Lecture Sialkot — Page 19
L ECTURE S IALKOT 19 the Jews. S u rah Al-F a ti h ah also refers to this fact, because it teaches us to pray, O’ God, save us from becoming like the Jews who lived in the time of Jesus as , who were his enemies, and upon whom the wrath of God Almighty fell in this very world. It is the way of God Almighty, that whenever He gives a command to a people or teaches them a prayer, it implies that some among them would commit the sin they have been warned against. Since the verse, 15 refers to the Jews who, in the latter days of the Mosaic dispensation, incurred Divine wrath on account of their rejection of the Messiah as , therefore, in keeping with the above Divine practice, this verse contains a prophecy that in the latter days of the Holy Prophet’s sa umma, the Promised Messiah would appear from this very umma, and that, by opposing him, some Muslims would take after the Jews who lived in the time of Jesus as. The objection simply does not arise as to why the Promised Messiah was named Jesus in Hadith if he was to appear from among the Muslims, for it is the Divine practice to name some people after others. Ab u Jahl, for instance, has been called 'the Pharaoh' in Hadith. Similarly, Noah as has been called 'the Second Adam' and John 15 Those who have not incurred Thy displeasure. —Al-F a ti h ah, 1:7 [Publishers]