[i.]"Since Christian preachers are using rude words about the Holy Prophet Muhammad, the Holy Quran and the Hadith, in speech as well as writing, and are not afraid of the consequences in the Hereafter, and give deceitfularguments, we have been compelled to give them retaliatory replies in the same coin and to quote stories from their scriptures by way of example. But it is not a part of my beliefs to criticise and scold any prophet, nor is it my aim to ridicule their religious injunctions. I reject such ideas a thousand times. It is a part of our faith to believe in the true messengers of God."

(Izalat-ul-Auham, Preface, p. 5)

[ii.]"It appears from these passages [of the Gospels] that Jesus' opponents believed him to be voracious and to like drinking. A woman used to kiss his feet, rub fragrance on them…and whenever he used to come, she would carry on kissing his feet and not stop. Seeing this the Phariseesand others became disgusted with him. Because of these actions of hers, he forgave this loose woman her sins. Many women were friendly with him. Hence a critic could say that, as he was a handsome young man, women used to keep company with him out of love, and serve him with their possessions. His love for many of them was a known fact, and owing to his drinking he used to serve their needs. He had no need to marry, just as there are thousands of recluses sitting by the rivers Ganges and Jumna who, adopting this fashion, have no need to marry."

(ibid., p. 368)

Maulavi Aal Hasan

[i.]"May God keep one away from abusing and belying the prophets, but I write this only to answer the allegations of Christian preachers."

(Istiftar, p. 419)

 

[ii.]"The Christian preachers believe that God entered Mary's womb as a foetus, and stayed in the menstrual discharge for many months. He thendeveloped into a lump of flesh, and his bones grew. After this, he emerged from the outlet. He used to pass stools and water, till having grown up he became a disciple of John the Baptist. At last he spent three days in hell as an accursed one."

(ibid., p. 350)

 

[iii.]"From the second and third verses of the eighth chapter of the third Gospel, it appears that many harlots used to help him with their possessions. So if the Jews, out of wickedness and malice, allege that Jesus was a handsome young man with whom harlots kept company for immoral purposes, and this was why he did not marry, but used to pretend that he had no inclination towards women, what answer can be given?."

(ibid., p. 391)

 

[iv.]"Why can Mary's son be God, but Kosliya's son, i.e. Ramchandra, and Deoki's son, i.e. Kahniya, not be God, whom the Hindus believe to be God as you consider Jesus to be."

(Istiftar, footnote to Izalat-ul-Auham, p. 21)

Shah Abdul Aziz

He was a son of Shah Wali-ullah and a scholarly theologian in his own right. His reply to a Christian is recorded as follows:

"Once a Christian preacher came to the Shah and asked, Is your prophet the beloved of God. He said, Yes. The Christian said, Why did he not thenentreat God to save Imam Husain, or was his plea not heard! The Shah replied, The Prophet did indeed entreat God, but he received the reply: Your grandson has been unjustly martyred by your people, but at this moment I am remembering the crucifixion of My own son Jesus."

(Raud Kausar, Urdu history of Islam in the Indian subcontinent, by Shaikh Ikram, p. 590)

Maulavi Muhammad Qasim Nanotavi

He was the founder of the Deoband School. He wrote:

"Christians who claim to love Jesus so much do not in reality love him because their love is based on his being considered to be the son of God. But this is only in their imagination, and they worship a fictitious image of him and that is what they love. God has kept Jesus away from beingtheir mediator."

(Hadyat al-Shi`ah, p. 244)

Maulavi Sana-ullah of Amritsar

This opponent of the Ahmadiyya Movement edited the newspaper Ahl-i Hadith which carried the following comments:

[i.]"Making a thing like wine which is the root of all evil, then serving it at a wedding feast, and participating in that feast of drinking people along with his mother, is recorded in the Gospel of John, while the OldTestament books had strictly prohibited wine."

(Ahl-i Hadith, 3 March 1939)

 

[ii.]"The Messiah by his own admission was not a good person…The Gospel shows that he got strange women to rub fragrance on him --- Matthew 26:6, Mark 14:3, John 12:6."

(ibid., p. 9)

 

[iii.]"When the Messiah, by insulting his mother and treating her contemptuously, went against the emphatic commandments of the previous religious law as well as his own teachings, what doubt could possiblyremain in his not being sinless…The Gospels also show that he used harsh and strong language in respect of the Jewish elders, see Matthew 23."

(ibid., p. 9)

Sana-ullah's Tafsir Sana'i

In his Urdu commentary of the Quran, Maulavi Sana-ullah wrote:

"To liken the Torah and the Gospels to…is on account of their present condition, containing stories such as Lot getting drunk and committing incest with his daughters --- Genesis ch. 9 --- and the Messiah showing the miracle of increasing the amount of wine at a feast when it ran out --- John ch. 2. Otherwise, the actual Torah and Gospel contained light, guidance and mercy."

