Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 742
JESUS VERSUS FINALITY. Last, but not least, there is yet another strong objection against the suggestion that a prophet of Israel could be somehow trimmed to fit into the robe of a Muslim prophet. How can the orthodox clergy forget that during his absence from earth the Holy Quran could not have been revealed to Jesus simultaneously with the Holy Prophet. Muhammadsa. This angle of observation raises many difficult questions for the clergy to answer. The foremost among them is the issue of his conversion. When and from whom did he learn that the greatest of all the prophets had appeared down below on earth? Did he testify to his truth forthwith becoming a believer? If he did become one- the first ever in space how did he learn to practice Islam without knowing anything of the Quran?. As such, whether the Quran was revealed to him directly by God through the Archangel Gabriel, is the highly crucial question which must be addressed and answered. . If the Quran was revealed to him while he was still in space, he would certainly have become a partner prophet to. Prophet Muhammadsa, like Aaronas was to Mosesas, both enjoying an almost similar status. If the Quran was not revealed directly to him through the archangel, what would be the nature of his faith before his return to earth? Had he remained a Judeo-Christian while Islam had been declared by God as the last universal religion of mankind? Was he treated as an exceptional case and allowed to remain a nonMuslim after the advent of the Holy Founders of Islam? If not, then one cannot escape the logical conclusion that the. Quran must have been revealed to him somehow. . Will the Mullahs suggest that instead of the archangel, the Holy Prophets should himself have delivered the message to him? But the problem is that when the Holy. Prophets delivered the message of the Quran to his 700