The Religion of Christianity.

“And remember, Îsâ [Jesus], the son of Mary, said: ‘O Children of Israel! I am the Prophet of Allah (sent) to you, confirming the Law [which came] before me, and giving glad tidings of a Prophet to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad.’ But when he came to them with clear signs, they said, ‘This is evident sorcery!’ ”

Îsâ (Jesus) [’alaihi ’s-salâm] was sent to improve the religion of the Israelites. That means, true Christianity is only the reformed religion of the Israelites. Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) says in the seventeenth verse of the fifth chapter of the book of Matthew, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.” It will be unnecessary to repeat the same explanations given in the section “Qur’ân al-kerîm and the Bibles,” but we kindly request our dear readers to refer to that section. The original Bible containing the initial scriptures of Christianity conveyed by Hadrat Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was changed many times and a great deal of foreign scriptures and myths were added. As a result of these invented myths being mixed with the words and orders of Allâhu ta’âlâ, the Bible lost the characteristics of being a holy book. In his Turkish book Izâhulmerâm fî Kashfîz-zulâm, the great Islâmic scholar Alhaj Abdullah Ibn Dastân Mustafa (rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ), who died in 1303 [1885], explains what the book that was sent to Hadrat Îsâ and that was mentioned in the Qur’ân al-kerîm was. That book states as follows: “When the Jews tried to kill Hadrat Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm), they seized him and burnt the Bible he had with him or they tore it into pieces. Until that time, the Bible itself had not yet been spread all over the world, and his religion and Sharia (religious laws) had not been established. This was due to the fact that Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) had preached his religion for only two and half or three years. Also for this reason no possibility existed of finding another copy of the Bible. His apostles were few and most of them were uneducated; therefore, it was impossible for them to have had other written proofs. Up to that time, the Bible had not been written down, but it had been memorized by Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm), only. This may be another possibility: In the spiritual council of Nicaea (Iznik), 325 years after Christ, a large number of Bibles were burned as a result of being judged ‘false, wrong or baseless.’ Perhaps, the real Bible was burned among them.” Today’s Christian world admits that many foreign words were inserted into the Bible resulting in the actual orders of Allâhu ta’âlâ and the words of His human slaves being mixed together. No doubt, the Bible was originally in the Hebrew language. Later, it was translated into Latin and Greek. While translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek, a lot of mistakes were made. Furthermore, because of the fact that the Greek idolaters opposed the idea of “One Allah,” they tried to adapt the Bible itself to the philosophy of Plato. Consequently, the dogma of the Trinity (union of three), which is completely unreasonable, was introduced into the Bible. According to the philosophy of Plato, it is not good to worship many idols by making specific idols for specific gods. Plato’s Philosophy also claims that god is the union of three. The first one is the “Father.” This is the greatest creator and the father of the other two gods. He is the first hypothesis. The second is the visible creator who is the vizier of the Father who is invisible. This word means logos and perception. The fact that Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) is called “logos,”holy word, by Christians, and they believe in him as “god” is written at the beginning of the book of John. The third one is the universe (nature), the visible and the known. So, the Romans and the Greeks tried to make Christianity a philosophy. Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) said: “I am only a man, just like you.” In spite of this, they accepted him as the son of Allah. Going even further, they invented something called “the Holy Ghost.” They claimed that there were three divine persons —Father, Son and Holy Ghost— whose unity forms the Christian God. However, the word “Father” used in the Hebrew Bible meant that Allâhu ta’âlâ was almighty. And the word “son” used for Hadrat Îsâ meant that he was the “beloved slave of Allâhu ta’âlâ,” not something else. The Holy Ghost was the power of prophethood granted to Hadrat Îsâ by Allâhu ta’âlâ. This fact is told in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, in the twelfth verse of Chapter Tahrîm as follows: “And Mary the daughter of Imrân, who guarded her chastity. And we breathed into (her body) of Our spirit. And she testified to the truth of the words of her Lord and of His Revelations. And was one of the devout (slaves).” In early Christianity, there was no such thing as “Trinity.” The above-mentioned Islamic Scholar Dastân Mustafa (rahima hullah) says: “The idea of the ‘Trinity’ was suggested first by a priest named Sibelius, two hundred years after Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. Until that time, people believed that Allah was one and that Hadrat Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was His Prophet. The concepts suggested by Sibelius were furiously rejected by many Christians. Fights broke out between churches and much blood was shed. In a history book, written during that time and translated from French into Arabic, this fact is substantiated. In the year 200 A.D., only the idea of ‘Father’ and ‘Son’ had been suggested. The idea of the ‘Holy Ghost’ was added 181 years later by a religious council held in 381 during the time of Theodosius, the Byzantium emperor. There were many popes, opposed to this decision.’ Pope Honorius never believed in the “Trinity.” Although Honorius was excommunicated, some years after his death, new sects were formed that were opposed to the idea of the “Trinity.” Even drawing invented pictures of Hadrat Îsâ, making his statue, putting them into churches, deeming the cross sacred, and the other matters like them caused much trouble, even bloody flights, but they were accepted by the church 700 years later. They have changed the fundamentals of Christianity: the Pope is believed to be infallible; the priests have been given the authority of confession; man is condemned to have been born a sinner. Although it was written in the (Bible), they disbelieved the final Prophet, Muhammad (’alaihi ’s-salâm). Even today, they are continuously changing the so-called Bible. All these facts have provoked Allâhu ta’âlâ’s wrath. The holy meaning of the 171st ayât of Sûra Nisâ is: “Oh, people of the book! Do not exaggerate in your religion! Tell nothing except the truth about Allah. Isâ, the son of Maryam, was merely Allah’s messenger. And a creature created by His order “Be!” which He bestowed into Mary, and a spirit from Him. Believe in Allah and His Prophet. Do not say: “Three!” Stopping (it) will be better for you. Allah is only one Allah. He is beyond having any son. He created whatever is in Heaven and whatever is on Earth.” Using the word “Spirit” to mean “Îsâ” (’alaihi ’s-salâm) in that ayât (verse) has been interpreted with different meanings. It means that Gabriel (’alaihi ’s-salâm) cast him into Mary and after she had been breathed upon, she became pregnant. That breathing done by Gabriel (’alaihi ’s-salâm) is referred to as “spirit.” Or, the Spirit here means revelation from Allâhu ta’âlâ. Hadrat Mary was given good news by means of this word, and also Gabriel (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was ordered to breathe upon her, and Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was given the order “Be!” Or, it is the order “Be!” It is said that the relation between Allâhu ta’âlâ and the spirit is just like the relation between a man’s speech and his breath. It is declared to those who changed the Bible in the seventy-nineth verse of Chapter Baqara in the Qur’ân al-kerîm: “Woe to those who write the Scriptures with their own hands and then say: ‘This is from Allah,’ in order to gain some paltry end. Woeful shall be their fate, because of what their hands have written, because of that which they have gained.” The holy meaning of the 1-4 âyats of Surâ Ikhlâs: “Say that Allah is One and Only. He is free of all needs. Everything depends on Him. He has no son nor father nor partner. There is no person like unto Him.” We quoted the story below from the Turkish book Diyâ-ul-kulûb by Ishaq Effendi (rahima-hullâhu ta’âlâ) of Harput, Turkey: Two Jesuit[109] priests went to the city of Kanton for the first time in order to Christianize the Chinese people. They asked the governor of Kanton for permission to preach the Christian religion. The governor took no heed of them. But when the Jesuits annoyed him by coming to him every day (and soliciting for permission), he said at last, “I have to ask the Faghfûr [Emperor] of China for permission for this. I shall let him know.” So he reported the matter to the Emperor of China. The answer was: “Send them to me. I want to know what they want.” Upon this he sent the Jesuits to Peking, the capital of China. This news caused great alarm among the Buddhist priests. [They begged the emperor to expel the Jesuits from the country on the grounds that “These men are trying to imbue our people with a new religion which emerged under the name Christianity. These men do not recognize the Holy Buddha. They are going to misguide our people.”] The emperor said, “We must listen to them first. Then we will decide.” He made an assembly of the eminent statesmen and clergy of the country. Inviting the Jesuits, he told them to explain to the assembly what the principles of the religion they wanted to promulgate were. Upon this the Jesuits made the following discourse: “God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is one. Yet at the same time, He is three. God’s only Son and the Holy Ghost, too, are a God each. This God created Adam and Eve and put them in Paradise. He gave them all kinds of blessings. Only, He commanded them not to eat from a certain tree. Somehow the Satan deceived Eve. And she, in her