Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 380
380 BARĀHIN-E-AHMADIYYA - PART FIVE And if there is an iota of fairness, you would realise that Hadrat Masīḥ, may peace be upon him, was himself against the belief that someone can go to heaven and then return to the world. Therefore, when the Jews asked him about the second coming of the Prophet Ilyas [Elijah] and showed him the Scriptures-that it was written that Ilyas would return to the world, and only after the coming of Ilyas, the Messiah whose advent had been promised to the Jews, would come and he was to be the Khātamul-Anbiyā' [Seal of their Prophets]. Hearing this objection, 'Isā, may peace be upon him, said that Prophet Yahya [John the Baptist] who was among them and has come before him [Jesus] 'He is Ilyas who is to come. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!¹. His statement greatly displeased the Jews and they labelled him disbeliever, an innovator, and violator of the consensus of the people. In the same vein, in a book recently compiled by a great Jewish have perished. For, in that case, today's mischievous ulema would have con- tended that the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, too believed that Hadrat 'Isā is alive. But now, due to the presentation of Siddique the Great this verse, an ijmā has formed among all the Companions that all past Prophets had died-even couplets were composed reflecting this consensus. May God shower thousands of blessings upon Abū Bakr's soul. He saved all souls from perdition. All the Companions were included in this ijmā, not even a single one of them was out of it. It was the first ijmāʻ of the Companions and was an act deserving of the utmost gratitude. There is a mutual similarity be- tween Abū Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, and the Promised Messiah, namely, the promise of God, in the Holy Quran, regarding both of them was that they would appear at a time when a state of fear will prevail upon Islam and a chain of apostasy will start. So, that is exactly what happened in the time of Hadrat Abū Bakr, and in the time of the Promised Messiah. That is, in the time of Hadrat Abū Bakr hundreds of ignorant Arabs had turned apostate after the demise of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and there remained only two mosques where prayers were held. Hadrat Abū Bakr re-established them on Islam. Similarly, in the time of the Promised Messiah hundreds of thousands of people renounced Islam and be- came Christians. Both these circumstances are mentioned in the Holy Quran, that is, they are mentioned by way of a prophecy. (Author) 1. Matthew 11:15 [Publisher]