Ahmadiyyat or Qadianism! Islam or Apostasy? — Page 136
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. The fact that our beloved Prophet's Traditions in relation to the advent of the Messiah contain a multiplicity of Signs cannot be denied. . However, an average Muslim's expectation that these Signs are expected to be fulfilled literally is infact a vanity of a futile mind such as is not unknown to the history of mankind. . History indicates that on the basis of certain prophesies by earlier prophets, the Jewish nation had 'yearned for a promised deliverer to free them from the yoke of foreign domination and establish his own reign of peace by putting an end to the impious rule of the hated foreign usurpers. " It was commonly held that this Promised Deliverer would be from the house of. David; and that he would be a ruler in Israel 6 - whom God would set up as a king upon the holy hill of Zion' and upon the throne of David. 9 8. The Jewish people also believed that ‘before the great and dreadful day of the lord, the Almighty Lord will send Prophet Elijah,' ' a forerunner who would 'first come and restore all things for the Messiah's advent. "10 On the basis of earlier prophesies, Jews also maintained that the Messiah promised would then literally descend from above with the cloud of heaven,¹¹ riding upon an ass and upon a colt 12 and after this unique advent he would be given domination and glory and kingdom and all the people and nations and languages would then serve him. 13. Ironically, when the Messiah prophesied by the Hebrew Prophets finally arrived, the children of Israel not only rejected him but also denounced him as a liar. . A critic of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community comments upon this ingnominious rejection of the long awaited Messiah by the Jewish people and states: 'The Jews had long awaited the advent of the Masih who would be 4. The Jewish Encyclopedia: Vol 8 6. Micah 5. 2 10. Matthew 17. 11 7. Psalms 2. 6 11. Daniel 7. 13 5. Psalms 132. 11 8. Isaiah 9. 7 9. Malachi 4. 5 12 Zecharia 9. 9 13. Daniel 7. 14 137