Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 82
83 a need and except for the issues which were related to the community and should have been publicized. For instance, once when acute agitation stirred up against the Jam a ‘at, Hadrat Khalifatul Masih II ra said to the Jam a ‘at that they would find it hard to stay alive if he disclosed to them the things he knew. (I cannot recall his exact words but they were to this effect. ) In short, history bears testimony that the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa is the one who fulfilled the promise to Hadrat Ibrahim as made in the words, (In it are manifest signs). The world has witnessed hundreds of thousands of signs of God in the life of the Promised Messiah as and at the hands of his successors after him; and also through other holy personages in the Jam a ‘at Allah shows His signs. With the blessings of the Promised Messiah as this reality, too, has dawned very clearly upon his followers that normally such matters ought not to be disclosed as they can result into egoism, and sometimes one may risk incurring Allah’s displeasure. The Holy Quran, the examples set by the holy personages in the umma recorded in history, and the way God Almighty treated those who were devoted to the Holy Prophet sa and made sacrifices to earn God’s pleasure prove beyond doubt that manifest signs are shown to all peoples and in all times; and these manifest signs are exclusively related to the Muslims. Other faiths can neither make such a claim nor is it within their power to prove it.