Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 11
11 Hazrat Maulvi Abdul-Karim روبدی در رگمگ لگنچ از وت وچ د�ی�دم اعتبق وخد رگگ وبدی You delivered me from the claw of the wolf; when I looked closer, in the end, you too were a wolf. Instead of uniting the Muslims, they have disunited them even further; instead of making them firm, they have turned them more and more faithless. At the moment, the most significant form of disorder preventing the people from uniting as one—and with- out unity there can be no reformation—is this very division of religion and sects. Hence, this establishes the dire need for a reformer who would put an end to these destructive divisions that ravage the community from within. Thirdly, the affluent who could have been supporters and defenders of the nation—and who ought to have been—are essentially engrossed in fun and frivolity, and wholly absorbed in satisfying their own desires, lusts and ambitions. On account of their sin, transgres- sion, and wrongdoings, the most imminent of chiefs and nawabs have died an untimely death, as it were, and the rest, in overwhelming majority, are sitting on their hands; no one is concerned about the supremacy of the Faith. So our religious scholars are as I have mentioned earlier; the common people and the affluent are of the nature that I have just described. If now is not the time