Truth Prevails — Page 14
( 14 ) In other words, the Promised Messiah, and all the rest of the Muslims who believe in the immaculate conception of Mary, in the words of Dr. Basharat Ahmad, are so many accusing fingers against the virginity of the mother of Jesus. This is just the kind of ‘Naturalism’ against which the Promised Messiah desired to guard his followers. It is very much to be regretted that, subsequently to their denial of the Nabuwwat of the Promised Messiah, members of the Lahore Section have also turned their back on an important point of doctrine and belief, so manifestly supported by the Holy Quran, as the fatherless birth of Jesus Christ, even though the verdict of the Promised Messiah, in regard to those who deny the virgin birth of Jesus was that he looked upon people who held this view to have, thereby, dropped out of the pale of Islam. (AI-Hakam, June 24, 1901) Tafsir of “Akharina Minhum” by the Promised Messiah Commenting on this verse of Sura Juma the Promised Messiah wrote: “‘A stalwart from Persia’ and ‘the Promised Messiah’ are two names for one and the same person, as pointed out by the Holy Quran where it says: ‘And among others from among them who have not yet joined them’, i. e. , included among the Companions of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, is another body of men which has not yet appeared. Evidently, Companions are only those present at the time of the advent of a Prophet, who come to believe in him, and receive the teaching, and training, directly from him. So it stands proved from this verse, that among the people spoken of here, a Prophet would be raised, who would be a buruz of the Holy Prophet, which fact would qualify his followers, his companions, for being reckoned as Companions of the Holy Prophet Mohammad himself; and just as the Companions in the first instance, strove valiantly in the Way of the Lord God, according to the need of their time, the later also would render service to the cause of Islam, according to the specific needs of their time. In any case, this verse contains a prophecy about the advent of a Prophet towards the latter days. Otherwise there is no justification why some people should be called Companions of the Holy Prophet, who were to be born a long time after the Holy Prophet, and who never saw him. ” ( Tatimma Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 67) Repudiation of this Tafsir by Maulvi Mohammad Ali After his repudiation of the Institution of Khilafat, and the Nabuwwat of the Promised Messiah, Maulvi Mohammad Ali, and other friends connected with the Paigham-i-Sulha , have fallen away from the straight path to such an extent, that they seem to have divested themselves of many characteristics, and points of the teaching of Ahmadiyyat. Commenting on the Quranic verse