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[ 18 ] particularly attacking Christianity. It wants to restore the lost glory of Islam, which it enjoyed for upto the first hundred years after the death of Muhammad [sa] during which this religion was spreading like wildfire in the countries of the Pacific ring and had also rea ch ed deep into Europ e. Th eir cl aims are ambitious, and only time will tell whether they succeed or not. However, the missionary efforts of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at so far show that their claims are backed by actions. This is Islam in action. 5 (Report of the Commission set by Scandinavian Churches, 1969, comments by Herbert Gottschalk ) He was a European Christian thinker and a priest. He saw the active spirit behind the work of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jam a ‘at; he did not see the power of the British behind it. Had he been a godly person endowed with spiritual insight, he would have not just seen the power of action at the back of Ahmadiyyat but he would have seen—behind it—the power of the Omnipotent Majestic God who had planted Ahmadiyyat in Qadian with His own Hand. It was not planted by any other hand, nor does any hand have the power to uproot it. It was God who planted it and it is our Living God who has sustained and maintained and nur- tured it ever since then. 5. This citation is translated from an Urdu translation.