Khilafat and Mujaddidiyyat — Page 8
8 Hadhrat Hafiz Mirza Nasir Ahmad ْ ﹸﺮ ﻓﹶﻠﹾﻴَﻜﹾﻔ ﺷَﺎﺀ ﻭَﻣَﻦ ُﺆْﻣِﻦ ﻓﹶﻠﹾﻴ ﺷَﺎﺀ ﻓﹶﻤَﻦ Let him who will, believe, and let him who will, disbelieve. 4 On the other side the Holy Quran has figuratively made a mention of Satan. I do not like to indulge here in the discussion as to what is Satan and how it attacks man, as it is not pertinent to the present subject. I like to point out only that the Holy Quran says that God has permitted Satan to misguide people, but simultaneously He has declared that despite its doing its worst, those who are the servants of God will ever remain His servants. Now as our task is to turn the whole world, the entire mankind, into a single Ummat and bring it to the threshold of God, hence, as dictates of reason demand, the onslaught of Satan in this age should be stronger than it ever was before in the past. Hence the Promised Messiah (peace be on him) says: "In accordance with this very ancient law, God has informed through His Holy Prophets that when six thousand years since the time of Adam would be coming to an end, the earth would be engulfed in utter darkness and the deluge of sins would gush forth and the love of God in the hearts dwindle and come to naught, then God, only through heavenly means without any earthly sources, would spiritually breathe the spirit of truth, love and knowledge in a person as He did in Adam. This person will also be called Messiah because God, with His own hands, will anoint his spirit. This Messiah of the promise, who was in other words called the Promised Messiah in the Books of God, would be made to face the Satan. This 4. The Holy Quran, 18:30