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consoler indicates mourning and lamentation and would
naturally drive the Apostles into disappointment if not
into despair. They needed, not a consoler in their distress
and afflictions, but a victorious warrior to crush the Devil
and his power, one who would put an end to their troubles
and persecutions.

(c) The idea of an “intercessor” between God and
man is even more untenable than that of the “consoler.”
There is no absolute mediator between the Creator and
the creature. The unity of Allah alone is our absolute
intercessor. The Christ who advised his audience to pray
to God in secret, to enter the closet and shut the door
and then to pray -for only under such a condition their
heavenly “Father” would hear their prayer and grant
them His grace and succour- could not promise them an
intercessor. How to reconcile this contradiction!

(d) All believers, in their prayers, intercede for each
other, the prophets and angels do the same. It is our duty
to invoke God’s mercy, pardon, and help for ourselves as
well as for others. However, God is not bound or obliged
to accept the intercession of anyone unless He pleases. If
Allah had accepted the intercession of His Holy Servant
Muhammad (pbuh) , all men and women would have been
converted to the religion of Islam.

I would be duly grateful to the person through whose
intercession I obtained pardon, and relief. Nevertheless,
I shall always dread the judge or the despot who was
delivering me into the hands of an executioner. How
learned these Christians are, when they believe that Jesus
(pbuh) at the right hand of his Father intercedes for them, and
at the same time believe in another intercessor -inferior to
himself- who sits on the throne of the Almighty! The Holy
Quran strictly forbids the faith, the trust in a “shaf.’” or
intercessor [1] . Of course, we do not know for certain,

[1] Quran10: 3. Verily your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth