ing that the manifestation of Book of Dajjal as well as that of the Most Glorious one, in the time of the Imam Qaim (or Promised Mahd ii' is one of the plain and distinct promises of the Most High God." And it was obviously on the basis of this belief that Abul Fazal called Mirza Yahya, the Subh-i-Azal as Dajjal, The Law of the Holy Quran, the Bahais argue, was undoubtedly the infallible word of the Most High Gad; but it is no longer effective to produce any spiritual good, the Adamic cycle having come to a close and the cycle of Divine Manifestation having set in.
And the Holy Prophet for the same rea sony they say, i9 the Last Prophet, and no prophet will appear after him. So, the Law of Islam, they contend, has ceased to function, having been abrogated by the Law of Islam of Bahaullah. The argument adduced, it can be easily understood, revolves round one point that the present age of Science and invention has outgrown the fourteen centuries Old Law of Islam, and that the claim asserted on its behalf that it is the Final and Perfect Law to hold good for all time to come, cannot be accepted. The Holy Quran is a Living Book, and the Law contained therein is a Living Law which shall endure and abide as long 8S man endures and abides on this earth, to give him guidance in the resolution of all the problems of his life, spiritual, moral, political as well as economical. The Holy Qur an, it may be stated is not the first book, the primer of Divine Law which should be replaced by a more advanced book as humanity progress. Nor is the Holy Prophet the first apostle of God with a message for the guidance of human kind. Man, ever since his creation,
2-1 has al ways stood in need of divine guidance and direction, so that Providence Divine has sent more than a hundred thousand apostles and prophets from time to time, with the divine Law which expanded and evolved gradually as human intellect and faculties developed. This Great Law reached its last degree of perfection with the Quranic revelation; and if the Bahais' statement that they believe the Holy Quran to be the word of the Mest High God, is not a trick of taqiy ya to gull and dupe the ignorant Muslims, we draw their attention to the clear, categorical pronouncement of the Holy Quran (5 : 3): This day have I perfected for you your religion and completed My favour to you and chosen for you Islam as a religion. That "any of the prophets, Krishna Buddha, Jesns or Moses, could have made the same statement, "claiming that his message was the final Revelation, is a mere figment of ingenuity. These and the whole host of them, were, as a matter of fact, national prophets who had been raised only for the guidance of their own people; and unlike Bahaullah who changed his claim with the popular and political conditions around him, these true and righteous apostles
25 -of God said only what they had been comman.ded to say. To meet the requirements of -their people they had beea given fragments .of the Great Law which was, last of all, revealed in toto in the Quranic revelation. These national prophets, however, gave their peoples the glad tididgs of the coming of the 'World Prophet who was to bear the divine 'Law in all its perfection and comprehensiveness. 'The Mahamad Rishi foretold in the Hindu Scriptures; the Metteyya of Mahatma Buddha who was to be the teacher of gods and men; the Astvatereta, the Mercy for the world, -the most compassionate conqueror from among the Arabs who will clear the Ka'aba of Abraham of all idols, foretold by Zoroaster; the Moseslike prophet of the Torah, was none else than the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be upon him). Of him said .Jesus in the Gospel: I have yet many things to say unto you but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth." The Law, as stated by Jesus, was to be perfected with the advent of the Holy Prophet of Arabia.
'their If the Bahais are true and sincere in profession that the Holy Quran is the
Word of the Most High God, we write them with the best of our 