Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 285
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 285 down, whoever speaks against me will be silenced, and whoever attempts to humiliate me will be humiliated and disgraced. Therefore, 0 Community of believers, and 0 workers of righteousness, I say to you that the Khilafat is a great bounty of God Almighty. Value it as such. So long as the Majority of you continue established in faith and righteous conduct, God will continue to bestow this bounty upon you. But should a majority of you be deprived of faith and righteous conduct, then it will be for the Divine will to determine whether to continue this bounty or to withdraw it. Thus, there is no question of the Khalifa going wrong. You will be deprived of the Khilafat when you yourselves become corrupt. Do not, therefore, be ungrateful for this divine bounty and do not slight the revelations of God Almighty, but as the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, has said: 'Continue. your supplications so that the second manifestation of divine power may continue to be displayed for you all the time. Do not be like those frustrated, despairing and ignorant ones who have rejected the Khilafat. Continue to be occupied with the supplication that God Almighty may continue to raise among you the bearers of the second divine manifestation of power, so that His religion may be established on strong foundations and Satan should despair forever of creating any disruption in it. ' You should know that the condition of supplication that the Promised Messiah has imposed for the display of the second manifestation of divine power is not limited to any particular period, but is perpetual. During the lifetime of the Promised Messiah it meant that in his time the object of the supplication. . should be that you may be blessed with the first Khilafat. In the first Khilafat its purpose was that you may be blessed with the second. Khilafat. During the period of the second Khilafat this supplication means that you may be bestowed the third Khilafat. During the third Khilafat the purpose of this supplication would be that you may be bestowed the fourth Khilafat, lest the door of this bounty might be closed upon you in consequence of your own miscon- duct. Then continue occupied with supplications to God Almighty and keep well in mind that so long as the Khilafat continues among you no power on earth will be able to overcome you, and you will be helped and will be victorious in every field; for this is the divine promise which He has expressed in these words: 'Allah has pro- mised those among you who believe and act righteously that He