The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 186
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI the Punjab, but there was such force in his pen that today, not only in the Punjab, but also all over India, there is no one else with such a powerful pen. The literature created by him is most unique in its grandeur, there being portions which produce a kind of ecstacy of feeling in you when you go through them. Passing through prophecies foretelling discomfiture and destruction, and the severest opposition and hostile criticism, he cleared a way for himself, attaining to the highest peak of success. " (Curzon Gazette, June 1, 1908). Maulana Abul Kalam Azad wrote editorially in Vakeel, a well known non-Ahmadi weekly: "That great person whose pen and tongue were magic: who was manifestation of mental wonders; whose sight was a trial and whose sound was Hashar (final day); with whose fingers, the wires of revolution were entangled: whose two fists were electric batteries. that great person was like a storm and an earthquake for the world of religion for thirty years and he kept on awakening with great noise those who had gone to sleep---Such persons who create revolution in religious and intellectual fields do not appear in the world always. Such proud sons of history rarely appear. When they do come, they create a revolution in the world. -This quality of Mirza Sahib that against the opponents of Islam, he performed his duty as a victorious general, compels us to admit the feeling that such a successful Movement, which defeated our enemies for a long time. may continue in future. In spite of the acute differences with him on some points of doctrine and belief, the death of Mirza Sahib has made the intelligent Muslims feel that one of their great men has passed away from the world, and with his passing away has ended that effective defence of Islam against the attacks of the enemy which was connected with his person Now that Mirza Sahib has completed his task, we have to concede and recognize the value and grandeur of the literature created by him. The great defence put up by him has not only torn to shreds the early influence of Christianity, gained by that religion under the British rule, and as a result of that prestige; in fact the whole magic of Christianity has begun to scatter like a cloud of. Moreover, in breaking the fangs of the Arya Samaj as smoke. . 186