Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 321
Divine protection in the. case of the first and the last Prophets of a system is ;of the greatest importance. If the Founder of a system is killed,- the. truth of the system is obscured and its foundation demolished with the laying of the first brick. For instance if Moses had been killed ^on the very day that ha went to Pharaoh, or our Holy Prophet has been Skilled when he was besieged by his enemies with the object of. taking away his life, Judaism and Mam would have been nipped in the bud and vanished from the face of the earth to be heard of no more. Di- vine wisdom, therefore, so ordained it that notwithstanding thousands of powerful enemies, the two prophets were saved at the most critical moments in their lives. Similarly if the last Prophet of a system is cut off in the -raids t of his work,: the truth of the system will be rendered difficult of explanation. It is the will of God that the beginning and the end of a system should be marked with great success and, therefore, the Founder and the Last Prophet are both specially protected by Him. Since Jesus was the final Prophet of the Mosaic system, he was according ,to this Divine law saved from death on the cross, and the same Divine law has again saved me from the plots of my enemies to take, away my life. Nay, Almighty God bestowed His grace upr- on ma to a far greater extent than upon Jesus, son of Mary, for his enemies succeeded in fastening him to the cross, but my enemies were hopelessly baffled in their efforts to bring the punishment of death or any other punishment on my head by involving me in a murder case. The first and the last Prophets of ^system are its two boundary-walls and their destruction in- volves the destruction of: the whole system. There are reasons, of paramount importance for th. e protec- tion ojf the lives of 'the two classes of Prophets referred to above,. and for the destruction of their enemies whoever: they may be.