Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 387
APPE N DI X to B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 387 death of Holy Prophet, may peace and blessing of Allah be upon him, all the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, had reached an ijm a ‘ [consensus] that all past Prophets, which includes Hadrat ‘ I s a too, were deceased, and that not one of them was still alive. But as ignorance and innovations began to find their way into Islam, so did this innovation become part of the religion that Hadrat ‘ I s a would leave the group of souls of the dead and return to the world again. This doctrine has done great harm to Islam, for only one person out of the entire world has been accorded this distinction that he went to heaven with his body and will come back with the body at some point in time. This doctrine is the initial brick in building the ‘Divinity’ of Hadrat ‘ I s a , because he has been accorded a distinction that no one else shares with him. May God soon remove this stain from the face of Islam. A m i n. Finally, merely for the sake of God, I would like to advise Maulaw i Ab u Sa‘ i d Muhammad H usain that you have reached the last stage of your life. Now you should give up absurd shenanigans against God. You tried very hard and connived in every way and used shameful ploys to extinguish this light, but you remained unsuccessful. Had I been an impostor, something must have worked for you and I would have been destroyed long ago. A person who speaks falsehood against God every day and who concocts words on his own—thereafter claiming it to be the revelation from God that he has received—such a person is worse than dogs and swine and apes, so how would it be possible for God to help him? Had this been the enterprise of man and not from God, then no trace of it would have remained. It has been twenty-five years—indeed, an even longer period than this!— since I claimed that I am from God. Although there has been a whole host of people who showed the fury of opposition to my claim, but you—Maulaw i Sahib!—left no stone unturned to harm me; and you kept deceiving not only the public but even the British Government with complaints that I was an impostor and wished ill towards the Government. Grave charges like murder were brought against me