Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 405
405 whose feet lies salvation, and that without obedience to him never, never can any soul attain to any spiritual illumination. And when my God made manifest to me the rank, the dignity and the greatness of that prophet a thrill came over me and a shaking fell on my body, for while men had exceeded the proper bounds in their praise of Jesus, so much so, that they had made him a God, they had failed to recognise the dignity of the other Holy Prophet in the measure it ought to have been recognised, and have failed to this day to realise the proper height of his great- ness. He was the one prophet who planted the seed of mono- theism in so effective a way that to this day it has not again been lost. He was the one prophet who came at a time when the whole world had gon. e astray and left it when like a sea he had flooded the earth with the truth of the Unity of God. He is the one prophet on whose behalf, God in all ages has been manifest- ing His jealousy and showing thousands of miracles and signs to corroborate his truth. Similarly, in this age God's jealousy has been awakened and awakened more than in any previous age, because now the said Holy Prophet has been much traduced. He has accordingly sent me as the Promised Messiah, so that I may bear witness to the world regarding the truth of that prophet. If my claim were unsupported by evidence, I were surely an impos- tor. But God, by His signs, has born witness to my truth, such, that from the East to the West and from the North to the South, the like of them can not be found. The dictates of justice and godfearingness, therefore, require that men should accept me and all my teachings. God has shown such signs in proof of my truth that if the same had been shown to those people who in former days met with death by fire and flood and storm, they might have escaped their doom. But to what should I liken the people of this age ? They are like that wretch who has eyes but would