1/ [Thread-1 The Concept of Messiah]
As Muslims, we do not feel the concept as a strange one, rather it is one of the cardinal beliefs of the Muslims to believe in and accept all the prophets of God and the concept of Messiahship finds mention in the Holy Quran. #MessiahHasCome

2/ This concept of the advent of a Messiah is in vogue among the three greatest religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

3/ Whereas the Jews believe that a Messiah will appear, the Christians believe that he has appeared in the person of Jesus and will re-appear a second time in the latter days to gather his flock and establish the permanent Kingdom of God.

4/ Muslims adhere to the belief that Jesus is the Messiah and that in his second advent he will come as a Muslim and will establish the supremacy of Islam by waging a vicious war on those who would not accept Islam. He
would also kill all the swine and break the cross.

5/ This belief of the Muslims is based on a misconceived application of the sayings of the Holy Prophet, Muhammad (Peace and Blessing Be Upon Him).

6/ The Ahmadi Muslims on the other hand, believe like the Christians and the generality of the Muslims about Jesus being the Messiah, but they have a totally different concept about his second advent.

7/ This aspect will not be dealt with in this thread but will be treated many times in the future, God willing, be again treated for the benefit of the seekers after truth.
Other religions too, seem to be incorporating the idea of Messiahship into their system.

8/ Of late it is being peddled in certain quarters of Hinduism that Krishna is the Christ or that the teachings of Krishna are those which the Christians promulgate.

This view is also shared by some factions of the Buddhist religion.

9/ That the Buddha is the same person as Jesus is being portrayed and that the teachings of Christianity have been literally taken from the pages of Buddhism.
The Zoroastrians, too, somewhat believe in this concept and writing in his Dasatir, the great Sasan I, prophesied, that..

10/…a prophet would be raised in the latter days, and would be of Persian descent and that his progeny will be he was referring to his second advent, since Christians and Muslims do not possess any evidence suggesting there were any progeny of Jesus whom they

11/ believe to be the Messiah, neither do the Jews possess any evidence otherwise.

The term Messiah as is generally understood refers to a very great prophet, who will be an anointed one of God.

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