Ahmadis are mostly familiar
with a famous speech made by Hadhrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad (ra) in
1944. The speech pertains to the grand fulfilment of the prophecy on Musleh
Maoud made by the Promised Massih (as) in his own person. What the Ahmadis generally
do not know is that the same speech by Khalifatul Massih Sani contains a very
important prophecy regarding the arrival of other Divinely-raised pure sons /
Zaki Ghulam/ spiritually-blessed souls in future, in the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya to advance the cause of Islam.
The speech is
very significant for Ahmadis to ponder over, especially at a time when Allah (swa)
has redeemed His pledge and raised such a soul in the Jamaat, in the person of
Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim Sahib of Mauritius. For the benefit of our
readers, we reproduce below the extracts from the Speech/Declaration made by
Hadhrat Khalifa Sani (ra) on February 20,1944:
“I call to witness the One
and Supreme God Who has full control over my life that the dream that I have
just described was seen by me exactly as I have put it, except possibly for
some slight verbal involuntary inaccuracy. I call God Almighty to witness that
in a state of vision I announced: 'I am the Promised Messiah, his reflection
and his Khalifa.'
In the same state, under divine command, I said: 'I am
the one for whose appearance the virgins had been waiting for nineteen
centuries.' I therefore announce, under divine command, on oath, that
God has appointed me the Promised Son of the Promised Messiah, peace be on him,
according to his prophecy, who has to convey the name of the Promised Messiah
to the ends of the earth. I do not say that I am the
only Promised One and that no other promised one will appear till the Day of
Judgment. It appears from the prophecies of the Promised Messiah that some
other promised ones will also come and some of them will appear after
centuries. Indeed, God has told me that at one time He will send me a second
time to the world and I will come for the reform of the world at a time when
association with God will have become widespread.
This means that my soul will, at some time,
descend upon someone who will possess faculties and capacities like mine and he
will, following in my footsteps, bring about a reform of the world. Thus,
promised ones will appear in their due times according to the promise of God
Almighty.
What I wish to say today is that the prophecy of
the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, which was revealed to him at Hoshiarpour
in the building in front of us, in which he announced in this city and
concerning which he said that the Promised Son would be born within nine years,
has been fulfilled in my person, and no one else can claim that he is the
subject of the prophecy.
In the end he said: I draw the attention of those who have not
yet joined the Movement to the fact that we are carrying the message of Islam
to the ends of the earth, in the West and in the East. We earnestly wish that
you should reflect on the significance of the Movement and should take
advantage of the signs of God Almighty that have already been manifested. . . .
It is our duty to put forth every effort for the propagation of this message
and we shall continue to discharge this duty. You should not be misled into
thinking that you can stop the divine decree from being fulfilled. It is bound
to be fulfilled one day and this Movement will spread all over the earth. There
is no one who can obstruct the spread of this Movement.
I call upon heaven to bear witness and call upon
the earth to bear witness and call upon every brick of Hoshiarpour to bear
witness that this Movement is bound to spread. If the hearts of the people are
hard, angels will massage them with their hands till they are softened and no course
is left open to them except to join the Ahmadiyya Movement.” (Ahmadiyyat the
Renaissance of Islam by Sir Zafrullah Khan, p.293-294)
For the Speech of the Khalifatullah (atba) on the subject, click here.