Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 60
60 the tradition of the Holy Prophet has the word been used in this sense, nor does any dictionary of the Arabic language thus inter- pret the word when as here the subject verb is God and its object a human being. Moreover to insist upon assigning such a novel meaning to the word ^ff is to assert that the Holy Quran does not speak of the death of Jesus at all, and thus to set up for him an everlasting life. In that case the consequence would be that his death even at any future moment would remain unproved for wherever the word ^y is used of him (which is generally used to denote the death of human beings), it shall have to be inter- preted as meaning taking up with the body into heaven. (Vol. II E. R. 1903). The resemblances between the Mosaic and the Muslim system and their two respective Messiahs, The Holy Quran says: j) %IWJ 1. . . J. I J 1 VAtXtsM 1 I V/OO. X. VJ. I l\fb WJU i) feAAM **)>) I OkXvj 11 w 7 J J \Jj J vi? J 1 " -^ ' I " * " We have sent to you a prophet, a witness over you, ?. e. > a witness of the corrupt moral state in which. you are, like to the prophet whom we sent to Pharoah. " In this verse Almighty God calls our Holy Prophet the like of Moses. Again in the chapter entitled "the Light/' the Holy Quran says: * ) uJiia*M ) U/p J) ) " God has promised to those of you who believe and do the deeds that are righteous, that He shall make them successors (to the Prophet) in the land like those who were made successors before them (?. <?. , the successors of Moses). " Here the chain of the successors of the Holy Prophet is described as resembling the chain of the successors of Moses. For the truth of this resem-