Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 60
NU S R AT U L- H AQ Q — HE L P OF G OD 60 twelve thrones for his disciples, of whom one later became an apostate. His claim of being the King of the Jews was also proved baseless, so then he had to give the interpretation that he meant ‘Heavenly Kingdom’. Hadrat Mas ih [the Messiah] had also prophesied that the people of that time would still be alive when he would return to this world, but this, too, proved to be clearly false. Likewise, it had been prophesied by the previous Prophets that the Messiah would not come until Ily a s [Elijah] returned to this world, but Ily a s did not come. Nevertheless, Jesus son of Mary claimed to be the Messiah who had been promised even though Ily a s did not return to the world! When he was asked about the promise regarding Ily a s, he said that Y uh ann a [ John the Baptist]—that is, the Prophet Ya h y a —was Ily a s so that he might some- how qualify himself to be the promised Messiah; all this despite the fact that the previous Prophets had made no such interpretation and the Prophet Ya h y a himself believed that the coming Ily a s mentioned in the prophecy was meant to be the same Ily a s who had passed away. But the Messiah—that is, Yas u ‘ bin Maryam [ Jesus son of Mary]— opposed the consensus of the previous Prophets and all the sages in declaring Ya h y a —his own mentor—to be the Ily a s who was supposed to return. Strangely enough, Ya h y a himself denies being Ily a s, but Yas u ‘ ibn Maryam insisted on propping him up as Ily a s nevertheless. Now, it is a point worth considering that the Jews derived no ben- efit whatsoever from the Signs shown by the Messiah, may peace be upon him. To this day they claim that he worked no miracles; it was only trickery and deceit. This is why the Messiah was forced to say that the adulterous generation of his age sought a Sign from him; there shall no Sign be given unto them. The example of miracles is, in fact, like the light of a moonlit night, a part of which is obscured by clouds; however, this light is of no use to a night-blind person who cannot see anything at night. It can never happen—nor has it ever happened—that miracles will manifest in this world in the same manner in which they will manifest on the Day of Resurrection. For example, it can never happen that two or three