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in scripto from its supposed founder, Jesus (pbuh) Christ, has
done no good to mankind. On the contrary, it has caused
divisions and sects, all imbued with bitter feelings of hatred
and rancour against each other.

The Messenger, then, was commissioned with the
abrogating of both those religions and the establishing of
the ancient religion of Abraham and (pbtuhem) and the other
Prophets, with new precepts for all men. It was to be the
shortest road to “reach” God; the simplest religion to
worship Him, and the safest Faith to remain ever pure and
unadulterated with superstition and stupid dogmas. The
Messenger was commissioned to prepare a road, a religion
that will conduct all who wish to believe in and love the
One God without having need of the leadership of hundreds
of self-appointed guides and pretenders. And above all, the
Messenger was to come suddenly to his temple, whether
it be the one in Jerusalem or the one in Makkah; he was
to root out all idolatry in those countries, not only by the
destruction of idols and images, but also inculcating in
their former worshippers the faith in one true Allah. And
the accomplishment of this stupendous task, namely, to
construct a new Path, a universal religion, that teaches that
between God and man no absolute mediator, no priest, saint
or sacrament, is at all permissible, has only been done by
an apostle whose name is Muhammad al Mustapha (pbuh) !

2. John Baptist (pbuh) was not the Messenger foretold
by Malakhi. The accounts given about him by the four
Evangelists are very contradictory, but the one thing
that they together agree on is that he prepared no way at
all; for he was not accredited with a sacred scripture: he
neither founded a religion nor reformed the old one. He
is reported to have left his parents and home while still
a youth; he lived in the desert on honey and the locust;
and spent there his life until he was about thirty years old,
when he showed himself to the multitudes on the banks