Nubuwwat & Khilafat Prophethood & its Successorship — Page 81
Belief of the Promised Messiah 81 would be with me in every aspect of the contest and would grant me victory in every field. It is on this basis that God has designated me Nab i …In short I am called a Nab i because in Arabic and Hebrew Nab i means one who receives revelations from God and makes prophecies in abundance. Without the abundance these meanings cannot be truly applicable. (Letter written by the Promised Messiah as published in Akhb a r-e-‘ A m , May 26, 1908) This letter was written by the Promised Messiah as on May 23rd, 1908 and it was published in Akhb a r-e-‘ A m on May 26th, 1908, the day of his demise. This was his last letter. If it were true that he had made no claim of nubuwwat , why then would he repudiate the news published in Akhb a r-e-‘ A m on May 23rd, 1908 that he had denied the claim of nubuwwat. Why, then, would he have said: I am a Prophet in accordance with the commandment of God. If I deny that claim, I would commit a sin. Since God has named me a Nab i , how can I deny it? I will hold to that belief until I die. Twice it happened that Ahmad i s stated to the opponents that the Promised Messiah as was not a Nab i or Ras u l. Both times he repudiated that statement—the first time by publishing A Misunderstanding Removed and then in March 1908, as Badr has published it under his diary. The third time when a news item appeared in Akhb a r-e-‘ A m that he has denied the claim of nubuwwat , he immediately repudiated that news. These few references make the views of the Promised Messiah as about his being a Nab i very clear and obvious. Anyone who says that he had made no claim of nubuwwat and that he was only a Mujaddid or Mu h addath , just like others who