The Mirror of the Excellences of Islam — Page 60
PREFACE 59 burial of our Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, yet also affirm the belief that the Messiah is still alive, they surrender their own written confession into the hands of the Christians that the Messiah as is distinct and unique in his attributes from the attributes of all common men-nay, even from the attributes of all Prophets! Since Afdalul-Bashar [the Best of Mankind]—who appeared 600 years after the Messiah-died after a brief life, yet even upon the lapse of 1300 years beyond the death of this Noble Prophet $as, the Messiah has still not died, then does it prove anything other than the Messiah's nature being superior to the inherent requisites of humanity? Assuredly, although the ulema of this age formally express their abhor- rence for every apparent form of shirk [association of partners with God], they have left no stone unturned in supporting the polytheists. What an outrage it is that Allah the Glorious declares the death of the Messiah as throughout His Holy Word, yet these people-by supposing that he is still alive-give rise to thousands and countless calamities for Islam. They deem the Messiah as the 'Living and Self-Subsisting' of the heavens but pronounce the Chief of the Prophets, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, to have died in the earth, despite the testimony of the Messiah recorded in the Noble Quran as follows: مُبَشِّرًا بِرَسُولٍ يَأْتِي مِنْ بَعْدِي اسْمُةَ أَحْمَدُ : Meaning that I give glad tidings of a Messenger who will come after me—that is, after my death—whose name will be Ahmad sas Therefore, if the Messiah has not yet passed away from this physical realm, it follows necessarily that our Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has also not yet come into this world since an explicit dictum of the Holy Quran is telling us that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, would come into this physical world after the Messiah would have left this physical world. 1. Sūrah aş-Şaff, 61:7 [Publisher]