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" Nevertheless I tell you the truth, that it is expedient for you thatt I go amay,for if I go not away, the Con forter will not conic unto you, but if I depart I will send him unto you, and when he is come he will retrove the world of sin and of rtghteousness and of judgment. John 14:7, 8
Jesus made it clear that the Last one of the Apostles of God could not come to deliver the Final Word of God and the whole of the Truth, until the one who had come just to serve the timely need of the age, did not depart, lest the imperfect and the perfect should be confused, and it would create discord, disorder and confusion instead of unity and harmony : -
Jesus had further declared:- " But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom tile Father will send in my namt, he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatever I have said unto you." John 14:26
By the above declarations, Jesus has made it perfectly clear that he that had to come after him was the Holy Ghost, and the same statement ofJesus also makes it clear that he had not said everything about the Truth, which duty according to him, had been assigned by the Lord to the Comforter who was the Holy Ghost: Jesus had done his best when he said:-
" I have yet many Things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now."
" Howbeit when the Spirit of Truth is come; he will guide you unto all truth for he shall not speak of himself, but 'whatever he shall hear that shall he speak' and he will showyou things to come." John i6:12 & 13.
The above declaration by Jesus makes it clear:-
1. That Jesus had to go away, without disclosing the whole truth due to the inability ofthe people to bear it then.
2. That the one who had to come after hint would guide mankind unto all truth which he (Jesus) could not do.
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4.That the Spirit of Truth to come after him would show mankind things to conic which Jesus did not do, and he will abide for ever.
Besides all the above prophecies, there are many similar declarations made by the other Apostles of God in the various parts of the earth, at different times, emanating from the Divine Mercy of the Lord, to keep mankind informed of the Great Guide mankind Wou1d be blessed with, who would consolidate all the goodness preached through the different Apostles gone before him in the various parts of the world, at different times, against the clouds of ignorance which were impending to darken the atmosphere of the earth as a whole. The promised Last Deliverer, Muhammad, appeared when tnspite of the Iabours of all the preceding apostles of God, there was darkness everywhere on the earth.

The Seed of Abraham caused to grow in the wilderness

THE HOLY PROPHET Abraham, at the command of God, had brought and left his wife Hagar with his baby son Ishmael, in the wilderness of the barren desert land of Arabia, at the spot now called MECCA. The post where Hagar and the Baby Ishmael were left was not only barren, sandy and uninhabited, but was also water- less. For miles together around the place there was no trace of water. In short, when the poor mother wanted a little water for her Baby dying of thirst, she ran hither and thither in her agony of maternal love for her dying Baby. She ran from hillock to hillock, getting on the heights and throwing glances all around, searching for some trace of water, but all in vain. At last she sat down totally disappointed, only to witness the impending death of her child, when suddenly she noticed a miraculous fountain of fresh drinking water gushing out from under the heels of her Baby (Ishmael) as it struck its feet on the earth, in its struggle with the choking thirst. This fact has also been vouched by the Bible:-
" And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off as it were a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept. And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What


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ailetlt thee, Hagar? Fear not; for Cod bath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Arise,lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand for I will make him a great nation.
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water and she went, andfihled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. Gen. 21:15-19.
This miraculous spring, today is called the Zam Zam which is now surrounded by the great Mosque around the Holy Ka'ba This divinely created spring, generated from under the feet of Ishmael began giving fresh drinking water, not only to the poor mother and her baby son but also to the travellers and their caravans and through this providential facility, the spot developed into a habitation with its unique importance as the halting place for caravans from the various directions, as a junction of the routes to the various important centres of trade.
Hagar and Ishmael lived at the place, and when Abraham again visited them, Ishmael his son whom he had left in babyhood, to the care of God, was a grown-up young lad. Abraham, aided by his young son Ishmael raised up the walls of the ancient Prayer House which was founded since time immemorial, exclusively for worship to the only True God, which is now called the Holy Ka'ba to which Haj (the pilgrimage) or a devoted visit has been enjoined by Islam on all its adherents. The same spring which gushed out from under the feet of Ishmael even today flows with greater force, more than sufficient to supply fresh drinking water to millions of visitors to the House of God raised by Abraham and Ishmael.
Abraham, while raising the walls of the Holy House prayed to God to accept it, saying:-
"And when Abraham and Ishmael raised the founda- tions of the House (Saying) Our Lord! accept from us; surely Thou art the Knowing.
"Our Lord! and make us boTh submissive (Muslims) to Thee and (raise) from our offsprings a nation submitting to Thee, and show us ways of devotion and turn to us (Mercjful), surely Thou art the Oft Returning (to mercy), the Merciful:


