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228consoler 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 intercedesfor them, and at the same time believe in another intercessor -inferior to himself- who sits on the throne of theAlmighty! 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