A Mighty Sign From God — Page 3
‑ 3 ‑ to [their homes] from Amritsar and Batala at being told that this town was the home of an infamous Antichrist. Even today, there are many people within our community who live with the regret of not visiting Qadian during the lifetime of the Promised Messiah as. They too only got as far as Batala or Amritsar be- cause the enemies of our community deceived them. After listening to them, they decided against visiting Qadian. If they had done so, they would have been included among the companions of the Promised Messiah as. Though Allah the Exalted enabled them to accept Ahmadiyyat because their intentions were true and sincere, they were deprived of the Promised Messiah’s as companionship. The participants of the first jalsa held in Qadian were so small in number that they would have been no more than one-sixth or one-seventh of the total people gathered in the mosque today for this Friday sermon.