The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 302
302. Essence of Islam-III. All these signs will testify to the truth of the Promised. Messiah. See, how the grace of the Beneficent One has bestowed all these favours on this humble one, who is labelled a disbeliever and Dajjal by his opponents! [Brāhin-e-Ahmadiyyah part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, pp 119-126]. One Ḥakīm Mirzā Maḥmūd Īrānī, in his letter dated 2. September 1902, has asked me to explain the meanings of the verse: وَجَدَهَا تَغُرُبُ فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِنَةٍ 14. First of all, let it be clear that this verse holds many a hidden meaning which it is not possible to encompass, and under its apparent meanings lie hidden meanings. . The meaning which God has disclosed to me is that this verse, taken together with the preceding and following verses, comprises a prophecy about the Promised Messiah and specifies the time of his appearance. The explanation is that the Promised Messiah is also Dhulqarnain, as the Arabic word garn connotes a century and the. Qur'ānic verse indicates that the birth and advent of the. Promised Messiah will cover two centuries. I have lived in two centuries according to every known calendar, be it. Islamic, Christian or Bikramjiti. My birth and advent have not been confined to a single century, and in this sense I am Dhulqarnain. In some Aḥādīth too the Promised Messiah has been called Dhulqarnain in the same sense as I have just mentioned. . The interpretation of the rest of the verse in the context of prophecy is that there are two major peoples who have been given the glad tiding of the Coming of the Promised 214 "He found it setting in a pool of murky water. '-Al-Kahf, 18:87 [Publisher]