Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 68
B8 Karirn Bakhsh that a very hot opposition would rage against the Messiah among the Moulvies but that their efforts to bring him to naught would meet with total failure. He also said that the Messiah would come to reveal the beautiful face of the Holy Quran by removing blunders heaped upon it by the commen- tators. This prophecy also indicated that Karim Bakhsh would live long enough to see the Promised Messiah. In spite of these testimonies I am declared to be a liar. The error in which my opponents are involved lies in their wide ex- pectations. They think that every word recorded in the traditions must be fulfilled literally, and that the claimant to Messiabship must be rejected if he does not answer to the description of a single tradition, however unreliable it may be. But such a liberal fulfilment of the prophecies which are in the hands of a people has never taken place. Jesus did not appear in the manner in which the Jews expected his appearance on the basis of their traditions. Similarly ail their proposed signs were not fulfilled in -the person of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him. They thought that the last pro- phet would be from among the Israelites but Almighty God raised him from among the Ishmaelites. Almighty God could have given,. if He had so willed, all the particulars about the Holy Pro- phet in the prophecies so that the Jews should have recognised him at once, but it is His established laws that when He disclo- ses a secret, He attaches to it a certain obscurity to try men and to separate the wise from the unwise. For the Promised Messiah to fulfil all the different signs proposed by the different Muslim sects, is impossible in the very nature of things. Every sect has in its hands a different set of signs and it cannot be satisfied until all of them are fulfilled. In fact it is the function of the Messiah as a Divinely appointed Judge to sift truth from error