Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 298
298 AHMADIYY AT day, through me and my disciples, the whole world will repeat the credo of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, and a day will come when the rule of Islam will be established over the whole world in the same way, and even more gloriously, as it was established in the early centuries of Islam. In concluding his second speech in the last session of the Conference on 29 December, he observed: God Almighty through His revelation has intimated to me that by His grace and mercy, the prophecy whose fulfilment had been awaited for a long time has been fulfilled in my person. Now it has been made clear to the enemies of Islam that Islam is God's true religion, that Muhammad, peace be on him, is the true Messenger of God Almighty and that the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, is a true envoy of God. False are the people who call Islam false, liars are those who give the lie to Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace be on him. Through the fulfilment of this grand prophecy God has furnished a living proof of the truth ofIslam and of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him. Who had the power fifty-eight years ago, in the year 1886, to announce on his own that within nine years he would be blessed with a son who would grow up rapidly and would be known unto the ends' of the earth; that he would spread Islam and the name of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, throughout the world, that he would be filled with secular and spiritual knowledge; that he would be a means of the manifestation of Divine Glory and that he would be a living sign of the power, nearness and mercy of God Almighty? No man could have made such an announcement on his own. It was God Who gave this intimation and it was He Who fulfilled it through a person concerning whom the physicians did not expect that he would grow up and live long. I enjoyed very indifferent health during my childhood and on one occasion Dr Mirza Yaqub Beg Sahib advised the Promised Messiah that I was suffering from tuberculosis and should be sent to some hill stati~n, out of the heat of the plains. Accordingly I was sent to Simla, but felt lonely there and soon returned to Qadian. In short a person who never enjoyed good health for a day was kept alive by God so that His prophecy might be fulfllled through him, and the people might be confronted with proof of the truth of Islam and Ahma-