Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 170
170 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad with Prophet Moses, peace be upon him. The Prophets who appeared before him left behind no remnants of their existence. It was the book of Moses as which made mention of Noah and Adam and certain other Prophets, peace be upon them. In short, just like a family patriarch, Moses, peace be upon him, was also the patriarch of his family of Prophets, and through the Torah he passed down his divine law to them. After the demise of Moses as , a man of God, Allah the Exalted continued to send Prophets to serve this religious dispensation, so that it would not suffer decline. These Prophets served the Mosaic dispensation. As such, in the fourteenth century after Moses, peace be upon him, Jesus, peace be upon him, whom you refer to as Christ, was sent to support the Mosaic dispensation. Jesus as was the final brick in the Mosaic dispensation. Just as the final brick brings the construction of a house to its end, in the same manner, the Mosaic dispensation was brought to an end with the Messiah as , and God brought this dispensation to its com- pletion. After this, God lay the foundation for a new dispensation which was established through the progeny of Ishmael as , and was known as the dispensation of Muhammad sa. As is evident from the word Ishmael itself, and as God Almighty had intimated through Moses, peace be upon him, a community was destined to be established among the children of Ishmael, just like the Mosaic dispensation. This was because the children of Israel, or the Jews, were neither kind to Moses, peace be upon him, who was the first, nor to the Messiah as , who was the last; in fact, they were not good to the Prophets who appeared in between either. This nation was so cruel and brazen that the like of them cannot be found on the face of the earth. This nation left no stone unturned in rejecting the Prophets and inflicting grief upon them. They did not value the illumined men of God, so this dispensa- tion was brought to an end with Jesus as. A Warning of Destiny in the Fatherless Birth of the Messiah The end of this dispensation was not due to God’s pleasure, but in fact, due to His displeasure. Even the birth of the Messiah as himself served as a sign, in that he was born without a father. Since one’s lineage continues from the father, through the fatherless birth of Jesus as , God warned the children of Israel that due to the misfortune of their evil deeds, this succession of Prophets within the Israelites p. 154