Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 13
13 of the Ahmadiyya Movement has taught that the door of revelation has ever remained open and will continue to remain open, and that the present age bears emphatic testimony to the need of a Prophet. But we do not base our belief on the testimony of the age alone; we are also supported by the testimony of the previous Prophets. We find that all religions contain prophecies con- cerning the advent of a Prophet in this age. The Hindus are awaiting the advent of the Neh a Kalank Avat a r, which has been foretold in their scriptures; the Chris- tians are awaiting the second advent of the Messiah; the Muslims are looking forward to the appearance of the Mahdi and the Promised Messiah; the Zoroastrians believe in the coming of Mesio Darbahmi, etc. , etc. If the advent of Prophets had ceased for the future, how could all these people have agreed on the single fact that a Prophet, whose advent had been foretold, would arise. One peculiar feature of these prophecies is that there is a great deal of similarity between the various signs de- tailed by different religions indicating the appearance of the promised Prophet. All these prophecies indicate the time of that Prophet by foretelling the spread of evils, multiplication of diseases, falling of stars, eclipses of the sun and the moon, recurrance of wars, etc. Again, it is foretold that these promised Prophets will propagate the truth throughout the world, and that the true religion will manifestly triumph over all other religions in an unprecedented manner. Now, on the one hand, the actual fulfilment of the signs contained in these prophe- cies show that they cannot be false, and, on the other, the appointed task of all the promised Prophets makes it