Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 3
3 Hazrat Maulvi Abdul-Karim have not gone out of my way to artificially show that the life and character of the Promised Messiah as is simi- lar to the life and character of the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. However, the fact of the matter is that the disposition of our Beloved Imam Mahdi has been fashioned by the hand of God in such a way that the same actions and words spring forth from him uncontrollably which are seen in the Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who is the Chief and Master of the Promised Messiah as. We Muslims are immensely blessed by God Almighty. Allah the Exalted states: 1 َ اہّٰللَ وَ الْیَوْمَ الْاٰخِر ُوا ِ اہّٰللِ اُسْوَۃٌ حَسَنَۃٌ لِّمَنْ کَانَ یَرْج لَکُمْ فِـیْ رَسُوْل You have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day. This verse of the Holy Quran has lifted us out from all the difficulties and ill confusions in which the people of falsehood are overcome. The utterly deficient exam- ple of Christ in his morals, deeds, social interactions and politics—in every walk of life really—ineluctably resulted in the Christian priests seizing for themselves the seat of Prophet and Messenger, in order to compen- sate for the deficiencies of Christ. The pure life of our Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, furnishes an example to follow for a flourish- 1 al-Ahzab , 33:22