The Descent of the Messiah — Page 298
THE DESCENT OF THE MESSIAH reason that it was said that the Promised Messiah would be bur- ied in the grave of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Since there is no element of duality, why should it be supposed that he is in a separate grave? The world does not understand this point. If the people understood the meaning of: اِسْمُهُ كَاسْمِي وَيُدْ فَنُ مَعِي فِي قَبْرِي they would not have been insolent and would have believed. Remember this point, I am not a mes- senger and a prophet in terms of a new law, a new claim, or a new name. I am a messenger and a prophet on account of my per- fect reflection [to the Holy Prophetsas]. I am the mirror in which the face and prophethood of Muhammad is reflected perfectly. If I were a separate person claiming prophethood, God would not have named me Muhammad, Ahmad, Mustafa [The Cho- sen One], or Mujtabā [The Elect of God] nor would I have been given the title of the Seal of the Saints in the same manner as the Seal of the Prophets. Instead, I would have appeared with anoth- er name. Instead, God has made me connected to the person of Muhammad in every possible manner, so much so, that He did not even desire that it be said of me that I have a separate name or a separate grave, because the reflection cannot be separate from the original. Why did He do so? The secret is that God knew that He had made the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the Seal of the Prophets, and also to complete the comparison between the two dispensations, it was necessary that the Messiah of Muhammad's dispensation should appear with the same glory as the Messiah of the Mosaic dispensation so that this great prophethood is not seen as being lower in rank. For this reason, God created me as a perfect reflection and placed in it the Muhammadan prophethood by representation so that, in 1 "His name shall be after my name and he shall be buried with me in my grave. " [Publisher] 298