Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 147
Lecture Ludhiana 147 Almighty ever grant so much support to a liar? Is it not strange that whosoever rose to oppose me was defeated and frustrated, and I emerged successful and safe out of every calamity and hardship in which my adversaries tried to implicate me? Can anybody swear and say that this is what happens to liars? I regret to say, what has gone wrong with these clerics who oppose me? Why do they not study the Holy Quran and the a ha d i th carefully? Do they not know that all the great scholars and divines of the past foretold that the advent of the Promised Messiah would occur in the fourteenth century [of the Hijra calendar]? The visions of all the recipients of revelation also point to the same period. It is clearly recorded in the book H ujajul-Kir a mah that the time for the advent of the Promised Messiah would not exceed the fourteenth century. These people used to shout from the pulpits that even the beasts prayed for safety from the thir- teenth century and that the fourteenth century would be auspi- cious. How strange that in the fourteenth century, in which the Promised Imam was to appear, an impostor appeared in place of the truthful one. Hundreds of thousands of Signs appeared in his support, and God Almighty also helped him in every contest and competition! Just pause and reflect before trying to respond. It is easy to blurt out something thoughtlessly and so difficult to utter a word if one fears God. Another point also worthy of your attention is that God does not grant so long a reprieve to a liar and an impostor as exceeds even the period of blessed grace granted to the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. I am now 67 years old, and it is more than 23 years since I was appointed to this office. Had I really been an impostor and a liar, Allah the Exalted would not have stretched this period so long. Some people also ask what the good of my coming is.