Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 22
22 the Word of God. They trusted in the traditions which plainly said that Elijah would descend from heaven before the corning of Jesus Christ and rejected the interpretation which Jesus put on the Word of God that by the corning of Elijah was meant the coming of one in his power and spirit, because their tradi- tions told them a bodily and not a spiritual descent of Elijah. Among the collections of Muslim tradition, the Bokharee is a, sacred and trustworthy book. It is the book which like the Quran plainly speaks of the death of Jesus Christ. In like manner, the work of Muslim and other collections of traditions are depositaries of important religious truths, and the traditions narrated in them must be acted upon by all true Muslims subject to the condition that they do not contradict the Holy Quran and the custom. [Volume II Review of Religions 1903. ]