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105Was it, then Muhammad (pbuh) whom David (pbuh) calls“my Lord” or “my Adon”? Let us see.The arguments in favour of Muhammad (pbuh) , who is styled “Sayyidu’ l Mursalīn,” the same as “Adon of the Prophets,” are decisive; they are so evident and explicit in the words of the Old Testament that one is astonished at the ignorance and the obstinacy of those who refuse to understand and obey.1. The greatest Prophet and Adon, in the eyes of God and man, is not a great conqueror and destroyer of mankind, nor a holy recluse who spends his life in a cave or cell to meditate upon God only to save himself, but one who renders more good and service to mankind by bringing them into the light of the knowledge of the One true God, and by utterly destroying the Power of the Devil and his abominable idols and wicked institutions. It was Muhammad (pbuh) who “bruised the head of the Serpent ,[1]” and that is why the Quran rightly calls the Devil “Iblīs,” namely, “the Bruised One”! He purged the Temple ofthe Ka’ba and all Arabia of the idols, and gave light, religion, happiness, and power to the ignorant Arab idolaters, who in a short time spread that light into the four directions of the earth. In the service of God, the works and the success of Muhammad (pbuh are incomparable andunrivalled.The prophets, Saints, and Martyrs form the army of God against the Power of the Devil; and Muhammad (pbuh) alone is decidedly the Commander-in-Chief of them all. He is, indeed, alone the Adon and Lord not only of David(pbuh but of all the Prophets, for he has purified Palestine and all the countries visited by Abraham (pbuh of idolatry and foreign yoke.2. Since Jesus (pbuh) Christ admits that he himself was[1] See the Islamic Review for October 1926, my article “Why the Quran calls theDevil ‘Iblis.’” (The author).