Life of Ahmad — Page 235
as CLAIMS TO BE THE MESSIAH as 235 because he believed in the Unity of God like the son of Ab i Kabshah. It should also be remembered that the word may mean 'he descended' but it cannot, by any stretch of meaning, signify 'he descended physically from the heavens'. There is not the slightest justification for this. The same word is used about the coming of the Holy Prophet sa. Says the Holy Quran; 'Allah has indeed sent down to you an admonition, a Messenger, who recites unto you the clear signs of Allah' (Al-Tal a q 65:11, 12). But no one can say that the Holy Prophet sa came down from the heavens physically. Then God says: 'We sent down iron' (Al- H ad i d 57:26), and we know that it is not thrown down from the heavens. A poet says: 'I came and stayed with the children of Muhallab as a guest' in winter, while I was a stranger, in the days of famine. ' Here the word means 'I came and stayed as a guest' ' ' means: 'He alighted, descended and stopped or sojourned or abode or lodged or settled, in the place' (Lane). Ahmad as also explained that his advent was foretold in the Holy Quran (Al-Fati h ah 1:7; Al-N u r 24:56, Al-Muzzammil 73:16). The following verse of the Holy Book refers clearly to Ahmad as :