Section: Refuting their claim that the Jews acknowledge the Trinity while denying its meaning

They say:
“How great is their confession of the Trinity, and how intense their unbelief in its true meaning!”

We reply:
This is an obvious slander against the Jews. True, the Jews are unbelievers, yet their unbelief is not because they reject the Trinity; were they to affirm it, that would merely add to their unbelief and increase their punishment.

In the same way, when the Christians fell into unbelief, it was not because they affirmed that the promised Messiah who has already appeared is not the Antichrist (al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl) whom the Jews await—he who, when he emerges, will find them his followers, and whom the Muslims will slay along with them in the worst of killings—

to the point that even the trees and stones will say,
“O Muslim, here is a Jew behind me; come and kill him.”

Indeed, if the Christians were to deny the Messiah as the Jews have, that would only deepen their unbelief.

Moreover, among the Jews—and in the Torah they possess—there is pure monotheism that