The Devotion of Life — Page 133
133 Ahmadiyyat is an evergreen tree. This is the tree that has been planted by the true Master with His own hands. Its fruits are sweet and universal. Usually each tree bears fruit of one kind, but this is a strange kind of tree that bears all kinds of fresh and sweet fruits and there is no particular season for them. Its branches always remain laden with sweet fruits. This is the tree of the revival of Islam. This is the life-giving tree of Ahmadiyyat. This is the pure tree of the manifestation of the true servant of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and our Imam the Promised Messiah as. The beneficence of this tree is beyond time and space. This is a living tree that never faces autumn. This tree grows and expands even more rapidly and gives fruit in inclement and harsh winds. Whoever tries to cut it, is cut asunder himself. Whoever tries to damage it, faces failure and is himself harmed. This is that blessed tree whose caretaker is God Himself. That Powerful and Mighty God is responsible for its safety and progress. As the grains of sand and stars in heaven cannot be counted, similarly, it is impossible to encompass the sweet fruits of the tree of Ahmadiyyat. It is impossible to count the heavenly and worldly signs that have appeared in support of Ahmadiyyat. Similarly, we can perhaps try to count the benefits that Ahmadiyyat has given to the world, the blessings and prizes that it has bestowed on the citizens of the world and the sweet fruit that it has yielded and is continuing to yield, but those benefits cannot really be comprehended completely. The fact is that the stamp of the pious character of the Promised Messiah as appeared in the form of his Jama’at and this is also a fact that these pious virtues that are attributed to the Promised Messiah as were the result