Testimony of the Holy Quran — Page 25
H A D R AT M IR Z A GHU L A M AH M AD A S 25 is described as nafkh-e- su r [blowing of the trumpet]. And those blessed with visions also experience a physical manifestation of the ‘trumpet’ in their visions. These wonders belong to a realm whose secrets cannot be revealed to anyone in this world—except to those who have withdrawn themselves towards God. In short, the aforementioned verses establish clearly that in the Latter Days, the Christian religion and empire will be dom - inant in the world and many religious disputes will arise among various nations and each nation will want to suppress the other. At such a time, the trumpet will be blown and all peoples will be gathered under the banner of Islam. That is to say, in keeping with divine practice, a heavenly dispensation shall be established with the advent of a divine reformer. In fact, that very reformer is named the Promised Messiah. Since Christians are the source of the mischief and the main pur - pose of God Almighty was to destroy the glory of their cross, there - fore, the person who was to be sent to invite the Christians was named Masih and ‘ I s a , in view of the condition of the addressees. The second wisdom in this [to call him the Messiah] is that when the Christians deified Hadrat ‘ I s a , attributed fabrications of their own to him, hatched thousands of machinations, and exaggerated the status of Hadrat Mas ih out of all proportion, the honour of that Living, One, and Unique God required that one of His serv - ants from this very ummah be sent, in the name of Jesus, son of Mary, to show the miracle of His might so that it is established that to deify humans is sheer stupidity. He chooses whomsoever He pleases and can elevate the lowliest to the heavens. It should also be remembered here that when a reformer appears at a time of decadence, there is a diffusion of light from heaven. In other