CHAPTER VII.
OBJECTIONS AGAINST CHRISTIANITY ON THE GROUND OF MUHAMMAD’S DIVINE MISSION AS THE
LAST OF THE PROPHETS.
196. M. Christ was a great Prophet, but His time is past. Muhammad, the Seal of
the Prophets and the Messenger of God, has succeeded Him, and is now the Prophet and the
last1 of them. So when one king dies, another succeeds him and is obeyed. Hence
the Book which Muhammad was commissioned to give us is enough for us, and we need nothing
else.
C. Let us for the moment adopt your illustration. You all, in accordance with the
Qur'an (and the Gospel), acknowledge that Jesus is alive and that Muhammad is dead and
buried. If you are a Haji, you have doubtless seen Muhammad's grave at Medina and noticed
that the grave prepared beside it for Jesus is empty. Hence the