The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 217
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 217 should direct others to follow. In such case, what apprehension can a devout Muslim have in accepting my claim which is based on Divine revelation?. Assuming that the revelation received by me were not true and I was in error in interpreting and understanding that which I was commanded, what harm would come upon him who believed in me, for he would not have believed in anything which unfavourably affects his faith. If, during our lifetime, Jesus son of Maryas was to actually descend bodily from heaven, then: 128 دل ما شاد و چشم ما روشن ؟. I and my Community would be the first to accept him. . . . But, in the contrary case, there is no way of saving one's faith. If, until the end of their lives, no one is seen descending from heaven and they are instead faced with their own journey to the hereafter, what doubts would assail their minds and what apprehensions would they entertain in the matter of the prophecy of the Holy Prophets? It is not unlikely that such doubts might even destroy one's faith, for according to the Bible and the Aḥādīth, this is the time of the appearance of the Messiah. That is why many of the righteous ones, who had experience of visions, had specified the beginning of the fourteenth century as the time of the appearance of the Messiah. [Izāla-e-Auhām Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 186-189] 128 My heart is overjoyed and my eyes are lit up with delight. [Publisher]