The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 89
Status of the Promised Messiahas. Divine Manifestations upon the. Promised Messiahas 89 created a. On one occasion I saw in a vision that new heaven and a new earth and then I said: 'Let us now create man'. Thereupon the stupid Maulavis raised a clamour that I had claimed to be God; whereas the meaning of this vision was that through me, God would bring about such a change as if heaven and earth have been renewed and true men have been created. [Chashma-e-Masīḥī, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 20, pp. 375-376, footnote]. The manner in which God Almighty is making Himself manifest by drawing near and is disclosing hundreds of the matters of the unseen to this humble one, it is hard to find its example in past ages. People will soon observe that God will manifest His countenance as if He was descending from heaven. He kept Himself hidden for a long time. He was denied and remained silent, but now He will not remain hidden and the world will witness instances of His power which their ancestors had never witnessed. . This will come to pass because the earth has been corrupted and people have lost faith in the Creator of the heavens and the earth. People pay lip-service to. Him, but their hearts are estranged from Him. That is why God has said He will create a new heaven and a new earth. This means that the earth is dead, that is to say, the hearts of the people of the earth have become so hardened as if they are dead, for the face of. God has become hidden from them and all heavenly