God Arises
The Challenge of The Qur’an
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supposed himself to be to his Roman counterpart
we may judge from the tone in which Chosroes II
addressed a letter to Heraclius from Jerusalem:
‘From Chosroes, the supreme god of all gods, the
lord of the earth, to his mean and block-headed
slave, Heraclius. Thou sayest that thou hast
confidence in God. Why did not thy God save
Jerusalem from my hands.
6
Heraclius, incapable of resistence and hopeless of
relief, had resolved to transfer his person and
government to the more secure residence of
Carthage. His ships were already laden with the
treasures of the palace, but the flight was arrested
by the Patriarch, who armed with the powers of
religion in the defence of his country, led Heraclius
to the altar of St. Sophia, and extorted a solemn oath
that he would live and die with the people whom
God had entrusted to his care.
7
‘During this time, the friendly offer of Sain, the
Persian general, to conduct an embassy to the
presence of the Great King, was accepted with the
warmest gratitude…but the lieutenant of Chosroes
had fatally mistaken the intentions of his master.
