Lecture Ludhiana — Page 2
2 Lecture Ludhiana longer among us today, while Allah has granted me life and enlarged my Jama'at. I believe this edict, declaring me a disbeliever and bearing the signatures and seals of about 200 Muslim clerics and scholars, was re-issued and circulated in all the major cities of India. It accused me of being faithless, Antichrist, impostor, and an arch disbeliever. They used every means they could muster, believing that the attack they had mounted was sufficient to destroy this movement. The truth is that had this been a man-made movement based upon falsehood, the weapon of the edict would have been more than enough for its obliteration. But since it was a Jama'at founded by the Almighty Himself, it could not possibly be destroyed by the hostile attempts of the enemy. As opposition to the Jama'at gathered momentum, so did the respect and honour which it commanded begin to be more firmly established in people’s hearts. Today I thank God as I look back to the time when I had but a handful of people by my side and the members of my Jama'at were very small in number. Today you witness a large Jama'at with me, whose membership has already reached 300,000; it is increasing by the day, and will certainly reach hundreds of millions. Could this great revolution that we witness have been brought about by human hands? The worldly people wanted to obliterate all traces of my Jama'at and would indeed have done it long ago had it been in their power. But it was the work of God Almighty and earthly power