A Present to Kings — Page 50
( 50 ) then it is essential that now when Islam finds itself in a most dangerous situation, the like of which it has never experienced before and worse than which there can not be a plight which can overtake the faith, when internal and external enemies have so completely marred its true spirit as to leave no trace of the original faith, it is essential that at such a time the Almighty should have raised a champion who might restore the faith to its original glory and strengthen its foundations; but since God did not come to the assistance of Islam, on the contrary left it to be humiliated and crushed in every way, it follows, that the faith is not the religion chosen of God. . People who do not admit the advent of any reformer at the beginning of this century, have no answer to give to such an objection, nor also those who though they see those signs fulfilled which were to indicate the advent of the Promised. Messiah are yet not prepared to accept any person as the. Promised Messiah. But through the grace of God the Ahmadi community are in a position to give an immediato answer to such an objection saying that, praise be to God, this century too has not passed without a reformer; and it is no ordinary reformer, but even the Promised Messiah himself, whom God has sent in this age, and through whom He has re-instated. Islam and restored to it its original glory. Thus has not God left Islam alone in its dangers; rather, He has rendered it such assistance, as has raised a wail in the camp of its foes. . I have so far cited to Your Highness arguments to prove that the present condition of Islam cries for a reformer, that the reformation of the Mussalmans is conditioned upon some person being Divinely raised to effect their reformation through. the power of his holy spirit, that a promise was left by the. Holy Prophet (peace and blessings on him) that the Messsiah would be raised in the latter age, which is the same we are now in, that the time for the advent of the reformers is the beginning of the century, which we have already passed, that at the present time there is no one claiming to be the Messiah