Bounties of the Gracious God — Page 45
Details of My Statement in Brief 45 about myself ? Or perhaps my claim, ‘Indeed I am the Messiah’, is unpleasant for them. In such a case, it is just coeval jealousy and rejection of a manifest truth. They ought to fear their Lord and not talk like an immoral and shameless person. For, if I am a liar, I would be thrown away as if I were mere garbage; but if I am truthful then who can extinguish my light through deception and cunningness? I swear by Allah that I am the Promised Messiah and my Loving Lord is with me. I swear by Allah that He will never allow me to be wasted even if mountains were to become my enemy. I swear by Allah that He will never forsake me even if my friends and relatives were to abandon me. And, I swear by Allah that He will protect me even if enemies were to attack me with a sharp sword. And I swear by Allah that He would come to me even if I were to be thrown into wilderness. Therefore, let them plot and scheme and not grant me any respite. They will find out where they return. Do they threaten me with earthly designs and fear not the One to Whom they will return? Is it not true that when- ever signs were shown to them they resorted to deception and created doubts and thus put an end to the matter? Most people rejected these signs merely on the basis of their sneaky motives and not because it was a requirement of piety and righteousness. Allah, however, will soon show them a sign which they will not be able to deny and will send down a calamity which they will not be able to ward off. At the outset of every century, Allah the Exalted pays kind attention to the people, so He then sends a serv- ant for their reformation out of His sheer grace and mercy. Hence, how can Allah forget to do this in this age wherein fountains of guidance have dried up and the floods of misguidance are raging?