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THE PROPHET JESUS (AS) WILL RETURN
ed to people that the Messiah they expected had arrived. Some
of the people realised that the Prophet Jesus (as) was a messen-
ger who had been sent, and believed in him.
Yet, there were also some people who avoided accepting the
Prophet Jesus (as). Supporters of the system of disbelief of his

time, especially, considered him merely a threat to their irreli-
gious system. That is why they made plans to prevent him as
soon as they heard about him. To their dismay, however, their
plans were doomed to failure from the beginning. Still, this did
not stop them trying to realise their aim.
Nevertheless, those who reacted against him were not limit-
ed to disbelievers. During that period, for various reasons, some
of the rabbis took sides against the Prophet Jesus (as) asserting
that he was abolishing their religion, and of course by that they
became disbelievers because of their opposition to a Messenger
of Allah. What the Prophet Jesus (as) did, in reality, was only to
summon people to the original way, and eliminate the false rules
introduced into Judaism by some rabbis themselves. Some of the
people of Israel distorted their religion by prohibiting what was
allowed by the original revelation and allowing what was pro-
hibited by it. In this way, they changed the true way revealed by
Allah. Following this, Allah sent the Prophet Jesus (as) to purify
the true religion of all the innovations incorporated into it at a
later stage. The Prophet Jesus (as) called his people to the Injil,
which confirmed the original Tawrah revealed to the Prophet
Moses (as), as stated in the Qur'an:

"I come confirming the Tawrah I find already there,
and to make lawful for you some of what was previous-
ly forbidden to you. So have fear of Allah and obey
me." (Surah Al 'Imran: 50)