Truth Prevails — Page 86
( 86 ) Faruqi, first places the son in the first generation or in the fourth; and now on page 33 of the same book, he takes another view, namely, that he well might turn out to be the Mojaddid of the sixteenth century of the Hijrah , although the fourth generation of the descendants of a man can normally come within one hundred years; while the sixteenth century after the Promised Messiah would come two hundred years afterwards. In the Ilham here under reference, what has been stated is that the complete victory would come after the Muslih Mau’ud , not in his life-time. But to beg his own pet and particular point, Mr. Faruqi is now doing his best to interpret this Ilham to mean that the Muslih Mau’ud would be the Mojaddid of the sixteenth century of the Hijra. Mr. Faruqi’s interpretation that the Muslih Mau’ud will come in the fourth generation of the descendants of the Promised Messiah, is evidently falsified by his own second line of thought that the Promised Muslih would come in the sixteenth century; and this thesis of his advent in the sixteenth century is ruled out, on the basis of the Ilhami promise of God, since, under the Ilhami promise, the Promised Muslih was to take birth definitely within nine years of the date when the prophecy was made. Above all, in view of the Ilhami identification on page 14 of Tiryaqul Qulub , he was to be one of the four sons, namely, Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad, Mirza Bashir Ahmad, Mirza Sharif Ahmad, and Mirza Mubarak Ahmad. Since the last named, died in early boyhood, as had been foreshadowed in certain Ilhams received by the Promised Messiah, the question, indisputably, boils down to just this that the Muslih Mau’ud was to be one of the remaining three sons. Therefore, only the interpretation given by Mr. Faruqi on page 30 of his book: “It may be that this boy would be born in this very generation” can be held to be in accord with the Ilhami identification, to the effect that the Muslih Mau’ud was to be one of the three sons, left after the death of the youngest, namely, Mirza Mubarak Ahmad. Identification of The Muslih Mau’ud The discussion, thus, boils down to this that we have to look for the Promised Muslih in the very first generation of the Promised Messiah’s descendants; and Mr. Faruqi should realise the enormity of his offence against decent behaviour, in the foul and violent language he has stooped to employ in regard to Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II; for among the sons of the Promised Messiah, it was essential for the Muslih Mau’ud that he should be one of his successors; and this honour has fallen to the share of Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II, alone, against whom Mr. Faruqi has shown himself so full of a low kind of wrath.