By God — Page 13
13 I have been informed by the pure and holy revelation of God that I have been sent by Him as the Promised Messiah and Promised Mahdi and the Arbiter for internal and external disagreements. The two names Messiah and Reformer were bestowed upon me by the Holy Prophet sa and then, God through His direct converse gave me the same names and then the current state of the world demanded that these be my names. Thus, these are the three witnesses for my name. I present my God, who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth as a Witness and state that I am from Him and He, through His signs bears testimony to my truthfulness. (Arba'in No. 1, Ruhani Khaza’in, Volume 17, page 345) (B) A person from Bareili, once wrote to the founder of the Ahmadiyya Community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , asking him whether he was the same Promised Messiah whose advent was foretold by the Holy Prophet sa and asked the Promised Messiah to swear and answer. Huzoor as took oath and replied thus: I have made this statement clear unto people earlier as well by taking oath in my books and now again, in this note, I hereby swear in the name of God and state that He, in Whose hands is my life that I am the Promised Messiah, whose advent was foretold by the Holy Prophet sa