Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 280
280' I will cleave to this belief, until I pass away from this world. " "1 swear in the name of God, who has my soul in His hand that it is He who has commissioned me and it is He; who has conferred on me the appellation of Prophet, and it is He who. has called me by the name of the Promised Messiah. " "I am the Promised Messiah and* am the same whom the greatest of prophets has named ^ ) ^ Prophet of God;" "I am jtot Divine Messenger or a Prophet with a,, new law^ a new claim, and a new name. But I am a Prophet and a Divine Messenger in the sense of perfect spiritual impersonation. For I am a mirror in which both the nature and the prophetic quality of Mohammad (on whom be peace) have been perfectly represented. " "I was under the impression that far was it from me to stand any comparison with Messiah the son of Mary who was a Prophet and a chosen one of God ; and if my superiority over him was visible in certain matters I set it down as a mere partial superiority. But the revelations as subsequently showered on me did not suffer me to keep to the old belief, for, the appellation of Prophet was given to me clearly and distinctly. . . . . . . . . . . I notice further that Jesus son of Mary was the last successor of Moses, may peace of God be on him, and I am the last successor of that Prophet who was the noblest of Divine Messengers. Therefore such was the will of God that my rank be not made lower than his. 7 ' "In is an established fact, that in the course of these thirteen hundred years not a single man has been favoured with such a rich plenty of God's inspiration as I have received, and unto none have been unfolded so many secrets of the future as unto me. Of all the saints and holy men in Islam that have gone before me, there is not even one who has received so large