Excerpt from, "Jesus, a prophet of Islam". (Muhammad 'Ata ur-Rahim)
PREFACE
In this book an attempt is made, perhaps for the first time, to study the sacred life of Jesus, using all available sources, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Christian Scripture, modern research, Qu'ran and Hadith. Christian scholars who attempt to write the history of Jesus, never completely free themselves of the idea of his divinity. When they fail to prove his divinity, they sometimes conclude that he did not exist at all, or that he his "everything to everybody". An objective study is impossible to anyone with this frame of mind. This book starts with the conviction that Jesus DID exist. He was a man and a prophet for humanity, from God (Allah,
Eli, Jehovah, Yahweh, Elohim).
This work is a result of 30 years of study. Thanks to Amatur Rashid who went to the trouble of searching for out-of-point books sold on the streets of many cities in the USA. These books were unavailable in the libraries of Karachi, so the help she gave me was of vital importance.
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