With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 363
Appendix II 363 wail and woe and continue so until the Mercy of God encompasses the evil-doers and their evil. Truly did the Holy Prophet say, “A time will come when Hell will be emptied of all sinners. ” ( Tafs ī r-ul-Ma‘ ā lam-ut-Tanz ī l ) 12. Similarly we believe that those who believe in God, and the prophets, the angels and the Books, who accept the guidance which comes from God, and walk in humility and abjure excesses of all kinds, will all go to a place called Heaven. Peace and pleasure will reign here and God will be present to all. Low desires will disappear. Men will have attained everlasting life and become an image of their Creator. It is important to note here that Farhan Khan presents the ‘Aq ī dah at-Tahaw ī in his book to discredit the Ahmadiyya Muslim belief in the continuation of prophethood. However, there is no denying that this ‘ Aq ī dah also supports the belief in a latter day prophet, that is, the coming of Hazrat ‘ Ī s ā as based on the statements of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa : 100. We believe in the signs of the Hour such as the appearance of the Antichrist (Dajjal) and the descent of ‘Isa ibn Maryam, peace be upon him, from heaven, and we believe in the rising of the sun from where it sets and in the emergence of the Beast from the earth. 349 Since this was a prophecy for the writers of the ‘ Aq ī dah , they just wrote it as-is and did not comment on how this prophecy was to be fulfilled. It is in this age that this prophecy has been fulfilled in the person of Hazrat Mirz ā Ghul ā m Ahmad as , the 349 Khan, With Love , Page 96