Truth Prevails — Page 56
( 56 ) Isa. When a full 12 years had passed, the time came for the correct position to be unfolded, and persistent Revelation started to come down on me that I was myself the Promised Messiah. So, therefore, when the Wahyi from Allah reached the limit; and when, moreover, I was commanded to convey to mankind whatsoever I was being directed to convey; and when many Signs were bestowed on me; and when this fact was set deep in my mind, like a bright and luminous conviction, I carried the meassage to mankind. ” ( Ejaz-i-Ahmadi , page 7) We hope Mr. Faruqi would allow us to remark that in the face of passages of this kind in the writings of the Promised Messiah, how can we hold that he could not make any alteration in his conception of Nabuwwat , and his own position in comparison with the Messiah dispensation of Moses. When for twelve years the truth remained, hidden from his mind, since, it appears, the time was not ripe in the eyes of the Lord, for him to declare that he was the Promised Messiah. This was nothing deceitful, or fraudulent, on the part of the Promised Messiah. So it was his stark simplicity and honesty of mind, a complete absence of any designing temperament, that whenever he found himself spoken of as a Nabi , he took it to mean that he was a Reformer, a Mohadddath , and nothing more. Mark how clearly he describes his frame of mind in this connection. But when it was revealed to him in clear words that he was s Nabi he made an amendment in the conception of Nabuwwat and took himself to be a Nabi superior in all his glory to Jesus Christ. “I am but one whose sole desire and aim is to follow implicitly what came down to him, as Wahyi from the Lord. So long as I remained unaware of the truth in this respect, I continued to say what I had said at the outset. But I changed my view, when I was given a clear and proper knowledge on the point: I began to say something different to what I had been saying before. I am only a human being I do not claim that I am Knower of all unseen. This is the plain truth; and everyone is free to hold whatsoever he likes, free to accept my claim, or to reject it. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 150) Why did the Promised Messiah remain unable to grasp that he was the Promised Messiah? He himself has answered this question: “This was a point in the sagacity and wisdom of the Lord, an argument in favour of my truthfulness, and a total lack of design on my part. Had it been a work of man, with roots in a planned scheme, right from the time of Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya , I would have made a start on a claim that I was the Promised Messiah. But God turned away my vision; and I failed to understand the meaning and purpose of this Wahyi that it was establishing me in the position of the Promised Messiah. On my simplicity of mind and my truthfulness, this circumstance was a great, a very impressive argument. ” ( Ejaz-i-Ahmadi page 7)