Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 202
202 on the day of judgment, God would question Jesus if he had said to his people that they should take him and his mother for Gods and worship them. In answer to this, Jesus would say that he had said to them only what God had commanded him to say, viz*, that they should worship God alone and consider him as His apostle only, and that he knew what they did so long as he was among them, " but since Thou didst cause me to die, Thou didst witness their doings and I was quite ignorant of what happened after me-" The reply of Jesus here is that his followers did not set up to the false belief of his divinity until after his death. If, therefore, it is held by a Muslim that Jesus is still alive, he shall also have to admit that the Christian doctrine is true. Moreover here Jesus displays an ignorance of the condition of his followers after his death, a fact which is inconsistent with the theory of his re-advent, because in the latter case he could not remain ignorant of the doctrines invented by the Christians after his death. The belief that Jesus would come back in to the world, and joining with the Madhi, slay the infidels, falsifies the Quranic verse quoted above, and must, therefore be rejected. Nor can it be held that Jesus would conceal before God the fact that he had gone into the world, lived there far forty years and slain the Christians, for that is far from the dignity of a prophet, and besides nothing would remain concealed on the day of judg- ment. If any one has true faith in the Holy Quran, he can see that the whole plot of Mahdi's murderous deeds and Jesus' decent from heaven to assist him in that bloody task, is brought to naught by a single verse. When the opponents are vanquished in every point, as a last resource they bring forward the slender objection, that one or two out of thousands of my phrophecies have not been fulfilled, while as a matter of fact this is untrue. Besides this, it will be