A Letter to a Dear One — Page 69
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan 69 The Second Age of Islam The Promised Messiah (‘alaihissal ā m) saw the beginning of the second age of the triumph of Islam. Allah the Almighty granted him an organization, which is constantly endeavoring to spread the message of Islam and whose each member is ready to sacrifice his life for Islam. Islam’s second triumph shall come about through this organization, through the knowledge and evidence that was manifested to the Promised Messiah (‘alaihissal ā m). He unfolded several aspects of the Holy Qur’ ā n and presented Islam with new evidences. This is the spiritual fountain that he started and it is gushing forth right now and besides quenching the thirst of those searching for truth, it is giving them delightful energy. My objective through this long yet short writing is that you may be able to truly identify this fountain and you may develop an interest to search for it and saturate yourself on it rather then be content on a few sips. This is the same fountain that sprung forth 1350 years ago in Arabia and now in our age it has sprung in the Punjab in the town of Qadian. Its water is cool, refreshing and life-giving. One who saturates himself on this spring; it is as if they have achieved eternal life. One, who is deprived of it, has apportioned pain, vexation and affliction to his life. As the Promised Messiah (‘alaihissal ā m) says, Come people! For this is where you shall find the Divine Light Here, I have acquainted you with the means of satisfaction! Just look around you and see how much pain and affliction there is in the world today. It is as if peace has left the earth. Humanity is distressed and does not know how and where to attain true satisfaction. Everyone is searching for peace but cannot find it. They seek satisfaction but it has abandoned them. They all have the apparent creature comforts. Compared to the past, man’s life on earth today should be of peace and contentment and this very earth should be a model of paradise. However, this earth is getting more and more hellish. The nations who claim to be the most civilized and sophisticated are in pursuit of destruction. They are preparing means of pain, affliction and death of mankind in frenzy. All this is because man has left that way to seek peace, which was appointed by God and has adopted his own self-made methods. By doing so, instead of attaining