A Call to Faith — Page 3
3 him with greater love and affection. Purifying revelation began to descend on him like rain and through it God strengthened his heart and said to him: Just as you suffer for the sake of My name; just as you are defamed; just as people turn against you as enemies and your near ones abandon you, not for the sake of a crime, but merely because you seek to establish the supremacy of Islam on the earth; just as your honour is attacked and all manner of reprehensible means are deployed to find fault in you; so will I exalt your name and give to you a large community dedicated to the cause of Islam; My angels will come to you with peace and blessings; you will give birth to a great community and like Adam as you will father a new world; your enemies will be humiliated and disgraced; they will be attacked on those paths from which they sought to assault you and many others besides, the like of which they could not even conceive; thus I will turn their evil designs against them. Like a faithful friend, I will fight alongside you against your opponents and I will strike down those who will strike against you. All the while, I will honour him who is your friend and companion, and bless him with My light and