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116 happy to have carried the day. But Mas ih as had the backing of One who came to his assistance, saved him from a humiliating death, and comforted him, saying: ‘It was expedient to give temporary dominance to the Jews but I am your faithful Lord and your disci- ples will hold sway over the Jews till the end of the days; the world will witness that it is you who really prevailed and not the Jews’. What does the world see today? Have not the disciples of Mas ih as overwhelmed the whole world? In what state are the Jews? Those same Jews who once crowned Mas ih as [the Messiah] with thorns and ridiculed him, saying, look at him, he is our ‘king’; today, the servants of Mas ih as , out of mercy, want to crown the Jews with the kingdom of the Holy Land, but no one is allowing it; 1 the whole nation of Israelites has been on the cross, as it were, for nineteen centuries, for having put Mas ih as on the cross for a few hours. Glory be to Allah! What an exemplary retribution! Then, look at the Chief of them all: Muhammad Mu st af a [the Chosen One], peace and blessings of Allah be on him (and may my life be sacrificed for him). A youth from a respecta- ble but poor Quraish family is married to a virtuous woman. Husband and wife live together for only a short period when she loses her husband. She is pregnant and distressed at her dreadful loss. The child is born, prompting mixed emotions of intense pain of missing her husband and the feeling of joy of holding a baby who will keep her husband’s name alive. In keeping with Quraish traditions she wants to hand him over to a Bedouin wet nurse, but who will accept an orphan? After a prolonged search, 1. This treatise was written during the Zionist movement but prior to the creation of the State of Israel. [Publisher]