Nubuwwat & Khilafat Prophethood & its Successorship — Page 12
N UBUWWAT AND K HIL A FAT 12 India, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as of Qadian. (Review of Religions, November 1904, p. 411) Promised Mursal 7 of Latter Days 5) Maulav i Muhammad ‘Al i writes: To recognise God and to be certain that He really exists is something unique. It can be attained only by observing the miraculous signs of the power and knowl- edge of God. Such signs are shown only by the Prophets and Messengers of God. It has been the way of God since the beginning that when faith is totally wiped out of the hearts of people, He shows His extraordinary powers by showing miraculous signs through the Prophets. Thus, He creates certainty about His existence in the hearts of people, which creates a pious change in them. Such is the need of this time, because the signs shown by the previous Prophets have become old stories. Nowadays people do not attain such a living and strong faith in their hearts as can burn the inclination towards sin. This is the reason that moral conditions have deteri- orated and people have become negligent of spiritual development. Therefore, at this time Almighty Allah sent a Mursal and it is the same Nab i that had been, from the beginning, prophesied to appear in the latter days. Because He who had made the promise knew that someone sent by Him would be needed in the latter days. Therefore, in accordance with this promise, He sent the one appointed by Him to revive faith and reli- gion, so that he should create the certainty of faith in Him in the hearts of people and should demonstrate such powerful signs of God as were witnessed by people 7. One who has been sent by God.