Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 99
99 of the first one, making them identical like two sandals. Thus, he sent our Prophet and Master Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and made him like Moses as , He spoke to him and taught him what He taught. Then, when a period of time had passed since the migration of the Holy Prophet s as , similar to the period that had passed between Jesus as and Moses as , the Ummah was divided into sects, and calam- ities and misery were poured upon Islam, just as the Jews were divided and went astray in the time of Jesus as after Moses as , Allah sent the likeness of the son of Mary as in this era, so that the two chains would be identical. The first like the first, and the last like the last in all qualities and traits. This is something to be grateful for, not to deny or show ingrat- itude. It was the duty of Muslims to receive this news with great eagerness, like a thirsty person [receiving water], and to consider it one of the greatest blessings of the Most Gracious. However, they chose to follow the words of people and disbelieved in the Quran. They did not believe in the likeness of Jesus as , just as the Jews did not believe in Jesus as before. Rather, they rejected him just like what happened in the past. So, today, they are in the same state of disobedience; two groups of rejecters, with similar dispositions, fulfilling what the Best of Men and Jinn s as said about them. They would only be pleased if Jesus son of Mary as , were to descend from the second heaven, placing his palms on the wings of the angels, adorned in two garments dyed with saffron. They are distressed that Allah will send His Promised Messiah from this Ummah, as He promised in chapters an-N u r , at-Ta h r i m , and al-F a ti h ah [of the Quran], and who can be more truthful than Allah in word, O people of discernment?