Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 247
14 April 1907 247 Exalted had informed me about the spread of this plague. It has always been the habit of the unfortunate disbelievers that they seek the Sign of their own deaths when confronting the Prophets. This is the very plight of my opponents now. For this reason, God has sent this sword against them. People write that the promise of [furnishing] arguments which had been given in Bar a h i n [ -e-Ahmadiyya ] was not ful- filled, whereas there are several hundreds of thousands of argu- ments in Bar a h i n [ -e-Ahmadiyya ]for the truth of Islam. God Almighty had caused these statements to be recorded in it from the very start. What unsurpassable glory of our Noble Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that just as the enemies of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, used to be killed after suffering failure and humil- iation during the earlier period, the same is transpiring during the latter period as well! At that time, the sword was given in the hand of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings be upon him, for the punishment of the mischievous, but during this era God Himself is wielding the sword. Those who criticize on the basis of jihad should observe that the unfortunate disbelievers of that era perished this very way in consequence of their evil actions, just as they are perish- ing now. If the sword was swung for the sake of Islam back then, so is it swinging for the sake of Islam today. The Greatest Miracle of All is the Acceptance of Prayer The Promised Messiah as said: These are the wonders of the time. I go to sleep at night without any thought and an ilh a m [revelation] is unexpectedly received and then it is fulfilled at its appointed time. Not a week or ten