Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 141
? 134 that the friend through whom he was enabled to join the Ahmadiyya Movement; used to read the Holy Quran very clearly and it was through association with him that his pronunciation became so clear. He then related to me that he once happened to visit some of his relations. He invited their attention to the statement of the Holy Prophet (peace and the blessings of Allah be on him): إِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ مِثْلُكُمْ i. e. , I am a man like you (Al-Kahf, 18:111). There upon they warned him saying “Listen thou carefully, you are our relation. It does not seem nice to us to give you a beating. Better pack off quietly from here; for, we never heard it said before that Muhammad the blessed Prophet of Allah was a human being, but you have said it today!" There are some ignorant persons of this type among the Muslims, but the intelligent element among them has ever held the view that, notwithstanding that Muhammad the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be on him) is the chief of mankind, chief of all the Prophets and the beloved of Allah, he is a human being. Therefore, when the Messiah says that he is the Son of God, we must see whether he lays claim to the distinctive attributes of the Divine. So far as partaking of food and drink are concerned, Christians that since the Messiah came in the human say