Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 375
11 September 1907 375 allegiance with the Antichrist? He bore so much humiliation and abasement that he was the follower of Satan for twenty years. Present such an example from the time the world came into being that a person who is the messiah, and also a mes- senger and then remained in the bond of allegiance with the Antichrist for twenty years. Proof of the Absence of Fabrication and the Presence of Simplicity The Promised Messiah as commented on the ascension of Jesus, peace be on him, to the heavens: That was my initial conventional belief and was written in Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya customarily and this matter that the Messiah of Nazareth has died, and I am the awaited Messiah is from the revelation of God and is a communication from God. The Bar a h i n [ -e-Ahmadiyya ] in which it is written that Jesus ascended to the heavens, it is also clearly written within it that I am the Messiah, as: َ ْك ِّی مُتَوَف َ ْك ِّی ْسٰٓی اِنِّی ْ مُتَوَف ي ْ یَا عِ ْسٰٓی اِنِّی ي یَا عِ O ‘ I s a , I shall give you full reward or cause you to die. etc. If this had been a human enterprise and a fabricated scheme, then how could there have been this manifest contradiction? If there is righteousness and some justice, then on the one hand to write the old customary belief and on the other hand to pen all the revelations that are clearly in contradiction of this belief, is such a matter from which a person can deduce the absence of fabrication and the presence of simplicity. Observe that all the revelations are against the [traditional belief ] such as: