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CH. 62 AL-JUMU'AH PT. 28 among others from وَأَخَرِيْنَ مِنْهُمْ لَمَّا يَلْحَقُوا بِهِمْ وَهُوَ from الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيمُ ) 4. And among them who have not yet joined them. He is the Mighty, the Wise. 4236 ذلِكَ فَضْلُ اللهِ يُؤْتِيهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللهُ That is Allah's grace; He. 5 ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيْمِ bestows it on whom He pleases; and Allah is the Lord of immense grace. 4237 مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ حَمِلُوا التَّوْريةَ ثُمَّ The likeness of those who. 6 were entrusted with the law of them refines their intellect, and the philosophy of his teaching engenders in them certainty of faith, and his noble example creates in them purity of heart and refines character. It is to this basic fact of religion that the verse under comment refers. 4236. Commentary: The verse signifies that the Message of the Holy Prophet was meant not only for the Arabs among whom he was raised but for all non- Arabs as well, and not only for his contemporaries but also for the coming generations till the end of time. Or the meaning may be that the Holy Prophet will be raised among another people who have not yet joined his immediate followers. The reference in the verse and in a well- known saying of the Holy Prophet is to the Second Advent of the Holy Prophet in the person of the Promised Messiah in the latter days. Says Abū Hurairah: "One Day we were sitting with the Holy Prophet when Surah Jumu'ah was revealed. I asked the Holy Prophet, "Who are the people to whom the words And among others same from among them who have not yet joined them, refer. Salmān the Persian was sitting among us. Upon my repeatedly asking him the question, the Prophet put his hand on Salman and said, "If Faith were to go up to the Pleiades, a man from these would surely find it" (Bukhārī). This ḥadīth shows that the verse applies to a man of Persian descent. Now, the Promised Messiah, the Founder of the Aḥmadiyya Movement, was of Persian descent. Other sayings of the Holy Prophet speak of the appearance of the Messiah at a time when there would remain nothing of the Quran but its words and of Islam but its name i. e. the true spirit of Islamic teaching will be lost (Baihaqī). Thus the Quran and Hadīth both seem to agree that the present verse refers to the Second Advent of the Holy Prophet in the person of the Promised Messiah. 3152 4237. Commentary: The verse refers to the good fortune of the people among whom the Holy Prophets will be raised for the second time in the person of one of his