Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 417
417 j ' MaMana' asked-, 4 '' WiH there ev^er -appear one like unto: Guru Bhagat Kabeer. ?;" ' Then Guru Nanak replied, "0 Mardana ! there will appear a land-own'er; He will come after one hundred years have passed. Itis trust will be in the One God. " Then Mardana asked, "At what place and in what country will he appear? " Guruji replied "0 Mardana ! he will appear in the Parganah of Batala. Hear, Mardana ! the holy ones of God are of one type but he (the Promised one), will be greater than even Kabeer. " Saying these things to Mardana, Gurujee proceeded towards Mount Sinai. ' Such is the prophecy which we find recorded in the Sikh sa'cred literature, and we earnestly invite to it the serious atten- tion of the Sikh Community. The , Guru not. only foretold, the appearance of a holy man in general words, but also gave definite particulars about the place from which he was to rise and the class he was to belong to. He also told that his advent was not near at hand and that it was to be expected in the period which was to follow the first hundred years after him. Though Baba Nanak did not give the exact date of the appearance of the Pro- mised one, yet he indicated this much at least that he was nob to appear in the first century after him but in the period that was to come after that 1 century. He also pointed out that the Promised one/was to be much greater than the man than whom, i according to Mardana, ,no man coming in after years could be greater. The ; Baba further, stated. that God was to be the only support of; the Promised one; in, other words, he was not to come with any worldly glory or with, any political power, and the only means of his advancement was to be divine help.