The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 13
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI earlier one. In the same way Jesus referred to John the Baptist as. Elijah the Prophet, whom the Jews expected to return from heaven before appearance of the Messiah. (Math. 17:10-13). Thus Jesus explained the meaning of his second coming to be fulfilled by a person resembling him. . Hadhrat Ahmad - the Promised Messiah claimed that Islam is a living religion following which a seeker can establish a living relationship with God and communion with Him. He proclaimed that the Living God speaks to the man who wholly submits to Him in. Islam. The Promised Messiah received verbal revelations from God for about three decades. His revelations have been collected from his various works and published in book form which has been translated into English and is known as Tadhkira. Thus he was a living challenge to those who claim to set a seal of silence to God's words and say that God spoke to prophets in the past but does not speak any more. All religions close the door of revelation except Islam. Hadhrat. Ahmad the Promised Messiah taught that God's attributes are all unlimited and eternal. -Mission of Hadhrat Ahmad the Promised Messiah and. Reformer of the age, as explained by him, was to establish pure unity of God free from all polytheistic ideas, to strengthen relationship between man and his Creator and to establish virtue and righteousness. It was also his mission to create faith in God by demonstrating powers of God by heavenly signs, to lead man out of darkness of doubt and disbelief into the light of faith and certainty. . And to end war and violence and usher an era of universal peace, to unify mankind under the banner of Islam, to purify Islam of extraneous errors and to present and propagate a true picture of Islam. . The Ahmadiyya Movement, founded by him is not the name of a new religion but is Islam in its pristine purity. It is not a mere sect of. Islam, but represents Renaissance and Reformation of Islam in the latter days. . Due to the importance of this subject, it is being discussed in some detail. Hadhrat Ahmad championed the cause of Islam by his writings starting in the seventh decade of the 19th century and was 13