Truth About the Split — Page 48
48 Holy Quran. In the opening chapter of the Holy Quran, God has taught the believers to pray: "O God! lead us to the right path, the path of those on whom thou hast showered Thy favours, excepting those who have been the objects of (Thy) wrath and the misguided. " This prayer contains prediction of three events which were to occur in the later history of Islam. The first was that among Muslims there were to arise men who would be recipients of the greatest of Divine favours—including the attaining to the rank of Prophets as. There was also to arise among them a party which was to be "the object of Divine wrath", and there was to be another section of them who were to be the Dal or the misguided. The parties referred to in the Maghdubi ‘Alaihim (objects of wrath) and the Dal (the misguided) were described by the Holy Prophet as himself. According to him, the first referred to the Jews and the second to the Christians. This may be seen in Tirmidhi’s collection of Hadith, where it has been narrated on the authority of Adi Ibni Hatim that the Holy Prophet sa said that the Jews were the Maghdubi ‘Alaihim and the Christians the Dal. This interpretation by the Holy Prophet sa himself therefore leaves no doubt that the prayer contained in the