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Ecumenical Councils have been summoned to define the
religion of Œhristianity, only to be discovered by the Synod
of the Vatican in the nineteenth century that the mysteries
of the “Infallibility” and the “Immaculate Conception”
were two of the principal dogmas, both unknown to the
Apostle Peter and the Blessed Virgin Mary! Any faith or
religion dependent upon the deliberations and decisions
of General Synods -holy or heretical- is artificial and
human. The religion of Islam is the belief in one Allah and
absolute resignation to His will, and this faith is professed
by the angels in heaven and by the Muslims on earth. It
is the religion of sanctification and of enlightenment, and
an impregnable bulwark against idolatry. Let us develop
these points a little further.

The spiritual baptism is the direct work of God
Himself. As a fuller or a laundress washes the linen or
any other object with water; as a dyer tints the wool or
cotton with a tincture to give it a new hue; and as a baptist
blots out the past sins of the true penitent believer, so does
God Almighty baptize, not the body, but the spirit and the
soul of him whom He mercifully directs and guides unto
the Holy Religionof Islam. This is the “Sibghatullah”
the Baptism of Allah, which makes a person fit and
dignified to become a citizen of the kingdom of Allah
and a member of His religion. When the Angel Gabriel
communicated the Word of Allah for the first time to
Muhammad (pbuh) , he (Muhammad (pbuh) was invested with
the gift of prophecy. His spirit was purified and magnified
with the Holy Spirit to such a degree and extent that when
he in his turn pronounced that Word to those whose spirit
Allah pleased to guide were also purified, baptized. They,
too, thus became holy officers in the new army of the
faithful Muslims. This spiritual baptism does not make
the Muslims prophets, sinless saints, or miracle-mongers.
For after the Revelation of the Will and Word of Allah