Truth About the Split — Page 37
37 him God or son of God in a sense different from that in which the Prophets before him were called gods, were misguided and mistaken. Pursuing the same line of reasoning, what must one think of those people, who after a similar answer from the Promised Messiah as viz. that he was a Nabi in the same sense of the word in which the former Prophets were called Ambiya ’, would still persist in calling him a Nabi in a sense different from that in which the prophets as of Israel and all previous Prophets were called Ambiya ’? And is this not what is now being done by Maulawi Muhammad Ali and his partisans? The answer is obvious and there can be little doubt as regards the views of these men. Maulawi Muhammad Ali Refuted by his own Arguments Moreover, if we were to accept their view as correct, it would expose us to serious criticism from our Christian critics. The Messiah of Islam, they would say, like the Messiah of Judaism, had answered his enemies saying that he was a Nabi in the same sense in which the previous Prophets were called Ambiya ’. If, in the presence of such an explanation, Muslims felt justified in making a difference between his Nubuwwat (prophethood) and that of the previous