Malfuzat – Volume I — Page 40
40 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad It is clear that God gave the glad-tidings that when misguidance would prevail, Allah the Exalted would not allow this religion to be ruined. As a matter of fact, in the era that was to come, God would unearth the verities of the Quran. It is related in a narration that one hallmark of the Messiah who was to come would be that he would possess understanding and insight of the Quran. Moreover, through his insight derived from the Holy Quran alone, he would warn people of the errors that would have taken root within them due to their ignorance of Quranic verities. The Similarity between the Dispensations of Mosesas and Muhammadsa In the Quran, the Noble Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be has been described as the likeness of Moses as in the following words: إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ رَسُوْلًا شَاهِدًا عَلَيْكُمْ كَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ رَسُوْلًا upon him, Meaning, We sent a Messenger just as Moses as who was sent to Pharaoh. Our Messenger is the likeness of Mosesas. Then, in another instance, Allah the Exalted states: 2 وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوْا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّلِحَتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ Allah has promised to those among you who believe and do good works that He will surely make them Successors in the earth, as He made Successors from among those who were before them. In other words, the successors who would follow after this likeness of Mosesas would also be from his very dispensation, just as was the case with the successors of Mosesas. This succession lasted for 1400 years and successors continued to ap- pear. This was a prophecy from Allah the Exalted that just as the first chain of succession began, so too would this one. In the beginning, just as Moses as mani- fested signs of glory and released his people from Pharaoh, the Prophet who was to appear after would also be like Mosesas. فَكَيْفَ تَتَّقُوْنَ إِنْ كَفَرْتُمْ يَوْمًا يَّجْعَلُ الْوِلْدَانَ شِيبا السَّمَاءُ مُنْفَطِرُ بِهِ كَانَ وَعْدُهُ مَفْعُولًا 1 How will you then, if you disbelieve, guard yourselves against a al-Muzzammil, 73:16 2 an-Nur, 24:56 al-Muzzammil, 73:18-19