The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 11
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. A WORLD REFORMER. If God spoke in the past, does He not speak today? There is a great need for a world reformer and a teacher today. Many people are expecting such a reformer. Christians are waiting for the second coming of Jesus. Muslims have been expecting a Mahdi and a. Messiah for about a century. Many other great religions are expecting return or appearance of a great religious personality. Obviously all these expectations are to be fulfilled in a single person and not many. . The expected reformer of the age has already appeared. He is. Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India (1835-1908), the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam. He was born in 1835 in a noble Moghal family of Qadian, India. His father's name was Mirza Ghulam Murtaza. . Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad announced his divine mission in 1889 and started enrollment for his movement in the same year. . According to his claim and belief of his followers, he is the Promised. Messiah and Mahdi, (Guided Leader) mentioned in the prophecies of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, peace be on him, and of Jesus in the. Bible. He was a great champion of Islam, a great spiritual son of the. Holy Prophet Mohammad, peace be on him, who laid foundation of reformation and renaissance of Muslims and of introducing Islam to the rest of the world. He claimed that he had come in the power and spirit of Jesus and that his personality and character bore close resemblance to him and that like Jesus in Mosaic dispensation, he was a Messiah in the Islamic dispensation. He also claimed that like Jesus, he was a prophet of God but a subordinate, a deputy and a strict follower of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, peace be on him. He further claimed that in his person he fulfilled the prophecy of the second coming of Jesus. He explained that Jesus was a prophet of. God who had died like other human beings and that when ever there is a prophecy of the second coming of a prophet, it is always metaphorical meaning the coming of some closely resembling the 11