Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 37
26 December 1906 37 Therefore, be in constant fear and seek from God Almighty His grace that it may never come to pass that you be one of those who sever ties with God. A person who enters the fold of the Jam a ‘at established by God Almighty does not do any favour to Him, rather it is the grace and favour of Almighty Allah that He provided him such an opportunity. He has the power to annihilate a nation and create another [in its stead]. This era resembles the time of Lot as and Noah as. Instead of unleash- ing an apocalyptic calamity and ending the world, Allah the Almighty has willed reformation through His grace and mercy and has established this [Ahmadiyya] Movement. Advent of Messengers is Necessary to Eradicate Evils Also, do not imagine that we could have abstained from evils all on our own. Before the Holy Prophet, may peace and bless- ings of Allah be upon him, Christians and Jews existed, and the Torah and Gospel existed as well. Then you yourselves should explain—Had those people abandoned sin and iniquity, and every kind of crime and offence? Of course not; in fact, despite the presence of these scriptures they had transgressed the limits set by Allah. This is indeed the practice of Allah that when the earth becomes filled with sin and iniquity, the power to stop it descends from heaven. Almighty Allah sends a person through whom people gain the capacity to repent. The Jews that were there at the time of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, had been the same for a thousand years, but the ones who entered the Jam a ‘at of the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, turned into angels. If man could do this by himself then why would he have ever become corrupt? Then what need