Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 853
CHAPTER TWO 853 Allah have mercy on you! The belief about Jesus being alive which you insist upon to this day, and the belief of his descent in the Latter Days, is a matter that has not provided you even an iota of benefit. Moreover, it has not helped our Faith, which is the best of all faiths. It only sup- ported Christianity and caused droves of Muslims to join the people of the Cross. O people of Islam! I do not understand what made you feel the need for Jesus to descend. The fact is that his life only brings you harm, not benefit. Have you not witnessed its damage in the past years? Has this belief benefited you in the bygone age? Instead, it brought ruin upon you by causing your males and females to become apostates. Therefore-O brave, young people!-How can anything good be expected from this belief? You have seen that the converts to Christianity were pulled towards the priests only through these lassos, and indeed they [these priests] are the very thief who threw them into the well of destruction even though they had descended from the Muslims. But, then they became like snakes and wild beasts. They became hostile to Islam and defamed it in a voice worse than a donkey's. They left their near ones and their parents weeping and wailing upon their condition and devoted themselves to vituperation against the Best of Mankind [the Holy Prophet³] and to blaspheming the Best of Books [the Holy Quran]. They alleged that it contained nothing but poetry and that it had not been beneficial to anyone. They made our religion the target of their ridi- cule and spoke of it only as an object of derision and warned the Muslims that if they died practicing it, they would enter Hell. that May God show you the right path and safeguard you from the path of His displeasure. Remember that the bane [of Christianity] you consider to be harmless is, in the eyes of God, a great evil. It has ruined many among you and dispatched them to Hell. This is why God Almighty warned of it in a number of places in the Holy Quran. Indeed, it is to this very belief that He ascribed the renting asunder of the heavens, the blowing away of the mountains, and the appearance of