Historical Statements of the Koran [pp. 195-230]

Historical Sta.tements of the Koran.
ers, and I will place thy followers above the unbelievers, at
[or until] the day of resurrection."* "They [the Jews]
say, We have killed Christ Jesus [Ysa the Messiah] the son
of Mary, God's apostle; whereas they did not kill nor cru cify him, but he was counterfeited [or personated] to them.t
And those who differed respecting him were in doubt about
it; and indeed they had no knowledge, but followed mere
conjecture. They did not really kill him; but God took him
up to himself, and God is mighty and wise."I
To set Mohammed's unitarianism in a clearer light, we
need only quote a few sentences from different parts of the
Koran. "They are certainly infidels who say, that God is
Christ the son of Mary. For Christ himself said, oh children
of Israel, worship God, my Lord and your Lord. Verily he
who gives God a companion shall be excluded from paradise
by God, and the fire shall be his dwelling place. Surely they
are infidels who say that God is the third of three; whereas
there is no God but one God, and if they do not cease from
what they say, grievous torments, &c. &c.~ " Christ Jesus,
the son of Mary, was an apostle from God, even his Word,
and a Spirit proceeding from him. Verily God is one God.
Far be it from him that he should have a son. Christ
does not disdain to be God's servant, &c. &c. 11 "When God
said" [Sale renders it, when God shall say at the last daty;
but the verb is in the past tense, without any thing to modify
it] "oh Jesus, son of Mlary, did(st thou say to men, Take me
and my mother for d(leities besides God? He replied, God
forbid! I have nb right to assert what does not truly belong
to me. I have told them only what thou di(lst command me,
to wit, serve God my Lord and your Lord."~' "He is only
a servant whom we have highly favoured, and set forth as an
example to the children of Israel, and verily he shall be a
sign of the Hour, (viz. the last)."**
." Verily, Jesus, with respect to God, was just like Adam.
He created him of dust, and then said to him, Be, and he
was. "tt
Besides the denial of our Lord's divinity, the attentive
reader will observe, throughout these sentences, another strong
resemblance to a certain class of writers, in the clamorous as
* iii. 54,55. t He was represented by one in his likeness." Sale.
t iv. 155-157. ~ v. 74, 75. iv. 168, 169.
I v. 116, 117. ** xliii. 58-61. tt iii. 59.
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