Way of The Seekers — Page 64
64 THE he it is who has a function to perform. He whom God chooses is not to be despised. Indeed he alone is honorable. Did not a chief of Medina announce some thirteen hundred years ago that the most honored resident of Medina would expel the least honored resident-by which he meant the Holy Prophet? Referring to him, God says: He says honor belongs to him alone. The truth is that honor consists in accepting the Messenger of God. The result of his boast was that his own son waited on the Holy Prophet (on whom be peace) and made the following submission: Messenger of Allah, I have heard of what my father has said. For this he deserved capital punishment. I request that I may be appointed to carry out his execution for I fear that if anyone else is allowed to do it, may be Satan may cause me to think ill of him. These words uttered by his own son must have brought home to his father the hollowness of his boast. Therefore, do not harp on the inadequacy of your means, knowledge or status. The means which built the community to its present size were much too inadequate compared to our present means. If hundreds have been able to attract millions to the fold, why cannot millions attract billions. The other day I saw a vision. I found myself delivering the Friday sermon and saying that we must take good care of the health of our children for the burden we carry will increase a thousandfold when their turn comes to carry it. Our future generations will witness how the major powers of the world will have to accept the fact that Ahmadiyyat can no longer be destroyed or ignored. But God will not rest content with this much alone. He will continue to enlarge the community until the world acknowledges that Ahmadiyyat, the true Islam, is the one and only faith in the world. The Promised Messiah (on him be peace) when he was all alone, announced that Allah had told him that his community would attain such heights of eminence as to make other communities