The Noble Son — Page 91
HAZRAT MAULANA JALAL-UD-DIN SHAMS RA 91 between him and Hazrat Umar ra there would be an extraordinary similarity and resemblance. From such an angle too he would be in the likeness of his father—the Promised Messiah as. Just as the Promised Messiah as was named Messiah and Jesus due to the extraordinary resemblance and similarity he had with Jesus, the Messiah as [son of Mary], similarly the Musleh Mauood was given the name of Fazl-e- Umar due to the extraordinary resemblance with Hazrat Umar ra. Maulawi Syed Ahmad Ali of Sialkot, a missionary of the Ahmadiyya Community, in an article, has outlined forty similarities between Hazrat Umar ra and Hazrat Musleh Mauood aba. From among these I present here briefly a few of the similarities: First, just as there are clear ahadith of the Holy Prophet s as regarding the Khilafat of Hazrat Umar ra , similarly clear directives can be found in the books of the Promised Messiah as about the Khilafat of our leader Hazrat Mahmood, Musleh Mauood aba. Therefore, in Sabz Ishtehaar , whilst explaining the second form of the manifestation of Divine mercy—that being the advent of Messengers, Prophets, Imams, Saints and the Khulafaa—Huzoor as writes ‘for the completion of this second type of mercy, Allah the Almighty, will send the Second Bashir…whose name is also Mahmood…he will be resolute in carrying out his tasks. ’ 101 The clear meaning of this is that he shall be the Imam of the Community and the Khalifah of the Promised Messiah as and his successor. Similar to Hazrat Umar ra he will be the second Khalifah. Second, just as Hazrat Umar ra was blessed by Allah the Almighty with the bounty of visions, dreams and revelation 102 similarly, Hazrat