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91 self". All that Abraham had asked for was the manifestation of just one out of the many attributes of God, but Moses aspired to a full vision of the person of Allah, so to say, in all its entirety. . It is usual in this world that whenever a Prophet of God appears, people call him a liar, but all vie with each other in extolling the Prophet that had gone before. When any excellence of a later. Prophet is mentioned. people say: "This cannot be so. Do you think our forefathers were ignorant people that they did not know these things it they are true"? When Moses said he had been privileged to have a vision of God, the children of Abraham, the Jews, were enraged for they thought this implied a slight to Abraham, and they said to Moses: "You are only telling a lie. It suck a thing is possible, let us, too, see God". We read in the Holy Quran that the followers of Moses said: يمُوسى لَنْ نُؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّى نَرَى الله جهرة (2:56) i. e. "We will not believe you (in this) untill we see God quite plainly with our own eyes". ,. This was the spiritual revolution complete in all its four walls and angles; and this was the characteristic of Moses on account of which it was ordained that the last movement of this spiritual revolution also would follow the footprints of. Moses. It was said: "The Lord Thy God will