With Love to the Muslims of the World — Page 28
28 Messenger of Allah. Such Christian powers are referred to as Antichrist. All the contemporary modes of travel, originally invented and manufactured at large by great Christian powers, be they trains, buses, ships and aeroplanes, all perfectly fit the image of the donkey of Antichrist we find described in the Traditions. Finally, the non-Ahmad i scholars of the majority sects would violently oppose this interpretation as absurd and roundly condemn Ahmad i s for such misleading interpreta- tions; for their part, they are entirely convinced that literally a huge giant as described above would also, possess a donkey of the above mentioned dimensions which would eat fire and carry its master over its back and help him conquer the world and bring to their knees the super powers of the world. Then and only then would Jesus Christ as , again literally and bodily the same Jesus as , descend from heaven to destroy this ultra super-powerful giant, single-handedly, of course. T HE A DVENT OF I MAM M AHDI About the concept of Imam Mahdi, there are differences. These differences also hinge on the question whether the prophecies about Imam Mahdi as should be taken literally or metaphorically. According to some traditions, the Promised Imam of the latter days—Imam Mahdi—would distribute such unlim- ited wealth in the world that people would refuse to take more.