The Devotion of Life — Page 301
301 the moment there are four non-Muslims compared to one Muslim. This means we are expected to accomplish four-fold of the task that our ancestors handled in thirteen hundred years. It is most essential for us to keep a proportion of time in this regard, otherwise, even the most arduous of tasks can be achieved without a time frame. For example, when rivers fall over mountains for a long period of time caves are formed and the geologists maintain that because for several hundred thousands of years, rather, millions of years, the water had continued to fall, caves are formed in the mountains. However, human life and human schemes do not last that long or at least history does not tell us of a life that long or a scheme that lasted that long. The Promised Messiah as stated that Ahmadiyyat shall spread in the entire world in three hundred years. Even if twenty years are estimated for one generation then you may realise that fifteen generations encompass three hundred years, that is, if our next fifteen generations consecutively devote themselves to the service of faith, then the task that Allah the Exalted has entrusted to us can be completed. However, was it the objective of the Promised Messiah as that while the progeny of others devoted their lives for the service of faith, his own progeny did not? After all when a person demands something of others, his own progeny is the chief addressee of his demand. However, if the progeny of the Promised Messiah as breaks their pledge then most certainly Allah the Exalted shall raise brave and loyal soldiers of Islam from among others. You