The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 127
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. Mary coming down from the sky. Then Allah will cause a great uneasiness to spring up in their minds, that the time of the dominance of the cross also had gone by and the world had passed into another phase, another era, but Isa, the son of Mary, had not come down from the heavens. Then, all at once, so to say, people endowed with wisdom and discernment will get disgusted with this belief; and counting from this day, the third century will not be completed, when all those waiting for the appearance of Isa, among the Muslims, as well as the. Christians, will give up this belief in a great disappointment and a piteous disillusionment. Then, all over the world, there shall be only one religion, only one guide, only one leader. I have come but to sow the seed, and this task has been duly achieved at my hand. The seed shall now grow and multiply; it will come into bloom and bear fruit-and there is no one to stop it from doing so". (Tazkria-tulShahadatain, pp. 64-65) 2. "The truth shall be victorious, and for Islam shall again come the day of freshness and light, as it came once before; and that sun shall again shine forth, as it had shone in splendour before. But that is not yet to be. It is essential that the heavens should keep it from shining forth like that, even until, in the most strenuous endeavor directed to that end, our hearts flow out in blood, to lend strength to our efforts--until we sacrifice all our comforts, until we bear all kinds of humiliations, so that Islam should come to be honoured. The revival of Islam demands an indemnity from us and what is that indemnity? Our death on this path. This is the death on which depends the life of Islam, the life of the Muslims, and a proper manifestation of the Living God". (Fat'h-e-Islam) 3. "I am always occupied with the idea that in some way or other there should come a clear decision between us and Christianity. . My heart melts into blood with pain when I see this worship of a dead person which Christian belief involves; and from the havoc done by the mischief of this belief my life is in great torture of the mind. For, indeed, what else can be more painful for a man of discernment than this that he should see a frail human being made into a God, and one created from a handful of dust turned into the Lord and Creator of the 127