Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 6
coming down from the heavens); operating as the Arbiter and Judge among you, he would settle all your differences; and coming at a time when Christianity would be in great ascendance, he would break to pieces all its power and glory” (Sahih Bukhari, Bab Nazul-iIsa). . On the basis of Revelations from God. Almighty, Hazrat Ahmad, the Founder of the. Ahmadiyya Movement, claimed that he was the selfsame Mehdi and Masih, at whose hands is destined to take place the predominance of Islam as a religion, the progress and prosperity of the Muslims, as its followers, and the utter defeat of Christianity. . When you give proper thought to the matter, the claims that he was the Promised Mehdi, and the. Promised Mesih, represent one and the same identical position for this blessed Reformer, since both are really two branches, or two aspects, of one and the same mission. This is the reason, the explanation, why passages which embody prophecies in regard to the. Mehdi and Masih portray an identical set of circumstances. In his capacity as the Promised Mehdi, what was destined was the revival of Islam: it had been ordained by God in His wisdom, from the earliest beginning of time, that towards the latter days, when 6