Arba'in — Page 166
166 after tasting its sweetness. Nowadays, in this very country—British India—you will find thousands of apostates; moreover, even the likes of those who spare no inconvenience to insult Islam and criticize and condemn the Noble Messenger. Then, apart from this, another calamity that has taken place these days is that when God Almighty sent a servant of His for the purpose of revival and reform 1 ٭ and to carry out the needed services [of the 1. ٭ All the great scholars of Ahl-e-Sunnah have always accepted the ha- dith, which relates that a Mujaddid [Reformer] would be raised at the beginning of each century. However, where the names of Reformers are presented, this clarification or specification is not based on Divine rev- elation, it is only by way of an interpretive judgement. And the Signs that God has shown at my hand number more than 100 and these have been recorded in the book Tiry a qul-Qul u b. Unfortunately, our oppo- nents have become like those earlier disbelievers who repeatedly raised objections against the prophecy concerning Hudaibiyyah. Or they have become like those Jews who, in order to reject the Messiah, up to this day, present these prophecies of his that he had said that he was going to establish the Throne of David, and also had prophesied that some of his disciples would still be alive when he would return. In the same way, these people do not look at all those prophecies numbering more than 100 that have been fulfilled, published, and circulated in the country. They go on repeatedly harping about the one or two prophecies that they are unable to understand due to their stupidity and lack of due attention. They fail to think that if rejecting someone this way was per- missible, then this objection would apply to all the Prophets, and the path to believing in their prophecies would be closed. For example, the