Favours of God Upon the Promised Messiah (as) — Essence of Islam Vol. 4

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In this discourse from Essence of Islam (Volume 4), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, expounds upon Favours of God Upon the Promised Messiah (as), presenting profound spiritual insights and scriptural verities.

Book Series: Essence of Islam (Volume 4)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Section: Part 3: Status of the Promised Messiah (as)
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signs that had been shown in the past have become like myths. So God has designed to create a new heaven and a new earth.
What is the new heaven? And what is the new earth? The new earth consists of the pure hearts that God is preparing with His own hand, which will be manifested by God and through whom God will be made manifest. The new heaven consists of the signs which are being manifested by His command at the hand of His servant. It is a pity that the world has become hostile to this new manifestation of God. They have nothing with them except ancient tales and their own fancies have become their god. Their hearts are benumbed, their resolves are weary, and their eyes are veiled.
[Kashti-e-Nuh, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 19, p. 7]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 90]

Status of the Promised Messiahas [7] God has given me the glad tiding that my followers will always triumph through their reasoning in support of the truth, and that they and their progeny will be greatly honoured in the world, so that they may realize that he who comes from God is never in a loss. [8] God has promised me that until the world comes to an end He will continue to manifest my blessings so much so that kings shall seek blessings from my garments. [9] Twenty years ago, God gave me the glad tiding that I would be denied and that people would not accept me, but that He will accept me and manifest my truth with powerful assaults. [10] God has promised me that for the purpose of once again manifesting the light of my blessings, a person will be raised from among your progeny into whom He will breathe the blessings of the Holy Spirit. He will be characterized by inner purity and will have a close holy relationship with God. He will be 57 And it will seem as if God has descended from heaven. 58 Look! The time is coming and is indeed near when God will spread the acceptance of this Jama‘at far

and wide. It will spread in the East and West, North and South, and Islam will become synonymous with this Jama‘at. These are not the words of man. This is a revelation from God for Whom nothing is impossible.
[Tohfah-e-Golarhviyyah, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 17, pp. 181-182]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 90]

I can recount from my personal experience that Surah Al-Fatihah is in fact a manifestation of Divine light. So many wonders are experienced in the recitation of this Surah that they demonstrate the high status of the Holy Word of God. Through the blessings of this blessed Surah and its continuous recitation, there took place such a disclosure of the unseen that I was apprised of a number of hidden matters before their occurrence; and its recitation at the time of any difficulty resulted in a wonderful lifting of the veil. I can recall having experienced approximately three thousand true visions and dreams that have so been fulfilled as clearly as the break of dawn. On more than two hundred occasions, I have experienced the acceptance of prayer at such critical moments that there appeared no way out of them. In the same way, through this Surah, I have experienced so many other wonders that if a Christian priest or a Hindu pundit were to experience even a slight reflection of them, he would at once cast off all his love of the world and would be ready to lay down his life to accept Islam. Similarly, some prophecies that have been disclosed to me through true revelations have been fulfilled within the Status of the Promised Messiahas knowledge of my opponents and others are in the course of being fulfilled. There are so many such prophecies that their account would fill two volumes of the Gospels.
[Brahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 1, pp. 642-645, footnote 11]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 92]

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[Lujjat-un-Nur, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 16, pp. 473-474]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 93]

God Almighty has given me so much self-control and has made my self so subservient [to Him] that if a person were to abuse me vilely face to face for a whole year, he himself would be ashamed in the end and would have to confess that he failed to shake my resolve.
[Malfuzat, vol. 1, p. 456]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 93]

59 Verily I am the annihilator of falsehood and a citadel for the terror-stricken. And I am the instrument of my Lord, the Gracious, and the Argument of God, the Great Rewarder. I am the day and the sun and the way. In me the words have been fulfilled and lies have been laid bare. I praise, and have been praised in return. I am the symbol of Divine Might made manifest; I have come in the footsteps of the Holy Prophetsa and through me the dead shall be raised and all darkness shall be dispelled. [Publisher] I assure you that God has bestowed understanding of the Qur’an upon me. Whenever He, glorified be His name, so wills He discloses certain Qur’anic verities to me and makes manifest to me the true connotation of some verses together with the reasoning in its support and causes it to be established firmly in the heart like an iron nail. How then can I reject this Divine favour and how can I deny the grace that descends upon me like rain.
[Al Haq, Mubahatha Ludhiana, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 4, p. 21]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 93]

That is, on account of incontrovertible arguments, his bright hand flashes like a sword. Then I see him with the Dhulfiqar.60
This means that there was a time when the Dhulfiqar was in the hand of ‘Alira, but God Almighty shall bestow it into the hand of this Imam in such a way that his shining hand will accomplish that which the Dhulfiqar accomplished in the early days. Thus his hand will be as the Dhulfiqar of ‘Alira that has been made manifest once again. This is an indication that the said Imam will be Sultan-ul-Qalam 61 and his pen will do the work of Dhulfiqar. This prophecy is the exact rendering of the revelation vouchsafed to me, which was published in Brahin-e-Ahmadiyyah ten years ago. It reads:

Status of the Promised Messiahas i.e., ‘The book of this saint is the Dhulfiqar of ‘Alira.’ The reference here is to myself and, on this account, I have been called Ghazi62 in many visions.
[Nishan-e-Asmani, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 4, p. 375]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 94]

If I had made a claim on my own, you would be free to reject me, but if God’s Holy Prophetsa bears witness for me in his prophecies and my God Himself manifests His signs in my support, then do not wrong yourselves [by rejecting me]. Do not say that since you are Muslims you do not need to believe in any Messiah. I tell you truly that he who accepts me accepts him who prophesied about me thirteen hundred years ago and pointed out the time and age and the hallmarks of my mission. He who rejects me, rejects him who commanded that I be accepted.
[Ayyam-us-Sulh, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 14, pp. 328-329]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 4, p. 95]

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