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the words “ Moses* is he that conversed with Gop,” and the 
latter the phrase “ Jesus is the Word of Gop,” the concluding 
section of the Muhammadan creed has now finally, by the 
Divine decree, taken the place, for all true Believers, of the 
previous temporary and imperfect conclusions. Hence no 
one can in any true sense be a Muhammadan who accepts 
the three great truths we have above enumerated but refuses 
to give his adherence toall the rest of Muhammad ’sf teaching. 
It would be manifestly incorrect, therefore, to regard these 
truths as the foundation upon which the faith rests. On the 
contrary, it is based entirely upon Muhammad’s unsupported 
claim to be the last and greatest of the Prophets. 
Muhammad is reported to have summed up the chief doctrines 
and injunctions of his religion in the following} words :— 
“Tslam is founded upon five points: (1), the testifying that 
there is no God but Gop, and that Muhammad is His Servant 
and His Apostle: (2), the offering of prayer: (3), the pay- 
ment of Zakdt (alms fixed by Divine law): (4), the 
Pilgrimage§$ to Mecca: (5), and Fasting during Ramadhan. 
Muhammad’s teaching, even with reference to the three 
great truths previously mentioned, is not free from grave 
defects. It is the glory of Islim that it teaches that Gop 
alone should be worshipped, that it recognises GOD as 
Personal, Omniscient and Almighty, the Creator and Pre- 
server, the Master and Judge of all Creation. But of a Gop 
of infinite holiness, of infinite justice, and of infinite love, 
Muhammad had no idea whatever. Among the ninety-nine 
Titles or Names| of Gop repeated by Muslims, the name of 
Father does not occur. Not only so, but the use of such a 
+ 
Masabih, Bombay (Arabic) Edition, p. 487, etc.; also Qisaswl, Anbiyd, 
near beginning. 
* Vide Mishkat, pp. 505, 506. 
+ Cf. “Rustim-i Hind,” Muhammadan portion (PI. II), p. 261: “In 
the opinion of Muslims, Faith is the pivot upon which all kinds of good 
works turn, and the root of all acts of worship. And its great support is 
to believe in and trust with sincerity of heart to whatever things his Excellency 
Muhammad stated.” 
t Mishkét, Bk. I, p. 4. 
§ Mr. Bosworth Smith’s contention that the Hajj or Pilgrimage to 
Mecca is no essential of Muhammadanism is thus incorrect. As we see, 
it is, on the contrary, one of the fundamental matters insisted upon by 
Muhammad. This one matter will serve to show (what it is hardly 
necessary to demonstrate at full length) that Isl4m is as purely local a 
faith as Judaism originally was. 
|| Given fully in Mishkat, Aitdb Asmd-illdh ta‘dla’, p. 191, sq. 
