Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 184
A GRAND PROPHECY FULFILLED. Traditions suggest that our beloved Prophet, Hazrat Muhammed. Mustapha, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, once declared that 'at some point in time, in the history of his Ummah, there would be such affinity in the state of minds of the Muslims and the Jews, that it would be difficult to differentiate between them just as it is difficult to differentiate between a pair of shoes. ' 59 In rejecting Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of. Qadian as the Promised Messiah of the Muhammedian dispensation on the alleged grounds that 'he did not physically descend from the sky in the manner prescribed' by some interpolated Traditions bearing upon the advent of the Promised Messiah, Muslim scholars of our age appear to have been guilty of the same folly which was committed by their Jewish counterparts some 2000 years ago, at the time when they rejected the. Promised Messiah of the Mosaic dispensation, Jesus Christ, the son of the virgin, Mary. . At the time of Jesus's advent, scholars of Judaism anticipated that a 'transcendent figure would appear from heaven in the similtiudes of Enoch' 60 who, it was generally believed, had been ‘taken to heaven and transformed as he walked with God. ' 61 Some schools of thought expected a similar figure to 'come up from the mysterious depths of the sea' 62 and yet others awaited his descent from the clouds. ' 63. Jesus Christ, upon whom be peace, did not arrive in any of these allegedly prescribed ways and hence the entire breed of Hebrew scholars repudiated his prophethood and denounced him as, God forbid, an imposter and a renegade. . Ironically, Muslim scholars of this day and age are victims of similar ignorance for which they themselves blame the scholars of the Jewish nation. For instance, one anti Ahmadiyya author states in his extremely crude and unrefined article on the question of Jesus's anticipated second advent: [QUOTE] 'My advice to Muslims, therefore is to be on guard 59. Jami of Tirmidhi; Abwab al Iman 61. Genesis 5. 24 62. Ezra Chapter 13 185 -60. Enoch 37. 71 63. Daniel 7. 13