(Tafsir Sana'i, vol. ii, p. 17)

 

Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maudoodi

"The fact is that these people [the Christians] do not believe in the historical Messiah who actually arose, but in their minds they have created an imaginary Messiah whom they have made God."

(Tafhim al-Quran, Idara Tarjuman-ul-Quran, Lahore, 4th edition, 1984, vol. i, p. 491, under verse 5:75)

 

Maulavi Ahmad Din Gakharwi

[i.]"Readers should note that we believe Jesus to be a true prophet, andhonour him like other messengers of God. We believe it to be clear heresy to abuse him or any other prophet. Hence the example of the Messiah which we shall set forth as a retaliatory reply to objections [against Islam]must not be taken to be our belief. For, our accusatory reply will be based on the Gospel as it is today."

(Taqdees Sayyid al-Abrar an Muta`an al-zina, p. 4)

 

[ii.]"It is requested of the Christian preachers that they should, in future, refrain from hurling abuse at the Founder of Islam, lest their own religion be exposed. One's honour lies in one's own hands."

(ibid., p. 47)

Hafiz Qamar-ud-Din

He was the spiritual leader at Sayyal Sharif, Punjab. He wrote:

"A boy from amongst them was called Perez, who was an ancestor of David, Solomon and Jesus. This Tamar [mother of Perez, called harlot in Genesis Ch. 38] was an ancestor of the Israelite prophets and Jesus."

(Book Isaee Mazhab, pp. 4--5, published by Dar al-Tabligh, Sayyal Sharif)

Maulavi Abul Mahmud

"Three female ancestors of Jesus were adulteresses and immoral women, and four male ancestors were also of bad character…What can remain of the character and position of a man who comes after so many adulterers and adulteresses."

(Islam Aur Isaeeat, p. 73)

Maulavi Abdul Haqq Haqqani

In his commentary of the Quran, he wrote:

"Young women used to accompany Jesus and his disciples, making the Jews suspicious."

(Tafsir Haqqani, vol. i, Preface, p. 69)

When people objected to the above words, Maulavi Abdul Haqq Haqqani added the following footnote at this point:

"A covert Christian who, under the false names of Muhammad Salih and Muhammad Sadiq, makes false prophecies in order to ridicule Islam, has made the allegation on the above words, in order to discredit this writer, that I call Jesus an adulterer. Anyone who has even a slight acquaintance with Urdu writing can immediately belie this secret Christian and say that this is a false allegation."

(ibid., footnote, book published by Kutub Khana Naeemiyya of Deoband)

Mr Aziz, B.A., editor, Madina

"The Messiah in whom one is invited to believe [in the Holy Quran] does not bear even a distant relation to the Messiah portrayed in the Gospels, about whom both Christians and Jews have made the worst type of allegations."

(Madina, 21 December 1932)

Maulavi Muhammad Usman Farqleet

[i.]In Al-Jami`at, the official organ of the Jami`at al-`Ulama Hind (Council of the Ulama of India), he wrote:

"The aim of the above discussion is to show that the Christians aretrying to prove the superiority of the crucified Messiah over the Holy Prophet Muhammad from the Quran. On the other hand, the Quran has neither mentioned nor described any superiority of the crucified Messiah, for the Christians have mistakenly thought the crucified man to be the Messiah.However, the Quran does speak of the Messiah who was not crucified. Hence every intelligent and fair-minded person can see that, as there is no mention of the crucified Messiah in the Quran, how can Christians prove his superiority from the Holy Quran."

(Newspaper Al-Jami`at, 20 November 1932)

[ii.] In a debate with the Christian missionary Ahmad Masih, Maulavi Muhammad Usman Farqleet told him:

"There are three Messiahs: the Quranic Messiah, the Gospel Messiah and the Dajjal Messiah [Anti-Christ]. Why do you give arguments to show the excellences of the Quranic Messiah? Give proofs to show the excellences of your Gospel Messiah. The Quranic Messiah is one person, and the Gospel Messiah is someone else."

At this, Rev. Ahmad Masih replied:

"When Mirza Ghulam Ahmad distinguishes between the Quranic and the Gospel Messiah, he is declared by you people to be a kafir, but when you say the same thing, you are declared a hero of Islam. Why should you not be declared kafir for copying Mirza sahib?''

(Paigham Sulh, 3 March 1933, p. 5)

Do the critics still have doubts regarding the method employed by Hazrat Mirza? If they consider it right to accuse him of insulting Jesus, and therefore to pronounce all sorts of verdicts against him, they had better first exclude from Islam their own recognised leaders who, like Hazrat Mirza, distinguished between the Quranic and the Gospel Messiah, and referred to the latter as the "crucified Messiah", and accepted all the worst allegations imputed against him.

It may be noted that Hazrat Mirzawas the man who wrote innumerable articles on the sinlessness of the prophets and declared all prophets to be free of sin (while many commentaries of the Quran had attributed the commission of sins to many prophets, for example, David).