Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 185
185' Irtooks of God. Then will be the end. I am that Messiah : let nirn who will, accept' rne 1 ! Doubts would, perhaps, be entertained here by some- as, to tihe existence of Satan and they would wonder at the mention of Satan and his hosts. Let them bear in mind that every man's heart has two attractions with it, the attraction of good and the attrac- tion of evil. The first of these is attributed in Islamic law to the angel or the spirit of goodness, and the second to Satan or the spirit of evil. Man is inclined sometimes to evil add sometimes to goodness, and this is what is meant by the struggle between good and evil. I think there are many men in this gathering who will, simply on hearing rny claim to Promised Messiahship and Divine revelation, call rne a liar and look down upon my claim, but I do not condemn them, torso it has been from the beginning. Every Messenger of God had to hear words of abuse and contempt from his people in the early stages of his mission, and it may be said truly that a prophet is not without honor but in the beginning of his career as a prophet. That Holy Prophet and Messenger of God to whom the Holy Quran was revealed, and who gave us a law which is the finisher of all laws, of being called 'whose followers we are all proud, was also received in the same 'manner by his people. For thirteen years'he suffered persecution 'and tortures at the hands of his 1 enemies alone and helpless, and received their scoffing, insults, affronts and outrages with the greatest patience and forbearance, all these cruelties of his enemies reaching their climax in^that unkindest cut of all, his expulsion from Mecca. Who knew ''at that time that helpless and forlorn man was destined to become the guide and leader of millions of human beings ? Such is the Divine law that the sent ones of God are laughed at and despised at first. There are very few who recognise them in the beginning and hence they must