Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 538
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 538 Thus, the prophecy concerning the coming of ‘ I s a was for this ummah like the prophecy concerning the coming of Prophet Ily a s was for the Jews. Therefore, it was to establish this similarity that I was named ‘ I s a. And not just that the deniers of this ‘ I s a who were to appear in this Ummah were called ‘Jews’, to which the verse 1 ِرْيَغ ِبْوُضْغَمْلا ْمِهْيَلَع refers, i. e. the ‘Jews’ who deny the ‘ I s a of this Ummah are akin to the Jews who did not accept Hadrat ‘ I s a. Thus, in this way a perfect similarity was established, in that—just as the Jews who were waiting the return of Prophet Ily a s did not believe in Hadrat ‘ I s a on the pretext that Ily a s had not returned—these people did not believe in the ‘ I s a of this Ummah only for the excuse that the Israelite Hadrat ‘ I s a had not returned. A similarity was thus established between the Jews who had not believed in Hadrat ‘ I s a because Ily a s had not returned, and these Jews who await the second coming of Hadrat ‘ I s a. And this was what God had desired. Just as a similarity between the Israelite Jews and these ‘Jews’ stands proven, so is the similarity between the Israelite ‘ I s a and this ‘ I s a , who I am, of the perfect order. That ‘ I s a was rejected from the perspective of the Jews because a Prophet did not return to the world, and similarly this ‘ I s a —who I am—was rejected from the perspective of these ‘Jews’ because a Prophet did not return to the world. And it is quite obvious that the people who are labelled as ‘Jews of this Ummah’—and to whom the verse 2 ِرْيَغ ِبْوُضْغَمْلا ْمِهْيَلَع refers—are not the actual Jews, but are indeed people of this Ummah who have been named Jews. Likewise, this ‘ I s a is also not the actual ‘ I s a who was a Prophet from among the Israelites; rather, he is from within this Ummah as well. It is far removed from Almighty God’s grace and mercy that He has for this Ummah that he should give it the title of ‘Jews’— rather, give them the title of those Jews who had called Hadrat ‘ I s a a disbeliever and liar on the basis of the argument that Prophet Ily a s was to return—but He should not give an individual from this Ummah the 1. Those who have not incurred displeasure ( S u rah al-F a ti h ah, 1:7). [Publisher] 2. Those who have not incurred displeasure ( S u rah al-F a ti h ah, 1:7). [Publisher]