Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 473
471 Ay! They wonder that there has corne to them a Warner. from among themselves and the disbelievers say " This is a thing marvellous ! " L : 2. And those who disbelieve shall be driven to Hell in troops, Until when they come to it, the doors shall be opened and its keepers shall say to them '* Did not there come to you apostles from amongst you to recite to you the signs of your Lord to warn jrott of this Day ? " XXXIX: 71. Notwithstanding such clear Words of God the present gene- ration expect the Promised Messiah from heaven though they are fully aware of the fate of the Jews who had the same wrong belief that the Promised Elijah would descend for them from heaven when it is an established law and unalterable decree of God to raise His Messengers from among the people themselves and He has also clearly warned that " Thou shalt not find in the course of God any change. " XXXY : 42. It is the hereditary custom of the people of every age to disbelieve the Messengers of God when- ever they are raised from among them. "We have already sent Apostles before thee amongst ancient nations and there came no Apostles to them but, they laughed him to scorn. . XV : 10. Nay, they say, it is the medley of dreams; nay he has forged it, nay he is a poet, let him corne to us with a sign as (the Prop- hets) qf old were sent. None of the cities believed which We destroyed, will they then believe? XXI: 5, 6. And We have not sent to any city a Warner but the opulent thereof said verily we in what you are sent do disbelieve. XXXIV : 33.