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THE LAST OPPORTUNITY

We have seen in Part II, that, due to modern enlightenment, misunderstandings between various sections of the God’s Party are gradually disappearing. This is the most opportune time for the God’s forces to join hands together. The human race has lost this opportunity twice, when the establishment of the Kingdom of Lord was within reach, but unfortunately we could not avail them on account of petty human prejudices.

Prophet Muhammad was born in the year 570 in the town of Mecca, a mountain town in the high desert plateau of western Arabia. His name derives from the Arabic verb hamada, meaning "to praise, to glorify." He was the first and only son of Abd Allah bin Al-Muttalib and Amina bint Wahb. Abd Allah died before Prophet Muhammad's birth and Prophet Muhammad was raised by his mother Amina, who in keeping with Meccan tradition entrusted her son at an early age to a wet nurse named Halima from the nomadic tribe of the Sa'd ibn Bakr. He grew up in the hill country, learning their pure Arabic.

Due to this lapse, the God’s party had to undergo a lot of sufferings.

This section deals with the importance of this last opportunity and the difficulties which may arise in this process.

 
Now or Never
The Grand Union
A short History of the Christian Creed
An Appeal
 

NOW OR NEVER

God desired his message to reach all humanity living in all countries and at all times. For this purpose He sent a number of prophets. This message was uniform and continuous, but also contained some temporary tenets dealing with particular problems of that area and time.

When, due to the passage of time and usual human weakness, the teachings of any prophet started to be mutilated and to become ineffective, God, through His mercy, sent another prophet in order to confirm and strengthen the previous faith and also to bring supplementary guidance to meet the new requirements. This was essential, because God has ordained the world to work on an evolutionary basis, so that the human race may continuously develop this world. Had it not been so, only one prophet and one law would have been sufficient.

For this continuous guidance, the human race should have been thankful to God Almighty, because it is only through this guidance, that we can know the Right Path and expect to pass the test on the ‘Day of Judgment’.

What actually happened was that we made the System of Prophet-hood and God’s message a matter of personal feuds. We should have recognized all prophets as God’s emissaries and should have accepted and confirmed the fresh message, thus increasing the number of believers to an overwhelming extent, reducing the Godless to an insignificant and ineffective minority.

Instead, we did just the opposite. The Jews opposed Christianity bitterly and in return earned persecution by the Godless Romans. Jews and Christians together could never have been an easy prey for the Romans.

The Jews were expelled from their land and had to seek refuge in various countries. This left the Christians in a weaker position and for several centuries they had to undergo horrible hardships at the hands of Romans. (Some details have been given in Part II) Thus a great opportunity was lost.

The Christians did not learn a lesson from this experience. When another opportunity was given by God to strengthen the faithful through the advent of Islam, it was Christians who lost the second opportunity. Instead of confirming the new prophet they, first of all, tried to blackout the message, and then tried to malign it by false propaganda (Details given in previous chapter). Even this did not satisfy them. Instead of strengthening and enlarging the God’s party, they started a series of wars under the cover of religion, giving it the name of ‘Crusades’. But they got nothing out of this campaign except disappointment, losses and weakening of the God’s party, which the Christians and Muslims could have formed. And thus this second opportunity was also lost.
If we kick away God’s blessings, we are bound to suffer. The result of this rejection of opportunities, which God provided to the faithful for the glory of His kingdom, is that today the faithful are divided into various factions and thus have lost the strength, which they could attain by following the God’s way.

Instead, the Godless are becoming stronger and stronger. Though outwardly they may be divided into groups on the basis of ideology and geographical limits, internally they are all one – the Godless. They are controlling he world with the help of different attractive catchwords like: Freedom of Thought and Action, Modernism, Capitalism, Communism, Secularism etc. The real purpose of all these philosophies is to throw God’s message in the background and finally into oblivion. This will enable them to destroy the whole moral structure and to pass laws to cover their immoral activities and make them legal. They have already done so in making homosexuality legal and giving illegal boy-girl sexual relations under the title of ‘Personal Liberty.’ The case of teenage girls carrying their illegal children with them, while going to school, has already been quoted. To sanctify these satanic activities, they give them the cover of “Democracy” (51 out of 100 votes), giving it the name of “Peoples Will”, completely disregarding “God’s Will”.

