A Call to Faith — Page 2
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 2 from his claim, he would as a certainty soon meet with ruin. Many went so far as to specify from themselves the time of his destruction. They brashly declared that within two or three years all trace of him would disappear and his claim would be remembered as a tale. It would have been one thing if these were simple boasts; instead his opponents actively sought the fulfilment of their goals and were relentless in their hostility. Those who once considered it hateful to sit in each other’s company united in opposition as though they were more than brothers. And people of different faiths who were once at each other’s throats became collaborators from a desire to inflict him harm. The earth filled with inequity and injustice, and the heavens were shrouded by darkness at seeing such episodes of transgression committed by the people. The deliverers of this darkness presumed they would soon succeed in extinguishing the light of God Almighty which He Himself had lit. However, despite the collective efforts of the adherents of all religions and the unfavourable circumstances faced by the Promised Messiah as he was protected from harm and Allah the Exalted kept him firm in his footing. When his people, his co-religionists, his kith and kin abandoned the Promised Messiah as , God Almighty, Who is the most loyal and the best of friends, turned to