Truth About the Split — Page 18
18 followers. The promised entry into the land was effected in the following generation. On the other hand, it was granted to the Holy Prophet sa to enter Mecca victoriously and in triumph, surrounded by his Companions, and the land was given to him for all time to come. Jesus as of Nazareth and Ahmad as of Qadian resembled each other by reason of their filling similar roles in the Mosaic and Islamic dispensations respectively. They were each the Khatam-ul-Khulafa (Seal of the Apostolic Successors) of their lines. Between them personally and between their followers, however, a similar difference might be perceived as between the original founders of the two dispensations. When, for example, one of the most eminent of the companions of Jesus as was questioned by his enemies regarding his master, saying "Surely thou also art one of them, for thy speech betrayeth", the disciple cursed and swore saying, "I know not the man". On other hand, when one of the eminent disciples of Ahmad as fell into a similar, nay even a more dangerous situation, he ceased not to confess his faith in his master. The situation in the latter case was more dangerous because the persons who questioned the disciple in the first case were two of them women and the third an Israelite who held no power in the