With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 319
Appendix I 319 blessings to the people and thus make them responsible for believing in it and acting upon it. It should also be remembered that such exposition has to adopt different forms in every age, and that a reformer is equipped with the faculties, capacities and qualities which are suited to the reform of the mischief which is current in his time. Thus, God Almighty will ever continue to do so, as long as He wills, so that reform and virtue may continue to flourish. These statements are not without proof and are testified by an unbroken series of precedents. Apart from the prophets, messengers and muhaddath ī n who appeared at different times in different countries, if one takes into account only those who appeared in Israel, it would be discovered that in the fourteen centuries between Moses as and Jesus as , thousands of prophets and muhaddath ī n appeared and occupied themselves diligently in the service of the Torah. The Holy Qur’ ā n and the Bible both testify to this. Those prophets brought no new book and taught no new faith. They only served the Torah. They appeared whenever atheism, disbelief, misconduct, and hard-heartedness became prevalent in Israel. It is a point to ponder that the Law of Moses as was limited in its scope and was not meant for the whole of mankind, nor was it to last forever, yet God Almighty took care to send thousands of prophets for the revival of that law and those prophets exhibited such signs as enabled the children of Israel to behold God afresh. Then how can it be that Muslims, who have been designated the best of people, and are attached to the Best of the prophets (peace and blessings of All ā h be upon him) be accounted so unfortunate that God Almighty looked at them with mercy only for thirty years and after exhibiting heavenly lights to them during that time, turned His face away from