Muhammad the kindred to Humanity — Page 21
21 ing of former prophets is embodied in the book. Ad nonMuslims then, whatever their denominations can regard. Muhammad as one of their own, he having rehabilitated as it were, in his own teaching, what was best and lasting in the teaching of his fore-runners. . All Teachers Acknowledged. Also, our Prophet testified to the truth of them all. God taught him and through him all the world "there has not been a people but have had a warner. ". If all the different peoples of the earth have each had a warner, or a Prophet, and if all Prophets as our Prophet fur ther taught, are brethren, are we not justified in concluding that Muhammad is a brother to them all, a kinsman of theirs?. To Rama Chandra as well as to Krishna, to Moses as well as to Jesus, to Zoroaster as well as to Confucius, he is but a brother. All of us, therefore, whether Indians, Persians, Egyptians, Japanese or Chinese can claim, as the Quranic verse has taught us to claim, that Muhammad the Prophet, is one of ourselves. Because Muhammad has testified to the truth of the teachers of all nations much as the followers of these teachers testify to their truth. . Muhammad, therefore, is one with all the nations of the world. Every nation can regard him as their own. I know of. Christians who regard our Prophet as a good Christian. The truth, however, is that our Prophet was not only a good. Christian, but also a believer in Moses or a believer in Buddha or a believer, for that matter, in any other great teacher. He was one and all these at the same time, because he was a. Muslim, and because a Muslim is one who believes in all the great truths vouchsafed by God to his Prophets. While the. Quran claims that Muhammad the Prophet is one of us, the life of Muhammad, in all its various bearings offers one continuous proof of this claim.