Truth Prevails — Page 10
( 10 ) never something that can be earned, merited or won… since his light cannot be said to be his own, like the light of the sun, being only light reflected, like the light of the moon. ” (Truth Triumphs, Page 3) No doubt, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad became the Promised Messiah, and a Prophet of God, through his devotion and obedience to the Holy Prophet, turning himself into a perfect reflection of the qualities of his master. But this devotion and obedience to the Holy Prophet Mohammad, in his capacity of being Khataman Nabiyeen was a binding condition for the Promised Messiah in his rise to the position of Prophethood. Apart from that, he attained the honour of becoming the Promised Messiah, and a Prophet, by the grace of God, not by any endeavour. So we find the Promised Messiah saying very clearly: “Purely and quite exclusively, from the grace of God, not by any dexterity, cleverness, or application on my part, I have received a full measure of the blessings, before my time, conferred on the earlier Prophets, Apostles, and the righteous servants of Allah; it was not possible for me to obtain these blessings, if I did not follow the paths of my Syed-o-maula, Fakhrul-Ambiya, Khairul wara, Hazrat Mustafa ” ( Haqiqatul Wahyi , page 62) This quotation bears out that the Nabuwwat of the Promised Messiah was a conferment from the Lord in pure and sheer grace, i. e. a conferment, pure and simple. Only obedience and devotion to the Holy Prophet Mohammad was a binding condition precedent, as mentioned in the passage quoted above, that: “For this conferment the door of buruz , zilliyat and fana fir rasul is open. ” So we find that the Nabuwwat given to the Promised Messiah, through his attainment of the position of being a perfect Image of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, has been taken by the Promised Messiah as a mohabat , conferment purely from grace. Of course, from this angle, the Promised Messiah is only the moon, which receives light from the sun and reflects it. But for the Ummat , from another angle, he is also the sun. We find he received a Revelation to this effect: Ya shamso, ya qamro, thou are from me, and I from thou, i. e. O sun! O moon! the elevation where you stand is from Me , and My manifestation would be through you. ” Second Wrong Statement The second wrong statement by Mr. Faruqi is that Mirza Mahmud Ahmad carved out a new belief, a new doctrine, in 1914, that the Promised Messiah was a Nabi , a Prophet; and whosoever denied him, he became, thereby, a kafir. But it is interesting to note that Allah has obtained a contradiction of this wrong statement from the pen of Mr. Faruqi himself. He writes on page 51: