Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 26
26 one of the brethren of the Israelites, was the bearer of a new law. The Holy Quran refers to the fulfilment of the prophecy of Moses as in his person in the following verse: 'We have sent an Apostle to you who enforces the commandments of the law by superintending your performance of them, as We sent an apostle to Pharaoh. ' 11 Muhammad sa , being thus the like of Moses as , it was necessary that the Messiah as of the Islamic dispen- sation should not only be from among his followers but should come to re-establish and propagate the Quranic law just as Jesus as came with no new law but only confirmed the Torah. I have so far endeavoured to explain the relation of the Ahmadiyya Movement to Islam. I now proceed to explain the significance of the Movement. I have already indicated that one of the functions of a Prophet who is not the bearer of a new law is to sift all errors and misinterpretations which may have crept into an existing religious system owing to lapse of time, and this in itself is a great task. To discover and restore that which had been lost is almost as great a task as to supply that which is new. But we believe that the Prom- ised Messiah as had a much higher mission to perform. In order, however, to understand what that mission was it 11 Al-Muzzammil , 73:16.