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for thee O beloved Muhammad (pbuh) , We would not have
created the worlds” (or heavens). But the highest honour
and glory granted by Allah to His most esteemed Apostle
was that he was commissioned to establish and to perfect
the true religion of Allah, under the mane of “Islam,”
which, like the name of its founder Muhammad (pbuh) , has
so very many consolating and salubrious significations;
“peace, security, safety, tranquillity, salvation,” and
“the Good” in opposition to “the Evil”; besides those of
submission and resignation to the will of Allah.

4. The vision by which the pious Shepherds were

honoured on the birth of Jesus Christ (pbuh) was timely
and opportune. For a great Missioner of Allah, a holy
Evangelist of Islam was born on that night. As Jesus (pbuh)
was the Herald of the Kingdom of Allah, so was his Gospel
an Introduction to the Quran. The advent of Jesus (pbuh) was
the beginning of a new era in the history of religion and
morals. He himself was not the “Mahamod” who was to
come afterwards to destroy the Evil One and his Kingdom
of Idolatry in the Promised Lands. The “Fourth Beast,” the
mighty Roman Power, was still growing and expanding
its conquests. Jerusalem, with its gorgeous temple and
priesthood, was to be destroyed by that Beast. Jesus (pbuh)
“came to his own people; but that people received him
not.” And those among the Jews who received him were
made “children of the Kingdom,” but the rest dispersed
in the world. Then followed the ten terrible persecutions
under the pagan Roman Emperors which were to crown
thousands with the diadem of martyrdom; and Constantine
the Great and his successors were allowed to trample
upon the true believers in the unity of Allah. Then it was
that Muhammad (pbuh) - not a god or son of a god, but “the
glorious, the coveted, the most illustrious Son of Man, the
perfect Barnasha”- was to come and destroy the Beast.