Nubuwwat & Khilafat Prophethood & its Successorship — Page 31
Khilafat-i-Ahmadiyyah and the Pledge of Allegiance to Khilafat 31 kind of failure and thereby provides an opportunity for the opponents to laugh at, ridicule, taunt, and reproach the Prophets as. And after they have had their fill of ridi- cule and reproach, He reveals yea another dimension of his Might and creates such means by which the objec- tives which had to some extent remained incomplete are fully realized. Thus He manifests two kinds of Powers. (1) First He shows the Hand of His Power at the hands of His Proph- ets as themselves. (2) Second when with the death of a Prophet, difficulties and problems arise and the enemy feels stronger and thinks that things are in disarray and is convinced that now this Jam a ‘at will become extinct and even members of the Jam a ‘at, too, are in quandary and their backs are broken, and some of the unfortunate ones choose paths that lead to apostasy, then it is that God for the second time shows His Mighty Power and supports and takes care of the shaken Jam a ‘at. Thus one who remains steadfast till the end witnesses this miracle of God. This is what happened at the time of Hadrat Ab u Bakr S idd i q ra , when the demise of the Holy Prophet sa was considered untimely and many an igno- rant Bedouins turned apostate. The companions ra of the Holy Prophet sa , too, stricken with grief, became like those who lose their senses. Then Allah raised Ab u Bakr S idd i q ra and showed for the second time the manifesta- tion of His Power and saved Islam, just when it was about to fall, and fulfilled the promise which was spelled out in the verse:. . . . . .