A Call to Faith — Page 4
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 4 bestow much on him from My bounties; I will give him knowledge of My religion and raise him as a soldier of Islam; your name will shine in the world as brightly as the sun and moon; and day by day you and your community will scale the heights of prosperity and success. Whenever the Promised Messiah as published these revelations, opposition to him grew and his enemies strove more ferociously than ever to prove him false. But who can hinder the work of God? Despite the many hostile devices deployed by his opponents, the truth of the Promised Messiah as soon began to dawn on people and the spiritually dead were raised to life at his hands. Those who were once deaf began to hear; those who were once blind began to see; and the bodies of those who were once spiritual lepers were illumined like the moon. From far and wide and many more great lengths, people rushed towards the sound of the trumpet of God. And as was the case with all the prophets since the remotest ages, slowly but surely a community of people gathered around this fearless champion of God. This general of Islam and loyal devotee of the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad sa , appeared among the company of his followers as though a young and resplendent prince and went forth for the protection of Islam.