Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 295
THE RENAISSANCE OF ISLAM 295 Promised Messiah 59 years ago, 'I shall bestow upon thee a son who will be a sign of My mercy and of My power, of My grace and My beneficence, and through him the message of Islam and Ahmadiyyat will be carried to the ends of the earth, has been fulfilled with great glory. Today, hundreds of countries bear witness that the name of Islam reached them during the period of my Khalifat and it was during the period of my Khalifat that they heard the name of Ahmadiyyat. He announced: In this meeting today I call to witness God, the One and Supreme, taking Whose false oath is a characteristic of the accursed and one who is guilty of imposture against Him cannot escape His torment, that He informed me in this city in 13 Temple Road, in the house of Shaikh Bashir Ahmad, Advocate, that I am the subject of the prophecy concerning the Promised Reformer and that through me Islam will spread to the ends of the earth and the Unity of God will be established in the world. Continuing his speech, he observed: God has bestowed upon me the swords that cut down disbelief in an instant. God has bestowed upon me hearts that are ready to offer every sacrifice in response to my voice. If I should ask them to jump into the depths of the ocean they would be ready to do so. If I should ask them to plunge down from the tops of mountains they would plunge down. If I should ask them to jump into blazing ovens, they would jump into them. If suicide had not been forbidden in Islam I would have shown you the spectacle that I would command a hundred members of the Movement to destroy themselves by plunging daggers into their bellies and they would instantly so destroy themselves. God has raised us for the support of Islan). . He has raised us to glorify the name of Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace be on him. He concluded with the words: 0 dwellers of Lahore, I convey God's message to you. I call you to the Eternal and Ever-Living God Who has created you all. Do not think that it is I who am speaking at this moment. It is God Who is speaking through my tongue. Whoever raises his voice before me again$i~Islam will have his voice suppressed. Whoever stands up against me will be humi- liated and disgraced, he will be ruined and destroyed. God will establish a grand foundation with great honour for the progress of Islam and its support through me. I am a human being and may die today or tomorrow, but it cannot be that I should fail in the purpose for which God has raised me. . . . If the world witnesses at