Selections from the Writings of the Promised Messiah

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

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Selections from the Writings of the Promised Messiah — Page 77

periods. If it were the same body which were to be revived, it was very likely that people would have observed this happening. Nonetheless, the revival of the dead is very much evident from the study of the Holy Quran. Hence one is compelled to believe that the dead are revived in such forms as we cannot see. Most likely that spiritual body is composed of some highly refined constituents of this material body. The soul having been thus provided with a body, human perceptions are reinstated. Because this new body is far more rarefied and ethereal in nature, a much wider avenue of visions and revelation is laid open to it. (Kitab ul Barriyya: Roohani Khaza'in Vol. 13, pp. 70-71) 77