and a misguiding Messiah. They are unanimous that the Messiah of misguidance has not yet appeared, and equally unanimous that the guiding Messiah will indeed come as well.

Muslims and Christians further agree that the guiding Messiah is Jesus son of Mary, while the Jews deny that he is Jesus son of Mary, even though they acknowledge that he is of David’s lineage.

They say, “Because the promised Messiah is one in whom all nations will believe,” and they claim that the Messiah, son of Mary, was sent only with the religion of the Christians—a religion whose falsity is manifest.

The Christians concede that the Messiah—the guiding Messiah—was sent, and they add that he will come a second time. Yet they maintain that this second coming will occur on the Day of Resurrection to recompense people for their deeds, and that he—according to their assertion—is God Himself: God, whose divine nature, they say, comes in his human nature, just as they claim it did before.

As for the Muslims, they have accepted what the prophets reported in its plain sense, namely that—