Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 348
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 348 before My eyes and do not plead for the transgressors and do not be an intercessor on their behalf, for I shall cause them all to drown. ’ There are other similarly explicit revelations of God and the gist of them all is that that this prophecy will come about in my lifetime and in my very age, and this is the limit that is determined and fixed which it can- not exceed. It is not known, however, whether it will come about after months or after weeks or after years; in any case, it will not exceed six- teen years. This is similar to the statement that the life of the world starting from Hadrat A dam is 7,000 years as inferred from Quranic verses, of which 6,000 have elapsed until our own time, as may be reckoned by the numerical value of the letters of S u rah al-‘A s r. We are now in the sev- enth millennium according to the lunar calculation, and the Promised Messiah, who was to be raised at the end of the sixth millennium, has already appeared. 1 ٭ 1. ٭ God created Adam on the sixth day, Friday, at the time of ‘A s r. This is what is established by the Torah, Quran, and the Hadith. And God has or- dained seven days for mankind, and, as against these days, one day of God spans a thousand years. It is inferred on this basis that the age of the world, starting from Adam, is seven thousand years, and the sixth millennium— which corresponds to the sixth day—is the day for the advent of the Second Adam. That is, it is destined that in the sixth millennium the spirit of right- eousness would disappear from the world, and people would become ex- tremely heedless and irreligious. Then will the Promised Messiah appear to re-establish man’s spiritual dispensation. And, like the first Adam, he will appear at the end of the sixth millennium which is the sixth day of God. So has he appeared, and he is none other than the one who is proclaiming the truth through this writing at this time. My being named Adam here is meant to point out that the perfect individual of the genus man started with Adam and ended with Adam too, for the shape of this world is cir- cular and the climax of a circle is it should end at the point from where it started. Thus, was it necessary to name the Kh a tamul-Khulaf a ’ [Seal of the Successors] as ‘Adam’. And for this very reason, just as Adam was born a twin, my birth is also twin; and just as Adam was born on a Friday, so was I born on a Friday as well; and just as the angels raised objection about Adam, so did the revelation of Allah come down concerning me which is as