Our God — Page 115
Logical Arguments for the Existence of God 115 happen next?’, they asked. M u s a as was unmoved like a rock; he looked at those frightened faces and said: 1 َّنِا َيِعَم ْيِّبَر ِنْيِدْهَيَس That is: Nay, there is nothing to worry about, my Lord is with me. He will find some way out for us. Glory be to Allah! It is the same M u s a as , who had fled from Egypt for fear of the authorities a few years earlier, now facing the Pharaoh’s army and remains absolutely unruffled. What happened next? The sea parted to make way for M u s a as while Pharaoh and his army, with all its armament, were engulfed by the dreadful sea waves. And it did not end there; like Ibr a h i m as , the followers of M u s a as are beyond count, while no one cares for Pharaoh, though his mummified remains serve as a constant warning to the people. Let us now look at Mas ih as [the Messiah] of Nazareth. He was born to a poor unmarried Israelite woman; this lead to much gos- sip among the evil-minded Jews—she was unmarried, whence did the boy come? They forgot that the birth was in fulfilment of an old prophecy. 2 They also forgot that this boy at least had a mother, whereas according to them, Adam had neither a mother nor a father. However, this fatherless boy grew up and with the sup- port of the Holy Spirit proclaimed what Krishna as had asserted in India, Ibr a h i m as in Syria, and M u s a as in Egypt. The Jews who were already weary about him became furious and ultimately he was put on the cross as a result of their intrigues. The Jews were 1. S u rah ash-Shu‘ar a ’, 26:63. 2. Isaiah 7:14.