Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 54
54 this case he ought to heaven swered like a truthful servant of x God that he knew well that the Christians had gone astray and taken him for a God, and that he opposed this false doctrine with the sword and broke the cross. Nay, the question itself would not be justified in this case, for Almighty God should know per- fectly well that Jesus had punished the people who had taken him for God. Why should Jesus be questioned as to the corrup- tion of the very people whom he had corrected or punished for their evil doctrine. Is it not strange that Almighty God should first send a man to execute His wrath upon a people who had gone astray and to bring them to the right path,, and when he had done his duty and punished them adequately and converted them to the true faith, He should then question him if he had led them astray? In short, the Holy Quran clearly tells the Muslims that Jesus died and that he will not come back but that some one must appear in his spirit and power. Had such lucidi- ty marked the book of Malachi and the Jews had been thus plainly told that Elijah himself would not come back, they would not have perished. ;. . . Our opponents assert that though the Quran does not speak of the Second advent of Jesus, yet the traditions "are clear on this point. But there is not a single tradition stating that the same Israelite, prophet, Jesus, to whom the Gospel was revealed would come back, notwithstanding the plain words of the Quran that the Holy Prophet is the seal of prophets. A mention of the name of Jesus or son of Mary only should not deceive any body, for in the Quran (Sura Tahrim) individuals from among the Muslims have been called by this name. In the chapter rer ferred to above the Holy Quran compares one class of the faithful to Mary and then speaks of the breathing of a soul into that Mary which was unquestionably the soul of Jesus. It is, there-