Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 186
KHILAFAT Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I 186 difficulties, and his opponents appear strong, and imagine that the late claimant’s mission has failed and become confident that his community would be ruined, and the members of the community are perplexed and are discouraged, and many unfortunate ones begin to think of turning away, God manifests His Mighty Power a second time and rallies the shaken community. Thus he who is steadfast throughout witnesses this miracle; as it happened when the death of the Holy Prophet sa was considered untimely and many of the dwellers of the desert turned away from Islam, and the companions were overwhelmed with grief. At that juncture God manifested His Power a second time, and by raising up Ab u Bakr ra buttressed and strengthened Islam afresh, and thus fulfilled His promise: He will surely establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them; and after their state of fear He will grant them peace and security (24:56). The same happened in the time of Moses as when he died on the way to the Holy Land, without leading his people into it as had been promised, and there was great mourning among the children of Israel. According to the Torah , on the sudden death of Moses and their untimely bereavement, they were overwhelmed with grief and wept and wailed for forty days. In the same way, at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus, the disciples were scattered and one of them repudiated him. So, dear ones, as it has ever been the way of God that He makes two manifestations of His Power, so as to frustrate two false joys of His opponents, it is not possible that in this case He