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91you 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 PrinceProphet 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 anotherman likeMuhammad (pbuh) , who hasrendered 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 soworthy 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 vizierin 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 wonderthat 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.