Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 310
310 ' They are not Muslims who refuse to believe in the Promised Messiah although they may pray and fast and follow other Islamic Injunctions. "God have mercy on the Muslims that the beliefs of rnosfc of them are based upon errors and injustice. They read in the Holy Quran that Jesus is dead, but still they consider him to be alive- They also read that successors to the Holy Prophet must be from among the Muslims, and still believe that the Promised Messiah would be from among the Israelites. In Bukharee and Muslim, the two authentic works on tradition, they find that the Messiah who would appear in the last ages, would ba from among themselves, and still want to bring Jesus back to this world. They read in the Holy Quran that Jesus would not come back to the world and notwithstanding this believe that Jesus himself would come back. They read further that no mortal can with this body of clay go up tO;heaven and make there his abode, and still entertain the belief that Jesus with this physical body was taken up into heaven where he has been residing for nineteen hundred years. And holding all these beliefs against the Holy Quran, they still call themselves Mus- lims!" "Those who fell into this error before I came, are excusable. To them it is pardoned, for they were not informed of t'he truth and were not made to understand the true meaning of the Word of God. But such is not your case. To you every thing has been explained and for you light has been thrown on every side of the question. Therefore yon cannot bring forward any excuse for sticking to this error. " - " Too many are your weakness and most of you are stran- gers to the sweetness of faith. The weakness and errors, the