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231had 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 meantAhmad, 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 eventohavedistinguishedthepositive fromthe superlative form the formersignifying 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