Scattered Pearls — Page 41
40. Abraham, Ishmael, Jacob, Moses and Jesus are held in the greatest esteem by all Muslims. But under this universal principle laid down by the Holy Quran that. . Allah has been raising His Prophets in all climes and all nations, the Promised Messiah, under Divine revelation vouchsafed to him, also presented the famous Indian. Reformer, Hazrat Krishna, as a Prophet of God of the pre-Islamic period and in this way, under Divine Will, he pulled the great Indian peoples into the embrace of universal love and spiritual sympathy. Of course the present day followers of Krishna, like the Jews and the Christians, have subsequently strayed away from the path of. Krishna, by denying the guidance brought by the Holy. Prophet Muhammad; but the Promised Messiah has repeatedly brought out the fact that the origin of this Faith was from Allah, and that Krishna was a true Prophet of. God, raised in the ancient past for the guidance of Aryavart. . Says the Promised Messiah in one place in this behalf: "It has been revealed to me by Allah that Raja Krishna was really such a perfect man the like of whom is not to be found among the Rishees and Awataars of the Hindu religion. For his time, he was the Awataar of God, i. e. His Prophet, on whom descended the Holy Ghost. By God he was made victorious and glorious who cleared Aryavart of evil in his time. He was really the Prophet of that era, whose teaching was later distorted in many respects. He was full of the love of God; and he was a great friend of righteousness, with an implacable hostility towards evil. " (Lecture Sialkot). Similarly the Promised Messiah recognised the goodness and piety of another Indian religious leader, Hazrat Baba. Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion; and on the basis of irrefutable arguments he proved that Guru Nanak believed,