The Essence of Islam – Volume III — Page 296
296. Essence of Islam-III. Remember, the same revelation concerning me was published in the previous volumes of Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah, in which God Almighty said: أَلَمْ نَجْعَلْ لَكَ سَهُوْلَةٌ فِي كُلِّ أَمْرٍ 'Have We not facilitated everything for you?' Have We not provided you with all the means for the communication and propagation of the truth? Of course, I have been provided with all the means for the propagation of the truth which were not even available at the time of any other prophet. Means of communication have opened between nations; travel has become so easy that a journey of years now takes only a few days; transmission of news is such that within minutes messages can be sent over thousands of miles; ancient texts of nations which were out of sight have begun to be published; means have become available for the delivery of everything where it is needed; difficulties in the publication of books have been removed with the introduction of the printing press, so much so that more copies of a book can be printed in ten days than was previously possible in ten years! A piece of writing can now be published throughout the world within forty days, whereas previously a man could not achieve this even in a hundred years. . Then Allah says in the Holy Qur'ān: فاتبع سبباه حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغَ مَغْرِبَ الشَّمْسِ وَجَدَهَا تَغُرُبُ فِي عَيْنٍ حَمِيةٍ ووَجَدَ عِنْدَهَا قَوْمًا قُلْنَا ذَا الْقَرْنَيْنِ إِمَّا أَنْ تُعَذِّبَ وَامَّا ان تتَّخِذَ فِيهِمْ حُسْنًا ه قَالَ آمَا مَن ظَلَمَ فَسَوْفَ نُعَذِّبُهُ ثُمَّ يُرَدُّ الى ريه فَيُعَذِّبُهُ عَذَابًا تُكراه و امّا مَنْ آمَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحًا فَلَهُ جَزَاء الْحُسْنَى وَ سَتَقُولُ لَهُ مِنْ أَمْرِنَا يُسْرًان 211 211 Al-Kahf, 18: 86-89 [Publisher]