Truth About the Split — Page 21
21 manner of God’s dealings with the two Messiahs. In the case of the first Messiah, his enemies were allowed to succeed so far as to put him upon the cross, but in the case of the second Messiah, although his enemies tried their best to bring about his discomfiture, charging him at one time with abetment of murder, yet God was pleased completely to confound their machinations, and to destroy many of his enemies during his lifetime. In short, while there is a remarkable similarity between the dispensations brought by Muhammad sa and Moses as respectively, there is also a plainly visible difference between the Divine blessings and assistance which accompanied the two. It ought not therefore to be concluded from the mere fact of similarity between the two dispensations, that the followers of the Promised Messiah as were sure to commit the error of exaggerating the truth like the followers of the first Messiah. By following such a method of analogy, one might as well prove that the majority of the Companions of the Holy Prophet sa were hypocrites, because the Holy Prophet sa was a counter-type of Moses as and the majority of the companions of Moses as did indeed prove to be hypocrites when the moment came for action. (May God protect us from such views). We know, however,