Truth Prevails — Page 71
( 71 ) ranks of the companions of the Holy Prophet with their Imam quite clearly identified by the name ‘Ahmad’. ” ( Ejazul Masih , Chapter II, page 22-23) Therefore, in view of this statement by the Promised Messiah, when Hazrat Isa has openly identified him, giving his name as “Ahmad”, for Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II to have said in his Anwar-i-Khilafat , that the Promised Messiah was the real subject of this prophecy, in the sense that it fitted him in a plain and open manner, and that attributively the Holy Prophet Mohammad, being the mazhar-i-awwal was the object of this prophecy by implication, cannot be held to be unjustified, and wrong. The Promised Messiah himself has written in Tohfa Golarwia that this prophecy made by Hazrat Isa concerned the second advent of the Holy Prophet Mohammad, which took place in the advent of the Promised Messiah, in a boruzi manner. In the book here under reference the Promised Messiah wrote: “In short, the period of the first advent of the Holy Prophet Mohammad was the fifth millennium, manifestative of the glory of the name Mohammad. In other words the first advent was to manifest his awe and grandeur. But the second advent, which is pointed out in the verse: ‘And the other ones, of their number, who have not yet joined them’, is the manifester of the grandeur of the jamali name, as pointed out by the verse: ‘And I give the glad tiding of the advent of an Apostle, to come after me, whose name is Ahmad. ’ The meaning of this verse is just this, that the promised Mehdi , whose name in heaven, in a figurative sense, is Ahmad when he appears the Holy Prophet Mohammad who really deserves this name, would shine forth in beauty, in the mantle of this Ahmad, figuratively so named… Therefore, just as for the Believer, it is essential to yield faith in other commandments, it is essential too, that he should hold, there are two advents of the Holy Prophet (a) the Mohammadi advent characterised by qualities of a great majesty and awe, under the influence of Mars, with reference to the Torah we read in the Holy Quran: ‘Mohammad’ the Apostle of God, and those with him, hard to be impressed in their dealings with the unbelievers, gentle in their dealings with each other. , (b) The second advent, Ahmadi , in a mantle of beauty, under the influence of Jupiter, with reference to the Injeel in respect of which the Quran says ‘Giving glad tidings of an Apostle to come after me, named Ahmad. ’ Since the Holy Prophet, in his own self, and in all the chain of his Successors, bears an evident likeness and similarity with Moses, Allah raised him in the colour and spirit of Moses. The Holy Prophet, however, had a hidden and sensitive likeness with Hazrat Isa as well therefore, in the manner of boruz , he manifested that hidden likeness, to the fullest extent, in his advent as Ahmad, the counterpart of Hazrat Isa”. ( Tohfa Golarwia , First Edition, page 96)