Hazrat Mir Muhammad Ismail (ra) — Page 4
4 " S iddīq " person of his time. The Holy Prophet s as named Ḥaḍrat Ali ra " Asadullah " meaning Lion of Allah, because he genuinely lived up to being the "Lion of God". In the same v ein , he prophetically named the Awaited Mahdī , the "Messiah" and "Jesus" because it was predestined by God Himself that the Awaited Mahdī would be a spiritual replica of Jesus as of Nazareth. In order to prevent his Ummah from being misled to the erroneous conclusion that these two titles - Mahdī and Messiah - referred to two distinct and separate individuals, the Holy Prophet s as further elucidated his prophecy by stating: "There sha ll be no Mahdī other than Jesus” 4. A clarification in more clear terms tha n these was obviously not possible. In another saying of his, he declares: "Jesus son of Mary - the Imam Mahdī " 5 , spelling out elaborately t hat the Promised Messiah and the Awaited Mahdī would be one and the same. In short, whether we refer to the awaite d guide of the latter days as the " Mahdī ", or as "Jesus the Second" or as the "Promised Messiah", it was through this foretold teacher that the spiritual blessings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad s as were destined to illuminate the world afresh , in the latter days. The " Ākharīn " have also been referred to in the Hadith as the Aṣḥāb 6 [As - haab] or "Companions" of the Promised Messiah as. The Holy Prophet s as said, regarding the Second Jesus and his Companions: " Jesus [the Second] the Nabiyyullāh [ prophet of God], and his Companions will turn to and remain committed to Allah " 7