Second: his saying, “And be aware that none of you will see his Lord until he dies.” In this he made plain that Allah is not seen by anyone in this life with his physical eyes, whereas every human being can be seen here in this world; hence it is evident that Allah does not unite with any human being.

Third: his saying, “He is one-eyed, while your Lord is not one-eyed,” and the proofs that negate lordship for him are many.

Yet because the notion that the divine nature can take up residence in a human being—and adopting that as a creed—has led many groups of the children of Adam, the Christians and others, astray; and because the Antichrist will arrive with tremendous supernatural feats, the very same kind of feats the Christians cite as evidence for the Messiah’s divinity, the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—listed among the signs of the Antichrist’s falsehood matters that are self-evident, needing no recourse to the disputed issues in which multitudes of human beings have gone astray. For many people—indeed, most of them—are so dazzled by extraordinary phenomena that they believe the performer before examining whether his claim is even possible; once they accept him, they accept as well the Christians’ claim to the Messiah’s divinity, and they will likewise believe anyone who claims incarnation