March/April 2008 - Ahmadiyya Gazette Canada

Both were Declared ‘Not Guilty’:
13. The thirteent resemblance
between Jesus and me is that
when Jesus was brought
before the Governor and
was prosecuted for capital
punishment, the Governor
declared that he could not
see any fault in the accused.
Similarly, Captain Douglas,
the District Magistrate, on
my asking him a question,
had replied that he was not
accusing me of any guilt.
In my opinion, Captain
Douglas outshines Pilate in
imparting judgment fearlessly
and in showing determination
and steadfastness. But in the
end Pilate showed diffidence
and for fear of the High Priest
and the Elders, acted in a
cowardly manner. But Captain
Douglas showed no sign of
weakness.
Both were Borne in 14 th Century:
14. The fourteenth resemblance
was that since Jesus had
no father, he was, strictly
speaking, not an Israelite.
Despite this drawback, he
was the last Prophet for the
Children of Israel and of the
Mosaic dispensation. He was
born in the fourteenth century
after Moses. In the same
way I do not belong to the
Quraish and have been raised
in the fourteenth century of
Islam and, like Jesus, I am
the Promised Messiah of the
Muslims.
Social Infrastructure Improved in
Their Times:
15. The fifteenth characteristic
is that by the time Jesus
appeared great strides had
been made in the progress of
civilization. Good roads had
begun to be constructed; an
efficient defense system had
come into being and very
many improvements had been
made in the organization and
training of the armies. Means
of travel were vastly improved
and to ensure the comfort
of travelers’ rest-houses had
become common. Also the
judiciary had been reformed.
Similarly, there has been much
progress and outstanding
developments in our time in
these fields. For example, a new
means of travel, the railways,
has been invented, the
prediction for which is found
in the Holy Quran and the
reader can easily call to mind
various other inventions.
Both are Similar to Adam:
16. The sixteenth characteristic
of Jesus was that, being born
without a father, he was like
Adam. Similarly, I have a
resemblance of a sort with
him: according to what Mohyud-Deen
Ibn-e-’Arabi has
mentioned about the Final
Successor to be of Mongol
origin and to be born the
second of twins, a girl being
born first, I was born exactly
the same way on a Friday. It
is not known how Ibn-e-Arabi
got hold of this Sign, but it has
come to pass.
These are the sixteen similarities
between me and Jesus. They show
that the hand of God was working
in all of this phenomenon. If it had
been a man-made project so many
similarities between Jesus and me
could not have been found. Denying
Prophets is an old established
response of the unfortunate ones,
but the leaders of religion of our
time deny me in rather a strange
manner. I am the one who came at
the appointed time and for whom
the eclipses of the sun and the
moon in the month of Ramdhan
occurred as a Sign as predicted
by the earlier Prophets; and I am
the one in whose time the plague
spread, as was told by the Prophet
and the Holy Quran; and I am the
one in whose time, as predicted in
the traditions, the Pilgrimage to
Mecca was banned; and I am the
one in whose time the same star
appeared as had appeared at the
time of Jesus son of Mary; and I am
the one in whose time railway trains
commenced running in this country
and the camel became redundant
and the time is approaching-nay it
is near-when railway trains shall
begin to run between Mecca and
Medina and camels shall become
superfluous and be deemed a relic
of the past, although they were
being continuously used for the
past thirteen hundred years for
these auspicious journeys and the
prediction contained in Muslim’s
Hadith shall be fulfilled which says:
They shall abandon the use of the
she-camel which shall cease to ply
there, i.e. no one shall use them for
riding.”
(Tazkarat-ush-Shadatain, Ruhani
Khaza’in, vol. 20, pp-30-35)
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