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260 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad for Islam, and who are aware of the prevailing circumstances today, must accept that the present age is the time for the coming of a magnificent Reformer. Testimony in Favour of the Divinely Commissioned One of God There are many testimonies in favour of my being commissioned by God: firstly, internal testimony; secondly, external testimony; thirdly, the authentic Hadith which speaks about the coming of a Reformer at the head of the century; fourth- ly, the following promise of guardianship: 1 َ لَهٗ لَحٰـفِظُوْن الذِّكْرَ وَ اِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا اِنَّا Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian. The fifth testimony, which is a powerful one indeed, I present before you now. In Surah Nur, there is a covenant of successorship in which Allah the Exalted promises: 2 ْ ْنَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِم ی اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِ الْاَرْضِ كَمَا الصّٰلِحٰتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي مِنْكُمْ وَ عَمِلُوا ْن َ ٰامَنُوْا ی ِ وَعَدَ اهللُ الَّذ Allah has promised to those among you who believe and do good works that He will surely make them Successors in the earth, as He made Successors from among those who were before them. In this verse, in view of the promise of successorship, those successors of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, who would be raised in this dispensation, would be like the successors of the past. In the Holy Quran, the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, has been declared the likeness of Moses as , as stated in the following verse: 3 فِرْعَوْنَ رَسُوْلًا ی عَلَيْكُمْ كَمَاۤ اَرْسَلْنَاۤ اِلٰ شَاهِدًا اِنَّاۤ اَرْسَلْنَاۤ اِلَيْكُمْ رَسُوْلًا Verily, We have sent to you a Messenger, who is a wit- ness over you, even as We sent a Messenger to Pharaoh. Moreover, the Holy Prophet sa is also the likeness of Moses as according to the prophecy in Deuteronomy. Therefore, in the aforementioned verse of the Holy Quran, just as this likeness has been expressed with the Arabic word kama , so too, 1 al-Hijr, 15:10 2 an-Nur, 24:56 3 al-Muzzammil , 73:16 p. 238