spurious." Their saying is scornful, and their rank and station lowered. After these mentioned denials and contradictions, they said that according to the Books, no independent Prophet should arise after Moses and Jesus to abolish the Law, but one should come who would consummate the Law. Therefore this blessed verse indicating all the Divine matter and proving that the bounties of the Merciful will never cease, was revealed: "Joseph came unto you before (Moses) with evident (signs); but ye ceased not to doubt of the (religion) which he preached unto you until, when he died, ye said, 'God will by no means send (another) apostle after him!' Thus doth God cause him to err who is a transgressor and a sceptic" (K. S. 40) . Consequently understand from this verse and be convinced that in every age, the people clinging to a verse of the Book, have made similar vain statements that no other Prophet should appear in the world. For instance, the divines of the Gospel sought to prove through a formerly mentioned verse,[1] that the decree of the Gospel shall never be abolished and that no independent Prophet shall arise except to confirm the Law of the Gospel. Most of the nations are afflicted with the same soul-sickness. Ye behold how the people of the Koran, like former nations, are veiled by the statement: "The Seal of the Prophets." Although they themselves confess the saying: " Only God knoweth the interpretation thereof, and those
- ↑ Matt. xxiv., 35.
