Invitation to Ahmadiyyat — Page 364
364 knows best). The Promised Messiah as appeared at a time when spiritual death stalked the world. People had been dead so long that decomposition had set in. It was such a terrible death that all Prophets had warned about it. The Holy Prophet s as had said: ُ ی ْ اُنْذِر ُ کُمُوْہ ِّ ال َ وَاِن َّ ج َّ قَد ْ اَنْذَرَقَوْمَہ ٗ الد َّ ہ ٗ لَم ْ یَکُن ْ نَبِی ٌّ بَعْد َ نُوْح ٍ اِل َّ اِن Every prophet after Noah has warned his people of the menace of the Dajj a l. I also warn you against him. 1 There could be no dead worse than those ‘killed’ by the Dajj a l , and to revive such dead as had been despaired of was a formi - dable task indeed. And yet this is what the Promised Messiah as accomplished. He restored to life hundreds of thousands of the spiritually dead and created a following that has no parallel other than the Companions of the Holy Prophet s as. Moses was a politi - cal as well as a spiritual leader, therefore, many of his followers felt obliged to follow him for political expedience. Of those who truly believed in him, the Holy Quran says: 2 ۤاَمَف َنَمٰا ىٰۤسْوُمِل اَّلِا ٌةَّيِّرُذ ْنِّم ٖهِمْوَق And none obeyed Moses save some youths from among his people. This was the situation in Egypt. But even after Moses left Egypt, most of his followers did not at heart believe in him and only accompanied him for political considerations. The Holy Quran says that after the exodus, some of Moses’ followers said to him: