Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 66
66 from the beginning will be fulfilled. The supposition that the same Jesus, son of Mary, the Israelite prophet would reappear in the world in the last ages is against the spirit of the Word of God. To anyone who reads the Quran with an impartial and critical eye and studies it profoundly, it would be as clear asday- light, that the Word of God points out a close parallelism and a complete resemblance between the Mosaic and the Muslim systems : for every blessing which was. granted to the former, it has reserved a blessing for the latter, and for every evil an evil. There are those among the Muslims who are like the Israelite prophets, and in the opposite direction there are individuals under the wrath of heaven like the Jews who were cursed by the Israelite prophets. The two systems may in fast be represented by two houses having two parallel sets of buildings, each com- plete in itself and not depending for aught on the other, the latter having been built in place of the former when it was dest- royed. The Holy Quran does not depend on the Mosaic law for anything, nor are the Muslims in any way depend upon the Jews. The perfect one who comes for the Muslims comes from among them, and is spiritually fed from the blessings of the Holy Prophet, his revelation being an image of the revelation of the noble founder of Islam. This is the point which must be rightly understood and it is here that our opponents have stum- bled. It was never meant that Islam should be degraded by the appearance of an Israelite prophet for the correction of its fol- lowers. On the other hand, it should feel proud of its resemblance which entitles it to an inheritance of all the former blessings. (Vol. II R. R 1903. )