Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 857
CHAPTER TWO 857 Allah tolerate ascribing anyone with one of His attributes, which no one has shared with Him from the beginning of the world to the end of times? What can be closer to disbelief than this belief? Would that they had pondered over this, for such particularization is the very basis of idolatry. O ignorant ones! Is there any sin greater than holding partners with God Almighty? Remember when the Christians said that Jesus was the son of Allah because he was born fatherless and they were holding firmly to this belief. Allah responded to them with His word: إِنَّ مَثَلَ عِيسَى عِندَ اللهِ كَمَثَلِ آدَمَ خَلَقَهُ مِنْ تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ قَالَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ : But we do not find in the Holy Quran any response to Jesus' assumed peculiarity of physical ascension to heaven and then his descent from there, whereas the people of the Cross consider it to be the strongest evidence in support of their deification of Jesus. If Jesus' ascension to the heavens and his descent from there were correct in the knowledge of our Gracious Lord, He would surely have compared Jesus with a person with the same attribute in the Holy Quran, just as He has compared him with Adam to refute the argument of the people of the Cross. Hence, cer- tainly, the absence of such a comparison implies that the whole story of ascension is false; it is entirely baseless, and is nothing but nonsense. Do you know what wisdom prevented Allah from giving this answer whereas He was expected to respond to and uproot the Christian inference com- prehensively? The Christian scholars are a people who are, with each passing day, increasing in exaggeration; and they do not turn towards the truth because of their arrogance and haughtiness. Nevertheless, I have fully established Allah's argument in support of Islam against them. I wrote numerous books on this subject and, for the benefit of the general population, published them in far off countries. However, 1. Surely, the case of Jesus with Allah is like the case of Adam. He created him out of dust, then He said to him, 'Be!', and he was (Surah Al-e-Imran, 3:60). [Publisher]