Hidāyat al-Ḥayārā - Ibn al-Qayyim - (الكتاب/326)

Hidāyat al-ḤayārāIbn al-Qayyim

his presence and tells her husband that the priest has “purified” her, he accepts this from her and even takes it as a blessing!!

They themselves admit that the Messiah said, “I have come only to uphold the Torah and the commandments of the prophets before me; I have not come to abolish but to complete. For heaven to fall upon the earth is easier in God’s sight than that I should annul a single provision of Moses’ law; whoever annuls any part of it shall be called an annuller in the kingdom of heaven.” (1)

He and his disciples remained upon that until he departed this world. He said to his disciples, “Do as you have seen me do; be content with people as I have been content with you; (and enjoin upon the people what I have enjoined upon you); treat them as I have treated you, and be to them what I have been to you.” (2)(3)

The disciples of the Messiah adhered to this for nearly three hundred years after him, until the people began to alter and distort the faith, currying favor with others by indulging their desires (4) and scheming against the Jews (5) in ways that led them to abandon the religion of the Messiah and to cast it off entirely.

They heard the Jews say of the Messiah, “He is a sorcerer, a madman, an impostor born of fornication,” so they retorted, “He is the perfect God, the very Son of God!!” They observed that the Jews practiced circumcision, so they abandoned circumcision altogether. They saw the Jews go to great lengths in ritual purification, so they forsook it completely. They noticed that the Jews avoided eating with, touching, or even mingling with a menstruating woman (6), so they went to the opposite extreme and even had intercourse with her. And they saw

(1) Gospel of Matthew, 5:17–20. (2) The words enclosed in parentheses are absent from manuscripts S and G. (3) Gospel of Matthew, 23:3–6. (4) Manuscript J reads: “al-Taqrib”. (5) Manuscripts B and J read “wa ma yakrah” (and what he dislikes), whereas manuscript G has “wa ma taladhdhahu” (and what he enjoys). (6) Omitted in manuscripts G and S.

عنده وأخبرت زوجها أنَّ القَسَّ طيَّبَها؛ قَبَّل ذلك منها وتَبرَّك به!!. وهم يُقِرُّون أن المسيح قال: "إنما جئتكم لأعمل بالتوراة وبوصايا الأنبياء قَبْلي، وما جئتُ ناقضًا بل مُتَمِّمًا، ولأَنْ تقعَ السماءُ على الأرض أيْسَر عند الله مِنْ أن أنْقُضَ شيئًا من شريعة موسى، ومن نقض شيئًا من ذلك يدعى ناقضًا في مَلَكُوت السماء" (١). وما زال هو وأصحابه كذلك إلى أن خرج من الدنيا. وقال لأصحابه: "اعملُوا بما رأيتموني أعملُ، وارضَوْا من الناس بما أرْضَيْتكم به، (ووَصُّوا الناس بما وَصَّيْتكم به) (٢)، وكونوا معهم كما كنتُ معكم، وكونوا لهم كما كنتُ لكم" (٣). وما زال أصحاب المسيح بعده على ذلك قريبًا من ثلاثمائة سنة، ثم أخذ القومُ في التغيير والتبديل والتقرُّب (٤) إلى الناس بما يَهْوَوْنَ، ومكايدةِ (٥) اليهود ومناقضتهم بما فيه تَرْكُ دين المسيح والانْسِلاخُ منه جملةً. فرأوا اليهودَ قد قالوا في المسيح: إنَّه ساحرٌ مجنونٌ مُمَخْرِقٌ، وَلَدُ زِنْيَةٍ، فقالوا: هو إلهٌ تامٌّ، وهو ابنُ الله!! ورأوا اليهود يَخْتَتِنُون فتركوا الخِتَانَ!! ورأوهم يبالغون في الطهارة فتركوها جملة!! ورأوهم يتجنبون مؤاكلة الحائض ومُلامَسَتَها ومخالطتَها (٦) جملةً فجامَعُوها! ورأوهم

(١) إنجيل متى: (٥/ ١٧ - ٢٠). (٢) ما بين القوسين ساقط من "ص، غ". (٣) إنجيل متى: (٢٣/ ٣ - ٦). (٤) في "ج": "التقريب". (٥) في "ب، ج": "وما يكره" وفي "غ": "وما تلذه". (٦) ساقطة من "غ، ص".