The Descent of the Messiah — Page 41
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMADAS أَنَّ النَّاسَ كَانُوا بِأَيْتِنَا لَا يُوْقِنُونَ "When, through the appearance of the Promised Messiah, God's argument shall be completed upon them, We shall raise a creature out of the earth that shall bite the people and wound them because they did not believe in His Signs. " Allah further says: وَيَوْمَ نَحْشُرُ مِنْ كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ فَوْجًا مِّمَّنْ يُكَذِّبُ بِأَيْتِنَا فَهُمْ يُوزَعُونَ حَتَّى إِذَا جَاءُ وَ قَالَ أَكَذَّبْتُمْ بِأَيْتِي وَلَمْ تُحِيطُوا بِهَا عِلْمًا أَمَّاذَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ - وَوَقَعَ الْقَوْلُ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمَا ظَلَمُوا فَهُمْ لَا يَنْطِقُوْنَ Translation: "On that day, We shall gather together from every nation a group who denied Our signs, and We shall make them into separate groups until such a time when they are pre- sented in the Court and God shall say to them, 'Did you deny My Signs without investigation; what have you done!' And the argument shall be completed against them for their wickedness and they will not be able to say anything". In brief, the دَآبَةُ الْأَرْضِ creature of the earth] mentioned in these verses and destined to emerge during the time of the Promised Messiah, is the same many-faced creature I witnessed in a vision. I was intuitively convinced that this creature was the germ responsible for the plague, a disease caused by microor- ganisms originating from the earth. The illness initially affects rodents before spreading to other hosts in various forms, in- cluding humans and other animals, as depicted in my vision. I present the following arguments to support my contention that the creature of the earth indeed denotes the microbe that triggers 1 An-Naml, 27:83 [Publisher] 2 An-Naml, 27:84-86 [Publisher] 41