Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 222
222 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad the daughter of ‘Imran, who guarded her private parts—so We breathed into him of Our Spirit—and she fulfilled in her person the words of her Lord and His Books and was one of the obedient. In this verse, Allah the Exalted has clearly indicated that a Messiah son of Mary would be born within the ummah. And in fact, every such believer who attests to the books and words of Allah, and who is from among the obedient and those who submit to Him, and who safeguard their chasti- ty, is referred to as Mary, and after the Spirit is breathed into them, they become Jesus the son of Mary themselves. Since Mary as herself was a woman, when the Spirit was breathed into her, she became pregnant, but men do not become pregnant; therefore, when the Spirit is breathed into men, they themselves become a Messiah. In these verses, God Almighty has set forth the examples of two classes of men: firstly, those who supplicate to be distanced from evil and secondly, those who have taken their virtuous deeds to the height of excellence. The former are those who are subdued by the reproving self, while the latter class of people are those referred to in the words: اَحْصَنَتْ فَرْجَهَا Who preserve their chastity. Now reflect and tell me, when God states that ‘We breathe into him of our Spirit’, does this mean that those people also become pregnant like Mary? The truth is that God Almighty has put forth a metaphor in His holy word and informed us that the Promised Messiah who was to appear in the ummah of Muhammad sa would come in the same manner. The matter has been clarified in the Hadith by using the words ْ ُم ك مِنْ ْ ُم ك ُ اِمَام (he will be your leader from among you). And in the instance under discussion, Allah the Exalted states: فِيْهِ مِنْ رُّوْحِنَا فَنَفَخْنَا So We breathed into him of Our Spirit. As such, on one occasion, I received a revelation in which I have been p. 203