Approaching the West — Page 49
A pproaching the West—49 Caliphate, where all would be ruled according to their hateful ideology. . . This Caliphate would be a totalitarian Isl ā mic empire encompassing all current and former Muslim lands, stretching from Europe to North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. ” But the A ḥ mad ī Muslims have full conviction that nothing like that shall ever emerge, and President Bush need not have any concerns about a rising Caliphate of this nature. According to the Prophecy of the Holy Prophet Mu ḥ ammad (may peace and blessings of All ā h be on him), the promised Khil ā fat on the precept of Prophethood (‘ala minh ā jun-nabuwwah), which is purely spiritual in nature, has already been established, since 1908, within the world of Isl ā m under Divine Will. It is known as A ḥ madiyya Khil ā fat. The A ḥ madiyya Khil ā fat Ḥ a ḍ rat Mirz ā Ghul ā m A ḥ mad (1835-1908), peace be on him, claimed to be the Im ā m of the Age, the Mahd ī , and the awaited Messiah—a Prophet of God, but in full subordination to the Prophet of Isl ā m, Mu ḥ ammad (peace and blessings of All ā h be on him). He initiated the A ḥ madiyya Muslim Jam ā ‘at in 1889. Though he lived in a small village, Q ā di ā n, in the Punjab, India, he claimed that his mission was universal–to revive faith in One God, to remove the love for materialism, and to unify all mankind. He declared, I have been sent to strengthen faith in God by proving He exists and by making His Being manifest to the people. The condition of faith has become so weak that the Hereafter is now