The Noble Son — Page 47
HAZRAT MAULANA JALAL-UD-DIN SHAMS RA 47 One wife of Prophet Noah as did not believe in his message and from that wife, whom he married on the basis of a Divine command, three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth were born who turned out to practice virtue and were God-fearing, and through them his progeny prospered. Similarly, through the marriage of the Promised Messiah as amongst the Sadaats [descendants of the Holy Prophet sa ] based upon a Divine command, were also born three sons who grew into young men and were shown to him before their birth in a dream. 53 Thus, through the wife whom he had married on the basis of Divine revelation like the Prophet Noah as , he too had three sons who were counted amongst his household. But Allah the Almighty, through this revelation that he would be the one to turn three into four, gave the Promised Messiah as the glad tidings that he would also beget a fourth son through whom his progeny would spread, but that he would not be from the wife with whom marriage had taken place under the command of Allah the Almighty. Rather this fourth son would enter into his spiritual household through the Musleh Mauood. The son of Prophet Noah as was told, * َ لِک ْ اَہ ْ سَ مِن ْ اِنَّہٗ لَی from a spiritual point of view—that he cannot be counted as being amongst those of your family who shall be saved due to him not being righteous. Similarly, one of the sons of the Promised Messiah as , namely the late Hazrat Mirza Sultan Ahmad, did not accept him during his lifetime. For this reason, he too, according to َ لِک ْ اَہ ْ سَ مِن ْ اِنَّہٗ لَی could not have been included, from a spiritual point of view, amongst his sons. * Translation: ‘He is surely not of your family. ’ The Holy Qur’an 11:47 [Translator]