Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 173
? 166 promises, without sufficient cause, He first sent prophets in succession. When Prophets came to the Jews one after the other and they became entrenched in the belief that prophethood would not pass on to non-Israelites, God the Almighty administered warnings through Prophets in such a manner that the Jews, given a small modicum of faith, could have come to their senses and to a realization that something was impending on account of their wickedness. But they did not mend their ways and persisted in mischief-mongering. At last the Almighty God created the Messiah without a father, as He had fore-warned and gave the Jews to understand, that half the prophethood had been taken away from them and that if they desisted not from their ways, the remaining half would also be taken away from them by way of punishment; that the prophet who had been sent at the time was a Jew from his mother's side and was not so from his father's side, but that in future a Prophet would be raised who, though of Abram's stock, would be a non- Israelite. Accordingly, after that Allah sent Muhammad the Prophet (peace and the blessings be on him), who was an Ishmalite, and chain of prophethood was cut off for ever from the Israelites. Therefore, our belief in the Messiah being without a father is noto pen to any criticism. According to us, a deep philosophy underlies it. But the theory they advance in this behalf has been turned