Claims of the Promised Messiah (as) — Page 11
A Review of the Pakistani Government’s “White Paper”: Qadiyaniyyat—A Grave Threat to Islam [ 11 ] The reality [is that] the Promised Messiah is to have the light and image of the Holy Prophet sa in him. Many people think that the Promised Messiah will be an ordinary person from the ummah. This is not true. He will be the true embodiment of the name of Holy Prophet sa and his true copy. How can he be compared with an ordinary Muslim. ( al-Khair ul Kath i r , p. 236– 237) Hadrat Imam ‘Abdul Razzak Qash a n i writes: The Mahd i of the latter days would be subservient to the laws of Mu h ammed sa. However, in reality, in reli- gious knowledge, Prophets and other holy men would be subordinate to him [the Mahd i ], because intrinsically this Mahd i is the representation of Mu h ammed sa. The Essence of Spiritual Re-advent Hadrat Sh a h Wal i ull a h Mu h addith Dehlav i rta says: One form of the real spiritual re-advent is that some- times the progeny or the followers are included within the same status of a principal person in the same way as the image of the Holy Prophet sa will appear in the advent of the Mahd i. ( Tafh i m a t-e-Il a- hiyya , vol. 2, p. 198)