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the Christian doctrine to shreds ; these furnish the additional. testimony that ·here the referen~~es are in respect to the coming Messiah of the l\luhammadan dispensation a~d not to the past Messiah of the Mosaic dispensation. · We will strongly urge upon our friends to coolly deliberate the two statements -of our Master the H9ly Prophet (peace of Allah be on him and His choicest bl~ssjngs), firstly that he is verily coming (i. e. shall appear. at a future date), in other words this annomwement does not relate to the Messiah of the Mosaic: dispensation who has been but to the Messiah of the lluhammadan dispensation" who will be coming at a later date : and aecondly his prtmouncement ••there is no prophet between him and me''. In the face of these two decisive and convincing expositions; it would· be shetr pig-headedness to question the verdict of our l\laster and Guide. l\luhammnd the Chosen • (Allah bless. him ever aud eve1; more) about the coming Messiah being a prophet of Allah, in the true sense of the term ; and that he has not been given this title in a general and non-teachnical sense, simply to impart a wide1· meaning to the term-but. us a prophet, true and worthy, about whom it can be claimed that there is not one bearing that insignia between him and the Holy Prophet (peace of Allah be on him and His choicest blessings ever and evermc. re). Briefly speaking the following three facts emerge forth clearly from. the above hadith of Abu Daood : (1) The Messiah of the Muhammadan dispen- sation, •is, according to the observation of the Holy_ Prophe_t, an apostle of Allah, ~etail-_ ed to the • 1ast tip-end for the protection. o1 the Muslim people ·as does our Master the Holy Prophet (peace of Allah be on him and choie1:st blessings eyer and e. vcrmore) gra<. -e the first· tip, 84,