Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 402
'0 Jesus, 1 will cause thee to die a natural death, and will raise thee toward Myself and will free thee from the charges of those that believe not, and will place those who follow thee above those who believe not, until the day of Resurrection. 5 ' In this revelation, the name Jesus is applied to me, and by the words 'Those who follow thee aie meant my followers. In the Holy Quran, this prophecy pertains to Jesus, son of Mary, and the words 'those who believe not' refer to the Jews, who, in fulfilment of the prophecy, went on decreasing day by day. By revealing the same verse with reference to me and my followers, God means to indicate that it has been decreed that all those that are outside of this sect shall go on decreasing day by day and all other sects of Islam shall also diminish, i. e , they shall either join this sect or go on lessening. In short, the opponents of this sect shall meet with the same fate which the Jews met in time past, and this sect shall excel all both in numbers and the power of its faith. The fulfilment of this prophecy has already begun in an extraordinary way, for at the time of the publication of this prophecy in the Baraliin-i-Alimadiyya } I led a life of complete obscurity and could not claim even a single follower, while, by the grace of God, my followers are now numbered by hundreds of thousands. The sect is progressing by leaps and bounds and the causes of this are the heavenly visitations which have made this land a prey to death. The revelation following it is : 'The Holy Prophet Muhammad is the chief of the prophets ' The next revelation says: 'God will set right all thy affairs and will grant to thee all thy desires. ' These are very important prophecies, for they were made at a time when no affair of mine was right and no