Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 85
29 OCTOBER 1905 much is enough that the death of Jesus, peace be on him, is proven by the Holy Quran and Hadith and the consensus of the Companions. Furthermore, it is proven from Sūrah an-Nūr that all the Khalifahs of this Ummah will come from this Ummah itself, and it is proven from Şahih al-Bukhārī that the Jesus who is to come will be from this Ummah as it is written: إِمَامُكُمْ مِنْكُمْ ]Imamukum minkum-Your Imam (will be) from among you]. In fact, in Şahih al-Bukhārī, the fea- tures of the first Messiah are written as being different from the features of the Messiah who is to come. Apart from this, my coming is not untimely. Twenty-three years have passed of the century at the head of which he was supposed to come. The eclipses of the moon and the sun have also taken place in Ramadan, the plague has also come, a new conveyance-that is, the train-also came into being, and God Almighty has manifested more than 10,000 Signs at my hand. Moreover, every intelligent person can understand that the life of Islam is in the death of Jesusas. If it is proven to the Christians today that Jesusas died, they will all abandon the Christian religion. . وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى مَنِ اتَّبَعَ الْهُدَى ]And peace be upon those who follow the guidance. ] Mirza Ghulam Ahmad may Allah forgive him 29 October 19051 1. Badr, vol. 1, no. 33, p. 4, dated 6 November 1905 85