Haqiqatul-Wahi (The Philosophy of Divine Revelation) — Page 100
IOO HAQIQATUL-WAḤI-THE PHILOSOPHY OF DIVINE REVELATION with the help of other people. O people! Will you then know- ingly submit to deception? How can that happen which this man promises you, especially the promise of one who is lowly and mean. He is either ignorant or mad whose speech is point- less. ' Tell them, 'I have with me proof from Allah, then will you accept it or not?' Tell them again, I have with me proof from Allah, then will you believe or not. I have been living among you for a long time before this, then do you not understand?' This status has been granted as a mercy from your Lord, He will perfect His bounty unto you; so give glad tidings and by the grace of your Lord you are not demented. You have a stand- ing and status in heaven and among those who are able to see. We shall show Signs for you and shall demolish the structures which they build. All praise belongs to Allah who has made you Masiḥ Ibn- e-Maryam [the Messiah, Son of Mary]. He is not accountable for that which He does but the people are accountable for what they do. !* 1. In the Word of God which I have set out in various places throughout my book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya, God Almighty has clearly stated how He des- ignated me as 'Isā Ibn-e-Maryam [Jesus, the son of Mary]. In that book, God first named me ‘Maryam' [Mary] and then disclosed that the Spirit was breathed into this Maryam by God and then He said that after the breath- ing of the Spirit, the status of Maryam was converted into the status of ‘Īsā, and thus 'Īsā, having been born of Maryam, was called Ibn-e-Maryam. فاجَآءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلى جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ. At another place in the same context God said -Here, God Almighty says, by way of met قَالَ لَيْتَنِي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَذَا وَ كُنْتُ نَسْيًا مُنْسِيًّا aphor, that when the status of ‘Īsā was born from the status of Maryam in this commissioned one, and this commissioned one was thereby close to becoming Ibn-e-Maryam, the need to preach, which resembles the pain of childbirth, brought him to the dried roots of the Ummah [Muslim people] which lacked the fruit of understanding and righteousness. They were ready to condemn him as an impostor on hearing such a claim and to cause him grief and to say various disparaging things concerning him. Then he said in his heart, 'Would that I had died before this and had been utterly forgotten so that nobody had known my name. ' (Author)