Tadhkirah — Page 127
1883 127 149 [Arabic] O ‘ I s a [Jesus] I shall give you full reward 150 or cause you to die and shall raise you towards Me, meaning that I shall raise your status or will raise you from the life on earth towards Me, (and I shall clear you of all the accusations and calumnies of the disbelievers) and grant predominance to your followers over those who disbelieve, till the Day of Judgment. This means that: ‘I shall give supremacy to those who follow your beliefs and religion over others in arguments, reasoning, and blessings, until the Day of Resurrection. ’ There is a group from among the first ones and a group from among the last ones. 151 In this revelation, the word ‘ I s a alludes to my humble self. [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 4, pp. 556–557 sub-footnote 4, R u h a n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 1, pp. 664–665 sub-footnote 4] 148 The revelation has been repeated so many times that Allah alone knows the count. Sometimes I received it continuously from mid-night till the Fajr time. [Makt u b a t-e-Ahmadiyyah, vol. 1, p. 67, Letter no. 35, dated November 20 to M i r ‘Abb a s ‘Al i Sh a h] 149 The sentence was inadvertently missed in Bar a h i n ( See Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah , volume 5, page 73, R u h a n i Khaz a ’in , volume 21, pages 94). [Jalal-ud-Din Shams] 150 See footnote 140 on p. 119 above for an explanation. [Publishers] 151 This means that two types of people would join my Community. One, Muslims who have been called the first ones and about 300,000 of whom have already joined the Community; and two, people who will join the Muslims from among the Hindus, Sikhs and Christians from Europe and America. A group of these has also joined the Community and this is continuing. [Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, part 5, p. 82, R u h a n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 21, p. 108]