Page 14 - Love in the Gospel

In Surah Maryam, God informs us how ugly and how big an atrocity
the slander "God has a son" is in the following way:
They say, 'The All-Merciful has a son.' They have devised a mon-
strous thing.

The heavens are all but rent apart and the earth split open and the
mountains brought crashing down, at their ascription of a son to
the All-Merciful!
It is not fitting for the All-Merciful to have a son. (Surah Maryam,
88-92)
The false belief of the Christians, that "The Prophet Jesus (pbuh)
died on the cross", has been corrected in the Qur'an. In the Qur'an, God
informs that the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) did not die; people were shown
someone who resembled him, and the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) was raised
up alive to God's Sight and will return to the world in the End Times,
which we are living in today:
And (on account of) their saying, 'We killed the Messiah, Jesus
son of Mary, Messenger of God.' They did not kill him and they did
not crucify him but it was made to seem so to them. Those who
argue about him are in doubt about it. They have no real knowl-
edge of it, just conjecture. But they certainly did not kill him.
God raised him up to Himself. God is Almighty, All-Wise.
There is not one of the People of the Book who will not believe
in him before he dies; and on the Day of Resurrection he will be
a witness against them. (Surat an-Nisa, 157-159)
LOVE IN THE GOSPEL also informs that the true belief about the Prophet Jesus (pbuh) is his
While God corrects the Christians' false belief about the so-called
'crucifixion of the Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) with the verses of the Qur'an, He

'second return to the world'.
In addition to this wealth of information, both Christians and Jews are
defined as the "People of the Book" in the Qur'an, and their food is made
lawful to Muslims. Muslims are also allowed to marry women from the
People of the Book (Surat al-Ma'ida, 5). This reveals that there should be
a very affectionate relationship, a sincere bond of friendship and com-
panionship between Christians, Jews and Muslims.
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Indeed, there may be oppressors amongst the People of the Book,
as there are in every community. Cruelty is a grave immorality also com-