All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the
Worlds. Peace and blessings be upon the one Allah sent as a mercy to the
Worlds; and on his family, companions and fellow brothers till the Day of Recompense.
The creed of people of the truth about the Messiah (Jesus) عليه السّلام
Verily, Jesus صلّى الله عليه وآله
وسلّم, son of Mary is a
Servant and Messenger of Allah, a Word of Allah sent to Mary and a Spirit
coming from Him. Allah تعالى made of the birth and the education of Jesus عليه السّلام and his mother a sign and a Revelation.
Jesus عليه
السّلام was the last Prophet
and Messenger of Allah تعالى to the Children of Israel who deviated and turned away from the
Legislation of Moses عليه السّلام; they were kept under material covetousness and they lost the
right and pure spirit of the religion. Therefore, Allah تعالى sent the Messiah to guide those who went
astray of the Children of Israel, he revived their religion and restored it to
them and cleared up its features.
Meanwhile, Allah تعالى, as it is the tradition, accomplished
through the Messiah, His Servant, evident miracles; thus, he brought the dead
to life, healed the blind and the leper, informed people of what they ate and
what they stored in their homes. He called also to worship Allah Alone, without
ascribing any partner or associate to Him. Besides, he denied all worship to
the false deities and thoughts. He followed the tradition of his brothers the
Messengers, confirmed those who preceded him and gave glad tidings of the one
coming after him.
However, they belied him and made him an enemy. They charged him, and his
mother, of the greatest blasphemies and conspired to murder him. Nevertheless,
Allah purified Jesus and raised him عليه السّلام up unto Himself. His call spread thanks to what Allah
accomplished through the helpers of the Messiah. They called people to his
religion and to his legislation until they made it victorious over its
antagonists and things got conformable to the Truth.
This is the belief of those who are on the right
path about the Messiah, son of Mary.
However, his message was faced to a so hard
resistance and persecution, mixed to polytheist doctrines and pagan
philosophies that it ended by loosing its fundamental principles. This is what
favored its falsification, which generated doctrines and convictions in
Christianity that deviated and distorted the Revealed Message to Jesus عليه
السّلام.
The reality of God to the Christians
Amongst the most important philosophical convictions
and pagan doctrines on which Christianity is founded: Preaching the Trinity and
the divinity of the Messiah عليه السّلام and the Holy Spirit. Christians believe that the three are one
God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; they are one in essence and
equal in glory and power. None got ahead to life. All the Christian sects
believe in the incarnation of Allah in the Messiah عليه السّلام - which means the act of God coming to
earth in human form as Jesus عليه السّلام -, but they diverge on the manner of this union and this
incorporation. One group believes that it is a streak of light on the
transparence of the body. Another believes that it is the reflect of the
candle’s engraving, another one also thinks it’s the appearance of the
spiritual in the corporal, a fourth one thinks that the divine is contained in
the human, a fifth group considers that the word of Allah is mixed with the
body of the Messiah as well as milk is mixed with water.
So, for the Christians, and according to their
falsified religion, Allah is one in essence, impartial and without dimension,
moreover He is independent, absolute, and one in essence and three in people!.
Since these pretensions are wrong, it was not easy for them to understand them.
Thereby, Christians diverged on this matter very clearly and the different sects
charge one another of disbelief. Allah عزّ وجل
treated all of them as disbelievers and their destiny is torment if they do not
cease their sayings. Allah تعالى said:
﴿لَقَدْ كَفَرَ
الَّذِينَ قَالُوا إِنَّ اللهَ ثَالِثُ ثَلاثَةٍ وَمَا مِنْ إِلَهٍ إِلا إِلَهٌ
وَاحِدٌ وَإِنْ لَمْ يَنْتَهُوا عَمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَيَمَسَّنَّ الَّذِينَ
كَفَرُوا مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ﴾ ]المائدة: 73[.
The meaning of the verse:
﴾Surely,
disbelievers are those who said: 'Allâh is the third of the three (in a
Trinity)'. But there is no Ilâh (god) (none has the right to be
worshipped) but One Ilâh (God – Allâh). And if they cease not from what
they say, verily a painful torment will befall on the disbelievers among them﴿ [Al-Mâ'ida (The Table Spread With
Food: 73)].
In addition to their wrong convictions: The
invention of the story about redemption and crucifixion. Christians believe
that the Messiah عليه السّلام
is dead crucified for the atonement for the sins of humankind. They pretend
that he is the unique of Allah sent to save the humankind from sins and those
of their father Adam عليه السّلام.
All the Christians agree also on the fact that the
son is united with the person whom they call the Messiah, that person showed
himself to people, and then he was crucified and killed. However, they disagree
on the form of this crucifixion; wondering whether death would have happened on
the divine part of Jesus عليه السّلام, or on the human one, or on both of them?.
Then, they pretend that after his crucifixion, he was buried and then brought
to life three days later on Sunday; he is raised up to the heavens after
overcoming death.
