The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 103
Status of the Promised Messiahas. This cool breeze has started blowing after a long interval; only God knows when these days and this spring will return. . People know nothing of the relationship that I have with my Beloved; He has become mine my life is all. His. . At times I am Adam", at times I am Moses" and at times Jacob. Also I am Abraham"; and my progeny is countless. . I am a tree that bears David-like fruits; as I am Davidas, so is Goliath my quarry. . Like Jesus", I would have been drawn upon the cross; had it not been for the name of Ahmad" upon which I rely wholly. 103 [Brāhin-e-Aḥmadiyyah, Part V, Rūḥāni Khazā'in, vol. 21, pp. 131-133]. I desire no domain, my domain is apart from all others; what have I to do with crowns, my crown is the pleasure of my Beloved. . I dwell in the sky, what concern have I with the earth; the dwellers of heaven have nothing to do with the earth. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part V, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, vol. 21, p. 141]. The garden of Adam which was still unfinished is laden with fruit and leaves with my coming. [Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 144]. The treasures which had remained buried through centuries are now being distributed by me to those who seek them. [Brāhin-e-Aḥmadiyyah, Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 147]. Why do you hesitate to accept this Messiah, whose re-