Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 255
27 December 1905 255 if being a human being, someone can go to the heavens alive, then what is the reason that no one has ascended to the heavens from the time of Adam till today? By presenting these kinds of arguments, they desire to make Jesus, peace be on him, into God, and they did, thereby leading a part of the world astray. Many Muslims—said to number more than three million—fell victim to this mischief by acknowledging this erroneous belief to be correct. Now, had it been true that Jesus, peace be on him, had really gone to the heavens alive—as the Christians claim and the Muslims support them out of their own error and ignorance— then it would be a day of mourning for Islam; for, Islam has come into the world so that the world may come to have faith and certainty in the existence of Allah the Exalted, and spread His Tau hi d [Oneness]. Islam is a religion in which no weakness can be found, nor is there any to be found. It declares Allah the Exalted alone to be One without any partner. Acknowledging any unique characteristic in anyone else is derogatory to the honour of Allah the Exalted, and Islam does not permit it. Nevertheless, the Christians have misled the world by pre- senting this ‘unique’ characteristic of Christ, and the Muslims agreed with them without thinking or understanding and did not care about the harm it caused to Islam. One should never be deceived by the comment that people say, ‘Does Allah not have the power to raise Christ alive to the heavens?’ Indeed, He has the power, but He does not consider it appropriate to do such things that, being the source of shirk, make someone into a partner with Allah, the Maker. And it is clearly evident that giving a person some unique characteristics is a manifest source of shirk. So, to acknowledge this unique- ness in Jesus, peace be on him, that, unlike all human beings, he is still alive and is distinct from human characteristics is such a