Allah denies the vanity of their pretensions and
reveals the truth on the events that happened and denounces their lie. Allah عزّ
وجلّ said:
﴿وَقَوْلِهِمْ
إِنَّا قَتَلْنَا الْمَسِيحَ عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ رَسُولَ اللهِ وَمَا قَتَلُوهُ
وَمَا صَلَبُوهُ وَلَكِنْ شُبِّهَ لَهُمْ وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ اخْتَلَفُوا فِيهِ
لَفِي شَكٍّ مِنْهُ مَا لَهُمْ بِهِ مِنْ عِلْمٍ إِلا اتِّبَاعَ الظَّنِّ وَمَا
قَتَلُوهُ يَقِينًا، بَلْ رَفَعَهُ اللهُ إِلَيْهِ وَكَانَ اللهُ عَزِيزًا
حَكِيمًا﴾ ]النساء: 157-158].
The meaning of the verse:
﴾And
because of their saying (in boast), 'we killed Messiah îsâ son of Maryam
(Mary), the Messenger of Allâh', - but they killed him not, nor crucified him,
but the resemblance of Îsâ (Jesus) was put over another man (and they
killed that man), and those who differ therein are full of doubts. They have no
(certain) knowledge, they follow nothing but conjecture. For surely; they
killed him not [i.e. Îsâ (Jesus) عليه السّلام, son of Maryam (Mary)]. But Allâh raised
him [Îsâ (Jesus)] up (with his body and soul) unto Himself (and he عليه
السّلام is in the heavens).
And Allâh is Ever All-Powerful All-Wise﴿ [An-Nissâ' (The Women): 157-158].
The foundation of the Christian religion and the aspects of their
polytheism
This is the Christian religion, founded on the
blasphemy of Allah, disparaging Him and associating other false gods to Him,
pretensions based on vain doctrines and corrupted convictions that are, most of
them, extracted from the previous religions. This is what makes it loose its
purity and its fundamental and correct form and conformity to the one revealed
to Jesus عليه
السّلام son of Mary, Messenger
of Allah the Lord of the Worlds. Eventually, the falsified Christian religion
gathers both an imperfect divinity and the association to Allah, either at the
level of His Rubûbiya (Lordship) or at the level of His Ulûhiya
(Worship).
Among the aspects of the Christians association to
the Rubûbiya of Allah: what we have already mentioned above; the
exaggeration in the veneration of the creature. In other words, the personality
cult, up to make of that creature associated to the Creator, a part of Him, and
even another divinity with Him, denying of course the fact that he is a Servant.
In addition, other cases of association to Allah in His Lordship, to some of
them is the unity between the divine and the human in the person of the
Messiah. For others, the thought which consists of the incarnation of Allah in
the person of Jesus عليه السّلام, which means that Jesus عليه السّلام is a divine man; human in his outside form
and divine in inside nature. Therefore, he is composed of two natures
incorporated one into the other and thus they become one, like fire and iron or
milk and water. Another case of association to Allah in His Rubûbiya,
the pretension that Jesus عليه السّلام will judge people for their deeds in the Hereafter,
and from that derives the right to legislate granted to the spiritual leaders
in their clerical organization and the right of forgiveness and repentance
attributed to the monk and the priest.
Concerning the aspects of the Christians’
association to Allah in His Ulûhiya, it is revealed through the worship
of the Messiah عليه السّلام
in their prayers and the worship of sculpted images and statues in their churches.
Some of them also worship the Virgin Mary, believing she is the mother of God,
the same as for the glorification of the cross, which is their symbol, as well
as the glorification of the Prophets' graves. It is for this reason that the Last
of the Prophets صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم had cursed the Jews and the Christians who considered the
graves of the Prophets for places of worship. This is because the origin of the
association to Allah and the worship of the statues are due to those who stayed
by the graves and considered them as places of worship. Thus, Christian
community has gathered, at once, polytheism and an imperfect lowered divinity.
They are, therefore, more misguided and more polytheists than the Jews.
The impact of the Christians’ polytheism on the Islamic nation
The impact of the Christians’ polytheism on the
Muslim community is very evident. Amongst the most dangerous pretensions that
influenced the Sufis and the worshippers of Al-Jahmiyah sect is the pantheism
that we have already talked about; this idea of the falsified Christianity
dictates that Allah is incarnated in the Messiah. Some Sufi extremists and
their alike pretend that Allah, the Truth, has chosen human bodies where He, by
His Lordship, incarnates. He removes the human meaning to these bodies, which
are chosen to be the beloved of Allah, they will be the choice of His obedience
and His service, they will be adorned with His guidance, and their position is
elevated and honored in comparison to His other creatures.
What Al-Hallâj sings, illustrates well this matter,
in saying:
Glory to the one who manifested person,
The penetrating secret of his divine direction.
Then, in the universe, is visible,
In the shape of eating and drinking.
Even seen by his creation,
As the eyebrow sees the other!.
Similar to their polytheism, what happened to many
sects affiliated to Islam who are mistaken by what learned people find inside
their heart by the effect of the faith in Allah, of His knowledge, His Light
and His Guidance. The adepts of these sects end to believe that these blessings
are Allah Himself.
