Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 329
19 August 1905 329 Meaning that, we killed the Messiah. Since they used the word ‘killing’, Allah the Exalted rejected this claim of killing first. Secondly, there were two narrations among the Jews. One is that we have killed Yas u ‘ [ Jesus Christ] with the sword, and the other is that we have killed him upon the cross. So, Allah the Exalted has negated both of them one by one. The third thing is that in some old Jewish books, it is also written that Yas u ‘ [ Jesus Christ] was first stoned, and when he died, he was later hanged on a tree; that is, first, he was killed, and then he was crucified. So, Allah the Exalted refuted both of them and said that the Jews were liars; they did not kill the Messiah, nor was he killed by means of the cross. A Weighty Argument for the Truth of Islam The Promised Messiah as said: The complete perfect delineation of God’s attributes presented by Islam is a tremendous weighty argument on the truth of Islam. All the other religions are deficient in this regard of being able to completely describe the attributes of God from head to toe. This is because all other religions deny the attrib- utes of God Almighty’s perfect powers. For example, the Aryas say that He does not speak; He is silent. The Christians have the same belief, and they say that He does not have the power to grant salvation to anyone. An exam- ple of this is someone praising a person and saying that he is so beautiful and powerful, but he is deaf and cannot hear and is dumb and does not speak, he is grumpy and irritable and does not want to grant us salvation, even if he sends us to Paradise, he holds on to one of our sins, on account of which he soon