Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 380
B AR Ā H Ī N-E-A H M ADIY YA — PART F IV E 380 And if there is an iota of fairness, you would realise that Hadrat Mas ih , may peace be upon him, was himself against the belief that someone can go to heaven and then return to the world. Therefore, when the Jews asked him about the second coming of the Prophet Ily a s [Elijah] and showed him the Scriptures—that it was written that Ily a s would return to the world, and only after the coming of Ily a s, the Messiah whose advent had been promised to the Jews, would come and he was to be the Kh a tamul-Anbiy a ’ [Seal of their Prophets]. Hearing this objection, ‘ I s a , may peace be upon him, said that Prophet Ya h y a [ John the Baptist] who was among them and has come before him [ Jesus] ‘He is Ily a s who is to come. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!’1. His statement greatly displeased the Jews and they labelled him disbeliever, an innovator, and violator of the consensus of the people. In the same vein, in a book recently compiled by a great Jewish have perished. For, in that case, today’s mischievous ulema would have con- tended that the Companions, may Allah be pleased with them, too believed that Hadrat ‘ I s a is alive. But now, due to the presentation of S idd i que the Great this verse, an ijm a ‘ has formed among all the Companions that all past Prophets had died—even couplets were composed reflecting this consensus. May God shower thousands of blessings upon Ab u Bakr’s soul. He saved all souls from perdition. All the Companions were included in this ijm a ‘, not even a single one of them was out of it. It was the first ijm a ‘ of the Companions and was an act deserving of the utmost gratitude. There is a mutual similarity be- tween Ab u Bakr, may Allah be pleased with him, and the Promised Messiah, namely, the promise of God, in the Holy Quran, regarding both of them was that they would appear at a time when a state of fear will prevail upon Islam and a chain of apostasy will start. So, that is exactly what happened in the time of Hadrat Ab u Bakr, and in the time of the Promised Messiah. That is, in the time of Hadrat Ab u Bakr hundreds of ignorant Arabs had turned apostate after the demise of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and there remained only two mosques where prayers were held. Hadrat Ab u Bakr re-established them on Islam. Similarly, in the time of the Promised Messiah hundreds of thousands of people renounced Islam and be- came Christians. Both these circumstances are mentioned in the Holy Quran, that is, they are mentioned by way of a prophecy. (Author) 1. Matthew 11:15 [Publisher]