Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 65
Our Beliefs in Brief 65 Holy Quran can never return. And if we are to assume that he will return, then we will have to ascribe falsehood to our Master, the Best of Mankind, for he had stated that the Promised Messiah would appear from among the Ummah, and that only he can be considered a part of the Ummah who has obtained perfection through the blessings of Mu h ammad, the Chosen One. This is a condition which Jesus does not fulfil, for he had obtained the status of prophethood before the advent of our Master, the Seal of the Prophets, and therefore his perfection was not a result of the beneficence of our Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. This is not something hard to understand. Hence, to describe him as a member of the Ummah can only result from being ignorant of the term Ummah and is contrary to the Book of the Majestic God. There is no doubt then that to describe him as a part of this Ummah is clear falsehood and sheer audacity. Reflect upon this, if you are indeed from among the righteous. In short, Allah took away the bounty of prophethood from the Israelites after Jesus, and this bounty will never return to them in the era of the Best of Creation (Mu h ammad). Besides, the fatherless birth of Jesus and his being without any progeny are strong arguments in favour of what has been detailed before, and this indicates the cessation of the Israelite chain of propheth- ood. Hence, during the era of the prophethood of Muhammad no Prophet shall appear from among the Jews, neither old nor new. This is the decree of God the Lord of Honour and Glory, and just as He had taken away prophethood form Israelites, so had He taken away their earthly kingdom and discarded them like a rotten carcass. The birth of John without any humans touching each other, and, likewise, the fatherless birth of Jesus and then the