Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 94
94 AHMADIYY AT arguments. The days are coming, indeed they are near, when this will be the only religion which will be held in honour. God will bestow extraordinary blessings on this religion and. Movement. He will frustrate everyone who seeks to destroy it. This supremacy will last till the Judgment Day. Remember, that no one will descend from heaven. All our opponents who are alive today will die and no ope will seeJesus son of Mary descending from heaven. Then their next generation will pass away and no one of them will see this spectacle. Then the generation next after that will pass away without seeing the son of Mary descending from heaven. Then God will make them anxious that though the time of the supremacy of the cross had passed away and the world had undergone great changes, yet the son of Mary had not descended from heaven. Then the wise people will sud- denly discard this belief. The third century after today will not yet have come to a close when those who hold this belief, whether Muslims or Christians, will lose all hope and will give up this belief in disgust. There will then be only one religion that will prevail in the world and only one leader. I have come only to sow the seed, which has been sown by my hand. Now it will sprout and grow and flourish and no one can arrest its growth [Tazkaratush Shada- tain, pp. 64-5]. . On 15 April 1905 Hazrat Ahmad announced that it had been revealed to him that within' a short time the world would be overtaken by a widespread calamity of a terrible character which would not only affect human beings but even birds, animals and trees. He indicated that in the course of it rivers of blood would flow and terror would spread and that the Czar of Russia would be afflicted with great misery. He admonished his opponents not to rush into denial but to treat the prophecy as a proof of his righteousness. He affirmed emphatically that as the prophecy was based on divine revelation it was bound to be fulfilled without doubt and that all that was needed was that his opponents should wait for some time for its fulfilment in a spirit of righteous- ness and steadfastness. The whole world is witness to the terrible tragedy that overtook the Czar and the members of his family and cul-