Ahmadiyyat Destiny and Progress — Page 19
Ahmadiyyat: Destiny and Progress 19 allegiance to an individual and a small minority have kept away, how can the legitimacy of this khilafat be brought into disrepute? If my khilafat is invalid it is less so than the khilafats of Abu Bakr ra , Uthman ra , Ali ra and Nur-ud-Din ra. So fear God and utter not that which might come to haunt you. Fear the punishment of God and do not let spite or jealousy prompt you to forgo that mission which His chosen servant prepared and readied with great effort over many years. The allegations against me are not without precedent. All my predecessors who were divinely raised to this station were maligned in the same way. Adam as was opposed by the angels themselves. So who am I that I should be free from these insinuations? [When God raised Adam as ], the angels professed the greatness of their deeds, while Iblis proclaimed his own superiority. Yet it was Adam as whom God preferred, though he did not have a single achievement to his name, and in the end all were made low before him. The angels asserted their own deeds by saying they had rendered great services. 17 َ وَنَْنُ نُسَبِّحُ بَِمْدِ کَ وَ نُقَدِّسُ لَک 17 Surah Al-Baqarah , 2:31 [Publishers]