The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 175
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. History of religions shows that all prophets were subjected to ridicule and opposition in the beginning and their followers persecuted. There has been hardly a great saint and Imam in Islam, who was not opposed or persecuted in his time. In the Holy Quran it is written that every time a messenger came, his people accused him of being a liar and ridiculed him. Alas! This is the way of the world. . In another place, the Holy Quran says: "Never did we send a Messenger or a prophet before thee, but when he sought to gain his object, Satan put obstacles in the way of what he sought after. But Allah removes the obstacles that are placed by Satan. Then Allah firmly establishes His Signs. And Allah is AllKnowing, Wise. " (22:53) alislam 175