With Love to Muhammad (sa) - The Khatam-un-Nabiyyin — Page 349
Appendix II 349 messengers shall always prevail. Since I am His messenger, who has been sent by Him, though without any new shar ī ‘ah or any new claim or any new name, rather I have come in the name of the Noble Prophet sa — the Seal of Prophets —and through him, and as his manifestation, I therefore proclaim that, just as this verse has been proven true from the time of Adam to the time of the Holy Prophet sa , so will it prove to be true in my case. Do these people not notice that at the time when these maulav ī s and their camp followers had launched a campaign of rejection and vilification against me, there was not a single person in my bai‘at , and all I had were a few friends who could be counted on fingertips. But now, by the Grace of God, the number of those who are in my bai‘at has reached nearly seventy thousand. This has not come about due to any effort on my part, it is in fact the wind blowing from heaven that has made them rush towards me. Let these people think for themselves, how they strived to destroy this Jam ā ‘at and how they used all kinds of deceit and went to the extent of giving information to the authorities and appearing before courts as witnesses in falsely instituted murder cases, and thus incited the Muslims against me. And how they wrote thousands of posters and pamphlets, and issued edicts of disbelief and proclaimed verdicts of death against me, and how they met in committees to devise schemes against me. But did all these efforts end up in anything other than failure? Had this mission been man-made, it would certainly have been annihilated through their strenuous efforts. Can anyone cite a single precedent in which so much effort was deployed against an impostor, but, instead of being destroyed, he grew a thousand-fold? Is this not a great sign that, despite all efforts to destroy this seed and to leave no trace of it on the face of the earth, it germinated and burgeoned and grew into a tree