Blessings of Khilafat — Page 17
17 signs their truthfulness as well as the truth they wish to spread in the world. He lets them sow the seed of it [the truth], but He does not let it come to full fruition at their hands. Rather He causes them to die at such time as apparently forebodes a kind of failure and thereby provides an opportunity for the opponents to laugh at, ridicule, taunt, and reproach the Prophets as. And after they have had their fill of ridicule and reproach, He reveals yet another dimension of His Might and creates such means by which the objectives which had to some extent remained incomplete are fully realized. Thus He manifests two kinds of Power. (1) First He shows the Hand of His Power at the hands of His Prophets as themselves. (2) Second, when with the death of a Prophet as , difficulties and problems arise and the enemy feels stronger and thinks that things are in disarray and is convinced that now this Jam a ‘at will become extinct and even members of the Jam a ‘at, too, are in a quandary and their backs are broken, and some of the unfortunate ones choose paths that lead to apostasy, then it is that God for the second time shows His Mighty Power and supports and takes care of the shaken Jam a ‘at. Thus one who remains steadfast till the end witnesses this miracle of God. This is what happened at the time of Hadrat Ab u Bakr S idd i q ra , when the demise of the Holy Prophet sa was considered untimely and many an ignorant Bedouin turned apostate. The Companions ra of the Holy Prophet sa , too, stricken with grief, became like those who lose their senses. Then Allah raised Ab u Bakr S idd i q ra and showed for the second time the manifestation of His Power and saved