh of swine yet it is now permitted, nor does the Gospel say that though circumcision is prescribed in the Torah yet that commandment is now abrogated. But all this was done and that which had never been said by Jesus became part of religion. However, as it was God's design to establish a universal religion, namely Islām, the decay of Christianity was an indication of the appearance of Islām. . It is also well established that Hinduism had been corrupted before the advent of Islām and that throughout. India idol worship had become common. Part of this corruption resulted in the doctrine that God Who is not dependent upon matter for the exercise of His attributes is, according to the Āryās, essentially dependent on the availability of matter for the creation of the universe. . This led to another false doctrine that all particles of mat-