Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 158
158 that the nations of the world should await the Promised One, and once he had made his appearance, God would proclaim the truth of Islam through him. The Promised One would invite the fol - lowers of all religions into the fold of Islam, thus resulting in its triumph over all religions. We can, thus, say that the Mahdi was none other than the Messiah, Krishna was none other than the Messiah, and Maisodarbahmi of the Zoroastrians was none other than the Krishna and the Mahdi and the Messiah. In short, all the Reformers promised by the different religions were but one and the same person. The reason why the prophecies were made under different names was so that each community should eagerly look forward to the coming of the Promised One as foretold by their own Prophets and in their own language and consider him one of their own and not some stranger. When, at last, he did appear and they saw all the prophecies about him come true, they would accept Islam based on his testimony. To understand this, we can take the analogy of warring parties that wish to settle their disputes by appointing arbitrators. After they have each appointed an arbitrator to represent them, they find that the individual they have separately chosen is the same person, albeit known to them by different names, and thus they are able to reconcile through his arbitration. Having proved that all the prophecies regarding the ‘Promised One’ have been fulfilled in this age, and having established that it is impossible for there to appear, at one and the same time, sepa - rate individuals from among different religions for the purpose of establishing the supremacy of their respective faiths, the Promised Messiah as made it clear that the person awaited by the various