The effect of the falsified Christianity on the
Muslim community is an undeniable factor; the proof is the existence, in the
nations of Islam, of the doctrine of the personality cult or the overestimation
of the Prophets, in the beloved of Allah and righteous people. With the Sufis,
Ar-Râfidhah and Al-Jahmiyah and their alike who have exaggerated in the
Messenger صلّى
الله عليه وآله وسلّم esteem,
and the Shiites have exaggerated in the person of Ali Ibn Abi Tâlib رضي
الله عنه and other
personalities less important. Therefore, they have exaggerated in their
glorification and they have elevated them from servants and worshipers position
to the worshiped one. The Prophet صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم said: “Do not exaggerate in praising me
as the Christians praised the son of Mary, for I am only a slave. So, call me
Allah’s Slave and Apostle”.
The Prophet صلّى
الله عليه وآله وسلّم also
said: “Beware of exaggeration in matter of religion. Verily, those before
you, have perished because of the religious exaggeration”.
It is also found out in these sects and others, of
those who stay by the graves and consider them as places of worship. Whereas,
the Prophet صلّى
الله عليه وآله وسلّم said: “Verily,
those of the earlier generations used to take the graves of their Prophets and
righteous people as places of worship. Do not take graves as places of worship.
I forbid you to do so”.
He صلّى
الله عليه وآله وسلّم also
said: “The most evil people are those who remain alive when the Doomed Hour
comes, and those who take graves as places of worship”.
Also, among the aspects of influence, the Christians’
pretension that the Messiah is a light.
Likewise, some of the Sufis pretend that the Prophet صلّى الله عليه وآله
وسلّم is a light of Allah’s
Light. In this way, they exaggerate in his glorification. Besides, it is almost
usual to find in the church the picture of the Messiah, Mary, Georges and Peter;
and most of them pray for the pictures and worship them apart from Allah.
Likewise, some Sufis and tombs worshipers put the picture of their Sheikhs
right in the direction of the Ka ̀ba (destination of prayer) to bend
and prostrate themselves before them. They take these pictures with them or
hang them on the wall imploring a cure or a blessing. In fact, it is reported
in the Sahîh (authentic narration of Al-Bukhâri) that `Âisha رضي
الله عنها narrated that Um
Salama رضي
الله عنها mentioned a church
she had seen in Abyssinia in which there were pictures. She told the Prophet صلّى
الله عليه وآله وسلّم about it,
who commented: “If any religious or pious man dies amongst those people,
they would build a place of worship at his grave and make these pictures in it.
They are the worst creatures in the sight of Allah”.
Among other aspects of influence, the Christian spiritual leaders are granted
the power to legislate, whereas this power is exclusively reserved to the Lord عزّ
وجلّ. In this way, Christians
have worshiped these leaders by obeying them while they made the lawful illicit
and the illicit lawful. According to `Adiy Ibn Hâtim رضي الله عنه who heard the Prophet صلّى الله
عليه وآله وسلّم reading this verse:
﴿اتَّخَذُوا
أَحْبَارَهُمْ وَرُهْبَانَهُمْ أَرْبَابا مِّن دُونِ اللهِ…﴾
[التوبة:31].
The meaning of the verse:
﴾They
(Jews and Christians) too their rabbis and their monks to be their lords
besides Allah (by obeying them in things which they made lawful or unlawful
according to their own desires without being ordered by Allah)…﴿ [At-Tauba (The Repentance): 31], I told him then: “We did not
worship them”, he said: “Did not they forbid what Allah permitted and you
forbade it, too? And did not they permit what Allah forbade and you permitted
it, too?” I answered: “Yes, It was the case”, he said: “Hence, that is
their worship”.
The character of this influence, also, appears
clearly on stubbornness blind followers of their schools and their own
scholars, even if they are preaching in opposition with the texts of the
revelation. This issue is visible in some Muslim countries where the power to
legislate, to change, and to modify in matter of religion is granted to the
parliament and the rulers, not even wondering if these legislated texts are in
accordance with the prescriptions and the texts of the Revelation.
As we can find Christian influence on the Sufis at
the level of notions, such as monasticism, renunciation of the world,
hermitage, giving up with marriage and the purification of the soul by
torturing the body with firm and harsh exercises. Moreover, organizing trips
around the country, imitating the monks in their sermons, in their exercises
and their spiritual retreats.
What have been presented above are the most
important effects of Christian polytheism on the Muslim community. In fact, the
Prophet صلّى
الله عليه وآله وسلّم was
telling the truth: “You will follow the wrong ways of your predecessors so
completely and literally that if they should go into the hole of a mastigure,
you too will go there”. We said: “O Allah’s Apostle! Do you mean the Jews
and the Christians?”. He replied: “Whom else?”.
Our
last prayer is all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Peace and
blessing be upon our Prophet صلّى الله عليه وآله وسلّم, his Family, his Companions and Brothers
till the Day of Resurrection.
