Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page xiii
Foreword ( Ib ta l Ul u hiyyat-e-Mas ih ) was originally penned in Urdu by Hadrat Maul a n a Hakeem Noor- ud-Deen, Khalifatul Masih I ra. This treatise was written at a time when the atmosphere in British India was dominated by highly charged religious polemics. Christian missionaries engaged in aggressive and well-funded campaigns to denigrate the Holy Founder of Islam s as and attack the integrity of Islam. They openly vowed to proselytize the Muslim masses and boasted of the considerable success they enjoyed. In this treatise, Hadrat Maul a n a Hakeem Noor-ud-Deen ra, an internationally renowned Muslim scholar and devotee of the Promised Messiah as, evaluates the arguments put forth by the Christian missionaries to support the notion that Jesus is God and the Son of God. Using the Quran, the Bible, and rational analysis in his cross examination, he effectively rebuts these argu- ments from various angles. As a scholar of scripture and linguistics, the author analyses the philology, context, and precedents established in the previous