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"Our Lord! and raise up in then: an Apostle from among them who shall recite to them Thy communications and purify them; surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise. 2:127-129
In response to the above prayers, God addressing Abraham said:-
"And when W e made the house a resort for met, and a (place of) security, and: Appoint for yourselves a place of prayer on the standing place of Abraham.
And We enjoined Abraham and Ishmael, ' Purjfy My House for those who visit (it) and those who abide (in it) for devotion and those who bow down (and) those who pros- trate thentselves. 2:125

Abraham tested with a sacrifice

ABRAHAM REPEATEDLY HAD visions of slaying his son Ishmael. The Bible of the Christian Church also mentions this with the change of the name of the son from Ishmael to Isaac, which change is obviously a Jewish tampering of the original event to suit their selfish ends, to shift the great sacrifice to Isaac, the father of the Israelites. A vision to an apostle of God is deemed to be the Lord's directive to him, to act according to the directions given therein. Abraham related his vision to his son Lshmael saying:- "O' Son! I see in vision that I slay thee. Holy Qur'an 37:102
Ishmael, the dutiful son who was himself to be an apostle of God, submitted to his father saying:-
"O' Father! Act as thou host been bidden (by the Lord) and thou wilt, if God Willeth, find me of the patient ones."
Holy Qur'an 37:102
Abraham told his wife, Hagar, the mother of Ishmael that he was taking his son to his friend; and equipping himself with a knife and a rope, left for an altar on a nearby mountain. Abraham laid down his son Ishmael and tied his hands and legs lest the boy should struggle while being slain, and blindfolded himself with a piece of cloth apprehending his failure due to his paternal love, to bear the sight of his son rolling in his own blood, and in com- pliance with the divine directive received through the dream,


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Abraham offering his son to God, passed the knife across, cutting the throat under it.

Abraham declared Truthful, but the Sacrifice, postponed

As SOON AS Abraham was sure that he had slain his son under the knife, he immediately uncovered his eyes to pray to the Lord to accept his sacrifice, but to his great surprise, he found Ishmael standing aside and instead of Ishmael a ram lay slain. Any other father would have only rejoiced at the miraculous escape of his son, but Abraham with his wonderful love and devotion to the Lord and with his ideal submission to His Will, stood sorrowful and disappointed thinking that his offering was not accepted by the Lord, but a heavenly voice immediately consoled Abraham saying:
"0' Abraham! of course thou han faithfully fulfilled the dream, thou art of the truthful ones, but verily it is an open test, we have substituted it with a Greater Sacrifice. We have transferred it to later generations."
Holy Qur'an 37:105-108
The substitute-sacrifice destined to take place instead of the one offered by Abraham, has been called by God as an Open Test and a Great Sacrifice from which one naturally infers that the one to be sacrificed would be greater than Ishmael in his position with the Lord, and such a great sacrifice could naturally be offered by the one who would be superior to Abraham in his submission to God's Will.
What Abraham was demanded to enact was only a test:-
1. To make it known to mankind the degree ofAbraham's love of God, and his submission to God's Will.
2. To make Abraham himself know that he was still lacking in resistance to witness the blood of his son when it had to flow in the fulfilment of the Will ofthe Lord.
3. To declare the ideal devotion of Abraham and his implicit submission to God, even to sacrifice his own son, when commanded by the Lord to do it.
4. To make it known to man that when it is demanded in obedience to God s command, man should sacrifice even his own son.


