The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 123
The Purpose of the Promised Messiah's Advent 123 be a living religion which is able to exhibit God through living and fresh demonstration of His powers. . A mere claim on behalf of a religion is vain and without basis. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 23, p. 428]. The Status of the Messiah and Mahdi. Although I have explained in various books that my claim of being Jesus the Messiah, and Muḥammad the. Mahdi, does not mean that I am actually the same person as Prophet Jesus as or the Holy Prophetsa, yet those who have not read my books with care might fall into the error that I have put forward this claim in the context of the transmigration of souls, and that I claim that the souls of these two holy Prophets as have actually entered my body. This is far from the truth. . The fact is that past Prophets as had made a prophecy with regard to the latter days, according to which it would be a time when the world will be replete with two kinds of errors; one that will relate to the rights of the creatures and the other will relate to the rights of the Creator. . The wrong relating to the rights of creatures would be that blood of man will be shed under the pretence of. Jihad, so much so that one who kills an innocent person would be under the illusion that by this shedding of blood he has acquired great merit. Many other injuries will be inflicted upon mankind through such fanaticism merely on the basis of religious honour. . . The second type of wrong, which concerns the