Truth About the Split — Page 53
53 by this time already converted several millions of Muslims to their faith. All these facts are clear and palpable as the day; but still to close one’s eyes to them and—contrary to the views of the Promised Messiah as —to seek to discover the like of Christians among his own followers is, to say the least, highly unfair and improper on the part of one who still professes to be ones of his disciples. The Two Messiahs Contrasted It is no doubt true that as a necessary corollary of the fact that the Promised Messiah as was a counter- type of Jesus as , a certain number of the former’s followers like those of the latter were destined to deviate from the right path, but that event is not obviously what is referred to in the prophecy we now have under consideration. The secession from among the followers of the Promised Messiah as was a comparatively minor and insignificant event, something like what happened at the time of the Holy Prophet sa. In the latter case the bulk of the followers of the Holy Prophet sa continued to adhere to the right path and only an inconsiderable number turned away from it, while contrary was the case with the followers of Moses as , the bulk of whom failed him at the last hour. Accordingly we might expect that in the case of