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had disappointed them, and concentrated all their hopes
in the coming of the Periqlyte.

(b) The Quránic revelation that Jesus (pbuh) ,the son
of Mary, declared unto the people of Israel that he was
“bringing glad tidings of an apostle, who shall come
after me and whose name shall be Ahmad,”is one of the
strongest proofs that Muhammad (pbuh) was truly a Prophet
and that the Quran is really a divine revelation. He could
never have known that the Periqlyte meant Ahmad, unless
through inspiration and divine revelation. The authority of
the Quran is decisive and final; for the literal signification
of the Greek name exactly and indisputably corresponds
with Ahmad and Muhammad (pbuh) .

Indeed, the Angel Gabriel, or the Holy Spirit, seems
even to have distinguished the positive from the superlative
form the former signifying precisely Muhammad (pbuh) and
the latter Ahmad.

It is marvellous that this unique name, never before
given to any other person, was miraculously preserved
for the most Illustrious and Praiseworthy Apostle of
Allah! We never come across any Greek bearing the
name Periqleitos (or Periqlytos), nor any Arab bearing
the name of Ahmad. True, there was a famous Athenian
called Periqleys which means “illustrious,” etc., but not
in the superlative degree.

(c) It is quite clear from the description of the
Fourth Gospel that Periqlyte is a definite person,
a created holy spirit, who would come and dwell
in a human body to perform and accomplish the
prodigious work assigned to him by God, which no
other man, including Moses, Jesus (pbtuhem) , and any
other prophet, had ever accomplished.

We, of course, do not deny that the disciples of
Jesus (pbuh) did receive the Spirit of God, that the true