Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 81
81 for the propagation of Islam he shall not wield weapons but shall place his sole reliance upon heaven whose blessings he shall call down as if by a miraculous touch and gain his ends through them. The weapon at his command shall be his heartfelt prayer uttered with tearful eyes. The, spiritual personality of the Messiah and the Mahdi is a combination of the spiritual personalities of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and Jesus, may peace and the blessings of God be upon them. Borne of the phases are derived from the one and some from the other and are thus intermixed to form a complete and uniform whole. In other words, their spirituality pervades his whole being and as it were supplies the fuel which keeps up the heat of his spiritual life. Both these great persona- ges have appeared again through him, and both constitute the key to the secret of his being. Now, one of the untold perfections of the Holy Prophet was that the word revealed to him, could not be equalled in its beauty and excellance by the combined efforts of all mortals. The promised Messiah in the quality of the Holy Porphet's vicegerent has also inherited that perfection, because being the very image of the Holy prophet it was impossi- ble that he should not have inherited this heavenly perfection. In the same manner the Promised one hasMnherited the perfection of Jesus Christ. And as the personality of the Promised Messiah was quine blended with these two personalities and was wholly lost in them, therefore the names of these two chosen ones of God predominated over his own name and on heaven the names of these two great ones were appropriated for him. (Vol. II R, R. 1903).