The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 101
The Plague 101 These are the words of God, and they mean, 'O you, who has been commissioned as Messiah for the peo- ple! do intercede for us with regard to this killer disease. You must understand that the only interces- sor you have today, apart from the Holy Prophetsa, is this Messiah. And this Messiah is not separate from the Holy Prophets. His intercession is in fact the inter- cession of the Holy Prophetsa. O Christian missionaries! stop crying, 'Messiah is our Lord', for there is one before you who is greater than that Mes- siah. And, O Shias! do not insist that Hussain is your redeemer, for I truly say that today there is one amongst you who is greater than Hussain. I am a liar if I say these things on my own; but if I say this on the basis of God's testimony, then do not challenge Him, lest you be counted among those who fight Him. Hasten towards me, for now is the time. He who rushes towards me now is like him who finds safety in a ship during a terrible storm. But he who does not believe in me, I see him throwing himself into the storm with nothing to protect him. I am the true inter- cessor, for I am the shadow of the Exalted Intercessor, whom the blind of his age did not accept and tried to denigrate, namely, the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa. That is why God took revenge from the padres for this sin with just one word: Since the Christian mis- sionaries deified Jesus son of Maryas and abused our lord and masters, who is the true intercessor, and de- filed the world with books full of foul language, God sent the Promised Messiah among the Muslims, and this Messiah far excelled the earlier Messiah who