Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 228
228 which you are held, I should have destroyed this village. I am the Merciful who remove the" afflictions. Verily, My Messengers shall have no fear or anxiety hefore Me ; I am their protector. 1 shall stand by My Messenger and reproach the man who chides him ; I shall break the fast and keep it (i. e , for a certain portion of the year, I shall destroy people' with the plague and for another portion let them live in peace), My wrath has been kindled, diseases shall prevail and lives shall be destroyed. But those who believe, and their belief has no defect in it, shall live in peace and be delivered from all afflictions. Do not think that the criminals are quite safe, we are corning nearer and nearer to their residence. I am preparing My armies, i. e. , am multi- plying the plague bacilli. The people shall be found lifeless in their houses like so many dead camels- We shall show them our signs first in distant parts and then among themselves. Those shall be the days of the assistance and victory of God. I have made a contract of exchange with thee, i. e , something which was thine has been transferred to My ownership and something which was Mine I have made over to thee; do thoti also say ' God has made a contract of exchange with me-' Thou art to Me as j a son * Thou art from Me and I fr*om thee, (The * It should be clearly bornfl in mind that God is free from having sons. He has neither an equal nor a son. No one has the right to call himself God or the Son of God The relation- ship of Son towards God is, therefore, a metaphorical expression. In the Holy Quran, Almighty styles the hand of the Prophet as His own hand saying j ^ [ ^ y aJJ ) jo The hand which is above their hands is the hand of God ;" and again addressing the Prophet says : t ^j> Ur b Jj " Say, my servants " instead of b ) J> S & &U ) ) * j U "And remember God like your fathers. " Do not stumble therefore at such metaphorical expressions and be careful wheii you construe them. Believe in the words as they have been revealed without seeking the " why and wherefore " of them. The clear words of my revelation which refute the idea of any one being actually the son of God are as follows : ,&j (j J UJ )