Guidance for Perceiving Minds — Page 98
h a d rat Mirza ghulam AHmAD as 98 prayers? Those who mock fasting and praying and prefer the paths of desires? Or another Islam in your heart that you not reveal to any of your loved ones or enemies? O dear ones! Reflect on the state of this time, where the Ummah is divided into so many groups that its unity seems unlikely except by the Hand of the Gracious God. They accuse each other of dis- belief, and conflicts may escalate from mere argument to fighting. Therefore, contemplate: Can you reconcile them and unite them in one open land after removing these mountains? Of course not! These are tasks beyond your capacity. Can you perform an act that is solely the prerogative of Allah, the Lord of Majesty? Allah will not gather these people until the trumpet is blown from heaven. When the trumpet is blown, they will all gather. Let whoever can hear, listen. By “trumpet” here, I do not mean what is commonly imagined, but rather the Promised Messiah who rose for this call. There are no dearer and greater trumpets than the hearts of the Messengers of Allah. The true trumpets are their hearts, breathed into to unite people upon one word without division. It has been the practice of Allah to send someone from the Ummah to reform it, attracting people through him to His pleasing paths. Allah does not leave truth as a vague matter. Yet, alongside this, there is another scourge and a great catastro- phe: the remedy that Allah intended to rectify these scourges and avert these calamities is something that the people and their schol- ars are not satisfied with, and which the common people and their elders regard with disdain. Allah sent His Promised Messiah dur- ing the trials of the cross, just as He sent Jesus son of Mary as , when the Mosaic chain was disrupted. It was indeed necessary for Him to equalise the two chains so that there would be no superiority