The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 109
T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH T H e J O u r NA l—F AT e H M A S IH 109 and equity, is really the one who holds sincere love as well. Your ‘God’, however, was not mindful of this teaching that he should have stressed justice even for tyrannical enemies, as emphatically as the Holy Qur’an did. He did not emphasize the need to extend an equitable deal to the enemy and to hold truthfulness as invi- olable as assiduously as the Qur’an did, and he did not teach the subtle paths of righteousness. It is regrettable that what he taught, was the teaching of deceit and he could not help establish [his followers] on the straight path of righteousness. I say this with reference to your imaginary Jesus Christ , a few of whose disarrayed pages is all you have in your possession; and who got crucified in the end while contin- uing to proclaim his godhead, and who tearfully supplicated all night long to be saved somehow but was not. Our lord and master, the Prophet of the Last Age, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, prayed on his own accord that he be taken from this world, saying 1 ی ٰ َعْل ْأ ْق ِ ال ی فِ َّ أَلْحِقْنِي ْ بِالر [i. e. I do not wish to live here, I wish to go to my God]. Your ‘God’, on the other hand, loved this transient mortal world so much that he spent the entire night praying that he may be permitted to go on living. In fact, even on the cross , words of assent and acceptance [of the will of God] did not come out of his mouth. The only words that escaped his lips were Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? 2 ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ and God did not reply to him at all, that He had forsaken him. 1. Sunan Ibn-e-M a jah, Kit a bul-Jan a’ iz, B a bu m a j a’ fi Dhikre Mara d i r as u lill a h, Hadith 1619. [Publisher] 2. See Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34. [Publisher]