The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 122
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI compulsion in religion (2:257) This is the truth about Jihad of Islam. . God is merciful but if a nation exceeds all limits and indulges in cruel actions and wrong doings, He punishes the tyrants. . This false charge of use of force to spread Islam has been spread by enemies of Islam. Could people converted to Islam by the sword have such a zeal and devotion for Islam that while fighting hundreds of thousands of enemies, they defeated them with their much smaller numbers. They offered sacrifices of their lives like sheeps and goats while trying to defend their faith. They went to far off deserts of Africa and with great hardships travelled to China and. India to spread their faith of Islam. They went as humble servants of. God as Derveshaan and Sufis and Saints, many clad in tattered clothes. The great purpose of Islam is to establish unity and glory of. God on the earth and to eradicate Shirk (to associate partners with. God) and to unify all nations into one nation of Islam. 7. I think it necessary to state about my mission, that I have. not claimed on my own but God has elected me to remove misunderstandings, to clarify complex issues and to show the light of. Islam to other nations. You should remember that our opponents are presenting an ugly picture of Islam. This picture is not that of Islam, which is a shining diamond from all sides. Islam is like a great palace with shining lamps in each window. Islam is a heavenly light and its eternal lamps are visible from every direction. A person who is sent by God to express its truth is also like a lamp. 8. Hadhrat Ahmad, the Promised Messiah ended this book with the following, which are his last written words. "O' men of God, you know that when there are no rains for a long time, the result is that wells begin to dry up. Thus like the way rain water results in flow of water in the earth, the spiritual water which is God's revelation, gives freshness to low reason. This age too needed this spiritual water. I deem it necessary to say about my claim that I have been sent. by God in a time of great need, when many in this age became like. Jews at the time of Jesus. They gave up righteousness and purity and became enemies of the truth. Thus in contrast, God named me 122