Some Hidden Pearls — Page 86
ridicule, persecuting and tormenting him in every way they could conceive of in their barbarism and inhumanity. But when this apparently insignificant seed sprouted out from the soil of Arabia, in a surprisingly short time it spread over the entire known world of the day, like a swift and beneficent cloud. Now just the same kind of progress is destined for. Ahmadiyyat, the seed of which was sown in time by the Promised Messiah. Look, with what perfect confidence and majesty he writes in this behalf, in his memorable work, entitled Tohfa Golarwia, for instance : 86 "Behold, the time is coming, in fact it is near, when Allah will cause this Movement to be accepted in the world with a wide-spread zeal, making it penetrate in alldirections, in the east and the west, north and south; then on this earth by Islam would be understood this. Movement alone. These things which I say unto you are not of mortal man, for they are a Reve-