Fazl-e-Umar — Page 314
Fazle Umar 314 began to be apprehensive that their dream of Christianising the whole of West Africa was likely to be frustrated in consequence of the advent of Ahmadiyyat in some of the West African countries. Ahmadiyya missions had also been opened in some of the countries of South East Asia and were making good progress, particularly in Indonesia. Active branches had been established as far a field as Palestine, Fiji and Mauritius. An Ahmadiyya Centre had been established in Chicago, Illinois, and branches were springing up in some of the mid-western and eastern states of America. Thus, the Movement was already assuming worldwide standing. So far the only notable mission established in Europe was the one in London, which had come into being simultaneously with the Second Khilafat. A mission had, at one time, been opened in Paris but was not able to gain a firm foothold in that city, or outside it, and was closed a few years later. The persistence and steadfastness of the missionary assigned to Madrid began slowly to yield fruit and within a few years a small Spanish group of adherents of the Movement emerged in Madrid. A mission was opened in Rome, and though at one time it appeared that a branch of the Movement might be established in the capital of Christendom, that expectation was fulfilled after the Second Khilafat. A beginning was made in Poland and later in Hungary and also in Albania, but political developments in those countries blocked further progress. These instances afford further confirmation of the verity, repeatedly affirmed in the Qur’an, that all guidance is in the hands of God and proceeds from Him, and there is a term appointed for every consummation. Man’s part is to put forth earnest, prayerful effort in the full certainty that the divine purpose is bound to be fulfilled in all respects in due course. Some of the other countries of Europe, however, presented a more hopeful picture.