The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 182
182. Essence of Islam-IV. Another authority which indicates that the Promised. Messiah will appear from among this same Ummah of Muḥammadsa: وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوْا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّلِحَتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ ) 98 which means, Allāh has promised those people who believe and act righteously that He will make them successors in the earth as He made those successors who were before them. . The previous successors referred to in this verse are the successors from the people of Moses as whom God had sent one after the other to establish and maintain the Law of Moses as. No century was allowed to go by without the appearance of such a successor who came to revive the religion of Mosesas. The Holy Qur'ān indicates that there were twelve such successors and that the thirteenth was Jesusas, who was the Promised. Messiah under the Mosaic law. In view of the resemblance which is established by the use of the word kamā [just as] in this verse, it is essential that there should be a resemblance between the successors of. Muḥammada and the successors of Mosesas. To prove and firmly establish this resemblance, the Holy. Qur'ān mentions twelve Mosaic successors, each of whom was from the people of Moses as and the thirteenth was Jesusas, who was the Khātam-ul-Anbiya' among the people of Mosesas, but did not actually be98 Al-Nur 24:56 [Publisher]