Fountain of Christianity — Page 67
67 thus substitute the luminous beauty of His Oneness with the darkness of 'associating partners with Him'; and, on the other hand, they consider themselves deprived of the Holy Prophet’s sa eternal bounty, as though—God forbid— he were not a 'living lamp', but a dead one that cannot light other 'lamps'. They believe that Moses as was a 'living lamp' that lit up hundreds of other 'lamps' in the form of Prophets, and that the Messiah was honoured with Prophethood because he followed the Shariah of Moses as and commandments of the Torah for thirty years, but they do not believe that anyone can gain spiritual merit by fol- lowing the Holy Prophet sa ! They believe that he was not only deprived of a male issue—who would serve as his physical heir, as mentioned in the verse 43 but that he was also deprived of spiritual offsprings who would inherit his spiritual excellences. Thus they consider God’s words 44 to be meaningless. Here the Arabic word l a kin (but) has obviously been used as a word of rectification, which speaks of the fulfilment in a different form of something that has hitherto remained unfulfilled. In this context, the 43 Muhammad is not the father of any of your men. —Al-A h z a b, 33:41 [Publishers] 44 But he is the Messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets. —Al- A h z a b, 33:41 [Publishers]