The Essence of Islam – Volume IV

by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Page 129 of 334

The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 129

The Purpose of the Promised Messiah's Advent 129 [Kitāb-ul-Bariyyah, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 13, p. 55]. Reformation of the Evil Doctrine of Trinity. As I have been sent to reform the evils of the doctrine of Trinity, my heart is grieved beyond measure at the contemplation of the painful fact that there are more than four hundred million people who deem Jesus as to be God. I do not believe that I have ever been hurt or grieved by anything in my whole life as I have been hurt and grieved by this doctrine. Had it been possible for me to expire under a load of grief and sorrow, I would have died grieving over the question why people abandon God Who has no associate, and worship a humble man, and why do they not believe in the. Prophets who had come into the world with true guidance and the straight path. I have always been apprehensive lest I should die through the shock of this sorrow. . . Where other people seek heaven, the heaven that I seek, in the face of this agony, is that I might witness in my lifetime mankind being rescued from this idolatry and that the glory of God be made manifest. My soul supplicates constantly: Lord, if I am from Thee and the shade of Thy grace accompanies me, then let me witness the day when this calumny that, God forbid, the Messiah as claimed to be God will be proven false. For a long time, I have been praying five times a day that God might bestow inner sight upon these people so that they should believe in His Unity and should recognize His