Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 253
27 December 1905 253 Allah the Exalted should make him known in such a way that makes clear his immense grandeur; in other words, that dark- ness has spread in the world, and the earth has become cursed. The mistake concerning the life of Jesus, peace be on him, did not arise recently. On the contrary, this mistake came into being shortly after the death of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the chosen, saintly, righteous, and godly people continued to appear, yet the people continued to be ensnared in this mistake. If Allah had wanted only to correct this mistake, He would have done it even then, but this did not happen. And this mistake perpetuated up to the coming of the age in which we live. Even at this time, if only this trivial topic were the issue, Allah the Exalted would not have brought into being an entire [Ahmadiyya] Movement, because the death of the Messiah was not something that had not been previously acknowledged by anyone. Even before, many chosen ones upon whom Allah the Exalted had manifested the truth continued to believe this, but it is something else for which Allah the Exalted had established this [Ahmadiyya] Movement. It is true that removing the error concerning the Messiah still being alive was also a great pur- pose for [the establishment of ] this Movement, but Allah the Exalted did not raise me for merely one minor issue. On the contrary, many such things had come into being that if Allah the Exalted had not established a Movement and appointed someone to correct them, the world would have been destroyed, and every sign and trace of Islam would have been wiped out. For this reason, this very aim can be expressed in another way by asking what the purpose of my advent is.