Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 138
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 138 forth Signs, but their eyes remain closed. I do not know what God will show to them now. Here it is necessary to bear in mind that not only has God Almighty named me ‘ I s a , but He has also bestowed upon me the names of all the Prophets as from beginning to end. So in the earlier parts of Bar a h i n-e- Ahmadiyya , I have been named Adam, as Allah the Almighty said: اردت ُ اَن استخلف فخلقت ُ اٰدم see page 492 of the earlier parts of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya 1 On another occasion, He says: سبحان الذی اسری بعبدہ لیل ً خلق اٰدم فاكرمہ. see page 504 of the earlier parts Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya 2 The meaning of both these sentences is that, ‘I willed that I should cre- ate My Vicegerent, so I created Adam; meaning, this humble one. He then says, ‘Holy is the Being who carried His servant on a spiritual jour- ney in one single night. He created this Adam and then exalted him. ’ The spiritual journey of one night here means that he was perfected within one night and traversed the entire spiritual path within half a day. One reason why God has called me Adam was that in this age the progeny of Adam had generally become spiritually dead. Hence, God declared me the Adam of the beginning of new life. This brief state- ment contains the prophecy that just as the progeny of Adam spread 1. In the 2008 edition of R uha n i Khaz a ’in, the referenced text appears in vol- ume 1, page 585. In the 2016 English translation of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part IV, this text appears on page 368. [Publisher] 2. In the 2008 edition of R uha n i Khaz a ’in, the referenced text appears in vol- ume 1, page 600. In the 2016 English translation of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, Part IV, this text appears on page 381. [Publisher]