Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 337
337 56 َ ہللا ِ کُنْت ُ ل َ اَعْرِفُك َّ یَانَبِی O Prophet of Allah, I did not recognise you. These words were spoken by the earth, as it were, which means that people would generally be remorseful at their failure to believe in the Promised Messiah as. Yet another revelation was: 57 ا نَرِث ُ الَْرْض َ نَاْکُلُھَا مِن ْ اَطْرَافِھَا. َّ اِن We shall inherit the earth and shall keep eating into it from its boundaries. Many of these revelations were received and published at a time when the Promised Messiah as did not have even a single follower. Others were received when the Community had been established but was still in a nascent stage. Therefore, it was not a small matter for the Promised Messiah as to publish the revelation that a time would come when he would have a large following; that he would have followers not just in India but in the whole world; that peo - ple from all religions would leave their own faiths and join him; that Allah would so increase their numbers that no country would be left that did not receive his message. Is the human mind capa - ble of predicting such events based on mere suppositions? This is the age of knowledge and people are abandoning the religions in which they were brought up. Christians are no longer Christians, Hindus no longer Hindus, Jews no longer Jews, Parsis no longer Parsis. Old religious beliefs have been replaced by rationalism wearing the garb of religious traditions. The names differ but the outlook of people around the world is becoming