Three Questions by a Christian and their Answers — Page 45
45 On yet another occasion, he prophesied that men of his gen- eration would not pass away without witnessing all that he had promised, (i. e. , his second coming, the falling of the stars, etc. ) But no stars fell on earth from heaven, nor did Jesus as come to sit in judgement over men, even though his own cen- tury went by, and eighteen more centuries have gone by since, and even the nineteenth century is coming to an end. These few testimonies—which have been drawn from the four Gospels themselves—are enough to prove that Jesus as did not possess any knowledge of the unseen. The same is true of other Hebrew Prophets. No doubt, Jacob as was a Prophet, but he remained unaware of what was happening to his son in a wilderness in his own village. Daniel as knew nothing of dreams and their interpretations, until God Him- self revealed to him the meaning of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. It becomes clear from this study that when a Prophet professes ignorance of a certain matter, and says that only God knows about it, he is right in saying so. It is in keeping with his dignity as a Prophet, and in it lies his pride of being a humble man of God. This, in fact, further raises his status in the eyes of his Merciful Master, and does not in any way detract from his status as a Prophet. If anyone should want to know what share the Holy Prophet sa had of the knowledge of the unseen which is revealed by God, I am prepared to pro- duce strong arguments to prove that the prophecies of the Holy Prophet sa are a thousand times greater, both in quantity and quality, than the prophecies of all Prophets of the Old and New Testaments put together. These prophecies have