Ahmadiyyat Destiny and Progress — Page 28
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 28 current of the wind. It would be so frail, the tempest of oppression would whip it in the direction of its choosing. According to this verse, the movement of the Promised Messiah would, in its nascent years, be under constant threat from the other communities of the world. When the seedlings of plants such as wheat grass, mango and banyan trees emerge from the ground to begin the journey of their magnificent growth; they are so delicate the merest breeze beats them down. As the wind blows from the right they bend to the left and as the wind blows from the left they bend to the right. They are strong enough to stand on their stems, but still so frail they bend in every direction. Their own want is to seek strength and growth but the harshness of the elements shakes their very roots. So, Allah the Exalted says that in accordance with His sunna, the world might bend the sapling of the Promised Messiah and the storm [of opposition] will rage against it from both left and right, yet it will not be uprooted. Instead, it will grow and prosper until, to some measure, it can withstand the force of the winds of worldly enmity. Then will a storm rage and seek to flatten the community. The more it grows the greater the hostility to it. But eventually it will take root and neither worldly hardships nor the storm of opposition will be able to shake it in the slightest. God Almighty says: