Gems of the Promised Messiah & Imam Mahdi (as) – Blessings of the Imam of the Age

Whenever the Imam of an age makes his appearance in the world, he is accompanied by thousands of lights. There is jubilation in heaven, and people’s good qualities are stimulated through the spread of spirituality and light. 

So, the one who possesses the capacity of receiving revelation, begins to receive revelation, and the one who has the capacity to gain understanding by reflecting upon matters of faith, his power of reflection and understanding is augmented, and the one inclined towards worship begins to find pleasure in worship and supplication, and the one who engages in discourse with the followers of other faiths, is bestowed the power of reasoning and carrying the arguments to a convincing conclusion. 

In fact, all this results from the diffusion of spirituality which descends from heaven with the Imam of the age and finds its way into every eager heart. This is a general phenomenon and a divine practice to which the Holy Qur’an and the authentic Ahadith guide us and which I have observed through my personal experiences. But the age of the Promised Messiah has a unique characteristic, which is that in the scriptures of earlier prophets and in Ahadith it is recorded that at the time of advent of the Promised Messiah, the spread of spiritual light will reach a degree that women will also receive revelations, children will be able to prophesy and common people will speak with the power of the Holy Spirit. All this will be a reflection of the spirituality of the Promised Messiah. 

When the light of the sun falls upon a wall, it is illuminated, and if it has been whitewashed with lime, it shines even more, and if it is studded with mirrors, it reflects the light so strongly that the naked eye can hardly bear its reflection. But the wall cannot claim that the light is its own, for the light vanishes altogether after sunset. In the same manner, all the light of revelation is a reflection of the light of the Imam of the age.

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Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as), Malfuzat – Vol. VIII (Tilford, Surrey: Islam International Publications Ltd., 2019) 108-109.