Lecture Lahore — Page 49
49 mentions their likeness to Mary and then speaks of the holy spirit being breathed into them, which means that after acquiring the status of Mary, these people will pro- gress further and attain the status of the Son of Mary. It is in the same context that God Almighty initially called me Mary, as is recorded in Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya: "O Mary, enter thou and thy friends into Paradise. " Later He said: "O Mary, I breathed into thee the Spirit of Truth. " (This meant that, metaphorically speaking, Mary was now pregnant with the truth). And He finally said: "O ‘ I s a , I will cause thee to die and exalt thee towards Me. " Here I was exalted from the status of Mary and was named ‘ I s a, or the Son of Mary, and the promise con- tained in S u rah Al-Ta h r i m was thus fulfilled. It is also written in S u rah Al-N u r , that all the Khulaf a’ shall come from this umma, and it appears from the Holy Quran that Islam was to undergo two great trials. The first of these occurred after the demise of the Holy Prophet sa when Hadrat Ab u Bakr ra became the Khal i fa, and the sec- ond was to be at the time of the Antichrist which would coincide with the coming of the Messiah. It is to seek ref-