Ahmadiyyat or The True Islam — Page 133
133 followers, who was a lawyer, and was a man of weak faith, and who stumbled after the death of the Promised Messiah as just as some of the disciples of Jesus as had stumbled, demurred strongly to the publication of such a prophecy, for, as he suggested, if a child was born to the young man, the Promised Messiah as would be placed in a very awkward position, he would be discredited, and might run the risk of a criminal prosecution being started against him. The Promised Messiah as replied that he could neither doubt nor turn aside from that which God had revealed to him, and that his disciple’s objec- tion to the publication of the prophecy was only due to the weakness of his faith. So in the end it turned out to be. Now, consider. If Sa‘dullah’s son had died in his childhood people might have said that it was a pure coincidence, but the fact that his father survived the revelation for nearly fifteen years and had no more children, coupled with the fact that the son grew up to manhood and married twice but had no children, con- clusively establishes that all this had happened under a Divine decree, whereby God meant to punish a rebel by making an example of him for his abuse of the Promised Messiah as. Will any one who ponders over these signs with a mind free from bias say that the God of Islam is not today the Creator just as He was in the beginning of creation. For, has it not happened that He said concern- ing one man 'Let him have a child,' and the man was given a child, and that He said concerning another, 'Let this man remain childless,' and the man remained child-