The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 103
Status of the Promised Messiahas This cool breeze has started blowing after a long inter- val; only God knows when these days and this spring will return. People know nothing of the relationship that I have with my Beloved; He has become mine my life is all His. At times I am Adamas, at times I am Mosesas and at times Jacobas. Also I am Abrahams; and my progeny is countless. I am a tree that bears David-like fruits; as I am Davidas, so is Goliath my quarry. Like Jesusas, I would have been drawn upon the cross; had it not been for the name of Ahmads upon which I rely wholly. 103 [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part V, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, pp. 131-133] I desire no domain, my domain is apart from all others; what have I to do with crowns, my crown is the pleasure of my Beloved. I dwell in the sky, what concern have I with the earth; the dwellers of heaven have nothing to do with the earth. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part V, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 141] The garden of Adam which was still unfinished is laden with fruit and leaves with my coming. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part V, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 144] The treasures which had remained buried through cen- turies are now being distributed by me to those who seek them. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part V, Rūņānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 147] Why do you hesitate to accept this Messiah, whose re-