Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 88
88 and remiss among you, shall be cast off as an excrement and shall come to a grievous end. Hear me, for I give you the glad tidings that your God really exists. Though all the creatures are His, yet He selects him from among all who selects Him for his Lord, and He comes to him who goes to Him, and glorifies him >who declares His glory. Come to Him with your hearts cleansed of every guile and duplicity, and your tongues, eyes and ears purified of every defilement. God requires you to believe that there is one God and that Muhammad may peace and blessings of God. be- on him is His prophet and the seal of the prophets and the greatest of all. No prophet shall come after. him but only he who is spiritually clothed in his clothing, for the servant and the master are as one and the branch is not independent of the root. Therefore, he who losing, himself in his master,, receives the title of prophet from God,. does not break the seal of prophecy. It is like one's own image in a looking glass. Such an image of the Holy Pro- phet is the Promised Messiah. This is the secret of the words which the Holy Prophet spoke with reference to the Promised Messiah that he shall be buried in his grave. He plainly meant that he is but his own self. Believe it also that Jesus, the son of Mary, is dead. His tomb is situated in the Khan Yar Street, Srinagar (Cashmere). The Holy Quran speaks of his death on various occasions. The religion of the cross cannot die except with the death of Jesus. What is the use of holding him alive against the teachings of the Holy Quran ? Let him die that the true faith of God may live. Almighty God showed the death of Jesus by His Word and the Holy Prophet saw him among the dead in his vision of heavenly journey. Thus the Holy Quran plainly des- cribes Jesus' death by quoting his own words in answer to a