Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 64
64 there, is always beneath the prohibition a prophecy that some of the individuals so forbidden, will adopt that course- There is not a single instance in which all men may have observed the in- junction. All heavenly books disclose this law. For instance in the. law of Moses, the Israelites were commanded not to alter, the Word of God, and the result was that the commandment was broken and the original text was tampered with. But such a cammandment was not given by Almighty God to. the Muslims regarding the Holy Quran- On the other hand, its preservation from corruption remained directly in Divine charge. Thus Almighty God says of it:. ^Je*- IsJ dJ. U ) ^y ^J ) UJ jj (J sd U ) "Verily We have have revealed the Quran, and verily We will be its protectors. " In short, it is a sure and certain law in the Divine word that when it prohibits a people from taking a vicious course of commands them to adopt a righteous one, it does so with the knowledge that some of them will break that law. Accordingly, it would be seen that the Divine injunction to Muslims not to become the Jews whom Divine punishment overtook. in this very life on account of their rejection and per- secution of the Messiah, disclosed a prophecy that, some of the Muslims would follow the footsteps of the Jews and reject and persecute the Messiah that would be sent to them. No one can seriously maintain, that it. was meant that the Muslims would become the descendants of Israel and persecute the same Jesus, \ son of Mary, who was persecuted before, for neither that Jesus nor those Jews are to be seen on earth. The verse, therefore, relates to the future and not to the past, and foretells that a person would be raised among the Muslims in the last days after the manner and in the spirit of Jesus Christ and the priestly class would then abuse, torture and persecute him like the Jewish