The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 213
The Messiah and his Second Coming 213 during, for forty years, the abuse which Christian mis- sionaries have hurled against the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ) Some foolish Mau- lavīs, who should rather be called blind, think that Chris- tians have never reviled the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. ) But the truth is that the Christian missionaries are in the forefront of those who refer to the Holy Prophetsa with contempt and defame and abuse him. I have a stock of books by Christian mis- sionaries which are full of abuse of the Holy Prophetsa. And whoso desires can come and inspect them. I declare that I shall henceforth deal respectfully with any Chris- tian missionary who, discarding the method of abuse, adopts a respectful style of exposition. By having re- course to abuse, they themselves make their fictitious Je- sus a subject of criticism. We have become weary of their abuse. If someone abuses another's father, would the wronged one not be justified in abusing the of- fender's father? What I have said is not abuse but a fact. إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ 183 [Nür-ul-Qur'an, No. II, Rūņānī Khazā'in, vol. 9, pp. 374-375] Objections against Jesus The wretched Jews of the time of Jesus (peace be upon him) planned his ruin and conspired to impose upon his righteous soul the curse of death upon the cross, as the Torah has declared that he who dies upon the rood would be accursed, which means that his heart would become vile and estranged from God and he would be rejected by God like Satan. That is why Satan is called the accursed one. This was an evil scheme which had been thought out 183 'Actions are judged by their intentions. ' [Publisher]