Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 339
339 and thundered like a cloud and spread all over the sky to the dis - may of hostile and jealous onlookers. The cloud spread and rained over India, Afghanistan, Arabia, Egypt, Ceylon, Bokhara, East Africa, Mauritius, South Africa, parts of West Africa (Nigeria, the Gold Coast, and Sierra Leone), Australia, England, Germany, parts of Russia, and America. Today there is not a continent in the world where the Community of the Promised Messiah as is not to be found and there is no religion of which it has not par - taken. Christians, Buddhists, Parsis, Sikhs, Jews, have all joined its ranks. Europeans, Africans, Americans, and Asians are among its members. If what the Promised Messiah as had foretold beforehand was not the Word of God, then how did it come true? Is it not strange that while Europe and America had been decimating Islam until recently, today—through the Promised Messiah as —Islam is over - coming them? Several hundred people in England and America have accepted Islam already, as have many individuals from Russia, Germany and Italy. Islam that was suffering defeat after defeat at the hands of other religions is now triumphing over them in every field because of the prayers of the Promised Messiah as. ‘Praised be Allah, the Lord of all the worlds. ’