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205the 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 aprophet. 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 itsliteralsignification of “dyeing,” but in itsspiritual or metaphoricalsense of “religion”.This Quránic verse cancels and abolishes the religions of the “Sab’utha” and of the “Ma’mudītha” or both the Saba’ītes and the Nasāra. “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 ofthe baptismalreligion. 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 weworship.(Editors).