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165for 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 ofAllah.4. The vision by which the pious Shepherds werehonoured 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) wasthe Herald ofthe Kingdom ofAllah,so was his Gospel an Introduction to the Quran. The advent ofJesus(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 afterwardsto destroy the Evil One and his Kingdom of Idolatry in the Promised Lands. The “FourthBeast,” 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 diademofmartyrdom; andConstantine 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 theBeast.