This is the reason why the Prophet {Peace be upon Him}...

This is the reason why the Prophet {Peace be upon Him} instructed his Ummah not to resort to such casuistry as done by the Christians and not to exceed the limits in lavishing undue praise to him lest it (Ummah) should deserve and invoke the anger of Allah on itself. But it is a deplorable fact that the rude and disrespectful people among this Ummah paid no heed to the instructions of the Prophet {Peace be upon Him} and started pursuing the misleading sophistry as done earlier by the Christians.

The view which the Christians hold about the Jesus Christ {Peace be upon Him} is that Allah, Himself appeared assuming a guise or incarnation of Jesus Christ and therefore, Jesus Christ is a human being on one hand whereas on the other hand, he is the Rabb.

Some supercilious and arrogant delinquents have observed exactly the same view in regard to the Prophet {Peace be upon Him} by saying: "The Rabb Himself descended this earth assuming different incarnations of the Prophets during different ages.

Finally, He came down in the guise of an Arab and became the Emperor of the world." Another poet observes: "You (the Prophet {Peace be upon Him}) are both a mortal and an eternal entity at the same time and your existence involves an element of possibility as well as an element of compulsion." These kind of polytheistic expressions are intolerably repulsive and hence an abomination to the earth as well as to the heavens. May Allah…