Malfuzat - Volume VII — Page 301
10 August 1905 301 and rejuvenation upon the community of His Messengers. Sects formed only by human efforts suffer splits within days, just as the Brahmus flourished for a few days and then stopped, and are diminishing day by day because they were solely founded upon human intellect. God Almighty has made great promises regarding my Jam a ‘at. No human intellect, foresight, or worldly means can bring us to these promises. 1 Allah the Exalted will provide all the means, and this work will be completed. Even if the num- ber of members of my Jam a ‘at reaches two or two and a half million, it is still nothing. Even the Sikhs number that many. I wish that the whole world be filled with this Jam a ‘at, and this is not man’s work. A man’s life may end at any moment—what can one individual do? The Great Miracle of a Prophet Nevertheless, God can do all things. The great miracle, in reality, is that the ultimate objective for which the Messenger was sent should not fail. There are hundreds of miracles of the Noble Messenger, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, but the greatest is that he demonstrated full accomplishment of 1. From al- H akam : These people who are against us consider us to be just like the Brahmu and other such sects. In the same way, they consider this sect and people to be the result of someone’s thought-out plans, but I know that God has established this [Ahmadiyya] Movement, and it is developing by His grace. The truth is that no nation can make progress or develop and flourish unless it is the will of God Almighty, but when Allah the Exalted wills it for someone, that nation becomes like a seed. However, just as before its time, no one can understand the development and growth and its characteristics in the case of the seed, so, too, do they consider the advancements of this nation as being quite inconceivable and impossible. ( Al- H akam, vol. 9, no. 29, p. 3, dated 17 August 1905)