The Essence of Islam – Volume I — Page 209
The Holy Prophetsa 209 who establish their relationship with God; the same. Prophet, the sun of righteousness, at whose feet thousands of those who had died of paganism and atheism and evil living were revived and came to life and a sample of the Judgement Day was exhibited. It was not mere talk like that of Jesus. The Prophet who appeared in. Mecca and dispelled the darkness of paganism and that of the worship of man, was the true light of the world, who found the world in darkness and bestowed such light upon it that he converted a dark night into day. . What was the world before his advent and what did it become after it? This is not a question that is difficult to answer. If we are faithful our conscience will tug at us to persuade us to believe that before that great personage the greatness of God had been forgotten by the people of every country and it had been assigned to avatārs, stones, stars, trees, animals, and mortal men, and despised creation was seated in the place of that Lord of Glory and Holiness. . It is true that if these men and animals and trees and stars were in fact God, Jesus being one of them, then this. Prophet was not needed, but if they were not God, the claim that our lord Muḥammad [peace and blessings of. Allāh be on him] made on the hill of Mecca has a grand light attending upon it. What was that claim? It was that. God, having found the world in the deep darkness of associating partners with God, had sent him to dispel that darkness. It was not only a claim, but a claim fully established by the Holy Prophetsa. . If the superiority of any Prophet can be established by such works as proclaim true sympathy with mankind exceeding that of all other Prophets, then, O ye people, arise and bear witness that in this respect Muḥammad