Truth About the Split — Page 392
392 unworthy and a mere stripling, the instrument of His Will. In short, Maulawi Muhammad Ali departed from Qadian, and in his departure God furnished another powerful evidence of His Greatness and Glory. He showed Himself again with all His living signs, and manifested His effulgence in the fullness of its glory. He proclaimed to the world the fact that Ahmadiyyat was a plant of His own sowing, which no one could destroy, that Khilafat was a tree of His own rearing which no one could uproot, that this humble and helpless one had been brought through His own grace and favour to occupy the seat of Khilafat, and now there was no one who could stand against him, and that Qadian was a city beloved by Him which no one had the power to ruin. For Qadian is Mecca—the Mecca of the vicegerent and counter-type of Muhammad sa. It is a town of the poor but under the Protection of God Almighty. And now we close with the prayer, 'All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. '