Every discerning observer will recognize that in the Dispensation of the Qur’an both the Book and the Cause of Jesus were confirmed.  As to the matter of names, Muhammad, Himself, declared:  “I am Jesus.”  He recognized the truth of the signs, prophecies, and words of Jesus, and testified that they were all of God.  In this sense, neither the person of Jesus nor His writings hath differed from that of Muhammad and of His holy Book, inasmuch as both have championed the Cause of God, uttered His praise, and revealed His commandments.  Thus it is that Jesus, Himself, declared:  “I go away and come again unto you.”  Consider the sun.  Were it to say now, “I am the sun of yesterday,” it would speak the truth.  And should it, bearing the sequence of time in mind, claim to be other than that sun, it still would speak the truth.  In like manner, if it be said that all the days are but one and the same, it is correct and true.  And if it be said, with respect to their particular names and designations, that they differ, that again is true.  For though they are the same, yet one doth recognize in each a separate designation, a specific attribute, a particular character.  Conceive accordingly the distinction, variation, and unity characteristic of the various Manifestations of holiness, that thou mayest comprehend the allusions made by the creator of all names and attributes to the mysteries of distinction and unity, and discover the answer to thy question as to why that everlasting Beauty should have, at sundry times, called Himself by different names and titles.

Afterwards, the companions and disciples of Jesus asked Him concerning those signs that must needs signalize the return of His manifestation.  When, they asked, shall these things be?  Several times they questioned that peerless Beauty, and, every time He made reply, He set forth a special sign that should herald the advent of the promised Dispensation.  To this testify the records of the four Gospels.

This wronged One will cite but one of these instances, thus conferring upon mankind, for the sake of God, such bounties as are yet concealed within the treasury of the hidden and sacred Tree, that haply mortal men may not remain deprived of their share of the immortal fruit, and attain to a dewdrop of the waters of everlasting life which, from Baghdad, the “Abode of Peace,” are being vouchsafed unto all mankind.  We ask for neither meed nor reward.  “We nourish your souls for the sake of God; we seek from you neither recompense nor thanks."(16) This is the food that conferreth everlasting life upon the pure in heart and the illumined in spirit.  This is the bread of which it is said:  “Lord, send down upon us Thy bread from heaven."(17) This bread shall never be withheld from them that deserve it, nor can it ever be exhausted.  It groweth everlastingly from the tree of grace; it descendeth at all seasons from the heavens of justice and mercy.  Even as He saith:  “Seest thou not to what God likeneth a good word?  To a good tree; its root firmly fixed, and its branches reaching unto heaven:  yielding its fruit in all seasons."(18)