Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 7
signs of decline would show themselves among the Muslims, and they would go they would go wrong in their beliefs, the Mehdi of this Ummat would appear, to set their thinking aright. By means of a divine knowlege, vouchsafed to him from heaven; by means of an inner light of true guidance; and with the God-given power of his soul, he would continue to raise the. Muslims to higher and still higher elevations and glories. On the other hand, being the Promised Masih, his mission would be that, appearing at the time of an unprecedented material grandeur of the Christian nations, he should break the power of the Cross to pieces, and make Islam prevail again in the world, even as it had prevailed in the First phase and era of its history. Mehdi and. Mesih are thus, two names given by the. Holy Prophet to the same identical Reformer, in view of the dual nature of his mission. . This is the reason why we find the Holy. Prophet saying clearly in a Hadith: "There is no Mehdi, except Isa" (Ibni Maja). An indication more plain than this is difficult to imagine, that the self-same Reformer who would come as the Promised Mehdi, he himself would be the Promised Masih as well. 7