Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 72
72 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad 1 ٍ وَ خَابَ كُلُّ جَبَّارٍ عَنِيْد وَ اسْتَفْتَحُوْا And they prayed for victory, and as a result there- of every haughty enemy of truth came to naught. The Trials Faced by the Divinely Commissioned It is the way of Allah that those who are commissioned by Him are given grief and pain. They are confronted by one difficulty after another. However, this is not so that they would perish but so that they may attract the help of Allah. This is the very reason that the life of the Holy Prophet sa in Mecca spans over a longer period than the time he spent in Medina. The Holy Prophet sa spent thirteen years in Mecca and ten years in Medina. As it is clear from the aforementioned verse, every Prophet and all those who are divinely commissioned are made to suffer in the beginning; they are branded as liars, cheats, and merchants, and given all sorts of names. There is no derogatory name that is not attributed to them. The Prophets and the divinely commissioned tolerate all of this and endure every pain that is inflicted upon them, but when this reaches an extreme, another power is manifested out of sympathy for mankind. In the same manner, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, was tormented in every possible way and given every dishonourable name. Ultimately, the spiritual concentra- tion of the Holy Prophet sa was roused until it reached an extreme, as is derived from اِسْتَفْتَحُوْا (they prayed for victory), and this ultimately resulted in ٍ جَبَّار ُّ كُل َ خَاب َ و ٍ عَنِيْد (and as a result thereof every haughty enemy of truth came to naught). All the wicked and those who perpetrated schemes against him perished. This spiritual concentration of the godly is roused when the mischief of their enemies reaches its extreme, because if it were to surge forth in the very beginning, every enemy would be destroyed at once! During his life in Mecca, the Holy Prophet sa fell before the One True God and cried before him in such a manner that those who saw him or heard him would tremble. But after all this, just observe the majestic glory of his life in Medina. All those who were actively engaged in mischief and who hatched schemes to kill and expel the Holy Prophet sa from his homeland perished, and those who remained were left with no choice but to humbly accept their wrongdoings and beg for his forgiveness. 1 Ibrahim , 14:16 p. 64