The Essence of Islam – Volume V — Page 135
Extraordinary Renown and Divine Succour 135 issued edicts of unbelief against me, and they even publicized edicts urging people to kill me, but they were frustrated in all their efforts, and my Jamā‘at spread in all the towns and villages of the Punjab, and took root everywhere in India. In fact, even some. Europeans and Americans embraced Islam by joining this Jama'at. So many people flocked to Qadian that at several places the road was rutted by the sheer number of yakkās. One must think about this prophecy, and reflect that had it not been from God, this storm of opposition and the people of Punjab and India who had turned against me and wanted to trample me under their feet, would certainly have succeeded in their arduous efforts and would surely have brought about my destruction. But they failed one and all. I do know that all the uproar and all the efforts that were made to destroy me, and the raging storm of opposition against me, was never meant by God to destroy me. All this happened so that the signs of God might appear, and the Lord of Power, Who cannot be subdued by anyone, may demonstrate His might in response to these people, and so that He may manifest the sign of His power. And so He did. Who would have known and who would have thought that I, who had been sown as a tiny seed and was trampled under the feet of thousands, and storms and tempests blew against me, and opposition swept over me like a flood would have survived these calamities? By the grace of God, this seed did not go to waste, and it sprouted and flourished and is today a giant tree under whose shade three hundred thousand human beings