From: iqbal@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu (Kamran Iqbal)
Subject: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE "PROMISED MESSIAH"- I
Originator: iqbal@seine.eng.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:31:16 GMT


		THE TRUTH ABOUT THE "PROMISED MESSIAH" - I
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The  inviters to the new prophethood usually tell the ignorant Muslims
that the traditions of the Holy Prophet have foretold the coming of
a "promised messiah", and the Messiah (Jesus Chirst) was a prophet,
and therefore, his second comoing doesnot contradict the doctrine of
the Finality of the Prophethood.  Thus the doctrine of the Finality of
Prophethood is true and, at the same time, the advent of the
"Promised Messiah"  is also true.

In this regard, they also say that the "promised Messiah" does not
imply Jesus son of marry.  Jesus is dead.  The one whose coming has
been foretold in Hadith is a man like the Messiah, a Massieh like the
prophet Jesus, and he is so-and-so, who has alredy come.  To believe
in him is not contradictory to the belief in the Finality of
Prophethood.

In order to expose his fraud we reproduce below, with full refrences
to their sources, the authentic Traditions, which are found in the
most reliable Hadith Collections.  By going through these traditions
everyone can know what the holy prophet has said in this regard and
how it is being misconstructed and misinterperated thesse days for
ulteriror motives.

	--(The Ahadith can be found in the origianl reference)--

	Anyone who goes through these traditions will see for himslf
that they do not contain any mention whatever of the evident of the
"Promised Messiah", or a "projection of the Messiah", or a "man like
Messiah", nor do they admit that somebody in this age having being
born from the womb of any mother and by sperm of any father, should
put forward the claim that he is the messiah whose coming has been
foretold by the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).  All these traditions clearly
and explicitly give the news of the advent of the same "Jesus Christ"
(upon whom the peace) who was born from the vergin Mary 2000 years
ago. It would be useless to debate on the point whether jesus has died
or still living somewhere in the universe.  Even if he is dead Allah
has the power to raise him back to life (SEE FOOTNOTE 1); otherwise
also it is not beyond the power of Allah that He should keep a servent
of His alive for thousands of years somewhere in the universe and
bring him back into the world whenever He wills.  In any case if a
person believe in Hadith, he will have to admit that the one whose
advent has been foretold will be "Jesus the son of Mary"; and if he
does not believe in hadith, he cannot be a believer in the advent of
anyone whatever, for the doctrine of the Advent is based on Hadith and
on nothing else.  But this is strange logic that people should adopt
the doctrine of the Advent of hadith and then should discard the
perticularities given in the same Hadith, which clearly states that
the one whose advent has been foretold will be Jesus son of mary, and
not a "man who is spritually like unto the messiah"

FOOTNOTE 1: Those who deny this should see Al-Baqarah:259, where Allah
SWT has clearly stated: "He (Allah) kept a servant of His dead for a
hundred years and then brought him to life. -end footnote

-- 
KAMRAN IQBAL	  | In the name of Allah, the beneficient, the merciful.
Dept of Elec Eng  |  "I bear witness that there is no god but ALLAH,
Ohio State Univ   |   I bear witness that MUHAMMAD is his messenger".