Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 226
226 AHMADIYY AT A great project that the Promised Messiah had intitiated has at its own time been committed to my care. Then supplicate and strengthen the relationship between us and try to visit Qadian often. I have heard the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, declare repeatedly that those who do not visit Qadian often run the risk that their faith might suffer a decline. Our first duty is to propagate Islam. We must make a united effort to win the favour and grace of God. I urge you repeatedly that having established a relationship with me, after the Promised Messiah, you must fulfil the obligations of that relationship loyally and remember- me in your prayers. I shall continue to remember you in my prayers. I have never made any suppl~cation in which I have not prayed for the members of the Movement. From now on I shall do it still more. Be warned that you must do nothing contrary to your covenant with God Almighty. Our supplication should be that we should live as Muslims and die Muslims. Amen. Among his positive assets was not only the fact that he was one of the sons of the Promised Messiah, but that he was the Promised Son concerning whom the grand prophecies, set out in the announcement of 20 February 1886, were revealed to the Promised Messiah. The fulfilment of these prophecies was gradually unfolded over more than half a century of the period of his Khilafat. His whole life as Khalifa, and all the series of his great achievements in almost every walk of life, constituted a fulfilment of those prophecies, which furnished irrefutable proof of the truth of the Promised Messiah and of the fact that the Khalifatul Masih II was the Promised Son, concerning whom those prophecies were made. There is no other single event in human history which furnishes a com- parable example of Divine favour and blessing with the exception only of the events of the life of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him. These prophecies also served as a guide and pattern for Khalifatul Masih II to aim at and to conform to. Another of his spiritual assets was that he passed the first nineteen years of his life under the supervision and guidance of his holy father when he was helped constantly by his supplications, to which were added the earnest supplications of his revered mother and her constant care for him.