Intoxicated with power, they have also stock-piled atomic weapons, which may destroy the whole world. They have done so just to vie with each other in establishing, that they are the “Masters of the World”. They have not the slightest consideration for the safety of God’s creatures.

NOW OR NEVER

If the Christians think that they will not recognize Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), because they already have their own Prophet Jesus (PBUH), what justification was there when Prophet Jesus (PBUH) invited the Jews to confirm his prophet-hood? The Jews stuck on to their own Prophet Moses (PBUH) giving the same argument. Do the Christians think that the Jews were right and (God forbid) Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was wrong in asking the Jews to confirm the new faith?

We have the last opportunity yet in our hand. At present there is a sufficient number of persons in the world, who believe in God and wish His Kingdom to be established. This number is gradually decreasing with the passage of time under the influence of the Godless. They are keeping the younger generation ignorant of God’s message, telling them that religious education is their private matter. As time is passing, the older generation, which included God fearing people, is passing out, while the younger generation coming up has been conditioned  to attach no importance to God and His faith and thus the Godless party is going from strength to strength every day.

This is the last opportunity for people believing in God and His message to assert themselves and to establish the Kingdom of the Lord.
If we persist in neglecting our duty towards God, there is a danger of our becoming a victim of God’s wrath, as has happened to a large number of groups in the past. All Holy Books are full of such details and we ourselves can verify it by traveling over the whole world and observing the remains of these civilization.

This time God’s anger (May He pardon us for our shortcomings) may be initiated by the Godless themselves. Any person, intoxicated with power and pride, may press a button to fire the first atomic weapon. Then there will be an answer from the other side and in a few moments there will be nothing. So the time is now or it will never come again.

In the next Chapter we shall consider a plan of action to mend our ways and to stand up as soldiers of God.

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THE GRAND UNION

To achieve the aim of establishing God’s Kingdom in this world, we must develop “The Grand Union” of all persons believing in this ideal. For the success of any project, two steps are essential:-

  1. Its ideology should be fully formulated and its supporters should believe in this ideology from the depth of their hearts. If this requirement is fulfilled, all prejudices and difficulties will immediately disappear.
  2. The second step i.e. implementation, can be achieved only if the first condition is fulfilled.

Ideology of the Grand Union:-

In order to make the ‘Grand Union’ a success, it is essential that all God fearing persons, interested in establishing a joint front against the Godless, must come together in perfect agreement. Our different religions and sects, as practiced today, may stand in the way. To overcome this fundamental obstacle, let us consider a few facts one by one and decide whether you agree with them. A clear cut decision on these points should be based on your “intellect” and not on pre-decided ideas and involvement in customary practices. Some of these principles have been discussed earlier but I think they can bear repetition.

  1. This universe, of which our world is a part, is an awe-inspiring complex, working in unbelievable order and harmony. This cannot come into being just by itself. There must be a Creator and this Creator can be one and only one, otherwise there would have been clashes and chaos.
  2. God Almighty must have a purpose (or perhaps several) behind this creation. However one stands out very prominently. Man is the only member of this creation, who has been granted freedom of action and the sense of Good and Evil has been bestowed upon him, therefore he will have to be accountable before God on the ‘Day of Judgment’. To pass the test on that Day we must adopt the right path in our life time.
  3. How should we know what the right path is? Along with providing us with sustenance, God, in His mercy, has also made arrangements to guide us on the right path in order to give us success on the ‘Day of Judgment’.

We cannot leave this task to human decision, as under certain circumstances it may go astray, as has been proved by the immoral legislations passed by several nations.

God has sent His prophets to all areas and in all times to bring God’s guidance to human beings.

