Ahmadiyya Movement — Page 58
58 which he belonged, was neither an educational nor commercial centre, nor was it the headquarters of any administrative unit. It was a small village, comprising about 2,000 souls, eleven miles from the nearest railway station, where the post arrived about twice a week and the solitary schoolmaster also acted as post- master, postal clerk and peon. The inhabitants were small far- mers who supplied their own needs, and even the bare necessi- ties of life could not be had from the market. Living in this vil- lage in a state of retirement, on account of which he was not known even to some of the people of the village, he published the following revelations:— “God has raised a prophet, the world will not accept him and will oppose him, but God will support him and will establish his truth by mighty signs. The time is near when God will help thee and cause thy name to be known and honoured among men. Thou art not the founder of this movement, God Himself is the Founder. Say, the Truth has arrived, and all things that contend against it will be vanquished, for falsehood cannot withstand Truth. It is God Who has sent His messenger with guidance and has equipped him with Islamic philosophy, so that he should estab- lish the victory of Islam over other religions. God has decreed that He and His messenger must always prevail. His messenger and followers of the latter, although accounted weak and lowly in the world, shall in the end prevail. Hearken, help of God is nigh. Men and things from far countries will come to thee. We shall give thee a great victory, and when men come to thee be not indifferent towards them and be not tired of instructing them. Enlarge thy house, for a large number of visitors will come to thee, and many will altogether leave their homes and settle down near thee, preferring thy love to all concerns of the world. Thou knowest not the depth of their love and the extent of their sin- cerity; tears will run down from their eyes, and they Will call down blessings on thee. God will exalt thy name, and the Hea- vens and Earth will be thine, as they are Mine, that is to say, the