Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 291
291 Messiah as , Dowie was asked why he did not respond to it, to which he replied: There is a Muhammadan Messiah in India who has repeatedly written to me that Jesus Christ lies buried in Kashmir, and people ask me why I do not answer him. Do you imagine that I shall reply to such gnats and flies? If I were to put down my foot on them I would crush out their lives. I give them a chance to fly away and live. Thus, despite refusing to take up the challenge, Dowie unwit - tingly accepted it. He forgot that the Promised Messiah as had written that if he, directly or indirectly, confronted him, he would leave the world in great pain and anguish. Having described the Promised Messiah as as a worm and saying that he could trample him under his foot, Dowie came into direct confrontation with the Promised Messiah as and invited God’s punishment. Dowie’s vanity and egotism did not stop here. A few days later he described the Promised Messiah as as ‘foolish Muhammadan Messiah’. He also wrote, ‘If I am not a messenger of God on this earth, then no one is. ’ In December 1903, he openly confronted the Promised Messiah as and said that an angel had told him that he would be victorious over his enemies. This was practically a counter-prophecy of the death of the Promised Messiah as. The contest was slowly becoming clear. After this last attack by Dowie, the Promised Messiah as stopped writing about him and waited for God’s decision in keeping with the Quranic injunction, ‘So turn away from them, and wait. They are also waiting. ’ God, who is slow in punishment but very firm when He comes to it, caused