The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 188
188. Essence of Islam-IV passed away from this world long long ago, for neither those Jews nor Jesus as is present on earth in this age. Instead it is a future event that is indicated in this verse, i. e. , in the latter days a person would be raised among the Muslims in the spirit of 'Isā the Messiah and the Muslim divines of his age will persecute him and revile him as the Jewish divines persecuted and reviled Jesusas. The true Aḥādīth show that becoming. Jews in this context means that Muslim divines will develop vices and bad habits of the Jews and that, though they will be called Muslims, their hearts will be perverted and become like the hearts of the Jews who had earned Divine wrath by persecuting Jesusas. . Since the resemblance to the Jews will be taken by those who call themselves Muslims, is it not an insult for the Muslims that some of them should become. Jews but the Messiah to reform them should come from outside?. . . . He who will study the Holy Qur'ān in the spirit of faith, righteousness, and justice and reflect upon it, it will become to him clear as day that the Almighty and. Powerful God has put the Islamic dispensation in a position parallel to the Mosaic dispensation. He has bestowed upon them good and bad in comparison with the good and bad he bestowed on the Jews. . Among the Muslims there are some who resemble the. Prophets of Israel and there are others who resemble the Jews who earned Divine wrath. This might be illustrated by a splendid mansion which comprises well-furnished chambers where cultured and civilized