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the Apostleship of Muhammad (pbuh) , not, because they
deny his unparalleled service to the cause of God by
inflicting the greatest blow on the devil and his cult of
idolatry, but because they do not understand as he did the
true nature of the mission and person of Jesus Christ (pbuh)
.Similar reasoning may be put forward.

With regard to the attitude of the Jews towards
Jesus (pbuh) and Muhammad (pbuh) . God is Merciful and
Forgiving!

The Holy Spirit, with the definite article “the,” means
a special angelic personality, Gabriel, or any one of the
numerous “pure” spirits created by Allah, and appointed
to perform some particular mission. The descent of the
Holy Spirit upon a human person is to reveal to him the
will and the oracles of Allah, and to make him a prophet.
Satan can never seduce such a one.

The baptism with the Holy Spirit (pbuh) and fire, which
Muhammad (pbuh) brought, is explained to us by the divine
revelation only in one verse of Quran:

“The Baptism of God (have we received), and who is
better than God to baptize? Him do we worship”(chap. ii.)
[1] . This is the translation of Sale (cf. The Koran).

The Muslim commentators rightly understand the
word “Sibghat,” not in its literal signification of “dyeing,”
but in its spiritual or metaphorical sense of “religion”. This
Quránic verse cancels and abolishes the religions of the
“Sab’utha” and of the “Ma’muditha” or both the Saba’ites
and the Nasara. “Sibghatullah” is the baptism of the
religion of Allah, not with water, but with the Holy Spirit
and fire! The religion professed by any of the companions
of the Apostle of Allah in the first years of the Hijrat is
to-day professed in its entirety by every Muslim. This
cannot be said of the baptismal religion. More than sixteen

[1] Quran,2:138. (Our religion is) the Baptism of Allah. And who can baptize better
than Allah. And it is He Whom we worship.(Editors).