The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 126
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI spread throughout the world and is established in 143 countries with regular Ahmadiyya Missions in about 140 countries. Its present membership is more than ten million, still a tiny minority in the world. At present there are one billion Muslims in a global population of about five billion. Thus one in five persons is a Muslim today. The. Muslim world has already recovered a great deal. All Muslim countries are free now from colonial rule. Everywhere Muslims are turning to their religious values though unfortunately some Islamic countries have fallen victim to Mullahism and fanaticism. The. Colonial era is over. Western Civilization is still predominant but its house has become divided into two mutually hostile blocks for the last 50 years. The final chapter of this conflict of rivalry and animosity has not been written yet. . Thus even today to predict that in a mere two hundred years. . Islam and the Ahmadiyya Movement will be victorious all over the world is simply amazing and incredible. But such is the prophecy of the Promised Messiah. Heaven and earth may mover out of course but victory and dominance of Islam cannot be stopped. It is Divine will and will come to pass. In the following give quotations from writings of the Promised Messiah in which he has made this prophecy. we 1. In 1903, He predicted: "Ye all people, listen carefully, and remember, that these prophecies are from God Almighty. Who made the earth and the heavens. He will spread this, His Own Movement, in all foreign countries; with reason and argument, He will make it prevail everywhere. The days are coming--indeed they are very near, when, all over the world, there shall be only one religion which people will mention with respect. Allah will invest this religion, i. e. . Islam, and this Movement, i. e. The Ahmadiyya Movement, with extraordinary blessings even such as shall seem to be supernatural; and He will utterly disappoint those who long to see its destruction. . And this dominance shall last for ever, even until the coming of. Qiyama (Day of Judgment). . . Very well, and clearly, bear in mind that no one will come down from the heavens. . . Then the children of their children also shall pass away, and they also shall not see the son of 126