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Ghulam Ahmad: before three centuries pass, the waiting for Jesus will end in disappointment

Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain (The Two Martyrs), English excerpt · Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain p. 65, as quoted in An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam, p. 359

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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain (Qadian: Diya’ul-Islam Press, 1903; written and published October 1903), p. 65 (Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 20, p. 67), as translated in Syed Hasanat Ahmad (comp. and ed.), An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam (Tilford: Islam International Publications, 2010), printed p. 359. Complete quoted passage from the PDF published by the community at files.alislam.cloud, retrieved 1 October 2026; checked against the PDF text layer; superscript honorific “sa” set inline.

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Remember, no one will ever descend from heaven, and all our opponents who are now living will die and none would be able to see ‘Isa Ibn Maryam (Jesus, son of Mary) descending from heaven and their offsprings will similarly die and the offsprings of the offsprings will die and none will see the event of Jesus, son of Mary, coming down from heaven till the time when God will cause anxiety in their hearts that the time of the supremacy of the Cross having passed. Jesus, son of Mary, had not made his descent, then the wise and intelligent will shun this false belief, and the third century from this day will not be completed when the people waiting for the advent of Jesus—the Muslims and the Christians—all will be deeply disappointed. Then they will drop this false belief and there will be only one religion in the world and there will be only one Leader (the Holy Prophet sa). I have only come to sow the seed (of virtue) and I have sown that seed, this will grow and prosper and there will be none who could stop its growth

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