  1. When the teachings of any Prophet become mutilated through the passage of time and human interference, another Prophet is sent to continue the mission and God-fearing believers are expected to confirm the message of the new Prophet to strengthen the cause of God.
  2. All Prophets are members of the same “Prophet-hood System” bringing the message of the same God. Prophet Moses (PBUH) declared that Prophet Abraham (PBUH) was his leader. Prophet Christ (PBUH) not only declared unity with Prophet Moses (PBUH), but also included his book “Torah” as part of the Christian creed. Islam went much further. A person cannot be a Muslim unless he believes in all the Prophets. Several Prophets Abraham (PBUH) Moses (PBUH), Christ (PBUH), Noah (PBUH) and many others have been particularly named in Quran. Prophet Christ (PBUH) specially receives a high position in Quran being mentioned several times with great honour. A full chapter of Quran has been devoted to Mary (PBUH).
  3. From all this, it is clear that the “Prophet-hood System” is one complete system and there is an in-built continuity in the messages of all Prophets centering around the one-ness of God. Any minor difference in day to day matters is due to the changing conditions of the world.
  4. If we agree with the points mentioned above, it is surprising how any sensible person, after agreeing with the Prophet-hood System, can insist on accepting a particular prophet and refusing to confirm the Prophet, who comes after his own Prophet. This is like refusing to recognize a new Governor, when he takes over charge after the retirement of the previous Governor, knowing fully well, that both the Governors are representative of the same Supreme Authority.
  5. To establish the “Grand Union” of all believers of God, it is necessary that they must confirm Islam and work together from a common platform. This Grand Union will be a tremendous force in the affairs of the world and will be helpful in establishing the Kingdom of God, pushing the Godless behind.

Offence:

The final clause of ideology of the “Grand Union” will perhaps offend some readers. They may think, that under cover of arguments they are being asked to reject their religion and are being persuaded to be converted to Islam.

The question of rejecting their religion does not arise, as Islam makes it compulsory to accept all Prophets as emissaries of God and to respect all what God has revealed to them and consequently all Muslims also believe in what has been revealed to Prophet Christ (PBUH). The next part (Part IV) will deal with principles of Islam in some detail, and a Christian can easily discover the sameness. Of course, Muslims believe in what was revealed to Prophet Christ (PBUH) and not in the human additions and alterations. (This subject will receive full treatment in the next Chapter.)

By accepting Islam no Christian will be expected to reject his genuine beliefs and he can make sure that those beliefs are shared by all. So the question of abandoning one’s religion does not arise. Nor is there any question of his conversion. A convert rejects his religion and accepts a new one. This will not be the case here. A Christian, who is a believer in the Prophet-hood of Christ (PBUH) will not reject this belief by accepting Islam. He will only extend his allegiance to the new Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and will confirm the message of Islam as continuation of the previous message.

However there are some stumbling blocks in the way of Christians accepting this proposal.

By way of an experiment, to gauge the reaction of the proposal, I gave the draft of this book to a Christian friend and requested him to form an opinion. He agreed with the logic of the formation of the Grand Union and also agreed, that it will help the cause of God. But he said that instead of inviting the Christians to accept Islam, why do the Muslims not accept Christianity?  The Grand Union can be formed in this way also.

I said the Muslims already accept the Prophet-hood of Lord Christ (PBUH) and the message revealed to him by God forms part of our faith.

But I asked him to consider one other point. The Prophet Christ (PBUH) asked the Jews to accept his Prophet-hood to strengthen the Kingdom of the Lord. What would have been his reaction, if the Jews had made a counter proposal to him to join the faith of Judaism?

Prophet Christ (PBUH) was already a Jew and he believed completely in the previous Revelation. But how could he overlook the new Revelation, which was bestowed upon him by God for the guidance of human beings in the new era?
In view of the above it is quite apparent, that Prophet Christ (PBUH) must have considered this offer as illogical and against the will of God.

This matter should not be made a matter of personal pride. Nobody loses his honour by accepting a correct thing.

Then he raised another point. He asked me whether the Grand Union will accept a very important principle of Christian creed, i.e. Prophet Christ (PBUH) was son of God.

I referred him to the earlier part of this book, where we had decided not to accept any religious idea on the strength of a human authority. We decided to make the Intellect our guide and through our Intellect we concluded that the only reliable source of knowing the truth about any spiritual matter was the Revelation of God received by a Prophet. Even a cursory study of the history of Christian creed, reveals that this idea of Prophet Christ (PBUH) being the son of God does not form part of the Prophet Christ (PBUH)’s Revelation. This was brought in by St. Paul a long period after Prophet Christ (PBUH) left this world.

