Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 159
159 religions was but one individual, and that he was none other than himself. Since a Prophet belongs to no one particular community and only sides with those who join him for the sake of God, he belongs to all religions. All future progress depends on accepting him, and to accept him means to enter into the fold of Islam. This is how the prophecy which foretold that the Promised Messiah as would come to make Islam supreme over all other religions was to be fulfilled. This was such a powerful argument that no religion could withstand it. All the signs foretold by every religion regarding the time of the Last Reformer had come to be fulfilled in this age, and yet there had arisen no claimant other than the Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as. This left the people of other religions with only two options, either to deny their own religions, or to admit that the one who had been promised by Islam was the one who had also been promised to them by their own religions, and to follow him. Both these options would lead to the triumph of Islam. If the followers of other religions deny their own prophecies, Islam tri - umphs; and if, in order to prove the truth of their own religions, they accept the Reformer who has appeared in this age in fulfil - ment of their own prophecies, Islam also triumphs. This argument is so powerful that as it continues to impress the followers of other religions, they will have no recourse but to accept Islam. In time, Islam will be the only religion. In keeping with the practice of God’s Messengers, the Promised Messiah as has sown the seed. The tree will bear fruit in the fullness of time, and when people become enamoured of the sweetness of its fruit and the comfort in its shade, they will flock towards it. One religious group that would seem to escape the brunt