The Honour of Prophets — Page 66
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 66 possesses, for which he was made God. Did he mani fest special miracles? On the contrary, I find that much greater miracles are being shown in my support. Were his prophecies of a superior nature? I would be wrong if I do not declare that the prophecies granted to me are far greater than those of the Messiah son of Mary. How can I accept that the Gospels contain such lofty words with regards to the Messiah son of Mary that they prove his divinity? I swear by God, a false oath in whose name brings a curse in this world and the next, that the words revealed by God Almighty in my honour—and again I declare on oath that they are purely the words of God, and not interpolated, changed or altered like the Gospels—are much superior in grandeur than the ones which Christian missionaries quote from the Gospels in relation to the Messiah son of Mary. But would it be permissible for me to claim divinity or to be called the son of God? Rest assured that the Messiah son of Mary, too, is neither the son of God nor God. I am the Messiah of Muhammad sa and he is the Mosaic Messiah. Divine destiny had decreed the coming of a Messiah at the end of the Israelite dispensation whose law began with Moses. In parallel to this, it was also decreed that a Messiah would appear at the end of the Ishmaelite dispensation whose law began with Muhammad, the