The Honour of Prophets

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Page 67 of 81

The Honour of Prophets — Page 67

67 Chosen One, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and so too has this come to pass. Moses, a servant of God, brought the religious law for the Israelites. However, God knew that fourteen centuries after Moses, the Children of Israel would forsake the deeper truths and subtleties of the law and their moral condition would have extremely deteriorated. So for this purpose, God raised the Messiah son of Mary in the fourteenth century after Moses in a land where the Israelite kingdom was no more. Just as the likeness of Moses—Muhammad, the Chosen One, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—appeared in the world as per the book of Deuteronomy in the Torah, so too God raised a Messiah fourteen centuries thereafter in the likeness of the first and I am that Messiah. And as the like of Moses is superior to Moses in many respects, the like of Jesus is also superior to Jesus in many respects, and this is a degree of excellence which God bestows on whomsoever He pleases. How Can Sinlessness be Proved? I find that the issue of sinlessness and intercession, which is repeatedly presented by the Christians, is a sheer delu sion into which they have fallen. If sinlessness is to be inferred from the fact that no criticism is levelled against