Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 452
5. The door of inspiration has il ways been> and will al ways be open and no aUribufrVof 1 God ever beconaes useless. As<Ue used to hold communion with 'His good servants^ so* He does even now and will continue to do up to the end of the worlds 6. This is our firm faith 'that divine decree (taqdir) as-enun- eiated by the Holy Quran is correct and' that God listens to< and accepts the prayers of His creatures and great deeds are 'achieved by means of : prayer. ^ ! - ^ 7. We believe in the rising -'. 61 the hutnaii beings after -their death and also we fi rniely believe that the 'Heaven and the Hell as described by the Quran aftd^the Traditions exist arid -that on the day o'f Resurrection bur Prophet Mohammad peace^be on him will be the intercessor/ ; "' 8. We firmly believe that 'the man abdut whom prophecies have been made by the old Prophets' under-diffeifeBt names and of whom the Hoi y Quran speaks in Jtbe verse *He it ' is who raised a Prpphet among the Meccans. ,. . ,. ,' and among others of them who have not yet overtaken them" as the second advent of Mohammad and whom our Lord Mohammad calls Messiah the Prophet and the Mahdi ^(the man) is Hassrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian and besides him nobody is the Promised Messiah. 9. It is our firm belief that the Holy Quran is a perfect Book and that no new law will be required till the day of Kesur- rection and that our Lord Mohammad possesses collectively all the qualities of all the Prophets and that after him none can, far from gaining any spiritual eminence, even become a true believer except by complete obedie'nce to nirn. We, riot for a moment, believe that any old Prophet will come to this place a second time, because in that we will have to admit some defect in the spiritual powers of our Lord Mohammadbut we. believe among his followers Reformers have appeared and will continue to