The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 177
The Messiah and his Second Coming 177. The other Hadith, which gives the same indication, is that the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) described the features of the first and the second. Messiah differently. His description of the features of the second Messiah fits me exactly. Is the clear distinction between the features of the two not enough to prove that the first and the second Messiah are in fact two distinct personalities? [Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 121-125]. It would not be without interest to mention that the. Promised Messiah's appearance was awaited by all Muslim sects and everyone was looking forward to the fulfilment of the prophecies predicting this event in the context of the repeated sayings of the Holy Prophetsa. . Many who were favoured with visions had intimated, on the basis of revelation, that the Promised Messiah would appear at the beginning of the fourteenth century of the. Islamic era. The advent of the Promised Messiah is only briefly referred to in the Holy Qur'ān, but it is mentioned so frequently in Aḥādīth, that it is unreasonable to deny its authenticity. Of all the prophecies made by the Holy. Prophets, this is the one that has been reported more than any other. . . . . It is a pity, however, that despite its frequent occurrence, the divines of this age of ignorance have gone utterly astray in construing this prophecy correctly. In consequence of their grave misunderstanding, they have inserted shameful contradictions into the body of this doctrine. On the one hand, they are compelled to believe, in accordance with the Holy Qur'an and true Aḥādīth, that Jesus has died; and, on the other, they believe that he has not died and is alive in heaven in his physical body, and will descend to earth some time in the latter