The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 198
198. Essence of Islam-IV the saying of God Almighty that the dispensation of. Muḥammad with regard to both its Founder and its successors would have a close resemblance with the. Mosaic dispensation, may be fulfilled. Resemblance is always sought between the beginning and the end, for the middle period is a long one and cannot be analysed in detail. But similarity between the beginnings and the ends shows that there must also be similarity in the intervening periods, though the eye of reason may not fully comprehend it. . As I have already said, Jesus as possessed sixteen religious qualities which must also be found in the last. Khalifah of Islam, so that a perfect resemblance may be established between the two. . The first similarity between the two is that that they are both promised. There have been thousands of saints and men of God in Islam, but the advent of not even one of them was promised. It was only the advent of the one who was to come with the name of the. Messiah that was promised. In the same way, before. Jesus as there was no Prophet in Israel whose advent was promised, only the Messiah's advent had been promised. . The second similarity is the loss of kingdom. There is no doubt that a short while before the advent of Jesus son of Maryas, the Israelite kingdom had been lost. In the same way, before the birth of the last Messiah, the. Islamic kingdom in India had disappeared from this