Mirror of Charm and Beauty — Page 3
1 decline, Islam should again make extraordinary progress, to spread all over the globe. Thus we find in our own day that the seed of this progress has been sown all over the world, through the extensive and triumphant missionary endeavour of the Ahmadiyya Movement; and now this seed shall prosper, to yield its flower and fruit, even as the Promised Messiah has foretold, on the basis of Revelations he received to this effect and there is no one in the world who can stop this from coming to pass. . This, and no other, is the rank and position of Mehdwiyyat, in regard to which the Holy Prophet Muhammad has said with great emphasis: "If in the span of life alloted to the universe there remains one single day, it would come to be lengthened by God. so that He should send the Reformer who would be mine own kin, his name being in accordance with my name, and his father's name the same as that of my father (this being a similitude to denote identical personality in spirit and purpose); by means of the light of guidance, this Reformer would fill the world with equity and justice, even though before his time it may have been full of iniquity and injustice" (Abu Daud, Vol. II, Kitabul. Mehdi'). The idea that the advent has been foretold 3