Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 142
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 142 a method of getting cleansed of sin, which is to accept Jesus as as God and the Son of God and then believe with certainty that he has taken our sins upon himself and became accursed through the crucifixion. َ نَعُوذ ُ بِاهلل ِ مِن ذَالِك َ نَعُوذ ُ بِاهلل ِ مِن ذَالِك [We seek Allah’s refuge from this]. Just think, what has salvation to do with all this? To escape from sin, they proposed an even bigger sin by making a man into God. Can there be a greater sin than this? Moreover, they hastened to declare him accursed after pronouncing him to be God. Could there be any greater insolence and disrespect for Allah the Exalted? They converted into God, one who ate and drank and depended on his physical necessities, although the Torah clearly states: Let there be no other God—neither on earth nor in the heavens. This doctrine was inscribed on doors and portals, yet it was ignored, and a new ‘God’ was fabricated whose mention is not found anywhere in the Torah. I once asked a Jewish scholar, ‘Do you find any trace of a God who should come out of Mary’s womb and go about being beaten by the Jews?’ The reply of the Jewish scholar was that this was nothing but slander and that no trace of such a god was to be found in the Torah, adding that, ‘Ours is the God who is the God of the Holy Quran. Just as the Holy Quran pro- claims the Oneness of God Almighty, so do we—in accordance with the teachings of the Torah—believe God Almighty to be the One who is without partners, and we cannot believe any human being to be God. ’ It is obvious that if the Jews had been informed of a God who was to be born from a woman’s womb, why would they have opposed Jesus so fiercely? They even had him crucified and used to accuse him of blasphemy. This clearly shows that they were not at all inclined to accept this. Thus, the remedy the Christians propose to get rid of sin is itself a source of sin.