Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 173
173 Messiah, for he has accomplished all that the Promised Messiah had been ordained to accomplish. 1Someone might say at this point that since all the arguments were already present, how then can the victory of Islam over other religions be ascribed to Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as ? The answer is very simple: Is it possible to say that an enemy can be defeated by a sword without a swordsman? Of course not. The enemy will only be defeated when there is someone who can wield the sword. The situation with Islam was such that, even though the sword of reason and argument was present, Muslims were unable to use it; in fact, they weren’t even aware of its existence. It was the Promised Messiah as who, having received Divine insight into the meaning of the Holy Quran, deduced arguments for the supremacy of Islam that were relevant to this age and used them against other religions and taught Muslims to do the same. It was through his coming that the supremacy of Islam was established. Just as a cannon without a cannoneer can prove fatal for one’s own side, so was the Holy Quran, in the absence of one who had been given its true understanding, proving to be harmful to Muslims and they were being hurt by its wrongful application. When the Promised Messiah as made his claim, the blessings and benefits of the Holy Quran became manifest and he countered the enemies of Islam with such arguments that, let alone trying to fight back, they could not even defend themselves. Some became so frus - trated that they started appealing to the government to forcibly stop the Promised Messiah as from spreading his message. It thus became clear as day that Islam was destined to triumph over all other religions.