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5. To make the children of Adam (Man) know that in obedience to their parents, they must surrender themselves as Ishmael did.
6. To make it known to mankind that such an event is under the Divine Will and it is a Great Test which shall be enacted openly and it shall come to pass in the time to come, in the seed of Abraham.
Besides, the test, if it had to profit mankind, must be an open test? with its causes and events openly known, to earn the appre- ciation of its consequent effects. Abraham enacted the slaughter in obedience to God's command, but since the nature of the command was shrouded in a dream and every one could not know that the dream of an apostle of God is a revelation of God' s Will, and with the ignorance of this mystic factor, people, instead of appreciating the unique submission of Abraham to the divine will of the Lord, would have condemned Abraham for having fanatically slaughtered his son, beguiled by his own fanciful interpretation of his dream. Thus if Abraham had in those circumstances been allowed to slaughter Ishmael, the value of the Great Sacrifice would have practically been wasted and its great purpose would not have been fully served.
Secondly, the object of the sacrifice was, to associate it with the life of the great Apostle, so that humanity in its sympathy to- wards the tragic event may give due admiration to the Apostle, but there, in this case, admiration would have gone only to Ishmael as being the victim of Abraham s personal interpretation of his dream, which the people could have mistaken to be fantastic, and Abraham would have been condemned for his conduct, which in fact was a unique instance of perfect submission to God s will. And over and above the other reasons, the sacrifice, if it had been left to be enacted by Abraham, would have been a sheer waste, for no universal religion had yet been regulated and enforced for the human race as a whole, for mankind as a whole to be drawn to it, through its sympathy towards the event. Moses had yet to present the Ten Commandments and Jesus had to revive the teachings of Moses after they had been corrupted, and yet when the teachings of all the apostles from God got corrupted, Muhammad the Last Apostle of God, the Maetrea foretold by Buddha, the ' Comforter,' the ' Holy Ghost and the Spirit of Truth prophesied by Jesus, to abide


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with mankind for ever, had yet to come. And the Great Sacrifice was then to be offered for only then the human sympathy for the heart rending sufferings of the Great Divine and his faithful corn- rades would lead mankind as a whole towards the universal religion. Islam is the only divinely revealed and perfectly regulated code for human discipline cumulative of the teachings of all the apostles of God and which contains the Truth which was exposed piece- meal by the other prophets in different ages, to different people, in different languages. The Greatest of the Sacrifices ever offered by any man, would naturally be for the sake of a reliaion meant for the human race as a whole, and it could be offered by the one whose life would be, not for himself but for the fulfilment of the Mercy of the Lord unto the whole of Mankind.

The Failure of Judaism and Christianity

THE PURELY MONOTHEISTIC faith preached and practised by the great Israelite prophets Moses and Jesus, had totally failed to exercise any more of its correct influence on the minds of the Jews and the Christians who had gradually sunk deep in all sorts of idolatrous beliefs and pagan practices. The followers of Jesus the most recent of the apostles of God, preceding the Holy Prophet Muhammad, had become poIytheists in worshipping three gods instead of the One Whom they were commanded to serve:
" Unto thee it was shown that thou mighitest know that Lord is God ; there is none else besides Him."
"I am the First and I am the Last and besides Me there is no God." Isaiah 44:6
" Hear 0' Israel, the Lord thy God is One Lord." Deut 6:4
"I am God, and there is none else; I am God, there is none like Me." Isaiah 46:9
" I am the Lord that is My Name, andglory willInot give to another, neither My praises to graven imaages..."
Isaiah 42:8
The New Testament:-
"And Jesus answered him, the First of all Commandments is, 0' Israel, the Lord our Cod is One Lord."
Mark 12:29
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wrftten thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and Him only shalt thou serve. Math. 4:io, Luke 4:8
".... .an idol is nothing in the world, and there is none other God but One." Corin 8:6
" But to us there is but One God the Father."
Corin 8:6
Inspite of the definite Commandments from God conveyed to the people by the holy prophets Moses and Jesus, the Israelites and the Christians had started deifying their prophets and their saints, worshipping them. Among the Christians had sprung up schools worshipping the idols of Mary, Jesus and also the other saints of their own fancy. The Christians condemned the Israelites as being meaningless, in their faith and the Israelites criticised the Chrictians similarly in return, while both of them were on the wrong track diametrically opposed to what they had been preach- ed by their respective teachers, Moses and Jesus.

