Truth About the Split — Page 54
54 the Messiah as of the Muhammadan dispensation the major portion of his followers would remain loyal to truth, and only a comparatively insignificant section would deviate from the same; for while we may remember that the Promised Messiah as was a counter- type of the first Messiah, we cannot forget that he was a representative, not of the Mosaic, but of the Muhammadan dispensation, and that in him we had, not only a counter-type of Jesus but also a likeness of Muhammad as. The Promised Messiah as himself writes: "Then coming in the name of Jesus as I too should have met the fate of the Cross, had I not borne the name of Ahmad—in which lies the secret of all my power. " What is meant by the above verse is that from the fact that he was the counter-type of Jesus as it might have been expected that the Promised Messiah as would undergo all the sufferings which were endured by the first Messiah, and he too would be put upon the Cross. But as the Promised Messiah as bore also the name of Ahmad, a fact which was to determine all the circumstances of his case, his career turned out to be different from that of the first Messiah. Traditions reported from the Holy Prophet sa also support the same view, viz. that in the Reformer who was to come