Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 737
sa. JESUS VERSUS FINALITY sanctity of the Holy Prophet's a finality and not the one who is born and raised within his Ummah as his spiritual son. . Over and above what has been discussed, it must be noted that in the context of the present discussion mere chronology cannot determine whether a prophet is old or new. If a prophet comes again with exactly the same attributes which he had during his first advent then of course his visit could be treated as a repeat visit. But, if before his second advent, he has been radically changed in his physical characteristics and aptitudes and his attitude to his enemies has fundamentally changed, he can in no way be described as an old prophet come again. In addition, the spiritual status he holds, the message he delivers, the miracles he works and the authority he exercises over the whole of mankind has no similarity with the Jesus as of the. New Testament. It is also worthy of note that the Jesusas whose advent was promised by the Holy Prophetsa has a completely different identity from that of the previous. Jesusas. The promised Jesus as would not be a prophet of. Israel any more. He will no longer be subordinate to the. Torah, or to the Gospels he himself taught. Nor will he be confined to the domain of the House of Israel. If, despite all this, the Mullah must insist that the Promised Jesusas is the same Jesus as of Israel then they must admit that before being brought back to earth he would be completely reconditioned and recommissioned in all the essential features of his prophethood. If that is not the advent of a new prophet, what else is? No Mullah would concede that such a Jesus as the one described could ever be assimilated into Islam without compromising the principle of the Holy. Prophet's a finality. What remains for them is only to believe that Jesus as would return to earth without any change wrought in him. Once here, he would be budded onto the tree of Islam and re-grow as a reformer fit to be sa 695