Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 423
433 vain. It is the will of God that Islam should spread throughout the world and all that is occurring in the world is preparatory to the spread of Islam,. Things are moving rapidly so that the final goal may soon be reached; Soon there will be a new heaven and a new-earth. The promised Messiah came to introduces new era and the great changes that are occurring on all sides are meant to help; to usher in the new era. :We are now at the gate- way of the Millennium. That Ahmad 's advent was to result in the evolution ;ol a new heaven and a new earth was revaaled to Ahmad, about 30 years ago. 1 Ahmad. describes that memorable -vision of his 'in the following words (vide the Ainali-Kamalat-i- Islam. ) ' v-. ' ';-. ";: : ;, :. . . -. . ::::; ; "I saw in a vision that I was myself God, I firmly believed that I was He and I had no will, no thought, and no action of my own. I became like ayes. se:l with a hole or like some thing which. is taken into the bosom of something else and is so completely hidden in the latter that not a trace of it is visible- In the mean- while I saw that the Spirit of God encompassed me and having encircl'ed me hid my person in His own so thai there remained not a particle of mine and I found that my limbs had become the limbs of God, my eye had become the eye of God, my ears had become His ears c and. my tongue had become His tongue. My Lord seized me and He seized me in a way that I was utterly lost in it and I saw that His power and mightiness and divinity were. surging within me. My heart became the camp of divine Majesty and my self was completely crushed by divine power. So there remained neither I nor any desire of mine. My own edifice was demolished and its place was taken by the edifice of the Lord of :, the worlds. Divinity overwhelmed me and I was, drawn towards Him from head to the nails. Then I became a kerne-1 without a crust- an,d an oil without