Claims of the Promised Messiah (as) — Page 15
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 15 ] Thus we may suppose was Mahomet by degrees led on to believe that God had called him to preach refor- mation to his countrymen. … The commission per- vaded throughout the future course of Mahomet, and mingled with every action. He was now the servant, the prophet, the vicegerent of God; and however much the resulting sphere of action might expand in ever widening circles, the principle on which the commission rested was from the commencement absolute and complete. ( Life of Mahomet , p. 46–47) If we substitute the name of William Muir with the names of the authors of the White Paper, and then change nothing else in the above paragraph, the theme is the identical. William Muir argues that the absence of a controlling authority, and internal strifes between people in Mecca enabled Muhammad sa to claim to be a Prophet. He then goes on to allege that: Two to three months after his arrival in Medîna, Mahomet saw the Jews keeping the great Fast of the Atonement; and he readily adopted it for his own people. Prior to this, fasting does not appear to have been a prescribed ordinance of Islam. It was estab- lished at a period when the great object of Mahomet was to bring his religion into harmony with the Jew- ish rites and ceremonies. ( Life of Mahomet , p. 200) As for diseases, the same allegations of epilepsy and hysteria were made against the exalted being for whom the