Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 218
218 These verses show that God has made a two-fold decree. (1) He helps His Messengers and grants them supremacy. (2) Those who deliberately attribute lies to God are not helped by Him and are destroyed. Thus, what I had said earlier on the basis of reason is also supported by the eternal practice of God. If we consider the claims of the Promised Messiah as in the light of God’s eternal practice and laws, his authenticity becomes as clear as day. Looking at the success of his mission, there can be no doubt whatsoever that he is a Messenger of God. Before I proceed to show the different ways in which God helped him, it is necessary to ask: 1. What were the circumstances in which he made his claim, and what were the factors that would have helped him to succeed? 2. What were the hurdles in his path? 3. What was the nature of his claim? Was it of such an appealing nature that its success could be counted upon in the prevailing circumstances? The answer to the first question is that he belonged to a noble family and that this had to be so because the Messengers of God always come from respectable families so that it may be easy for people to accept them. The Promised Messiah’s family, however, had lost most of its former prosperity and influence. It could not be called a poor family compared with the other families of the area, but it was poor compared to its past political power, wealth and influence. The family’s estate and property were almost gone; the former having been confiscated by the Sikhs, the latter by the British. Therefore, the Promised Messiah as did not have the kind