The Conclusive Argument — Page 71
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 71 opposition. However, it was necessary that the prophecy of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, should also be fulfilled; namely, that when the Mahdi of the age—that is, the Promised Messiah—appears, the maulaw i s of the time will write edicts of disbelief against him. The Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, also says that those who write such edicts will be the most wicked ones in the world and there will be no wrongdoer like them on the face of the earth. They will never accept but with hypocrisy. Alas, these naive people do not understand this: how can someone be a disbeliever while speaking according to the words of God and His Messenger? Can anyone accept the assertion that the entirety of those thousands of divines and men of God—who for 1,300 years, i. e. up to these days, believed in the death of Jesus—are infidels? God forbid!—Imam M a lik, may Allah be pleased with him, who taught millions of his followers this very teaching, would be an infidel, too. And— God forbid!—Imam Bukhari, who reserved a special chapter on the death of Jesus in his S a hih, would also be a disbeliever. Ibn Qayyim, too—who counted Jesus among the dead like Moses— would be a disbeliever. Moreover, all those who consider them Muslims would similarly become infidels. And the Mu‘tazilah, too, in their entirety would be infidels since they have all along believed that Jesus has, in fact, died. O maulaw i s who have some sense of goodness, are you not going to die one day? In your pride and arrogance, you have declared the whole world to be infidels. God Almighty says that whoever greets you with as-sal a mu ‘alaikum [‘Peace be upon you’], do not say to him لَسْت َ مُؤْمِنًا meaning that, do not consider him a disbeliever; he is a Muslim. Yet you have declared those