The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 152
152. Essence of Islam-IV. Almighty? I tell you truly that it is easier for a nonbeliever to become a believer than it is for you to believe. Many will come from East and West who will partake of this bounty, but you will die in your condition of rust. I wish you would reflect. [Izāla-e-Auhām, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 3, pp. 103-105]. Time of the Promised Messiahas. Has not the time of the last calamity, which was destined for the latter days of Islam, arrived? Can anyone prove from the Holy Qur'an and Ḥadīth that a time is yet to come which will bring greater trials than those that are current today? Brethren, do not wrong your souls and reflect well that the time has arrived when external and internal trials have reached their climax. If you would put all these trials and tribulations on one side of the scale, and for the other side of the scale you would search through the Holy Qur'an and the whole body of Aḥādīth, you would not find a thousandth part of the tribulations with which Islam is afflicted today. . Which then is the time of a greater Dajjal and greater tribulations which is yet to come? Can you point to any tribulation which is mentioned in the Holy Qur'ān and in the Aḥādīth and which is not to be encountered today? You might employ yourselves in this research to your last breaths, but you will not be able to show from the Holy Qur'an and the Aḥādīth that there will ever be a time of greater tribulations than those with which we are faced today.