Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 400
400 victorious over all other religions of the world. Let no body despise it on account of its smallness, for are not all beginnings small? (YOLXR. R. 1911). The Promised Messiah as Moon of the Prophets as well as Sun of the Prophets ID one of his revelations, Ahmad was very aptly described as > ty* 2) ) jj^i 5 > (M $ ) j*'i The Moon of the Prophets as well as the Sun of the Prophets. " He was the Moon of the Prophets, because as the Moon receives her light, from the Sun similarly Ahmad received his light from the Holy Prophet of Arabia, may peace and the blessings of God be upon him. And he was the Sun of the Prophets, because as the Sun makes other bodies shine, similarly his personality made manifest to the world the truth of other Prophets. The truth of the former Prophets had become obscure in the eyes of the world and serious doubts begun to be expressed as to the genuineness of their claims. Their miracles were openly denied and the wonderful works wrought by them were re- garded as no better than myths. God saw this and He sent Ahmad as a Prophet in this age and demonstrated his truth by powerful signs and wonderful prophecies, so that the world, by witnessing with their own eyes the truth of the Prophet of their age, might also see the truth of the former Prophets, Ahmad could not be a Sun to other Prophets, unless his own truth had become as clear as the midday Sun. So God showed many a mighty signs of his truth and established his claims by means of hundreds of powerful prophecies and when his truth shone like the meridian sun, he became the Sun of the Prophets, inasmuch as his personality made manifest the truth of the former Prophets. Thus he was both the Moon and the Sun of the Prophets. (YOL XIII R. R. 1914).