Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 208
208 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in respect of our Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. As such, God Almighty states: 1 ُ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا ء ٓ نَّهْدِيْ بِهٖ مَنْ نَّشَا الْاِيْمَانُ وَ لٰكِنْ جَعَلْنٰهُ نُوْرًا الْكِتٰبُ وَ لَا كُنْتَ تَدْرِيْ مَا مَا And thus have We revealed to thee the Word by Our command. Thou didst not know what the Book was, nor what the faith. But We have made it (the revelation) a light, whereby We guide such of Our servants as We please. Moses, peace be upon him, received a princely education, as it were, and was given a royal upbringing under the guardianship of the Pharaoh. Tutors were appointed for him because even in that era, such a custom was prevalent. If Moses, peace be upon him, had not taken up an ascetic life, he was next in line after the Pharoah. If it were not for God’s grace, Moses as would have become a Pharoah as well, God forbid. Bear in mind that the word ‘Pharoah’ is not evil in itself. In actuality, this was the title given to the Kings of Egypt, just as ‘Caesar’ and ‘Chosroes’ were the titles given to the rulers of Rome and Iran respectively, and how in this age, the Tsar of Russia and Ottoman Sultan have their own titles. My only purpose in mention- ing this is to explain that if God Almighty had not prepared him for another office, it was certain that he would have ascended the throne. It is true that al- though the mother of Moses as felt pain and grief in casting an innocent soul into the river, what would have been the state of her extreme happiness and joy when God Almighty Himself promised to return the child to her? In short, Moses as was educated in the manner of royalty. Jesus, peace be upon him, was also educated formally. I have a book by a Jewish writer, in which he has stated this point clearly and categorically. In fact, he has even mentioned the teacher of the Messiah as by name and then goes on to raise an objection. The author states that it was from his early days that Jesus as developed a liking for the subjects comprised in the Torah and the scriptures of the Prophets, and he also states that nothing in the Gospel is more than what has already been mentioned in the past scriptures of the Prophets. The author has also written that Jesus as was taught by the Jews for a long period in time. However, if you ask a Jew, Christian or anyone from India whether the Holy Prophet sa was educated anywhere, they will clearly reject such a notion. What a grand manifestation of divine providence! 1 ash-Shura , 42:53