Where Did Jesus Die? — Page xiii
Foreword to the First Edition Maulvi Shams has done me the honour of asking me to write a foreword to his interesting and enlightening treatise, which I do with pleasure. Religion, if it is to have its natural and proper place in the spiritual life, must be founded upon fact, and the search for and the assimilation of fact is one of the aims of Islam. Maulvi Shams has certainly been assiduous in his search and he has set out the result with a skill calculated to arouse envy in a high- ly-placed lawyer. The results are tabulated definitely and clearly, although his lucid presentation may not be acceptable to those who would define faith as ‘subscription to something which can- not be proven’. He has cleared the ground of many false assump- tions, indeed, he has ruthlessly excised them, but without ridicule. It is sometimes claimed for Christianity that it has reached a final position, but how can such claim be justified when the doctrines or so-called facts upon which the religion is founded are proved to