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85 the Chief of the Sinless, the Seal of the Prophets, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. Take the example of Safdar Ali and Imad-ud-Din and others like them. Who was the writer of Mothers of the Believers, 1 a book that sparked great outrage and clamour; yet after everything, the Muslims managed to achieve nothing. Despite this, the Muslims assert that they have not been disgraced and weakened. Will such people continue in their denial until even the last shred of Islam’s good name is tarnished? Is it then that they will finally concede that now Islam has been disgraced! Alas! How shall I demonstrate to you the state of Islam in this day and age? Heed my words! I openly declare once again that the present age is the time of Badr. Islam is currently suffering from weakness and disgrace, but now God has willed to help Islam. As such, God Almighty has sent me so that I may dem- onstrate the superiority of Islam over all other religions and Faiths through evi- dence and conclusive argumentation. In this blessed era, Allah the Exalted has willed to manifest His glory, and there is no one who can stand in His way. Just as God’s four attributes mentioned earlier were especially manifested previously in the age of the companions of the Holy Prophet sa , this too is a similar age. The time has now come for God to manifest His providence. Foolish opponents seek to separate this child as it were, but the loving care of God shall not allow it. God is showering His mercy at present like a rain. These Muslim clerics who call themselves supporters of the religion of Islam desire to extinguish the light of Allah Almighty through their opposition, but this light shall be perfected, just as Allah the Exalted has willed. It pleases these people, it seems, and they accept it when Christian priests stand up and announce that the Prophet of the Muslims has died and the only Prophet who lives is the Messiah, and when they claim that only the Messiah was saved from the touch of Satan, and when they assert that the Messiah revived the dead. And then, the Muslims further reinforce them by suggesting that indeed, the Messiah created and gave life to birds. A believer in the unity of God once visited me and I said to him: ‘The birds which the Messiah used to create, must have multiplied by now to a great number. How can one now distinguish them from the ones created by God?’ He said: ‘Yes, they have all become mixed with one another. ’ In this way, such people have turned the 1 In 1897, Ahmad Shah Shaiq, a Muslim turned Christian, wrote an extremely offensive and hurtful book attacking the wives of the Holy Prophet sa and named it Ummahat-ul-Mu’minin—Darbar-e- Mustafa’i Kay Asrar, i. e. Mothers of the Believers—The Mysteries of the Court of Mustafa. One thou- sand copies of this book were sent free to Muslims in India. [Publisher] p. 75