The Victory of Islam — Page 10
ΙΟ THE VICTORY OF ISLAM countless souls departed from this life. It now lies within your hand to appreciate it or not as well as to benefit from it or not. I shall proclaim it time and time again-the declaration of which I cannot refrain from-that I am the very one who was sent at the appointed time for the reformation of mankind so that the Faith might be firmly planted afresh within the hearts. I am sent in the same manner as the one [i. e. Jesusas] who had been sent after the man of God, Kalimullah [the one who converses with Allah; i. e. Mosesas], and whose soul was raised to Heaven after a great deal of suffering during the reign of Herod. Thus, when the second Kalimullāh [i. e. Muhammad sas] -who is, in fact, the foremost of them all and is the Chief of all Prophets-came to punish other 'pharaohs, and about whom it was stated, إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ رَسُولًا شَاهِدًا عَلَيْكُمْ كَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ رَسُولًا [Verily, We have sent to you a Messenger, who is a witness over you, even as We sent a Messenger to Pharaoh (Sūrah al-Muzzammil, 73:16). ] then he who in his mission was the likeness of the first Kalim, albeit superior to him in rank was also given a promise of [a follower of his coming in] the likeness of the Messiah. And that likeness of the Messiah [i. e. Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas]-bearing the power, spirit, and unique character of the Messiah Son of Mary-descended from Heaven at a time that resembles that very age [of the first Messiah] and after nearly the same duration of time that existed from the time of the first Kalim up to the time of the Messiah Son of Mary; that is, the fourteenth century. That descent was spiritual in nature just as the descent of [spiritually]