Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 275
275 their own notions of ifc. Bab their expectation was vain and- their hope a delusion. With that Divine law before them, and with the God of their fathers above their heads, the opponents of God's Messenger should consider lest they were tried by God in the same manner as the rejecters of the prophets before them. In short, such considerations, when duly weighed, shall at last turn their rninds to accept the rejected and suffering Messenger of heaven, as was the case with the prophets of by-gone times. (Yol. I. E. E. 1902. ) An Interpretation of the Promised Messiah's descent with two yellow mantles on. I have been suffering from two diseases for over twenty years, vertigo and diabetes,- which disappear temporarily upon prayer. On one occasion I prayed to God that they may dis- appear permanently, but the answer was that this shall not be. Then I knew that the continuance of these two diseases is in fact a sign of the Promised Messiah, for it is written that he shall descend with two yellow mantles on. The interpretation of this prophecy (for prophecy like vision sometimes requires to be interpreted) is plainly this that he shall be suffering from two diseases, because a yellow mantle ir-i a vision represents a disease as given in all authoritative books of interpretation. (Vol. 11 E. E. 1903), An Interpretation of the rising of Sun from West. "What was disclosed to me in a vision is this that the rise of the sun from the West means that the Western countries which have from time immemorial been in the darkness of unbelief and error shall be lightened by the sun of Truth and shall benefit by Islam. I saw myself standing on a minaret in Lon- don and elucidating the truth of Islam in a very argumentative