Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam

by Dr. Karimullah Zirvi

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Welcome to Ahmadiyyat, The True Islam — Page 231

− mentioned me by these names. Furthermore, God Almighty through direct revelation has given me these names. Moreover, the conditions of the world in this age demanded that this must be my name. So, there are three witnesses to my names. My God who, is the Lord of the Universe (Creator and Sustainer of the Universe), I make Him as my witness and declare that I have been appointed by Him. " (Arba'in, No. 1, page 3) − The Promised Messiah and Mahdi has further stated: as − "If I am called or by God, how can I deny it? These Nabi Rasul − − titles have been applied to me by God Himself. How can I fail to use them? Why should I fear anyone but Him? I say on oath in the name of God who has sent me, to fabricate anything in Whose name is to earn His curse -- that He has sent me after making me the Promised Messiah, that I have full faith in the manifest revelation vouchsafed to me, the truth of which has become established for me by sign after sign. My faith in it is as firm as is my faith in the verses of the Holy Qur’an. There is no difference, − not the slightest. I am ready to stand in the House of God and declare on oath that God Who speaks to me is the same God Who spoke to Moses, to Jesus and to the Holy Prophet Muhammad , the Elect. Earthly signs have sa ± witnessed to my truth as well as Heavenly signs. Heaven has witnessed for me, as the Earth. Both have declared that I am the Promised Vicegerent. I was to be rejected also, according to the prophecies. Those whose hearts are shrouded by prejudice do not accept. But I know God will help me the way He has always helped His Messengers. My opponents shall fail. They have not the help of God. Remember wherever I have denied being a Prophet I (Nabuwwat) have denied it in the sense that I am neither an independent bearer of a Law or , nor am I an independent Prophet, a Prophet in my own Shari‘ah − right. But in the sense that I have received spiritual grace from my Mentor and Master, my , that I have been awarded his name and have been Rasul − gifted with knowledge of the unseen through him, and because of him, I am a and but without a. Rasul Nabi Shari‘ah − − − 231