Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 192
192 individuals from among the Muslims would be called Ibn-i-Mar- yam (the Son of Mary), for in that chapter at first thefaitbful are compared to Mary and afterwards the breathing of a soul into her (i. e. , the faithful like her) is mentioned. This indicates that the faithful who observe complete obedience to Divine command^ ments and make themselves like Mary, will be rewarded by God by being made Christ-like. It is in reference to the attainment of this stage that Almighty God says of me in a revelation pub- lished in the Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya: '&*) ) O^ ^j 3 ^ ) V! /1 fiy b " Mary ! Enter thou and thy friends into paradise ;" and again : ftj ^ y* b "0 Mary! I have breathed into thee the soul of truth," (thus symbolically Mary was impregnated with truth) ; and last of all : ^J ) <-& fy 3 ^-&*-^J ) &~*P k "-0 Jesus! I will cause thee to die a natural death and would then raise thee to Myself," where I am addressed as Jesus Christ as if raised from the dignity of Mary to the dignity of Christ Thus the promise contained in the Tahrim has been fulfilled in me, and I am named by God as the son of Mary. Again, in the chapter entitled the Nur (Light), Almighty God says that successors to the Holy Prophet would be raised from among the Muhammadans like to the successors that were raised to Moses as in the verse ^i ^ J ) ^^^ ) ^u^; ^ )^y jV^V^ (^ e/* From the Holy Quran it also appears that the religion of Islam would witness two terrible disasters which would endanger its very life. One of these came upon Islam with the death of the Holy prophet and was averted at the hands of Abu Bakr, the first caliph according to Divine promise. The second disaster according to the Holy Quran would be the evil that would be wrought by the Anti-Christ, to repel which the Promised Mes- siah would appear. It is to this great evil that the concluding words of the Fatiha, which every Muslim must repeat in his