Truth Prevails — Page 61
( 61 ) 4. “Only one perfect and real Mehdi has come in this world apart from his Teacher and Master in heaven, he did not learn even one single letter of the alphabet from anyone else. ” ( Tohfa Golarwia , page 57) Now the Promised Messiah in himself, is the real mehdi. But compared to the Holy Prophet Mohammad, like all other Prophets, he too is not the Real Mehdi. Similarly, in himself, the Promised Messiah is a real and full zilli Prophet, which is a kind of Nabuwwat beyond doubt ( Chashma-i-Marifat , page 324), but whatsoever he has received on the basis of his relationship with the Holy Prophet, all this amounts only to a majazi and zilli position, this being the reason why in Istifta he had said: “In the manner of majaz, Allah has bestowed on me the title of Nabi not in the manner of Haqiqat. ” (Page 65) With reference to the context the majaz here also means the zilli way of achieving Nabuwwat. In view of these considerations, in Nozulul Masih , page 5, the Promised Messiah wrote that the Nabuwwat and Risalat extended to him, was, in one respect, a borrowed Nabuwwat and Risalat , since he received it through devotion to the Holy Prophet Mohammad, not directly, on the basis of his own personal merit. After 1901, the Promised Messiah wrote: “In this Ummat , there have been thousands of auliya , and there has also been one who is an Ummati , as well as a Prophet. ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 28) These thousands of auliya , in comparison with the Promised Messiah, have not been real - Ummati Prophets, in this comparison, the Promised Messiah is the real Ummati Nabi , and the perfect zilli Nabi , and we have already seen that in the eyes of the Promised Messiah, zilli Nabuwwat has been held as a kind of Nabuwwat , the Promised Messiah says: “There is a kind of Nabuwwat that has not come to an end the Nabuwwat that accrues from complete and perfect obedience and loyalty to the Holy Prophet Mohammad. The Nabuwwat which takes light from that lamp. That Nabuwwat has not ended, since it is Mohammadi Nabuwwat itself i. e. , its zilli , (its true and full image, its perfect reflection)” ( Chashma-i-Mar’fat , page 324) It is thus clear that there is great need for one to be careful in the use, and the interpretation, of the terms. Haqiqat and Majaz. The elevation granted to an Ummati is essentially zilli , and tufaili , received under obligation to the Holy Prophet. In its own merit it is absolutely real, in actual fact not at all imaginary in any manner. But in relation to the Holy Prophet, it is only a reflection, an image, of his own Nabuwwat. Says the Promised Messiah: