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revelations, completely believed that the Advent of Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets, and the coming of the Quran and Islam as the final religion of mankind, had closed all national prophethoods, such as those of Hindus, Zoroastrians, Jews, Christians, etc. , leaving open only the Islamic prophethood. No prophet of any other religion can now come, except of Islam. A prophet is he whom God has favoured with his commands and messages to impart to the believers. There could be three kinds of prophets. . First, the highest kind is a law-bearing prophet who brings a new religion, like Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses and Muhammad, etc. ; secondly, the non-law-bearing, independent prophets, owing no allegiance to a law-bearing prophet, like those who came among the Israelites after Moses; thirdly, the non-law-bearing prophet whose prophethood is derived through his allegiance to a lawbearing prophet, whose light he reflects as the moon reflects the light of the sun. The question now arises: Is Mirza Sahib a prophet? The answer is yes and no. He is not a prophet of either the first or the second kind by virtue of his being an extremely devoted follower of the Holy Prophet, whose reflection and replica he is. His is the prophethood which is a reflection of the prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who prophesied the coming in the latter days of the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, peace be on him. . The Muslim world believes that the Messiah Jesus was not crucified, instead a substitute was. Like the Christians, they believe that the Messiah Jesus had gone up bodily to heaven and is still alive there. The prophecy about the coming of the Promised. Messiah means that the Messiah Jesus will come down for the second time. He went up (presumably) in Middle Eastern jubbah, but would come down wearing two yellow sheets. He went up as the Christ of the Christians, and will come down (presumably) as. Dalai Lama of the Tibetan Buddhists? But he will land on the white minaret of Damascus; and in 40 years he will break all the crosses and kill all the pigs of the world single-handed. Then he will convert the whole of mankind, not into Christianity or. Buddhism, but into Islam. Those refusing to be converted would 23