The Light of the Holy Qur'an — Page 58
T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E T HE L IGHT OF T HE HOLY Q U R’AN—NUM BE R ON E 58 Christians concerning the deification of men and it is their inno- vation that the Christians have also followed. We cannot hide the fact that whatever justifications the Christians have invented in order to escape rational objections are not their own creations; rather, they have plagiarized them from the Granths and the Shastars. This entire fabrication scheme, which came in handy for the Christians, had already been devised by the Brahmans with regard to Krishna and Ramchandra. Therefore, the notion that the Hindus may have plagiarized from Christian books is demonstrably false, for their scriptures date back to a time when Jesus did not even exist, so we have no choice but to accept that the Christians themselves are plagiarists. [ John] Davenport, too, acknowledges that: ‘Trinity is the result of following an errone- ous thought according to Plato. But the fact of the matter is that [ancient] Greece and India were like mirror images of each other in their doctrines. It is quite probable that such an abundance of idolatry would have first made its way from India to Greece in the form of Vedic knowledge, and then from there the naïve Christians stole them and grafted them onto the Gospel and thus tried to set their affairs in order. ’ To return now to the actual meanings, I would like to point out that since each of these sects rejects the other, there remains little doubt that each of them believes in demolishing the beliefs of their opposing sect in order to reform the world, and each holds that the doctrines of its opponents are completely wrong and cor- rupt. Thus, when every religion acknowledges this corruption by viewing its opponents, therefore, all religions are compelled to acknowledge that the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, brought about a universal reform of the world and