The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 5) — Page 250
CH. 61 AŞ-ŞAFF Law as amended and given to the Jews by him was not and could not be a complete and perfect Law because they had not yet mentally and morally so developed as to be the bearers of a complete Shari'ah and the world had to wait till it was given a perfect Law in the form of the Quran (5:4) and a Prophet par excellence i. e. the Holy Prophet who could guide all mankind. (4) The Holy Prophet gave to the world a Law complete in all its details which alone could guide mankind unto all truth (5:4). (5) The Holy Prophet did not speak of himself but whatever he heard from God that did he speak (53:4). (6) The Holy Prophet glorified Jesus (2:254; 3:56). The prophecy in the Gospel of John resembles the prophecy mentioned in the verse under comment except that instead of Aḥmad the name stated therein is Paraclete. Christian writers challenge the correctness of the Quranic version of the prophecy, basing their contention on this difference of names, irrespective of the otherwise similar features of Biblical & Quranic versions. In fact, Jesus spoke Aramaic and Hebrew. Aramaic was his mother tongue and Hebrew his religious language. The present Biblical version is the translation of Aramaic and Hebrew into Greek. A translation naturally cannot fully convey PT. 28 a similar meaning as Aḥmad in Arabic. Jack Finegan, the renowned theologian, in his book, "The Archaeology of World Religions," says: "Where in Greek the word Comforter (Parakletos) is very similar to the word for 'renowned' (Periklutos), the latter being the meaning of the names Aḥmad & Muḥammad. " Damascus Moreover, "The Document" a scripture discovered towards the end of the nineteenth century in Ezra synagogue, Old Cairo (p. 2. lines 12, 13) describes Jesus as having foretold the advent of a "Holy Spirit," named Emeth. ويود يعيم بيد مشيحو روح قد شو و هوا ايمة و بفروش شمو شمو تيهم i. e. And by His Messiah, He has made them know His Holy Spirit. For it is He who is Emeth i. e. "The Truthful One", and in accordance with His name are also theirs. "Emeth" in Hebrew means "the Truth," or "the Truthful one and a person of constant goodness" (Strachan's Fourth Gospel, page 141). The word was interpreted by the Jews as "God's Seal. " Naturally, though Jesus must have used the name Aḥmad, the phonetic resemblance of the two words (Aḥmad & Emeth) caused later writers to substitute "Emeth" for Ahmad, its Hebrew synonym. Thus the prophecy mentioned in the verse under comment applies to the Holy Prophet, but as a corollary it the beauty of the text. may also apply to the Promised Languages have their limitations. The Messiah, Founder of the Aḥmadiyya same is true of the people who speak Movement, since in his person the them. Their limitations are reflected Second Manifestation of the Holy in their works. The Greek language Prophet took place. To this Second has another word, i. e. Periklutos, with | Manifestation or Second Coming of 3146