Truth About the Split — Page 13
13 the parallelism that there should arise in it a party which should depart from the truth and drift to the side of excess. He has laid special stress upon this point and seems to think that this parallelism or analogy is sufficient to decide the issue between us. But he has failed obviously to realise that an analogy is not an identity and that things compared need not necessarily correspond in all points; that when one person admits of comparison with another person, the former may and sometimes does excel the latter both in rank and quality. The Promised Messiah as is not, fortunately, the only example we have of a historical parallel. His Master the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa is another example of such a parallelism, for, he had, his prototype in Moses as. But, nevertheless, the disciples of the Holy Prophet sa had not to undergo the same experiences as the disciples of Moses as , nor did they behave in a similar way under similar circumstances. In the Holy Quran, God has described a similarity of the Holy Prophet sa to the Prophet Moses as in the following words: "Verily We have sent to you a Prophet, who is a witness to you, in the same way as We sent a Prophet to Pharaoh. "