A Call to Faith — Page 24
Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad 24 without a son, God forbid. Whereas in the Holy Qur’an Allah the Exalted says: 16 َُ اِنَّ شَانِئَکَ ھُوَ الَْ بْت Surely, it is thy enemy who shall be without issue and while your progeny will ever continue. Whenever a satanic movement will arise, a spiritual descendant of the Holy Prophet sa will come to annihilate it. The prevailing dogma which denies the advent of the Messiah current in the Muslim world has its origins in Satan and the Antichrist. And this is because it is the mission of the Antichrist to confront the Messiah. And what greater opposition could there be than to convince people to reject his advent outright? Though this movement of denial may appear in friendly garbs, in truth, it is the real enemy of Islam. Ultimately this will cause Muslims to either succumb to the belief Islam is not the beloved religion of God and He has no regard for its decline, or they will incline towards the idea their current practices and beliefs are free of error. On the one hand they will lose sight of the need for reform, and on the other, they will come to regard God Almighty as unjust— for in their reckoning 16 Surah Al-Kauthar , 108:4 [Publishers]