[aught] but the truth. The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, [was] only the apostle of God, and His Word, which he transmitted unto Mary, and a spirit (that is, a being possessing a spirit) from Him. (He is mentioned in conjunction with God, in order to show him honour, and is not, as ye assert, the son of God, or a God with Him, or the third of three; for the being possessing a spirit is compound, and the Deity must be confessed to be pure from the imputation of composition and the relationship of a compound being to Him.) Therefore believe in God and His apostles, and say not, There are three gods, God and Jesus and his mother.I Abstain from this, and say what will be better for you; that is, assert the unity of God. God is only one god. Extolled be His purity from the imputation of His having a son! To Him belongeth whatsoever is in the heavens and whatsoever is in the earth: and God is a sufficient witness thereof. The Messiah doth not disdain. to be a servant unto God, nor do the angels who are admitted near unto Him. (iv. 169, 170.) him to an equality with God, as do Trinity to be composed of those three; the Christians.-S. (B.) 1 For the Eastern writers mention a sect of Christians which held the but it is allowed that this heresy has been long since extinct.-S. GENERAL INDEX. AARON, 105 ff. 'Abbás, Ibn-, 50. 'Abdallah ibn Ubayy, lx. Aboo-Bekr, xlv, xlvii, lvi, lxxvii. Aboo-Tálib, xxxviii, xlv, xlvii, xlix, Abraham, xxxii, 15, 47, 66–76. Adam, 47, 49-52, 164. Advent of Christ, second, 163. 'Akabeh, pledges of the, lv, lvi. Alláh Ta'ala, xxxiii. Ancestry, pride of, xviii. 'Antarah, xxviii. Antichrist, 157, 163. Appearance of Moḥammad, xl. Arab poetry, examples, xiv, xv, xvi, Arabia, xi-xiii. Arabia, submission of, lxvii. nature, xiii; devotion to the clan, Aristocracy, hostility of, xlvii. Ásaf Solomon's wezeer, 142. Azar or Terah, 66. BABEL, Tower of, 69. Behá-ed-deen Zoheyr, xxiv. Bilál, the first Muëddin, xlv, xlvii. CAIN, 53, 54. |