The Essence of Islam – Volume IV — Page 225
Propagation, Establishment of a Holy Jama'at, and Instructions 225 these very days according to the prophecy of Jesus as and ruined many towns? It had been prophesied that that would be the time of the appearance of the Promised Messiah. Have you not witnessed the sign concerning Ātham which was fulfilled according to the prophecy of our lord and master, the Messengersa of Allāh, which had also been announced seventeen years in advance in the Brāhīn-e-Ahmadiyyah? Have you not yet heard the prophecy concerning Lekh. Rām? Has anyone ever seen such a manifest sign as that regarding Lekh Rām, which was shown after the contest had been announced to millions of people— like a wrestling match-and had been circulated through hundreds of announcements and newspapers?. Do you not feel ashamed before God, Who, observing your sorrow and grief of the thirteenth century, came to your support in the very beginning of the fourteenth? Was it not inevitable that God's promises should be fulfilled at their proper time? Seeing all this, what has happened to you and what has sealed up your hearts? O people of crooked hearts! God would give you every satisfaction if your hearts were clean. He can draw you [to Himself] if you are ready to be drawn. Look at the age, and the needs that Islam is confronted with. Does your heart not testify that this is the time for God to show His mercy? There is eagerness in heaven for the guidance of mankind, and the case of the Unity of God is now under hearing before the One God. But the blind of this age continue to be heedless. The heavenly dispensation has no honour in