Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 414
414: revealed religions and we find prophecies about his advent in the sacred writings of all the principal religions of the world. Thus we have prophecies about him in the sacred writings of the Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindoos and Buddhists. We also find that besides the holy founders of the great religions of the world, other saints also predicted his advent, and among the latter may be mentioned the well-known names of Shah Niamatullah Wali of Delhi arid Hazrat Baba Nanak of the Punjab. I will discuss here the prophecy of the latter for the benefit of the Sikh Community of the Punjab who pirofess to be his followers. But before- 1 come to Baba Nanak's prophecy, I may point out here that he was not the founder of a new religion but was only a follower of Islam, as Ahmad, the Promised Messiah, proved conclusively from his life, practice and teachings. Baba Nariak declared Islam to be the only true religion, and the Holy Quran to be the only book which deserved to be follow- ed and he not only exhorted his disciples to follow the Holy Prophet of Arabia, (May peace and blessings of God be upon him,) but himself accepted him as a true prophet of God and acted upon his teachings. A few sayings of Baba Nanak from the sacred writings of the Sikhs will leave no doubt as to his being a Muslim. He is reported to have said. . ^_JU J 1) t>*:sv/* J *3 I ) J. ' *> ) o <_ ) "Recite the Kalima of God, adding to it the name of Muha- mmad, who was the beloved of God and sacrificed his very self for God. " (Bhai Bala's Janam Sakhi, p. 141. ) Herein he. exhorts others: to believe in the well-known Muslim formula of faith : "T. here. is'no God but Allah and Muhammad is His-Mes-