Truth About the Split — Page 41
41 Sublimity of Jesus as Depicted in the Quran", which was to refute the position taken by the Christian missionary that the Quran itself testified to the superiority of Jesus as over the Holy Prophet sa. I was to speak on "Salvation" and to show which of the two religions—Christianity or Islam—furnished the true teaching relating to salvation. Khwaja Kamaluddin’s topic was "A comparison of the Quran and other Scriptures". Khwaja Kamaluddin and myself had spoken on our respective subjects before it was the turn of Maulawi Muhammad Ali, who had occasion to make some reference to the speeches of both of us. In refuting the Christian contention that the Quranic words: went to prove the superiority of Jesus as , Maulawi Muhammad Ali cited my personal case as an example pointing out how marvellously deep and true were the observations made by me in my lecture although I was then only 20 years of age. My age, the lecturer said, was the age of play; my address was therefore a veritable instance of the same, the lecturer continued, was the case with Jesus as. By the way, the readers may note that at that time, Maulawi Muhammad Ali saw in me a certain resemblance to Jesus as , although now he seems more disposed to