The Noble Son — Page 40
– FULFILMENT OF A GRAND PROPHECY 40 did not declare the names given by the Promised Messiah as listed above, to be incorrect, therefore, it is proven that the one born on 12 January 1889, to whom the Promised Messiah as gave the names of Mahmood and Bashir by way of good virtue, and had considered him to be the Musleh Mauood, and declared him to be in his own likeness in beauty and beneficence, in the sight of Allah the Almighty too that very blessed child was the true fulfilment of the prophecy concerning the Promised Reformer. The Admission of those who Rejected Khilafat It is also worth remembering this fact that before there arose differences, the rejecters or deniers of Khilafat also held onto this very belief that the Musleh Mauood would be from among his [the Promised Messiah’s as ] sons. Thus, Mirza Khuda Bakhsh, who did not take the oath of initiation, wrote in his book ’ Asl Musaffa in 1901: ‘Once, at a time when no progeny had yet been born to the Promised Messiah as from his new wife, who was from a very well-known Sadaat family, he prophesied that a boy would be born who would spread the faith of Islam from the east to the west and whose name would be Bashir and Emmanuel, and that he would make three into four (See Zameemah Riyaz-e-Hind , 1 March 1886). This prophecy too, has been perfectly fulfilled. Till now only four sons are present and among these, one is the promised one who, in his time, shall manifest his excellences