Testimony of the Holy Quran — Page 108
T E S T I MON Y OF T HE HOLY Q U R AN 108 It clearly tells that it is essential that a Mujaddid in the name of Hadrat Mas ih [ Jesus] will appear in the 14th century. This is because the Muhammadan Khilafat and the Mosaic Khilafat can be considered to have complete and perfect resemblance only if their first age and last age have mutual resemblance of the high - est level. And the resemblance in the latter age was to be on two accounts: first, the decline in the ummah’s condition, weakening of worldly power, and a shift in their integrity, honesty, and piety; and second, the appearance of a Mujaddid in that particular age, who would come with the name ‘Promised Messiah’, and would restore the condition of the faith. As for the first Sign, our Muslim brothers not only accept it, but are also witnessing with their own eyes the deterioration of Muslims and the ascendancy of a foreign nation that thinks of their religion as contemptible and inferior. It is just as the Byzantines, after having overpowered the Jews, thought of the Jews as contemptible and inferior in the time of Hadrat Mas ih. They are also witnessing that the spiritual condi - tion of the Muslim ulema and the ordinary people is nothing less than that of the Jews; rather, it appears ten times worse! When we read the verses in the very first part of the Holy Quran about the Jewish rabbis— ‘that you admonish others to practice virtue and goodness while you forget yourselves; that you find no fault in mistreating your brothers; and that you indulge in various kinds of greed, immorality, depravity, evil machinations, and deceptions for worldly gains’—the heart speaks out that all these verses are fully applying to most of our maulaw i s. While our brothers have themselves accepted the fulfilment of one of the two inseparable Signs in this age, then turning away from other Signs is just like saying, the Sun has risen, but the day