Jesus In India — Page 25
INTRODUCTION 15 the things God created in the very beginning, like the earth, the heavens, the sun and the moon, and all stars, and the elements, all are spherical in shape;and their sphericity points to the Unity and Oneness of the Creator. Hence there can be no truer sympathy and truer love for the Christians than that they should be guided towards that God Whose handiwork absolves Him of the taint of trinity. The one good service one could do to the Muslims would be to reform their moral condition. Efforts should be made to dis- pel the false hopes which they entertain in connection with the appearance of a bloodthirsty Mahdi and Messiah. Such expecta- tions are entirely against the teachings of Islam. I have just said that the ideas of some of the present day Muslim clerics that there will appear a bloodthirsty Mahdi, who will spread Islam at the point of the sword, are contrary to the Quranic teachings and are only the result of wishful thinking. For a right minded and truth-loving Muslim to shed such beliefs, it should be enough that he study the Holy Quran closely, pause, consider and see that the Holy Word of God Almighty is very much against threatening to kill people if they fail to become Muslims. This one argument alone is sufficient to refute such false notions. Nevertheless, out of a feeling of sympathy, I have decided to refute the aforesaid mis- conceptions by clear and positive proofs from history and other sources. Hence, I shall prove in this book that Jesus, the Messiah, may peace be on him, did not die on the cross, nor did he go up to the heavens; nor should the hope be entertained that he would ever again come down to the earth from the heavens. On the con- trary, the fact of the matter is that he died at the age of 120 years