Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 18
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 9 18 his mission. If the claimant is truthful, his opponents eventually tire from their opposition and give up. The same happened in the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and the same continued to happen in the time of all Prophets. The truthful always succeed, but where both big- otry and stupidity come together among the opponents, there is a very poisonous effect. Proof of the Truth The Promised Messiah as said: However many people came forward to challenge me in a mub a halah [prayer duel], God Almighty killed them all. They themselves asked for death with their own hands. The adver- saries should carefully reflect upon this fact: What is the rea- son why everyone who challenges me is himself killed? If this [Ahmadiyya] Movement is not from God, then what is the rea- son that God Almighty destroys its opponents, and it contin- ues to prosper day by day? A great many people from among our opponents are also of the kind that they were beseeching prayers against us with a sincere heart and were rubbing away their noses [in repeated prostrations], perceiving us to be the enemy of Islam; but was God Almighty also an enemy of Islam that He put to death the people who were the ‘true’ Muslims, and—in opposition to them—He kept the one alive whom they believed to be the enemy of Islam and the dajj a l [deceiver], conferring progress upon his Movement day after day? 1 1. Badr, vol. 2, no. 52, p. 3–5, dated 27 December 1906