Arba'in — Page 39
Number Two 39 that the great emphasis that you place upon the Messiah being alive is against the intent of God’s Word. O my dear ones! Remember that the one who was to come has already come, and seventeen years have already passed of the century at the head of which he was supposed to come. And in this century, upon which all the Auliy a’ [Friends (of Allah); i. e. Saints] of the Ummah had fixed their sights, not even a subor- dinate Mujaddid [Reformer] was raised according to your state- ments; rather, only a dajj a l [deceiver] has appeared! Will you not stand accountable before the Most High God for these audaci- ties of yours? Regardless of how hard your hearts had grown, you should have ultimately held this much fear in your hearts to refrain from rushing to reject that man who appeared right at the head of the century, and for whom the solar and lunar eclipses in Ramadan had borne witness, and whose need the prevailing state of weakness of Islam and the incessant attacks by its enemies had validated, and whose appearance at the head of the fourteenth century was a belief upon which the visions of the past Auliy a’ had set an unbreakable seal—and even that he would appear in the Punjab. Ultimately, one day you have to die and leave everything behind in this very place. Look! If I am from God and you reject me and declare me a k a fir [disbeliever] and brand me a dajj a l, what explanation will you present before the Most Glorious Divine Being? Will your replies be like the ones written in the books of the Jews and the Christians at the time when they rejected the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him—that all the Signs of his advent mentioned in the Torah were not fulfilled in him and that some remained? God Almighty gave them an answer a long