Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 92
92 Argument 2—Testimony of the Holy Prophet s as The first argument proves that the appearance of a Reformer is the need of the age and that since there is no one else who claims to have been sent to restore Islam to its glory, we have no choice but to seriously consider the claim of Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib. The Founder of Ahmadiyyat does not claim to be just a Reformer but to be the Promised Reformer. He claims to be both the Promised Messiah and the Promised Mahdi. As a further argument in support of his claim, I present the testimony of the Holy Prophet s as himself. Surely, there can be no greater testimony than his. The concept of the second coming of the Messiah was not born in the Islamic era, for it had been prevalent in the Mosaic tra - ditions hundreds of years before the advent of the Holy Prophet s as. There is no doubt that some aspects of this doctrine have been so ingrained in Islam that it has come to be seen as one of its basic tenets. These are some of those aspects: 1. The news was given that the Mahdi [Reformer] would come at a time that coincided with the coming of the Promised Messiah as. Even though in some Traditions it was said that ‘There is no Mahdi except ‘ I s a ,’ 1 and the two persons were described as one and the same individual, Muslims came to revere the Messiah as much as they should revere the elders of their own religion.