The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 250
250. Essence of Islam-III of the love and understanding of God survives in it. It is cut asunder from all faith and loyalty. Rancour, hatred, aversion and enmity are generated between it and God, so much so that God becomes its enemy and it becomes the enemy of God; and it becomes averse to God and. God becomes averse to it. In short, curse means to become the heir of Satan in all his qualities. That is why. Satan is designated the accursed. . . . Can we say that the heart of Jesus had ever turned away from God and had denied God and had become disgusted with God and God had become his enemy? Can we imagine that the heart of. Jesus at any time felt that it had become disgusted with. God and had become His enemy and was sunk in the darkness of disbelief and denial? If the heart of Jesus never felt so and was ever filled with the light of love and comprehension, then ponder, O wise ones, how can we say that it had become subject not to one but to a thousand curses, with all that they entail. God forbid, certainly not. . Then how can we say that Jesus became accursed?. . . . Such a notion is not only inconsistent with the status of. Jesus as as a Prophet and a Messenger but is also inconsistent with his claim of perfection and purity and love and comprehension of God, which is mentioned time and again in the Gospels. A perusal of the Gospels shows that. Jesus affirmed, 'I am the light of the world'; 'I am the guide'; 'I have a relationship of deep love with God'; 'I have been bestowed a holy birth by Him'; 'I am the beloved son of God'. Then, despite these inalienable and holy relationships with God, how can the concept of curse be attributed to his heart? Jesus certainly did not die on the cross and his heart was safeguarded against the unholy condition of being accursed. If he did not die on the cross, he also did not ascend bodily to heaven, for