The True Nature of the Mahdi — Page 4
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Belief of Our Opponent Maulvis Regarding the Mahdi (Cont'd) Maqdis will be adorned with their treasures. ' (After this, he gives his own opinion and the words that he uses in its support are): 'I say that at present there is not even a single king in In- dia. There are only a few Hindu and Muslim rul- ers. However, they are not even rulers in their own right; they are only nominal rulers. The true kings of this country are the Europeans, and perhaps till that time- that is the time [of the advent] of the Mah- di-they will remain so. And it is they who will be captured and brought before him, i. e. , 4 My and My Community's Belief Regarding the Mahdi (Cont'd) [authentic] narrators, yet ei- ther they have been fulfilled [in respect of their prophe- cies] sometimes in the past and the wars that they men- tion have come to an end since long ago, and now no possibility of warfare exists, so that one should wait for it; or they are such that they do not at all men- tion worldly Khilafat and actual wars: they only give the glad tidings about the coming of a Mahdi, that is, a rightly-guided man. And through indications, but rather, in so many words, too, it has been mentioned in them that he [the Mah- di] will not have a worldly kingdom and Khilafat. And that he will not wage wars,