Tadhkirah — Page 52
52 1881 When some time had passed after the first revelation 60 …and I was confronted with several complications on account of people’s lack of interest and I was also facing exceeding difficulties, one day Allah the Noble revealed to me at about the time of Maghrib : 61 60 Revelation of the year 1879: [Urdu] Not just now. [Publishers] 61 This revelation was vouchsafed to Mary at the time of the birth of her son ‘ I s a [Jesus], may peace be upon him. She was feeling weak and exhausted. In the same book Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah , God the Almighty named me Mary also and commanded me: [Arabic] [ Be of the righteous and the truthful. ] See page 242 of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah [ R uha n i Khaz a ’in , volume 1, page 267]. Therefore, the revelation granted to me indicates that my spiritual condition of being Mary had now given spiritual birth to a child who was named ‘ I s a [Jesus]. So long as my spiritual condition of being Jesus was in its elementary stages the spiritual qualities that I possessed as Mary continued to nurture him and when he came into his full powers he was informed: [Arabic] [ O ‘ I s a I shall cause you to die and shall raise you towards Me. ] See page 556 of Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah [ R uha n i Khaz a ’in , volume 1, page 664]. It was the same promise which was set out in s u rah at- Ta h r i m [last verse of Chapter 66 of the Holy Qur’an]. In accordance with this promise, it was incumbent that someone from among the Muslims should be named Mary and through the spiritual process ‘ I s a [Jesus] should be born and should be called Son of Mary. I am that person. Mary was commanded: and so was I, the only difference being that Mary was then suffering from physical exhaustion and I was suffering from lack of financial means. [Nuz u lul-Mas ih , p. 163, R uha n i Khaz a ’in, vol. 18, p. 541]