The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 46
46 Essence of Islam-IV advent and who, in the estimation of God, has been sufficiently apprised of his Prophethood, if such a one dies a disbeliever he would be condemned to eternal perdition. [Haqiqat-ul-Wahī, Rūķānī Khazā'in, vol. 22, pp. 184-185] In Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, God Almighty has named me 'Īsā, and has told me that He and His Messen- gersa had prophesied my advent. But as a body of Muslims was firmly of the faith and I too be- lieved that Jesusas would descend from heaven, I was not inclined to construe God's revelation liter- ally but interpreted it differently and continued in the belief which I shared with the common Muslims and even set it forth in Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah. Thereafter, Divine revelations descended upon me like torrential rain, affirming that I am the Promised Messiah who was to come. At the same time hun- dreds of signs appeared, and both heaven and earth rose to affirm my truthfulness. The bright signs of God compelled me to believe that I am the Messiah that was to come in the latter days. This was despite the fact that my earlier belief was that which I had set down in Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah. Not relying en- tirely upon the revelation that was vouchsafed to me, I sought adjudication from the Holy Qur'an and I was convinced by several conclusive verses that Je- sus son of Maryas had indeed died, and that the last Khalifah would appear from among the Muslims un- der the title of the Promised Messiah. As there is no darkness left after the dawn of day, in the same way,