The Darkened Earth

Evry NATION HAD a guide in an apostle from God and there was not left anyplace on the Earth which had not a warner or a guide (10:47, i6 :36, 35:24) to fight the satanic forces of evil and wicked- ness which effectively ruled over the thoughts and actions of the human race. Satan had beguiled every nation of the world and had taken every nation far away from goodness in thought and action. Corruption ruled all over the world:
" Mischief had appeared in the land and the sea, of what was wrought by the hands of mankind..." 29:41 (H.Q)
Asia, which was the birthplace of the religious guides and the apostles of God, had become the seat of all sorts of idolatry and heinous crimes were committed in the name of religion. People in India worshipped not only their own gods and goddesses but also animals, the serpents, the trees, the mountains, the rivers, the sun, the moon, and the stars. Many such objects were invoked as demigods or the agents of God, who were believed to be able to grant the prayers of man. To appease the anger or to gain the pleasure of the deities, all kinds of rituals and offerings, including human sacrifices were offered. The teachings of the sacred Vedas in India had created sects and sub-sects and had instituted com- munal hatred and caste distinctions as a part of the religious


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observances. Women had been deprived of any place in the human society and denied the right of inheritance. Woman was tot only freely used by man in the licentious satisfaction of tht sexual urge in him, in the uncontrolled and the unrestricted polygamy but was subjected to the disgraceful system ofPolyandry. In India a woman had no right to live after her husband but to burn herself to death, in the same fire in which her husband s body was cremated.
Persia was worshipping fire as God and the people believed in two independent gods of virtue and vice, i.e., Mazda and Ahriman. The countries towards the Pacific were also buried deep under similar fantastic beliefs. Buddha had come to create the spirit of self-an nihilation or self-denial in the day-to-day life of man but he was misunderstood and quite a new and most impracticable creed became innovated in his name, demanding humanity to tear itself away from the human society and to resort to wilderness and to live on begging as the Bhikshus.
The countries professing the religion of the Church founded in the name of Christ, had started preaching the belief in three gods: Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. This peculiar pheno mena of three in one and one in three, had created diverse schisms and conflicting sects which vied with one another in exploiting their brand in the C how the man Jesus could also be God and how one could be three, and the same three could remain one. The most impracticable ideals were preached, i.e. turning the other cheek when one is smitten and surrendering the coat also when the cloak is taken away.
"And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the other, and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also."
" Give to every man that asketh thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not." Luke 6 :20, 30.
Such horrible excesses were committed by the Christians in their heartless persecution of even the monotheistic Jews, that the records of their barbarous atrocities are absolutely unsurpassed in the history of the world.
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need volumes to relate them in all their details. Gibbon has pictured their character and conduct in his famous work, 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire :-
"At Minorea , says Gibbon, the clerics of St. Stephen converted in eight days five hundred and forty Jews; with the help, indeed, of some wit olesome seventies, such as burning the synagogues, driving the obstinate infidels to starve among the rocks etc. In Alexandria the Jews were expelled from the city, their houses plundered and their synagogues appropriated to the use of the Church. The account of the Jews who were plundered, sent away naked, banished. starved, tortured, left to perish in prison, hanged and burnt by the Christians would fill many volumes."
Gibbon further reports: "In almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the ruins of the fairest structures of antiquity still display the ravages of those barbarians who alone had time and inclination to exccutc such laborious destruc- tion."
Why go far to explore the ancient history of Christianity? Let us take into account the recent atrocious and inhuman attack of Rome (Italy), the seat of the supreme head of the Christian Religion,the Pope, on another poor Christian country, Abyssinia, in World War II: Italy played havoc upon the poor, helpless, ill-armed Abyssinians, merely for some territorial lust. Should not the intelligent ones and the free-thinkers question these Church authorities, if these acts were according to the teachings of Jesus? Should not the intelligent ones and the free-thinkers among our Christian brethren question their Church authorities? What happened to the commandment referred to in Luke 6:29, 30?
Arabia presented a consolidated view of all kinds of vices and crimes which were current in the different countries around it. Along with all the barbaric inhuman character and the brutal conduct found elsewhere in the world, Arabia had added something still more grievous and further heinous in nature.
Idolatry had been so much ingrained in the nature of the people that besides the three hundred and sixty idols in the very