Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 19
19 a pit? How can we, while we have hands, not remove the cup of poison that is held to our lips? Next to God, we love the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as. Considering that God has given him a status higher than all the Prophets, and that no human being, be he a Prophet or non- Prophet, has given us or done for us even a fraction of what the Holy Prophet s as has done, we cannot hold anyone in greater rev - erence than him. It is impossible for us to understand how we can believe that the Messiah of Nazareth is alive in Heaven while Muhammad, our Holy Prophet s as , lies buried in the earth, and at the same time to hold the conviction that the Holy Prophet’s sta - tus is higher than that of the Messiah. How can it be that Jesus, whom God raised to heaven on the slightest sign of danger, is inferior, while the Holy Prophet s as , whom He did not even raise as far the stars when he was relentlessly pursued by his enemies, is superior? If the Messiah was indeed in heaven while our Lord and Master was buried in the earth, there could be no greater humiliation for us and we could not hold our heads up before the Christians. This, however, is not the case. God could never treat His beloved Prophet in this way. He is the Lord of lords, He would never have called the Holy Prophet s as ‘the Chief of all the children of Adam’ and yet loved the Messiah more and been more mindful of his tribulations. God shook a whole world in order to establish the honour of the Holy Prophet s as and humil - iated anyone who sought to humiliate him, how then could He have tarnished His Prophet’s honour and given his enemies rea - son for taunt and ridicule? The mere thought that Muhammad is buried in the earth while the Messiah of Nazareth is alive in heaven sends a shiver through my body and I can barely breathe.