Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 268
268 MALFUZAT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 7 The Likeness of the Messiah The Promised Messiahas said: I am surprised because my case was so very clear. There were three things. These people accepted that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was the like of Moses, and also admitted that the Ummah had become the like of the Jews. They also acknowledged that: عُلَمَاءُ أُمَّتِي كَأَنْبِيَاءِ بَنِي إِسْرَآءِيل ['The scholars in my ummah will be like the Prophets of Bani Israel']. They admitted the likeness in all of these cases, yet in regard to the Messiah they insist that he is the very one who will come. How can this be? This is like the example of two brothers-when assets are divided between them, each one is given comparable things. When they acknowledge the likeness of the Jews in the Ummah of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, then why do they drop dead at the acknowledgement of a Messiah [in the Ummah] as well? The Promised Messiahas said: I see that I have also been given the title Ashabul-Kahf [the People of the Cave (Surah al-Kahf, 18:10)] in Barahin[-e- Ahmadiyya]. The mystery revealed here is that just as they were hidden, this secret also remained hidden for 1300 years and was not made manifest to anyone. And with it, the word of raqim [inscription] shows that despite being hidden, it is 1. Tafsirul-Kabir, by Imām Fakhr al-Din al-Rāzī, Tafsir Sūrah Yūnus, verses 57- 58, vol. 17, p. 93, Dārul-Kutub al-'Ilmīyyah, Beirut. [Publisher]