Truth About the Split — Page 49
49 opening chapter of the Holy Quran is a prayer for security from being turned into Jews and Christians. The prediction of the Holy Prophet sa that Muslims will follow the ways of those who had gone before them, and his answer—''Of whom else?"—to the question of his Companions whether he meant that they would follow the ways of the Jews and the Christians do not therefore make a separate prophecy, but are simply an elucidation of the prophecy already contained in the opening chapter of the Holy Quran. I shall now proceed to a discussion of the meaning of the prophecy and shall in the first place consider the interpretation given to the prophecy by the Promised Messiah as , because the person whose advent formed the subject matter of the prophecy was certainly the most competent authority to furnish a correct interpretation of the same. After that I shall go on to consider the meaning of the Holy Prophet’s saying from the point of view of mere common sense. The Promised Messiah as writes on page 63 of the Tuhfa’-e-Golarhwiyyah : "Only two dangers have been mentioned. The one is internal viz. acting like the Jews and persecuting the Promised Messiah as , and the second external, viz. conversion to Christianity. You ought to know and remember well that in the opening chapter of the Holy Quran, the dangers against which