Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 13
IS this inn took pity on the travellers, and therefore, prepared a new inn, more spacious than the first and providing every sort of accom- modation and all necessaries for the comfort of the travellers. In its preparation the Lord of the house while making use of some of the hricks of the old building that lay in ruins, added a great deal of fresh material, in order to provide for every require- ment of the travellers. This second inn is the Holy Quran : let every one who has eyes behold. In connection with the perfection of the teachings revealed in the Holy Quran and the imperfection of those revealed to Moses and Jesus, it is necessary to remove an objection. The incompleteness of the earlier teachings is due not to any defect in the Divine revelation, but bo a defect in the capability and capacity of those for whom these teachings were meant. The Israelites to whom the mission of Moses was directed had passed about four hundred years in the slavery of the Pharaohs of Egypt, and under this long subjection to the cruelty and tyranny of their masters, they had become as it were utter strangers to principles of justice and equity. As a general rule, the principles to which the masters of a country adhere, find their way into the subject people. People who are in subjection to a tyrant, must after a time grow tyrants in private, while those who are under a just ruler, must grow just in private. The king is as it were a teacher of his people. The Israelites had for many generations been in the bondage of foreign tyrants and their constant subjec- tion to the tyranny and cruelty of their masters fostered in them a spirit which was quite inconsistent with principles of justice and equality. It was, therefore, the first and primary duty of Moses to indoctrinate them in the principles of justice and hence his teachings laid great stress upon this point. The penfcateuch of Moses is not wholly devoid of the teachings of forbearance