A Call to Faith

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

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A Call to Faith — Page 21

21 who are determined to efface a magnificent virtue of Islam simply on account of their enmity towards the Promised Messiah as. They think that by this they will be able to halt the progress of Ahmadiyyat. Yet they fail to realise they are instead bringing to ruin Islam’s greatest excellence and causing the faith to be humiliated in the face of disbelief. Allah the Exalted says in Surah Al-Jumu‘ah : ٖ ہ ٰتِ ی َتْلُوْ عَلَيِْمْ اٰ ی ْ ً مِّنُْم ل ْ َْ رَسُو ی ِّ ی هُوَ الَّذِىْ بَعَثَ فِ الُْمِّ ٍ مِْ قَبْلُ لَفِْ ضَلٰل إِنْ كَنُْا ا وَ ق َ ُعَلِّمُهُمُ الْكِتٰبَ وَالِْكْمَة ی َ وَيَُكِّيِْمْ و 15 ُ ْم ی ِ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيُْ الَْك ط ْ بِِم َلْحَقُوْا ی وَاٰخَرِيَْ مِنُْم ْلَمَّا ٍْ ی ِ مُّب It is God Who has raised among the unlettered (people) a messenger from among themselves who recites unto them the signs of Allah the Exalted, and purifies them, and teaches them the Book and Wisdom though before that they were in manifest error; and (He will raise him among) others of them who have not (yet) joined them [and teach them the same]. Allah the Exalted is the Mighty, the Wise. This verse shows the advent of the Holy Prophet sa was destined to occur twice: first physically and then 15 Surah Al-Jumu‘ah , 62:3-4 [Publishers]