Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 320
3*20 Prophecies relating to the safety of the Prbmised Messiah and the Two loms. i. C ' ' ;'. T. he following prophecies are contained on pages 510 and 511 of the Barahiq-i-Ahmadiyya (published in 1880-84): 3 fitrst portion of these revelations may be thus translated;'. "Though people will not save thee from. being killed, yet. God shall certainly save thee from being killed, though people. may try to. take thy life. '' ; It is: indicated here that pepple would form plots to kill me and make attempts on my life, directjy i or ; indirectly by misrepresenting or accusing me before, the , authorities, Jbuc al) their efforts will prove fruitless. . Now al- though being killed in the cause of God is martyrdom for all '. true, believers whether prophets :or. not, yet for greater ends, Almighty ;God does no. t allow two classes of prophets to be \i. killed. by their enemies, viz^ (1) the Prophet who is the Founder , of a :systern, and: (2) the Prophet with whom a system is terrnin;-. ated. Moses. and our Holy Prophet are examples of the first, j and Jesus Christ and the Promised Messiah in? Islam examples. of -the second class. It is for this reason that as in the Holy Quran, Almighty God promised to the Holy Prophet the safety of his life against. the plots of his enemies to kill ;him, in -,th(e J words, ^r ^ 1. ^ J***l ^. 1. 3 i. e^^ "And G : ad will save thee'from the people. " He has also given a similar promise of ;safety ; to me in almost indentical words. It can be easily seen that guch