Our God — Page 124
124 accordance with His God-given mandate and the sensible among the Muslims looked upon his services with gratitude. They real- ised that he was the only one among the Muslims who had the ability to stand up to the enemies successfully and respectably. However, it stirred up a dangerous fervour of animosity and opposition among anti-Islamic factions—i. e. the Hindus and the Christians—and they resolved to hurt him and bring him down by every possible means. Not long afterwards, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as , on Divine command, proclaimed that he was the fulfilment of prophecies concerning the Latter-Day Messiah and Imam Mahdi, and that Mas ih as [the Messiah] of Nazareth, whose second advent was being awaited, had died. He further claimed that he was the Promised Reformer of the Latter Days, as mentioned in the prophecies of different religions. His task was to confront and overcome falsehood and bring about the suprem- acy of truth. He claimed to be the Promised One foretold by all religions, through whom the final and worldwide victory of Islam is decreed. This claim caused a great commotion and all faiths became united in an unprecedented manner in opposition to him. The other Muslims, the Christians, the Hindus, the Aryas, the Jains, the Sikhs, the Brahm u s, the Dev Sa ma j i sts, etc. took to the field with all their might against an ill-equipped person, all on his own. Most of the Muslim ulama declared him to be an infidel, heretic, himself misled and misguiding others; and, in fact, they called him Dajj a l [the antichrist]. An edict was issued and circulated throughout the Islamic world to the effect that this man was an infidel and outside the pale of Islam—in fact, the worst enemy of Islam. Anyone dealing with him in anyway would also become