The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 10
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. A Muslim is commanded to believe in all the prophets. To a. Muslim, founders of great religions, Krishna, Buddha, Zoroaster,. Confucius, Moses, and Jesus were all prophets of God. He has great reverence for all of them. Though all the great religions had divine origins, integrity of all previous books and teachings had not been preserved. They suffered from passage of time and various extraneous errors and corruption found their way into their teachings. As they were national in character, they were not meant to last forever. The universal religion and guidance for mankind is Islam. The uncorrupted, pure, and eternal scripture for man today is the Holy. Quran - the sacred scripture of Islam which was revealed to the Holy. . Prophet Mohammad, peace be on him. . The modern world has made fantastic progress in physical sciences but this material progress is not supplemented with any corresponding spiritual progress. In fact, from a spiritual angle we live in a dark material age. In modern civilization, man is totally engrossed with the obvious and material and worships the means at his disposal ignoring God Almighty Who has provided the material and the apparent means. In fact, modern man does not perceive the power of God, which is all pervasive and behind all natural phenomenon, our lives and all human history. A large part of mankind denies God altogether. Those who claim to believe, their faith has become formal and nominal. A large section of the world worships. Jesus, a human being, as their Lord and Master. But in fact God is. One One in His being, One in His attributes, and One in every respect, with no co-sharer in His greatness and glory. . Man's inhumanity to man in the 20th Century has been symbolized by two World Wars and the threat of a third one, a score of smaller wars, bloody revolutions and rising terrorism and crime rate. at 10