Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 191
191 w siah, would be born in the last days of the sixth thousand from Adam, a"s Adam was born at the end of the sixth day. These signs are sufficient to lead a thinking mind to the true conclusion. The seven thousand years of this cycle are further divided accor- ding to the prevalence of good or- evil, every odd thousand being the time of the prevalence of virtue and true guidance, and the even thousand of the supremacy of Satan. Thus in the fifth thousand our Holy Prophet was born for the regeneration of the world and Satan was then put into chains. Then followed the sixth thousand,. from the beginning of the fourth to the fourteenth century after Islam, in which Satan was let loose and evil pre- dominated. And now we are in the seventh thousand which is the time of God and His Messiah and of every goodness and virtue, of the true faith and regeneration of mankind, of righte- ousness and the proclamation of the Unity of God and Divine worship. . With the entrance of the world upon the seventh thou- sand, the Millenium, no other Messiah can set his foot upon earth, for his time is now gone. The true Messiah is he who has appeared in time and made known his appearance to the world, * All these prophecies are contained in the Holy Quran, and they were also uttered by the earlier prophets. In fact, no prophecy has been uttered, with such frequency and force as the prophecy relating to the appearance of the Messiah in the last ages and to the evil of the Anti-Christ. : Some men think that the prophecy relating to the appea- rance of the Promised Messiah is contained only in the traditions and not in the Holy Quran, and accordingly they demand a proof of it from the Word of God. A reflection upon the words of the Holy Book is sufficient to convince any reasonable man that this prophecy is contained in the plainest words in the Holy Quran. In the chapter entitled the Tahriin, it is indicated that some