Refutation of the Divinity of Christ — Page 39
Quranic Verses Christians Cite for Jesus’ Divinity 39 and there is a second who is there to hear the words. The speaker has a meaning of the words he speaks and in that speech of his there is a specific objective. He speaks those words for that very meaning and purpose, but the one who hears those words, likely understands those words and meanings in the light of a particular bent of mind and belief, and renders their meaning inconsistent with the bent of mind and mission of the speaker of those words. It is for this reason that the speaker of the words has to explain the meaning of his words or the competent and just-minded listeners need to understand the words of the speaker keeping in mind the mission and manner of the speaker. For example, when our Master, the Arab Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, spoke the word هللا — Allah in الاله االهللا — L a il a ha illall a h or بسم هللا — Bismill a h, Allah the Exalted, Himself, through Whose revelation he had proclaimed this word of Tauh i d [the Oneness of Allah] to the people, informed him that your addressees are Christians who believe the Messiah to be the Son of God or they are the idolaters of Arabia who call the angels the daughters of Allah the Exalted. By the word هللا — Allah they will certainly understand such an allah who is a father, a son, and who has daughters. Or it could be that those who hear your message are Zoroastrians who hold the belief that there is a part- ner of the Yazdan God who is the creator of evil and who is called Ahriman. And Yazdan is such under whom thousands of bright heavenly stars, the lords of species are working. So, you say to them that by the word هللا — Allah, I do not mean that thing which you call allah but it is something else. As stated,