A Critical Review of the Pamphlet, 'Fateh-e-Qadian' — Page 99
Signs of the advent of the Messiah and Mahdi 99 2,000 year old man. Therefore, the very story of the life of Jesus [ Hadrat ‘ I s a as ] in the Heavens is absurd. It is against the Holy Quran, the a ha d i th of the Holy Prophet sa and against the law of nature as we have proved in the previous pages. However, even if he marries, they will say, it is not possible for a 2,000 year old man to have children; therefore, we will wait and see whether or not you can have children. When he has children, he will ask people to believe in him but instead of believing, every Muslim will regard it as his duty not to believe. They will argue that according to the apparent words of the hadith , it is necessary for you to live on earth for exactly 45 years. Therefore, we will not believe but wait 45 years first. If your life is longer or shorter by even a day, it will prove that you are not the true Messiah and your coming down from Heaven, marrying and then having children was meaningless and was not enough to prove the truth of your claim. Waiting for 45 years, many of the people will have died and the remainder will wait and see if he lives on earth exactly 45 years. Even if he leaves the world exactly after 45 years, then firstly, it would be unprecedented that not a single soul would have believed in such a helpless and oppressed Prophet and one commissioned by God until his death. That even those who may have wanted to believe in him will have been compelled to wait 45 years for his death. Secondly, having completed his 45 years, when such an imaginary Messiah will leave this world alone, without anyone supporting him, people will not believe even after his death. They will wait and see whether or not his corpse is taken to Medina. Even if his corpse reaches Medina, the difficult stage will still remain of digging up the grave, God forbid, of our Lord and Master Hadrat