The Light (English) February 2014

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Februray 2014

February

2014 Webcasting on the world’s first real-time Islamic service at www.virtualmosque.co.uk Editors: Shahid Aziz Mustaq Ali Contents: Page The Call of the Messiah 1 Hudaibiyah 4 The Virgin Birth: an Ancient Fable by Hazrat Dr Basharat Ahmad 6

‫ْ س مِباہللْالرَّ م ٰ ن‬ ‫ْحالرَّ ْ ی م‬ ‫حم‬ ْ ْ The Call of the Messiah by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and Mahdi Four ways and means For a complete conviction and perfect satisfaction in this matter there are, in the opinion of the people of Truth, four ways and means: (1) the clear, decisive statements in the Book of God or reliable and authentic traditions of the Holy Prophet communicating explicitly the signs of the Promised Man as well as the time of his advent, and also settling and deciding the dispute over the death or otherwise, of the prophet Jesus the Messiah; (2) rational arguments and observations derived from the senses, based on true and sound knowledge, from which there is no running away or any way of escape; (3) those heavenly testimonies and proofs that have come to pass in the form of signs and wonders for the sake of the true claimant in answer to his prayer, so that the seal of a living, heavenly verification is set on his truthfulness; (4) the evidence tendered by saints and righteous persons, after receiving Divine revela-

tion, at a time when there was neither sign nor trace of the claimant, because such evidence, being news of the unseen, is also a sign from God Most High. It is indeed the favour and grace of God Most High that all the four ways and means of inducing complete conviction and perfect satisfaction have been brought together to bear upon this case, and yet, despite that fact, our internal opponents would give it no heed. In the pages that follow, we are writing down and discussing these four ways and means of inducing conviction, and are drawing towards it the attention of seekers after truth that they may question and interrogate these opponents as to why they should turn away from and denounce these clear arguments. Was it not necessary and essential that they should have benefitted from them? It is, of course, patently obvious that the matter that has actually come to pass


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