The Will — Page 7
HADRAT MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD AS 7 [Moses's] death Israelites were plunged into deep mourning. It is written in Torah that with the grief at this untimely death and sudden departure of Mosesas, the Israelites wept for forty days. The same happened with Christas. At the time of the incident of Crucifixion all his disciples scattered and even one of them apostatized. So dear friends! since it is the Sunnatullāh,¹ from time imme- morial, that God Almighty shows two Manifestations so that the two false joys of the opponents be put to an end, it is not possible now that Godshould relinquish His Sunnah of old. So do not grieve over what I have said to you; nor should your hearts be distressed. For it is essential for you to witness the second Manifestation also, and its Coming is better for you because it is everlasting the con- tinuity of which will not end till the Day of Judgment. And that second Manifestation cannot come unless I depart. But when I depart, God will send that second Manifestation for you which shall always stay with you just as promised by God in Barāhīn-e- Ahmadiyya. And this promise is not for my person. Rather the promise is with reference to you, as God [addressing me] says: I shall make this Jamāʼať who are your followers, prevail over oth- ers till the Day of Judgment. Thus it is inevitable that you see the day of my departure, so that after that day the day comes which is the day of ever-lasting promise. Our God is He Who keeps His promise and is Faithful and is the Truthful God. He shall show 1. Practice, Way, Law, of God. [Publisher] 2. The first book of the Promised Messiahas, published in four parts in 1880, 1882 and 1884. [Publisher] 3. The community of the followers of the Promised Messiahas. [Publisher]