Life of the Promised Messiah — Page 111
111 Hazrat Maulvi Abdul-Karim saved the sinking vessel of Islam. I truthfully proclaim that it is this very steadfastness which continues to move the claim of the Promised Messiah as to greater strength, vigour and grandeur. Is this a hidden matter? Just observe the signs accompa- nying the claim of the Promised Messiah as in 1890, and look at the state of affairs now. How many a tempest raged on during this time. Muslim clerics, poets, writers of prose, Sufis, people threatening physical injury; in short, people both near and far left no stone unturned in their attempts to destroy this claimant, or at least to weaken and muffle the sound of his claim. How is it that even though hos- tility and opposition continues to increase with every passing day this has no effect at all? A coward, a fabrica- tor, a liar cannot stand so firm and resolute for so many years. He who drinks from the water of worldly streams sooner or later becomes weary and fatigued, and finally accepts defeat. But my Messiah, my Master, may Allah Who is Oft-Returning with compassion help him, has only just reached his prime now in 1899. Verdicts of disbelief, the conspiracies of his enemies, malicious court cases filed against him by his opponents, and a host of other schemes and machinations, have become a fertilizer for his field, as it were. Those who in their own foolishness and on account of their own lack of foresight raise a hue and clamour