Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 223
223 represented the prevalent mindset or the mindset that was soon going to become popular. The long and short of it is that his personal status was not such as would lead people to flock to him, nor was his path strewn with roses so that he could achieve his purpose effortlessly, nor did he represent the thinking of the people to whom he gave his teachings so that they would readily follow him. If he succeeded despite all these hurdles, it was definitely a result of Divine help and support and cannot be attributed to material circumstances. I will now proceed to describe the successes achieved by the Promised Messiah as. I have already described Allah’s affirmation in the Holy Quran that He does not grant respite to anyone who deliberately attributes lies to Him. In the case of the Promised Messiah as , we find that he lived for up to 40 years after claiming to be the Reformer of the age and he continued to receive all kinds of Divine help. If it were possible for an impostor to be given so much respite and be saved from ruin and even be helped by God, then we would have to allege that the criterion laid down in the Quranic verse, َّمُث اَنْعَطَقَل ُهْنِم َو ْوَل َلَّوَقَت اَنْيَلَع َضْعَب لْيِواَقَاْلا۰۰ۙاَنْذَخَاَل ُهْنِم ِنْيِمَيْلاِب۰۰ۙ 6 َنْيِتَوْلا “And if he had forged and attributed any sayings to Us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand, and then surely We would have severed his life-artery,” was false and that it could not even serve as a proof of the truth of the Holy Prophet s as him - self—God forbid! If this assumption is wrong, and it most defi - nitely is wrong, then in keeping with this criterion, the fact that the Promised Messiah as lived a long life after publishing his revela - tions is proof that he was sent by God. At the time when the Promised Messiah as published his Revelations, he was hardly known to anyone. And yet, despite