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59 people. Jesus as said: If you follow me you will receive every blessing and acceptance just like me, and you too will be granted miracles and signs of acceptance, and the sign of your true faith will be that you will have the power to show mira- cles and signs of every kind. Whatever you wish will be done for you, and nothing will be impossible for you. But of these blessings, Christians possess nothing. They know nothing of the One God, Who hears the prayers of His fa- voured servants, and answers them instantaneously with His mercy and affection, and does for them many wonderful things. But true Muslims—who are heir to the righteous ones who passed before them—do recognize this God and witness the signs of His mercy. They stand as distinct from their op- ponents, as the Sun is distinct from darkness. I have said time and again that this claim is not without foundation. A true re- ligion can be distinguished from a false one by a heavenly distinction as well as an earthly distinction. The earthly dis- tinction is the distinction that is made through human reason, human conscience and the laws of nature. When Christianity and Islam are judged by this standard, it becomes clear that Islam is the religion whose principles are free from all artifi- ciality or affectation. Its injunctions are neither unnatural nor artificial, and there is nothing in them that one has to be forced into accepting, as God Himself has said time and again. The Holy Quran only reminds us of the true philoso- phy of nature and its verities, unlocks for us its hidden secrets, and does not present anything that is opposed to nature; it rather reveals to us its subtleties and profundities.