Lecture Lahore — Page 59
59 tury in order to revive the faith. We are in the 22 nd year of the fourteenth century, and is it not a sign that the Re- former has come? The third condition, that of Divine support, has also been fulfilled with my coming. People from every religion rose to destroy me, sparing no efforts and doing everything in their power to bring this about, but they were totally frus- trated in their designs. There is no religion in this country which can take pride in the fact that its followers did not exert themselves to destroy me, but, despite all their en- deavours, God honoured me and caused thousands to follow me. If this is not Divine succour, what is? Every- one knows how people of every community stood up against me, and how they all failed in their designs to de- stroy me, while I continued to grow by the day until I had with me a Jam a ‘at of over 200,000 people. Had I not been supported by a Hidden Hand, and had my mission been based on human contrivance, I would surely have fallen victim to one of the numerous arrows aimed at me, and would have been destroyed, and no one would even know where I was buried, because God Himself becomes the enemy of one who attributes falsehood to Him and there is no shortage of means for his destruction. But God saved me from all the designs of my enemies exactly as He had promised me twenty-four years ago. It is undoubtedly a clear sign of Divine support that, at the time of Br a h i n-e-Ahmadiyya , when I was alone and lived in anonymity, God informed me in plain words that He