Blessings of Khilafat — Page 39
39 Anyone who does not completely commit his life, wealth, and honour in this way, I say it very truly that in the sight of God he has not yet been initiated. On the contrary, I have observed that many of those who outwardly enter into the covenant of bai‘at with me are still not perfect in the trait of thinking well. Like a weak child, they stumble at every trial. Some unfortunate ones are quickly affected by that which the wicked ones allege and they rush into ill-thinking as a dog rushes towards carrion. Then how can I say that they have truly entered my bai‘at? From time to time I am given knowledge of these people, but I am not permitted to inform them specifically. There are many small ones who will be exalted and there are many exalted ones who will be reduced. Hence, the time is such that everyone needs to be in awe of God and fear Him. ( Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya , vol. 5, R uha n i Khaz a ’in , vol. 21, p. 114) How could the truth of the Jam a ‘at be established if what was destined to happen since time immemorial, and about which the Promised Messiah as was informed by God time and again, had not come to pass? How could this truth be established if some superior ones had not been made to be inferior ones, and if the Jam a ‘at which was suppressed and persecuted by its opponents had not grown dramatically in numbers? (3) Moreover, if the Jam a ‘at had not become divided into two factions, how the following revelation of the Promised Messiah as could have been fulfilled: