Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 53
27 December 1906 53 accepted Islam at its inception and its days of weakness. Those afflictions were of the kind that the heart trembles at their mere mention. How stone-hearted were those who put the Muslims in diverse kinds of difficulties and trials just for accepting Islam, and brutally inflicted pain upon many and murdered them. However, in this age, which is the age of freedom, no such atrocity can be inflicted. They only inflict verbal pain, which is nothing. It is an immense blessing and favour of God Almighty upon us, and we cannot render [adequate] thanks for it, that by His sheer grace He has subjected us to such a Government due to which our adversaries cannot succeed in their vehe- mence of opposition against us. It is indeed due to the love this Government has for freedom and justice that our adversaries cannot expose the fury they ought to have for us. They grind their teeth, and if it was in their power, they would only find happiness destroying and annihilating us, but they find no way to gain control [over us]. Pondering over this matter and remembering the pain that Muslims suffered previously during the inception of Islam, I thank God Almighty thousands of times that He, out of His sheer grace and favour, bestowed upon us such a well mean- ing Government. How Merciful and Benevolent is God that when He desired to establish this [Ahmadiyya] Movement at a time of Islam’s weakness, He Himself arranged to send such a Government that is peace-loving. I do not make this state- ment pretentiously. I certainly know that those who are pre- tentious and sycophants are hypocrites, and by the grace of God Almighty I have come to eliminate hypocrisy. The circum- stances oblige me to praise this Government and to be grateful to Allah the Almighty for this. I observe my own state of affairs that how, at this time, I am propagating this [Ahmadiyya] Movement with complete peace and freedom.