With Love to the Muslims of the World — Page 30
30 This phenomenon is most beautifully described in the Holy Qur’an: "And when We bestow favour on man, he turns away and goes aside. " (17 : 84) I MAM M AHDI AND ‘ I S A AS (J ESUS ) Another difference between Ahmad i and non-Ahmad i interpretation relates apparently to the two reformers mentioned above under the title Jesus as , Son of Mary and the Imam Mahdi. As other Muslim scholars have already taken the rigid stance that Jesus as , Son of Mary as being the personal name of the first Messiah, they must accept it literally that the same Messiah of old would personally return to earth. As such, instead of one, there will be two sharing the same age. One would descend from heaven after the birth of the giant Antichrist and his donkey of gigantic proportions, and the second, the Imam Mahdi, who would be born in the umma of Islam. Because of the same literal emphasis, these scholars would have us believe that the two spiritual titles are not given to the same Reformer of the latter days, but that actually two different persons would come to serve Islam simultaneously. Ahmad i s understand this differently, and because they believe and prove it from the Holy Qur’an and the A ha d i th that the Jesus as of old most certainly died much