Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 139
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 139 (9) Twenty years ago, I was informed by God that I would be denied and that people would not accept me but that God would accept me and would manifest my. truth through powerful assaults. (10) God has promised me that for the purpose of repeating the light of my blessings, a person will be raised from among my progeny into whom God will breathe the blessings of the Holy Spirit. He will be characterized by inner purity and will have a close holy relationship with God. He will be a manifestation of the True and the High as if God had descended from Heaven. The time is coming and is near when God will spread far and wide the acceptance of this Movement. It will spread in the East and the West and the North and the South and Islam will become synonymous with this Movement. This is not said by any man. This is revelation from God for Whom nothing is impossible [Tohfah Golarviah, p. 90]. Had my claim been put forward on my own, you would have been free to reject me, but if God's Holy Prophet bears witness for me in his prophecies and God manifests His Signs in my support, then do not wrong yourselves by rejecting me. Say not that you are Muslims and have no need of accepting any Messiah. I tell you truly that he who accepts me accepts him who had prophesied about me thirteen hundred years in advance, and had indicated the time of my appearance, and had specified my func- tion; and he who rejects me rejects him who had commanded that I should be accepted [Ayyamus 50lh, p. 93]. He who accepts me accepts afresh all the prophets and their miracles, and he who does not accept me wi11lose his previous faith also, for he has only tales to fall back on and his own observation. I am the mirror of God Almighty. He who comes to me and accepts me will see afresh the God concerning Whom other people have only old tales to tell. I believe in the God Whom dlOse who deny me do not recognize. I state truly that what they believe in are the idols of their imagination and not God. That is why those idols cannot help them, cannot give them any strength, cannot bring about a holy change in them, and cannot show them any signs [Nazoolul Masih, pp. 84-5]. The great purpose of the advent of the Prophets, peace be on them, and the grand objective of their teaching and propaganda is that mankind should recognize God Almighty and should be