Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 359
359 tions and artful Means are they devising against me, but will they overcome God? Can they prevent the Almighty from accomplishing His object made known to the world by the mouth of His prophets? They themselves and all those whom they trust are but worms in the eye of God. Let the whole world bear witness that I prophecy in the name of the Lord of earth and heaven that He will spread my followers in all countries and make them overcome every other people by reasons and arguments. The days are approaching and are very near when the religion preached by me, will be the only religion that will be re- garded with honor upon the face of the earth. Almighty God will bless this religion and this system in a wonderful manner, and will bring to naught every one who thinks of destroying it. The victory which it will gain will be a lasting victory and its supremacy will continue to the end Of days. It matters little if I am scorned now, for there is no prophet who was not laughed at. It was neces- sary that the Promised Messiah should have been laughed at, for says the Holy Quran : ^jfcLdW ) ji U ) J^ ; ^ ^j U o ,U*J i ^. U X ; ^ b "Alas! for the people, no Apostle cornes to them but they laugh him to scorn. " Every one that comes from God ought, therefore, to be laughed at and scorned. But it is impossible that men should laugh at a man who descends from heaven before their eyes and is accompanied by hosts of angels. Every sensible person can see from this that the descent of the Messiah from heaven is an absurd and false theory. Bear in mind that no one will ever descend from heaven. All those who oppose me will die, but they will not see the Messiah coming down from heaven. Tneir children will then pass away without witnessing the