This matter is dealt with in the next Chapter, which contains a brief survey of historical aspect of the Christian creed, compiled from Christian sources. It will be clear that this concept of Lord Christ (PBUH) being the son of God is a later innovation. It will also be cleared as to how and why this concept was brought in.
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THE CHRISTIAN CREED

The Prophet Christ (PBUH) had made it a mission to persuade all Jews to join with the Christians to form the Grand Union. He himself was a devout Jew. He observed the tenets of the Jewish faith and went to the Jewish synagogue to pray and even to teach the Jews. The Bible says:-

“He taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said: Whence hath this man this wisdom and these mighty works?” (Matthew 13:54-56)

He even took strong action against such persons who disturbed the sanctity of the Jewish synagogue by using parts of it as a market for selling animals and birds. (Luke 19:45) and (John 2:13-15)

This attempt to form the Grand Union was carried on by his Apostles by trying to keep the Jews with them.

“At the time Jesus left this world, his followers simply formed a small Jewish sect.” (Hart)

“After Jesus’s departure, the little group of Apostles formed a Jewish sect and remained faithful to the form of worship practiced in the temple (Jewish); James, a relation of Jesus was the head of the community”. (Cardinal Danielou – 1967)
The teachings of Prophet Christ (PBUH) could not be recorded, while he was in this world, but his Apostles preserved them through oral traditions.

Arrival of St. Paul.

“Paul, also known as Saul, was born in Chilacia (present day Turkey)” (Hart).

He was a late convert. He never saw Prophet Jesus (PBUH), so that he could neither give an eye witness or ear-witness account of the preaching of the Prophet. When he arrived in Jerusalem, he was not acceptable to the Christian elders, but later he was received on the recommendation of St. Burnabas, who was one of the 12 Apostles of Prophet Jesus (PBUH). The Bible says:-

“And when Saul (Paul) came to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples, but they were all afraid of him and believed not that he was a disciple.

But Burnabass took him and brought him to the Apostles.” (Acts 9: 26:27)

The sixth sense of the Apostles was correct. St. Paul very soon started to oppose the Apostles by preaching principles which were completely opposed to the original Christian creed as preached by Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and his Apostles. Naturally he was declared as a heretic.

The following were the main points on which he did not agree with the creed of the original Christians:- 

The first point was that he did not want to restrict preaching of Christianity to Jews only, as were the clear instructions of Prophet Jesus (PBUH).

The bible says:-

“Go nowhere among the Gentiles and no town of the Samaritan, but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel”. (Matthew 10: 5-6)

“I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel”. (Matthew 15:24)

But since St. Paul was not being accepted by Jews and Christians, he wanted to go out to the pagans and establish a faith of his own liking.

Then he wanted that in order to make his Christianity attractive, new converts should be exempted from all formalities and observances of Christianity, which were the same as laid down by Prophet Moses (PBUH).

“In preaching to non-Jews, however, Paul was very successful. Paul insisted that there was no need for converts to Christianity to accept Jewish dietary restrictions, or to confirm to the rituals of the Mosaic Code or even to be circumcised.” (Hart)

He also exempted the converts from saying regular prayers in the temple. (The word Church was not used at that time.) The present day practice of Christians of paying a formal visit to church just once a week and then only just to hear a sermon, is St. Paul’s idea.


He also made a very attractive offer to all converts:-

“Christ died for our sins and his suffering can redeem us. If one accepts Christ, his sins will be forgiven”. (Hart)

Thus the idea of virtue, good deeds and the ‘Day of Judgment’ preached by every Prophet, was thrown overboard but it proved quite attractive to the pagans.

And then he executed his master stroke. The pagans, amongst whom he preached, worshipped idols and a number of gods and it did not appeal to them to switch their fidelity to one unseen God.

It was well known that the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was given birth by a virgin. So St. Paul declared that God Himself was the father of Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and thus two ideas developed: (a) Prophet Jesus (PBUH) was the son of God and that (b) there were three Gods, the father, the son and the Holy Ghost. Thus the idea of “Trinity” was founded and it carried away the pagans completely. Since they were provided with alternate gods, and at least one of them was material, they did not have any regrets for abandoning their idols and gods.

What an attractive Offer!

  1. No customary religious requirements.
  2. No restrictions on types of food – eat any meat, drink wine etc.
  3. No prayers or going to the temple.
  4. No circumcision or other rituals.
  5. No regrets for abandoning your idols, alternate gods provided.

And most important of all:-

  1. No fear of any sins or the ‘Day of Judgment’. Accept Christianity and then you can do anything. Your Salvation is assured.

Thus St. Paul completely changed the original Christianity as preached by Prophet Jesus (PBUH).

“His central idea of the divinity of Christ and of justification (salvation) by faith alone, remained basic to Christian thought throughout all the intervening centuries. Indeed the influence of Paul’s ideas has been so great that some scholars have claimed that he, rather than Jesus, should be regarded as the principal founder of the Christian religion”.(Hart).
There is no doubt that with his attractive offer, St. Paul gathered a larger number of converts around him.

The Christian youth of today does not know this story – how St. Paul set aside all basic principles of Christianity as preached by Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and how he gave a new religion of his own. He also does not know how St. Paul overthrew the original faith and how he succeeded in establishing his own version of Christianity. The modern youth takes Paul’s version for granted. Most of them have not even studied the Bible from beginning to end. The number of youth who study the early history of Christianity is negligible. They just accept Christianity, which they have inherited from their parents.

But in those days, when St. Paul started his activities, quite a number of Apostles were living. They had come in personal contact with Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and were fully aware of the teachings of the Prophet. They could not be blinded by St. Paul’s maneuvers and would not take it lying down. They opposed St. Paul tooth and nail and thus there comes a period in the history of Christianity, in which the two parties were pitched against each other. Both parties produced their own literature and quite a large number of Gospels were written by each.

Below are quotations, which will give some idea of the religious scene in those days.

“It is essential to know these facts to understand the struggle between communities, that formed the background against which the Gospels were written. The texts that we have today, after many adaptations from the sources, began to appear around 70 A.D. (Bucaille).

“The evangelists were the only spokesmen of the early Christian community, which wrote down the oral traditions. For thirty or forty years the Gospels had existed as an almost exclusively oral tradition and they only transmitted sayings and isolated narratives. The evangelists strung them together, each in his own way, according to his own character and theological preoccupations.” (O. Culmann in the Book “The New Testament.”)

“Thus the evangelists, each according to his own outlook, have collected and recorded in writing the material given to them by the oral traditions.” (Ecumenical Translation of the Bible).

“If one chooses to regard the Gospels as expressing the personal point of those, who collected the oral traditions, that belonged to various communities or as writings suited to an occasion or combat-writings, it does not come as a surprise to find faults in the Gospels. All these faults are the sign, that they were written by men in circumstances such as these. The writers may have been quite sincere, even though they relate facts without doubting their inaccuracy. They provide us with descriptions which contradict other authors’ narrations or are influenced by reasons of religious rivalry between communities. They therefore present stories about the life of Jesus from a completely different angle than their adversaries”. (Bucaille).

Thus the original Christians and the Pauline Christians continued to preach their religions and to write hundreds of their Gospels for more than three centuries. And then ……….

Paul’s Christianity overthrows Christ’s Christianity

During these 300 years, the two factions the followers of Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and the followers of St. Paul continued to preach their own sets of gospels and were at loggers head.

During this period, the Christians had no political power. The Roman emperors were against the Christians and they subjected the Christians to the cruelest form of persecution, even to the extent of throwing them before hungry lions in the arena of the Coliseum theatre in Rome amidst the enjoyment and loud laughter of the Roman citizens.

However, when Emperor Constantine (A.D. 306-337) assumed power, things became easier for Christians. He had a soft corner for Christians, because he wanted their political support which the Christians welcomed.

Constantine did not want the Christians to have two opposing factions. He desired their united strength at his back. So in AD 325 he called a joint meeting of the two factions, which goes in history under the title of Council of Nicaea.

