The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 433
Repeated Challenges 433. God sent me to furnish proof of the righteousness of the. Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and the truth of Islām. Where are the Christian ministers now? Let them stand up to me. I have not come out of time. I have come at a time when the Christians have trampled Islām under their feet. O Ye blind Muslims, who has taught you to oppose the truth? Islām has been ruined; all its limbs have been wounded by external attacks and internal innovations, and twenty three years of the fourteenth century have passed; millions have renounced Islām and have become the enemies of God and His Messenger, but you keep insisting that no one has come from God and only dajjal has appeared. Show me any Christian cleric who now alleges that the Holy. Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) made no prophecy. That time has passed. Now the time has come when God desires to make it manifest that His. Messenger, Muḥammad of Arabia (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) who has been reviled, whose name has been dishonoured and who has been declared false by unfortunate Christian ministers in hundreds of thousands of books published in this age, is true and the Chief of the righteous. He has been extensively denied but in the end he has been bestowed the crown of honour. I am one of his servants to whom God speaks and in whose support the gates of the unseen and of heavenly signs have been opened wide. O Ye ignorant ones, you may denounce him as a blasphemer, but what value can your denunciations have in the eyes of one who is occupied with the service of the faith under God's command, and sees Divine bounties descending upon Him like rain?. The same God, Who descended on the heart of the son of. Mary, has also descended on my heart, but in greater