Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 14
14 impossible that at one and the same time all these Prophets should cause their respective religions to triumph over all the others. The conclusion, therefore, is unavoidable that all these prophecies refer to one and the same person who shall, by means of his spiritual powers, gather together men of all faiths, and guide the nations of the world along the right path. These prophecies also show that whereas the promised one shall be the same for all religions, he shall possess such peculiar distinctions that every nation shall accept him as its own. He shall be so related to India that the Hindus will be able to accept him as their Neh a Kalank Avat a r; he shall be so related to the Zoroastrians that they will be able to accept him as their Mesio Darbahmi; he shall be so related to the Muslims that they will be able to claim him as their Mahdi; and he shall be so related to the Christians that they will be able to recognize in him the Messiah. This can happen only if he is related to different peoples in different capacities. For instance, he may be connected with one by religion, with another by race, and with a third his relations may be social or political, so that every nation will be prepared to acknowledge him as its own. Our belief is that all these things are to be found in the holy founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as whom God raised for the reformation of the present age. He claimed to be the Messiah for the Christians, the Mahdi for the Muslims, Krishna or the Neh a Kalank Avat a r for the Hindus, and Mesio Darbahmi for the Zoroastrians. In short, he was