At this council, representatives of both the factions appeared before the Emperor Constantine. The group, following the teachings of Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and his Apostles, was represented by Arius. The other group following St. Paul (though he was dead by then) was represented by Athanesius. This group, as already stated, was much larger and louder in expressing their views. The Emperor tried reconciliation, but since it could not be achieved, he declared that, in future, only the Pauline majority group will be recognized as representative of Christianity.

Thus St. Paul won a posthumous victory and the “Nicean Creed” was established. Anybody not believing in Paul’s Christianity was declared to be a “heretic” and many Christians who did not believe in Paul’s Trinity were killed. All gospels, not conforming with ideas of St. Paul, were declared as “Apocrypha”. As a result hundreds of gospels were burnt down and only those were retained, which propagated the ideas of St. Paul. The Gospels of the Hebrews, the gospels of Nazarenes and the Gospels of the Egyptians are just a few examples. An edict was issued that any one in possession of these Gospels will be put to death.

Even the Gospel of St. Barnabas was amongst the banned books. St. Barnabas was one of the twelve Apostles who were nearest to the Prophet Jesus (PBUH). The famous “Last Supper” was held in the house of the sister of St. Barnabas. St. Barnabus was a prominent leader of the Christians after Prophet Jesus (PBUH) left this world. St. Paul arrived in Jerusalem much later and being a recent convert was not acceptable to the group. In fact it was St. Barnabas who helped St. Paul in gaining entry in the inner circle of Christians. A quotation from Bible has already been given in support of this fact. (Acts 9:26 and 27).

St. Barnabas is also mentioned at several other places in the Bible. Yet his Gospel was also banned at the council of Nicaea, because it carried original Christian ideas and not those which St. Paul had advocated later.

Though the Gospel of St. Barnabas was included amongst the books, which were banned and burnt and it was a crime to possess a copy of any such book, a few copies of the gospel of St. Barnabas were preserved by some people at great risk and were carried from generation to generation.

A copy of this book came in the possession of Prince Eugene of Savoy. In 1738 the library of the Prince was taken up by Hofbibliothek (library) in Vienna, where it is safely kept till today. Its English translation was published by the Oxford University at Claredon Press in 1907, but this edition soon mysteriously disappeared from the market. Two copies of this translation are known to exist, one in the British Museum and the other in the Library of Congress, Washington. Some people have obtained a microfilm copy from the Library of Congress and the book is available. Any person who wants to compare the real Christianity with the current Pauline Christianity must read the Gospel of Barnabas. (Available from Aisha Bawani Waqf, P.O. Box 4178, Karachi, Pakistan).

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AN APPEAL

I would appeal to all Christians to study the previous two Chapters once again.

Quotations have been given from reliable Christian sources. Still they may verify these historical facts from their own sources. Professional churchmen generally avoid discussing such matters, but I appeal to those, who want to know the truth, to study at least the following books in order to confirm what has been said in these chapters:-

  1. The 100-most influential personalities, written by Michael H. Hart. Chapters: Muhammad (PBUH), Jesus Christ (PBUH) and St. Paul, A & W Visual Library, New York, U.S.A.
  2. The Bible, The Quran and Science
    Maurice Bucaille
    English Translation Published by:
    B.A. Bawany Waqf, P.O. Box No. 4178, Karachi-2, Pakistan.
  3. The Gospel of Barnabas
    Translated from the Italian manuscript in the Imperial Library at Vienna, by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg. A facsimile of the original book printed by Oxford University at the Claredon Press, 1907, Publisher: as at No. 2 above.

I have full confidence, that it will be quite obvious to every seeker of the truth, that the present Christian dogma of Prophet  Jesus (PBUH) being son of God and the consequent Trinity is nothing but the innovation of St. Paul brought in to attract the pagans and to satisfy their idolatrous instincts.

It will also be clear that these ideas are completely against the original Christian creed and when St. Paul started preaching them, the original Apostles, who had the privilege to come in contact with Prophet Jesus (PBUH), opposed him tooth and nail and declared him to be a heretic.

History also proves that this group continued to oppose the Pauline creed for more than 300 years, but finally due to the cruel decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine to support Pauline creed and to crush the original Christians, they became helpless. They were massacred ruthlessly and all gospels, not supporting the Pauline creed, were destroyed.

