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you cannot get out of it; for in either case the Barnasha
could not be Jesus (pbuh) .

(b) If Jesus (pbuh) was commissioned to destroy the
fourth Beast, then instead of paying poll-tax or tribute
to Ceasar and submitting himself to be bastinadoed or
whipped by the Roman governor Pilate, he would have
chased away the Roman legions from Palestine and saved
his country and people.

4. There has never lived upon this earth a Prince-
Prophet like Muhammad (pbuh) , who belonged to a dynasty
that reigned for a long period of about 2,500 years, was
absolutely independent and never bent its neck under a
foreign yoke. And certainly there has never been seen on
earth another man like Muhammad (pbuh) , who has rendered
more material and moral service to his own nation in
particular and to the world in general. It is impossible to
imagine another human being as dignified and so worthy
as Muhammad (pbuh) for such a magnificent glory and
honour as depicted in the prophetical vision. Let us just
compare the great Prophet Daniel with the Barnasha he
was beholding with awe and wonder. Daniel was a slave or
captive, though raised to the dignity of a vizier in the courts
of Babylon and Susa; he worshipped an angel, but was
forbidden. What would, in the presence of the Almighty,
be his position when compared with Muhammad (pbuh) ,
who would be crowned as the Sultan of the Prophets, the
Leader of mankind, and the object of the angels’ homage
and admiration? Small wonder that the Prophet David (pbuh)
calls Muhammad (pbuh) “My Lord” (Psa, c. 10).

5. It is no wonder to find that on his night-journey to
Heaven Muhammad (pbuh) was received with the highest
honours by the Almighty and invested with power
to extirpate idolatry and the blasphemous Horn from
countries given by God to him and to his people as an
everlasting heritage.