Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 72
72 fore repent of such beliefs while there is time and before you are called to stand before the throne of God. Almighty God has sent me in this age that I might bear witness that all faiths have become corrupt and been tainted with falsehood with the only exception of Islam. If the truth of my testimony is not sealed by Divine authority, I am not true, but if the witness that I bear is confirmed by the Divine seal being impressed upon it, remem- ber lest you bring yourselves under the judgment of God by rejecting truth. A weak mortal, the sou of Mary, is by no means your God. To me is given the spirit, against which no one can stand' If you know that there is none among you who with the assistance of the spirit, can withstand the holy spirit. that has been given to me, be sure that your silence would bring you under the judgment of God- And peace be unto those who follow the ; truth. . (Vol. II B. R. 1903). Why is the Promised Messiah sent from among the Muslims? "I had never any desire to claim to be the Promised Messiah on the other hand I loved to remain in solitude and to be quite unknown to the world abroad. But Divine wisdom ordained it otherwise and God enjoined me to come out of the corner of solitude which I loved. Almighty God doesnot love that greater honor and dignity should be attributed to a man than that to which he is entitled, for this is against His Unity. Hence because Jesus whom God sent as a Messiah to the Israelites was taken for a God, Divine jealousy ordained that another man should be sent as a Messiah so that the world may know that the firs!; Messiah was nothing more than a weak mortal. Almighty God has, by raising one of the followers of the Holy Prophet Muham- mad, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him, to the dignity of the Messiah, not only corrected the error of the Chris-