Gems of the Promised Messiah & Imam Mahdi (as) – Correcting An Error of the Muslims

Even those who dwell in the forest are instinctively compelled to believe in the God of Islam. Everyone’s conscience and inner light testifies that they ought to believe in the God of Islam. The Muslims of today have forgotten the essence and true teachings of Islam as expounded earlier, but I have been tasked with its reestablishment. This alone is the magnificent purpose of my advent.

Apart from the issues mentioned earlier, there are other academic and theological errors, which continue to spread among the Muslims, and our task is to remove them. For instance, they believe that only Jesus (as) and his mother are free from the touch of Satan while all others, God-forbid, are not. This is a blatant error, nay, it amounts to disbelief and is an extreme dishonour to the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Those who concoct such ideologies are bereft of even the slightest indignation. They seek to disgrace Islam. Indeed, such people are far from Islam. In actual fact, it is evident from the Holy Quran that there are two kinds of birth. One is with the touch of the Holy Spirit and the other with the touch of Satan. The children of all those who are pious and righteous are born with the touch of the Holy Spirit. Children that come from sin are born with the touch of Satan. All the prophets were born with the touch of the Holy Spirit. However, the Jews alleged that God forbid, Jesus (as) was an illegitimate child who was born out of Mary’s (as) illicit relation with a soldier named Panthera,[1] and so he was a result of the touch of Satan. For this reason, in order to absolve Jesus (as) from this allegation, Allah Almighty testified in his favour and said that he too was born with the touch of the Holy Spirit. Since no such allegation was raised against our Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, nor any other prophet, there was no need to make the above statement about them.

Abdullah and Aminah, the parents of our Noble Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had always been held in high esteem, and no one had ever entertained any sort of mistrust and suspicion about them. Testimony is required only to exonerate a person who falls into the clutches of a lawsuit, but as for one who is free from the grip of litigation, no such testimony is required.

Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), The Advent of the Promised Messiah (Tilford, Surrey: Islam International Publications Ltd., 2016), 48-50.

ENDNOTES

[1] The Roman soldier Tiberius Iulius Abdes Panthera (c. 22 BC – AD 40). The name, ‘Pantera,’ which is a variant form of this name also appears in certain texts. [Publisher]