Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 380
380 Promised Messiah as , for the revival of Islam is destined to take place through him. Islam is to have a new lease on life with his coming. Just as a dried-up tree becomes verdant if it receives abundant rain in time, so will Islam blossom with the coming of the Promised Messiah as. A new power and a new spirit will be breathed into those who believe in him. God has waited long and remained silent, but no more. He will not tolerate that his own creature should be worshipped in His place, or be declared as His son who sits alongside him in Heaven, or is said to bring the dead to life, or has the power to create new life. God is Merciful, but He is also vigilant for His honour. He waited long for people to turn to His Holy Book but the Muslims only turned away from it and became engaged in frivolous things. They paid little regard to the Book of God and forgot the verse: 3 ِّبَرٰي َّنِا يِمْوَق اْوُذَخَّتا اَذٰه َنٰاْرُقْلا اًرْوُجْهَم۰۰ ‘O my Lord, my people indeed treated this Qur’an as a discarded thing. ’ God has turned away from them and will not look upon them until they take the hand of the Promised Messiah as and make a pledge that they will never again be guilty of such negligence and that they will try to make amends for their past shortcomings. Muslims loved the world instead of God, therefore, God took the world away from them and brought ignominy upon them. They professed to be Muslims and yet they buried the Beloved of God (the Holy Prophet s as ) underground and raised the Messiah of Nazareth alive to Heaven; hence, God made them low on the earth and made the Christians rulers over them. This will not