A Response to Three Questions of a Christian — Page 10
10 over you; and this Messenger is like unto the Messenger We had sent to Pharaoh. S u rah al-Muzzammil, 73:18— َفْيَكَف َنْوُقَّتَت ْنِا ْمُتْرَفَك O ye who deny! Do tell how you will safeguard yourselves from the chastisement if you reject this Messenger; mean- ing that: if Pharaoh was chastised for rejecting Moses, peace be upon him, then how can you, O deniers, escape punishment? This noble verse alludes to the Book of Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 18. In short, there are many verses of the same type present in the Holy Quran and it is clearly evident from these verses that the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, held the utmost and abso- lute certainty in his Messengership, Prophethood, veracity, and righteousness. Anyone who believes in the Old Testament and the New Testament can certainly not justly deny this because in Deuteronomy 18:18 and in chapter 3 of Acts it is clearly written that a Prophet like unto Moses, peace be upon him, is to come. Furthermore, it is also written in the Torah that a false prophet who calls himself the like of Moses, peace be upon him, by way of fabrication and falsehood, shall be killed. The Holy Prophet (may my father and mother be sacrificed for him), the Arab Prophet, claimed to be a Messenger like unto Moses, peace be upon him, as has been noted earlier. And reciting the noble verse, َو ُهّٰللا َكُمِصْعَي َنِم ِساَّنلا ( S u rah al-M a ’idah, 5:68)—which means that Allah the Exalted will protect you from the people— he even did away with guards and arrangements for his security. In