Jesus In India — Page 15
INTRODUCTION 5 at Damascus, or elsewhere, supported by two angels. And join- ing Imam Muhammad—the Mahdi, who will be a Fatamite and will already be there in this world—will kill all non-Muslims, and will not spare anyone except those who become Muslims at once. In short, the real object of the second coming of Jesus, the Messiah may peace be on him, to the earth, as stated by the Muslims known as Ahle-Sunnah and Ahle-Hadith, also called Wahaabis by the common people, is that quite like the Mahadev¹ of the Hindus, he will destroy the whole world; and that he will first threaten people to become Muslims and, if they persist in their disbelief, shall put them all to the sword. They also affirm that he has been kept alive in the heavens in his earthly body, so that when Muslim powers become weak, he will come down and kill the non-Muslims or coerce them on pain of death to become Muslims. The divines of the aforesaid Muslim sect say, particularly about the Christians, that when Jesus, may peace be on him, comes down from the heavens, he will break all the crosses in the world, indulge in all sorts of cruel deeds with the sword, and drown the earth in blood. And, as I have just stated, the Ahle-Hadith and others from among the Muslims gleefully proclaim that shortly before the descent of the Messiah, there will appear an Imam from among the descendants of Fatimah, whose name will be Muhammad, the Mahdi. And he it is in fact who will be the real Khalifah of the Time and the King by virtue of his being from among the Quraish. And since his real object will be to kill all non-Muslims except those who readily recite the Kalimah [the declaration of faith in Islam], Jesus, may 1. One of the three great Hindu gods. [Publisher]