A Gift for An-Nadwah — Page 29
29 A R EASON TO R EJOICE FOR A LL M USLIMS AND T HOSE WHO S EEK THE T RUTH The beliefs in Jesus’ supernatural life, his bodily ascension to the heavens and the idea that his spirit resided with the souls of departed Prophets who had already entered para- dise, directly contradict with the Quranic teaching and are a fallacy and a stain on Islam. [The persistence of these doctrines] has meant that for far too long, Muslims mono- theists have been in the figurative debt of the idolaters of the West. As a consequence of their acceptance of these doctrines, ignorant Muslims have allowed their debt to swell with interest. In India, hundreds of thousands have turned their backs on Islam and been seized by the clasp- ing hand of Christianity. They have no apparent way of repaying this debt. The Christians [have long taunted the Muslims] by saying that their Lord, Jesus Christ, manifest- ed his divine power by ascending to the heavens with his physical body, whereas the Holy Prophet sa of Islam could not even take flight to reach Medina and was forced to hide for three days in the cave of Thaur before reaching his destination with great difficulty. Thereafter, he was to live for only another ten years before death and the grave