For a long period these facts were lost in the dust of history, but with the enlightenment of modern times, knowledge cannot be suppressed any more. All these facts have been revived and made public.

Under these circumstances, it is unbelievable, how a devout Christian can have faith in the ideas of St. Paul, setting aside the real Christian creed of the Prophet and his Apostles.

An important fact mentioned in the last Chapter, requires special attention.

It has been stated, that after Prophet Jesus (PBUH) left this world, the early Christians prayed along with the Jews in their synagogue. Now it is a known fact, that the Jews believe in One God. Had the original Christians believed in Prophet Jesus (PBUH) being son of God and the Trinity, the Jews would never have allowed them to pray in their synagogue.

Another very important fact demands consideration.

When the two factions of Christians after several days’ discussion could not arrive at a compromise, the roman Emperor Constantine gave his decision in favour of the majority party of St. Paul and banned the other party’s creed. He gave the Pauline party just one day to let him know the names of authorized Gospels, so that he may ban all others.

In a hurry they selected the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, as they found them to be nearest to their creed. The authors of these Gospels, though they did not have direct contact with Prophet Jesus (PBUH), had been living in a period when the oral traditions of the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) had not suffered drastic changes, and hence these gospels, inspite of inaccuracies and differences, contain some of the original material. This material is still there and is a direct testimony proving that the original Christians did not believe in Prophet Jesus (PBUH) being son of God or in Trinity. This is purely St. Paul’s creed.

Let the Christians read the following in the Bible:-

  1. “And Jesus said unto him, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one that is God. (Mark 10:18)
  2. “Son of a carpenter” (Matthew 13:55)
  3. “The Son of man came eating and drinking” (Matthew 11:19, Luke 7:34).
  4. “Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph” (John 1:45)
  5. After the crucification of Prophet Jesus (PBUH) Joseph of Arimathea received the body of Jesus (PBUH) from the Pilate. The gospel says: “Now when the centurion (Joseph) saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, certainly this was a righteous man.” (Luke 23:47).

These are just a few examples. The four Gospels are full of Prophet Jesus (PBUH)’s mention as son of man.

It may also be remembered that the word “Son” has been used in the gospels very frequently in the general sense of a servant or a dear one and not in that of a real begotten son of a man and his wife.

“Adam which was the son of God”                    
            (Luke 3:38)
“… Israel is My son, even my first-born”.     
                                                (Exodus 4:22)
“… for I (God) am a Father to Israel and Ephraim is my first born.”
            (Jermiah 31:9)

 “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God”
                                    (Romans 8:14)

Surprisingly this book (Romans) is one of the books written by St. Paul, which are included in the Bible. He has made a slip here forgetting that this will destroy his claim of Prophet Jesus (PBUH) being the real Son of God. The truth always comes out.

Thus it is clear that the present day Christians believe in the Prophet Jesus (PBUH) as being son of God and in the Trinity only through ignorance of the history of the Christian creed and lack of a deep study of Bible.

These blasphemous ideas were never preached by Prophet Jesus (PBUH) nor by his Apostles. In fact they fought against them for 300 years. These ideas are the products of St. Paul’s mind, a man who had not even seen Prophet Jesus (PBUH) and who was declared a heretic by the apostles. He coined these ideas (among several others discussed earlier) simply to attract the idol worshipping pagans.

My dear Christian friends! Can you make the ideas of an ordinary human being as part of your religion?

True religion can reach us only through the Divine Message received by a Prophet.
In the end I would like the reader to refer to Chapter XI (The Ray of Hope) once again and feel the oneness of God in the following words of a Christian authority no less than the Vatican:- “Unification of Islamic and Christian Worlds in the worship of a single God.”

It is hoped that the major blocks, standing in the way of Christians to confirm Islam and to form the “Grand Union, “ must have been overcome by now.

In part IV, these doubts will be further clarified, wherein the first chapter will give some details of the position of the Christian creed in Islam and another one will describe the principles of Islam briefly. This will help the Christians in understanding Islam in some depth and will make it easy for them to take the bold step of joining the “Grand Union.”

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