A Call to Faith — Page 22
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 22 spiritually. Or to put it another way: in a literal and metaphorical sense. The purpose of both these advents was the same; to show fresh divine signs to the people and teach them manifest and subtle interpretations of the sharia in order to purify them. So in their hostility to the Promised Messiah as , Muslims accept the physical advent of the Prophet sa but deny his spiritual coming and thereby falsify the clear meaning of this verse and many others which cannot be mentioned here, as well as hundreds of ahadith and thousands of visions seen by Muslim saints about the arrival of the Messiah over the last 1300 years. Those who deny this may misinterpret the meaning of this Qur’anic verse or tamper with a hadith, but they cannot conceal one verse after another nor can they hide hundreds of ahadith and thousands of visions. Not a single eminent personality has ever seen a vision regarding the physical ascent of the Messiah to heaven. Conversely, almost all saints foretold something about his advent. To deny the coming of the Messiah is to reject the Qur’an, the hadith and the holy personages of the past. What can remain of Islam after so absolute a repudiation? I appeal to all Muslims who grieve over the plight of Islam to recognise this treacherous mischief and look to combat it. If they have not comprehended the truth of the founder of Ahmadiyyat then what of it, let them await the hour of God Almighty’s blessings. However,