Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 5
. ''' '. 6 ' to teach a living Unity to tHe lifeless Jews; secondly, to inform. them of their errors ; and thirdly, to throw full light upon all matters relating to eschatology which had been but barely allud- ed to in the Israelite law. It is true that the seed of truth was sown with the revela- tion of Moses while that of Jesus gave the glad tidings of a future when that revelation was to be made perfect. As the seed that grows in a healthly condition gives the glad tidings of good fruits' and ears the Gospel of Jesus gave the glad tidings of the revela- tion of a perfect law and unerring guide fulfilled in the Holy Quran. The seed which Moses had sown, therefore, ripened with the Quran. The Holy book brought with it the perfect blessings which made a clear distinction between truth and falsehood and perfected the religious truths and spiritual verities. This was the purport of Moses' words in Deut. 32: 2, " The Lord came from Hinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran. " In fact the different phases of law were made perfect only by the Quran. Its two great divisions, the one treat- ing of the relation of man to God and the other of that of man to man, found complete and full development only in the Quran. The object of the Quran was to make the savage a man, to teach the man the highest moral qualities and to make him godly last of all. This function the Holy Book performed with such a suc- cess that every other law is a total failure in comparison with it. The Holy Quran was also needed to settle the differences between the Jews and the Christians relating to Jesus. ' This it has done in various places. A very important point of difference is that in relation to which the following verse occurs in the Holy Quran : })f ( ^/. ^) ^ ^^ 3 ^J ) u-*l; 3 * k The Jews asserted as against the Christians that their prophet, i. e. , Jesus, had been crucified and that, therefore according to the