turn, deceiving Adam, they disobeyed God’s command by eating fruit from the tree. Therefore God deported them from Paradise and sent them to the world. Here they had children and grandchildren. They were all sinful because they had been depraved by the sin committed by their grandfather. This state lasted six thousand years. Eventually God pitied human beings, yet He found no other way than sending His own son for the expiation of their sin and immolating His only son as an atonement of the sin. The Prophet we believe in is Jesus the Son of God. There is a city called Jerusalem in a region called Palestine to the west of Arabia. In Jerusalem there is a place called Jelîla (Galilee), which has a village named Nâsira (Nazareth). One thousand years ago there lived a girl named Maryam (Mary) in this village. This girl was betrothed to her paternal first cousin, but she was a virgin yet. One day, as she was alone, the Holy Ghost appeared and put the Son of God into her. That is, the girl became pregnant, virgin as she was. [Then, as she and her fiance were on their way to Jerusalem, she had a child in a stable in Beyt-i-lahm (Bethlehem). They placed the Son of God into the manger in the stable. The monks in the east, who knew that he was born when they saw that a new star suddenly emerged in the sky, set out for him with presents in their hands, and at last they found him in this stable. They prostrated themselves before him. The Son of God, called Jesus, preached to God’s creatures until he was thirty-three years old. He said, ‘I am the Son of God. Believe in me. I came to save you.’ He displayed numerous miracles, such as resuscitating the dead, making the blind see again, making the lame walk, curing the leprous, stopping sea-storms, feeding ten-thousand people with two fish, changing water into wine, withering a fig tree with one (hand) signal because it did not yield any fruit in winter, and so forth. Yet very few people believed in him. Eventually, the treacherous Jews betrayed him to the Romans, thus causing him to be crucified. However, three days after dying on the cross, Christ resurrected and showed himself to those who believed in him. Then he ascended to heaven and sat on the right hand side of his Father. And his Father left all the matters of this world over to him. And He Himself withdrew. This is the basis of the religion we are going to preach. Those who believe in this shall go to Paradise in the hereafter, and those who do not shall go to Hell.” Listening to these words, the Chinese Emperor said to the priests, “I shall ask you some questions. Answer these questions.” Then he began asking his questions, “My first question is this: You say on the one hand that God is one and on the other hand that He is three. This is as nonsensical as saying that two and two make five. Explain this theory to me.” The priests could not answer. They said, “This is a secret that belongs exclusively to God. It is beyond the human comprehension.” The Faghfûr (Emperor) said, “My second question is this: God is the almighty creator of the earth, heaven, and all the universe, and yet, on account of a sin committed by one person, He ascribes the blame on all his progeny, who are completely unaware of the (sinful) deed (committed by their forefather); is this possible? And why is it that He did not find any other way than sacrificing His own son as an atonement for them? Is it worthy of His Majesty? How will you answer this?” The priests, once again, could not answer. “This, too, is a secret peculiar to God,” they said. The Faghfûr said, “And my third question: Jesus asked the fig tree to give fruit prematurely, and then withered it because it would not give fruit. It is impossible for a tree to give fruit out of season. Despite this fact, would it not be cruelty for Jesus to get angry with the tree and wither it? Could a Prophet be cruel?” The priests could not answer this, either. Instead, they said, “These things are spiritual. They are God’s secrets. The human mind cannot comprehend them.” Upon this, the Chinese Emperor said, “I give you the permission (you want). Go and preach in any part of China.” When they withdrew from the Emperor’s presence, the Emperor turned to those who were present, and said, “I do not presume that anyone in China would be so stupid as to believe in such absurdities. I therefore find nothing wrong in allowing these men to preach these superstitions. I feel certain that, after listening to them, our compatriots will see that there are such idiotic tribes over the world and think even more favourably of their own faith.” What the Fagfûr said was so true. Even though 2000 years have passed since those days, and in spite of the great efforts made by Christian missionaries, they have not been able to convert the Chinese nation to Christianity. [See our English book Could Not Answer. In that book, there are many important questions which could not be answered by priests] As far as it is understood through the books we have read in different languages, Hadrat Maryam (Mary) lived alone in one of the rooms of Bayt-ul Muqaddas (Masjîd-i Aqsâ). Nobody entered that room except Zacharias (Zakariyya [’alaihi’s-salâm]). The angel Gabriel (’alaihi ’s-salâm) revealed to Hadrat Maryam (Mary) that she would have a son who would be a prophet, though she was a virgin. One of the legends in the book Mir’ât-i kâinât states: “While Hadrat Mary (Maryam) was having a bath in her aunt’s and Zacharias’ (âlaihi ’s-salâm) house, Gabriel (’alaihi ’s-salâm) appeared as a human and breathed on her. As a result, she became pregnant. She went to the “Bayt-ul-lahm” together with her uncle’s son, Joseph (Yusuf) Najjâr. Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) was born there. Then, they went to Egypt. They lived there for twelve years. They eventually moved to Nazareth and settled there. When Îsâ (Jesus) was thirty he became a prophet. For this reason, the people who believed in Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) were called “Nasrânî” and all the Nasrânî people were called “Nasâra.” According to the Bible, when Îsâ was born, a new and bright star appeared in the sky. But, according to some philosophers and communists this entire story is a myth. No one was ever named Îsâ (Jesus). According to Ernest Renan, a professor at the University of Paris, Mary married Yusuf (Joseph). Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) was born normally. He even had brothers and sisters as well. This assertion by Renan caused him to be excommunicated by the Pope. But, his ideas were immediately accepted by atheists. The Qur’ân al-kerîm clearly reveals that Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm] is the son of Hadrat Mary (Maryam), the virgin. As we said above, Allâhu ta’âlâ honoured her with Rûh-ul-qudus (the Holy Spirit). This fact is revealed in the 87 th and 253rd ayats of Sûra Baqara. The holy meaning of these âyats are: “We gave ’Îsâ (Jesus) the son of Mary clear signs and strengthened him with the Holy Spirit.” [This blessed âyat al-kerîma reveals that obvious miracles were given to him. And it is clearly revealed in the 48th verse of Sûra Âl-i Imran, and in the 46th and 110th verses of Sûra Mâ’ida, and in the 27th verse of Sûra Hadîd that the Injîl (Bible) was revealed to him]. That he was born from the virgin Mary (Maryam) is purported in the 45th and the following verses of Sûra Al-Imrân: The angels said: “O Mary! Allah giveth thee glad tidings of a word from Him: his name will be Îsâ (Jesus) Messiah, the son of Mary, held in honour in this world and the hereafter, and of those nearest to Allah, and he will preach to men in his cradle.” Hadrat Mary asked: “O my Lord! How shall I have a son when no man hath touched me?” The angel said: “Even so: Allah createth what He willeth. When He decrees a thing, He says to it ‘Be,’ and it is.” Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) spoke to people when he was only an infant. When he was only a child he had extraordinary wisdom. Admirable answers were given to questions asked to him. This state of his showed that he would be an extraordinary man. He started preaching in Jerusalem. During his prophethood, which lasted three years, he performed numerous miracles. As mentioned in the Qur’ân al-kerîm, he revived the dead. He cured the lepers. He opened the eyes of the blind. Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) was the kind of prophet that had no house, and was continuously on the road, walking. He used to spend the night worshipping, wherever he was when the sun set that day. He was very kind, merciful, very tender-hearted, and modest. The miracles he used to perform embarrassed him so that he would walk away immediately after curing a person lest the latter should thank him. He would not even answer, let alone retort, his apostles’ remonstrations. [For instance, they were sailing together in a ship, when a violent storm broke out. Terrified with the fear of getting drowned, they protested, “Why don’t you stop that storm? We will perish. Don’t you care?” He was silent.] He would immediately forgive them for their rude behavior. Peter had cut off a gardener’s ear on account of his abusive remarks about him (Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’). He felt such deep pity for the gardener that he did not hesitate to pray to Allâhu ta’âlâ for the replacement of the gardener’s ear. The injunctions [commandments and prohibitions] in the Injîl (Bible) were few in number. ’Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) did not claim to have brought a new religion. He always said “I am not trying to establish a new religion. I have been sent for the reinstatement of the true unitarian religion that was brought by Israelite Prophets ‘alaihim-us-salawâtu wa-t-taslîmât’ and which has begun to lose its purity.” He only wanted everybody to believe in one Allah. Hence, it is not acceptable to claim that Christianity is a new religion. Christianity and the other religions that profess belief in one Allah and were brought by Hadrat Ibrâhîm (Abraham [’alaihi’s-salâm]) and Mûsâ (Moses [’alaihi’s-salâm]) are the same. Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) did not write down his own teachings. No one else had possession of the original Bible revealed by Allâhu ta’âlâ, either. The Holy Bible in the hands of today’s Christians consist of those parts derived from the Torah (Old Testament) and other books added to it later by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and the booklets and letters of the disciples called apostles (New Testament). They wrote different descriptions for the same event. [See: Qur’ân al-kerîm and the Bibles.] The Bibles written by the other apostles were gathered and burned. This event took place in the religious councils and synods that were held in Istanbul in 381 A.D., and which we have already touched upon, not to mention the earlier ones, such as the ones held in 325 and in 364 [during the reigns of Constantine and Theodosius]. The fact that Hadrat Muhammad would come was told in detail in a Bible by Barnabas, but it was burned among the others, too. Today, it is known that not one of the authors of these four books ever saw Îsâ (Jesus) except John. According to a book by Ishaq Effendi of Harput, Turkey, the first, second, third and the fourth Bibles were written 65, 60, 55-60, and 98 years after Christ, respectively. It states only in John’s book that: “Allah loved human beings so much that He sent them His own son.” But there is no doubt that the word “His own son” means “a slave whom He loves best.” (John was the son of Hadrat Îsâ’s (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) maternal aunt.) However, no such statements can be found in the other three books. But in those books, Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) refers to Allâhu ta’âlâ as “Father,” which undoubtedly gives the meaning of “someone sacred and dear” in those scriptures. The passage below quoted from the fiftieth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the book of Matthew confirms that some of the books (Bibles) were written at least seventy years after the birth of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’: “When Jesus (’alaihi ’s-salâm) died, the veil in the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of their graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.” This description of a disaster was quoted verbatim from a book by a Jew who was extremely sorrowful when Jerusalem was destroyed and burned by Titus, the Roman emperor, seventy years after the birth of Îsâ ‘alaihis-salâm’. Norton Andrews (1786-1853), an Amerikan and a commentator of the Holy Bible, said, “This story is a lie. The fact to be told below is a dependable proof. It was one of the lies among the extraordinary stories about Masjid-i Aqsâ, invented by the Jews who were in a ruined state after the city of Jerusalem had been destroyed. After some time passed, someone wrote this story on the margin of the book of Matthew thinking it to be suitable to the time when Jesus (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was crucified. Then, another scriber wrote it into the text of the book of Matthew while he was scribing a copy of that book. Then, the text was translated completely by a translator who happened to have it.” Matthew wrote down this event in his book as if it had occurred during his time and as if he had eye witnessed it. As a matter of fact, there is a controversy over whether the book of Matthew was really written by Matthew, himself. Some European historians say that there are two styles of writing in the book of Matthew, and they claim that this book might have been written by two different men. Even honest religious Christian men admit that the Bibles which the Christian world has today cannot be accepted as the word of Allâhu ta’âlâ. As we have said above, it contains the words of Allâhu ta’âlâ as well as the words of men. For Muslims the most advisable thing is: Those verses in the Bible which are in agreement with the Qur’ân al-kerîm must be accepted; those verses which are contrary to the Qur’ân al-kerîmmust be (since they are the words of men) rejected. But those verses which are neither accepted nor rejected by the Qur’ân al-kerîm might be deemed authentic after they have been well examined and found acceptable according to Islamic credo. Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) was sent to correct the religion of the Israelites. But, Jews did not like him. They said that he was a false prophet. They complained about him to the Romans, asserting: “He wants to be the King of Israel. He wants to instigate the public to revolt against the Romans. He considers himself to be the son of Allah. He refers to Allah by saying “Father.” According to the Christian creed, Pilatus, the Jewish governor of the Romans living in Jerusalem arrested Jesus (’alaihi ’s-salam) and sent him to Hirodes. Hirodes was very glad because he wanted to meet him and to see his miracles (mu’jizas). Jesus (’alaihi ’s-salâm) did not answer the questions asked by Hirodes. Upon this, Hirodes sent him back to Pilatus. (The twenty-third chapter of Luke). Encouraged by the head of the soothsayers and Jews, Pilatus handed him over to Jews to be crucified. Christians believe that Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) was crucified and died; then, he came back to life and ascended to Heaven. But Muslims believe that Hadrat Îsâ (Jesus) was not crucified and instead he ascended to heaven directly. The person crucified in his place was named Judas (Yahûda, one of his apostles). In return for money he informed the local authorities where they could find Îsa (Jesûs). This is revealed in the Qur’ân al-kerîm. The holy meaning of the 156 to 158 th ayâts of Sûra Nisâ is: “We made Jews accursed on account of their denial of Îsâ and their saying such terrible slanders against Mary and also for their saying: ‘We have killed Allah’s messenger, Îsa, the son of Mary!’ But they killed him not, nor crucified him. But so it was made to appear to them. [Yahûda (Judas) was mistaken as Jesus (’alaihi ’s-salâm) and crucified.] They have no real knowledge about it except by following conjecture. For a surety, they killed him not. Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself. Allah is Almighty, Wise.” After the ascension of Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm), Christianity began to spread slowly all over the world. From the beginning, the Romans and the Greeks who were idolaters, furiously rejected this new religion. Christians were arrested and killed. They were thrown in front of wild animals in circuses. But, the true religion continued to be known and appreciated. It is a shame that the real Injîl (Bible) disappeared in the course of time. The nonsensical pretensions of Paul, who was a hypocrite: “The crucifixion of Îsâ (Jesus) is divine reason, justice and salvation. Allah allowed his own son to be killed in order to forgive the sins of human beings,” has become the foundation of today’s Christianity. Although Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi ’s-salâm]) never said that anybody was born a sinner, today’s Christianity is explained as follows: 1- Man comes to this world as a sinner. Adam, the first human, did not obey the order of Allâhu ta’âlâ; therefore, he was expelled from Paradise. 2- The descendants of Adam, up to now, are deemed to have the same sin. 3- Îsâ (Jesus [’alaihi’s-salâm]) is the son of Allahu ta’âlâ sent to this world to save humanity from that sin. 4- Allâhu ta’âlâ allowed His own son to be crucified because He wanted to forgive the sins of human beings. 5- This world is a place of suffering. Pleasure and enjoyment are prohibited in this world. Man was created to suffer and to worship. 6- Man cannot have direct relations (worship) with Allâhu ta’âlâ. They cannot directly ask anything from Him. Only priests can implore Allâhu ta’âlâ for them. And only priests can forgive their sins. 7- The leader of the Christians is the Pope. The Pope is infallible; whatever he does is justice. 8- Soul and body are different. Only priests can purify the souls of people. But their bodies remain impure; it will always remain sinful. Because of these unacceptable tenets, true Christianity brought by Hadrat Îsa (Jesus) to correct the religion of the Israelites lost its fundamentals, and became a false religion or the so-called religion of Christianity. Some people tried to restore Christianity back to its original form. With this purpose in mind, a priest named Luther founded a new sect under the name Protestantism, but he only caused Christianity to become worse and more corrupted. So, the Islamic religion arose to correct all the mistakes inserted into Christianity after Îsâ (’alaihi ’s-salâm) and to put this holy unitarian religion back into its original form because it had been corrupted and was getting worse. As a matter of fact, all the holy books revealed by Allahu ta’âlâ conveyed that a “final Prophet (’alaihi ’s-salâtu wassalam) would come,” and he would direct all humanity into the right path leading to salvation. This message can be seen both in the Torah and, in spite of interpolations, in the Bible as well. The 12-13 th verses of Chapter Sixteen in John states: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.” In the 72 nd, 96th, 136th, 163rd chapters, the facts below were clearly said to his apostles by Hadrat Îsâ (Jesus): “A final Prophet will come, his name will be Ahmad, he will put the Injîl (Bible) into its correct form, because it will have been corrupted until he comes; he will bring a new holy book.” Furthermore, it is said in the same book that “he, himself, he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.” In the 72 nd, 96th ,136th, 163rd chapters, the facts below were clearly said to his apostles by Hadrat Îsâ (Jesus) “A final Prophet will come, his name will be Ahmad, he will put the Injîl (Bible) into its correct form, because it will have been corrupted until he comes; he will bring a new holy book.” Furthermore, it is said in the same book that he himself was not crucified; the man crucified was Judas, who had informed the officials where they could find Îsâ (Jesus). This fact is also confirmed bySûra (Chapter) Sâff in the Qur’ân al-kerîm. The holy meaning of the sixth ayât of Sûra Sâff states: “And remember, Îsâ [Jesus], the son of Mary, said: ‘O Children of Israel! I am the Prophet of Allah (sent) to you, confirming the Law [which came] before me, and giving glad tidings of a Prophet to come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad.’ But when he came to them with clear signs, they said, ‘This is evident sorcery!’ ” [The names Ahmad and Muhammad have the same meaning]