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means the Word of God, and not God the Word. The
word is an attribute of a rational being; it belongs to any
speaker, but it is not the rational being, the speaker. The
Divine Word is not eternal, it has an origin, a beginning;
it did not exist before the beginning except potentially.
The word is not the essence. It is a serious error to
substantialize any attribute whatever. If it be permitted
to say “God the Word,” why should it be prohibited to
say, God the Mercy, God the Love, God the Vengeance,
God the Life, God the Power, and so forth? I can well
understand and accept the appellation of Jesus (pbuh) “the
Divine Spirit” (“Ruhu ’lLah”), of Moses (pbuh) “the Divine
Word” (“Kalamu ’lLah”), of Muhammad (pbuh) “the Divine
Apostle” (“Rasul Allah”), meaning the Spirit of God, the
Word of God, the Apostle of God respectively. However,
I can never understand nor accept that the Spirit, or the
Word, or the Apostle, is a Divine Person having divine
and human natures.

Now we will proceed to expose and confute the
Christian error about the Paraclete. In this article I shall
try to prove that the Paraclete is not, as the Christian
Churches believe, the Holy Ghost, nor does it at all mean
the “comforter” or the “intercessor;” and in the following
article, please God, I shall clearly show that it is not
“Paraclete” but “Periclyte” which precisely signifies
“Ahmad” in the sense of “the most Illustrious, Praised,
and Celebrated.”

1. The Holy Spirit is described in the New Testament
not as a Personality

A careful examination of the following passages in
the New Testament will convince the readers that the
Holy Spirit, not only is it not the third person of the
Trinity, but is not even a distinct person. Nevertheless,
the “Paraclete” foretold by Jesus Christ (pbuh) is a distinct
person. This fundamental difference between the two is,