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religion to call the sinners to repent of their iniquity
and wickedness. We quite admit that Jesus (pbuh) was
sent only to the “lost sheep of Israel,” to reform and
convert them from their sins; and especially to teach
them more plainly concerning “the Son of Man” who
was to come with power and salvation to restore
what was lost and to reconstruct what was ruined;
nay, to conquer and destroy the enemies of the true
believers. Jesus (pbuh) could not assume for himself
that apocalyptic title “the Barnasha,” and then not be
able to save his people except Zacchæus, a Samaritan
woman, and a few other Jews, including the Apostles,
who were mostly slain afterwards on his account.
Most probably what Jesus (pbuh) said was “The Son
of Man will come to seek and recover what is lost.”
For in Muhammad (pbuh) alone the believing Jews as
well as the Arabs and other believers found all that
was irremediably lost and destroyed - Jerusalem and
Makkah, all the promised territories; many truths
concerning the true religion; the power and kingdom
of God; the peace and blessing that Islam confers in
this world and in the next.

We cannot afford space for further quotations of the
numerous passages in which “the Son of Man” occurs
as either the subject or the object or the predicate of the
sentence. One more quotation will suffice, namely, “The
Son of Man shall be delivered unto the hands of men.”
[1] etc., and all the passages where he is made the subject
of passion and death. Such utterances are put into the
mouth of Jesus (pbuh) by some fraudulent non-Hebrew
writer with the object of perverting the truth concerning
“the Son of Man” as understood and believe by the
Jews, and of making them believe that Jesus (pbuh) of
Nazareth was the Apocalyptical triumphant Saviour, but

[1] Matt. xvi. 21; xvii. 12, etc.