Malfuzat – Volume II — Page 160
160 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad مِلَّةِ اِبْرٰهِيْمَ حَنِيْفًا عَلٰى Upon the way of Abraham, who was ever inclined to God. This is the underlying secret here—Abraham as reappeared in the home of Ab- dullah after some two or two and a half thousand years. In short, the concept of buruz or spiritual manifestation is an accepted concept in the context of advents. Two Trials of the Latter Days Now, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had foretold in relation to the latter days that two trials would exist in this era. One would be internal and the other external. The internal disorder would be that the Muslims would not be following true guidance, and would be weighed down by Satanic influences. They would transgress the limits of Allah due to their being indulged in gambling, fornication, alcohol and diverse forms of sin and vice, and they will have no concern for the prohibitions set by God Almighty. They will abandon the Prayer and fasting, and the commandments of God will be seen with contempt; the people will mock and ridicule the injunctions of the Quran. The external disorder would be that the sacred personage of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, would be slandered and attempts would be made to dishonour and destroy Islam through hurtful attacks of every kind. All sorts of schemes and strategies would be employed to prove the divinity of the Messiah and to move people to believe in this curse of the cross. In short, when the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was informed of these two forms of disorder—internal and external—he was also given the glad-tiding that a man from his community would be raised. That man would expose the reality of this external disorder and of the religion of the cross; he would break the cross, and it is in this connection that he would be the Messiah son of Mary. Moreover, he would dispel internal dissension and mis- guidance, and would set people on the true path of guidance, and it is in this con- nection that he would be referred to as the Mahdi. It is this glad-tiding to which the following verse alludes: 1 ْ ْنَ مِنْھُم ي ِ و َٰاخَر And among others from among them. 1 al-Jumu’ah, 62:4