Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 61
61 blance, it is, therefore, necessary that the first. Prophet in Islam should be the -like of Moses and his last successor the like of Jesus. Now it is universally agreed upon by the Muslims that the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and the -blessings of God be upon him, was the like of Moses. It is therefore, sheer bigotry to deny that the last successor of -the Holy Prophet will be the like of Jesus. Such a denial is in fact a deliberate renunciation of the Holy Quran itself, for not only does the Holy Quran call the Holy Prophet the like of Moses, but it further traces out a perfect resemblance between the JL successors of the founders of the. two laws. It is, therefore, unquestionably and undeniably true that the system of the Muslim successors of Holy Prophet must terminate in the like of Jesus, i. , in a Messiah. Moreover, as the resemblance between the first and the last of the Muslim system respectively, conclu- sively settles the question of the resemblance of the two systems, therefore in the Word of God stress is laid upon this point only. Nay, a resemblance has been traced even between. the enemies of the founders of. the two systems, and between the enemies of the last successors of the two systems. Thus Abu Jehl has : been compared to Pharoah, and the enemies of the last Messiah to the Jews who rejected Jesus. In the verse which describes the likeness of the successors of one system to those of the other, there is also a clear indica- tion as to resemblance in point of tim. e. In other words, the duration of time that elapsed from the appearance, of Moses to that of his last successor, must, correspond in length to the duration which must elapse between the Holy Prophet of Islam and the last Messiah. . Now according to the Jewish account, Jesus announced himself as the expected Messiah in the fourteenth century after Moses, while the Christians think that