Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 286
286 AHMADIYY AT will surely make them Successors in the earth; but also remember this warning: Those who disbelieve thereafter, they will be the rebellious ones' (24: 56). May God be with you' and may you continue to be His cho,sen Community through eternity. The Khalifatul Masih received very clear intimation through a dream of the breakout of the Second World War a couple of years ahead of the commencement of hostilities. In August of 1939 he saw another dream in which he felt that the war had broken out and that France and Britain were being hard pressed by Germany and that the British Prime Minister had invited France to unite with Britain, thus form- ing one country, under one government, so that the war could be prosecuted on the side of the allies with greater vigour and strength. This dream was fulfilled in an astonish- ing manner in June 1940 when Mr Winston Churchill made exactly that offer to the French. In June 1940 the Khalifatul Masih saw in a dream that he was put in charge of the defence of Britain and that on taking stock of everything he said: 'There is great weakness in the air, if this could be remedied there is a good prospect of Britain pulling through. ' On this, as,ifby way of reassurance, he saw a piece of paper which contained a news item that two thousand three hundred military aircraft were being des- patched from America to Britain. A few days later the news came through that on the fall of France the orders that had been placed in the United States, by the French Military Purchasing Mission, had been switched over to the British Military Purchasing Mission and that it was expected that two thousand five hundred military aircraft would be des- patched to Britain. This was followed within two or three days by the definite announcement that two thousand three hundred military aircraft had been despatched to Britain. During the progress of the war, the Khalifatul Masih saw several dreams which indicated the course that hostilities were likely to take and which were all fulfilled according to their purport. Everyone of them constituted a divine sign that he enjoyed continuous communion with God.