Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 2
i dispensation, which was characterised by strength and power, by awe and majesty, which manifested the dignity and splendour, of the position of Muhammadiyat'; ii) and the second advent, which was connected with his jamali name Ahmad-and was destined to materialise in a deputy and a most devoted servant, this later being the advent referred to in the Holy. Quran in Sura Al-Jumu'ah, that in the latter days a people would appear who would be schooled through a buruz, and a deputy of the. Holy Prophet. Accordingly, we find it stated in the Hadith that when the Quranic verse referred to above came down, and the Holy. Prophet was asked who were the people spoken of in this verse, he placed his hand on the shoulders of a devoted disciple named Salman the Persian, and replied that even if the Faith disappeared from the world, and became as far removed as the Pleiades, a stalwart of Persian extraction would bring it back to the earth (Bokhari, Tafsir Sura Jumu'ah). . So in these days, which certainly represent the latter times of the verse in question, Almighty. God has willed that the jamali splendour of the sacred name of Ahmad should be manifested at the hands of the Founder of the Ahmadiyya. Movement, who is of Persian extraction; and that, following the intervening period of weakness and 2