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The Coming of the

By Tahmeena Tahir

For over 1400 years, people have been waiting for a messiah to reform the people of the latter days. Many of the prophets had prophesised that after them, when the followers of religion start to decline and morality begins disappearing, a messiah or reformer will be sent to the world to revive the followers and unite the world under one banner. This coming of the messiah is foretold in the teachings of Islam and also in many other religions, but are all these religions referring to the same messiah? This article aims to shed some light on this topic and show the similarities between the messiah that has been foretold in many religions and the Promised Messiah, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas.

Awaiting Prophet Jesus as

Let us first look at mainstream Islam and Christianity; both are awaiting the second coming of Prophet Jesusas. Mainstream Muslims believe that Jesusas is alive in heaven, and will return to reform the Muslims. Similarly, Christians also believe that he will come down from Heaven in bodily form. We know from the Holy Qur’an that Jesusas died a normal death. In chapter 3, verse 145 it states:

“And Muhammad is only a Messenger. Verily, all Messengers have passed away before him.”1

So how will Jesusas come back to earth? Jesusas stated that a second coming of someone who has passed away should be understood metaphorically and not literally. The person will return in spirit and not in the same bodily form. Jesusas compared John the Baptist to Elijah, who the Jews were expecting before the advent of their Messiah:

“For all the Prophets and the law prophesied until John. And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.”2

Thus the messiah will arrive; he will not be Jesusas, but will have the characteristics of him. Bukhari also shows us that when the messiah will come, he will be like Jesusas, but not in bodily form:

“By the One who owns my soul, it is nigh, of a certainty, that the son of Mary will appear among you. He will be a judge, he will be just; so he will break the cross and kill the swine; and he will stop war.”3

If Jesusas is to come back to earth as the messiah, why would he break the cross, a symbol used throughout Christianity? The answer is very simple; the messiah will have the characteristics of Jesusas only, and nothing more. He will refute the teaching that Jesusas died on the cross, he will teach against such behaviours and morals that can be likened to swine, and he will bring a message of peace and teach through the pen.

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