Malfuzat - Volume IV — Page 64
64 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad A Prophecy in the Bible About the Holy Prophet sas When quite some time had passed last night, God turned my attention towards a prophecy regarding the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, which is recorded in the Torah. No one has realised this until today, but God has turned my attention to it. I took a copy of the Torah at once and began to read. Those who take an interest in divine knowledge and metaphors will undoubtedly enjoy this point. However, those who are bereft of divine insights will laugh at this. The prophecy is as such. It is written in the Torah that when Abraham as left behind Hagar ra and Ishmael as , he gave them a skin full of water before returning. When the water had finished and Ishmael as began to suffer from thirst and the clutches of death had nearly taken him, Hagar ra was unable to see her son in this state, so she sat at some distance from her son. It is written that she sat a good way off, as it were, a bow shot, and lifted up her voice, and wept. An angel of God called to Hagar ra and said: ‘O Hagar, fear not. Arise and lift up the child. ’ Then Hagar ra saw a well from which she filled her waterskin. The point to reflect upon is that the angel showed Hagar ra a well and herein lies the prophecy. On this, the following verse of the Holy Quran came to me: 1 َْنَ َو ُ ْد َْتَ ِه َ َّت ْ ُم َُكُ ُل َ ُع َ ْل ٖ ٗه ِ َت ٰ ُي ْ ٰا ُم َُكُ ْل ُهللُ ُ ا َن ِ ْي َ ْب َِكَ ُيُـ ْل ٰ ِّذ َ ُك َا ِه ِْنْ َم ْ ُم َُكُ ِّذ َ ْق َْنْ ا ََف ِ ُر َا ْلْن َ ا ُن ِ َم ٍَْرٍَة ِف ُحُ َا ِف َشَ َٰلٰى ِع ْ ُم َوَُكُْنُْتُ And you were on the brink of a pit of fire and He saved you from it. Thus does Allah explain to you His commandments that you may be guided. When the water of Abraham as had finished and the child had almost died, at that time God saved him and granted him another source of water through the well. The Arabs, being the children of Ishmael, were essentially Ishmaelites. When guidance and divine law had been finished and they were close to death, God Almighty revealed a new divine law to them. This is the indication made in the aforementioned verse. So this is a prophecy to which no one else has turned their attention. ” 2 The Truth About the Antichrist The Promised Messiah as said: “The fact of the matter is that the appearance of 1 Aal-e-Imran , 3:104 2 Al-Hakam , vol. 5, no. 41, dated 10 November 1901, p. 2 p. 337 َُْوَْن ْل َ َو َ ْْل َ ْل ِ َس ْ ُر ُ ۤ ََمَ ُك