reverting to the doctrine of the Christians regarding the Messiah, majestic is his glory: that he is a mixture of divinity and humanity, and that the killing and crucifixion befell the humanity, while the divinity was raised to heaven and returned to that from which it originated. Yet God declared them liars in His statement, the Exalted: "And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but another was made to resemble him to them." 1 And the Commander of the Faithful, majestic is his glory, corresponds to: "He neither begets nor is born, * And there is none co-equal unto Him." 2
[52]The Messiah, majestic is his glory, likewise declared them liars by his statement: "Verily, I am a Tongue, neither flesh nor blood," refuting them just as he refuted the Christians.
Thus, it is established by this discourse that He is One, Solitary, [Absolute] 3 , speaking through His own Essence; He does not indwell a created human form, nor does He speak from within it. The One who speaks through power, action,