Malfuzat – Volume III — Page 254
254 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad rejects the signs of Allah Almighty and brazenly denies the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him. I, therefore, feel no injury on account of this denial, albeit I do pity such foolish people because they arouse the wrath of God Almighty on account of their own ignorance. The Advent of a Reformer at the Head of Every Century Every Muslim knows, and perhaps no one would be unaware of the fact, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said that Allah the Exalted sends a Reformer at the head of every century, who revives a particular aspect of the Faith which is suffering from affliction. Allah the Exalted has sent these Reformers in succession on account of the promise made in the following verse: 1 َ لَهٗ لَحٰــفِظُوْن الذِّكْرَ وَ اِنَّا نَحْنُ نَزَّلْنَا اِنَّا Verily, We Ourself have sent down this Exhortation, and most surely We will be its Guardian. Therefore, in view of this promise and in view of the prophecy of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, which he made in light of revelation received from Allah Almighty, it is necessary at the head of this cen- tury, of which nineteen years have passed, for a Reformer to be raised for religious reformation and to revive the nation. Before anyone announced that they had been divinely commissioned by God Almighty after being informed by way of revelation, it was necessary for all those who possessed eager and pure disposi- tions to search for that heavenly man at the head of the century with extreme restlessness and anxiety. It was necessary for them to give all their attention to listen to the voice of that man who would proclaim the glad tiding that ‘I have come from God Almighty in accordance with His promise. ’ The Reformer of the Fourteenth Century It is true that the great ones of this ummah had their eyes set on the fourteenth century. All of the visions, dreams and revelations alluded to the fact that the Promised One who was destined to come at the start of this century would be a magnificent man indeed. A man who had been named the Promised Messiah and 1 al-Hijr, 15:10 p. 232