Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 477
475 ' and His former Prophets has no value unless the Prophet of tke time is believed in and obeyed, ; Beware 1 The turn of trial has now come upon the present generation to recognise the Prophet of their time. The Almighty God has raised in these days Hazrat Mirza Gulam Ahmad the Promised Messiah and Mahdi Peace and Blessings of God be on him as His Prophet for all the nations of the world as prophesied by their respective Prophets. He ap- peared at Qadian (India) at the appointed time with thousands of signs, proofs and testimonies. Blessed is he who believes in him but he who disbelieves him and degrades him by seeking a distinction between him and other Messengers of God as per the hereditary custom of the preceding nations shall meet the same fate as per the verse quoted above. HYPOCRITES. Besides the believers and the disbelievers these is another class of men which invariably spring up along with the supporters and opposers whenever a Messenger of God is raised. They are the Hypocrites who stir up disturbance and show feebleness of faith and when remonstrated with, put forward, lame excuses Their life is all along one of^mean compromises, now associating them- selves with the believers and then identifying themselves with the Leaders of the disbelievers- Concerning them the Holy Quran says : Give glad tidings to the Hypocrites that for them is a pain- ful tormeuti. Those who take the disbelievers for patrons besides the faithful, do they seek honour with them ? IV: 137-138. But the honour is for God and His Apostles and the Believers, but the Hypocriies do not know. LXIII: 8.