Lecture Ludhiana — Page 60
60 collapse. This issue could have been easily settled if righteousness and fear of God had governed the actions of my opponents. Name a single person who ever came to me, having shed his beastly attitude, to attain certainty. They are so mad at me that they start fretting and fuming and hurling abuses at the mere mention of my name. Is this the way to reach the truth? I cite in my support the explicit and unequivocal verses of the Holy Qur’an, the Traditions and the consensus of the Companions of the Holy Prophet sa , but my opponents refuse to listen and start shouting and calling me an apostate and Antichrist. I challenge them all to prove from the Holy Qur’an that Jesus as ascended to the heavens alive, or to produce anything that contradicts what the Holy Prophet sa witnessed, or to disprove the Consensus in the presence of Hadrat Abu Bakr rz on the occasion of the demise of the Holy Prophet sa ; but no reply comes forth. Some others vociferously ask that if Jesus Son of Mary was not meant to come again, then why was the Promised Messiah named ‘Jesus son of Mary’? I say that this is a silly objection. Isn’t it surprising that these very objectors exercise the right to name their own children as Moses, Jesus, Ahmad, Abraham, or Isma‘il, but are ready to object if God names the future Prophet as Jesus as ! In this context, the crucial point to consider was whether the Promised One was accompanied by the signs or not. Had they sought to find those signs in the Promised one, they would never have had the daring to reject. But they never