158 Jesus, Prophet of IslamThis intellectual recognition of the Divine Unity which Chris
tian Unitarians experienced from time to time - of the underlying
unity of everything in existence and therefore of the One Who has
brought everything that exists into existence - could never have
the same depth and quality as the understanding of the Divine
Unity which is granted by God to those who follow the Prophetie
way of life and pattern of worship which has been constantly em
bodied and taught by all of the Prophets from Adam to Muham
mad -and including Abraham, Moses and Jesus - may the bless
ings and peace of God be on all of them, but nevertheless this rec
ognition was clearly a gift to them from their Creator.
Knowledge of God appears in many ways, and everyone knows
something that nobody else knows, and only God knows every
thing!
As far as the original followers of Jesus are concerned, access to
the Prophetie way of life through Jesus had been lost by the end of
the 7th century AD, for with the coming of the Prophet Muham
mad, may God bless him and grant him peace - who died in 632
AD after delivering his message and establishing the way of Islam
as a living social reality - the last of the relatively few Christians
who still had access to the original teachings of Jesus, peace be on
him, recognised the Prophet whose coming Jesus had foretold and
embraced Islam.
From this point onwards - when Pope Honorius was still strug
gling to reconcile the impossible, poor man - the only way that
anyone could actually follow the Prophetie way of life,and accord
ingly really understand the nature of the Divine Unity, was by ac
cepting Islam and following the way of Muhammad - an option
which, as we shall see, many Unitarian Christians in fact exercised
as soon as they realised that this option did exist and was avail
able, and in spite of all the concerted attempts by the Trinitarian
Christians to misrepresent Islam and prevent this from happening.
The short biographies which follow are simply a small selec
tion of some of the more well-known later Unitarians who have
surfaced from time to time in the history of Christianity, both from
Europe and Ameriea. They do not purport to represent either a
detailed or a comprehensive account of the Unitarian movement
within European Christianity. The excerpts which are quoted from
their writings may at times appear to be somewhat mind-bound,
but given the philosophieal elements which were gradually and
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