The Noble Son — Page 38
– FULFILMENT OF A GRAND PROPHECY 38 until now which is the first of September 1888, but he shall, most certainly, be born within its stipulated time in keeping with the promise of God Almighty. Heaven and earth can move, but it is not possible for His promises to be held off. ” This is the wording on page seven of the Sabz Ishtehaar , in accordance with which a son was born in January 1889, who was named Mahmood and who, by the grace of the Exalted, is still alive and is in his seventeenth year. ’ 39 Now observe, that in the above, it is not written that he has been given the name, ‘Mahmood’ by way of good virtue. In fact he has been declared, in absoluteness, to be the fulfilment of the prophecy in Sabz Ishtehaar in which it is stated that Bashir II and Mahmood are the names of the Musleh Mauood, and that in the prophecy concerning Musleh Mauood contained in the announcement of 20 February 1886 the words after, ‘Blessed is he who comes from heaven’, apply to the second Bashir. 40 Summary of the First Argument Thus, the first argument in favour of the claim that it was Hazrat Amirul-Momineen, Khalifatul-Masih II aba , in whose person the prophecy concerning the Musleh Mauood was truly fulfilled is that the Musleh Mauood had to be one of the biological sons of the Promised Messiah as and that he had to be born within the limit of nine years, from the date of 20 February 1886 till 1895. The other